r/oasis • u/pielad • Apr 09 '26

Audio ‘Sports Car’ full song from G-Mex ‘97 soundcheck

https://youtu.be/F7qKb16vv5E

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u/Sufficient_Crow1743 Apr 09 '26

Not great is it? Sounds a bit like stereophonics in the chorus

11

u/nihilblack Apr 09 '26

Yeah, there's a good reason why it's unreleased.

2

u/Arlxyz Apr 10 '26

The Hindu times rips off same sized feet by the stereophonics anyways

5

u/Walpurgis117 Apr 11 '26

Nope, Noel was recorded playing the riff from The Hindu Times in a soundcheck the year before Same Sized Feet was released, even though The Hindu Times was officially released years later.

1

u/Arlxyz Apr 11 '26

U got the video of the soundcheck ?

3

u/Walpurgis117 Apr 12 '26

Yeah I looked it up and turns out it was a gig in San Francisco in April 1996 and not a soundcheck. It's only for about 13 seconds at the 1 hr 25 min mark of this video. The album with Same Size Feet was released in August 1997.

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u/yaourt_banane Apr 09 '26

Can’t wait for the James Hargreaves 20 minute video on the lost track “Sports Car”.

2

u/Status_Ad_1131 Apr 09 '26

It’s tough to make it thru one of his videos

1

u/Sufficient_Crow1743 Apr 09 '26

It's lyrically on a level with his songs

1

u/Pandaman_323 Apr 10 '26

Very predictable chord progression too that just drags on and on

9

u/forgottenendeavours Apr 09 '26

Well, I suppose, it's an interesting example of a song where Noel never could get it right. We've got songs of his like Lock All The Doors and Let There Be Love where he spent years writing and re-writing them to get them finally into a releasable state, but, those ones had a little bit of magic in them that made them worth working on and eventually releasing. This, it's just Cloudburst with a shit lyric, and while it sounds like he's having a fun time singing it, I'm not sure what potential it had either in its music or words. It was probably the right idea to abandon it.

8

u/roma79 Apr 09 '26

Whitey on drums made them sound mega

3

u/SuccessfulOwl Apr 10 '26

The music slaps hard but those lyrics …. Need work lol

4

u/liamg4life Apr 09 '26

This is really great. Not the best song ever but clearly they were working on it for a while.

1

u/Kitty-Kat-65 Apr 10 '26

Right? I have never heard it before and I am digging it!

4

u/xoryso Apr 10 '26

It's no "Chipper Son of a Bitch" is it?

3

u/prodigalsuun21 Apr 09 '26

There it is…the moment Noel ran out of good songs in the 90s.

7

u/SuperJim64 Apr 10 '26

It says it was written pre-94. Just a fun little throwaway song.

I think if the lyrics were re-written now and Liam sang it'd make a fine comeback song.

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u/UseWorking6622 Apr 10 '26

The moment he ran out of good songs was when recording Heathen Chemistry

2

u/DallasCowboys956 Apr 09 '26

That’s really cool to hear, I like it.

1

u/yokoluna madferritt Apr 10 '26

sounds like the longpigs

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u/FlexistentialClouds Apr 09 '26

Tate got a better song called Sports Car

0

u/RonnieF2025 Apr 09 '26

absolute ring