Be Here Now

Release details

Artist Oasis

Title Be Here Now

Release type Album

Date of release 21st August 1997

Highest chart position Information not found

Record label Epic Records Japan Inc.

Catalogue number CRECD 219

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Be Here Now Tracklisting

1. D'You Know What I Mean?
2. My Big Mouth
3. Magic Pie
4. Stand by Me
5. I Hope, I Think, I Know
6. The Girl in the Dirty Shirt
7. Fade In-Out
8. Don't Go Away
9. Be Here Now
10. All Around the World
11. It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)
12. All Around the World (reprise)

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Reviews

Amazon Review

In retrospect, it's hard to see how Oasis could have possibly equalled the hype surrounding the release of this, their third album. Arriving as their popularity was at its peak, it's a confusing, faintly self-indulgent collection. The first single, the wryly-titled "D'You Know What I Mean?", had a monolithic sort of grandeur, taking Noel Gallagher's fondness for overdubbed, wall-of-sound guitars to some new peak, but also seemed a little over-extended--as did its follow-up, "All Around The World", a slab of Beatles-esque, sing... Read full review »

Sounds even better 11yrs on!

When this album was relesed in 97, all i listened to was Oasis and i was expecting this album to be even better than morning glory..however..back then i was bitterly dissapointed with it, as it didnt live up to my expectations.

But 11 yrs on and after hearing the new stuff that oasis has brought out..this album is a classic! i still remember all the words after all this time..whereas no other oasis album since has had that impact on me. This is al... Read full review »

The dogs nuts!!!!

To those that put this album down. Your talking out of your backside!! This is an excellent album along with all the others that this talented band put out. Progression and evercha... Read full review »

Somewhat hit and miss

Be Here Now is famously overproduced- there is allegedly 100 guitar tracks on My Big Mouth- and at times is somewhat underwritten- The Girl In The Dirty Shirt & It's Gettin' Better,Man!!! in particular are awful. However there are a lot more good moments then some... Read full review »

Absolutely Brilliant!!

This album is not for those who were expecting a similar album to Morning Glory and Definitely Maybe, although those first to albums were similar. This album sets itself apart from the others with excellent guitar solo's and imaginative lyrics. With out this album Oasis would have continued to mak... Read full review »

NOEL'S FOLLY: dissection of OASIS' disastrous outing.

1997: OASIS are on the cusp of true greatness, and nobody knows this more than our NOEL: second album 'GLORY' was a rollocking, fully-fleshed classic platter that quite rightly took off with the general public, selling massive quantities: a critical, commercial success that fitted the bill nicely as a soundtrack of 90s counter-consumerism.

Many punters eagerly awaited the follow-up, and NOEL endevoured to give the punters exactly what they wanted: however, the group's success in the mid-90s period had been built upon recycling much of ROCK'S former glories: OASIS were adept at providing identikit, by-the-numbers fare for the masses, a rich vein they plundered massively in the early years especially.

By the time NOEL and the boys arrived on the scene, there was literally nowhere left for ROCK to go; the genuine creativity that had been witnessed in the 60s had the advantage of a clean canvas, and all avenues were sealed off and unhealthily regurgitated come the late 80s. Cannily, NOEL opted to serve up retreaded, familiar vibes for the masses......and this appears to have been the catalyst for the group's eventual downfall, which kicked in around this point.

It was clear from the outset that NOEL wanted OASIS to be the BEATLES for the 90s, and in the early years, the plan went accordingly as wished; however the blueprint was by now becoming too uncomfortably close to merely copying [in the very worst sense] too much of ROCK'S proven back-catalogue of success.

'BE HERE NOW' kicks off with the epic-length 'D Y'ou know what I mean?': is there anyone outside of OASIS' immediate fanbase who can actually REMEMBER the tune to this sprawling psuedo-epic? It's dirge-like, monotonous guitar licks are 'fleshed out' with sterile over-production; ---any germ of an idea this song ever had in the first place has been overcooked to death.

----other tracks like 'MAGIC PIE' are too reminiscent of embarassing, proficient-but-terminally-dull early 70s PROG ROCK, [which was bad enough in the first place] but all the group serve up here is an expensively-recorded, w... Read full review »

Lyrics

You can get the lyrics to the songs on Be Here Now from the Bands Only Oasis lyrics section.