Be Here Now by Oasis (Brit Pop)

Pros: ...ummm... parts of some songs don't make my ears bleed
Cons: unmemorable, boring, overlong, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive

Back around 1997, for some inexplicable reason, I decided to purchase an Oasis CD. I must have heard one of their songs on the radio and liked it, but I can't remember what it was. The album I chose was Be Here Now, which, the general consensus ...

Pros: Some excellent songs--All Around The World and Don't Go Away in particular...
Cons: Boring, bland, and repetitive.

Manchester-based Brit-poppers Oasis made quite an impact with their first two albums. Both 1994’s Definitely Maybe and 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? yielded hits and garnered the band critical acclaim. There were always ...

Pros: "Stand By Me".
Cons: The rest of it.

The countdown to August 26, 1997. That would be the day that we could, at long last, bear witness to the next great outing by a band who were, according to some sources (not including Joe Diffie), "bigger than the Beatles". This was the same band that, ...

Pros: A perfect album! Amazing lyrics, sprawling anthems!
Cons: Not a one!

Despite the public flack Oasis took for their massive third album, Oasis produces and "Be Here Now" proves just how much they rock! That's not a statement of fan fervor, but rather an acknowledgment that this is an album that defines rock and roll and...

Pros: A couple of classics
Cons: Too generic, and they've already done it before!

Well, I’m pretty sick. And I’m having to sit in on a Friday night. It’s a cryin’ shame really. (If you really want to leave any sympathies in my comment section, then I won’t complain.) Know what I do when I’m sitting in? I pull ...

Pros: Some great tracks
Cons: Over produced, coke infused, messy

Released in 1997, Oasis rsquo; Be Here Now became the fastest selling album in UK history. It sold 420,000 on its first day and 1 million copies in less than two weeks. It was the band rsquo;s third album and speaks hugely of the level of their ...

Pros: D'You Know What I Mean, My Big Mouth, Liam Gallagher's vocals
Cons: Soulless, Overproduced, lazy lyricism and a big disappointment

If this album, released to enormous anticipation in 1997, did nothing else, it proved just how fickle and bandwagon-jumping the music press can be. Oasis's classic 1995 album "Morning Glory" was pretty much panned by critics on release, and then went on ...

Pros: The tail end of their glory years. The heavier stuff works best.
Cons: Half the album or more shows no growth (or worse) from what they'd done already.

When this album came out in 1997, it was the most highly anticipated thing in the U.K. since the Nazi invasion that never happened. Oasis was the sound of the British patting themselves on the back yet again for their contributions to rock n’ roll, ...

Pros: some great songs
Cons: songs too long and bloated, some mundane tracks

Oasis's Be Here Now is when the boys from England were supposed to start sucking. Their next album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is pretty bad, but Be Here Now? My only complaint is that it's not as good as (What's The Story?) Morning ...

Pros: Soaring anthems, dirty rock 'n roll tunes... the usual stuff.
Cons: Some tracks deserved the slating they received on release.

Be Here Now was Oasis' third full-length album, and was released in 1997, soon to become the fastest-selling record of all time in the British Isles. After the highest-selling debut album ever, Definitely Maybe, and the much lauded Britpop...

Pros: Noel's cheeky lyrics for "My Big Mouth" and the countless layers of guitar
Cons: "All Around the World" is a tad too long.

In 2000 Oasis released a rather hodgepodge live album and accompanying DVD entitled "Familiar to Millions". Hidden amongst the many extras that dote its chapters lies a rather satisfying interview with Oasis' two looming figures: Noel and Liam Gallagher. ...

Pros: Catchy songs that never get boring
Cons: Some of the songs are overproduced and go on just a bit too long

Oasis has built a reputation on building trippy, catchy brit rock/pop songs that contains both style and substance for years. This album does that very well, but tends to over do it a bit on some songs as well. Songs like, "D'You Know What I Mean", and...

Pros: The opening track
Cons: Too many unmemorable tracks

Eh, such nice boys, the Gallaghers, good steadfast Manchester stock with their parka jackets and National Health specs – good t’their Mum and everything…

Apparently they had some sort of band, called Oasis or some such malarkey and they got...

Pros: Every song an anthem for modern rock music
Cons: Every song overblown to try to please the critrics that nailed Noel for 'Under-achieving'

Following on from their two previous albums, a mountain of hype to sink any similar structure that Europe could convolute and a new found trust that undermined mostly Noels' originality, Oasis released this to a furor that truly represented a musical...

Pros: Some of the tracks stand up there with the best of their ouvre.
Cons: The album as a whole is over-produced and badly sequenced.

He was almost bound to fail. With "Definately maybe" Noel Gallagher had written one of the rock albums of all time, an astonishing acheivement for a new band. With "(What's the story) Morning Glory" he had surpassed that album. In the process Oasis...