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Post by NoelandMeMay29 on May 27, 2005 1:29:46 GMT -5
That 'somewhat' negative review was different than the others.
It almost sounded as if she could have taken ANY album and any song and pointed out something that should seem WRONG.
Sounds like this, sounds like that?? Is it BAD to sound like someone.........especially if that someone is good. Sometimes critics make it seem like NO ONE is allowed to use harmonica ever again after Dylan. No mellotron after the Beatles.
However when Coldplay are mentioned their songs are 'inspired' by Kraftwerk or 'influenced' by The Pogues.
The seem to never be 'borrowing' or 'stealing' like Oasis is.
If I was paid to be articulate in denouncing and panning 'Definitely Maybe', I could do it.
My favorite album ever could be reviewed like this.
1. RnR Star - Rnr stars?? Lyrics are simple, drags on and on with 'cliche' 'It's just RnR"
2. Shakermaker- Coke Commercial
3. Live Forever - good pop song
4. Up In Ths Sky - Simple chords and lyrics.
5. Columbia - trying too hard to be psychedelic
6. Supersonic- Rhyming Dictionary--but good beat.
7. Bring It On Down- Noizy Confusion
8. Cigs- T Rex riff
9. Digsy - Silly, silly lyrics, hacky piano bit
10. Slideaway - great song, a bit mushy
11. Married w/- useless ending acoustic song.
See how any album can be picked apart if they are set out to do it.
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Post by Jimmy Jazz on May 27, 2005 5:51:50 GMT -5
Another of the very few negative reviews there, but the opening paragraph is hilarious, and somewhat accurate: WE ALL KNOW the deal surrounding the making of a new Oasis album by now. Noel Gallagher, with typical reckless candour, slags off his songs, his lyrics, brother Liam's songs, brother Liam's lyrics (or just brother Liam in general), the recording process and the studio tea-making facilities. Then, when the long drawn-out process of producing something which sounds exactly as you would expect it to sound - but less any songs to take to your heart - is nearing completion, the youngish curmudgeon is sufficiently satisfied with the sow's ear that he proclaims it the best album Oasis have made since What's the Story (Morning Glory). So as not to be accidentally caught in agreement with his brother, Liam proclaims it their best since Definitely Maybe. A nation sighs wearily. |
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Post by Elias on May 27, 2005 6:07:00 GMT -5
In The Sun's Something For The Weekend it get's 3 1/2/5. Another one of them where it gets a good mark and is called their best for ages, but then they spend the rest of the time slagging it off: Born On A Different Cloud - cringeworthy Songbird - sick-making amateur ballad Little James - not even nursery-rhyme standard (fair enough on that one) Love Like A Bomb - plods along them bombs Let There Be Love - one of their dreariest tracks ever A Bell Will Ring - Plain Rubbish Keep The Dream Alive - would have fitted better on a Hurricaine #1 album. Basically only Guess God Thinks Im Abel, Part Of the Queue and Turn Up The Sun get any credit. The Daily Mail give it 3/5  . It's a good review, nothing is slagged in fact, the review is much better than some others that have given it a higher mark. |
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Post by webm@ster on May 27, 2005 11:53:53 GMT -5
Belfast Telegraph 3 out of 5 *
With Don't Believe the Truth, Oasis continue to claw back some more of the ground lost with the abysmal Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. Though hardly a great leap forward, it sees the Other Three taking up the songwriting slack with greater confidence than before.
Of course, Noel's still responsible for the meat of the album, his five songs effectively rehearsing routes out of the Beatles cul-de-sac he's explored so thoroughly already. The single "Lyla" is a drab plodder, even ignoring the similarities to "Street Fighting Man"; and "Mucky Fingers" is too blatant a pastiche of Dylan and The Velvet Underground to succeed on its own terms, with Noel's whiny, Dylanesque delivery of lines like "I know you think you deserve an explanation of the meaning of life" coming across more like The Barron Knights than an authentic folk poet.
But elsewhere, he's discovering more workable options. "The Importance of Being Idle" finds him trying on his Ray Davies/Steve Marriott hat, with a slice of British vaudeville pop and an engagingly demotic lyric ("My girlfriend told me to get a life/She said, Boy, you lazy") that's the most genuinely enjoyable thing Oasis have done in years.
There's a fair bit about "soul" on this album, which seems odd, as it's always been the thing most conspicuously absent from Oasis's music. "I'm having trouble finding my soul in this town", claims Noel in "Part of the Queue". Liam, meanwhile, claims elsewhere that he's "gotta show you the meaning of soul", which seems a tall order for someone who, as far as one can tell, has rarely if ever expressed an interest in any form of rhythm and blues, and seems to have striven to expunge any overt emotion from his singing style. Certainly, there's precious little of the quality in question involved in "The Meaning of Soul", which zips by in a little over 100 seconds.
Liam's pleasant acoustic strumalong "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel" is better, punningly pondering the drawbacks and benefits of sibling rivalry; but his "Love Like a Bomb" continues to mine the band's thick vein of Beatles sounds. While it's generous of Noel to spread the songwriting duties around a bit, he appears to have ensured that he's surrounded by deputies who are just as in thrall to those 1960s influences as himself. Andy Bell's "Keep the Dream Alive" is another chunk of droning Beatlesque psychedelia, likewise Gem Archer's "A Bell Will Ring".
So there are no real, decisive shifts in emphasis or direction here, no hints at exciting future possibilities - but perhaps it's unrealistic to expect them from such a conservative band. Don't Believe the Truth isn't so much a makeover, more a restoration job designed to bring a little lustre back to familiar but tarnished features.
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Post by Jimmy Jazz on May 27, 2005 13:00:37 GMT -5
This is the review from Guitarist - June 2005:
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Post by fju2112 on May 27, 2005 17:38:35 GMT -5
Rolling stone hardly ever give albums 5 stars, that is just incredable if it is true. Can't wait to read that review. Review on rolling stone is already up; it got 3.5 stars. |
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Post by rockandroll on May 28, 2005 0:34:51 GMT -5
I haven't seen this posted so: www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/o/oasis-dontbelieve.shtmlThey give it a 6. But according to their ratings, a 6 it's a ''Very Good'' album.  The harder Oasis try, the more disappointing the result. It all started with Be Here Now eight years ago, a bloated album of bombastic rock anthems that quickly became yesterday's news as Blur's Blur, The Verve's Urban Hymns, and Radiohead's OK Computer took British rock into thrilling new directions that same year, leaving the Brothers Gallagher choking on their peers' dust. Subsequent attempts to recapture the magic of 1994-95 have sputtered. 2000's Standing on the Shoulder of Giants showed promise on songs like "Fuckin' in the Bushes", "Gas Panic!", and "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", but the rest of the record failed to deliver. 2002's Heathen Chemistry, on the other hand, was a complete lost cause, an empty re-hash of Oasis cliches that even the addle-brained fun of "The Hindu Times" couldn't rescue. All this time, Noel Gallagher has claimed each new Oasis album would be a huge, radical departure, but each time out, the resulting albums have always retreated inward to the comfy confines of tired Beatles rip-offs, boring rock riffing, and just plain lazy songwriting. Still, people always hope the band can pull themselves together just one more time. Oasis is far too talented not to, but their extended downward slide makes the prospect of a return to form less and less possible with each passing year. Seriously, how much more crap do we have to put up with before we finally give up on these guys? So now we have Attempt To Restore Credibility, Version 4.0. After the great disappointment that was Heathen Chemistry, you'd think there would be nowhere to go but up, and indeed, Don't Believe the Truth is a considerable improvement. At long last, that big overhaul of the Oasis sound has happened: the production has been stripped-down, to the point of sounding tinny at times, the turgid guitar wanking is virtually nonexistent, and the record overall is the band's most streamlined and focused in many years. Most noticeable is the drum sound; Alan White, while a very talented percussionist, was a big reason behind the band's more overblown moments, and while his replacement, Zak Starkey (yeah, Ringo's kid), lacks White's flair, he brings a simplicity and directness to the music, and the rest of the band seems to follow suit. Don't Believe the Truth might be the best Oasis album in eight years, but that doesn't mean you won't be shaking your head in incredulity from time to time. Although his role as principal songwriter has been greatly toned down, Oasis is still Noel's baby, and typically, his five compositions are inconsistent. First single "Lyla" is especially strong, a refreshingly catchy, hard-edged acoustic rocker that has Liam shamelessly copping the vocal phrasing from The Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man". "Mucky Fingers" plays like a ridiculously blatant rip-off of The Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For the Man", but is quickly redeemed by Noel's impassioned lead vocals and Starkey's thunderous drum fills during the outro. "The Importance of Being Idle" is yet another forgettable foray into the Oasis of recent years, and "Part of the Queue" bears a striking resemblance to the shuffling folk of Badly Drawn Boy, but "Let There Be Love" turns out to be one of Noel's strongest ballads, as the band actually shows some growth, opting for a more understated tone, instead of the musical excess we've come to expect. While Oasis has always been One Band, Under Noel, the man has been gradually loosening the reins, and the more democratic, collaborative feel of Don't Believe the Truth turns out to be its greatest asset. Liam is still struggling for consistency in his songwriting, as "The Meaning of Soul" and "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel" are, to be frank, atrocious, but much to everyone's surprise, he pulls a rabbit of the hat with the superb acoustic number, "Love Like a Bomb". Many fans have wondered why bassist Andy Bell has never contributed more to the band, but the former member of Ride is responsible for two of the new album's highlights, first, on the fiery opening track "Turn Up the Sun" (including the plum line sung by Liam, "I carry madness/ Everywhere I go"), and then on the wistful "Keep the Dream Alive", during which listeners can detect a little bit of Ride's shoegazer tones creeping subtly into the band's sound. Gem Archer's "A Bell Will Ring" is another standout, and while it really doesn't bring anything new to the table, it's a taut, uptempo song that has the band doing what they do best, simply ripping out a fierce rock tune. Don't Believe the Truth is far from a perfect album, but despite the four or five throwaway tracks, the fact that some actual positive energy can be heard in Oasis's music for the first time in nearly a decade is enough to give fans hope that there may be some life in this band yet. They're not all the way there yet, as Oasis still have to claw their way back to respectability, but if this album is any indication, they're definitely up for the challenge. — 27 May 2005 |
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Post by webm@ster on May 28, 2005 10:47:46 GMT -5
People magazine: 3 out of 4 *
Oasis- Don't Believe The Truth
"When Oasis arrived in the mid-90's, the quartet (actually there were five members) was heralded as the next in the line of great British bands like the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who. While ultimately slumping under the weight of those expectations, the group rebounds nicely with Don't Believe The Truth. Although it doesn't recapture the heyday of the 1995 smash (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, the disc shows that the brothers Gallagher and crew are still capable of carrying on that Brit-Pop legacy. Indeed, at their Beatle-esque best-- on the guitar-pop gem "Lyla", the soaring melodic "Love Like A Bomb" and the antihate anthem "Let There Be Love" ('Who kicked a hole in the sky so the heavens could cry over me?')-- they are truly a fab four. *** out of ****
Download this: Lyla
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Post by fju2112 on May 28, 2005 12:15:57 GMT -5
Re: popmatters.com review (didnt' want to post the whole thing here)
I hate how everyone is giving the whole hindsight is 20-20 treatment to Be Here Now. Noel said it best: It was the best album in the world that week, it captured a moment, so looking back on it now, of course it seems bloated and drug-induced.
For me, while BHN wears on my ears after a while, it's still one of my favorite all-around Oasis albums. It was given the Reader's Choice award for BEST ALBUM OF 1997 by Rolling Stone readers. I thought all RS readers were morons, but they voted BHN better than the Verve, Radiohead, Matchbox 20, all the chart-toppers that year. RS just couldn't ignore it. Even RS gave it four stars with a glowing review, albeit with an eye toward Noel needing to become a bit more creative lyrically. I just don't get why everyone hates that album now?? D'You Know What I Mean? kicks ass, and so does My Big Mouth. I love it's gettin better man for the first 5 minutes, AATW for the first four minutes, and most of the other songs on the album to their completion. If I had a music-editing program, I would cut down BHN to about 60 minutes or less to show people how good it would have been with all the extra choruses...I still think it's fantastic, not sure how many of you agree with me. Even the bsides - from Angel Child to Flashbax & The Fame....brilliant.
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Post by castlecraver on May 28, 2005 13:06:53 GMT -5
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Post by tezza202 on May 28, 2005 13:38:34 GMT -5
I really don't get how reviewers can give the album such a low mark. They must be deafened by their hate for Oasis. It gets a 5/5 from me. I thankyou.
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Post by Bizzle on May 28, 2005 15:18:07 GMT -5
Planet Sound-8/10 Channel 4 pg 354
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Post by feckarse on May 29, 2005 8:36:06 GMT -5
The Irish Times (sorry if this has been posted already)
OASIS
Don't Believe the Truth
Sony BMG
****
If I told you that this was the best Oasis album in 10 years, would you believe me? It's the truth: the Gallagher brothers have dug deep into their rock 'n' roll hearts and rediscovered something they'd lost around the time of Be Here Now. Gone are the pompous self-satisfaction, the crashing complacency and the lazy songwriting; back are all the things we liked about Oasis in the first place: the cheeky pilfering of classic licks, the no-one-can-touch-us attitude and the straight-ahead, unpretentious approach to rock that made their borrowed riffs sound fresh in the first place. There's little of the lumpen, bloated blues of old in evidence on Lyla (with its blatant lift from The Stones' Street Fighting Man), Guess God Thinks I'm Abel and Keep the Dream Alive, old-fashioned cribs that crackle with fresh pop power. Liam's songwriting has come on in leaps and bounds (he has written three tracks here), while whimsical ditty The Importance of Being Idle is not too embarrassing, and the Lennonesque closing ballad, Let There be Love, is spiced up by the presence of Ringo's son Zak Starkey on drums. It's the rebirth of dadrock
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Post by DixonHill on May 29, 2005 9:00:51 GMT -5
That 'somewhat' negative review was different than the others. It almost sounded as if she could have taken ANY album and any song and pointed out something that should seem WRONG. Sounds like this, sounds like that?? Is it BAD to sound like someone.........especially if that someone is good. Sometimes critics make it seem like NO ONE is allowed to use harmonica ever again after Dylan. No mellotron after the Beatles. However when Coldplay are mentioned their songs are 'inspired' by Kraftwerk or 'influenced' by The Pogues. The seem to never be 'borrowing' or 'stealing' like Oasis is. If I was paid to be articulate in denouncing and panning 'Definitely Maybe', I could do it. My favorite album ever could be reviewed like this. 1. RnR Star - Rnr stars?? Lyrics are simple, drags on and on with 'cliche' 'It's just RnR" 2. Shakermaker- Coke Commercial 3. Live Forever - good pop song 4. Up In Ths Sky - Simple chords and lyrics. 5. Columbia - trying too hard to be psychedelic 6. Supersonic- Rhyming Dictionary--but good beat. 7. Bring It On Down- Noizy Confusion 8. Cigs- T Rex riff 9. Digsy - Silly, silly lyrics, hacky piano bit 10. Slideaway - great song, a bit mushy 11. Married w/- useless ending acoustic song. See how any album can be picked apart if they are set out to do it. too true. |
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Post by steveo1980 on May 29, 2005 9:55:33 GMT -5
dont think this has already been posted from manchesteronline  Oasis - Don’t Believe The Truth (Big Brother) 4/5 (Very Good) Paul Taylor IT takes precisely 37 seconds for Don't Believe The Truth to deliver its first thrill. The wistful guitar lines ushering in the opener, Turn Up The Sun, resemble nothing so much as a Mike Oldfield tune, but then suddenly that Oasis wall-of-guitar cuts through the wimpiness, with Liam sneering, "I carry a madness everywhere I go." This is classic Oasis, as is the Gallagheresque bombast of A Bell Will Ring. But it tells you much about Oasis 2005 that these two songs are written by bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer, respectively. Meanwhile the architect of that sound, Noel, busies himself writing such uncharacteristic Oasis songs as the monolithic stomper, Mucky Fingers, and The Importance Of Being Idle, in which he indulges in some impressive vocal gymnastics while conjuring a Kinks-like quintessential pop Englishness. Then there is the closing anthem, Let There Be Love, so much in the style of John Lennon's mushier moments that it must surely be played on a white upright piano. As for the usual borrowings, Lyla quite patently owes a debt to the Rolling Stones' Street Fighting Man, and there is even, perhaps, a bit of Bowie's Jean Genie in there, too. Soul Lyrically, Noel hints at disenchantment with city life and losing one's soul in two songs - perhaps evidence of a late-thirtysomething wistfulness. Liam offers more grist to the analysts' mill with Guess God Thinks I'm Abel, the result, he mischievously claims, of a conversation in a pub with God. Abel it was, who was murdered by his own brother Cain in a fit of jealousy at God's favouring of Abel. Noel will have every right to be as miffed as Cain if the Almighty really is appearing before Liam in a boozer, offering songwriting inspiration. OK, this is not the Oasis album to match What's The Story? and that album may well never arrive, but it certainly beats much of what they have done in the last 10 years. It is more of a group endeavour and it pushes, however conservatively, at the boundaries of what we understand Oasis to be about. Definitely more killer than filler. |
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Post by Elias on May 29, 2005 10:14:52 GMT -5
Sunday Mail completely hammers it. Not even any need to write it up it's so pointless. No surprise, done by a middle-england nob. When I say that the first line reads "Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria is an illness mercifully only in its rarity, cruelly hastening the ageing process in victims by a factor of seven." you'll know what I mean.
It's made even more ridiculcous cos the album is no.1 in Sunday Mail pull-out's hot-list and gets a good comment, and it was praised in the daily Mail.
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Post by webm@ster on May 29, 2005 11:37:44 GMT -5
New Jersey Ledger :
"The sun will shine on you again, a bell will ring inside your head, and all will be brand new," sings Liam Gallagher on the new Oasis album, "Don't Believe the Truth."
If only it were that easy.
This British band peaked a decade ago with its second album, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?", and has struggled, since then, to produce CDs that don't sound like pale imitations of it. "Don't Believe the Truth" -- released three years after its predecessor, the forgettable "Heathen Chemistry" -- could have been titled, like Van Morrison's 1977 album, "A Period of Transition."
Some tracks find the band still waiting for inspiration, while others show signs of rebirth. Like "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith," this album has already been overpraised, by some critics, due to low expectations. But it's no trainwreck, either.
Only Gallagher, who still sings everything with a hint of a sneer, and his brother, songwriter-guitarist and occasional singer Noel, remain from the "Morning Glory" lineup. They're joined by guitarist Gem Archer and bassist Andy Bell, who have both been in the band for about five years. Zak Starkey -- Ringo Starr's son, and The Who's drummer since 1996 -- played on the album, but doesn't seem to have made much of an impact, for better or worse. (He will also join the band on its upcoming North American tour, which comes to Madison Square Garden on June 22.)
Noel Gallagher has always been the band's primary songwriter, but his brother, Archer and Bell all chip in here, too. Intriguingly, "Keep the Dream Alive" and "Turn Up the Sun," two of the album's most ardent attempts to create a pop epic along the lines of past Oasis hits such as "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova," were not written by Noel. Bell gets the credit, or the blame, for those.
Noel also turns in one of the album's least original songs, "Lyla," but tries out some new directions in compositions like "Mucky Fingers" (whose pounding, primitive beat recalls the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man") and the lilting, Kinks-influenced "The Importance of Being Idle."
The album's most startling cut, though, is "The Meaning of Soul," a garage-rocker written by Liam Gallagher. It features a wailing harmonica solo and clocks in at a brisk, undeniably unbloated 100 seconds.
Still, there are elements of this album that make it sound like a Oasis parody. Most annoying, perhaps, is the endless procession of lyrics with generic upbeat messages. "Let there be love." "I will keep the dream alive." "Stand tall, stand proud." "Come on, turn up the sun/Turn it up for everyone, love one another."
Like I said before ... if only it were that easy.
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Post by ccgdwn on May 29, 2005 15:28:49 GMT -5
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Post by billlumbergh on May 30, 2005 5:14:20 GMT -5
Newsday (pretty big U.S. Publication): Another great review! www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-etdrops4283176may31,0,7822015.column?coll=ny-news-columnists Band's got a new Oasis for fans May 31, 2005 Those Oasis guys have never been shy about confrontation. They know their truth as well as anyone. Their last two albums were awful - bordering on unlistenable, which means a lot since they were never known for their originality to begin with. So what do Britpop's bad boys name their "comeback" album? "Don't Believe the Truth." Not only is it a clever title, it somehow explains how the Gallagher brothers intend on winning back their fans. They're asking for another chance. And, this time, they deserve it. "Don't Believe the Truth" (Epic) is Oasis' best work in nearly a decade, since 1995's "(What's the Story) Morning Glory," the album with the band's biggest American hit, "Wonderwall." "Mucky Fingers" shows how Oasis has changed, as Noel Gallagher tries to weld a Dylanesque protest song onto pounding guitar and piano chords that sound like Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man." "Part of the Queue" is a rant about individualism mixed into a jangly reworking of what could be the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Breaking the Girl." Nevertheless, the first single, "Lyla," already a No. 1 hit in England, is classic Oasis, with Liam Gallagher's whining British drawl in fine form and guitarist Noel Gallagher conjuring up The Kinks, The Stones and The Beatles in a neat little pseudo-psychedelic package. And the album closer, "Let There Be Love," is the latest in the band's line of massive anthemic sing-alongs following "Champagne Supernova." "Don't Believe the Truth" won't make anyone forget that Oasis has been replaced by a newer, hipper generation of Britpop, from Coldplay and Radiohead to Kaiser Chiefs and Bloc Party. But it is good enough to make people forget its recent clunkers. ("Don't Believe the Truth," in stores today; Grade: B+) |
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Post by ozfan2 on May 30, 2005 8:16:40 GMT -5
Does anyone know if there is there a simialr music site to the film critic site www.rottentomatoes.comwhich complies all the reviews and comes up with an average score? DBTT seems to be around averaging about 75% (not actually done the calc though) on first glance which is pretty good. The Rotten tomatoes site says anything over 60% is good. Don't have much faith in reviews though as MG was slated by NME and BHN(good album though) was praised to the hilt, got a 9 or something... |
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Post by webm@ster on May 30, 2005 9:55:50 GMT -5
New York Post 3 and 1/2 out of 4 stars
May 29, 2005 -- Oasis' Noel Gallagher is like a bad boyfriend. He doesn't call when he says he will, and when he does show up, it's usually too early or too late.
With a new album - "Don't Believe the Truth," out Tuesday - and a pending worldwide tour, he's too busy these days to squeeze chats in between television interviews in Paris and jumping on the Eurostar back to London.
But like any bad boyfriend, once you get him on the line, he's as charming as all get out. Cocksure, glib and playful, he's without any of the mean spiritness you might expect from the outspoken rock 'n' roll star whose well-documented battles with other bands and his younger brother Liam are what rock legends are made of.
Don't believe the stories, Noel says.
"It often sounds to me a lot more vicious than it is," says on the way to a London gig. "It's all said very tongue-in-cheek, ya know? But when it's in black and white, obviously you don't see the smirk on [our] faces when [we're] saying it."
But don't expect the bash brothers to let up on the fighting any time soon.
"It's something that comes naturally to me," he says, adding, "I quite enjoy it as well."
Recently Noel said Liam was like a woman with constant PMS, while Liam called Noel a "f---in' smug c---." But Noel wasn't upset. In fact he embraced it.
"Well I am a f---in' smug c---," he says, with a smirk. "Wouldn't you be?"
Sure, why not? The Manchester band's latest disc is being heralded as their best effort in years - a return to old-school Oasis - and the four-piece Brit-poppers sold out their first Madison Square Garden date, on June 22, in an hour.
"It's quite amazing. I'm quite upset we didn't do it before," he says. "We don't want to go slapping each other on the back yet. We haven't done the gig yet."
Oasis wants to make sure they aren't rusty. The band hasn't released anything in three years. They recorded an album with electronica duo Death in Vegas as producers, but scrapped the effort.
"The songs weren't good enough. It's as simple as that really," Noel says.
How did he know? He gets help from his five-year-old daughter Anais.
"She said, 'Daddy I like that one. It's cool. Record that one,'" he says with a devilish laugh. "Of course, that's not true. It would be great though, wouldn't it?"
They're also getting older. Noel turns 38 today, but he hates celebrating birthdays and doesn't exchange presents with his brother any time of the year.
At times he seems like he only tolerates Liam. "He's good to be in a band with, but I wouldn't go down to bingo with him," he says.
In fact, if they weren't brothers, Noel and Liam wouldn't be in the same band anymore.
"If I didn't have a band with relatives in it I would be solo, beyond a shadow of a doubt," Noel says.
That said, Noel says he looks out for Liam, as an older brother should.
"I wouldn't like to leave Liam on his own," he says. "He'd get in too much trouble."
Awww. That's so nice.
"It is, inn't it," Noel says.
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Post by webm@ster on May 30, 2005 11:21:14 GMT -5
popjournalism.com 4 out of 5 stars
Internal turmoil, lagging sales and three inconsistent albums should have spelled the end of Oasis. Instead, the glimmer of hope heard on their 2002 release Heathen Chemistry has turned out to be an indication of great things to come as Oasis roars back to life with their sixth studio album Don't Believe The Truth. Quite simply, Truth is the best Oasis album since their 1995 magnum opus (What's The Story) Morning Glory. Opening with a seamless string of rockers and Rubber Soul-esque pop songs, Truth tears through its eleven tracks at blinding speed before closing with the optimistic ballad "Let There Be Love." Despite the departure of several band members in recent years, Zak "son of Ringo" Starkey joins on drums, Oasis has jelled into a confident and muscular unit; more importantly, they sound like a band. Truth may not restore Oasis to the ranks of "world's biggest band", however their competitors will have a hard time matching the sheer exhilaration of listening to this fine offering. (Sony
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Post by ccgdwn on May 30, 2005 18:28:40 GMT -5
Does anyone know if there is there a simialr music site to the film critic site www.rottentomatoes.comwhich complies all the reviews and comes up with an average score? DBTT seems to be around averaging about 75% (not actually done the calc though) on first glance which is pretty good. The Rotten tomatoes site says anything over 60% is good. Don't have much faith in reviews though as MG was slated by NME and BHN(good album though) was praised to the hilt, got a 9 or something... Yes! www.metacritic.com is fantastic. They compile all sorts of reviews and average them out after assigning a numerical score. Very cool. DBTT ain't up yet...but it will be. |
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Post by webm@ster on May 30, 2005 21:42:41 GMT -5
Rolling Stone Brazil New Album Review
Oasis Don't Believe The Truth *** of five
Don't Believe The Truth tries to be Oasis resurrection but it doesn't reach
the music level they had on their first two albums.
A little less production, take a look at Liam's The Meaning Of Soul which
sounds too produced... and less minutes in songs like, Keep The Dream Alive
and Turn Up The Sun, both written by bassist Andy Bell would had made it a
better album.
But in the other hand, it has stunning and brilliant songs like the Stones,
Street Fighting Man going Lyla, The Importance Of Being Idle.(Ray Davies
would had really liked to write this one)
The stadium ballad Let There Be Love, girls prepare to cry, dudes bring up
your sockets, and the masterpiece of this album A Bell Will Ring, the
clearest single applicant this album could have, written by guitarist Gem
Archer which sounds like The Beatles in their pure state of rock and roll
and remind us albums like Revolver or The White Album.
Experiments like Mucky Fingers which sounds like the Velvet Underground with
Bob Dylan as a singer, could be out of this record, and maybe Mister Noel
Gallagher, should think about if he could excite us again with his songs
like he did on Morning Glory Or Definitely Maybe.
translation thanks @ Luis
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Post by billlumbergh on May 31, 2005 2:57:37 GMT -5
More huge praise from the U.S.: Reviews from the Washington Times and Boston Globe
Oasis lightens up, with winning 'Truth'
By Scott Galupo
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Oasis
Don't Believe the Truth
Epic Records
The combustible Brit-rockers of Oasis have discovered the time-honored method of weathering spats and staying together: Make shadow solo albums within the context of band projects.
Oasis' heroes, the Beatles, made it work for a few years before the centrifugal forces of egomania shattered the delicate dynamic.
Now that the heavyweight champs of Coldplay have surpassed them, Oasis may find the formula longer-lasting — the pressure's off.
The live-and-let-live trend began with 2002's "Heathen Chemistry" and continues with "Don't Believe the Truth," the band's sixth studio album. The tracks are semidemocratically divvied up between singer-guitarist Noel Gallagher and his brother, singer Liam Gallagher. Guitarist Andy Bell pitches in a couple of tunes. Bassist Gem Archer co-writes one with Liam and contributes one of his own.
Misleadingly, one of Liam's is called "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel," suggesting Noel is Cain — that is, the killer brother. But the song's not about brothers; it's about lovers.
There are no murders here.
Amazingly, all the elements of "Truth" come off cohesively like Oasis, which hasn't sounded this good — another way of saying like itself — in years.
But hold on. What does it mean to say Oasis, a band that has plagiarized classic British rock with baldfaced brio, sounds like itself?
First, you look for the melodies — are they simple, gleaming, anthemic? Check. Then the guitars — are they turned to 11? Check. Finally, the drums — are they thunderous? Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey, is on duty for the lion's share of tracks, and on songs such as "Turn Up the Sun" and "A Bell Will Ring," he sounds as if his limbs are full of lead. So, check.
Who cares if much of the material here is twice-baked?
The album's ode-to-a-girl first single, "Lyla," partially nicks the melody and riff of the Rolling Stones' 1968 rocker "Street Fighting Man," which is a little like breaking out cannons to shoot fish in a barrel. Still, lucky Lyla, the hook is sky-high.
"Mucky Fingers," one of Noel's five tunes, borrows the throbbing rhythm and conversational melody of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man." However, the addition of a happy-go-lucky harmonica diminishes the menace that Lou Reed lent the original; it's more like Bruce Springsteen fronting the Velvets.
"The Importance of Being Idle," also written and sung by Noel, has echoes of the Doors' "People Are Strange" (not to mention the famous Oscar Wilde play). The dreamy Noel-Liam duet "Let There Be Love" is a rather sickly, inoffensively listenable sub-John Lennon piano ballad.
For an album with such a pointed title and apocalyptic artwork, there's not much heaviness within. In fact, songs such as "Love Like a Bomb" and "Part of the Queue," with Noel singing "I fall down/ Heaven won't help me/ I call out/ No one will hear," are downright lightweight.
Maybe that's no bad thing. After a decade of roguish cockiness, Oasis seems to be content to live in the world, rather than trying to conquer it.
That's Coldplay's job now.
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(Boston Globe)
Believe it: Oasis's drought is over
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | May 31, 2005
The British rock band Oasis, led by famously feuding siblings Liam and Noel Gallagher, skyrocketed to stardom in the mid-'90s with the stellar discs ''Definitely Maybe" and ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" and spent the next 10 years in a grim free fall. Bloated production, uneven songwriting, misguided forays into electronica, and the defection of two founding members all contributed to the band's remarkable tumble from rock royalty to tabloid fodder.
Buzz on Oasis's sixth studio album, ''Don't Believe the Truth," in stores today, was hardly encouraging. Tracks from sessions with electronica duo Death in Vegas, the project's original producers, were scrapped. Then Oasis's second drummer, Alan White, left the band. He was replaced by Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr's son, suggesting that the Gallaghers were slipping further still into the Beatles obsession that has brought them so much criticism.
All of which makes the arrival of ''Don't Believe the Truth" a genuine thrill. While the album doesn't recapture the early catalog's euphoria, it's a return to swaggering form: crackling with energy, drenched in hooks, and bristling with roguish charm.
Oasis, and Liam Gallagher in particular, is still fixated on the Beatles, which, frankly, always struck this writer as more of a gift than an affliction. The singer penned three excellent tracks -- psychedelic pop anthem ''Love Like a Bomb," the sneering, dogged ''The Meaning of Soul," and a strummed-and-shaken meditation called ''Guess God Thinks I'm Abel" -- that establish his heretofore elusive songwriting credentials.
Guitarist and chief tunesmith Noel whittled his own set of contributions down to five, four of which he insisted on singing, but they aren't the filler he's been stuffing the last three albums with. ''Mucky Fingers" defines the album's stomping, insistent tone, which grows rambling and heady on the disc's first single, ''Lyla" (the United Kingdom's top seller last week), and turns into a cheeky Kinksian romp on ''The Importance of Being Idle."
Guitarists Andy Bell and Gem Archer, who joined Oasis in 2000, are finally certified as full band members, and deservedly so. Bell's gargantuan, disc-opening ''Turn Up the Sun" and Archer's ''A Bell Will Ring" are as brash and tuneful as anything here -- fine material for Liam's beautifully rude vocals. They also get credit for a textural tuneup that gives ''Don't Believe the Truth" -- and Oasis -- a much-needed jolt of good old psych-rock atmosphere.
It may be foolish to attach any special meaning to the siblings' earnest duet on the album's stately closer, ''Let There Be Love." But the soft-hearted and the hopeful will take comfort in the sound of Noel singing ''just remember I'll be by your side" to his rabble-rouser of a little brother. In fact, the whole album sounds like a retreat from the provocation and rivalry that has dwarfed, if not actually thwarted, Oasis's music in recent years. This one is a big wet kiss for the fans -- and the family members -- who've stuck around.
Joan Anderman can be reached at anderman@globe.com.
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. It's a good review, nothing is slagged in fact, the review is much better than some others that have given it a higher mark.
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