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Post by noelliam3 on Aug 23, 2008 1:02:37 GMT -5
Here are all the official albums reviews I could find so far. Please add to the list if there are other real reviews out there.
NME 1. Bag It Up - Mid-paced stomp featuring the repeated line "Everything I believe in/Is telling me that I want more." 2. The Turning - Floats along on a drum beat similar to The Zombies 'Time Of The Season.' 3. Waiting for the Rapture - Almost White Stripes heavy. Lyric ("revolution in the head") 4. Shock of the Lightning - like a massively improved version of It's Getting Better Man. Chorus (Love is a litany/a magical mystery) 5. I'm Outta Time - Beautiful, beautiful Liam balled [sic] (complete with Lennon sample) that pips Songbird as his finest songwriting hour. 6. Get Of Your High Horse Lady - Brief Wild Honey Pie-esque Noel curio. 7. Falling Down - Lyrics: "I tried to talk to God / to no avail" 8. To Be Where There’s Life - Where the new found love of 'The Groove' is most apparent. 9. Ain't Got Nothing - Indeed the track we all heard a few months back. Says it features an all-new chorus, but the lyrics it prints are ones in the early version. 10. The Nature Of Reality - Strung out psychedelia. 11. Soldier On - Final marching band mantra
MusicRadar.com
Bag It Up A mid-tempo opener, the song builds into a relentless piano groove with Stone Roses-esque guitars at its core.
The Turning And we're off. After the slightly underwhelming opener, The Turning is classic Oasis, and the first aural evidence of the 'Abbey Road' effect. Immediately recalling My Big Mouth from Be Here Now, but with two important differences: it's roughly 100 times better, and doesn't outstay its welcome by five minutes.
Waiting For The Rapture The first genuine stand-out moment of the new album. A Noel-penned tune with almost Stooges-heavy guitars, choral backing and a relentless bassline. Already absolutely colossal live, and set to become a mainstay of the band's set for years to come.
The Shock Of The Lightning The first single seems to outline the mission statement of the whole album. Faster than expected, with Primal Scream-style production and propulsive, huge-sounding bass and drums, it's sure to be a hit.
I'm Outta Time Planned as a second single, this ballad was written by Liam Gallagher. On first listen, we weren't overly impressed with this one, which seemed to go nowhere fast for five minutes and slowed the momentum built up by the preceding tunes.
(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady If ever a song on this album was destined to be labelled an oddity, it's this one. Similar in tone to The Importance Of Being Idle, this Noel-sung tale is another clear indication of the effort that's been invested to update Oasis' sound. The mix fizzes with inventive Sixties-referencing sound effects, but for all its effort, it still sounds like The Coral in a wind-tunnel.
Falling Down The Chemical Brothers gave this a ridiculously heavy remix for the b-side of The Shock Of The Lightning, but the band's original version is good enough to be a single in its own right. Sung by Noel, the lyrics see Noel worrying about "living in a dying dream", and once again, boasts self-confident, late-'60s-referencing production. Better than anything on the last album.
To Be Where There's Life Ah yes 'the groove'. Much was made of the band's attempt to adopt a looser sound based around loops and gradually evolving bass lines, and Gem's contribution is a strung-out mantra which ticks all of these boxes. A great, simple guitar solo lifts the song into a coda that's heavier than The Stooges in work boots.
Ain't Got Nothin' This fearsome three-minute stomp was penned by a belligerent Liam (is there any other kind) after an arrest in 2004, following a brawl in a Berlin bar. Imagine The Meaning Of Soul from Don't Believe The Truth, but with a proper tune and even more in-your-face sneering. Excellent then, really.
The Nature Of Reality An Andy Bell-penned track that immediately recalls A Bell Will Ring from Don't Believe The Truth on first listen.
Soldier On Another Liam contribution, Soldier On recalls Better Man and the Beatles I Want You (She's So Heavy) and clearly demonstrates that the button marked 'mantra' took a bit of a pounding during the recording sessions. Aims for epic, swaggering grandeur in the classic Champagne Supernova mould, but misses by some considerable distance.
Overall, and on first listen, Oasis have made a sonically diverse, brave album that can only be the work of men confident in what they're doing. Several tracks here, notably The Turning, Waiting For The Rapture, Falling Down and Ain't Got Nothin' will be part of the live set for years to come, and will sound massive. Noel's clearly 'avin that.
Billboard
. The 11-track set is led by the strident rocker "The Shock of the Lightning," which is already racking up airplay on stations like KVGS Las Vegas and WFNX Boston well ahead of its late September release date.
The album begins with the two-chord dirge "Bag It Up", harking back to "Columbia," from the band's 1994 debut, "Definitely Maybe." It is followed by the insistent "The Turning," which winds its way down to "Blackbird"-style finger-picking and an outtro of passing traffic and car alarms.
The sludgy, Noel Gallagher sung-"Waiting for the Rapture" nods to the Beatles' "Come Together," while the clap-and-stomp blues rock of "(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady" and the boogie vibe of "The Nature of Reality" extend the back-to-basics feel of the album.
Elsewhere, the Liam Gallagher-penned "I'm Outta Time" incorporates an audio excerpt of a John Lennon BBC Radio interview just days before his 1980 death, and the Noel-sung "Falling Down" nods to the beats from his prior collaboration with the Chemical Brothers, "Setting Sun." Fans who pre-order the new album on iTunes will receive this track as an immediate download.
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Post by 32shutout on Aug 23, 2008 8:26:55 GMT -5
French Radio NRJ
After three years away, the mancunian gang introduces their seventh effort and the english press wasn’t lying when it was an excellent album.
DOYS is musical treasure and it is without a doubt the duet’s (sic) best album ever. Noel Gallagher said he wanted to get away from traditional forms of song of songwriting, and so he did.
The tracks offer a very consistant build-up. From the sheer energy of the first tracks to the more sophisticated songs towards the end, the listener discovers Oasis’ new sound step by step as the records unfurls. The Gallagher brothers set the brit-pop sound aside to focus on a rockier, sometimes folkier, sound. Very heavy stuff, especially (GOY)HHL.
Never over the top, the rockers use all kind of subtle arrangements. Besides, the drums are predominant and bring a lot of dynamics to the songs.
Fans and haters will all find something to love on this record.
1.Bag It Up 2. The Turning 3. Waiting for the Rapture 4.The Shock of the Lightning 5. I'm Outta Time 6. (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady 7. Falling Down 8. To be Where There's Life 9. Ain't Got Nothin' 10. The Nature of Reality 11. Soldier On
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Post by darkside on Aug 23, 2008 10:11:33 GMT -5
i dont know about you guys, but this could be their best album since 'What's the story morning glory'
i mean, everybody is saying great things about the album.
ps: at least for me WTSMG its their best, some people will say DM, but for its WTSMG ok hehehe
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Post by kenneth on Aug 23, 2008 11:20:05 GMT -5
Yeah, after reading musicradar.com's review of it, I'm even more excited about it! I can't wait to hear songs like The Turning, Waiting For The Rapture (Which by the way is a brilliant title, one of Oasis best I recon), I'm Outta Time and Solider On.
I'm really glad to see that Ain't Got Nothing got such a positive review! I think it's a really good rock song, and definitely one of Oasis more heavier ones, and I haven't even heard the album version.
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Post by matt on Aug 23, 2008 11:28:54 GMT -5
Edith Bowman, the BBC Radio 1 DJ, claims in a magazine article:
They are back and on total firing form. There are six NOEL GALLAGHER tracks, three from LIAM GALLAGHER and one each from GEM ARCHER and ANDY BELL and they are all huge.
“The first single really reminded me of when I heard stuff like Rock ’n’ Roll Star and Supersonic for the first time. Liam has properly acquired the title of great songwriter and Noel just kicks ass on guitar and vocals.
“We forget how great a band they are. And no matter how many people try, there really is only one Liam — he’s a proper legend. Get excited ’cos it will blow you away.”
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Post by keystone1316 on Aug 23, 2008 15:05:33 GMT -5
"Wild Honey Pie-esque"... if (GOY)HHL is anything like Wild Honey Pie... I propose that we hunt down Noel and tell him to get off the drugs... because that would be the only explanation for why a tune similar to Wild Honey Pie would get on DOYS opposed to STC, Record Machine, and The Boy W/ The Blues.
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Post by caats19 on Aug 23, 2008 16:02:42 GMT -5
STC and record machine are pretty bland, so i'd be ok.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 23, 2008 17:09:10 GMT -5
I don't think MusicRadar is all that positive....I'd say more mixed, if anything. But then again, mixed is positive when we're talking about Oasis.....Anyway, the fact that they claim that there's a good 3-4 amazing songs on it trumps everything else.
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Post by keystone1316 on Aug 23, 2008 17:09:45 GMT -5
STC and record machine are pretty bland, so i'd be ok. but Wild Honey Pie is quite possibly the biggest piece of shit ever put on a record
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Post by dearprudence on Aug 23, 2008 17:26:23 GMT -5
STC and record machine are pretty bland, so i'd be ok. but Wild Honey Pie is quite possibly the biggest piece of shit ever put on a record theres always frank Zappa ;D
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Post by keystone1316 on Aug 23, 2008 17:32:36 GMT -5
but Wild Honey Pie is quite possibly the biggest piece of shit ever put on a record theres always frank Zappa ;D true... However, I think its real safe to say that Paul McCartney>Frank Zappa. As Paul McCartney displayed the ability to write good songs, Wild Honey Pie stands out more as a piece of shit than anything Frank Zappa wrote. I find it funny that McCartney tried his best to keep Revolution 9 off the White Album. Im no Revolution 9 fan, but at least Lennon was aiming to do something artistic and new when he recorded it. It seems as tho McCartney thought "I'm gonna record the worst, most annoying song ever written in the history of music" 3 minutes later... Wild Honey Pie was born.
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Post by Oasis39 on Aug 23, 2008 18:08:35 GMT -5
dude, Paul McCartney is Paul McCartney? Need I say more? He can do whatever he wants, he is one of the few people in this world who is an actual Living Legend
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Post by thuperthonic on Aug 24, 2008 2:32:32 GMT -5
oasis fans just want catchy songs. they don't care about art.
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