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Rating: Standing on the shoulder of giants. Knowing the Gallaghers, it is unnecessary to emphasize who the giants in question are (giants in the shape of beetles, to be clear).
The most enigmatic and painful album of their career (the last one entirely signed by Noel Gallagher except for the piano ballad "Little James", a not-so-difficult creation of the brother-knife Liam), conceived in the midst of a renovative storm (out "eyeball" Bonehead and Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan, in come ex-Heavy Stereo Gem Archer and Andy Bell from the excellent Ride) and practically played almost entirely by the master Noel, this "S.O.T.S.O.G." is the album received the coldest in the decade-long career of the beloved-hated brothers. Why?
Well, in part, it paid for the older Gallagher’s mania for change (even the historic logo was redesigned by the newly entered Gem), considering that the smash-hits in the album are certainly not lacking ("Go Let It Out" and the big ballad "Sunday Morning Call", both rightfully entered the ranks of the Mancunian combo’s classics). In the rest of the work, indeed, there are almost no concessions to the fresh and playful rock‘n roll of the debut-masterpiece "Definitely Maybe" (perhaps only "I Can See A Liar" - raw, guitar-laden, and endowed with a very pleasant "Sex Pistols flavor" -) or the classy British pop of "(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?", but the attempt is to manage to cover the pieces with a psychedelic patina that makes the compositions less immediate but at the same time equally well enjoyable and assimilable after not many listens.
Exhaustive in this sense is "Who Feels Love?" (the other single), which fits a typically Oasis vocal line on a sound carpet with a vaguely tribal rhythm; the sounds are hallucinated, taken to extreme dilation. Even the instrumental opener "Fuckin’ In The Bushes" pleasantly surprises, resulting in a sort of varied and deliberately chaotic sound patchwork (promptly received full appreciation from the "family friends" Chemical Brothers).
Completing the work are midtempo tracks branded by Noel Gallagher (the Stone Roses-esque "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", which should have been the album’s title, or "Gas Panic!", which however "drugs" everything with a heavy and acid six-string), the usual "unauthorized cover" ("Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is", riff almost identical to the Doors’ "Roadhouse Blues") and the closing slow "Roll It Over", in which Liam Gallagher demonstrates surprising vocal versatility.
A transition work after the painful success of the first three works, which has "repositioned" Oasis on a different track from the previous one, but certainly still rather qualitative.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Fuckin' in the Bushes (03:18)
We put this festival on you bastards, with a lotta love.
We worked one year for you pigs
And you want to break our walls down?
And you wanna destroy us?
Well you go to hell!
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
I love it!
Ah, ah, ah ah
Ah, ah, ah ah
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
I love it! Room for everybody here
Yes, sort of welcome!
Yes indeed, I love them!
Fun! Nice! Life! Youths! Beautiful!
I'm all for it
I love it! Room for everybody here
Yes, sort of welcome!
Yes indeed, I love them!
Fun! Nice! Life! Youths! Beautiful!
I'm all for it
02 Go Let It Out (04:38)
Paint no illusion, try to click with whatcha got
Taste every potion cos if yer like yerself a lot
Go let it out, go let it in, go let it out
Life is precocious in a most perculiar way
Sister psychosis don't got a lot to say
She go let it out, she go let it in, she go let it out
She go let it out, she go let it in, she go let it out
Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings
Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings
And ordinary people that are like you and me
We're the keepers of their destiny
I'm gonna leaving this city, I'm gonna drivin' outta town
And your comin' with me the right time is always now
To go let it out, and go let it in, and go let it out
To go let it out, to go let it in,and go let it out
Is it any wonder why Princes and Kings
Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings
Cos ordinary people that are like you and me
We're the builders of their destiny
We're the builders of their destiny
We're the builders of their destiny
We're the builders of their destiny
So go let it out - go let it in
Go let it out - don't let it in
Go let it out - go let it in
Go let it out - don't let it in - don't let it in -don't let it in
03 Who Feels Love? (05:44)
Found what I lost inside
My spirit has been purified
Take a thorn from my pride
And hand in hand we'll take a walk outside
Thank you for the sun
The one that shines on everyone
Who feels love
Now there's a million years
Between my fantasy and fears
I feel love
Leaving all that I see
Now all my emotions fill the air I breathe
Now you understand that this is not the Promised Land
They spoke of..
There's nothing more to be
If you could be the remedy who heals love
I thank you for the sun
The one that shines on everyone
Who feels love
Now there's a million years
Between my fantasy and fears
I feel love
I thank you for the sun
The one that shines on everyone
Who feels love
Now there's a million years
Between my fantasy and fears
I feel love
04 Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is (04:27)
Put yer money where yer mouth is
Yer mamma sez that you was real
Put yer money where yer mouth is
Yer mamma sez that you was real
Ready or not, come what may
The bets are going down for judgement day
So put yer money in yer mouth
And your hands right upon the wheel
Put yer money where yer mouth is
Yer pappa sez that you was real
Put yer money where yer mouth is
Yer pappa sez that you was real
Ready or not, and come what may
You betcha going down on judgement day
So put yer money in yer mouth
And yer hands right upon the wheel
06 Gas Panic! (06:08)
What tongueless ghost of sin crept through my curtains?
Sailing on a sea of sweat on a stormy night
I think he don't got a name but I can't be certain
And in me he starts to confide
That my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And if you hear me tap on your window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way
My pulse pumps out a beat to the ghost dancer
My eyes are dead and my throat's like a black hole
And if there's a god would he give another chancer
An hour to sing for his soul
Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on yer window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way
Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on yer window
Then you get on your knees and you better pray
Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on your window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way
Panic is on the way
Panic is on the way
Panic is on the way
09 I Can See a Liar (03:12)
Baby the time is right to tell it all like it is
And now that I feel god like there's nothing that can't be kissed
The name of a lonely soul is scratched into my brain
He thought he was king creole
Until he found out, until he found out
He sits upon a throne
He lives a sleazy lie
But he's all alone again, again
I can see a liar, sitting by the fire
Trouble in his heart, laughing at the thought
Coming as he goes into overdose
I wonder what he thinks of me?
Baby the time is right to tell it all like it is
And now that I feel god like there's nothing that can't be kissed
He sits upon a throne
He lives a sleazy lie
But he's all alone again, again
I can see a liar, sitting by the fire
Trouble in his heart, laughing at the thought
Coming as he goes into overdose
I wonder what he thinks of me?
Baby you're a liar, sitting by the fire
Trouble in your heart, you're laughing at the thought
Yeah baby you're a liar, sitting by the fire
Trouble in your heart, you're laughing at the thought
Coming as you go into overdose
I wonder what you think of me?
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By charles
This is not at all a memorable CD, but every band has the right to try to evolve.
It's not an album to own at all costs... only for true fans.
By ste84
These are no longer the Oasis who destroyed hotel rooms and threw beds in the parking lots!
'Gas Panic!' is the true masterpiece of the CD; psychedelic rock that captivates for all 6.30 minutes of its duration.
By JULIAN HAMPSHIRE
The opener is the pointless 'Fuckin’ In The Bushes,' a guitar riff that drones on for four minutes and highlights the creative void present in this fourth album.
Unfortunately, the times of Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory are over...
By Rock In
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In my opinion, Oasis reached the peak of their rock... 'Gas Panic' is a masterpiece!
By JohnWinston
It’s hard to find an album that starts better than "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants."
"Gas Panic!"… probably the best song on the record, damn psychedelic.
