Oasis
Heathen Chemistry

THE REVIEW

Let me introduce you to the worst album that the decades-old Mancunian band has ever released. "Heathen Chemistry" is definitely a mediocre product, lacking in imagination and quite boring. With this CD, "The Chief" Noel Gallagher, "dad" of most of the lyrics, introduced this work by comparing it to the first of their career if not better than the latter.

Unfortunately, this album, in 2002, the year of its release, saw few sales and quite a bit of disappointment for lovers of the wild music of the rough English musicians. This new album of theirs was released on June 29, 2002. Musically speaking, this product stands out from the previous one from 2000, "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants", a psychedelic and innovative album. With HC, they return to the style that previously characterized them, with an enjoyable '70s/'80s rock style.

The record opens with "The Hindu Times", a single much loved but receiving criticism for its too much resemblance to "Word Gets Around", a song by the Stereophonics. Personally, I find it a "silly thing" and a way to try to stop the success of the song: the songs are in entirely different musical areas even though there is some similarity concerning the chorus, but completely irrelevant. A curious fact is Noel Gallagher's "confession," who claimed to have copied the title of the song from a t-shirt he had seen while doing a photo shoot. "Force Of Nature" and "Hung In A Bad Place", are two decidedly boring and extremely simple songs, particularly the latter, written by guitarist Gem Archer. With "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", however, we "calm" our ears, thanks to the melodicity and romanticism of the track. Liam Gallagher's sensual voice makes this song one of the best on the entire album. This track was written by Noel not for a girl, as many thought and still think, but for a friend of his who at that time needed encouragement.

"Songbird" is a short but delightful song, written by Liam Gallagher for his stunning girlfriend Nicole Appleton, ex-All Saints at the time, but who has now rejoined the other girls and is about to release a new album. It's a simple song, based on Liam's great ability to write lyrics, who in that year was elected "Best Song Writer". At position number 6, we listen and enjoy "Little By Little", a legendary song written by Noel, certainly the best single released by Oasis since 2000. In the video (beautiful unbeknownst to me), is the Scottish actor Robert Carlyle, known for his roles in the films "Trainspotting" and "Full Monty". I'll skip over "A Quick Peep" and "(Probably) All In The Mind", failures of this album, and arrive at "She Is Love", a beautiful song written in 10 minutes by Noel Gallagher in a hotel for his wife. Unfortunately, the single will not be released due to the end of the story between the guitarist and his woman.

"Born On A Different Cloud", although considered a masterpiece, is a very ordinary psychedelic song with Liam Gallagher as the author, who did not release it immediately for fear of opening the album with one of his songs. "Better Man" is again written by the rebellious singer and is a kind of anthem about the desire to be a better man. Repetitive and very boring song. The title of the album (as with "The Hindu Times") was taken by Noel from a t-shirt while he was on vacation in Ibiza; but he explained to Lam "We are all linked, right? We therefore have a chemical bond, but at the same time we believe, but we believe in our way, so we are pagans, HEATHEN CHEMISTRY." It seems that Liam responded by shouting "Wow, you're a fucking genius!"

Cheers!