Don't Stop...
I’ve had infinite time to kill lately so I thought I’d finally look and find out what was actually on the hundreds of faceless unmarked CDs I’ve got lying around at home. As fate would have it, I have stumbled across an old demo which I thought had been lost for ever...Hope everyone is staying safe and trying to ride out the lockdown with a minimum of fuss. You’re welcome by the way.
"Don't Stop..." is a 2020 single by Noel Gallagher. Released at midnight on 30 April,[1] It is a lo-fi[2] demo of an unreleased song belived to have been originaly recorded in the mid-2000s. It is an acoustic song. The music journalist Alexis Petridis speculates that it was intended for release on either the Don't Believe the Truth or Dig Out Your Soul albums, recorded with Oasis. Petridis suggests that, in terms of quality, while "Don't Stop..." is not "at the height of Gallagher’s songwriting prowess...it’s one of Gallagher’s more appealing latter-day efforts".[3] The BBC's Mark Savage described the song as "a laid-back, acoustic ballad...shar[ing] its DNA with classic Oasis songs" as "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" and "Don't Look Back in Anger".[2]
Until its release, it was known of only by its presence on a rough soundcheck tape recorded before a performance in Hong Kong "about 15 years ago", tweeted Gallagher the previous day.[1] He stated that he had found the song on a seemingly-blank CD as a result of the UK's coronavirus lockdown, which drove him to look through old material.[4] This appears to have been the only existing copy of the song.[5] In response to the announcement, Gallagher's ex-Oasis bandmate and younger brother, Liam, tweeted, "Oi tofu boy if your [sic] gonna release old demos make sure im [sic] singing on it and boneheads playing guitar on it if not it's not worth a wank as you were LG x".[6] Liam also accused Noel of overdubbing the raw recording in a recording studio, caling it a "PR stunt", although The Independent suggested that Liam had claimed to have been "disappointed" at not featuring on the single..[7]
References
- ^ a b Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (2020-04-29). "Noel Gallagher announces release of lost Oasis song". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ a b Savage, Mark (2020-04-30). "Noel Gallagher shares unreleased Oasis song". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Oasis: Don't Stop… review – optimistic lost song is a minor gem". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Oasis: Liam Gallagher sparks fresh row with brother after Noel releases 'lost' track". Sky News. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Oasis: Liam Gallagher sparks fresh row with brother after Noel releases 'lost' track". Sky News. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Oasis: Liam Gallagher sparks fresh row with brother after Noel releases 'lost' track". Sky News. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Oasis: Liam Gallagher sparks fresh row with brother after Noel releases 'lost' track". Sky News. Retrieved 2020-04-30.