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What emerged was one of the most polarizing albums of TheNineties. Clocking in at an incredible [[EpicRocking 75 minutes]], ''Be Here Now'' is a sprawling, cocaine-fueled ode to the excess of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand by Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release. Things were looking great, then massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores.
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What emerged was one of the most polarizing albums of TheNineties. Clocking in at an incredible [[EpicRocking 75 minutes]], ''Be Here Now'' is a sprawling, cocaine-fueled ode to the excess of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll.
Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand by Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release. Things were looking great, then massive
However, sales dropped off after only being on the market for twoweeks. By weeks so hard that. by 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores.
Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand by Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release.
However, sales dropped off after only being on the market for two
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What emerged was one of the most polarizing albums of TheNineties. Clocking in at an incredible [[EpicRocking 75 minutes]], ''Be Here Now'' is a sprawling, cocaine-fueled ode to the excess of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand by Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release. Things were looking great.
[[HypeBacklash Then came the retrospective.]]
The massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores. Critics reconsidered and began to label it as a bloated, overlong mess with overwhelmingly excessive instrumentals and laughable WordSaladLyrics. It is often cited as the [[GenreKiller death knell]] for {{Britpop}}, a genre that up until then had been one of the biggest musical revolutions the UK had ever seen, with the band as its front-runners. In the wake of the album's ''massive'' amounts of HypeBacklash, mainstream popular music in the UK began to shift in favor of a more musically and lyrically melancholic and introspective direction, influenced by the sudden success of [[Music/{{Radiohead}} another English alt-rock act]] and [[Music/OKComputer the album]] that they released just a few months before ''Be Here Now''.
BHN didn't destroy the band's reputation, or at least its commercial success. But none of the four albums that were released between BHN and the band's breakup in 2009 reached the heights of critical acclaim their first two records did. The Gallagher brothers became more revered for their tabloid-worthy antics than their music.
Noel now sides with the critics. [[CreatorBacklash He self describes it as "A bunch of guys on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck."]]
Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near the levels of ''Definitley Maybe'' and ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'', it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage. For what it's worth, the later positive reception it started to pick up was enough for ''WebSite/AcclaimedMusic'' to feature it at No. 2790 on the 2020 edition of its [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums dynamic compendium]] of the 3000 most critically lauded albums of all time.
[[HypeBacklash Then came the retrospective.]]
The massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores. Critics reconsidered and began to label it as a bloated, overlong mess with overwhelmingly excessive instrumentals and laughable WordSaladLyrics. It is often cited as the [[GenreKiller death knell]] for {{Britpop}}, a genre that up until then had been one of the biggest musical revolutions the UK had ever seen, with the band as its front-runners. In the wake of the album's ''massive'' amounts of HypeBacklash, mainstream popular music in the UK began to shift in favor of a more musically and lyrically melancholic and introspective direction, influenced by the sudden success of [[Music/{{Radiohead}} another English alt-rock act]] and [[Music/OKComputer the album]] that they released just a few months before ''Be Here Now''.
BHN didn't destroy the band's reputation, or at least its commercial success. But none of the four albums that were released between BHN and the band's breakup in 2009 reached the heights of critical acclaim their first two records did. The Gallagher brothers became more revered for their tabloid-worthy antics than their music.
Noel now sides with the critics. [[CreatorBacklash He self describes it as "A bunch of guys on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck."]]
Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near the levels of ''Definitley Maybe'' and ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'', it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage. For what it's worth, the later positive reception it started to pick up was enough for ''WebSite/AcclaimedMusic'' to feature it at No. 2790 on the 2020 edition of its [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums dynamic compendium]] of the 3000 most critically lauded albums of all time.
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What emerged was one of the most polarizing albums of TheNineties. Clocking in at an incredible [[EpicRocking 75 minutes]], ''Be Here Now'' is a sprawling, cocaine-fueled ode to the excess of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand by Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release. Things were looking great.
[[HypeBacklash Then came the retrospective.]]
Thegreat, then massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores. Critics reconsidered and began to label it as a bloated, overlong mess with overwhelmingly excessive instrumentals and laughable WordSaladLyrics. It is often cited as the [[GenreKiller death knell]] for {{Britpop}}, a genre that up until then had been one of the biggest musical revolutions the UK had ever seen, with the band as its front-runners. In the wake of the album's ''massive'' amounts of HypeBacklash, mainstream popular music in the UK began to shift in favor of a more musically and lyrically melancholic and introspective direction, influenced by the sudden success of [[Music/{{Radiohead}} another English alt-rock act]] and [[Music/OKComputer the album]] that they released just a few months before ''Be Here Now''.
BHN didn't destroy the band's reputation, or at least its commercial success. But none of the four albums that were released between BHN and the band's breakup in 2009 reached the heights of critical acclaim their first two records did. The Gallagher brothers became more revered for their tabloid-worthy antics than their music.
Noel now sides with the critics. [[CreatorBacklash He self describes it as "A bunch of guys on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck."]]
Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near the levels of ''Definitley Maybe'' and ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'', it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage. For what it's worth, the later positive reception it started to pick up was enough for ''WebSite/AcclaimedMusic'' to feature it at No. 2790 on the 2020 edition of its [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums dynamic compendium]] of the 3000 most critically lauded albums of all time.
stores.
[[HypeBacklash Then came the retrospective.]]
The
BHN didn't destroy the band's reputation, or at least its commercial success. But none of the four albums that were released between BHN and the band's breakup in 2009 reached the heights of critical acclaim their first two records did. The Gallagher brothers became more revered for their tabloid-worthy antics than their music.
Noel now sides with the critics. [[CreatorBacklash He self describes it as "A bunch of guys on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck."]]
Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near the levels of ''Definitley Maybe'' and ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'', it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage. For what it's worth, the later positive reception it started to pick up was enough for ''WebSite/AcclaimedMusic'' to feature it at No. 2790 on the 2020 edition of its [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums dynamic compendium]] of the 3000 most critically lauded albums of all time.
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Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near the levels of ''Definitley Maybe'' and ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'', it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage.
SoOkayItsAverage. For what it's worth, the later positive reception it started to pick up was enough for ''WebSite/AcclaimedMusic'' to feature it at No. 2790 on the 2020 edition of its [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums dynamic compendium]] of the 3000 most critically lauded albums of all time.
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Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near on the levels of ''Definitley Maybe'' and ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' Glory?'', it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage.
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Noel Gallagher began to side with critics. [[CreatorBacklash He now self-describes it as "A bunch of guys on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck."]]
Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near on the levels of DM and WTSMG?, it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage.
Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near on the levels of DM and WTSMG?, it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets. Or at the very worst it's merely SoOkayItsAverage.
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Noel now sides with the critics. [[CreatorBacklash He
Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but a margin of Oasis fans and even a few critics claim that, while nowhere near on the levels of
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Though it has been accused of aging terribly and is now considered an example of what ''not'' to do when making a third album, it has been somewhat VindicatedByHistory. Noel's opinion hasn't changed, but some a margin of Oasis fans now see it as and even a misunderstood masterpiece few critics claim that, while nowhere near on the levels of DM and WTSMG?, it's still a pretty good rock album that doesn't deserve a majority of the hate and criticism it gets.
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* LastNoteHilarity: "Magic Pie" ends with some random jazz and guitar samples right after a rather chaotic LastNoteNightmare. After all that nonsense is done, somebody (presumably Noel) can be heard groaning "oh dear" at the very end.
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* LastNoteHilarity: "Magic Pie" ends with some random jazz and guitar samples from a Mellotron right after a rather chaotic LastNoteNightmare. After all that nonsense is done, somebody (presumably Noel) can be heard groaning "oh dear" at the very end.
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* LastNoteHilarity: "Magic Pie" ends with some random jazz and guitar samples right after a rather chaotic LastNoteNightmare. After all that nonsense is done, somebody (presumably Noel) can be heard groaning "oh dear" at the very end.
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The massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores. Critics reconsidered and began to label it as a bloated, overlong mess with overwhelmingly excessive instrumentals and laughable WordSaladLyrics. It is often cited as the [[GenreKiller death knell]] for {{Britpop}}, a genre that up until then had been one of the biggest musical revolutions the UK had ever seen, with the band as its front-runners.
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The massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores. Critics reconsidered and began to label it as a bloated, overlong mess with overwhelmingly excessive instrumentals and laughable WordSaladLyrics. It is often cited as the [[GenreKiller death knell]] for {{Britpop}}, a genre that up until then had been one of the biggest musical revolutions the UK had ever seen, with the band as its front-runners.
front-runners. In the wake of the album's ''massive'' amounts of HypeBacklash, mainstream popular music in the UK began to shift in favor of a more musically and lyrically melancholic and introspective direction, influenced by the sudden success of [[Music/{{Radiohead}} another English alt-rock act]] and [[Music/OKComputer the album]] that they released just a few months before ''Be Here Now''.
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''Be Here Now'' is the third studio album by the English rock band Music/{{Oasis}}, released at the height of their fame on August 21, 1997.
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''Be Here Now'' is the third studio album by the English rock band Music/{{Oasis}}, released at the height of their fame on August 21, 1997.
1997[[note]]26 August in the US and Canada[[/note]].
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->''"It's the sound of ... a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck. There's no bass to it at all; I don't know what happened to that ... And all the songs are really long and all the lyrics are shit and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word, there's a fuckin' guitar riff in there in a ''Film/WaynesWorld'' stylie."''
-->--'''[[CreatorBacklash Noel Gallagher]]'''
-->--'''[[CreatorBacklash Noel Gallagher]]'''
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* Noel Gallagher – guitars, vocals, string arrangements, production, lead vocals and Mellotron on "Magic Pie"
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* AlbumTitleDrop: Played straight and averted in "Be Here Now". The track title is the same, but [[NonAppearingTitle the words don't appear in the song.]]
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* AlbumTitleDrop: Played straight and averted Averted in the song "Be Here Now". The track title is the same, but Now"; [[NonAppearingTitle the words don't appear in the song.]]
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* DrugsAreBad: According to Noel, the band was high on cocaine during most of the recording, resulting in the overlong tracks and excessive instrumentation. Many believe the [[WordSaladLyrics nonsensical lyrics]] are the result of this as well.
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* DrugsAreBad: According to Noel, the band was high on cocaine during most of the recording, resulting in the overlong tracks and excessive instrumentation. Many believe that the [[WordSaladLyrics nonsensical absurd lyrics]] are the result of this as well.this.
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* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: From "All Around the World":
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What emerged was one of the most polarizing albums of TheNineties. Clocking in at an incredible [[EpicRocking 75 minutes]], ''Be Here Now'' is a sprawling, cocaine-fueled ode to the excess of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand By Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release. Things were looking great.
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What emerged was one of the most polarizing albums of TheNineties. Clocking in at an incredible [[EpicRocking 75 minutes]], ''Be Here Now'' is a sprawling, cocaine-fueled ode to the excess of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand By by Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release. Things were looking great.
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Wanted to spice things up for starting the tropes listed out on this album to the tune of "D'you Know What I Mean?"
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[[caption-width-right:350:''All around the world, you gotta spread the word...'']]
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* PrecisionFStrike: In an album mostly devoid of swearing, one instance in "The Girl in the Dirty Shirt" notably stands out:
--> Get your ''shit'' together, girl
** The song "Be Here Now" also has the line "Your shit jokes remind me of [[CallBack Digsy's]]".
--> Get your ''shit'' together, girl
** The song "Be Here Now" also has the line "Your shit jokes remind me of [[CallBack Digsy's]]".
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girl.''
** The song "Be Here Now" alsohas the line "Your shit has
---> ''Your ''shit'' jokes remind me of [[CallBackDigsy's]]".Digsy's]].''
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** The song "Be Here Now" also
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In any case, it cannot be denied that the album could only have been made at the time it was and serves as a farewell to the {{Britpop}} era in British music.
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What emerged was one of the most polarizing albums of TheNineties. Clocking in at an incredible [[EpicRocking seventy-five 75 minutes]], ''Be Here Now'' is a sprawling, cocaine-fueled ode to the excessiveness excess of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. Receiving almost ridiculously positive reviews from critics upon its release, it spawned four singles, two of which ("D'You Know What I Mean?" and "All Around the World") topped the UK singles chart ("Stand By Me" stalled at #2 and "Don't Go Away" was illegible to chart due to the fact that it didn't have a physical release). It was and still is the fastest-selling album of all time in the UK, selling over ''650,000'' copies in the week after its release. Things were looking great.
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* AnachronicOrder: The music video for "Stand By Me", which begins with people doing illegal acts (tackling a woman, breaking into a car, stealing computers from a store), but ends with the clips played again with more context, which reveals they were helping people (getting her out of the way of an oncoming motorcycle, helping a man open his locked car, and getting heavy boxes off of a motorcyclist who crashed through the shop's window, respectively).
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* AnachronicOrder: The music video for "Stand By by Me", which begins with people doing illegal acts (tackling a woman, breaking into a car, stealing computers from a store), but ends with the clips played again with more context, which reveals they were helping people (getting her out of the way of an oncoming motorcycle, helping a man open his locked car, and getting heavy boxes off of a motorcyclist who crashed through the shop's window, respectively).
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* ShoutOut: The license plate number on the submerged car in the pool, SYO724F, (itself a reference to stories about [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]] driving a car into a pool) is the same one that the black police car on [[AbbeyRoadCrossing the front cover]] of ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' by Music/TheBeatles has.
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* ShoutOut: The license plate number on the submerged car in the pool, SYO724F, [=SYO724F=], (itself a reference to stories about [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]] driving a car into a pool) is the same one that the black police car on [[AbbeyRoadCrossing the front cover]] of ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' by Music/TheBeatles has.
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* ShoutOut: The license plate number on the submerged car in the pool, SYO724F, (itself a reference to stories about [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]] driving a car into a pool) is the same one that the black police car on [[AbbeyRoadCrossing the front cover]] of ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' by Music/TheBeatles has.
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--> ''These are crazy days but they make me shEEYine''
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* ExcitedShowTitle: "It's Getting Better (Man!!)".
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* PepTalkSong: "All Around the World":
--> ''All around the world, you gotta spread the word\\
Tell 'em what you heard, you know it's gonna be okay''
--> ''All around the world, you gotta spread the word\\
Tell 'em what you heard, you know it's gonna be okay''
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* SurrealMusicVideo: "All Around the World". Noel's commentary on ''Time Flies...'' says it best:
--> "Is that a man with legs made out of sausages? That's not real. I know for a fact that has nothing to do with this song."
* TruckDriversGearChange: "All Around the World" begins with several verses and choruses in B, hops up to C for a couple of choruses (but only one in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywWolXGIx8 the music video]]), and then concludes in D for the final twenty- or thirty-ish chorus repetitions. (Some sheet music transcriptions of the song also notate a few bars as being in A: the "It's gonna be OK" repeats between the C and D choruses.) Noel Gallagher [[http://www.musicfanclubs.org/oasis/beherenow.html commented]], possibly with tongue in cheek: "Imagine how much better '[[Music/TheBeatles Hey Jude]]' would have been with three key changes towards the end!"
--> "Is that a man with legs made out of sausages? That's not real. I know for a fact that has nothing to do with this song."
* TruckDriversGearChange: "All Around the World" begins with several verses and choruses in B, hops up to C for a couple of choruses (but only one in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MywWolXGIx8 the music video]]), and then concludes in D for the final twenty- or thirty-ish chorus repetitions. (Some sheet music transcriptions of the song also notate a few bars as being in A: the "It's gonna be OK" repeats between the C and D choruses.) Noel Gallagher [[http://www.musicfanclubs.org/oasis/beherenow.html commented]], possibly with tongue in cheek: "Imagine how much better '[[Music/TheBeatles Hey Jude]]' would have been with three key changes towards the end!"
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* AfterTheEnd: The music video of "[=D'You=] Know What I Mean?", complete with helicopters, a crowd of people clad in army fatigues, and crumbling concrete buildings in the distance.
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* WordSaladLyrics: One of the most common complaints against the album is its nonsensical and often quite silly lyrics. "Magic Pie" probably captures it best.
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* WordSaladLyrics: One of the most common complaints against the album is its nonsensical and often quite silly lyrics. "Magic Pie" probably captures it best.best:
--> ''Cause you see me, I've got my magic pie\\
Think of me, yeah, that was me, I was that passerby\\
I've been and now I've gone''
--> ''Cause you see me, I've got my magic pie\\
Think of me, yeah, that was me, I was that passerby\\
I've been and now I've gone''
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The massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores. Critics reconsidered and began to label it as a bloated, overlong mess with overwhelmingly excessive instrumentals and laughable WordSaladLyrics. It is often cited as the [[GenreKiller death knell]] for {{Britpop}}, a genre that up until then had been one of the biggest musical revolutions the UK had ever seen, with the band as its frontrunners.
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The massive sales dropped off after only being on the market for two weeks. By 1999, it was one of the most frequently donated albums to secondhand stores. Critics reconsidered and began to label it as a bloated, overlong mess with overwhelmingly excessive instrumentals and laughable WordSaladLyrics. It is often cited as the [[GenreKiller death knell]] for {{Britpop}}, a genre that up until then had been one of the biggest musical revolutions the UK had ever seen, with the band as its frontrunners.
front-runners.
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Pressure was on the band after their breakthrough ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'' became an overnight sensation. They followed it up with the equally revered ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory'', successfully evading a SophomoreSlump. Music fans waited with bated breath as the band disappeared into the studio for six months.
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Pressure was on the band after their breakthrough ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'' became an overnight sensation. They followed it up with the equally revered ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory'', successfully evading avoiding a SophomoreSlump. Music fans waited with bated breath as the band disappeared into the studio for six months.
