Despite of the fact that they are in no way better, that didn't keep them from being such an awsome band, with great songs that will go through history.
The notes:
Wonderwall's acoustic guitar is legendary for being so playable, a song almost anybody could learn. With a capo on the second fret, Noel changes the whole tune, starting in a G scale with amazing chords, just like a Em7/G/D/Asus4 and besides the chords the amazing strumming pattern that's unforgettable.
The bass starts latter with a soft progression until Liam sings "Would like to say to you" when the guitar and the bass make a walk down through G, G over F#(pretty cool chord) and Em.
And the chorus that goes practically the same by adding a C9 chord at the beginning, as you can see, even if it's easy to play and understand, the chords used in this song are somewhat unusual, and captivating.
In the video you can see someone playing the cello, but the fact is that there's no cello on the song, it was malctron tape-playback keyboard that the song was recorded with. You can hear them in every chorus, it gives some sort of "importance" and "brightness" to the chorus.
And when it turns to the battery, it's not at all complicated, you can hear its best after the first chorus.
The instruments:
It may sound simple, but the instruments that participate in Oasis' most famous song are quite variable.
The acoustic guitar that starts at the very beginning, the bass, battery, Liam's voice.
Then in the bridge: the keyboard that sounds like cello, the arpeggiated guitar.
In the chorus you can hear another guitar playing the chords.
The third verse is more complex by another guitar making some extra arrangements.
So for very simple sound that this song gives, the instruments involved are many.
The lyrics:
As the Travis' song Writing to Reach You says "and what's a wonderwall anyway?" everybody has asked the same question.
Noel once said that a "Wonderwall is anything that makes you happy and brightens your day" it could be a something or a someone, in the case of the song it clearly talks about someone.
Other's say that a "wonderwall" is the wall where a schoolboy paste his posters about bands, girls or sports' players.
There's another theory that explain that this is based on the movie "Wonderwall" the soundtrack of the movie was composed by George Harrison, and was the first album released by any of the Beatles. In the movie the main character moves in a new town and his neighbor becomes obsessed with her, until one day he starts making hole on his walls to see her through.
In my own opinion a wonderwall is someone or something in which you can have unconditional support from, and that at the same time you love.
About the rest of the lyrics most of the media claimed this song to be about Noel's girlfriend back then, but when they asked Noel about it, he said that "it was about an imaginary friend who comes to save you from yourself"
In my opinion "Wonderwall" is not a simple love song it goes deeper that that, and thought I like much of Noel's explanation, and don't totally accept it.
What I think the song tells is about someone rescuing someone, that's for sure, but we are not quite sure who is rescuing who, at the beggining you can assume the singer will save someone as he warns over how the people are going to treat the other someone, but in the chorus he says "maybe you're gonna the be the one that saves me". In this case I think about love, because somehow, when in love, two people save each other from themselves, as they get over their fears and start to trust each other.
You can recall love pretty much through all the whole song, but as I see it, it's not the typical in-love song, is another kind of love.
Even when he sing "I dont believe anybody feels the way I do about you now" sounds like a threat to me, like saying "If you go around the world, you wouldn't find someone that cares as much as I do".
The truly magic of the lyrics is that he tells how much he loves but he never tells how he loves, he tells that nobody would feel the same, warns that there are problems ahead, that the other someone may feel empty ("the fire in your heart is out") and the only clue we get is when he says "and after all, you're my wonderwall"
With some complicated lyrics to define, and explain, I can only express that's one of my favortites song, because even if the person would like to say many thing to you and he/she doesn't know how, the fact is that even if the lights are blinding, and roads are winding, he/she will stay with you, because after all, you're his/her wonderwall
