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| Oasis - The Masterplan Band: Oasis Tracks: - Acquiesce - Underneath the Sky - Talk Tonight - Going Nowhere - Fade Away - Swamp Song - I Am the Walrus [Live] - Listen Up - Rockin' Chair - Half the World Away - It's Good to Be Free - Stay Young - Headshrinker - Master Plan A More Tender Side to Brit-Pop Oasis seems to have grabbed a little piece of everyones soul and thrown it all together on this B-Side Compilation album. All the Oasis fans wish that all the songs could be as beautiful as The Masterplan or Acquiese <~~(Is that spelled right?), but life would be much more boring if there werent hard hitting songs like Headshrinker, It's Good To Be Free, or The Swamp Song, which by the way is completely underrated. If you like slow music, fast, in between, Beatles, Punk, whatever. It's on this Heart stopping album. The songs were finely crafted by the great Noel Gallagher. And he is given very little credit for a major thing like this album. If I could give it more than Five stars (let's just say around 50 would do) I would. But Amazon wont be that nice. Oh well. B-sides my fanny! Noel has written some incredibly fine tunes and committed them to be b-sides. The more and more one listens to this collection, you can't help but wonder WHY he did that. Oasis has always bragged about being The Beatles of our time, and 9 out of 10 people will testify that that's bologna. But the Masterplan is the closest that Noel and Company come to Beatlesque greatness. Acquiesce is an Oasis favorite, but I Love Underneath the Sky and their Live redition of I Am The Walrus. Rocking Chair could have been as Oasis single (honestly). Half The World Away, Listen Up, Stay Young, and It's Good To Be Free can stand as classics on their own as well. It was nice of Oasis to release this album after Be Here Now. While their 1997 effort was a commercial flop, it wasn't half bad. But the singles on that album were creatively bankrupt. What we have here is the wonderful antidote: this is where all of the good songs landed. Oasis At Their Peak Oasis in 1994-1995 issued 2 fabulous albums (Definitely Maybe, and What's The Story Morning Glory), yet that was only part of the "story": their many singles from those albums contained great non-album tracks. Belatedly, this album contains many of them, and they are an absolute necessity to anyone's Oasis collection. Many of those songs were (and in some cases, are) an integral part of Oasis' Live repertoire, and for good reason: they are as good, if not better, than the regular album tracks. The highlights are many and include "Acquiesce", the intimate "Talk Tonight", the scorching "Swamp Song" (which started their concerts in the 95-96 era), "Rocking Chair", "(It's Good) To Be Free", one of their best songs ever, period. I didn't wait for the 1998 release of this and bought a bootleg CD simply called "The Non-Album Tracks" (prestine audio quality), the set list of which is mostly overlapping with this, but containing the essential "It's Better People", "Round Are Way" and "Bonehead's Bank's Holiday", which are for whatever reason not on here. No matter, this collection is just as superb, and an absolute must for any Oasis fan. Buy Oasis The Masterplan at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
