YMMV / Be Here Now

• Ending Fatigue: The seemingly endless Epic Rocking was a major sticking point with critics of the album, not helped by the fact that these were all still basic Three Chords and the Truth songs, making every individual song a slog to get through, let alone the entire album, which is only five minutes short of using up the entire length of the compact disk format. "All Around the World" is the most notorious, clocking in at 11:28 for the full version (the album splits it up in a 9:20-long main part and a 2:08-long reprise at the end) without any significant twists outside of the multiple key changes and the increasingly cacophonous instrumentation.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: "Don't Go Away" is a well-liked album track in the UK, but one of the band's biggest pop and rock radio hits in the United States. It's the reason they played it on Saturday Night Live in 1997 as opposed to their current single at the time, "Stand by Me".
• Hype Backlash: Critics and fans, still high on the unprecedented popularity of the band's first two albums (especially critics, who were kicking themselves for writing the band off early on), gave the album nothing but glowing praise on the band's reputation alone. Once those same people started listening to it objectively, it gained its more negative reputation of being a bloated mess that was nothing but hype. Following a backlash against the backlash, broad consensus today is that it's So Okay, It's Average at best, particularly compared to Definitely, Maybe and (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.
• Protection from Editors: Why the album got so long on the tooth. Noel even said that "D'You Know What I Mean?" is 7:42 because nobody had the courage to ask him to cut it down.
• Signature Song: "Stand by Me" and next "Don't Go Away" are overall the most popular songs on the album, although "D'You Know What I Mean" and "All Around the World" are also well-known hits, and good examples of epic rocking.
• So Okay, It's Average: After a brief nosedive in popularity, retrospective listeners have said that it's by no means a terrible album, just not a particularly good one and especially not as good as Oasis's first two.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: Both the Gallaghers admitted to being high out of their minds while recording the album, and it shows, particularly in "All Around The World".
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: There's been a fair bit of speculation over what the seemingly random placement of various unrelated objects on the album cover (such as a Rolls Royce in a swimming pool!) was supposed to represent. The band themselves said that the cover has no symbolic meaning. They just thought these things looked cool together.

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