Reviews
These are reviews of all albums and Oasis gigs in Sweden.
Made by the biggest swedish newspaper; Aftonbladet
The albums, "The third CD beats everything!"
Definitely Maybe 
A
debut album with itīs genius simpleness turned
the
world up side down a bit.
"The
Gallagher brothers have managed to sum up all
essential british pop of the tougher kind.
With
brilliant melodies. With a light touch of genius
capacity to refine old worn out guitar clichés.
And,
most important, with a flashing devotion.
They
play like each chord is the last one and
theyīre convienced that no one have ever done it better!"
Classics: Supersonic,
Live Forever and RockīnīRoll Star
(Whatīs the story) Morning Glory?
"I
already suspected it at the first sight.
A
month and, approximately, fifty listenings later
I am
totally sure; Oasis have, just one year after
their
first single, made a classic rock album.
It
should not really be possible. The group doesnīt do
anything that hasnīt been done before. Itīs just about
conventional rockīnīroll with straight melodies,
striking choruses, really high volume and open showing
Beatles influences.
But
with their dedication, immoderate love to music and
tremendous believe in themself, the big mouth Manschester
hooligans manage not only blow life in the fed up form,
they
make it sparkle in a totally new, juvenile life.
Then
they have Noel Gallagher.
He
confirms hereby, once and for all, that he is a composer
of
the same caliber as Ray Davies, Marc Bolan and Paul Weller.
Every
song on Morning Glory are brilliant, everyone could
stand
as a single, from the opening rock knock Hello, with
a
biting chorus directly from Gary Glitters storm hit with the
same
name to the magnificent finishing hymn Champagne Supernova,
through melody chocks Wonderwall and Hey Now!, the ballad
Cast No Shadow, the electric outburst Morning Glory.
And so on.
A
masterpiece."
Classics: Wonderwall,
Donīt Look Back In Anger and Morning Glory
Be Here Now
"-
Itīs all about the melody. Not how nice a song is produced,
how
good the lyrics are or who plays the guitar best- are people
getting touched then itīs a good song.
Says
Noel Gallagher and summarize on an almost ridiculous easy way
everything that makes Oasis such a fantastic rock band.
Noel
donīt give a damn about if people call his songs for shameless thefs
and
nostalgic retro. He loves the Beatles, Stones, Small Faces and Bowie
and
want nothing else but to write the same phenomenal songs as they did.
So of
course he borrows what he needs. The only thing that counts is if
people are getting touched. What if some points out that Stand
By Me
sounds like All The Young Dudes , that the lyrics swarms with
Beatles
-
titles or that Itīs Gettinī Better (Man!!) sounds
a bit obscure in
expensive stereos. If that bothers them then they havenīt gotten
anything.
Oasis have done it again.
If
Be Here Now is their strongest moment time will show,
also
if itīs a classic rock album in the same division as Sgt Peppers
Lonely Hearts Club Band and Exile On Main Street, the two records that
Noel
Gallagher have had as a target during the work on the album.
But
compared to the rivalries in the 90īs then Oasis third album beat
most
of them.
There
are more interesting and innovative artists. Noel says pleasantly
that
he makes "usual pub rock", but that is as said not whatīs it about.
Itīs
about good songs. That touches.
And
a stronger collection rock songs am I doubting that weīll hear on
any
other album this year.
Be
Here Now is more rock than the presents. Longer songs, more and
rougher guitars, more groove and slightly less adress.
But
surely number ones can be picked out.
The
comming single Stand By Me and the even stronger Donīt Go Away
are
grand string arranged ballads from the same school and class as
Donīt Look Back In Anger and Wonderwall.
Liam Gallagher sings them
better than ever. All Around The World is a
magnificent, nine minute
singsong anthem about hope and comfort.
Oasis have probabaly also never rocked so
organic.
The
clever, guitarfull My Big Mouth should be a
potentiall concert
opener.
The
title track is a dirty slack Stones/Faces rocker with tough maracas,
suggestive flute riff and the album maybe most catching chorus
("sing a song for me, one from Let it be").
Itīs Gettinī Better (Man!!) swings like a hotel door.
I Hope, I think, I Know is the name of the big pop number, a
song with
so
much bubbling self confidence that only Oasis could have recorded
it.
The
new so notorious psychedelic side becomes aware in the dramatic,
Beggars
Banquet coloured Fade In- Out (with excellent
slide guitar by
Johnny Depp) and the organ bluesy Magic Pie, the only song that Noel
sings
on the album.
The
only track that might is a bit faint is The Girl In The Dirty
Shirt,
in
which Oasis actually calculates themself in a little pointless way.
So on
can I think that Noel sometimes blow up the songs unnecessary,
puts
in a little to much, stretches his solos half a minute to long.
But
in that case Iīm poking with a pair of tweezers.
And
that feels in fact a little silly to do on such a brilliant record as
Be Here Now."
Classics: Stand By Me, Donīt Go Away and
DīYou Know What I Mean?
The Masterplan
"A
collection of B- sides. Again. We have heard them before and know
that
many of them holds higher class than stupid- Noel chosed to put
as A-
sides. But yet. Itīs healthy to be reminded of the strength in this
now
quite slandered band.
Lazy
I put in the Cd in the stereo, turns the volume up to max and
suddenly Acquiesce explodes in my ears. Iīm
almost falling out of
my
chair. Such a blasting sound! Fade Away, Listen Up,
(Itīs Good) To Be Free and RockinīChair
has the same effect.
Not
forgetting the pop bomb Stay Young, easily the best
song from the
BHN
sessions.
It
might be that uncle Gallagher donīt like it, but as it stands in the
booklet;
"Audiences,
who have more sense than songwriters, all love it."
Couldnīt have said it better myself.
The
best band in the world.
At
least sometimes."
Classics: Acquiesce, RockinīChair and
Stay Young
The Gigs, "The best band of the 90īs!"
The Hultsfred Festival 13 August ī94, 2000- 3000
people
Crazy
high volume, Liam Gallagher in a nice blue shirt and cool sunglasses
and a tambourine in one hand. Supersonic, Shakermaker and many great
songs
that no one have heard earlier, plus a vibrating ending with
the
Beatles I Am The Walrus.
The Gino, Stockholm 2 September ī94, 7000 people (full)
After
Hultsfred and the release of the debut album Definitely Maybe
was
it Oasis fever. The band was quickly brought to the Gino and
the
whole pop Stockholm were there.
"Oasis turns the show into a explosive Here and Now feeling!"
Palladium, Stockholm 16 November ī94, 5000- 6000 people
Oasis was the hotest band in the world, was touring hard and
managed
to
come to Sweden a third time in four months.
"Somethingīs missing in the performing, the burning aggressiveness
that
sparkled from the band can barely be seen now.
Like
if the Gallagher brothers and their companions were a bit play tired.
The Annexet, Stockholm 20 November ī95, 3500 people
The
only gig in Sweden was made in the Annexet which uslessness is
unbelieveable. "You hear that not a single song is worse than brilliant.
You
hear that the guitars are great and you see that Liam owns the show.
But
it never feels like that. The distance is to long, the environment to
cold
and ugly and the sound stinks.
Most
memorable is Noels solo part with Wonderwall and
Cast
No Shadow."
The Sjohistoriska Museét, Stockholm 7 August ī96
Before
the gig it was talk about Oasis weakness as a live band,
but
with a borrowed orchestra plus a couple of new songs they smashed
all
doubtness to pieces. "Itīs the 90īs best rock band that stands on
the
stage, no one holds as high and smoth class.
Now
they have become a live band too.
Without stealing one single dance step from Steven Tyler."
The Globe, Stockholm
I just have to admit it. The five plus canon was loaded.
I
thought that the brilliant rehearsle in Oslo would grow to an
overwhelming sensation in Stockholm- Oasis second home capital.
But I
have to rest two inches before lightning...
The
performance is at times quite shaking. White the drummer boy
shakes for example alot at some points. Wonderwall is one, therefor
a
total failour. Also are the responce actually smaller than awaited.
After
six songs Noel has to tell the crowd;
"Get off your seats, you lazy bastards!"
But
in the whole, the concert are just amazing.
A
concert, when you leave and feels your chest full of boiling life and
hope
and you are in such a redicolus happy mood.
It
shouldnīt be possible. A band that so consecvent refuses to give after
to
the demands of a "show" should according to logic totally fall apart in
a
place like the Globe.
They
arenīt exactly any song and dance kind of guys. They stand
motionless and stare at us, throughout the concert. No one makes a single
move
in a try to communicate.
Nevertheless it feels so electric.
So
intensed.
So
powerfull.
It
says alot about the force that Noel Gallagher has living inside his songs.
They
are...
yeah,
incomparable. All of them.
I
have said it before. No band in the history of rock has after only three
albums been able to show the world so many classics as Oasis have.
And
then you should think of that the guys has left behind a fistfull more
killers on this years tour. As RockīnīRoll Star, as Shakermaker,
as
Slide Away, as Cigarettes & Aclohol. Most of the hits are performed
with
killing authority.
Ok
Wonderwall, the shows expecting climax, are they throwing away, and
Magic
Pie, which Noel sings by himself, feels mute. But the other 14 songs
explodes in the face.
The
best ones are Stay Young - a pop caramel that every other band in
the
world would kill for; Noel put it as a B-side- Supersonic, Champagne
Supernova (complete with a brilliant Noel- solo) and last but not least a
HEAVY
DīYou Know What I Mean?
Then
we have the little brother Liam.
The
king of the Globe.
He is
truely not an audience pleaser either.
My
God, during Live Forever - dedicated to Diana- the damn guy sits and
sharpens his glasses! Nevertheless he sparkles so people driving by
becames blinded.
I
canīt come up with one other pop artist that has the same flamering
carisma.
And
as he sings.....
I
think you can say I love Liam Gallagher.
I
ended the Oslo review by saying that we stood infront of an
unforgettable evening.
It
was, despite the none star exctasy, not an overstatement.