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 enlarge | Artist: Oasis
Label: Reprise Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 297
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 514078
UPC: 093624982937
EAN: 0093624982937
ASIN: B001DNZ954
Release Date: October 7, 2008
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Condition: Still factory-sealed, case has lots of cracks/damage; CD guaranteed
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 75
 Most Fans Should Love This Album October 7, 2008
Lance G. Augustine (The Midwest, USA)
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have to admit, I haven't paid too much attention to Oasis since I was buying their albums during the "Wonderwall" days...I loved that old stuff, but then I just allowed them to fall of my radar.
I've been hearing they have a new, more modern sound...their best stuff in a decade, so I decided to give it a try.
Here's my take on the songs after several listens. Keep in mind, I'm no expert on Oasis, just a rock/pop music lover. I thought it might be helpful for some to read an outsider's opinion.
1. 'Bag It Up'- laid back, basic mid-tempo rocker...repetitive nature makes it somewhat catchy...interesting instrumental ending. Rating: 6 out of 10.
2. 'The Turning'- Very similar to 'Bag It Up' with a slightly better chorus. Fades away with police sirens sounding. Pretty cool overall. Rating: 6
3. 'Waiting For The Rapture'- a dragging rocker with grungy sounding guitars and loose, in the background drums. Rating: 5
4. 'The Shock Of The Lightning'- one of the better tunes...starts with a little more drive and excitement...uptempo...the same bass note powers the song most of the way through with a little variety towards the (chorus?)...very good (chorus?) section...most of the songs don't seem to necessarily follow a verse, chorus, bridge formula. Rating: 7
5. 'I'm Outta Time'- A hit! An impressive, moving ballad...great music, great melody, great lyrics, great vocal...best song. Rating: 10
6. 'Get Off Your High Horse Lady'- basically a 35 second bluesy groove repeated over and over. Vocals sound like they're being sung through a megaphone. Starts with clean guitar and handclaps...picks up power a minute and a half in...ends with sounds of footsteps out in the leaves with nature sounds in the background...kind of cool. Rating: 6
7. 'Falling Down'- softer, atmospheric sound...decent chorus...grows more musically powerful towards the end. Rating: 6
8. 'To Be Where There's Life'- Groovy, classic Brit-pop bass line, simple melody...another non-verse, chorus, bridge song...repetitious. Rating: 5
9. 'Ain't Got Nothing'- Another very basic mid-tempo rocker...this one sounds like filler...no melody. Rating: 4
10. 'The Nature Of Reality'- Booming, one-two, two-two groove, another classic Brit-blues based song...not very original. Rating: 4
11. 'Soldier On'- based on one short, repeated bass riff. Puts you in a trance...strange melody, echoey vocals...hard-to-take synth craziness at end of song. Rating: 4
Summary: One great song (I'm Outta Time), Shock Of The Lightning is second best, a few good songs to start...up to Falling Down...then a little bit of a melt-down at the end.
I would guess most Oasis fans should like this album...nothing too modern or original...a lot of repetitious, groove based songs, overall decent sound and production...equals most of their other albums. But what do I know?
 More Of The Same October 7, 2008
LP (Anywhere)
4 out of 23 found this review helpful
For starters, I don't really like Oasis, never did. But like life itself, it's just not that easy to dismiss something (as much as I may want to!). Oasis have garnered a tremendous amount of world fame, more than most bands will ever know, yet they never seem to live up to the greatness that said fame would suggest. Everything they do is OK, and that's just it, it's always just OK.
The production is generally strong, the songs are never bad or horrible, the image is fine, the album covers are not embarrassing etc. But there's always been something to Oasis that has failed to engage me as a listener. I've never been transported to another land by them, nor have I ever felt any strong emotions related to their songs. Maybe the oceanic divide between Canada and the UK is the cause for that, I've never lived in Manchester, nor have I been, I cannot possibly understand what Oasis must mean to thousands of Mancunians. I do however understand the Smiths (another band I've never particularly cared for), I understand what they represented to the average people in that city, they changed how people viewed music from that part of England, more importantly, they were the voice of a new generation, through Morrissey, explicitly detailing it's cultural offerings (or lack there of).
Oasis, in my estimation has never conveyed much past braggadocio, which is cool, but without much to back it up, leaves you a little empty. As a 36 year old who grew up on pop/rock music, I would assume that I would be the targeted demographic of the band, they're not hitting it! The topics they consistently chose to sing about have no relevance in my life, I'm not a rock star nor do I understand what that would be like and furthermore, it's really damn boring to have that kind of stuff shoved down your throat all the time.
Oasis have always admired the Beatles, which brings us to another interesting aspect of their trajectory. For all of the connections the band (Noel Gallagher) has alluded to having with the fab four, there doesn't seem to be a lot to propagate that theory. Sonically, they do not share one single moment with the Beatles, philosophically speaking, they fail miserably. Artistically, they're just pretty much polar opposites. This reminds me of the legions of Miles Davis admirers who painfully try to re-create his sound by concentrating on one era of his career and comfortably dismiss anything that came after. They fail to understand what their hero actually represented, change, constant forward motion, and an unwillingness to look back.
To conclude my review of this album (which in retrospect is not actually a review), I would like to say that I think Oasis has an incredible amount of potential as a unit, they have since the beginning. If they could just turn down the posturing, the constant defensive behavior and general insults of other bands, they might find themselves with more ammunition to write better songs.
Best Since WTSMG October 8, 2008
G. Walklin (Nebraska, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a fanboy, probably, and this is their best since What's the Story (Morning Glory). Though of course that line itself does not say much, this collection of groovy (yes, groovy) tracks contains only one or two clunkers. Overall quite worth it.
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul 7/10 October 8, 2008
Rudy Klapper (Los Angeles / Orlando)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"This record's gonna be f*ckin' rockin'," singer of Oasis and oft-drunk lout Liam Gallagher said in an interview with Reuters last year in regards to the wildly successful British band's 7th album, Dig Out Your Soul. "There's no acoustic on it, man." One listen to the band's newest album easily confirms this; Dig Out Your Soul is Oasis in all their electric-stomping, feedback-screeching, Beatles-worshipping glory. Guitars are front and center; Liam and Noel's vocals are appropriately Lennon/Paul-esque, and the production is dense and distorted, layers upon layers of reverb and sound combining to create what they no doubt hoped would be an epic record.
Turning away from the melodic song craft of 2005's "Don't Believe The Truth," first single "The Shock Of The Lightning" hits like a freight train, a thudding bass drum anchoring a ripping, buzzing chainsaw of a guitar riff. Liam's vocals are clear and urgent, and the tune has an impossibly catchy chorus, with Gallagher spouting typically psychedelic lines like "love is a time machine." Despite sounding like it could've come right off either of their first two records, it's the best single they've had in years. And the sick drum solo that hits you out of nowhere in the bridge is Oasis rockin' out and having a fine good time doing it.
It should come as no surprise that Noel's tunes are the best here, from the grinding drug anthem "Bag It Up" that opens the record to the tom-heavy, atmospheric rocker "Falling Down." But while the contributions from those not named Gallagher tend to slip into a genre rut and stick there (the psychedelic Indian-raga stab "To Be Where There's Life" comes to mind), Liam's efforts are fairly up to par. The haunting piano and creepily accurate Lennon impersonation on "I'm Outta Time (Get Off Your)," is a particularly strong accomplishment for the younger Gallagher brother.
Alas, another interview, this time with the BBC, included Noel admitting that "I've literally got nothing left to write about . . . I've been re-visiting some of my more psychedelic trips of a younger man, because I remember them all you see," hence the album's title. Indeed, besides the tired cliches of love and jealousy, much of Dig Out Your Soul is about drugs, flying on clouds, and falling into holes in the ground. From Liam's nonsensical ramblings about unveiling his soul on "Ain't Got Nothin'" to Noel's embarrassing phrases on "The Turning" ("When the rapture takes me / be the fallen angel by my side?" Really, Noel?), lyrical sentiments are not Oasis's strong point here.
But, to be fair, Dig Out Your Soul makes up in pure energy and inspired psychedelic rock for what it lacks in depth. And coming from Oasis, did anyone really expect a particularly deep, meaningful record? As a wise Jack Black once said, "[Oasis] serve society by rockin'!"
 Oasis is back... with the best album of 2008. October 8, 2008
B. MCGRATH (Washington State, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you didn't think Oasis had returned to form anytime since 1995's Morning Glory or 1997's Be Here Now, you can buy this album knowing the past is behind us (and them). 'Dig Out Your Soul' combines the pure rock and consistency of 2005's 'Don't Believe the Truth' with the magic of the first two (or three, depending on your view) albums while also nailing the flawed attempt that was 'Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.'
Noel Gallagher (lead guitar, songwriting on six songs, and lead vocals on three) leads the way. Lyrically he's still one of the best in the world. His vocals take on new heights in the unforgettable 'Falling Down' and catchy '(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady.'
Liam, Noel's little brother, deserves a lot of credit for growing as a songwriter (three on the album). 'I'm Outta Time' might be the best ballad since 'Wonderwall' or 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out,' complete with a John Lennon speech-sample. 'Ain't Got Nothin'' brings back memories of 'The Meaning of Soul' (a fan favorite), while 'Soldier On' closes out the album perfectly. His vocals could (and still can) lead a generation.
Bassist Andy Bell contributes 'The Nature of Reality while guitarist Gem Archer wrote 'To Be Where There's Life,' with one of the great moments on the album... "Dig out your soul/'Cos here we go!" You'll be singing along, with the stereo turned up to 11, because Oasis is back. This is rock 'n' roll at its best this decade. Time to wake up, America.
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