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Performance Date:
Supernova Heights/Wheeler End Studios, 1998-1999
Title:
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Demos
Venue:
Quality:
A+
Source(s):
Audio CD/CDR Sources "Go Let It Out (Demo)" Promo CD (Big Brother, BIG B VIR 1) "Where Did It All Go Wrong (Semi-Acoustic Version)" Promo CD (EPIC, ESK 12875) "Who Feels Love" Acoustic Promo (SONY, SINE 002CD) Rarities of Giants (Flashbulb Records FLBB001) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Demos Sunday Times CD ("Gas Panic" Only) The Golden Unplugged Album (No Label, OAGUA 001) Unfinished Sympathy Don't Let It Out - The Giants Demos Leave Me Here (The Giants Demos)
Digital Sources New Tape Source (Fuckin in the Bushes) SOTSOG - The Complete Demos and Sessions (rkid003) [flac] Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants Demos (Thieving Magpie 2020 Remaster) [flac] The SOTSOG Sesions (TREON Deluxe Edition TREON88) [flac] Tribute to a Work in Progress (SOTSOG Demos Remastered) [mp3]
Revolution Song (billed as "Solve My Mystery") [3:52]
Let There Be Love (billed as "It's A Crime") [4:41]
Go Let It Out (billed as "Shagadelic Mix") [5:21]
Getting Older (billed as "Cracking Up") [3:21]
Where Did It All Go Wrong (billed as "Organ Mix") [4:17]
Gas Panic! (billed as "Pipe and Echo Mix") [6:34]
Who Feels Love (billed as "Tribal Drum" version) [5:53]
Sunday Morning Call [5:16]
I Can See A Liar (billed as "Percussion Mix") [3:39]
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is [4:30]
Roll It Over [6:31]
Little James (billed as "Handclap Mix") [4:27]
Sunday Times Promo
Gas Panic (Demo) [6:40]
Go Let It Out Promo
Go Let It Out (Demo) [5:29]
Where Did It All Go Wrong Promo
Where Did It All Go Wrong (Semi Acoustic Version) [4:32]
Who Feeels Love Acoustic Promo
Who Feels Love (Acoustic) [6:09]
Sunday Morning Call (Acoustic) [5:19]
The Golden Unplugged Album Tracks #17
It's A Crime [4:40]
New Tape Source
Fuckin in the Bushes (Demo) [3:12]
comments
These songs were recorded in Noel's home studio at Supernova Heights and at Wheeler End Studios with the assistance of Mark Coyle and Paul Stacey between 1998 and early 1999. All tracks are sung by Noel with the exception of Little James which is sung by Liam.
"The thing about Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is that I had a full year to sit in my 16-track bedroom studio with an engineer friend and make demos, whereas the demo sessions for Be Here Now were finished in two weeks and they were really rough.
We didn't bother about what sounds we were going to use, or the arrangements, or anything. I thought, "We'll work all that out when we get to the studio."
This time, however, I had basically done the album twice before it even got to the band. I had written and recorded the songs on a little Walkman, and then I demoed the tracks on ADATs in my bedroom. And we ended up using a lot of stuff from the demos on the actual record because the demos were that good."
- Noel Gallagher, guitarplayer.com, 2000
15 tracks were leaked onto the Internet via a private FTP on the 31st January 2000. These songs are known to have been recorded during these demo sessions before the band converged to the south of France with Mark Stent to record the album proper.
Both Don't Let It Out and Unfinished Sympathy suffer from glitches (pops/tiny missing sections) which others have tried to fix over the years. For example the out of "Fuckin in the Bushes" gets clipped short when the lady says "I'm all for it...\"
Both The SOTSOG Sesions (TREON Deluxe Edition) and SOTSOG - The Complete Demos and Sessions [rkid003] along with the 2020 James Remaster do a good job of pulling together all the best versions available.
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