Sunday Morning Call - Oasis - 21 August 2011

"Sunday Morning Call" is a song by English rock band Oasis taken from their fourth studio album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, and was released as the third and final single from it on 3 July 2000, peaking at #4 in the UK charts. The song is written and sung by Noel Gallagher, who took over lead vocal from brother Liam Gallagher on an A-side for the first time since "Don't Look Back in Anger" in 1996. Though the song has the same anthemic feel that popularised many Oasis songs, and departs from the psychedelic feel of Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, which had been poorly received by critics, it received a mixed critical reception. NME described it as "a dreary thing indeed", whereas Allmusic described it as a "self-consciously mature departure from the group's usual ebullience... a deliberately mellow, mid-tempo". The music video is a take on the Jack Nicholson film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with characters resembling McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. It was filmed in an old mental institution in Vancouver, Canada and features Scottish actor James Cunningham, who has previously starred in the original play of Trainspotting. Unlike the film, the video begins with the McMurphy character escaping his home and giving chase to the authorities, and ends in a football match. While the inmates celebrate a victory, Oasis are seen watching from the asylum window, and Noel Gallagher makes a 'wanker' hand gesture at Cunningham. Although unconfirmed, there was widespread speculation at the time that the song was inspired by Noel's friend Kate Moss. "Sunday Morning Call" was the first Oasis single to have Noel sing lead vocals on both B-sides, as well as the A-side. The "Sunday Morning Call" single sleeve was the only overlooked single sleeve in the Time Flies... 1994-2009 postcard box, which contains the remaining 26 single sleeves printed onto postcards. In addition, the Time Flies... 1994-2009 album features "Sunday Morning Call" as a hidden track at the end of disc 2, being the only single to not be credited on the sleeve or feature its own, separate track. A possible reason for this was presented in the audio commentary of the accompanying DVD, where Noel states that he "hates" the track.

Duration: 5min 33sec



D1rtyG4m1ng: Hardly No-one knows this song? D: But its amazing!

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