Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

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Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Oasis, first released on February 28, 2000.

It became their fourth number one album in the UK, but remains the band's worst selling album, with only 3 million copies sold worldwide. The album was seen by fans as experimental due to the fact that Oasis had lost two founding members in the year preceding its recording.

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Track listing

  1. "Fuckin' in the Bushes" - 3:18
  2. "Go Let It Out" - 4:38
  3. "Who Feels Love?" - 5:44
  4. "Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is" - 4:27
  5. "Little James" (Liam Gallagher) - 4:15
  6. "Gas Panic!" - 6:08
  7. "Where Did It All Go Wrong" - 4:26
  8. "Sunday Morning Call" - 5:12
  9. "I Can See a Liar" - 3:12
  10. "Roll It Over" - 6:31
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Trivia

  • The album's title was taken from the words of Sir Isaac Newton: "If I can see further than anyone else, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". Noel Gallagher saw the quote on the side of a £2 coin whilst in a pub and liked it so much he thought it would be a suitable name for Oasis' new album. So he wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet whilst drunk (which may explain why it is misquoted from both Newton and the coin). When he awoke in the morning, he realised he'd written "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants - A Bum Title".
  • Due to the departure of Bonehead and Guigsy from the band whilst the album was in production, their parts had to be re-recorded, for legal reasons. Thus, the album only features Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher and Alan White. The sleeve of the album also features them.
  • A bootleg of demo sessions recorded for this album was leaked onto the Internet in January 2000. Most of these songs were recorded by Noel Gallagher with the help of a couple of friends in his home studio at Supernova Heights and at Oasis' own Wheeler End Studios complex. All of the songs apart from "Little James" were sung by Noel.
  • Fuckin in the bushes is featured on the film Snatch, in the last fight scene.

The tracklisting of the demo bootleg is:

  1. "Carry Us All"
  2. "Who Feels Love?"
  3. "Fuckin' in the Bushes"
  4. "Little James"
  5. "Gas Panic!
  6. "Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is"
  7. "Sunday Morning Call"
  8. "I Can See a Liar"
  9. "Go Let It Out"
  10. "Roll It Over"
  11. "Revolution Song"
  12. "Where Did It All Go Wrong?"
  13. "(As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes in Hell"
  14. "Just Getting Older"
  15. "Let There Be Love"

At the time of the leak, four songs ("Carry Us All", "Revolution Song", "Just Getting Older" and "Let There Be Love") were not scheduled for release on either the album or as b-sides on the new single "Go Let It Out". These songs were also completely undocumented apart from "Revolution Song", which had been mentioned by author Paolo Hewitt in his 1999 book "Forever The People - Six Months On The Road With Oasis". As such, these four songs had made-up titles based on commonly repeated phrases mentioned in the songs. Whilst "Carry Us All" and "Just Getting Older" were correctly guessed, the other two tracks were given titles which, in time, would prove to be incorrect. "Revolution Song" was given the title "Solve My Mystery" and "Let There Be Love" was given the title "It's a Crime". As "Let There Be Love" has now been released and Noel mentioned in an interview published in the 23rd February 2000 edition of Melody Maker that "Revolution Song" had been demoed, but wasn't released because Blur had recently released a similar sounding song, it can be assumed that these titles are correct.

At the time of writing (April 4, 2006), only one song ("Revolution Song") remains commercially unreleased in any state or form.

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Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
2000 The Billboard 200 24
2000 Top Canadian Albums 8
2000 Top Internet Albums 7

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
2000 "Go Let It Out" Modern Rock Tracks 14
2000 "Sunday Morning Call" Canadian Singles Chart 8


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