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Features Disc of the day
Oasis
The Masterplan
(Creation, 1998)
When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll.
Who’d have thought, in 1998, that ten years further on Oasis’s second-best album would still be this B-sides comp? That need not necessarily disparage the other five (although it does, a bit); the fact remains that between ’94 and ’97 Noel Gallagher seemed content to have some of his best songs take a back seat. The Proustian rushes of Fade Away and the unflinchingly anthemic Listen Up were both relegated to CD single extras, while the choice to favour Some Might Say’s daft lyrics and sludgy rhythms over Acquiesce’s scabrous chants and valedictory choruses still baffles. Thankfully, all of the above appear on The Masterplan, alongside extra helpings of loud, rumbling Liamrock (It’s Good To Be Free, Headshrinker) and Noel’s deftest pop-ballads (Half The World Away, Talk Tonight) – the latter pair now staples of a thousand Play Guitar Now tutorials. Even so, the record’s crowning moment remains the enormous, terrace-swaying bombast of the title track. Absurdly never an A-side nor an album track, it is the sound of a songwriter on fire, and one – rather poignantly – who clearly never imagined the well could ever run dry.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 15/06/2008
Further Listening
Oasis – Definitely Maybe (Creation, 1994)
Nirvana – Incesticide (Sub-Pop, 1992)
The Who – Odds & Sods (Polydor, 1974)
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I Think That The Masterplan Is Such A Great Album But The Thing Is That They'd Included songs like round are way,whatever,take me away or even the slowly version of fade away with liam in vocals..we could have named it the Best B-Side's Compilation Ever...
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RE: Fernando Sznaiderberg cerrá el totó, que sabras vos de música!! Señora!!!
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