{"id":4668,"date":"2025-08-22T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-cast-no-shadow-by-oasis\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:30:00","slug":"deep-cut-friday-cast-no-shadow-by-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-cast-no-shadow-by-oasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Cast No Shadow\u2019 by Oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-51129222-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"930\" alt=\"Oasis' Noel and Liam Gallagher in London in 1995. (Credit: Dave Hogan \/ Getty Images).\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the constantly shifting landscape of popular music, headliners and opening acts can trade places in the space of just a couple of years. In fact, that\u2019s exactly what happened to a pair of Greater Manchester bands 30 years ago. The Verve released its debut album <em>A Storm in Heaven<\/em> in 1993 and played several shows supported by a new band called Oasis that hadn\u2019t yet released its first single. By April 1995, Oasis had become wildly popular, and the Verve opened a couple of their shows in Essex and France.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-geoff-wilkinson-of-us3\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Geoff Wilkinson of Us3<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/steve-martin-alison-debut-album\/\">Banjo Bonanza: Steve Martin, Alison Brown Plot Debut Album<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/08\/florence-the-machine-ready-new-lp\/\">Everybody \u201cScream\u201d: Florence + The Machine Ready New LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"4D47GZvZecE\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Over the following months, Oasis and the Verve each released their sophomore albums, and their trajectories continued in opposite directions. The Verve briefly broke up weeks after the release of <em>A Northern Soul<\/em>, while <em>(What\u2019s the Story) Morning Glory?<\/em> went supernova, becoming the biggest British rock album of the decade. But even as Oasis feuded with Blur and many other Britpop contemporaries, they remained good friends with the Verve. In fact, Noel Gallagher wrote one of <em>Morning Glory<\/em>\u2019s most moving songs, \u201cCast No Shadow,\u201d about some difficult times that Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft was going through. Ashcroft returned the favor, dedicating <em>A Northern Soul<\/em>\u2019s title track to the Oasis guitarist.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"T4XgxVdyOlU\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The two bands\u2019 roles reversed again, at least briefly, when the Verve reconvened and recorded the 1997 smash \u201cBitter Sweet Symphony,\u201d and the band\u2019s third album <em>Urban Hymns<\/em> actually outsold Oasis\u2019s <em>Be Here Now<\/em>. Then Ashcroft embarked on a solo career, and Oasis carried on successfully, but rarely played \u201cCast No Shadow\u201d on their post-\u201990s tours. Fast forward a couple decades, and a reunited Oasis have one of the biggest tours of 2025, with Ashcroft opening all the U.K. shows. And \u201cCast No Shadow\u201d has made a triumphant return to Oasis\u2019s setlists, with the band frequently dedicating the song to Ashcroft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-three-more-essential-oasis-deep-album-cuts\"><strong>Three more essential Oasis deep album cuts:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-up-in-the-sky\"><strong>\u201cUp In the Sky\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Noel Gallagher is Oasis\u2019s undisputed creative leader, writing every song on the band\u2019s first three albums. Co-founding guitarist Paul \u201cBonehead\u201d Arthurs did take credit for one of the catchiest riffs on <em>Definitely Maybe<\/em>, however, in a 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishpost.com\/entertainment\/paul-bonehead-arthurs-five-lads-street-strong-irish-backgrounds-making-music-27530\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Irish Post<\/em><\/a> interview: \u201cI came up with the riff for \u2018Up in the Sky\u2019 and he built the song around that one but generally Noel would arrive with the finished song.\u201d Arthurs rejoined Oasis this year for the first time since 1999.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-i-hope-i-think-i-know\"><strong>\u201cI Hope, I Think, I Know\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Be Here Now<\/em> remains one of the most disappointing follow-up albums in rock history, partly because nearly every song is about twice as long as it needed to be. One exception is the charging \u201cI Hope, I Think, I Know,\u201d which gets to the point in a relatively restrained 4 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-fuckin-in-the-bushes\"><strong>\u201cFuckin\u2019 in the Bushes\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Oasis\u2019s 2000 album <em>Standing on the Shoulder of Giants <\/em>opened with a funky, psychedelic instrumental, which featured a loop of a \u201960s concert promoter declaring \u201cThe kids are running around naked, fucking in the bushes\u201d sampled from the 1995 documentary <em>Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival<\/em>. Walmart stores declined to sell Oasis\u2019s fourth album due to the profane song title. Instead of performing \u201cBushes\u201d live, Oasis would use the track as their pretaped intro music at concerts, a practice that\u2019s been revived for the <em>Live \u201825 Tour<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.\u00a0 In the constantly shifting landscape of popular&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2152,31,487,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-cut-friday","category-features","category-oasis","category-pushly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}