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Oasis - Familiar to Millions Audio CD

A fair review of the Oasis "Familiar to Millions" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Oasis reviews here, or go back to the Oasis tabs.

Oasis Band: Oasis
Title: Familiar to Millions
Rating:
Release Date: 2000-11-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Fucking in the Bushes 2: Go Let it Out 3: Who Feels Love 4: Supersonic 5: ShakerMaker 6: Acquiesce 7: Step Out 8: Gas Panic! 9: Roll With It 10: Stand By Me 11: Wonderwall 12: Cigarettes & Alcohol 13: Don't Look Back in Anger 14: Live Forever 15: Hey Hey, My My 16: Champagne Supernova 17: Rock 'n' Roll Star 18: Helter Skelter

familiar to millions
I love it. I had this cd years ago when it originally came out, but it had been lost when I was in college. Oasis at their best. .


The Gallaghers Live in Wembley
. This may not be Knebworth in August 1996 (if only they would release that on cd!), but it is a good live recording of Oasis.


"Hello, Manchester!!!"
The heat was on, the expectations were high, and the thousands of fans that crammed the famous soccor field were "mad for it!" Everything was going good; Oasis were and still are the biggest band in England with a timeless influence on most of the bands coming out of America and Europe today, and they were to take the stage by storm, but there was one too many problems: Liam had just broken up with his then wife actress Patsi Kensit, was seriously drunk, and Noel wasn't talking to him. It was July 2000, Oasis played Wembley Stadium in London for two nights in a row. The effects of all of the above are evident on this recording.

Liam greets the fans as soon as he steps onstage after the intro of F**kin' In The Bushes fades out with a hammering comment at Wembley Stadium, calling it a 'sh*thole', before sarcastically and hilariously saying "Hello, Manchester!" which is welcomed with a few boos from the crowd and a giggle from Noel. After that, the music plays on with a collection of their most recent singles from their 2000 album Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants: the handraiser Go Let It Out and the soothing Who Feels Love, before venturing into a string of greatest hits, in no order: Wonderwall, Don't Look Back In Anger, Live Forever, Stand By Me, Roll With It, Champagne Supernova, and Supersonic. In between songs, Liam and Noel are heard commenting with and at the crowd ("This is for all the people in the front row. . . " as Liam presents a song), the lighting operator (". . . turn the f**kin' light off!" as Noel scorns the poor fellow), and each other ("Let's have a couple more of these songs, Noel. . . write a couple more of these babies!" as Liam presents Supersonic). The highlights on Familiar To Millions are the cover versions of The Beatles' Helter Skelter (taken from the US tour), and Neil Young's Hey Hey My My (which Noel sings with a passion), and the B-side Step Out (which is an underrated Noel sung number).

Familiar To Millions may not be the best live album ever released; in my opinion, it is not (Liam's tired voice is enough to convince me). But the Gallagher brothers manage to make it unintentionally entertaining and funny at times.

Recommended

B-.


Well done (to the crowd)
This was an opportunity to perform a memorable, energetic and musical show, well it was certainly memorable. Ive always been a big fan of oasis but they really let themselves down here.
The whole thing with getting the crowd singing along and adding in guitar solos that just seem to go on froever isnt what oasis are capable of, and to put it on an album. . .
I also cannot believe the songs they put on there, or didnt put on. There are tracks such as "Gas Panic!" and "Who feels love?" whos ever heard of this crap more like. "Supersonic" "Stand by me" and "Live Forever" are probably the only songs worthy of being on there, seeing as Champagne Supernova and Cigarettes and Alcohol are delivered so poorly.
This album is missing many of the bands greatest and underrated songs, such as, "Morning Glory" and "Rock and Roll star", instead they insist on playing them boring, repetitive songs that everyone associates with oasis because they're too thick to notice the decent tracks, how many times have we heard "Dont look back in anger" and "Wonderwall" (which incidentally arent done by oasis on this album, but half of the drunken crowd) far too many times, so you dont have to put them on an album.

Dont waste your money.
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Lay off the cigarettes, Liam
They rush their way through "Wonderwall" like they're bored with it, and their version of Champagne Supernova also sounds weak voiced. Instrumentally, Oasis is still a tight band, and Noel's vioce still sounds good, (his cover version of Neil Young's "Hey Hey My My" is a highlight) but damn Liam really sounds like he just woke up after a rough night. Now some times the ragged effect does work, versions of "Stand by Me", "Live Forever" and "Cigarettes and Alcohol" are still pretty rousing.

Liam is still up to his onstage shenanigans, asking the girls in the audience to show some breasts, leading the crowd in chanting his name, pointing out to Noel that he finally got all the words to "Roll With It" right in mid-song, giving the people in the front row a hard time, complaining about the lighting and stage props, and even giving Noel yet another hard time, "you should write more songs like this Noel. " Implying that he hasn't been writing songs like that lately. But he makes a conciliatory gesture, to Noel at least later when he praises the lyrics for "Gas Panic".

They're still a very fun band live and a tight band musicianship-wise at least anyway. Now if they could just get Liam to behave himself. . . ah screw that, then they wouldn't be so much fun. Just stick to the alcohol, Liam, and leave the cigarettes alone. .


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