The Re-Birth

A Revival

Oasis seemed to mellow away into the wilderness then all of a sudden came back with a resounding noise.

Their more recent work has brought us back to the early days. The release of Don't Believe The Truth was a masterpiece. Angry, memorable and blowing away the cobwebs in society and the lives of the Gallaghers in a way not seem very often.

The booze, the money, the drugs, the fame, the media hype. It all got in the way and the intervening years gave the Gallaghers the wrong sort of attention and the scorn of politicians and religious groups for their complete over the top "look at me I'm a Star" attitude that got up everyone's noses. Did it stop them. No it didn't. However with maturity came the sudden realisation that they could not be a couple of arseholes for ever so when the album was released with a combination of scores that took us back to the early days, Oasis just seemed to completely revive and wow, it was just what we all needed.

For the first time in their history, they are functioning as a band. No longer does Noel feel the weight of the world on his shoulders, and Liam’s writing tunes with the enthusiasm of a toddler who’s just mastered walking. Gem is the rock on which the new Oasis is built while Andy Bell is an enigmatic influence, who has got Liam to start being the superb musician he always has been without the stupid antics of earlier years.

Don’t Believe The Truth runs to eleven tracks, and Noel has written five. That includes Let There Be Love which really has had a profound impact on the direction the band is now taking. This really is a defining moment in Oasis history.

So what about the rest of the tracks? Mucky Fingers is just wild. I love it.

Then there’s The Importance Of Being Idle which truly is so stark, so simple and so fundamentally Oasis, that it could have been something released from the very early days.

When you hear Part of the Queue, Noel Gallagher has finally demonstrated that he is a superb songwriter and that he has finally got his life together and put aside all the emotional baggage of his early years and is now someone who writes music becuase he loves to write and not just to express a perception of injustice previously fuelled out of personal inept.

Laim's deafening ninety second Meaning of Soul is absolutely breathtaking while Love Like A Bomb is a wistful daydream that he wrote and is almost as emotionally stimulating as Guess God Thinks I’m Abel. There's an interesting anecodte to this song. Liam was reported as believing he had a conversation with God one night in a pub and that God told him He was Abel. Wild!