OASIS: BE HERE NOW (Track by Track) Behind the scenes with Noel (1997) and Nick Brine (2021) 

I don't know how anyone can't be emotional after hearing Don't Go Away for the first time.

stay young is probably the 3rd best track from that era,and i do like magic pie but stay young blows it out the water

It's my favourite album - it's the album I listen to the most - I love the production - I love the length of the songs and the length of the album - a real feast - living in NYC in 1998 - I'd go into Tower Records on at 1:00am (yes in the morning mid week it was open on Broadway) and this was blasting out allover the 4 floors! Tower played it all summer - absolutely glory days - record shops open till the early hours of the morning blasting Be Here Now... Proper Hi Fidelity vibes!

14:30 and i’ve always loved i hope i think i know for the vocals,it’s something else,one of my favourite oasis songs and the fact no one mentions it is criminal

Dont go away is one of oasis’s best songs imo , hits the hardest

Been binge watching these videos again. Great channel with great information

I fuckng love Be Here Now. Perfect third album, representing the climax of their album trilogy journey. It never felt the same from album #4 onwards.

It's an oxymoron. It's a heavy feather, a light weight. It's slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannon ball. It's a terrible masterpiece. It's a brilliant mess. It's fantastic!

My Big Mouth, Headshrinker, Be Here Now and Stay Young have been the opening 4 tracks of almost every oasis mix or playlist Ive ever put together. If those don't get you up in the morning you're not alive

I've honestly always loved this album..it came at just the right time for me..I was already a fan (I was only 12 and vividly remember my sister recording it from her CD to a cassette for me) I wore it out!! And as Ryan Adams once said its still one of my favourite albums to put on in my headphones after a big bong and go for a walk. 'I hope I think I know' will always hold a special place in me heart. Damn, I'll tell ya what I already felt old when I realised, 'up the bracket' (libs) is 20 today..this just makes me feel even older!! But the nostalgia when I put this on is still a happy kind..I don't even skip 'magic pie' 😅. I remember tryina tell me mates I could hear 'GnR' in 'My big mouth' . They laughed..I laugh now too, but I defo heard it then! Great to hear a deep dive into this man.

Big thanks for that James. Really great interview with Nick, looking forward to his book coming out next year. Keep the great content coming!!👍🏻

That's pure gold! Thank you so much👍

This was exceptional James! Thank you!

This was amazing to watch. I love Be Here Now and will always remember queuing up on release day excited beyond belief. Thank you for the insights.

This was amazing especially to hear the back story's from be here now I know many fans are not keen on the album but I think it's great album. Thanks again James keep up the great work 👍🏻

Another top video James and great to see you're able to be getting this type of interview with people like Nick and Brian Cannon. Keep up the good work.

Fascinating interview - many thanks!

Wow! What a video. An instant classic to memorialize a legendary album!

What a dude! Loving the channel. Great work.

James what a great inside to be here now. One of my fave oasis albums. The first 4 oasis albums are their best! Thank you for this video!

Magic Pie great, especially the ending with the massively layered Noel harmonies

This is utterly fantastic! It's great to finally get some insight into BHN and how they made it. That Jim Carrey/George Martin story takes some beating. Talk about surreal!

If Be Here Now was the follow-up album to Definitely Maybe then it would be an instant classic in most people's eyes. I think Noel wanted to separate himself from that album because it represents his last go at the immature drug phase of adulthood and wanted to naturally evolve away from that phase to be a a more mature positive role-model to his family.

Thanks for all this information, I love the three albums and I always listen to concerts, great that you have automatic translation on your channel, greetings from Perú.

Thank you!!! I mean, seriously a big thank you for this documentary! Exactly what I was looking for and never found. Did I mention thank you?

Woah, thank you!! Glad you're going to bat for this incredibly underappreciated album. It's absolutely the best Oasis record imo, their best both musically and lyrically. Might not have had the hits Morning Glory did but it blended the raw power of Definitely Maybe with some of the pop that Morning Glory did and it created a masterpiece. I love every song.

My most listened to Oasis album after all these years.

I bloody love your passion for the band mate and especially for BHN. It was such a mad time that I always find it difficult to explain to people who didn't experience it, just how big that time was. Loved the interview too and fair play to Nick for coming on x

Superb James - thank you

Love this video!! X

that george martin jim carrey story was genuinely amazing

Fantastic video . Keep up the hard work 🙏👏👏

excellent stuff, nice one James! Nick's Jim Carrey story is bloody fab.

Such an enjoyable video to watch and love gaining a further perspective on such a monumental album! Cheers James

I thought i knew a lot about Oasis, oh how i was wrong lol. Great channel!!

Yeah James you're tha man!

It’s great to hear about Fade in out- one of my favourite songs. I always thought with that scream from Liam he could easily have covered a Linkin Park song for example and scream better than Bennington

Don't Go Away - Noel said in interviews that he wrote it the day he heard his mom had cancer.

Great video James, best of luck with the EP! Be here now is my fave album for Liam's voice, some of the songs ain't great and have no deep meaning for me, but I put it on now and again just like I sometimes put a Sam Cooke or Aretha record on, just to listen to the voice. ..... X

The album that everyone wanted, another British rock n roll classic, & an American classic, as well! It DID debut @ #2 over here, & it sold over a million copies, making it a platinum fucking album, Stateside! Not terrible statistics by ANY measure! Most bands would've loved those numbers!

I always thought "be here now" and "standing on the shoulders of giants" were really good albums. Not as great as the first two, but for sure good.

It's a great album ❤️

Great stuff!

I hope I think I know is a belter it's always been my favourite track on this album liams vocals are amazing I like the pace of the song as well

I love that album.

Amazing content 👏🏻

When I was a kid, I had a brilliant Oasis fanzine, Lasagne, in which Noel commented on the meanings of at least some of the Be Here Now tracks.

My fave oasis album. Went before my Gcse results to get it 😉

Jesus wept… stay Young bumped for magic pie

Great great great!

Girl in the Dirty Shirt is the one I used to teach Peek A Boo from the KAOS Krew how to play guitar! Top vid James. (Stay Young at GMEX is my fave tho - RU-vid it!)

always supporting you, from italy… are you going to knebworth?

Yesss!!!

Stay Young would've been a #1 single!

I love this album. Only "Magic Pie" is one i would have liked to have seen replaced by reworked versions of "See the Sun" or "Control my life"

Nothing like blasting Be Here Now on a car ride. Although recently i did so and got in an accident. Only $2k in damage. Pre 2000 Oasis was the best!

Fantastic Interview what a nice bloke Nick is can tell just by this interview he would be great to work with..... Would like to ask him what he thinks of the mix on the latest knebworth release !

I have grown my appreciation for Be Here Now over the years. Its such a shame that for the 2016 reissue and the 25th anniversary last year that they could not include the live versions of Fade In/Out and Be Here Now

I love your mention of the Fade In-out live version compared to the album one.. it absolutely SLAPS at the Gmex. The album version is still good but it's just not the same.

The vocals on that album where great

Be Here Now is pure Dionysian, pure brilliance

18:33 yeah its criminal that they did not release a live version of Fade In/Out

Another excellent video, really interesting watch. Hasn't changed my mind on the album though! Too bloated, over produced and too many mediocre songs on it. It could have been so much better. Still, fantastic interview and great to get a bit more insight on the album. I7m looking forward to part two. Lovely stuff!

What bugged me about 'Magic Pie' was that in the instrumental break theirs a click that I can never unhear, like an error when it went for pressing/burning. They didn't even bother to remove it when it came to the remaster.

Man, if stay young replaced magic pie the album would be perfect

Magic Pie was about the meeting with the Stone Roses at the dead of night in the studio and Ian Brown was all mystical. Read the lyrics James you should have seen this. 👍🏻

The album is okay. Noel's 2016 remix of D'Ya Know What I Mean is really good. Had they applied that production style to the rest of the record it would have improved many things. Some songs are unforgivable tough - Magic Pie (!!!) Then on the other hand: the insane production makes the record iconic and hilariously funny at times. If you want a good comparison between two records that aimed for a colossal sound, listen to Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins and follow that up by Be Here Now. Butch Vig and Billy Corgan got it right. Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher got the coke - with foreseeable results :)

Hi James! I am desperate to find the parody that starts at 2:09. Could you tell what that show was?

Brill, really interesting james, good interveiw. I think Jim Carrey was there to record I am a walrus with geroge Martin. Its on RU-vid. Should of got noel and Liam on that version.

Brino❤

It’s a grandiose, ill-fated, cacophonous lumbering beast of an album. It’s also glorious in stretches. I’ll stand by my assessment that “D’You Know What I Mean?” Is genius in the way “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is. And “”I Hope I Think I Know” and “Fade In Out” are Liam at peaks. But when you have 3 songs taking up 26 minutes near the end you give away that you’re searching for a moment that soars and couldn’t find it. The moment floats, even levitates, but they don’t get much higher than several feet. Noel is right that its a tough listen, needing a break to get through. But he should still be proud of it overall.

I’ve always liked magic pie…. I’d Replace fade in out, girl in the dirty shirt, all around the world reprise… with any 3 from stay young, going nowhere, flashbax, the fame, I got the fever, sister lover… and use the ones leftover to replace weaker ones on sotsog… would’ve been 4 top top albums then

Strip back some of the infinite guitar backing tracks and some of the songwriting on this record is some of noels best. You can even hear the maturity level stepping up from the first two to this. Just way too over produced. If this album had been done with mainly acoustic electric sounds with orchestral backing - this would be talked about the same as the first two records

It's over blown, over long and hard to get the whole way through but under the mess most of the songs are strong. I think if songs can be done acoustically and still sound good they are good songs. Swap in going nowhere, stay young maybe I've got the fever for a few of the weaker songs and it'd hold up to first two, in my opinion.

you seemed to know more than he did and he was there lol!

Hi James, I was interested in hearing the origins of Stand By Me. A friend of mine who was in a band in Liverpool in the mid-nineties sent a demo to Creation Records a couple of years before Be Here Now was released. The demo had a track called: 'Is this the Life' which has almost the same chord structure and melody as Stand by Me. The main difference was the second chord was a B7 instead of a Bm and the lyrics were not the same. However, if Noel heard this demo prior to writing Stand by Me, nobody that understands chords, could not deny this was a virtual copy of the verse and chorus. As far as I know, the band have had no desire to pursue this further. Personally, I like both tracks although preferred the demo version. I always wondered if this why Noel told unsigned bands to send their demos to Creation Records at the Brit Awards in 1996?

Stand By Me

I just don't believe the "Magic Pie" title reasoning. Paul McCartney released an album called "Flaming Pie" 3 months before Be Here Now, and we all know Noel mirrors everything McCartney/Lennon.

Professional friend 🤣...I could do that..Gizzer job 😂

The real question is how much cocaine do you need to sniff to think that putting Magic Pie over Stay Young is a good idea?

Magic pie is fantastic. Also live.

I brought this album the day Diana died.

You are how we dreamed you tube should be utilised

A woodwind instrument on "Be Here Now"? Where?

The morse code could be a cipher... just an idea 😉

We could have had Stay Young, Going Nowhere, The Fame, ( I’ve Got ) The Fever and/or Flashbax and instead got Magic Pie 🤢

Every time I hear a Be Here Now song done live, it suddenly becomes SO DAMNED MUCH better; My Big Mouth @ Knebworth is a beast! But the album version.... Meh. Abd I did prefer 'Stand By Me' by the pool version as well!

For me this was the last album to have a unique sound definitely maybe very heavy rock then morning glory had a perfect mix of rock with more ballad kind of songs and then be here now was never going to live up to it but was still a great album but from then I think every album following it seems like they weren’t as creative u can pretty much interchange all of them except a few songs and there isn’t a proper identity to any of them after be here now I’m a major fan but the original 3 albums and The masterplan were the Oasis I still listen to regularly and know all the chords and words but I think they kinda lost something along the way around 2000 almost like they went into autopilot and a bit lazy from then 90s Oasis is how I will always remember them as I lived it through my youth

It's the morse code equivelent of 95% of Noel's lyrics.

Stay Young is the best song from those sessions. Would have been an iconic track 2 and could have been on the LP in place of several other songs haha, Fade In/Out? Meh. Girl in the Dirty Shirt? That song screams b-side.

Maybe after the mega gigs in Main Road and Knebworth they would have just chilled for a few years and then come back with a new album...maybe Be Here Now was just too much They didn't want to lose momentum and have more success, but creativity suffers as a result

All the people saying Stay Young should've been on the album instead of I Hope I Think I Know - don't they both have the same guitar solo? Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere but would be pretty weird if both on same album

Defo wish they had swapped stay young for magic pie

I kinda like Magic Pie tbh 🤷‍♂😅

HE CHOSE MAGIC PIE OVER STAY YOUNG???????? i cant accept this this is so upsetting

Noel's continued slagging off of his drummers bugs me. Especially since in the same breath he will talk about how he and Owen Morris pissed away massive amounts of studio time and money on bullshit that never made it to the records, and his response to that is: "Well, that's just how it was..." But God forbid Whitey or Tony blow a few takes. That was unforgivable to Noel, who claimed he recorded a full orchestra through a single Fender amp or some nonsense like that.

no nick brine book still

This record to me is when the oasis train derailed and they never recovered

Why did u say member of Mick Jagger's famíliy If you'd already said It was his kid?

I Went 2 The Newcastle Metro Arena In About 1997 And Noel Said It Was Alright... ...Nothing 2 Wright Home About You Fu@king Space-Cadets...