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Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000. It was the band's first album under their new record label Big Brother Recordings. In the year preceding the album's release, Alan McGee closed Creation Records, and Oasis had lost two founding members (Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan) and hired new producer Mark "Spike" Stent to replace Owen Morris.
The album marked a significant change from the Britpop scene to a modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, Mellotron, synthesisers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences. Songs such as "Go Let It Out", the Indian-influenced "Who Feels Love?", and the trip hop sounds on "Gas Panic!" departed from the band's earlier style. This album also marked the first time that lead singer Liam Gallagher contributed on songwriting ("Little James"), and this process continued for their subsequent albums, instead of relying solely on Noel Gallagher's songwriting as they had for the first three albums.
It is the 16th-fastest-selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US.
Following the conclusion of the Be Here Now Tour in 1998 the band took their first extended break from touring and recording since being signed by Creation Records in 1993. During this period Noel subsequently quit using cocaine and entered a period of relative sobriety for the first time since Oasis had entered the music industry. This led him to re-evaluate many of the relationships in his life that had been fostered and maintained by drug usage. As a result, many of the songs on the album and its subsequent B-sides, including "Gas Panic", "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", "Roll It Over", and "(As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes In Hell", focus thematically on changes experienced by the songwriter as a result of his newfound sobriety.
When the band reconvened at Château de La Colle Noire in France to begin recording the new collection of songs Noel insisted on a no-drugs policy in the studio. This led to tensions within the group, specifically between Noel and two founding members of the band, rhythm guitarist Bonehead and bassist Guigsy. It was during this period that Noel wrote Let's All Make Believe, a B-Side to the Go Let It Out single. The intra-band tensions ultimately climaxed when Bonehead poured a bottle of wine on producer Spike Stent at 4 in the morning. The guitarist then announced his departure from the group in the July 10th issue of the NME, with Guigsy announcing his departure from the group the following day.
The album's title misquotes an expression by Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". Noel Gallagher saw the quote on the edge of a £2 coin while in a pub, and liked it so much he thought it would be a suitable name for Oasis' new album. He then wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet while drunk, and upon awakening in the morning, he realised he had written "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants". He had also accidentally written "a bum title" on the packet instead of "album title".
Noel decided to drop the equipment used in the three previous albums and instead buy "loads of really weird pedals, old guitars, and small amps" as the lack of a deadline on the album allowed him to "take quite a few days just messing around" and experiment with new musical landscapes. Noel was forced to play nearly all the instruments on the album, aided by some additional musicians;[citation needed] due to the departure of two founding band members (guitarist Bonehead and bassist Guigsy) while the album was still being recorded, their parts were re-recorded for legal reasons. The album features Noel and Liam Gallagher alongside drummer Alan White, who are also the only ones depicted on the sleeve of the album. Guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell (Bonehead's and Guigsy replacement respectively) would be officially included in the band shortly after the album's release.
The album spawned three singles, released between February and July 2000.
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Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000. It was the band's first album under their new record label Big Brother Recordings. In the year preceding the album's release, Alan McGee closed Creation Records, and Oasis had lost two founding members (Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan) and hired new producer Mark "Spike" Stent to replace Owen Morris.
The album marked a significant change from the Britpop scene to a modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, Mellotron, synthesisers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences. Songs such as "Go Let It Out", the Indian-influenced "Who Feels Love?", and the trip hop sounds on "Gas Panic!" departed from the band's earlier style. This album also marked the first time that lead singer Liam Gallagher contributed on songwriting ("Little James"), and this process continued for their subsequent albums, instead of relying solely on Noel Gallagher's songwriting as they had for the first three albums.
It is the 16th-fastest-selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US.
Following the conclusion of the Be Here Now Tour in 1998 the band took their first extended break from touring and recording since being signed by Creation Records in 1993. During this period Noel subsequently quit using cocaine and entered a period of relative sobriety for the first time since Oasis had entered the music industry. This led him to re-evaluate many of the relationships in his life that had been fostered and maintained by drug usage. As a result, many of the songs on the album and its subsequent B-sides, including "Gas Panic", "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", "Roll It Over", and "(As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes In Hell", focus thematically on changes experienced by the songwriter as a result of his newfound sobriety.
When the band reconvened at Château de La Colle Noire in France to begin recording the new collection of songs Noel insisted on a no-drugs policy in the studio. This led to tensions within the group, specifically between Noel and two founding members of the band, rhythm guitarist Bonehead and bassist Guigsy. It was during this period that Noel wrote Let's All Make Believe, a B-Side to the Go Let It Out single. The intra-band tensions ultimately climaxed when Bonehead poured a bottle of wine on producer Spike Stent at 4 in the morning. The guitarist then announced his departure from the group in the July 10th issue of the NME, with Guigsy announcing his departure from the group the following day.
The album's title misquotes an expression by Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". Noel Gallagher saw the quote on the edge of a £2 coin while in a pub, and liked it so much he thought it would be a suitable name for Oasis' new album. He then wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet while drunk, and upon awakening in the morning, he realised he had written "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants". He had also accidentally written "a bum title" on the packet instead of "album title".
Noel decided to drop the equipment used in the three previous albums and instead buy "loads of really weird pedals, old guitars, and small amps" as the lack of a deadline on the album allowed him to "take quite a few days just messing around" and experiment with new musical landscapes. Noel was forced to play nearly all the instruments on the album, aided by some additional musicians;[citation needed] due to the departure of two founding band members (guitarist Bonehead and bassist Guigsy) while the album was still being recorded, their parts were re-recorded for legal reasons. The album features Noel and Liam Gallagher alongside drummer Alan White, who are also the only ones depicted on the sleeve of the album. Guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell (Bonehead's and Guigsy replacement respectively) would be officially included in the band shortly after the album's release.
The album spawned three singles, released between February and July 2000.