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Oasis have always been at their best when they didn't give a damn. When Noel scrawled tunes about nothing that meant the world and Liam buzzed off his head with a passion never rivaled by any rock'n'roll singer in history. Put simply, this is a glorious rebirth. Noel is writing songs about queuing too long for a pint of milk and Liam is a whirlwind of inspiration and wondrous bulls***. Fans have been waiting for this moment for ten years. Why? Because it's been ten years since Oasis made an album that truly changed the musical landscape. It's been ten years since they wrote an album of such spirit that you felt compelled to adopt a swagger as you walked through the streets of your council estate.Don't Believe the Truthis that album. It's the Oasis that blew you away and an Oasis you've never met.
Oasis have always been at their best when they didn't give a damn. When Noel scrawled tunes about nothing that meant the world and Liam buzzed off his head with a passion never rivaled by any rock'n'roll singer in history. Put simply, this is a glorious rebirth. Noel is writing songs about queuing too long for a pint of milk and Liam is a whirlwind of inspiration and wondrous bulls***. Fans have been waiting for this moment for ten years. Why? Because it's been ten years since Oasis made an album that truly changed the musical landscape. It's been ten years since they wrote an album of such spirit that you felt compelled to adopt a swagger as you walked through the streets of your council estate.Don't Believe the Truthis that album. It's the Oasis that blew you away and an Oasis you've never met.
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Format: CD
Label: Epic (USA)
Catalog: 94493
Rel. Date: 05/31/2005
UPC: 827969449325

Don't Believe the Truth [PA]
Artist: Oasis
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Oasis have always been at their best when they didn't give a damn. When Noel scrawled tunes about nothing that meant the world and Liam buzzed off his head with a passion never rivaled by any rock'n'roll singer in history. Put simply, this is a glorious rebirth. Noel is writing songs about queuing too long for a pint of milk and Liam is a whirlwind of inspiration and wondrous bulls***. Fans have been waiting for this moment for ten years. Why? Because it's been ten years since Oasis made an album that truly changed the musical landscape. It's been ten years since they wrote an album of such spirit that you felt compelled to adopt a swagger as you walked through the streets of your council estate.Don't Believe the Truthis that album. It's the Oasis that blew you away and an Oasis you've never met.

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Every rock critic with an axe to grind and a reasonable chunk of open real estate in his or her local alt-weekly will be happy to tell you, in lurid detail, why Oasis' last album, 2002's Heathen Chemistry, sucked harder than Paris Hilton in a homemade night-vision porno. And they'd be right-with the glaring exception of "Force of Nature," an anthemic ode to goldbricking lady friends that allowed what was left of the Oasis faithful to cling desperately to the idea that, just maybe, their Britpop heroes hadn't completely deflated in a final death-wheeze of sappy irrelevance and bad Julius Caesar haircuts.

Don't Believe the Truth is the payoff. It's no (What's the Story) Morning Glory?-duh-but it still knocks the piss out of the band's last two records. Which isn't saying a lot, obviously, but the beatific falsetto pop of "The Importance of Being Idle" (if you're like me, you'll put this one on repeat and remember the good old days), the stadium-scorching opener "Turn Up the Sun," and the Stonesy power-stomp of "The Meaning of Soul" might just make you feel like the Gallagher boys still have some fight left in them after all. Even the chart-topping UK single "Lyla" is kind of okay.

Which is handy-especially because one might be inclined to suspect that the "truth" Oasis don't want you to "believe" is the fact that they're past their prime. And yet, Don't Believe the Truth makes that nearly impossible to say unequivocally. There are still some eye-rollers ("Guess God Thinks I'm Abel," "Keep the Dream Alive"). In the end, Oasis fans should be thankful the whole thing hasn't exploded in a massive ego-maiming cocaine punch-out. Yet.

        
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