Oasis - Columbia (Sawmills Outtake) [Official Lyric Video]

[highplainsdem]

Those in the media
All we can say to ya
This is confusion
Am I confusing you?

This came to mind after the confusion about why an interview Rick Beato did with Noel Gallagher of Oasis won't be released: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034156576
(And I love this version of the song.)

[speak easy]

1. Oh Yeah!

Rock 'n' Roll !!

[highplainsdem]

2. Definitely (no maybe about it). This version

is both raw and hypnotic, and Liam's vocal is brilliant. That falsetto...

I wonder if we'll ever find out exactly who wrote how much of the song. Noel just had an instrumental version at first, used as Liam's walk-on song. Then, when Noel wasn't around, Liam came up with the vocal melody and some of the lyrics, and their friend Chris Griffiths of the Real People added more. Noel was happy later to hear Chris had come up with some lyrics, but reportedly not happy when told some lyrics AND the vocal melody were Liam's contribution, and Noel took all the official songwriting credit. Ah, sibling rivalry... Noel said in the liner notes for the 2014 20th-anniversary reissue of Definitely Maybe that "somebody had the idea of adding lyrics" to the instrumental - lol. That somebody wasn't even in the same room as Noel when the vocal melody and initial lyrics were added.

Columbia could have been stuck as an instrumental forever if Liam hadn't rescued it.

Btw, I can't think of any other version of the song that includes the verse about the media.

[speak easy]

3. At first,

I thought Liam's vocals were too down the mix, but listing to it many times again I think it's perfect as are Liam's amazing falsettos. This is the sort of raw rock 'n' roll that could keep me dancing past midnight. Fantastic..

[highplainsdem]

4. I can listen to it over and over, and I don't feel the same way about the studio track on Definitely

Maybe. As you said, this version is perfect. I've seen a lot of fans post that they don't want to hear that album track again, much as they'd loved it for decades, after hearing this outtake finally released on the 30th anniversary reissue of DM.

As I mentioned above, the song's both hynotic and raw.

But I think a better description for it might be incantatory. To me, it sounds almost as if they're summoning - Liam's summoning - something. Some power. If this is what they could come up with when Liam added a vocal melody and lyrics to Noel's inatrumental, I wish they'd done more songs this way.