Worst/most cringeworthy lyric on Oasis' 'Be Here Now'

there is so much GOOD shoegaze out there, oasis is so not a go to band

25 Years Ago, The Biggest Rock Band Dropped A Perfect Album That Nobody Was Ready For

oh fuck off

a challops that big needs an incredible piece of writing to justify it, not that piece of meandering pointless shit

I was too young to notice when this band was a thing everyone had to care about but my encounters with fans in the intervening years have been so overwhelmingly negative that I feel like I almost lived through it- but I hoped even the fans hated this one enough that we could avoid the cycle this time. how naive

no offence to the oasis fans who aren't the most aggressively incurious britrock worshipping racist homophobic misogynist loudmouth wankers in britain I know you're out there but I'm sure you're aware of the scale of the problem

Don’t go away sounds like a Train song

I bought it on the day it was released, was a huge deal for me. I think “getting better (man)” was my favorite track

p good album

the excess is the whole point.
i love this album.

yeah v much the only Oasis album I need

What do you think of Don’t Go Away? What are you hearing?

that's one of the worst songs on the album yes

https://neilk.substack.com/p/on-oasis-the-gallaghers-d4abcb889d59

yes, a classic bit of polemic

I still like most of this album and the song 'morning glory', was also impressed hearing 'roll with it' in the supermarket recently, happy to leave the rest

lose 'don't go away', 'i hope i think i know', 'the girl in the dirty shirt' and it's all hits, a blistering soup of N Gallagher overdubbed twelve times, the plaintive miasma of cool britannia in its greatest throes, the immersive folly of the scene that truly celebrated itself

a challops that big needs an incredible piece of writing to justify it, not that piece of meandering pointless shit

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length),

uh am I misreading you? Sheffield trashed it.

“Don’tcha know”

i love the whole morning glory album, it truly spoke to me in silly ways when i was in high school. i imported a gigantic liam gallagher poster and hung it above my bed. ian curtis on the opposite wall. weird opposing heroes, but they both spoke to me. Be Here Now i bought on the day it came out. i thought "this fucking sucks". when Standing on the Shoulder (uggggggh) came out it seemed like a massive improvement, although now when i listen back, nope, that one sucks too. Oasis the band died at the end of Champagne Supernova. That fadeout is the sound of them going away to die. their ghouls reappeared on Be Here Now, it's their "excess" album, but really it's just their coke album, and it sounds exactly like that -- massive dickheads leaping way beyond their scope of knowledge, truly believing that every idiotic word that comes to mind is actually truly powerful on some level. no one listens to oasis for the lyrics (? right?) but the songs weren't there either, so they just did the really tedious act of stretching out every single song to the limit and playing things over and over, hoping to find new meaning in the 18th repetition, which somehow works when it's spacemen 3 but does not at all when it's oasis.

definitely maybe 8
morning glory 10
be here now 2

i actually really like ‘d’you know what i mean’ but yet have never felt the urge to listen to the rest of it

there are good songs on it but listening to it sucks

be here now is at least better than most of what came afterward but that's not saying very much.

the tunes are mostly decent, you can at least hear how it could have been worthwhile if they weren't so coked out making it. it's a kinda fascinating artefact

i saw Oasis three times -

once in 1994 when Live Forever had just been released - this was very exciting vibe-wise although I felt (and still feel) a little bemused by the hype

once in I dunno early 2000s when Andy Bell was playing bass (?!) - this was fine, I didn't pay much attention, it was at a festival

but they played in Sydney in 1998 at the end of the Be Here Now tour and it was once of the flattest/worst performances from a major band I have ever seen - just woeful. I think Noel Gallagher apologised later for how shit it was.

"We were appalling last time," he said. "We owe the Australians one. If anyone saw us, they saw the band at its worst. I'm desperate to get back there to set the record straight. An Australian tour is pencilled in. If people will have us, we'll definitely come back."

"When we were in Australia [in 1998], it was meltdown time. By the time we got there we'd been on the road for seven months. There was a lot of drinking and nonsense. We'd had enough of touring. We'd been doing it for four or five years and it was one tour too many. If we had the chance to go back to Australia, I'd be the first on the plane."

From here

Stoked to have seen this historically important show!

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn) at 11:35 21 Aug 22

a challops that big needs an incredible piece of writing to justify it, not that piece of meandering pointless shit

― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length),

uh am I misreading you? Sheffield trashed it.