Definitely not

If they did that we wouldn't have the best tour ever created by any band. The Be Here Now tour

Would've been a bad idea for Liam I think, his hashimotos would've progressed and people would've found it more jarring. I'm one of the few that think they ended at the right time. The Oasis story for me was never meant to be about an onslaught of no.1s and success from start to finish, it was the story of 5 working class lads making it big after 3 years of graft and rehearsal and then having it morph into a mega-brand. They had two/three-ish psychedelic and experimental albums at the time of breaking up (sotsog, doys) and getting to the stage where they were re-writing the same kinds of songs for stadium tours. They'd done it all already, I don't think there was much more to prove.

A reunion in the future wouldn't be preferred to seeing the two brothers make up and be family again.

Nah, that would've been way too long.

It didn't work for The Stone Roses.

during 5 years, Radiohead have released OK Computer and Kid A. and Blur, self-titled album, 13. If they released BHN in 2001, very outdated to people?

Five years, yes, that's maybe a bit too long. Two years would have been better and if they'd taken that time off then Be Here Now probably wouldn't have been the big mess that it is. Oasis definitely needed a break after Knebworth.

No.

One year off maybe!

5 years is too much, but I think Noel needed to take a bit of a break before going back to writing, his life had changed completely in such a short period of time and he clearly felt the pressure of having to write a record while on top of the world

I understand why they went straight into BHN tho, they were at such heights you kind of wanna milk it until it's there, but had they taken sone more time to write and record it properly so to match the public's expectations maybe it would've taken them into another stratosphere in terms of global success

With that said though, Oasis were never supposed to be U2, the relative failure of a drug-fuelled recording is part of what they are in the end, the 00s did more damage to their reputation than BHN, if something

5 years in 96 and they would been forgotten, has beens. There was so much music around.

Sure BHN was not that well received by the media, but it was massive, historical, huge tour, huge, huge, huge in every way possible. People enjoyed it. People talked about it.

What's to regret ? Noel had a shit time, but as fan, i'm glad BHN exist. It's a huge rock n roll record, the songs are there, the production is one of a kind. Sure, with a good remix and remaster, it would be even better.

The unnecessary record is DBTT. Take a year or more and mix it with DOYS. Boom, Oasis doesn't implode (in 2009, but probably two years later )

Maybe not five years, but I do feel Be Here Now was released at the wrong time. I think it should've been in Summer/Autumn '96 to follow Knebworth (like Owen Morris suggested) when they were still untouchable, or otherwise waited til around late '98.

Basically, Be Here Now didn’t singlehandedly kill feel-good Britpop like some say; by mid-'97 it had already peaked. Things were changing; with OK Computer and Urban Hymns, high-charting rock shifted to a more melancholy and less accessible sound. Hence full-on mainstream pop moved toward teen/dance acts like the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys. In the UK at least, that 94-97 era basically was the last time that rock totally was the mainstream pop genre, rather than just being a part of the mainstream. If Be Here Now had equalled Oasis’ earlier albums, it might have prolonged Britpop for perhaps a year, but the end was inevitable.

Ive often said that Blur were somewhat lucky, in that they had their BHN-type “comedown” earlier with The Great Escape in 95-96. Overrated by critics on release and sold well, but by Summer '96 most agreed it wasn't as good as Parklife. Which then enabled them to make their big change with Blur in early '97; before Britpop ended. And that change basically saved their artistic credibility.

I think if Oasis had waited til late '98 to put out Be Here Now, even they would have realised a need to update their sound. It would have been better-produced, and have a better general reputation. Also, they'd have avoided that reputation they seemed to have outside the fanbase from around 1999-2004, which was that of a relic from a past era trying to recreate their two great albums. As a kid whose friends all liked whatever was hip, I remember it was with Don't Believe The Truth that they started to regain some mainstream credibility, as they evolved into more of a classic alt-rock band.