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Lasttime around the best and most musical of Liam’s songs turned up as bonus trackson the ‘deluxe’ edition of ‘As You Were’. Sadly second time round we aren’tquite as lucky, although all these B-sides are important.
‘ Invisible Sun’ is, at least,different to anything we got on the album: it is in many ways Liam’s take onthe sort of music Noel’s been making: high on drones and keyboards and mostlysung on one note while notably low on the rock and roll. What’s interestingthough is how much Liam’s variation of what passes for ‘interesting music’ in2019 sounds exactly like The Stone Roses did in 1989 (and therefore Oasis diduntil their breakthrough in 1994). At first the song is ploddy indeed, Liamimagining himself as a ‘laser with x-ray eyes’ who can see through the bullshitof the world.
A second verse suddenly rights the song though, Liam returning tohis favourite theme as yet again he baits his brother with what sounds very muchlike one of his twitter rants and using one of the favourite themes of the HighFlying Birds (‘You little monkey! You escaped into the sky’ – does Liam meanthat critically his brother seems untouchable now after years of suffering thewrath of fans who think he split Oasis up, not his brother). Liam knows thatany reunion is down to him and that Noel is never going to reach out to him,ripping off The Beatles one last time as he pleads ‘I can make us cometogether!’ But this is brotherly love in a very different way to the vision on ‘AbbeyRoad’ – it’s the sound of two older wiser man now wary of each other who usedto be so close, eah living in their own worlds now.
I wonder if this song waswritten against the backdrop of the mooted Oasis reunion at Manchester Arena in2017. Just as both brothers were preparing their last albums for release in Maythat year a bomb was exploded during an Ariana Grande concert killingtwenty-three people (most of them young teenagers). An impromptu memorial heldoutside the grounds ended with the crowd singing old Oasis war-horse ‘Don’tLook Back In Anger’. Naturally Oasis were approached to appear at the memorialconcert in June that year singing that song – Liam accepted the invitation,struggling to get through a song he’d never actually sung in public before butdespite pleading many a time Noel didn’t appear (though he was at the grandre-opening of the Arena later in the year).
Liam must have known that if hisbrother wouldn’t work with him for such a big occasion in their backyard hewasn’t likely to ever get back together and, with writing sessions underway forhis second album, this track sounds like therapy and the singer getting used tothe idea he’ll never be in Oasis again (‘Once’ sounds as if might have beenwritten at the same session). This song is even more explicit if you know yourOasis though, with its favourite Noel metaphor of ‘the sun’ replaced by aninvisible black hole notable by his absence in a place that’s hurting andreally needs him. The fact that Liam rips off his brother’s new style as if tosay ‘anybody can do that, but only we can make music like Oasis!’ makes thissong far too major a moment in his canon to be thrown away on a ‘deluxe’edition, although then again only the faithful are likely to buy it and thusget the ‘joke’. Find it on: the deluxe andcollector’s editions of ‘Why Me? Why Not!’ (2019). Similarly‘Misunderstood’ is farfrom the most original Liam Gallagher song out there, but it is different toanything else he’s given us so far.
This song is sweet, like ‘Born On ADifferent loud’ championing an un-named misfit who everyone else hates but whoLiam knows deep down is utterly brilliant. The kind thing would be to see thissong as one for his brother again, especially given the lines about being ‘tiedup in your history’ and repeated words from the Oasis (and Beatle) lexicographylike ‘diamonds’. At times, though, Liam sounds as if he’s proud in a morefatherly way, telling a lost and confused child trying to make their way in theworld that, against all the odds, he admires their kindness and knows if theykeep that as a guiding light they’re life will work out fine. We’ve heard thisbefore of course (‘Little James’ is by now in his twenties) but it’s still asurprise after his angriest album in many a long year to hear Liam talkingabout saintliness as something to copy rather than to avoid. Maybe, too, Liamis singing about his other brother that few people ever get to hear about, PaulGallagher. The eldest of the three brothers, he’s remembered with far moreaffection than Noel in Liam’s childhood memories and seems to have been more ofthe traditional big brother – protecting the youngster from gangs and trying tooffer the sort of male role-model Liam didn’t have at the time.
If anyone was ‘tiedup in our history’ without really wanting to be then it’s surely Paul who – an autobiographyaside – has refused to cash in on the band’s name and has spent much of hislife hopping between careers and on the dole. For all that, if this song isabout him, Liam’s affection and admiration is clear. Who knows though – like muchof the album, maybe it really is about Bonehead?!?
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Liam sounds great singingsweet and pretty for the first time in a while, but the melody is like much ofhis 2019 batch of material lacking and the cod-country pedal steel is anothercase of this album’s production mis-steps ruining what could have been a trulygreat song rather than merely an interesting one. Find it on: the deluxe and collector’s editions of ‘Why Me? WhyNot!’ (2019).
‘Glimmer’ sounds like the one song Liam unambiguously addressesto ex Nicole rather than Noel and may well be left over from the old days.Musically it sounds very much like early Beady Eye with its faux-early Beatles Rickenbackersand short compact story-telling. Once again the song is more interesting thanbrilliant and yet again has Liam in kinder mood than usual. The couple aresplitting up and Liam knows ‘there’s a war outside our window’ as she gets upto leave one last time. But he’s in too good a mood to fight and wants tocelebrate the fact he had her in his life at all. In Nicole he still sees a ‘glimmer’of what made him fall for her in the first place and Liam comes as close as he’sever come to apologising for all the sadness she feels. This isn’t a sad songthough – not with a honky tonk piano solo in the middle anyway – and Liam knowsthat they were both in each other’s lives for a reason, remembering the sadwalk she used to have before they were together and the fact that they’ll thinkabout each other often, ‘haunting’ their thoughts. My guess is that this sillysong was too painful to sing by the time the pair were fully over and Beady Eyemade it into the studio (maybe it even dates from ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ but wasdropped for not being as moody as everything on that final Oasis album?) andonly now that he’s feeling loved-up and secure can Liam put it on record.
It’sgood that he did, although it’s short length and simple chords mean that ‘WhyMe’ isn’t particularly a good home for this song either. Find it on: the deluxe and collector’s editions of ‘Why Me?
WhyNot!’ (2019). Thehome demo for ‘ Once’meanwhile is magnificent. Slower and sparser than the overly slick albumversion Liam purrs like a kitten in between roaring like a lion and his vocal isso alive in and in-yer-face it gives you pimples. I’m not so sure about the wayhe sings ‘schoo-wel’ but Liam’s overdubbed harmonies are delicious and hissimple guitar playing really rather good. Why Liam solo? Why the hell not – a wholealbum like this please Liam! It’s a real tragedy that perhaps the definitiveperformance of the definitive song from the ‘Why Not’ sessions was only everreleased (so far at least) on a pricey double-vinyl collector’s set, althoughthose who are prepared to fork out for this extra do get great value for money.The ending is odd though, as Liam intones ‘Once’ over and over and sounding notunlike Noel as he does so – was this deliberate I wonder?
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