Below average. Two good songs. The rest are 5/10 or worse. Ridiculous single choices. A most forgettable album.

I still really love this album. As good as any latter day Oasis album - and that's not a slight in the slightest.

I'm not keen on Face the Crowd but I see why its on there. It is overly repetitive and goes on way to long but does have its merits (the quadrophenia feel, "turn you eyes to me" bit). Shouldnt have gone past the 3 min mark.

I don't care for DBM much either. Lyrically, its brutal and musically, its a spaced out, inferior version of GGTIA. Seems like it was put on the album for publicity. Girls in Uniform would have definitely been better at this track 8 spot.

Beyond that, love the album. Bonus tracks are a real joy but I'm not sure how they would have fit on the album flow-wise. Would have saved them for an EP or something.

I still enjoy most of the album today. Last year, I gave it 9 out of 10. Now I think I would give it 8 out of 10.

Have you ever listened to Pink Floyd?

Enjoy the silence.

Honestly can't remember the last time I listened to it. Gave it a few spins when it came out but it just sounds like the same old stuff but with atmospheric sounds at the start and end of each track. Couple of songs I liked but on the whole a rather forgettable effort.

FOTF is vastly overrated imo. The first time I heard it I didnt rate it all. After a few listens It got slightly better. But the way some on here go on about it is ridiculous. Good tune but no better than 6.5/10

The bonus tunes were outrageously strong. Many of them should have been on "BE". Either way the fans got a nice treat.

I would say its a strong 6 or a weak 7.

6.5

Imagine this album with the weaker songs taken off, the lyrics improved a bit and 3 strong Noel Gallagher written single added, like IIHAG / WAL / EOTR.

The 8th Oasis album could have been incredible.

Yeah mate, except Noel Gallagher actually was in a group with this lot only a few years previous to the release of BE, and had been in a band for over 15 years previous to this.

Plus Noel was clearly holding back his strongest material for years. This is generally accepted throughout the Oasis community.

Noel's input into what became BE therefore COULD have created the most exciting Oasis album since the 90s.

If they combined the rockers from DGSS and the vision for BE as a goal for a third album, that should be perfect.

I think the nipples might have hurt their sales a little bit, especially in sensitive countries like the United States where any form of nudity is some sort of tragedy. But in general, you're right. The nipples were intentional. They wanted to turn heads. But what impression does that give? Like they're desperate for attention. Might as well be a slasher film throwing in sex and tits because they know everything else about the movie is piss poor. Only BE didn't need to turn heads or stir up any controversy, the music should have sold itself.

Who's Beady Eye's target audience anyway? Lots of people from Oasis days surely, but aren't there a whole new generation of teens into the music? If you look for covers of Beady Eye tunes on youtube, that seems to be the case. A bunch of kids singing and strumming away to songs on both albums.

You might have have been joking, but I think the joke happens to be true. It doesn't simply look cool, it looks sexy. That's a stronger, more specific reaction. If you were in the store, completely unaware of Beady Eye and as you passed by it you caught a glimpse of the cover, would you not stop?

True, but that's due to an interesting design rather than a half naked chick. I think the latter is a bit too easy.

Although, in BE's defense, it's an easily identifiable album cover, which is probably why they didn't bother with a band logo or title on the front cover.