Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
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Artist: OasisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-05-31
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Turn Up The Sun
- Mucky Fingers
- Lyla
- Love Like A Bomb
- The Importance Of Being Idle
- The Meaning Of Soul
- Guess God Thinks I'm Abel
- Part Of The Queue
- Keep The Dream Alive
- A Bell Will Ring
- Let There Be Love
Music reviews of Don't Believe the Truth
Music Review: RETURNING WITH A VENGEANCE
Rating: 4 Stars
1990's rock has been coming back with a vengeance this year. The 2000's saw Hip Hop gaining market prominence even among suburbanites. Nonetheless, much like disco in the late 1970's, once Hip Hop acts appeared on the front of Rolling Stone one knew the Western world would be moving on. However much you like music videos with young women in bikinis dancing around swimming pools while the singer turns out crafty rhymes, after a while it sinks in these guys are just Hugh Heffner wannabes and/or these "gangsters" wouldn't last five minutes in downtown Baghdad. Nothing against the "bad boys"; but they pale against the marines who took Falujah in lethalness. This is one case where reality wins out. For some reason when war or national tragedy rears its ugly head rock returns to center stage.
Not that Oasis has been away. With their first album, DEFINITELY MAYBE, Oasis caught the favorable attention of an assortment of critics and tastemakers. Then in 1995, Oasis released their magnum opus in WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY. So powerful was WTSMG that it remains one of the very best albums of that decade. It was then the Gallaghers' strong affinity for the Beatles became apparent. Not only did Oasis employ musical "Beatle-isms", their worldview recalled the latter idealism of the Fab Four and in pattern and feel WTSMG roughly resembled SGT. PEPPER. It also didn't hurt that WTSMG was a GUITAR album. Instead of being vilified as copycats, Oasis enjoyed a royal honeymoon with critics and public alike..
Then Oasis began a series of missteps. Press members were abused during interviews. Legendary fights on jet flights got them banned from several carriers. The Gallagher brothers publicly fought with each other. Liam, the lead singer, walked out on the band at the beginning of a major U.S. tour-leaving the less capable Noel to carry the vocal chores for the rest of those dates. Band members either left the band or were fired. They pissed off George Harrison. Then came the major mistake of BE HERE NOW.
In all fairness, nothing Oasis could have done could have stood next to WTSMG. But BHN suffered from alcohol and drug over-indulgence that manifested itself in all the dials thrown to the max and overblown delusions of grandeur. It was like a badly intoxicated drunk deciding to take on Mohammed Ali in his prime. Oasis simply got knocked to the floor. The once darlings of the rock glitterati got themselves banished to obscurity.
Cleaned up and dried out, Oasis picked themselves up and released one decent album, a collection of non-album cuts, and an excellent "live" record-all of which were ignored. This began to change with HEATHEN CHEMISTRY. The band came back with a new confidence and aggressiveness that recalled their early days. That renewed spirit has put itself on the forefront of DON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH.
As Zak Starkey remarks, Oasis is a hard working band that is in the studio early and leaves late with little in the way of breaks. You don't find a band wondering what to do next and holding a wetted finger to see which way the wind is blowing. The Gallaghers are holding to the original vision and they've got something to say whether the world listens or not.
After first listening to DBTT., what struck me was the album's unusual structure: three song cycles three songs each; with two songs at the end that can be taken by themselves. Whether by design or accident, it is beneficial to recognize these song cycles as such because several of the songs end oddly unless you understand that musically you are being lead to the next song.
"Turn Up The Sun"/"Mucky Fingers"'/Lyla starts off with no introduction right into the fray. "Turn Up The Sun" is a complex song combining both a pleasant soft minor key progression with a hard edge plea of love and brotherhood. "Mucky Fingers" and "Lyla" by contrast are garage band thrashings like a constant hammer. "Mucky Fingers" recalls a HIGHWAY 61/BLONDE ON BLONDE era Dylan sneer commonly believed truths. "Lyla" by contrast brings the Kinks to mind as an appeal to the universal feminine spirit of love.
"Love like a Bomb"/" The Importance of Being Idle"/"The Meaning of the Soul" form a humorous trio joking at different levels. "Love like a Bomb" is a largely acoustic song at heart which compares/contrasts love with exploding munitions. "The Importance of Being Idle" appears to be one of Oasis' nonsense songs with the singer completely unconcerned with the necessities of life. (It could also be a wry reminder not to confuse living with acquiring the requirements to live.) "The Meaning of the Soul" is the "flip" side of "Importance". The singer romances his love in a rapid almost machine cadence with the ironic promise to teach her about "soul".
"Guess God Thinks I'm Able"/"Part Of The Queue"/"Keep The Dream Alive" returns to the themes of the first song cycle. "Guess God Thinks I'm Able" is as lovely an acoustic ballad Oasis has ever recorded. Lyrically it lays out choices in love and hate. "Guess God" ends oddly sliding into "Part of the Queue"-marking the spiritlessness modern life. The triad ends with "Keep the Dream Alive"-- a dreamy anthem march for peace and love.
The album ends with two songs that hang on like fillers. "A Bell Will Ring" harks back to the Beatles' "Rain"; while "Let There Be Love" begins with that lonely hollow piano sound John Lennon used in his early solo career that suddenly evolves into an "All You Need Is Love" chorus faithfully equipped with slow drums and synth washes. Unfortunately, they do have a "tacked on" air about them.
Overall, this is a good album that holds up under repeated listenings. I am not prepared to say this CD is essential the way WTSMG is and was. But it is far more interesting than 95% of other releases this year.
Description of Don't Believe the Truth
11 tracks. Small hole in barcode art.Oasis albums have always prompted flashbacks--Was that a Beatles melody? Is that chorus on loan from T. Rex? Wait, wasn't that a Crowded House song once? But the mouthy British group's latest really sounds like a pop artifact. Both in production and execution, Don't Believe The Truth feels like an album better suited to 1965 than 2005. From the tambourines and jangling guitars that chime in opening track "Turn Up To The Sun" to the tinny pre-hippie philosophizing of "Keep The Dream Alive," it's an album that thinks the way forward is by looking back. First single "Lyla" borrows its opening swagger from the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man," while "The Meaning of Soul" lifts the Small Faces' mod jitters wholesale. But hack through the clichéd lyrics and worn riffs and the most important element on the follow up to 2002's Heathen Chemistry remains distinctly Oasis' own: Attitude. And in such wonderful abundance, "No one could break us/ No one could take us," they sing. --Aidin Vaziri
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