The first 8 tracks are good and flow really well. Ain't Got Nothin' isn't bad and I like Nature of Reality. Soldier On is a nice closer, no Chanpagne Supernova but nor bad at all.

7,5/10

Soldier On is not shit. In fact, it's one of the more interesting tunes on Dig Out Your Soul. That mellotron and the slow groove is something that isn't aping The Beatles for once and is one of Liam's best tunes. Miles better than To Be Where There's Life which I cannot stand due to it's cringe worthy Beatlefied pseudo-psychedelic posturing.

Soldier On should work as a closer but doesn't get that effect it deserves as the songs preceding it are awful. It should have been a meditative epilogue after an epic finale - ala Slide Away and Married With Children.

Of course, production wise the whole album is poor (aside from Shock of the Lightning which delivers on it's punkish potential I feel). It's apparently a 'psychedelic' album that some like to think is 'experimental' but I can't hear anything apart from dull sludges of guitar.

Done differently and with more ambition, it could have been tastefully done - for example, I prefer the Devendra Banhart remix of High Horse which gives that song the flourish and colour that it the album version is desperately craving. Something a bit more expansive would have been nice for once with Oasis (and with Noel). Although the tunes are decent, their potential is never reached and the album doesn't sound any different from those crap sixth form indie plodders that wrecked havoc on the charts in the mid 2000s.

It really depresses me to see the direction the band was heading in with tracks like Bag It Up, The Turning, Waiting For The Rapture, Falling Down, TSOTL and then they split, never fully exploring that sound.

It's a shame really the album wasn't more well received. Those are all solid tracks which are some of Noels best since his early days of writing.

I'm Outta Time is great too.

It's a very good album IMO, a solid 7,5/8,0 out of 10, I liked the direction that they took with this album, a sort of desert rock guitar style mixed with heavy blues sound, if you don't like this kind of sound doesn't mean it's bad.

Also it's really well produced, very organic, it isn't flat or lifeless like the past two albums, this time Sardy did a good job on the desk, unlike his other works with the Gallaghers.

Yeah for me the album is perfect from track 1 to 7, track 8 is a bit repetitive but isn't bad, tracks 9 and 10 are the weakest tracks, both shit btw, however track 11 is awesome.

The album was more a new direction for the band than a fully experimental work, the band finally have abandoned that britpop sound, that is why some people don't like it I guess.

Good Album. Really like The Turning. I know the OP said not to do this but. The album would have been amazing if.

1. Bag It Up
2. The Turning
3. Waiting for the Rapture (alt-version)
4. The Shock of the Lightning
5. I'm Outta Time
6. Record Machine (Liam vox)
7. Falling Down
8. To be Where There's Life (with guitars, similar to the live version)
9. Come on, It's Alright (Liam vox)
10. The Morning Son

Ok I got a bit greedy there, and maybe the placement of the Morning Son is puzzling and odds are it didn't exist. But to me, The Morning Son is Soldier On's big and way better brother. Though I still do like Soldier On. I remember when we got 30 Snippets of each song, the Soldier On snippet was the part where he sings, "Who's to say, that you were right etc..." and that 30 seconds sounded blissful. I was so excited for the song. Problem is, thats the best part of the song. Doesn't really get much better from there. The 30 second snippet from The Morning Son was the beginning, so when the song exploded, it was an amazing surprise.

(As an aside, I thought the 30 second snippet of 3 Ring Circus was brilliant, so they can really be deceiving...)

I also prefer They Got Nothing on Me, They Got Nothing On You (or Ain't Got Nothing's Don't Believe the Truth version) but it's still not a good song.

It's a magical mystery to why the band split after DOYS. Wahey!

I love the apocalyptic feel to DOYS. It's a semi-concept album, and dark and moody as fuck.

For holding back better songs for turds.

Up to the end of Falling Down it's one of my favourite Oasis albums, and To Be Where There's Life is excellent live. Noel clearly sabotaged it to make a point.

Nope, not really.  He gipped us out of half an album.  At least four of the songs werent worthy of being anywhere near an Oasis album.  It's a shame because Noel was writing decent rockers for the first time in years and Liam's vocals on the record are excellent.

I just cannot listen to this album anymore. I used to really love:
Bag It Up
The Turning
Shock Of The Lightning
I'm Outta Time
Falling Down

However, whenever I do try to listen to the album now, I struggle to even make it beyond The Turning. Every track for me is just below average to what Oasis had done. The opening three tracks do nothing for me, in fact, just like the rest of the album, it annoys me. I can't see how people can listen to this god awful mess of an album and an album that tries to be different for the sake of being different, yet slate Don't Believe The Truth or Heathen Chemistry. Both of which are no worse and, as far as I'm concerned, better as an actual album that Dig Out Your Soul.

You ask, can we forgive the album. Yes we can but, the fact remains, to me, it's the worst Oasis album by a mile.