Standing on the Shoulder of Giants [Explicit Lyrics]

Oasis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 29, 2000)
• Original Release Date: February 29, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00004OCFU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MiniDisc  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (289 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,982 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #93 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > General

Track Listings

1. Fuckin' In The Bushes

2. Go Let It Out!

3. Who Feels Love?

4. Put Your Money Where Yer Mouth Is

5. Little James

6. Gas Panic!

7. Where Did It All Go Wrong?

8. Sunday Morning Call

9. I Can See A Liar

10. Roll It Over

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ignorance Crafts an Underrated Album, July 30, 2006

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Matt M. (Hammond, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (Audio CD)

Here's a perfect example of how attitude changes an entire listening experience. Easily the most bashed work in the Manchester great's back catalogue, called worst album of 2000 on several occasions, slated as a worthless Pink Floyd rip-off with no standout tracks, Standing on the Shoulder represents a career low point for Oasis--this was the first true testament that the band was not immortal, not the Beatles of the new age, but in fact slipping from the title of Brit-Rockers-in-chief. Sigh. It's the album that die-hard Radiohead and Coldplay fans always refer to when discussing Oasis' inferiority, blasting Noel Gallagher for "never progressing as a song writer." Sigh again. I've never really figured out the thunderous disapproval of the album, and I ultimately enjoyed most of the songs. Does SOTSOG contain some garbage? Without a doubt, but not nearly enough to ruin the entire experience, or throw Oasis off their high horse as most critics claim. Here're some facts all listeners need to be aware of: 1) `F****n' in the Bushes,' `Go Let It Out,' and Gas Panic!' are three of the best songs of Oasis' career. Wasn't `Go Let It Out' #1 hit in the UK, going right alongside `Yellow' and even surpassing `Optimistic'? 2) The biggest problem with SOTSOG occurs in the format, unusual for a psychedelic album such as this. If there's any real unending quandary here, it's that the worst two songs on the album, `Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is' and `Little James' fall in at numbers 4 and 5 respectively. These should have been either left out or positioned differently, perhaps further down in the line up while moving high qualities, perhaps `Roll It Over,' up in the track listing. 3) The album is without a doubt a step up from Be Here Now, which contains about five fillers/B-sides whereas SOTSOG has no more than two. 4) Giants is Easy Listening. Oasis flirts with the Easy Listening genre on several junctures, most notably with `Wonderwall' and `Cast No Shadow', but usually sticks to anthemic Indie and at sometimes Hard Rock. I believe that this album has been rejected as quality Oasis by many fans due to the lack of guitars and the overwhelming presence of synthesizers. It doesn't always work--` Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is' for example--but it's definitely different. Not only should it be respected and appreciated by fans, but it should be praised for its boldness. 5) Although inaccessible at times, SOTSOG flows unlike any other Oasis album. In this way, it tops both Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory?--a daring yet factual assessment.

If nothing else, the album's worth it for `F****n' in the Bushes,' `Go Let It Out,' and Gas Panic!'. But underneath the surface, it's much more than just a singles album like the predecessor Be Here Now; it's a flowing, intelligent collection of songs that have been tarnished by the attitude of dismissive fans.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars who knows..., March 3, 2000

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Steve (Boston, Ma.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (Audio CD)

I guess Im still from the old school camp who thought that Be Here Now wasnt really THAT bad. I agree with Noel who has been quoted in interviews saying that it (BHN) really didnt deserve all the credit that it got when it first came out but, by the same token, didnt deserve all of the slagging it got after everyone realized that they had given it 8 out of 10. But isnt that what is so great about Oasis anyways? That they can release albums which meet a public both feverish and fed-up with them. They have always been, for me, the perfect antidote to the Pavements and more "literate" rock of the 90's...or the spotlight-fearing likes of Eddie Vedder and Co. Deceptively simple and straight ahead...the songs and the band seem much more obvious than they really are. It's more in the feeling and emotion that those who still hold Definitely Maybe so dear still know and feel. Producer Mark "Spike" Stent has given that sound a more dense, hypnotic sense...and the album, overall, a less-polished feel. If you don't like Oasis chances are you still aren't going to like them after this record. I've gotten in way too many arguments trying to make converts out of some of my friends :) Go sit and listen to SOTSOG...take it for what it is...NOT Definitely Maybe, NOT Be Here Now, Not WTSMG, NOT The Masterplan...but, rather, another step and more great pop/rock music.

"I dont believe in magic cause life is automatic...." ----Noel

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Getting better, man!, February 29, 2000

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M. D. Lewis (Ravenstown, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (Audio CD)

So Oasis can no longer possibly be as big as they were in the heady summer of 1996 at Knebworth. So their last album, Be Here Now, tanked commercially and critically. So two original founding members of the band packed it in. So what, seems to be the response of the brothers Gallagher with this triumphant step forward, both lyrically and musically.

It doesn't rock like Definitely Maybe, it doesn't move you in the way that Morning Glory did back in 95-96, and it (happily) lacks the bombast (hubris?) of Be Here Now. But this album sets itself apart from its predecessors by being perhaps the most interesting in the Oasis catalogue for it seems to be the first personal album -- where lyricist Noel Gallagher had only flirted with expressions of actual feeling on Be Here Now ("Damn my education/I couldn't find the words to say"), SOTSOG reads more autobiographically, most successfully on "Gas Panic" (Noel's tale of being in the throes of cocaine addiction). Also interesting is Liam Gallagher's first attempt at songwriting on "Little James", which while in many ways simplistic, is catchy as all get-out. No song on this album is less than good, with the possible exception of "I Can See A Liar", which while quite rocking, has a pedestrian throwaway lyric that isn't worthy of the Noel Gallagher brand name.

A lot has been made, in reviews elsewhere, that this isn't the quantum leap forward musically that had been promised (with dance grooves, bass 'n' drum, etc.) -- I beg to differ. My first listen to this album was done on headphones, and sonically it was, erm, supersonic. The huge drums of the lead-off track ("F[arg]in in the Bushes"), the jaunty pace and percussion of "Who Feels Love", heck, even that way-cool record-scratching in the opening salvo of "Go Let It Out".

Is this the album that will take Oasis back to American superstardom? Probably not. Given the current climate of the American pop charts, perhaps this is a good thing, though.

Derivative? Of course. That's the charm. To nick a line from a previous Oasis chart-topper: "I'm sure you've heard it all before, but you never really had a doubt."

In short, a definite step forward from the excess of "Be Here Now", and with new, better musicians to back up the brothers Gallagher and Alan White, proof positive that Oasis are moving in the right direction. The plot has been found again.