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Dig Out Your Soul by: Oasis List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.98 You Save: £9.01 (60%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5055019605123 Label: Big Brother Manufacturer: Big Brother Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Big Brother Release Date: October 06, 2008 Studio: Big Brother Sales Rank: 36 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Though Oasis are forever fated to live in the shadow of their initial success, they remain capable of producing exciting and touching music, and Dig out Your Soul continues the upswing in their fortunes sparked by 2005's Don't Believe the Truth. Unashamedly an album of two halves, the first part is heavily loaded with Noel Gallagher's tunes, including the pounding single "The Shock of the Lightning", a taut and pacy rocker nearer to the light touch of the Smiths' "The Queen Is Dead" than their usual Pistols-inspired power plod. The rocking "Bag It Up" shares nothing but a title with Geri Halliwell's already forgotten 2000 hit, while "Waiting for the Rapture" takes Lennon's harrowing "Cold Turkey" as a template, with some success. Liam's crude, sparky "Ain't Got Nothin'" holds up his side and his sprawling ballad (the only such effort here) "I'm Outta Time" adds another anthem to their repertoire. Even Gem Archer's "To Be Where There's Life", a bracing slice of undercooked psychedelia, is naggingly catchy. Only Noel's "(Get off Your) High Horse Lady", a pointless rewrite of Tommy Tucker's mod-era favourite "Hi Heel Sneakers" and Andy Bell's ungainly "The Nature of Reality" are downright inessential. Those missteps aside, it's hard to imagine anyone feeling shortchanged by Dig out Your Soul. --Steve Jelbert Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Oasis are backI have to admit I was loathed to buy this CD, as for me Oasis were just rolling out the same bland music seemingly without any effort recently. I don't agree with some other reviewers that they never went away, I think they are just the die hard fans for whom the Gallaghers can do no wrong! The last album for example for me had nothing memorable on it whatsoever. When this was down in price in the sale, thought I would give them one last chance. I was pleasantly surprised. This album has a much fresher sound, although it is still Oasis through and through. OK, still not up to their classic albums, but they have pulled their socks up and put together a good album. Rating: - Oasis Soldier OnAnother year, another Oasis album which is perfectly fine but again fails to capture what it was in the first place that made people love them. 'Dig Out Your Soul' is a decent album and really very good in parts, but it is truthful to say that, has this been their debut album, nobody would probably have been that interested in them seven studio albums later. Recent albums have been encouraging and well worth buying, but if you were to rank the Oasis albums from best to worst, 'Dig Out Your Soul' would probably be somewhere in the middle. So, well worth listening to then, but it is still going to be a bit of a disappointment to anyone who remembers their first two albums and everything the music meant to the fans back then. However, we really ... Read More: Rating:  - MANCHESTERS WICKED BAND COME GOOD AGAINTo be honest I really thought Oasis couldn't do it again after 'What's the Story Morning Glory' and 'Don't Believe the Truth' and 'Heathen Chemistry', but they have and Single 'The Shock Of the Lightning' is as good as the whole album. All songs great and danceable. Easy to sing along to! Great Buy :) Rating: - dig out your souloasis are back with their finest album in years.lets get the negatives out the way first. two songs here let the album down and if they had been put aside for b-sides and replaced with better tracks your looking at a five star album.get of your high horse with noels whiny vocals and the liam penned aint got nothin are howlers.thankfully the rest of the album is oasis firing on all cylinders.shock of the lightning ,the first single is a turbo charged rocker with noel and gems duelling guitars brewing up a whirlwind psychedelic groove,its the most exciting song they have done in years argubaly since the glory days of 94-95.im outa time is a dreamy ballad that while a little too lennon-y for me is still a strong number.standout tracks though are the ... Read More: Rating:  - worst effort so fargot this one for christmas. noel's songwriting skills manage to keep the first four songs more or less above mediocrity. but once you've listened through those four, the album becomes quite a drag with the exception of "falling down", which is carried by an ear-catching melody. "i'm outta time", written by liam, is one of those darker oasis ballads but unable to stand up to "gas panic" or "born on a different cloud". "soldier on", another song by liam, begins with a nice melody but has nothing to offer afterwards. and with his third song, "ain't got nothing", liam ironically proves that he really "ain't got nothing". leaves three more songs: "(get off your) high horse lady", "to be where there's life" and "the nature of reality", all of which ... Read More: |
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