Oasis - Be Here Now
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Artist: OasisEdition: Music CD
Published: 1997
CD Release Date: 1997-08-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- D'You Know What I Mean?
- My Big Mouth
- Magic Pie
- Stand By Me
- I Hope, I Think, I Know
- The Girl In The Dirty Shirt
- Fade In-Out
- Don't Go Away
- Be Here Now
- All Around The World
- It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)
- All Around The World (Reprise)
Free Music Notes for Be Here Now
Free Music Review: Initially hailed by critics, then bashed a month later.
Hit: 5 Stars
Some reviews here state that this album initially had negative reviews. This couldn't be further from the truth. Oasis were all over MTV, Rolling Stone, etc. during the lead-up to their third album, and the initial reviews were of high praise. [...]And let's not forget that in their homeland, the album accounted for two-thirds of ALL music sold for the entire WEEK it came out. Simply put, very few people were listening to anything else.
It seemed kind of cool at first to have an expanded album; 72 minutes of pure mayhem, starting out with D'You Know What I Mean? - Noel's anti-Wonderwall track which helped hype the album ahead of its release, and one of their best songs of all time. My Big Mouth continued with the wall of sound, while being concise in relation to the other tracks at about five minutes, and Fade In-Out - though too long, a problem with many tracks on the album - was a truly unique Oasis track. But after the initial buzz wore off, people realized that seven minutes of Magic Pie was a bit much. It's Gettin' Better (Man!!!) was a great four-minute song in the body of a seven-minute song; chorus after chorus, solo after solo, it just got worse as the album wound down. Unfortunately, Noel had relegated some of his best music as B-sides which would wind up in obscurity for casual fans - check out the All Around The World single to hear some of their best work from the period.
Despite its flaws - obviously a cocaine album, and Noel admitted at the time he didn't take any creative chances ("it's pub rock", he said at the time) - this album still takes me back to a great time, eleven years later. This was the height of Brit-pop, and yet The Verve hadn't even released Urban Hymns yet. As the summer turned to fall of 1997, people began moving on to other bands and looking for the next best thing, as Brit-pop had overstayed its welcome with one too many near-breakups, cancelled tour dates, and hubris from these bands, let alone the tabloid drama.
This isn't to say that great music wasn't made in Britain after 1997 - I still think this album holds up well against the other albums of its time. Be Here Now caught Oasis, and the music world, at a very particular place in time; the sound and the length of the album remain true to that. After Noel realized the drugs truly didn't work, it took a couple of albums for them to regain their footing, but after 2005's Don't Believe The Truth, a cleaned-up Oasis is ready to storm back with 2008's Dig Out Your Soul, which is receiving a lot of early praise.
No matter what Oasis do next or sound like five years from now, this album will always be in my playlist due to the time capsule it has become for those of us who loved good rock music back in the heyday of Britpop.
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