Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

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Lloyd from Denver, CoThis song continues to be a favorite of mine since its release. Over the years, the song, like many others, has had a various meanings to me. I have recently found new meaning in the song after having a very close, but depressed suicidal friend, die from an overdose (intentional?). What some of the meaning is now for me: Is it my imagination or have I finally found something worth living for/I was looking for some action, but all I found was cigarettes and alcohol.” Alibi from Milwaukee, WiWell, I've decided... this song is all about vampires!.... Defiantly vampires. This album made Oasis – in a sense – the Beatles of their generation at least in the UK. According to Ulrich, “Wherever or whoever you were when it was going down, you felt it … in the streets, in the pubs, the music press, on the radio, in the gossip rags, the concert halls, and affecting everything from the way people dressed, the way they cut their hair, what football team they supported, the way people communicated, one’s accent … the list goes on and on. Everyone had an opinion. Everybody had a thought. Nobody ignored them. No one.”

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David from Tobyhanna, Paoh and i fogot to ad that he also says but you and i will never die... adding to my supernova idea. it also sounds like he said cause people beleive that there gonna get away from the sun. but i could be wrong. Both interpretations are somewhat true, but you won’t find much ambivalence or (that essential Nineties quality) irony in Faster Than a Cannonball. Although Jones throws in a few sceptical voices, a quote from Blur’s Alex James captures the doggedly celebratory tone: ‘What a totally, utterly brilliant decade. It was certainly a time of peace and prosperity, and fun, when lunches lasted for days and Britain, particularly London, led the world.’ Hooray! Jones was a senior editor at the Sunday Times Magazine in 1995 and seems to have hung out with all of his interviewees, making the interstitial passages a kind of stealth memoir about his adventures with the glitterati. I’m glad he had a wonderful time, but even as someone who was twenty-one then (and whose retrospective essay about 1995 is quoted in the foreword), I grew weary of being told what bliss it was in that dawn to be alive. If we shot a cannonball weighing 10 kg at an initial velocity of 200 m/s (still subsonic, but definitely a respectable speed for a cannonball) straight up at the equator, the magnitude of the Coriolis force on the cannonball would be Dane from Lima,ohio, FlI didn't know there was a long version(7 min. plus) til maybe a year ago.I don't know or care what it means,it's just a cool song.I love the splashing sounds in the very beginning of the song.Their only other song I know is"Wondrwall".I like it too but "Champagne Supernova" is the really cool one.Panini from Killeen, TxSomeone needs to keep them alive when they go down. I wish they were like the beatles- known all over. Oasis is the best!!!

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By his own account in Supersonic, younger brother Liam had not much interest in music. Then, “during his teens, he suffered a blow to the head with a hammer from a student at a rival school, which he credits with changing his attitude towards music. Stew from Rye, NySadly, the biggest difference between them and the Beatles is the fact that Oasis never made it really big in the states. Obviously a very talented band, people just failed to recognize that and prefered much crappier pop stuff. Bands like Oasis, The Coral, and Supergrass have the talent to be great and have risen in England, but remain almost entirely unknown in the US. Where are you when i'm down and i need you .. Good times with our friends will not be the same like we always do.. they have their own lives now we're notMark from Worcester, Midanny, Hear what your saying. Still I think the vocal delivery between the Beetles and Oasis is similar. IMO that's part of it. They're worlds apart, but not without similarities. And the line everyone seems to be talking about, the oxymoron (thanks Diablo!) 'saw you walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball'. I think the way it's so self-condridictory is to give it more effect, although it might be like people say, that while the person he is watching is moving slowly, they are still fast in comparison to everyone else. I also love the opening (I know I'm writing about the start at the end of my post but hey, that's the way I work!) how he descibes what's happening, how he's 'living strange' and the special people in his life are changing. I think it sets the mood for the song, slightly bitter but very much in love.

Champagne Supernova – Oasis

Hac Barton from Las Vegas, NvActually, I have Gregorian chants on my iPod and I'm here to let you know, the part where they howl like monkeys actually is a little better than anything on It still rankles with Noel Gallagher today that the random inspirations behind Champagne Supernova aren't appreciated more by music critics. He complained to The Sunday Times in 2009: "This writer, he was going on about the lyrics to Champagne Supernova. For what it is, it’s an entertaining run through a period of time that has become as mythologised as Swinging London in the 60’s (with Liam Gallagher and Kate Moss instead of Terence Stamp and Twiggy). Elements will certainly make you pause for thought, but don’t expect to walk away nostalgic for the 90’s.

Blake from Manchester, TnMy favorite song from my favorite band. Liam's best vocal work hands down and Noel's most surreal writing. Nikki from Tampa, Flalthough this song has many drug references; it is simply a metaphor for the different classes of people and how they interact with one another---and what the world and their values mean to one another. certain persons are trying to be a part of other peoples lives that are not similar to theirs; and they are hoping for a small chance of unity or forgiveness. Critics have been habitually sniffy about the incomprehensibility of some of Noel Gallagher's lyrics, a prime example being this song's "Slowly walking down the hall / Faster than a cannonball." Gallagher recalled to The Sunday Times March 8, 2009 that a writer was going on about the lyrics to this song, "and he actually said to me: 'You know, the one thing that's stopping it being a classic is the ridiculous lyrics.' And I went: 'What do you mean by that?' And he said: 'Well, 'Slowly walking down the hall / Faster than a cannonball' - what's that mean?' And I went: 'I don't f---ing know. But are you telling me, when you've got 60,000 people singing it, they don't know what it means? It means something different to every one of them.'"

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Cara from Perth, AustraliaWhoops! In the bit where I was explaining the part where this was in the OC, I totally got it wrong. The song played in the scene I described was actually Cannonball by Damian Rice. Chamagne Supernova plays in The Rainy Day Women, from when Summer leaves Zach at the airport to when she kisses Seth at his place in his Spidey mask. Awww. Craig from Scotland, United KingdomAlot of people, including me, think this song is about their father, who walked out on them when the were boys, and the result it had on their lives. Noel had an impressive criminal record by the time he was in his teens and had been using drugs. The line "Where were you when we were gettin' high?" is a challenge to there father. Gerard from Honikiwi, New ZealandThis is a brilliant song. If it is in fact, about anything in particular I'd suggest estrangement or death due to celebrity excesses: "Where were you while we were getting high," from Noel Gallagher, could only possibly be about drugs. "Champagne supanova" is poetic for party, and "in the sky," could only be heaven, "caught beneath the landslide" means crushed the pressures of life. "How many special people change" is obviously about how fame changes you. "slowly walkin' down the hall [??of fame???], faster than a cannonball" is just being numb, surreal, quite possibly drugged out.... Those first two Oasis albums are pretty good, but I think their cultural impact outweighed their artistic legacy. I know a girl called Elsa, she’s into Alka Seltzer/She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train.”If the defining narrative of Nineties culture was the journey from tremendous optimism and underdog creativity to excess and disappointment, then neither book completes the picture: Brooke-Smith downplays the good times while Jones minimises the crash. Still, one can’t help but share Finneas’s yearning for a decade when it was reasonable to feel that today is brilliant and tomorrow will be even better. ‘The sense of possibility in the nineties was really important,’ Steve McQueen tells Jones. ‘It was only a moment, and it didn’t last for long, but it was important all the same.’ For People Who Devour Books