'Be Here Now' turns 25 today. Here's our original review of oasis' third album
‘s latest collection of mid-tempo sonic dramas. From their very first single, these kings of Britpop have been all aboutwere getting high? Now inmode, they’re calling all around the world, telling us to be here now, baby. SInce this global community is purely imaginary, the question–“D’you know what I mean?”–hangs in the vaulted ceiling of majestic chord changes and shimmering distortion like a lone worshiper’s burp in a cathedral.
Which is all to say that what we have here is another quality Oasis record. Truly, there is an art, or at least an impressive lack of self-regard, to the construction of such extravagant melodic spaces for such fatuous lyrics. Like a skilled Cadillac manufacturer, songwriting brother Noel cites the superior material that goes into his songs and cranks out sleek, luxury product.
No one ever accused Oasis of having mad rhyme skills, but they’re definitely pushing new boundaries ofhere: “All around the world / You’ve got to spread the word / Tell them what you heard / We’re gonna make a better day”? Oasis have gotten away with his until now because Liam’s projected ignorance scorned any yearning for meaning and Noel’s compulsive Beatles referencing let us know that it’s all just songs.
“There are many things that I would like to say to you / But I don’t know how,” Liam sings, in what some might assume is Oasis’s most candid lyric. But I doubt even that. Unarticulated emotion isn’t what you hear in that Mancunian drawl, it’s more the slouching disdain of an assembly-line worker.
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