Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

mulva9

If I listened to Rolling Stone, the only modern band I would listen to would be Radiohead.

petrocs

mulva9 wrote:

If I listened to Rolling Stone, the only modern band I would listen to would be Radiohead.

I swear to God I think they are trying to sabotage rock n roll just so they can become an outlet for tweens who like top 40 bullshit

dunkman

the album is streaming on their myspace page... which maybe petrocs has already said... i'm going to eat a kebab and then listen to it.. i've resisted downloading it and will buy it on monday, like all proper fans do

petrocs

dunkman wrote:

the album is streaming on their myspace page... which maybe petrocs has already said... i'm going to eat a kebab and then listen to it.. i've resisted downloading it and will buy it on monday, like all proper fans do

I have and I cant stop speaking the praise of this genious..hope you like it as well and I'll be in line Tuesday for it

lowlight10

FINALLY this album is within reach! it's been a long wait. it is the silver lining in my Cubs-induced hell right now.

hodge

a good album indeed

lowlight10

hodge wrote:

a good album indeed

that's what I have heard; I wanted to wait for the CD release. still some romance in that tuesday of an anticipated CD release, like opening a bottle of wine.

pearljammerbeck

I'm checking it out on their myspcae page and it's very good. I thought their last album was the first solid album they released since "Be Here Now" and this one is a strong effort to follow that up. "The Turning" is excellent. "To Be Where There's Life" reminds me of the Verve's good stuff. "falling Down" is another one that immediately stuck out as one that I'll play over and over.

tribejammer05

You can listen to a streamed version on Oasis' website, http://www.oasisinet.com

But you have to sign up for their mailing list.

I've listened to it a few times. I wasn't impressed at first, but I dig it's "feel now.

petrocs

yeah tomorrow is the day...everyone go and buy it!

rivariad

as an old rocknroll fan I loved almost every song on the album, I just cant stand the fact that rolling stone's nasty (and nut funny at all) attitude towards to bands which's actually pretty good. almost every fucked up reviewer on the magazine thinks he's a rock god or some shit. I mean whats to point of giving to score to a piece of music! this is about melodies man, whether you like it or not you can't fuckin rate it. same guy reviewed some p.diddy album months ago who fuckin knows! cmon people just listen what you want not some butthole who writes his dumb thoughts about what is good or not!

petrocs

New York Times Review:

Oasis’s best records should be heard in bars, with lots of people talking and a game on the television. Its giant planes of guitar sound and Liam Gallagher’s slow-motion nasal burr — one of the great British sounds — complement the petty emotions and electronic hum that surround us in public places; the songs’ lyrics, trivial and social, keep time sliding along. Any bar will do, though Oasis albums since “Standing on the Shoulder of Giants,” from 2000, might go better in a wine bar. The songs would fit the clientele: slower, more self-conscious, less invincible.

But “Dig Out Your Soul,” the group’s seventh studio album, should be heard in a really good stereo showroom: an extraordinary one with high-end stuff, and where the salesmen might let you have beer and chips while you listen. Produced by Dave Sardy, the record is an interior trip, rich with guitar and voices and organs and keyboards, some of the sonic layers scuffed and some clear as water. You get the full measure of the sound because the songs stay in single chords for longer. It’s an expensive record valorizing the drone.

It sounds so good; really, it sounds better than it is. Noel Gallagher, the band’s guitarist and principal songwriter, wrote half the album and the best of its droney tracks: “Bag It Up,” “The Shock of the Lightning,” “(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady.” They all go down in the first half, and they’re not fascinating; they don’t particularly show off his skill for the unexpected chord change. As ambitious as it is in the experience of sound and groove, “Dig Out Your Soul” is unambitious in songwriting content.

It’s derivative too — mostly, and unsurprisingly, of the Beatles, the Gallaghers’ favorite band. There are small echoes of many post-“Revolver” Beatles songs: sharp, pinpointed references, specific sounds on specific guitar chords, piano figures, and drum rhythms played by Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr’s son. (A nearly inaudible clip of a John Lennon interview, from shortly before his death, rustles through the background of Liam Gallagher’s ballad “I’m Outta Time.”) But it doesn’t stop at the Beatles: “High Horse Lady” welds together David Essex’s “Rock On” and Tommy Tucker’s “High Heel Sneakers.”

These songs are heavy with thoughts about time. They’re mildly philosophical, but not so spiritual that they would make you put down the beer and chips. “The Nature of Reality” is, offhandedly, about the nonexistence of objective truth. And “Soldier On,” with its endless-march feeling borrowed from the end of “I Am the Walrus,” is pure stiff-upper-lip: “Who’s to say that you were right and I was wrong/Soldier on/Come the day, come the night, I’ll be gone/Soldier on.” BEN RATLIFF

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Dig Out Your Soul is out in your local record store today. When was the last time you picked up a truly good rock n roll album for your collection? Go have listen , The boys are back

Anon

oasis is just amazing
i'm sure this album will be no exception!
i've recently heard their new single on KROCK "the shock of the lightning' and think its great!
CANT WAIT to hear the rest!!

petrocs

I will be curious to see where it debuts on the US charts

2-feign-reluctance

it is great. i am listening to it right now. thought the piano chord progression on the second tune sounds an awful lot like a liam finn tune from his 'i'll be lightining' record. not a big deal. found myself singing the finn lyrics over the song.

dfreshington

It is an absolute masterpiece.

pjoasisrule

I got the album today and its got some good stuff but I am far from impressed with a number of songs. I think the tracklisting is quite poor.

Here is how I rank the top 5 songs after 2 listens

Im Outta Time
The Shock Of The Lightning
The Nature Of Reality (the guitar reminds me a bit of Neil Young, its quite bluesy)
To Be Where Theres Life
Falling Down

bladworth116

dead on arrival. nobody gives a shit about Oasis these days. the only people who go to their shows are guy's who want to get laid by their girlfriends after they hear Wonderwall. the last inspired thing they did was "Be Here Now" back in 1997 and the best thing they ever did was "Definitely Maybe" back in 1994. these last x3 albums are just to keep the record label happy and give them an excuse to tour and play the same setlist as the past x10 years.

exhausted

their best effort in a long time.

Chazz

exhausted wrote:

their best effort in a long time.

Agreed

Its got some real 'growers' as well.....some songs I originally thought 'meh whatever' I absolutely love now

On another issue, anybody hear any rumours about a new Eden Project date for the postponed show.....i'm getting paranoid now that its not gonna happen cos they rescheduled the other dates almost straight away Any info or even pure speculation would be great