Oasis - Noel Gallagher On 'Be Here Now' The Album (Interview)
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- This year marks 25 years since Oasis' iconic third album 'Be Here Now' was released and limited-edition collectors formats are available now to celebrate the anniversary. New formats include a double silver coloured LP on heavyweight vinyl, plus a picture disc, cassette and merch bundles exclusively available on the official store.
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‘Be Here Now’ was released on 21st August 1997 and followed the success of ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?’, Oasis’ biggest selling album and the record that broke them globally. The previous summer, Oasis played to more than 250,000 people over two nights at Knebworth, with an astounding 2.5 million people applying for tickets. Released at midnight on Thursday 21st August 1997, at a time when most albums were released on Monday, ‘Be Here Now’ sold a staggering 400,000 copies on the first day in the UK, with 663,400 sales in just 3 days. It was No.1 in fifteen countries and remained at the top of the UK Album Chart for 4 weeks. To date, it has the most album sales in the first seven days of release in UK Official Chart history, and has sold over 8 million copies globally.
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My god, I could listen to Noel talk non-stop for weeks about Oasis. In fact, he could talk about a piece of bread and I'd be interested.
potatos?
yep for sure
Davies Productions
chips
Sounds a bit desperate mate...I remember him coming round to ours and begging a chip butty and asking if he could knock about with us. good luck to him he knew how to get in there
I remember the anticipation for this album. I was 14/15 years old and the talk in the playground was just how awesome Be Here Now was going to be. WTSMG was the soundtrack to our generation and I remember heading out to get D’you know what I mean? as a single and listening to the 4 tracks to death. I got the album for my birthday that year and listened to it none stop. Looking back, it just couldn’t live up to the hype but as a 15 year old it was brilliant.
The first three Oasis albums are like the original Star Wars films: Definitely Maybe is like A New Hope - instant classic, look at it with a critical eye and it’s not original in any way but it is of such high quality that you don’t care, Morning Glory is like Empire - bigger and better than the original and Be Here Now is like Jedi - over the top, some miss steps and not as good as the first two but still thoroughly entertaining and a classic regardless.
Absolutely spot on
I remember HMV in Manchester were going to open at midnight to start selling the album on its release date.
Me and my mates drove 90 minutes to go down there, arrived 12:45am. It had already closed. That’s show business.
Heaven chemistry = Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
D'you know what I mean is my all time favourite Oasis track! What a time to be alive.
I was 15 that year...I even remember scrounging some stand by me posters from hmv when I bought the single...old couple on the front with a green background?....dunno could be wrong...I'm more Beatles Bowie led zep stones these days but back then I absolutely loved them
I fucking love Be here now.
wrong track listing and tracks too long , but most of it is good shit
Totally agree. Great melodies and lyrics in places but too long. However they still had that Oasis energy plugged into these songs so attitude was still there
"Be Here Now" should have integrated some of the previous b-sides like "Acquiesce" and "Masterplan", then it would have been gold. The title track "Be Here Now" is still one of my all-time favourite songs though.
It's all about where you were and what you doing at the time, as well as how 'good' an album is. I'll fondly remember Be Here Now forever, because it was such an awesome part of an awesome snapshot of my life.
I listen to it now and am still happy, but also a little sad...nostalgia. I read something that Ewan McGregor said in an interview about Trainspotting 2, where he was explaining how he felt after watching the Supersonic documentary. Pretty much sums up how I feel about Oasis as a whole, really:
“That time has gone, it can never happen again - but it changed our whole existence.”
Steve Mitchell who's is that quote, ewans?
Noel drops so many "D'You know what I mean"s you'd think he's Liam
Most people from Manchester say dyer know what I mean
It's a very British thing to say... Noel wrote two songs with it in the title, lol. But yeah, I don't think I've ever heard Liam finish a sentence without saying it.
Natural Mystic do yer wanna be a spaceman
except, with noel i know what he means, and with liam, i have no fucking clue.
this had me cracking because it's soooo true
I don't give a shit what Noel says, Be Here Now is fucking great. Definitely Maybe, What's the Story? and Be Here Now represent the perfect trilogy of Manchurian jest, success, and excess. As a band's first 3 albums, nothing tells a story like it, or even comes close.
Jack Whitehead the smiths, meat is murder, queen is dead ?????
Jack Whitehead .......I agree pal. Standing on the shoulder is a great album too...... Only problem is that its too slow. Songs need speeding up a tad an i think it would sound alot better
I love the way the album ends, with the footsteps and a door closing. An end of an era.
Amen. Perfectly put. Never to happen again I would guess!
Manchurian? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Anyone else think Acquiesce is one of the best songs they ever wrote?
yammy1000 yeah it's my favourite song ever, criminally underrated
Lewis Price It's not underrated at all. It's one of their most popular songs.
I get that it's popular they haven't performed any other b-side live more than that, but to say that it was a b-side that isn't very well heard of by non oasis fans is just wrong to me
yammy1000 no not really, it's one of the best songs, Noel's written
Masterplan was the last decent album they released
What be here now should/could have been:
1. Acquiesce
2. Stand by me
3. D'ya know what i mean
4. The Masterplan
5. Don't go away
6. Talk tonight
7. Half the World Away
8. Rockin Chair
9. Listen Up
10. All around the world
that would have rivaled the first 2 albums
Edit (3 years later): I'm aware the great b sides were part of what made oasis, this is just hypothetical and in hindsight what could have been had they kept the songs for be here now.
Andrew Vaughan great list. I could add my big mouth and the girl in the dirty shirt. Maybe all around the world might have been a stand-alone single
I'd throw in a (highly edited) It's Getting Better, My Big Mouth, and Stay Young. Rockin Chair has always seemed like a really good B-Side but nothing more to me
Nate Puterbaugh yeah I would switch out Rockin chair with Stay Young. Rockin chair is a good song but it needs another section. I don't like It's getting better at all though
Andrew Vaughan Noel had a lot of b sides that should have been album tracks.
Andrew Vaughan stay young is the same as the rest of the be here now tracks. Way too many guitar tracks, too long and too noisy. Its a great tune though, I'd love too see an edited version of it with less of the above.
Noel is right and fans of the record are right. It is a huge, indulgent, unfocused record. It is loud, cacophonous, and filled with detours and needs a break from to get through.
It’s also got some amazing songs and great performances from Liam and Noel. The opening song alone is genius. If great pop is putting the right notes in the right place at the right time and giving the audience a reason to sing along, then “D’You Know What I Mean?” is perfection.
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"Don't Go Away" was one of the highpoints of the album for me... About Peggy Gallagher having cancer & the boys being worried about her passing... Thankfully, she beat it & is still with us to this day... You can feel the emotion & sincerity in the song, it's palpable....
Not true at all
@@jamesrobertson2216 It is... I even heard it from Noels own mouth in an interview on telly years ago...
Total nonsense. He ripped the chorus off from a Real People's song, including the lyrics.
It's about Bonehead's mother, not Peggy.
@@vanman757 sad thing is, Noel
Really really stole this song. Unless
That scouse band wrote it about Peggy
You want to search “don’t go away” by the real People
"Be Here Now" is my second favourite album of all times, I don't care what critics or Noel say. I fockin' love long songs (more than 5 minutes) and this album is perfect for my standard of music! I will always love Oasis, 'till the end!
What's your 1st
@@masonmennell8514 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day. I know, it's weird but I love this underrated albums.
This will always be my favourite album, because the singles from back then on the radio were what turned me into a proper Oasis fan. It was from there that I got the album, and The Masterplan, and then acquired the previous two albums. I was at the right age I think, and their music really influenced my life around that time and for the next 5 or 6 years. I picked up the guitar and the drums and just became absolutely obsessed.
Then they decided to break up on my 24th birthday.
He's so right, The Masterplan, Acquiesce, and Talk Tonight are 3 of the best songs that he wrote. Love them to this day!
Jerid58 talk tonights definetely my fave its so good and meaningful
yeah b-sides, crazy. if he had just kept them or listened to others, that would have been the nucleous of an astonishing third album which could have extended Oasis for quite a few more years.
He's both best songwriter of his generation, and the truly funniest musician of all time. I could listen to him tell stories for hours
After Damon Albarn and Thom Yorke maybe .
Lee Mavers shits on Parker from thunder birds and he knows it
John Lydon is easy funniest
@@wormeisterThom Yorke 😂 most depressing and overrated band of all time,and not good singer comparing to Liam,annoying.
lol. Get real
I genuinely love Be Here Now. Quality album.
Yeah it is
I learned every fuckin song on that record on guitar and would play the whole album in a show we played at in the coffee shop my buddy and I worked at...The best times.
Wicked, I was a busker in Dublin (toilet, dont go there) and one of the songs I played and sang on an acoustic was Magic Pie. It didnt get much money, but appreciation from those who knew it. Good to play and sing too - the verses anyway
Noel and Liam have ALWAYS put some of their absolutely best pieces as B-sides, seems to be a tradition.
The hype leading up to this album was colossal. Oasis were genuinely huge at that time. There was a fear the band were going to break up and it was all over the news and all day on Radio 1 where they were giving constant updates
This is my favourite album of theirs simply because it brings back some great memories. I remember being in a line outside Our Price in Brent Cross in North London waiting to get my hands on a copy of this and then a few days later travelling by train from London to the South of France with six mates on Holiday. We had a small boombox which we played this album on and Paul Weller's Heavy Soul, which were both played to death whilst having the best laugh on our journey and sinking many drinks on the way. The journey was the best part of the holiday, lol. Great memories and this album played a massive part
This is how you interview people. Lead them on and then let them talk.
“I should be hanging out with arms dealers.” Classic, Noel. Lol
So many good memories! Love every bit of that over-produced record.
He's still coming down from them days, bless him. That must be one hell of a high man !!
I hate how much this album is hated. I absolutely love it, it's one of my favourite oasis albums and one of my favourite albums of all time. The songs are amazing and as for the length and overmixing its iconic and I wouldn't have it any other way. Btw ng's rethink of d'you know what I mean is incredible but I still think the original is how its meant to be heard.
I always tell the detractors of this album that the excessive song lengths are why it's so great. The whole point is that it's a celebration of excess. Throw in some ambiguous lyrics tied to uplifting, positive melodies and boom, classic Oasis.
Yeah I love it too, Magic Pie is an awesome track
mmjahink Plus a lot of the time good songs are just too short and you have to keep replaying them, with Oasis it’s less of a problem
I love it , reminds me of good times. The songs are all stereotypical Oasis sounding songs
Love it too brother 👌 has that raw oasis sound. I did go off it for a while. I think I listened to it to much when I first got it. But when I found it again loved it still do✌️
What a great storyteller. He puts you right there with those lunatics recording the album. I love this man.
Been listening to it a lot in the car it's a smashing album - it's getting better man, fade in/out what a track - it didn't top morning glory but neither did anything else great great band 👌🏻
Be Here Now was an excellent snapshot of that band at that moment in time; I, for one, love the fact that there's a coked up guitar solo at the beginning of I Hope, I Think, I Know, for absolutely no reason.
It might not have been as influential as Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory, but I think this album is an absolute banger!
So what's the matter with you?
Sing me something new ... Don't you know
The cold and wind and rain don't know
They only seem to come and go away
Toffee Reggin STAND BY MEEEEE NOBODY KNOOOOOWS THE WAY ITS GONNA BEESD
@@riahlexington Yeahhh God only knowsssss, the way it's gonna beeeeeeee
"cocaine is a hell of a drug" and this was one hell of an album. never got the hate.
silverdrizzle the problem is that Noel himself is always calling it shit when it's in fact far superior to all his subsequent releases
Agreed. It's a pretty good album
I think the main mistake was putting ''D'Ya Know What I Mean?'' as the lead single.
''Stand By Me'' or ''Don't Go Away'' would have camouflaged some obvious flaws the album had if either of them was chosen as the lead single.
Leo B John Lennon also said a lot of his own music was bad but it’s amazing
There’s nothing wrong with the songs themselves and Liam’s vocals are amazing. It’s just the length of the album and the over the top production. I’d love him to go back to it and strip the production and arrangements down.
Be Here Now is my favorite album some days. It’s fresh and exciting and energetic as ever, twenty five years later. Some of the best songwriting Noel ever did on that album.
Their B sides were criminally underrated
Be Here Now is my favourite Oasis record. A true masterpiece in my opinion. I wish Noel would eventually come around and appreciate it and stop knockin' it, d'ya know what I mean.
Not only does he NOT realised how great that album was....
....he thinks the shit he made since it is better. My Oasis playlist is 90% 90s.
@@AnonYmous-ez4es I agree but Noel knocking it. What's the deal with that?
I think the album has aged really well, I think we'll look back at it one day and appreciate it much more!!
I honestly liked the album and have bought it several times over the years. It's not the lightning in a bottle of the previous album but it's still a solid album. The Beatles had some less than stellar albums over their time too but there's solid tracks on each and every one. Be here now is no different to me.
I've been waiting for this for so long... Thank you!
I'd be interested in hearing Be Here Naked
Most people dismiss this having never heard it. Shockingly underrated album.
Not really mate its just a shit album
Agreed, loved it on it's release probably love it even more now.
@@gavatundejr4986 it has some great songs on it, the production and the fact it’s following what’s the story let’s it down
Uau... It's been 20 years since then! I remember when I bought the album and listened it every single day! How time flies man... Definately my favorite Oasis album! 😄
For me that album was a time and a place, memories I cherish. It's a great album!
I love Be Here Now love all the songs off that album ...
There will never be another band with that level of bouncy 3 chord Brit pop. It’s the soundtrack of a generation and it’s our story we’re not done telling it.
Really interesting & informative recollection of Be Here Now. Thank you Noël !! Bless yer heart. Peace. Love IS the answer. Rx
Noel is way too hard on himself. I loved that album, and see where it could have been epic if different singles had been selected (the b-sides). Great interview overall and funny per the usual from Noel.
It's decent, but pails in comparison to Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory. Imagine if he used the B-sides for Be Here Now, and BHN was instead.
1. D'You Know What I Mean?
2. The Masterplan
3. Acquiesce
4. I Hope, I Think, I Know
5. Rockin' Chair
6. Don't Go Away
7. Talk Tonight
8. Underneath the Sky
9. Stand By Me
10. Be Here Now
11. Half the World Away
12. Headshrinker
13. All Around the World
Now THAT would be a fucking album that Oasis was worthy of Oasis in the 90's.
@@AusSpurs
How about:
1. (I Got) The Fever
2. My Big Mouth
3. Stay Young
4. Fade Away
5. Going Nowhere
6. Stand By Me [speed up by 1.25x]
7. Trip Inside (Interlude) [1:00]
8. The Fame [sung by Liam]
9. Don’t Go Away
10. Cast No Shadow
11. Flashbax [sung by Liam]
12. All Around The World [shortened to 7:30]
13. It’s Getting Better (Man!!!) [shortened and include All Around The World Reprise Outro]
One of my favourite Oasis Albums. I remember buying it on the day it was released. Then flew off to Mexico on holiday and listened to the Album over and over every day. Still sounds great today.
I always quite liked that album. Played it a lot in the late '90s. Certainly brings back memories now
it's getting better man!!!!!
Best album straight up rock n roll dont think just play!!!
Be Here Now reminds of watching oasis live a few times when I was younger. Noisy, long and crazy. Love it!
Definitely Maybe was their birthday, What’s the story was Christmas and Be Here Now was New Years Eve.
I love this album. The B sides are amazing aswel.
Be Here Now was/is my favourite Oasis album and Oasis are one of my favourite bands, don't know why people (including Noel) slag it off so much! ;-)
Such a great album. Thanks for this upload.
Excellent interview. This is the interview I've been hoping for & waiting on. I've always said it too, had "The Masterplan" been the 3rd album, they would've been even more massive. Talk about a trilogy! Technically they could've released those song as an album as the 3rd record but an American release only, cause all those songs were still new to us. And for the most part of it, it was still pre internet days compared to the massive "culture" it is now at least, they could've gotten away with it. Can you imagine the 1st 5 videos post "Morning Glory" being, "Acquiesce", "Listen Up", "Headshrinker", "Talk Tonight", & "The Masterplan"?? ... Mega. (& to think he still had "Lock All The Doors" in his back pocket, just wasn't finished at the time)
Still think Be here Now was a quality album . I think it went in a different direction to what most thought it was going to be at the time , but i enjoyed it and still do. It's a nice memory to buy a major album without it being leaked .
I hate that Noel hates this album. I fricken love it, and it’s a part of their crazy rock and roll legacy. It was grandiose and epic sonically, and meant to played loudly and felt through your whole body.
I love that it's Liam's favourite. It's their Exile on Main Street. Mick hated it as did the critics at the time but is now considered their best.
@Harvey Smith It was definitely considered underwhelming by many at the time. I remember it well. As for not being their greatest moment, it's undoubtedly in the top three along with Definitely Maybe and What's the Story.
Critics said that WTSMG was underwhelming to say the least and they got that totally wrong, so Be Here Now got 5 star reviews by virtually all of the critics because of that!!
@@mrkipling2201 I dont care i still like it!!!I like that it is arrogant and over produced and recorded to loud.Its cocaine on record.
@@nattyboyo2404oh its liam’s favorite album? Didnt know that
One of my all time favourite albums, loved it from day 1
That intro to be here now and straight into do you know what I mean. Still gives me goose bumps now
This album is to Oasis what Pinkerton was to Weezer. That is, Be Here Now was an album that had the impossible task of making an album better than the previous behemoth. Inevitably, it didn't measure up but with age it has improved. If ever the world needs album like Be Here Now, it's absolutely in 2016.
Best rock n roll band in the world
lol
@@ThomasWilliams89 It's true though.
@sc00bydoo10 Stone Roses made 1 decent album. ONE.
My first rock cd ever when I was only a wee lad, will never forget hearing it the first time
COOL INTERVIEW OASIS ARE LIVING LEGENDS FOREVER MUCH RESPECT ✊🏽 NOEL IS PURE GENIUS - 1/27/21 - LANCE ROMANCE 😎
He's absolutely right about the remix of D'You Know What I Mean, and the 'giving away' of those great songs as B sides on early releases - though I still think it's incredibly cool that such amazing songs were like hidden secrets that only the biggest fans knew about...
Although the songs were too long, and there's a couple of crappy tracks, I think if this album had been released later in the Oasis timeline, it wouldn't have got the criticism it has had.
Instead of everybody else using already released B-Sides from earlier periods, i put together a version of _Be Here Now_ using only songs actually recorded during that period; a version of the album that ACTUALLY could (should) have been:
1. _Be Here Now_
2. _D'You Know What I Mean_
3. _Stand By Me_
4. _Fade In-Out_
5. _I Hope, I Think, I Know_
6. _My Sister Lover_
7. _Don't Go Away_
8. _(I Got) the Fever_
9. _Stay Young_
10. _All Around the World_
Of course it's not perfect, and the songs go on _forever_ . . . but them NOT including _My Sister Lover, (I Got) the Fever)_ and _Stay Young_ while throwing on crap like _Magic Pie,_ rambling B-Sides like _It's Getting Better Man_ and _Girl in the Dirty Shirt_ and absolutely *wasting* that crucial end song for even MORE(!?) of _All Around the World_ is just reckless and sad. really though, almost every song from this period can absolutely be trimmed to at least 3/4 its' length. everything that needed to be said in _My Sister Lover_ (which is a great song) could have easily been done in half the time.
I really have to check out these re-mixes!
Fun times! Wonderful album, love it, and glad you had a great holiday! Sounds wonderful!Godspeed, Sweet Dreams, Cup of Tea, Studios & Rock n Roll 🌅🎸🎶💗👣🙃😍😘
ridiculous that Stand By Me and Don't Go Away weren't included on the greatest hits album.
Thomas Williams stand by me wasn't on the greatest hits? That's one of their best songs and it was a hit 🤔
Stand by me is there.
Stand by me is there on the time files but not stop the clocks. For some reason
Stand by me was a bit repetitive
@@justindavitt6560 wtf are you tslking about?
I Love it when Europeans ( like real cool ones like Noel )refer to my country as The States. Don't know why, just do.
It should be called "the United States in America"
What a beutaiful man you are Noel brother. From Canberra, ustralia. Keepin the dream alive b7 a7 Learning all around the world by ear just now, figured out A, E, F Sharp is in there
Physiological guy. Love him. Genius!! I picked the guitar up way back in 95 because of his tunes! Massive MASSIVE talent! 🕶
Epic !!
Funnily enough, Be Here Now was their highest charting record, Stateside, ever. Debuted at #2 on the Billboard Charts.
Meanwhile in Canada, their biggest hit singles were "Go Let It Out" and "The Hindu Times", charting at #1. "Songbird" and "Little By Little" were their next biggest at #2.
Why am I not surprised ? Ever mystique de la Canada.
@@reillywalker195 No kidding?!! Wow! Hehehe... 🤷♂️
I was 15 years old when Be Here Now came out and it was made for me and people of my age. It made us look up Exile On Main St and from there lotsa other stuff. I bought it the day it came out (BHN that is) and it is still my favourite record of all time along with Exile. Thank f**k they didnae take a break there in sep 96, I had just seen them live once then, in august the same year. WON EREH EB Forever!!!!
Listened to, be here now, for first time in 20years! And ye know, i enjoyed it!!! ..... now put it away for another 20!! 😁👍
He should write more songs with titles based on his most used phrases..d'you know what I mean?
He did some might say
his most used phrases? how many's he got after "d'ya know what i mean"? he might be able to come up with a few more, little by little. he must have picked up a few along the way, he's been, all around the world, after all. his music will still live forever, anyway i'm fed up with this, i gotta go, i'm outta time.
_Oi Liam yah wanker!:_ A compositional masterpiece.
@@johnwedgbury6817 liam wrote I'm outta time...
Drink every time Noel says “D’You Know What I Mean??”
RIP
I really love this album! I often hear the complete album
I LOVE Be Here Now
The older he gets the more he looks like Parker from Thunderbirds.
😆
True dat. Not thought of that before.
He's always looked like a Thunderbird puppet
i don't know why but I love this man
Because its mint
but yet be here now is possibly my favourite oasis album great tunes on it as well
he had All Around the World since about 1992!!
I love Be Here Now, but get Noel's point. Using up songs like Masterplan, Round Are Way, Acquiesce, Talk Tonight, Headshrinker, Rocking Chair, Listen Up, The Fame, Stay Young, Flashbax etc as B-sides and then choosing songs like Girl In The Dirty Shirt and Be Here Now for the album was pretty stupid.
I actually like Girl.. Magic Pie might be the worst song Noel's ever written though
I actually don't mind Magic Pie lol. The album's songs definitely splits opinions, that's for sure!
i really like I hope, I think, I know. Its got such a catchy hook to it. Underrated in my opinion
Rockin chair is so underrated. Their best ever bass groove is on that track.
Them on The Masterplan were great alright, but we're never gonna agree on cutting songs from Be Here Now. The title song is a timeless, perfect sum up of classic rock. The Girl in the Dirty Shirt does wane a bit with the chorus when it goes major chords, but the verses are class
not sure why Noel keeps hating on be here now, it was much better than any album that they released after be here now that's for sure.
No way its better than standing on the shoulders of giants
I never thought the original mix of "D'You Know What I Mean" was shocking. It's loud, in your face, over the top, the triumphant return of Oasis song it was meant to be. It was mixed loud and meant to be played loud. See the ending with all the wailing feedback and backwards guitar? I love that. Oasis has tried to sound psychedelic in later days but for me this is the most psychedelic thing they ever did. That sonic assault.
1997: best year of my life! Great album!!
I concentrated this, but I can't get hope about rebirth Oasis.. Although l had already known I can't see my lovely band anymore
Noel it was a great idea to record Be Here Now at that time, before the magic had been gone forever
I was in my 30s in the 1990's. I bought Be Here Now as my first Oasis album and thought it was great, still do. Then I bought Morning Glory ( good, but not as good), then I bought Definitely Maybe ( OK but it ranks #3 for me out of those). I'm probably in the minority with that opinion. Oh well.
Same here my friend.
Dyou know what I mean,is a truly great record 20 odd years later ,I truly believe any great rock band would be proud of it ,
D'Y Know what I mean, my big mouth, stand by me, don't go away, fade in out etc...are you kidding me this was and still is a banger of a cocaine rock n roll wonderful life snapshot. Indulgent, arrogant, roaring. GMex is the perfect example of what a beast it was. Chapeau.
Godlike genius chief Gallagher. Love that album for its loudness really! Fucking awesome album!
In my opinion Oasis and the Beatles are the only bands that have got so many top quality songs that still stand up today.
For me Oasis have well over 50 top class songs. Every playlist I've ever put together always has loads more oasis songs on it than any other band or solo artist.
Oasis were OK for their time but never changed the zeitgeist like the Beatles did. Oasis were more copycats than innovators.
Album could have been
1. Talk Tonight
2. The Masterplan
3. Stand By Me
4. All Around The World
5. D’You Know What I Mean?
6. I Hope I Think I Know (or Don’t Go Away)
7. Half The World Away
8. Stay Young
9. Acquiesce
10. Underneath The Sky
11. My Big Mouth
12. Whatever
And other songs (possibly for next album)
Sad Song
If We Shadows (Demo)
(It’s Good) To Be Free
Take Me Away
Strange Thing (Demo)
Listen Up
Rockin’ Chair
Step Out
Magic Pie
Honestly, I love the majority of Be Here Now. You know how you should listen to Be Here Now? In you car, full bass, in summer, not giving a fuck what anyone else thinks of the music.
yeah, i'm not surprised Noel is smart enough to recognize the incredible dissonance of the first two albums being written and recorded (and ultimately celebrated) in grey, _grey_ old working class England while the third one was written on an island paradise owned by Mick Jagger or whatever. something just snaps in the artist's mind when you _no longer HAVE to write_ just to build a future. by the time this record came around, Noel could have retired and lived like a prince for the rest of his life. once the necessity of it's gone, so too is often the magic. that's what i think, anyway, and what do i know?
Fair point. People's best work is done when they're really hungry.
You're absolutely right mate, a lot of great albums across history are the ones which 'bottle lightning' - when a band is coming into their own and capturing their peak at the time in which they're on the make, creating either a tantalising snapshot or interesting alternative to what's going on in their immediate environment. But once that's been captured, you don't produce anything as good unless it falls into the category of 'art'.
I respect his honesty
Lovely interview. So down to earth. Kate Moss is now into meditation.
I fucking love the album, best playlist ever to go out for a run!
I liked Be Here Now
Me too. Great stuff - I just discovered it within the past year. I'm a new Oasis fan.
I think true Oasis fans appreciate Be Here Now, I really don’t understand the hate. To me it’s a continuation of the greatness of WTSMG
stand by me, do you what i mean...my fav oasis songs, in my top best songs ever. masterpieces.
I Hope I Think I Know is an absolutely outstanding tune 🎶 and probably my favorite Oasis song, I love the whole album but I fully understand how Noel feels about the recording process, the method of playing everything separately and building the song up piece by piece really takes away from the whole feel of a song, that's how albums get "Over Produced" playing it live and then doing overdubs is a much better process and the only way I'd ever record again.