このCDの仕様
オアシス、ベスト盤発売に合わせて、初回限定生産オリジナル紙JK仕様で再リリース!
たった2年でシーンの頂点に立ったオアシスは、この3作目をビートルズゆかりの場所、アビー・ロード・スタジオでレコーディング。アルバム・ジャケットのカレンダーが示している本作の世界発売日の8月21日は、ビートルズの4人全員が最後にスタジオに顔を揃えた日(1969/8/20)の翌日にあたる。挫折作と言われることも多いアルバムだが、「ドゥ・ユー・ノウ・ワット・アイ・ミーン?」「スタンド・バイ・ミー」「オール・アラウンド・ザ・ワールド」など佳曲満載。日本では最大のセールスを記録した作品。
(オリジナル発売日:1997/8/21)
◆完全生産限定紙…紙ジャケ仕様/日本独自企画
From Amazon.co.uk
In retrospect, it's hard to see how Oasis could have possibly equalled the hype surrounding the release of this, their third album. Arriving as their popularity was at its peak, it's a confusing, faintly self-indulgent collection. The first single, the wryly-titled "D'You Know What I Mean?", had a monolithic sort of grandeur, taking Noel Gallagher's fondness for overdubbed, wall-of-sound guitars to some new peak, but also seemed a little over-extended--as did its follow-up, "All Around The World", a slab of
Beatles-esque, sing-along pop that seemed to last longer than the entire
White Album. Then again, it made a kind of sense: nothing if not mindful of rock tradition, Oasis's quest to be the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band meant that they were obliged--like the
Stones before them--to make their own mid-1970s album (albeit, two decades too late). And from its Caribbean origins, to its raucous, bloated, "cocained-out" sound, this is it: a triumph of arrogance over ambition. Maybe next time they'll go punk.
--Andrew McGuire