Oasis

Be Here Now

Glad I Just Happened To Pick It Up

Review Score:

(10/10)
There's been a weird about-turn by many magazines over this album. Q magazine gave it 5 stars only to, shamefully, later disown it. Oasis themselves see it as an unfortunate by-product of too much of the party lifestyle and never play any of its songs live. What I want to know is what's so wrong with this wonderful kaleidoscope of an album that melds glorious psychedelia with Manc full-of-beans, top-of-the-tree attitude? D'you know what I mean? is the closest Oasis have ever got to the Stone Roses 'Breaking into Heaven' and Fade In-Out, too, hints at The Roses' saldy maligned Second Coming. It still ranks as their most ambitious album and you can't help smiling at the Beatle-esque meanderings of All Around The World as it loops on, ad finitum. It's a very British madness, this album, like Pink Floyd- indeed the Floydian helicopters enter on the first song. My Big Mouth, I Hope, I think, I know and It's getting better (man) seem to be cut from the same cloth and a belief in the future and Magic Pie stumbles heroically to Stand by me. Girl in the Dirty Shirt has the magical quality of She's Electric. Not just a collection of singles glued together with some fillers, this feels like an ALBUM and should be listened to over a long sunny afternoon, full blast through a car stereo. It doesn't complain and doesn't explain. Magic trip.

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