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Be Here Now

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All around the world… on drugs.

For years and years people have panned this album as something of utter disregard. Although understandable, it's an album that has been greatly overlooked for some rare, but nonetheless incredible moments of a band unable to balance reality and fantasy.

That's what this album is. A time capsule of what it was to be the biggest band on EARTH. "Definitely Maybe" was THE DREAM. It was everything they hoped to be and graced towards to achieve. As musicians and as young men. "What"s The Story Morning Glory" was THE SUCCESS. The achievement. It was the band finding glory, fame, and wealth. Everything (they believed) that evaded them in life before.

But non of these things filled in some serious gaps in their lives; particularly in the Gallagher brothers case. I think if there's anything Oasis showed the world was that no matter how famous or big you get; family is family. Those problems don't disappear.

So then comes "Be Here Now". Strangely that title fits in a eerie way. For it really states what the album wash about; THE REALITY. Here is a band so high on drugs they probably don't even know what country their in lol. And I say that with love. Cuz I do love this band deeply. If you sit down and listen to the album all the way through your taken thru an odyessy of friends so high on a cloud they have forgotten how to fly. And somehow believe they can now grow wings. Invincible. But they aren't. And they don't know it yet. They begin to fear the floor beneath them. Unable to see.

Thus, the album becomes directionless. Many songs are filler (Magic Pie, O Hope I think I know) and don't have the same balance of melody and power. Some songs feel overpowering (much of this is due to the way it was mixed) and others feel simply powerless (The Girl in the Dirty Shirt, It's Getting Better Man). All Around the World is a song that in one corner has a really fantastic chorus (I remember hearing it in adds even as a kid), but on the other end it's a very ambitious song that doesn't pay off. It comes off as a broken record. It gets old, and flat real fast.

Although, some songs are truly gems that have been terribly overlooked int he passing years. My big mouth is one of my favorites. Fantastic lyrics and pure raw angry punk rock energy. It's a record that flew past so many peoples heads, no one had time to really listen to it. Fade In Out is incredible. This is Oasis's homage to The Stone Roses. Any fan of the two will know that this is almost directly a love letter to the song "Tightrope".

Don't Go Away is a beautiful song but it sounds way too cheesy here. Which I might add began what I now coined as the "Cheese Era of Oasis". Where some songs just sound like toothpaste adds.

The real criminal of this Album is the engineer. Whoever you are sir you should have your nuts kicked for tarnishing a great bands reputation. This album is terribly mixed. Noel was right when he said the guitars are too loud and the bass is non existent. In retrospect, if the album had been mixed better and some things left on the cutting room floor (excessive guitar riffs Noel?) the album would have been a notable add to their growing catalogue.

Apparently a lot of "colombian" exports were consumed during the making of this album. And I guess in a way this album is a living embodiment of that and you can clearly here it. Sometimes its a lazy knob. And another; it's a screaming toddler, aching for loyalty and a place to go "all around the world"…

Still good tho.

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This album represents the ending of the Rise, Success, Fall trilogy. Definitely Maybe was the sound of a band hungry, wanting to claw to the top. Morning Glory was the sound of a band around the area of success. This album is the success getting to these fellas heads right before a gigantic crash. Some songs go nowhere (Magic Pie, Be Here Now, Fade In Out, All Around the World, All Around the World Reprise). Some have no weight (The Girl In the Dirty Shirt, Dont Go Away). Some are too long (D'You Know What I Mean, Its Getting Better). The real perfect gems here are My Big Mouth, I Hope I Think I Know and Stand by Me. Its the sound of a band unsure of where to go while sky high on fame (and Colombian drugs). Had each song gotten a trim, Magic Pie been replaced with its much better B-side counterpart Stay Young and the only two long numbers been Stand by Me and Around the World, this album would have been great. It isnt though.

Biography

Formed: 1993 in Manchester, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '90s, '00s

Oasis shot from obscurity to stardom in 1994, becoming one of Britain's most popular and critically acclaimed bands of the decade in the process. Along with Blur and Suede, they were responsible for returning British guitar pop to the top of the charts. Led by guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher, the Manchester quintet adopted the rough, thuggish image of the Stones and the Who, crossed it with "Beatlesque" melodies and hooks, injected distinctly British lyrical themes and song structures like the...
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