yeah be here now

yes definitely be here now!
and seemingly unlike all of you I thought that was a class ablum - though a bit bloated
HC I thought was ok - but its so called "rockers" ie - getting back to basics I didn't think were very good at all - liek hung in a bad place, besides "songbird" "boadc" "scyho" I wasn't too impressed with HC
with SCYHO opposite problem - actually wait that was apretty good album
anyway the point is that oasis were at their best just before bhn and then they released dykwim and that was just awesome, whereas now I don't think they're at their best adn lyla is not akin to dykwim in terms of goodness - so no I am not as excited - in fact I'm a little afraid

To be more clear, I LOVED the first two albums and so was THE MOST EXCITED about BHN

BHN I thought was very good - I also don't understand people's problems with it - but it wasn't AS good - it's hard to be THAT good (in fact even if you were you would just be copytng yourself so it wouldn't be as good - so you have to be as good while being completely different which is hard to do)

therefore I was EXCITED (but not as excited) for SOTSOG - when it came out I was also DIsappointed - but in retrospect I think it is actually pretty good - still it is a bit like an OLD PERSON"S record

since SOTSOG was disappointed I was somewhat afraid for

HC - it was preceded by a single which I was not that impressed by - and I still am not that impressed with the album - i like born on a different cloud, scyho, songbird but I think that little by little, hung in a bad place etc are just bad songs - it sounds like them trying to be HARD but failing

so this album

on one hand FEARFUL on other hand excited b/c it does seem like they are trying out new things
but Lyla is ok but hardly going to blow my mind as the lyrics would indicate

I STILL can't believe they had a track on it called "where did it all go wrong?" and that they RELEASED it! so ironic

I became an Oasis fan AFTER WTSMG came out... Don't beat the piss out of me, but I was late to hop on the bandwagon... I never paid much attention to DM. I knew about Wonderwall, and bought WTSMG... I'm a DJ, so I picked the album up along with the 10-12 other discs I bought at the time. Listened to the album. Then again. And again. Soon I found that when Wonderwall came on, I was hitting the "Skip" button, moving onto the other tracks. From that day on, I was mad-fet-it for life.

To answer your question, no, I never have anticipated an album as much as DBTT.

The reasons....
1) The old logo is back. (I know, it shouldn't make a difference, but what can I say? It does LOL
2) Lyla is AMAZING!
3) Liam's voice sounds as good as it did back in 95-96.
4) Noel's descriptions of the songs make me think that there isn't a weak song on the album, much like WTSMG.
5) And WTF, who CARES about anything else.. It's OASIS!!!!!!!!

I must admit, I AM a bit worried about Part Of The Queue, but I WILL NOT pass judgement until I hear the song for myself. (However I WILL be disappointed if the song is shite and that spot could have well been used for Stop The Clocks.)

But, no matter WHAT DBTT sounds like, this will be the ONLY CD in my car CD player for AT LEAST the next 6 months. (As the case with all of the other Oasis CD's that have come before!)

I still can't believe how good Liam's voice is. It hasn't sounded this good since the Be Here Now era.

Backstreet Boys are reforming!

I love Hindu Times also. I remember listening to that opening track (Hindu Times) and I thought to myself, "Fuck yes, Oasis is back!" I really think that HC is a great album.
I also got that great feeling after hearing Lyla. I can't wait. I have been sending Lyla to all my friends and even those who don't care too much for Oasis like it a lot.

his voice was class at finsbury park..... poole and glasto...... shite

You know, pizzy you are not the first to tell me that his voice was class at Finsbury Park. Is it just my copy of the boot? On Go Let It Out it sounds like he's just shouting the words "Is it any wonder why princes and kings", he just shouts the word "kings", doesn't sing it out in glorious fashion like he did on FTM "kinnnnnnnnngsssss". And it sounded like as the show went on, it got worse and worse... by the time Some Might Say came along, he couldn't even finish the chorous, Noel had to sing it (I think it caught The Chief off guard as well, as instead of singing "and my dog's been itchin'..." he repeated "it's overflowing gently...")

Was it just that they didn't have his mike turned up enough? Or maybe the crowd was too loud? As I said, I just didn't think he sounded that good at Finsbury Park.

If you listen to FTM, and then listen to the same songs on FP, it doesn't even sound like the same guy singing.

What you are saying is a completely different thing though. Even the BEST vocalist you can think of is NOT going to always be in a great shape with the number of gigs these guys play... doesn't make him any less great vocalist.

I have the Finsbury boot and I see nothing wrong with Liam's voice. Also, I don't see a problem with Glasto, in fact that's one of my favorites. Well, except for SCYHO where he literally lost his voice. If you listen to "A Bell Will Ring" from Glaston or Poole (or both, don't remember) he reminds me very much of Lyla.

I like all Oasis albums, like them a LOT. So I'm not worried about the next one at all, just ansious to see if I'll like it a lot or be completely blown away. When SOTSOG came out I was completely shut to the world and enjoyed it a lot before I found out a lot of other people didn't like it. Same with Glastonbury 04, when I watched the first tune I was very excited, RNR Star just ROCKED!

Back to the topic, I'll never antecipate any album more than Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy. I'm hoping it will come out one of these days otherwise I'll just antecipate it forever. lol