Originally posted by RUMMY:'Oasis: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Chasing The Sun Edition' tracklisting - due in stores on September 29th:
Disc 1:
'Hello'
'Roll With It'
'Wonderwall'
'Don’t Look Back In Anger'
'Hey Now!'
'(untitled)'
'Some Might Say'
'Cast No Shadow'
'She’s Electric'
'Morning Glory'
'(untitled)'
'Champagne Supernova'
Disc 2:
'Talk Tonight'
'Acquiesce'
'Headshrinker'
'It’s Better People'
'Rockin' Chair'
'Step Out'
'Underneath The Sky '
'Cum On Feel The Noize'
'Round Are Way'
'The Swamp Song'
'The Masterplan'
'Bonehead’s Bank Holiday'
'Champagne Supernova (Brendan Lynch Mix)'
'You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away'
Disc 3:
'Acquiesce (Live At Earls Court)'
'Some Might Say (Demo)'
'Some Might Say (Live at Roskilde)'
'She’s Electric (Demo)'
'Talk Tonight (Live At Bath Pavilion)'
'Rockin’ Chair (Demo)'
'Hello (Live At Roskilde)'
'Roll With It (Live At Roskilde)'
'Morning Glory (Live At Roskilde)'
'Hey Now (Demo)'
'Bonehead’s Bank Holiday (Demo)'
'Round Are Way (MTV Unplugged)'
'Cast No Shadow (Live At Maine Road)'
'The Masterplan (Live At Knebworth Park)'
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"Owen,
I've recently listened to the first two remaster releases of Oasis. What myself and other audiophiles cannot understand is why is there so much compression on these reissues? No offense, but i figured in 2014 that would be a non issue with the technology at hand. What other factors are involved that cause this to happen?"
Hello Ben,
Thanks for the email.
Truth is.....the mixes I was doing back then.....and sadly, probably even now.......would never make an "audiophile" happy.
I wasn't the most technically adept of either recording or mix engineers.....but I tried hard, so kind of got the recordings recorded.
The Oasis re-issues are pretty much exactly like the 1/2" master tapes are.....I was compressing very heavily as a definite artistic decision: it was more about trying to imply noise and power rather than worrying about competing with better recorded music. And a lot of the mixing on Def maybe and Morning Glory was about hiding the not so great playing (by certain members), so the "compressed mush" was actually essential in my opinion. It was about delivery the songs, Liam's vocals etc as best as possible, given the general overall ineptness of the backing tracks and sonic production.
We were working fast then. I remember some comment from Alan White about when his brother Steve went in recording with Weller and Brendan Lynch recording that is wasn't until day 3 or 4 at the earliest that they actually started recording (cos they were "positioning microphones" etc until then). By day 3 or 4 with Oasis, we'd already recorded 3 or 4 whole. complete, finished songs.
And I was very anti production at the time having come out of what I though was a very soul-less couple of years with Johnny Marr where he was more interested in "posh production values" (which have their place).......at the expense of actually just playing some bloody songs and recording music (in my humble opinion).
There's bit's that I regret about not being so sonically able in the studio at the time........but honestly.......it's ok. It's just music. And we all did the best we could.
Personally, I wish Noel/Ignition would've let me personally re-master my albums: they would've all benefited from cleverer processing (I've used a multi band compressor to create more "shape" happening between low end, mids and highs).....but I was over ruled.
Ian Cooper did a good job, in that he did virtually nothing. The main thing that happened was on Morning Glory I asked to have a de-esser (to get rid of Liam's vocal sibilances......my fault....an oversight in mixing....whoops) on the mixes. I thingk they sound better cos of that.
Sorry if you are not happy with these new versions. They are as the 1\2"masters. And for that reason (i.e., the lack of my over eq'ing in mastering that I did at the time) I think they are ok. Not brilliant. But ok.
That's my rant.
Cheers,
Owen