Dig Out Your Soul

Occupation

Dig Out ​​Your Soul is the seventh studio album by the Britpop band Oasis. It was released in October 2008.

  • 3.1 Music
  • 3.2 texts
  • 3.3 Citations and References
  • 3.4 artwork
  • 4.1 outcouplings 4.1.1 Falling Down
  • 4.1.2 The Shock of the Lightning

General Information

Oasis Dig Out Your Soul, published worldwide on October 6, 2008 ( in the U.S. on October 7, 2008). The first single, The Shock of the Lightning, was released on 29 September 2008.

The recordings for the album began in the summer of 2007 at Abbey Road Studios in London. Produced Dig Out Your Soul by Dave Sardy, who had cared for Do not Believe the Truth. The album is the last one with Zak Starkey on drums, who was replaced after the recordings of Chris Sharrock. Before the official release, the album was presented as a free stream on the band's MySpace page.

The planned for the publication date of the first single biggest live radio broadcast of a single group of all time, in which a concert at the Oasis presented the new album, was broadcast live by eight German and twelve European channels had to be postponed due to an injury by Noel Gallagher.

Title list

As with the previous studio Do not Believe the Truth no longer come all the pieces exclusively by Noel Gallagher. Liam Gallagher wrote three songs, Gem Archer and Andy Bell each contributed with a song.

Japanese edition

The Japanese edition was supplemented by two pieces:

  • I Believe in All (Liam Gallagher ) - 2:41
  • The Turning ( Alt. Version # 4 ) ( Noel Gallagher ) - 4:57

Super Deluxe Boxset

A deluxe edition was released as a box set with nine other songs on a second CD, a DVD with the video for The Shock of the Lightning and making-ofs on this video and album, a quadruple - LP, containing the titles of the two CDs, and a 24-page book.

Tracklist additional CD

Lord Do not Slow Me Down was previously a download -only single, the title track as the Oasis Rockumentarys appeared on 21 October 2007 with the same name and was ranked 10 in the UK charts. It was recorded the song that Noel Gallagher described as a mix of The Who, The Yardbirds and Jeff Beck Group, as part of the Do not Believe The Truth sessions. Boy with the Blues should be the lead single of a planned 2006 EP, which was never realized initially. The Chemical Brothers remix of Falling Down was originally released as part of the download -only single of original songs and also appeared as the B-side of The Shock of the Lightning. I Believe in All was originally given to all iTunes preorder the regular album version as a bonus track.

Artistic Description

Music

The album is like its predecessors, heavily influenced by The Beatles and uses elements of classic rock and psychedelic rock, but in this case has a reef orientierteres songwriting than last. The band is attested to this album a grown musical openness.

According to Noel Gallagher, it was the band's earlier songs by classic pattern, but more to Groove:

" I wanted to write musicthat had a groove; songs did not Followed did traditional pattern of verse, chorus and middle eight. I wanted a sound did what more hypnotic; more driving. Songs did would draw you in, in a different way. Songs did you would maybe have to connect to -. To feel "

Texts

In the texts it goes to the part about the confrontation with one's own faith and their own mortality.

The album title Dig Out ​​Your Soul is a line from Archer's Song To Be Where There's Life, which refers to a disc jockey, hangs up the records of Motown. Noel Gallagher said about the title: " Dig Out ​​Your Soul is not the best title, but he was the best, who just came to mind on the day on which he had to think of us." ( Noel Gallagher ) Originally had the title of plate Bag It Up to loud, but this was discarded after Noel Gallagher learned of his girlfriend that Geri Halliwell had published a song of the same name. Even the title Standing on the Edge of Noise and The Shock of the Lightning ( such as the single of the same title ) were considered in the meantime.

Citations and references

There are numerous allusions to the Beatles: The text of the single The Shock of the Lightning refers to Magical Mystery Tour, Soldier On used a melody from the song I Am the Walrus, and The Nature of Reality is a guitar that the strongly to song Helter Skelter lean. (Get Off Your ) High Horse Lady uses handclap like Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. The song I'm Outta Time contains a hidden speech snippets from Lennon himself Waiting for the Rapture quoted the opening riff of the song 5 to 1 by The Doors.

The track The Turning, the end of which uses the guitar coda of the Beatles song Dear Prudence, also sounds according to the Rolling Stones "suspicious" by Cliff Richards Devil Woman at. The band itself was referring to the allegations of plagiarism for the time being not comment.

Further parallels were drawn to The Who, Pink Floyd and Gary Glitter. The Americana musician Ryan Adams compared Dig Out Your Soul with Radiohead's album Kid A.

Artwork

The artwork was designed by Julian House. He was originally intended only for the art direction, but after Noel Gallagher saw a collage cover, the House had designed for a book by Hunter S. Thompson, he was commissioned to design the cover.

The collage on the cover consists of many individual images of a royalty-free images library. In an illustrated newspaper headline a line of single The Shock of the Lightning is played. Otherwise, there is less direct references to the texts, but rather on the general subjects of the plate. House himself describes the cover as a " blend of mind-expanding vision and folk art fair ", which is " more reminiscent of English psychedelia ".

Commercial success

The album sold in the UK alone approximately 90,000 copies on the first day and immediately rose when publishing a number one in the UK album charts. Thus far reaching every studio album by Oasis where the top position in the charts. In Germany the band with space managed eight of the highest in the entry week new entry in the album charts. In Italy, the album was number one on the album charts.

Outcouplings

Falling Down

Before release of the album the song Falling Down was released as a download -only single on iTunes and reached the charts in Italy (place 19), Sweden ( # 26 ) and the Netherlands ( No. 71 ).

The Shock of the Lightning

The single The Shock of the Lightning was the first lead single of Oasis album since their debut single Supersonic, which was not number one in their home country. Reasons for this may be in the long before published on the internet song, and at the Nonpräsenz the typical Oasis, neither the album nor previously released songs, which so far as the B - side in the history of the band whether their expected quality ( as a reminder to the quality of the much-vaunted B-sides of the 1990s singles ) repeatedly attention by at least the large fan base ( hoisted the pre- singles for each album over and over again on the first chart position in UK ) experienced. The video was directed by Julian House and Julian Gibbs, engages with the first images the aesthetic of the cover of the best-of- collection Hot Rocks 1964-1971 by The Rolling Stones and has otherwise numerous references to the understanding of art of the late sixties.

Criticism

According to Rolling Stone, the album as his predecessor was " rezipiert different," was criticized but mostly as " the freshest for a long time ." The album reached so far a Metascore of 67, and thus received mostly laudatory assessments (as of 15 October 2008). According to Billboard discover Oasis with the album returns to its original strength, which lies in mind that Noel Gallagher's songwriting carried on where past times. The Observer rated Dig Out ​​Your Soul, with 4/ 5 points and appreciated the album favorably than fulfillment of expectations. the daily newspaper was positive surprised and attested the band to have " again made ​​a good record ." In the online music database OMDB the album received a rating of 9 out of 10 and was referred to as "brute" who " of the glorious early days of the band" anknüpfe. Plattentests.de says that the band " from themselves and their history capitulated " and thus again found his own musical creativity have.

However, there were also negative criticism: Spin awards 3.5 / 5 points and above all praises written by Noel Gallagher songs. Is criticized, however, that the coming of the other band members pieces can not keep up with the former. The Guardian rated the album neither a masterpiece nor a disaster and awarded 3/5 points. Uncut also gave 3/5 dots and asked the question whether Oasis were still able to animate her audience to sing along. Sound limits define the music of Dig Out ​​Your Soul as a " sad mediocrity " and the band as " traditionalists purest water ". Pitchfork Media placed under the belt in a vote of 4.9 / 10 points to have let her perish with influences from punk, glam and exciting Shoegazing designed plagiarizing the Beatles influences earlier. The American magazine paste threw Oasis before to spread boredom, and awarded 37/100 points.

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