Oasis (2) – Be Here Now

After I started listening to the songs, I forgot how much time had ed, and I was given a pleasant and uplifting moment, and when I started listening to the last song, the whole album was over
I was so moved that I couldn't put into words
I would like to express my gratitude to those who gave it to me
Thank you so much

On a par with Heathen Chemistry as the worst Oasis album. Only 3 decent songs on it (Stand By Me, I Hope I Think I Know, Don't Go Away), and one ok song (My Big Mouth) all lost amongst the boring, droning-on-forever, nonsense, that was the rest of the album.

Such a great album, the most underrated of all time

Could someone list the be here now promo 3 disc (remastered) please if someone has it for sale. Thanks

In retrospect, this album is appallingly shit. And it's such shitty shit that it makes me actually like the relatively decent moments on the first two Oasis albums less than I otherwise would. I was relatively ambivalent about "Be Here Now" at the time of its release, having liked the spirit and sound (if not the featherweight substance) of those first two albums, and sort-of-digging the weirdly trudgy, grim apocalyptic beat of "D'you Know What I Mean". But this...this egotistical mess is where the truth of the matter was laid bare. Oasis always wanted to take on the mantle of The Beatles but, sadly, never understood what made The Beatles great—at all. The bits of studio silliness on "Be Here Now" (tacked-on music hall codas? Sure. Spooky backwards vocals? Yeah, why not? That's what The Beatles did, right?) are hugely cringeworthy. And Noel's lyrics are, when not utterly crap, clunky pastiches of Beatles lyrics and song titles. As though throwing out winking Beatles references out makes the resulting mess any good! That's like you or me walking down the street and yelling "Pizza! Pizza! You like that, right?!" at people and then expecting them to be full. This album is pompous, coke-fueled, insubstantial twaddle. Listening to the entire thing from start to finish is akin being allowed to thumb through Noel's own personal Beatles scrapbook and finding it has blow residue and "me like Beatles" scrawled in crayon on every page. The parts of this mess that aren't horrible are basically straight-up formulaic and see the group recycling their own sound completely, hoping/praying it'll keep working. This sound only worked—and marginally so—on those first two albums because Oasis were a group with a lot to prove. And they were young, full of verve, ready to fight and claw their way to the top! But by the third album, they were bloated rich egoists with no ideas, peddling a ploddy formula that they painted with the vibrant colors of the "Yellow Submarine" LP cover to fool everyone, including themselves. The last part is the saddest part of all of it: they fully, obviously, painfully believed their own bloviations about the level of their artistry. If you can watch the "All Around The World" video without laughing and/or puking, you're either a great liar or one of the guards at Buckingham Palace. Hell, even that second Menswear album ("¡Hay Tiempo!", which came out just barely on the heels of "Be Here Now") is a vastly superior release. Despite what Oasis' self-aggrandizing rockstar egos would have had everyone believe, the band just wasn't all that amazing. Time casts things in a very stark light. Fucking Oasis.

I give it two stars because one star would be without redeeming qualities. It's not as though the actual music here is all that bad—it's just formulaic and bloated. It's bad, but it's not Starship (2) - Knee Deep In The Hoopla bad.

one of the most underrated albums of all time... The press slagged it to peices at the time,,, just cos it was different to the first two albums.. this was there third album in four years,,,,, and the backlash from the critics was if anything a result of there massive sucess... If this album was brought out now in 2014 it would be seen as a masterpeice...But true oasis fans knew it was a fantastic album ,,,, it was then and it still is today