the SOTSOG era gave us this, theres really nothing more to say

SOTSOG is my favourite album, yes the albums that came before it have songs that are heads and shoulders above anything on giants, this is the only time the band moved out of thier comfort zone and tried something different, its the ultimate comedown / hangover album when you wake up still fucked off the night before play this and it soothes the soul, my 1st oasis stadium gig was this tour at bolton reebok and i was lucky enough to be at leeds 2000 for " the funeral", the bsides are all brillaint, even the weaker tracks PYMWYMI and ICSAL work , little james is a guilty pleasure cos he wrote that song from the heart and i think we shouldnt dismiss it like poeople do. i just hope next year we get a 25th anniversary release, fuckin love this era

A demo and bside deluxe is a no brainer at some stage, a familiar to millions blu ray or reebok stadium or radio city hall release would be a dream.

fingers crossed they do something i'll take anything no matter how big or small

HC didn’t exist yet. That’s pretty positive.

SOTSOG > HC = WBTM > CS

Same thing really. Noel went backward because of fans reaction.

Although HC is criticized a bit too much. There's some good tunes on there, and the Bsides are better than some album tracks : Idlers Dream, Shout It Out Loud, (You've Got) The Heart of a Star should have been on the record.

Shout It Out Loud Liam sung could have been an anthem.

You’re right about the overdubbed vocals

This is from the Familiar to millions Wikipedia page:

As Liam let the audience sing the choruses of "Wonderwall" and also changed the words to other parts of the song ("By now you should have somehow realised not to sniff glue" / "And all the lights that light the way are doin' me fuckin' 'ead in!") at the 21 July gig, the version on the various audio formats features a different vocal track to the original one recorded at Wembley. This also applies to Noel's backing vocals. Most of these overdubbed vocals were recorded at Oasis' gig at the Yokohama Arena, Kanagawa, Japan on 5 March 2000. Only one line ("I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now") in the first verse is from the actual Wembley gig, as Liam failed to sing this line correctly in the Yokohama performance.

The show at Maple Leaf Gardens; Toronto, Canada on 29th April 2000 was shown on the internet live as part of a webcast, which was quite a new thing back in 2000. The official oasis website also provided some updates before the show, confirming that during the soundcheck the band, minus Liam, had played a cover of the stone roses I wanna be adored. I’ve not seen this on any bootleg unfortunately.

It's funny because one of the things that is almost universally accepted as great about this period was Liam's voice and at the time he came in for quite a lot of criticism over it for sounding different on the album and too shouty and out of tune live. I still think late 94 to early 96 was his best period but this era is a close second in spite of the occasional horrendous gig when he was likely off his head or ill. His vocals in the 99 warm up gigs and very early on in the tour were special.

As for the album it's still a mixed bag for me. The biggest shame is that when Liam sounded this good he only sang on 8 songs and one of them was PYMWYMI. Little James and I can See A Liar are very average and saved by Liam to some extent but they're B side quality by any era's standard. Sunday Morning Call is a bit flat and dour for me and while the rest of the songs on the album are good-great that's only 6 really good songs on the album + LAMB.

The B sides are good though. It's the last era where we got a lot of good B-sides. Looking back I enjoy listening to this era more than any of the other post 99 album cycles. Like SOTSOG they all contain 6 or 7 really great songs (except DBTT which has 2, maybe 3) but SOTSOG shades it for me because of Liam's voice and the depth of B side materal. It does however have have some really low moments on the album and during the tour but I think with hindsight the lows on HC are worse, DBTT doesn't have enough really great songs and DOYS doesn't have any B-sides and was a miserable tour.

I love Carry Us All and like it so much better than Full On which Liam should've sung on that track.

Agreed. It was very unfortunate that Little James happened at the same time. I'm not criticizing or saying Liam shouldn't have started writing songs. It's good that he started writing and we got Songbird and I'm Outta Time down the road, but there was no room for Let's All Make Believe on the album. That's how I see it anyway.

On my playlist I've replaced PYMWYMI and Little James with LAMB and Full On. SOTSOG is their third best album even without changing the tracklist. It's very well produced and mixed. Also, Liam delivers great vocals throughout the album.

Negative things from that era:

Noel's absence during the tour

LAMB not on the album

PYMWYMI sounds incomplete and unfinished. Noel got lazy there.

Spike Stent didn't continue being their producer in the upcoming albums

Overall, it was a bit of strange and dark era and the album probably wasn't that well received by most of the listeners but I loved it and still do.

Times had changed and the Brit pop scene had died at that point. SOTSOG showed that Oasis could deliver something at least a bit different than the previous albums. It's a pity they didn't continue experimenting more on HC and DBTT.