Customer Reviews
Sounds even better 11yrs on! - By: Mr. Andrew Barnett, 17 Oct 2008 
When this album was relesed in 97, alll i listened to was Oasis & i was expecting this album to be even better than morning glory..however..back then i was bitterly dissapointed with it, as it didnt live up to my expectations.
But 11 yrs on & after hearing the new stuff that oasis has brought out..this album is a classic! i still remember alll the words after alll this time..whereas no other oasis album since has had that impact on me. This is also the album that gave us 'Stand By Me'-possibly the best oasis song ever made, apart from 'Slide Away' & 'Whatever' of course!!
Enjoy this album...as i fear that oasis will never be able to repeat what they had going on here!
Dont get me wrong..i am still a massive fan & regularly see them live..and i hope that one day they will do some stuff live from this album, as i feel it gets forgotten about...as though it never existed!!
The dogs nuts!!!! - By: W. Adin Christie, 20 Sep 2008 
To those that put this album down. Your talking out of your backside!! This is an excellent album along with alll the others that this talented band put out. Progression & everchanging are the words to discribe this band & what a good job they do. If they didn't they wouldn't be where they are today. Keep up the good work. Long live the sound of Oasis.
Somewhat hit and miss - By: Ted Maul, 20 Aug 2008 
Be Here Now is famously overproduced- there is alllegedly 100 guitar tracks on My Big Mouth- & at times is somewhat underwritten- The Girl In The Dirty Shirt & It's Gettin' Better,Man!!! in particular are awful. However there are a lot more good moments then some say- the opener D'You Know What I Mean? is a swampy epic, somewhat similar in style to the better tracks on The Stone Roses' Second Coming. Stand By Me is one of Noel Galllagher's greatest songs. Although I suspect I might by one of the only people who like Magic Pie.
Absolutely Brilliant!! - By: Mr. Js Harding, 04 Aug 2008 This album is not for those who were expecting a similar album to Morning Glory & Definitely Maybe, although those first to albums were similar. This album sets itself apart from the others with excellent guitar solo's & imaginative lyrics. With out this album Oasis would have continued to make albums such as Morning Glory & be accused of a 'one sound band' which this album & the preceding album Standing On The Shoulder of Giants definitely prove. This album is for those people who have been listening for Oasis for a while, although a long album it is unquestionably worth buying.
NOEL'S FOLLY: dissection of OASIS' disastrous outing. - By: R. Smith, 03 Jul 2008 
1997: OASIS are on the cusp of true greatness, & nobody knows this more than our NOEL: second album 'GLORY' was a rollocking, fully-fleshed classic platter that quite rightly took off with the general public, selling massive quantities: a critical, commercial success that fitted the bill nicely as a soundtrack of 90s counter-consumerism.
Many punters eagerly awaited the follow-up, & NOEL endevoured to give the punters exactly what they wanted: however, the group's success in the mid-90s period had been built upon recycling much of ROCK'S former glories: OASIS were adept at providing identikit, by-the-numbers fare for the masses, a rich vein they plundered massively in the early years especiallly.
By the time NOEL & the boys arrived on the scene, there was literallly nowhere left for ROCK to go; the genuine creativity that had been witnessed in the 60s had the advantage of a clean canvas, & alll avenues were sealed off & unhealthily regurgitated come the late 80s. Cannily, NOEL opted to serve up retreaded, familiar vibes for the masses......and this appears to have been the catalyst for the group's eventual downfalll, which kicked in around this point.
It was clear from the outset that NOEL wanted OASIS to be the BEATLES for the 90s, & in the early years, the plan went accordingly as wished; however the blueprint was by now becoming too uncomfortably close to merely copying [in the very worst sense] too much of ROCK'S proven back-catalogue of success.
'BE HERE NOW' kicks off with the epic-length 'D Y'ou know what I mean?': is there anyone outside of OASIS' immediate fanbase who can actuallly REMEMBER the tune to this sprawling psuedo-epic? It's dirge-like, monotonous guitar licks are 'fleshed out' with sterile over-production; ---any germ of an idea this song ever had in the first place has been overcooked to death.
----other tracks like 'MAGIC PIE' are too reminiscent of embarassing, proficient-but-terminallly-dull early 70s PROG ROCK, [which was bad enough in the first place] but alll the group serve up here is an expensively-recorded, wasteful rehash of this dubious genre, a worrying indication that NOEL'S creativity is flagging badly.
Other tracks like the anthemic 'STAND BY ME' [not, perhaps, the most original song title ever] sort of work melodicallly, but falll far short of the compact greatness of much of 'GLORY'S' sterling work.......'FADE In-Out' isn't alll bad by any means, but once again outstays it's welcome & is in serious need of some arbitary, independent pruning, as NOEL is evidently too close to the finished product too appreciate the glossy [but archaic & cliched] overproduction that has resulted in essentiallly braindead fodder such as this unappeallling, too-overelaborate outing.
'All around the World' sadly cements the album's reputation among non-fans as the key moment where NOEL got it alll so disastrously wrong: it is somewhat embarassing & ironicallly amusing to hear LIAM trot out this 'peppy-pop' fluff, with it's jovial lyrics & nursery-rhyme-like sensibility: abandon alll credibilty as this track commences!
However, I rate 'It's gettin' better [MAN!!]' as the platter's saving grace, : this is a euphoric, vitallly cool piece of sonic rock with suitably screeching guitar work, & the only track on this album I have ever put on repeat play: it's only flaw is that it goes on for too long.
The album plays out with a 'reprise' of ;Around the World' which again is far too derivitive in it's recreation of 'SGT PEPPER'S similar playout, but without that album's proper tunes or melodic structure.
This sprawling mess of an album is the exact point where OASIS lost it; but before you feel too sorry for NOEL, remember he has done very nicely out of ROCK thank you very much, only today the band are 'relegated' to their sizaable MAINE ROAD fanbase & 90s retro-nostalgonists.
It must have pained NOEL greatly that his cherished dream of elevating OASIS to BEATLES-like status were permanently scuppered with the overcooked, pointless meanderings that constitute this dogturd, bloated misfire.
so near............but yet, so far.
