![]() ![]() The song is one of his strongest performances and stands as one of the best songs any band has issued as a B-side.īut maybe Noel was following in the footsteps of John Lennon, a man who felt his best work was put on the flip side of Paul McCartney’s more lightweight work. Suddenly, the song created a new passion and pathos that stemmed from his interest in the material in question. In fact, it was much too good to be a B-side, as has been shown in concert, which features one of his strongest vocal performances. And so it goes to show that the song was too good to be a B-side. It has a soaring guitar solo, a pounding piano line, a towering vocal delivery and a bellowing horn line, laced together by a strong chorus line. What it lacked was an obvious chorus, which is something ‘The Masterplan’ has in spades. It certainly would have belonged on a more pastoral-sounding album, and the acoustic textures would have added to the milieu of the album, which was frequently confessional in its resolve, demonstrating a weirdly far-reaching view of the complexities and nuances that showcased the demons swimming in his camp, whether it could hang on a tune or not.
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