The EP was produced by Rik Simpson with Daniel Green and Bill Rahko and features a new live version of Coldplay's hit collaboration with The Chainsmokers, "Something Just Like This," recorded in Tokyo in April. It also includes "Miracles (Someone Special)," a collaboration with Detroit rapper Big Sean. Another new song, "A L I E N S," was written with Brian Eno, and co-produced by Eno and Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, Kings Of Leon).
The EP is the sister release to the band's acclaimed A Head Full Of Dreams album, which has sold more than 5 million copies around the world since its December 2015 release.

Radiohead on its top form. Hearty hearty britpop.

《(What's the Story) Morning Glory?》（参考译名：晨光荣耀）是英国摇滚乐队绿洲乐队的第二张录音室专辑，由创造唱片发行于1995年10月2日。制作人为欧文·莫里斯和乐队吉他手诺尔·盖勒格。这是鼓手艾伦·怀特参与的首张乐队专辑。该专辑的结构和编曲风格与前作《Definitely Maybe》大相径庭，诺尔·盖勒格的创作重心转移到谣曲上，强调“宏大”的副歌，加上弦乐编曲和更多样化的器乐部分，与首张专辑的粗砺感形成了对比。
这张专辑使绿洲乐队从一支跨界独立乐队转变为红遍全球的现象级摇滚团体。乐评人认为它在英国独立音乐史上占有重要地位[1]。该专辑在发行首周内售出创纪录的347,000张，在英国专辑排行榜的榜首位置停留了10周，并在美国公告牌二百强专辑榜上达到第4位，是乐队商业上最成功的专辑。其中的单曲也取得了成功：《Some Might Say》和《Don't Look Back in Anger》在英国登顶；《Champagne Supernova》和《Wonderwall》在美国的现代摇滚歌曲排行榜上登顶；《Wonderwall》在澳大利亚和新西兰的单曲榜上登顶[2]。
虽然该专辑取得了轰动一时的商业佳绩，但主流乐评对其反应平淡。许多当时的乐评人认为它劣于《Definitely Maybe》，尤其批评它的创作和制作。然而，在接下来的几年中，评论界的看法扭转了。它如今被普遍认为是英伦摇滚年代及整个1990年代中影响深远的专辑。对其最著名的现场演绎是当年8月在科内博斯厅举办的两场演唱会，共吸引了250,000名听众。该专辑在1996年的全英音乐奖上赢得了最佳英国专辑奖。
2010年的全英音乐奖认为《(What's the Story) Morning Glory?》是自1980年代以来最伟大的英国专辑[3]。截至2015年，它的全球销量约为2200万张，被收录进数个最伟大的摇滚专辑榜单。

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Developed from an earlier group, the Rain, the band originally consisted of Liam Gallagher, Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan, and Tony McCarroll.

Definitely Maybe于1994年由Sony公司发行，其中多首出现在他们发行前一年同The Real People乐队的Chris和Tony Griffiths一起录制的Live Demonstration demo中。正式发行版本的歌曲要比较长，他们与 Mark Coyle 一起录制3遍，直到Owen Morris 出现并混音制作到大家满意为止。整张专集总共花费8万5千英镑在制作上，在当时是相当大的投资。这张专辑的销售量也非常好，受到了很多听众的欣赏和好评。

相信个位前不久应该也看到Cher同学播报的新闻，Noel Gallagher的这张07年在伦敦的慈善演出现场所录制的CD将在09年3月15日免费发行，当然还有Itunes的几首单曲，一共16首也算是为Noel Gallagher即将发行的个人Solo专辑做预热吧，我们可以看到歌曲中很多都是他的翻唱作品，当然也都是他所崇拜的对象，The Beatles，The Smiths的几首经典曲目算是Noel对他们的最好致敬，当然也有Paul Weller的临时客串。

New US single If I Had A Gun... by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Better than The Death of You and Me. This could be a massive hit, really good lyrics and certainly an improvement on the leaked soundcheck version from the Dig Out Your Soul tour back in 2009. This is a direct Soundcloud rip which was uploaded to KROQ's offical page

01 04:48 Don't Look Back In Anger
02 03:41 Step Out
03 03:21 Underneath The Sky
04 05:09 Cum On Feel The Noize

Hit single from their 1994 debut album 'Definitely Maybe',backed with three non-album tracks: 'Up In The Sky'(Acoustic), 'Cloudburst' and 'Supersonic' (Live April '94).Slimline jewel case.

The second single from 'Be Here Now'. It's backed with threenew non-album tracks: '(I Got) The Fever', 'My Sister Lover'and 'Going Nowhere'. Digipak. 1997 Creation release.

Japanese edition of the fourth single from 'Be Here Now'. Packaged in a standard jewel case, it's backed with 'Sad Song', 'Fade Away' (Warchild Version) and a live version of their early U.K. hit 'Cigarettes And Alcohol' recorded in Manchester, England on December 14, 1997. 1998 Epic release.

Single from their 1994 debut 'Definitely Maybe'. It's backedwith three non-album tracks: 'Listen Up', 'Fade Away' and alive version of the Beatles' 'I Am The Walrus' recorded atthe Glasgow Cathouse in June 1994. Slimline jewel case. 1994Creation release.

01 05:08 Champagne Supernova (Radio Edit)
02 07:31 Champagne Supernova (Album Version)
03 06:31 Slide Away

"It felt like we were in a movie that had a totally implausible ending..."
Slowdive's second act as a live blockbuster has already been rapturously received around the world. Highlights thus far include a festival-conquering, sea-of-devotees Primavera Sound performance, of which Pitchfork noted: "The beauty of their crystalline sound is almost hard to believe, every note in its perfect place."
"It was just nice to realise that there was a decent amount of interest in it," says principal songwriter Neil Halstead. The UK shoegaze pioneers have now channelled such seemingly impossible belief into a fourth studio opus which belies his characteristic modesty. Self-titled with quiet confidence, Slowdive's stargazing alchemy is set to further entrance the faithful while beguiling a legion of fresh ears.
Deftly swerving what co-vocalist/guitarist Rachel Goswell terms "a trip down memory lane", these eight new tracks are simultaneously expansive and the sonic pathfinders' most direct material to date. Birthed at the band's talismanic Oxfordshire haunt The Courtyard - "It felt like home," enthuses guitarist Christian Savill - their diamantine melodies were mixed to a suitably hypnotic sheen at Los Angeles' famed Sunset Sound facility by Chris Coady (perhaps best known for his work with Beach House, one of countless contemporary acts to have followed in Slowdive's wake).
"It's poppier than I thought it was going to be," notes Halstead, who was the primary architect of 1995's previous full-length transmission Pygmalion. This time out the group dynamic was all-important. "When you're in a band and you do three records, there's a continuous flow and a development. For us, that flow re-started with us playing live again and that has continued into the record."
Drummer and loop conductor Simon Scott enhanced the likes of 'Slomo' and 'Falling Ashes' with abstract textures conjured via his laptop's signal processing software. A fecund period of experimentation with "40-minute iPhone jams" allowed the unit to then amplify the core of their chemistry. "Neil is such a gifted songwriter, so the songs won. He has these sparks of melodies, like 'Sugar For The Pill' and 'Star Roving', which are really special. But the new record still has a toe in that Pygmalion sound. In the future, things could get very interesting indeed."
This open-channel approach to creativity is reflected by Slowdive's impressively wide field of influence, from indie-rock avatars to ambient voyagers - see the tribute album of cover versions released by Berlin electronic label Morr Music. As befits such evocative visionaries, you can also hear Slowdive through the silver screen: New Queer Cinema trailblazer Gregg Araki has featured them on the soundtracks to no less than four of his films.
"When I moved to America in 2008 I was working in an organic grocery store," recalls Christian. "Kids started coming in and asking if it was true I had played in Slowdive. That's when I started thinking, 'OK, this is weird!'"
Neil Halstead: "We were always ambitious. Not in terms of trying to sell records, but in terms of making interesting records. Maybe, if you try and make interesting records, they're still interesting in a few years time. I don't know where we'd have gone if we had carried straight on. Now we've picked up a different momentum. It's intriguing to see where it goes next."
The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. This movie could run and run...

英伦巨头Radiohead 带来了世界无数歌迷日夜期待的第7张录音室专辑《In Rainbows》。Radiohead 这次选择了独特的发行方式，网络发行，不是说网络方式发行是独特的，而是他们目前还没有选择一家唱片公司来正式发行这张专辑。在10月10号那天通过网络购买的方式来获得专辑，可以购买MP3，也可以购买CD，不过CD会比MP3晚2个月才能拿到手。最后的普通版CD估计要到2008年的一月份才会通过公司进行全球发行。MP3在10号那天英国当地时间早晨5点开放下载后，一直到现在，Radiohead的官方打开速度仍然很慢，可以想像全世界有多少在同时登陆一个网站，同时下载一首歌。歌迷需要付出40磅才能下到载整张专辑歌曲，其中MP3格式的为不写保护，160Kbps的音质。从Radiohead选择这样的发行方式来看，显然他们走出的是一条新路，他们相信网络传播对艺人的作品不是想象中的可怕与不可抵抗的。同时这样的方式也给世界唱片工业一个重磅，给世界的唱片市场一个新的思路与想法

Let's Dance is the fifteenth studio album by David Bowie. Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album contained three of his most successful singles; the title track, "Let's Dance", which reached No. 1 in the UK, US and various other countries, as well as "Modern Love" and "China Girl", which both reached No. 2 in the UK. "China Girl" was a new version of a song which Bowie had co-written with Iggy Pop for the latter's 1977 album The Idiot. It also contains a re-recorded version of the song "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)", which had been a minor hit for Bowie a year earlier.

1 Atom Heart Mother: Father's Shout/Breast Milky/Mother Fore/Funky Dung Geesin, Gilmour, Mason, Waters ... 23:44
Composed by: Geesin, Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright
2 If Waters 4:30
3 Summer '68 Wright 5:29
4 Fat Old Sun Gilmour 5:22
5 Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast: Rise and Shine/Sunny Side Up/Morning ... Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright 13:00

20分钟的歌曲再加上 "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" 所组成的这部专辑依旧是根系于他们早期的 "Atom Heart Mother Suite" 和 "Echoes" 等这些作品，但我们宁愿看到另一种 Pink Floyd 的音乐风格。"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" 的歌词完全是在赞美与称颂 Barrett 的聪明以及作为对其后来的隐退发出的一曲挽歌。整首歌曲由9段组成，而专辑选用了前面的5首片段作为整部专辑的开篇。对于该曲你往往最先可能被 Gilmour 忧伤的吉他主奏所打动，不过贯穿全曲的确是 Wright 有史以来最出色的键盘演奏，当然萨克斯演奏家 Dick Parry 如同在 Dark Side 中一样做了精彩的表演；而后面的4首片段则作为专辑的结束曲，伴随着风声以及David Gilmour 吉他的咆哮声和他的呐喊声中开始，并最终在波涛汹涌般的键盘声中逐渐结束整部专辑。本来该曲是作为一个整体演出的，但在1975年却被一分为二了。毫无疑问的是，这首歌曲就是针对并间接地回顾了 Pink Floyd 音乐历程上的第一个变故 —— 乐团创史人 Syd Barrett 中途离开乐队。1975年7月5日，当乐队录制完毕而进行混音制作阶段工作的时候，有一个陌生人来到录音室外面默默地看着里面工作的乐队成员，他就是 Syd Barrett。可惜当时他并不知道这部专辑就是题献给他的，在匆忙一瞥后，人们从此再也没在公共场合见到他。
在 VSC3 合成器极富规律的伴奏下，伴随着重复回声的组合引出了 "Welcome To The Machine" 开头的那部分音节，由此开始了一个针对当时音乐圈中广泛存在的“对金钱的追逐超过了对音乐制作创新的追求”现象的辛辣的讽刺，而将歌手 Roy Harper 引入并演唱 "Have A Cigar" 则似乎是 Waters 的耻辱，但当时在录制此曲的时候，本应担任主唱的 Waters 嗓子出了问题而无法正常演唱，刚巧他的朋友 Roy Harper 也同期在同一录音室录制别的作品，于是 Waters 便请他的朋友演唱了这首对唱片录音工业辛辣讽刺的歌曲，不过后来 Waters 对这个决定也无不抱怨说“not because he did it badly...it just isn't us anymore”。歌曲里面有一句歌词“Which one's Pink?”其实来自于一位对他们一无所知的美国唱片公司董事询问乐队时愚蠢的提问，后来在演唱会上，Waters 将这句话印到自己的T恤上。
唱片的标题曲 WISH YOU WERE HERE 同样也是针对 Syd Barrett，但也是 Roger Waters 对于徘徊在乐队成功的四周围的贪婪所进行的斗争中所感受到的紧张感，而根植于贯穿 Wish You Were Here 专辑中所体现出来的那种觉醒的主题不断的滋生发展并最终在后来的 The Wall 中萌发壮大。古典/爵士小提琴手 Stephane Grapelli 参加了该曲的录制，也就是全曲结束时那几个小节的风声的合成音响效果的录音。而歌曲的管弦乐片段其实是截取于 Tchaikovsky 的第四交响曲的录音。本曲以后成为乐队巡回演唱会上的保留曲目，即使是 Waters 离开乐队后，无论乐团还是他依旧喜欢在各自的演出中演唱它。
WISH YOU WERE HERE 专辑于75年9月27日进入美国排行榜并名列12位，并于10月4日升至榜首。而在英国，发行后第一周便荣登榜首，不过这要感谢提前预售的25万张唱片的功劳。Wish 专辑也是在他们离开了与之合作多年的 Capitol 唱片公司，并自组 Pink Floyd Music 公司后制作的第一部作品，另外他们将其作品改委由 Columbia 唱片公司发行而不是老东家EMI公司了。或许是因为上一张作品反映太好，它多少显得这张专辑有些失色，乐评家的评论甚至也仅以“了无长进”一笔带过。现在回过头来看这张唱片，虽然具有一定程度的商业化倾向的表现，但在音乐创作的本质上，它仍然够资格称得上是一张质量均佳的好作品。
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第209位。

Pink Floyd 的 The Wall 也许是音乐史上极具迷惑力和富想象力的专辑。The Wall 录制于1979年，联合艺术家电影公司在1982年拍摄了这张专辑的同步电影 The Wall。
故事是围绕着一个虚构的，将一位名为 Pink Floyd 歌星的孤独比喻成一堵精神上的墙这个故事所展开的，而墙是由他在人生各个阶段所产生的，而且无法排斥的一种精神失落，它不以个人意志为转移并随他的人生成长也日益增长演化发展而成的。专辑的开篇便是通过邀请无意识的观众进入 Pink 的演出（In The Flesh?）而展开的，刚一出世 Pink 就面对着如履薄冰的人生（The Thin Ice），然后转回到孩提时代对在二战中阵亡的父亲的回忆（Another Brick In The Wall [Part 1]），上学后又不得不面对填鸭式的刻板教育制度的伤害（The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 以及 Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2）；回到家中他的母亲又对其的过分看护而使其感受不到任何家庭的温暖（Mother），他不由得自问「我该相信政府吗？他们会把我送上火线吗？我该修建一堵墙吗?」；但在甜言蜜语的回答中，他看到的却是这个世界依旧充斥着漫天而降的炸弹和奔向掩体的平民（Goodbye Blue Sky）；他迷惑了，不知何去何从（Empty Spaces）；于是他自甘堕落下去，在他对性的憧憬和渴望中（Young Lust）高喊到「I need a dirty girl」；然而在现实无奈的空虚中，只能假装一切都好，但日复一日，爱变得灰暗，他却变老并得不到任何快乐（One Of My Turns）；他感到的只是剃刀般的冰冷和葬礼的鼓声，以及对女友离去后所发出的凄惨的哀鸣（Don't Leave Me Now）；此时的 Pink 已经完全绝望，他已不再相信任何人，他觉得他就象一块墙上的砖头被强行禁锢在其中迷失了自我（Another Brick In The Wall pt. 3）；最后，在他结束曲（Goodbye Cruel World）中彻底将自己和周围的世界隔离开而结束了第一盘的内容，而此时，Pink 已完全建立起来的自我封闭的墙，它表明他已深深地陷入精神失落的旋涡里。
第二盘在 Pink 面对外面的世界寻求自我解脱（Hey You）中开始，而美妙的吉他演奏曲（Is There Anybody Out There?）以及低沉的管乐曲（Nobody Home）折射出此时 Pink 的孤独情感，对人生迷茫的他哀叹到「..But I've got nowhere to fly to」；精神忧郁的 Pink 面对电视中反映二战时期的电影时唤起他悲伤的回忆，不由发出痛苦的哀鸣（Vera）；随后在一片鼓乐齐鸣般的古典弥撒风格的颂歌合唱中，引出了整部专辑的核心曲目（Bring The Boys Back Home）中则唱出了他强烈的反战心声；当他的唱片公司使用药物诱使其完成（Comfortably Numb）后,他不由得想逃避，发问到「这场表演还要继续下去吗?」为何不转身逃走？然而此时此刻，他已没有退路，他不得不将这场表演进行下去（The Show Must Go On）；在演出现场，他那种忧郁不振的情绪最终异化为一种莫名的憎恶和歇斯底里般的法西斯式发作（In The Flesh），他嚎叫到「If I had my way, I'd have all of you shut」；他不愿被社会带走他的灵魂，宁愿（Run Like Hell）；在温暖但混乱的战栗中，他再度迷茫，孤立无援只能（Waiting For The Worms），伴随着痛苦，他的心在流血，精神已疲倦不堪，终于将这场表演（Stop）；而在（The Trial）中，他通过对自己在精神上进行的审判，最终将他心灵中的这面墙推倒后，Pink 终于走出墙外（Outside The Wall）和人们又会聚在一起而结束全曲。回首往事，墙那边又是一群疯狂的小孩们，他们是否又在建造他们自己的墙吗？这张唱片向我们展示了追求理想的曲折路程，它以内心的沉思为主，以「墙」比喻人性的枷锁，在经历种种挫折和失败后，不再沉沦，不再逃避，勇敢地走出「墙」外，寻找自己的新天地。
这部专辑广受注目的一个重要原因是它与当时的社会背景紧密配合。例如，在专辑中多次出现的反战内容唱出了广大美国社会民众对越战深刻反思的心声，而把自己比作是「墙上的一块砖头」且无足轻重，便采取逃避的方式以求解脱，这种思想又与当时美国社会中「垮掉的一代」的处世态度不谋而合，因此也同样赢得了广泛的社会共鸣。这部抱负不凡的概念专辑凭其极富社会反叛性的内涵而在全球掀起热潮。该专辑在美发行后于当年 12 月 15 日进入美专辑榜并名第列 51 位，六周后升至榜首并一举蝉联 15 周冠军，而在美国同期发行的单曲 Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 也以其特有的叛逆性而成为其单曲榜的4周冠军，并且也是他们历史上唯一一首单曲榜冠军歌曲。The Wall 的演出则是一部耗费心力的舞台表演（如此奢华以至于乐队只能将它带到少数几座城市进行演出）并被改编成一部完整的电影。该专辑同期在全球攻陷了几乎所有西方工业化国家的排行榜并占据榜首位置（在日本和英国可能没有那么好的评价，英国Q杂志给出的很普通的三颗星的打分）。The Wall 同样标志着 Waters 和 Gilmour 最后一次作为合作伙伴在一起工作。乐队在下一部专辑 The Final Cut 完成后便宣告解体。