Product Description

After proving their staying power with 1997's BE HERE NOW, Oasis culls together b-sides and tracks which were previously available only as imports in the US on THE MASTERPLAN. This aptly titled collection fleshes out the legend, going backto older b-sides like "Fade Away" and "(It's Good) To Be Free" and newer flip-sides like "Stay Young". Opening with explosive live favourite "Acquiesce", THE MASTERPLAN will satiate the rabid completist but, with tracks as powerful as the slow-building anthem "Half the World Away", it's also sure to convert any newcomers. The ambitious (though, truth be told, not surprising) live cover choice of "I Am The Walrus" rounds out this energetic, often unexpected chapter in the story of this modern pop phenomenon.

Track Listing

1. Acquiesce
2. Underneath the sky
3. Talk tonight
4. Going nowhere
5. Fade away
6. The swamp song
7. I am the walrus (live)
8. Listen up
9. Rockin' chair
10. Half the world away
11. (it's good) to be free
12. Stay young
13. Headshrinker
14. The masterplan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #545 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-17
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's often the way of rock & roll--the accidental stuff you don't sweat over often turns out to be better than the supposedly generation-defining monolith you rupture your life to expel. So it was with Oasis and their third album, Be Here Now--soaked with sweat, it left Noel and Liam purple-faced with effort and stank like old egg sandwiches in a sock. Meanwhile The Masterplan--b-sides and live tracks--came out a year later and effortlessly reminded everyone why they'd liked the hairy brothers in the first place. "Acquiesce"--don't worry, they admitted they didn't know what the word meant, they just liked the sound of it--was the greatest single they never released: a huge, affirmative sibling bellow-fest that makes "D'You Know What I Mean?" sound like a polite old grandma coughing in comparison. The mournful "Rockin' Chair"--another "lost" Oasis classic, makes it onto here, along with a truly execrable live version of the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus", which actually sounds like they got a walrus to sing it, but no matter. The magic, so latterly absent in Oasis's career, is here in spades. --Caitlin Moran

Customer Reviews

One of the best Oasis albums,oddly
The Masterplan is a B-Sides compilation full of great songs.There is an argument,in fact, for saying this is one of the very best Oasis albums. Certainly one of the most consistent. I think it's fair to say that it's time for another one-containing D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman,Round Are Way,Carry Us All,Cigarettes In Hell,Let's All Make Believe,etc...

Oasis' best ever album, why certainly
Tunes man

this is the best oasis album follwed closely by Definatly maybe.
people jam on 'bout whats the story but really listen to this.

aquiese-10/10 tune. rock n roll at is most fun

underneath the sky-10/10 sing alog song. hit hit hit

talk tonight-9/10 great acoustic track, but maybe a bit too subtle and noel isnt as goo a singer

going nowhere- 9/10 very enjoyable but once again noels a letdown with the vocals

Fade away-10/10 bish bosh bash, this song is well futile

the swamp song-7/10 little dissapointing, worst on the album i reckon, could have left it off

I am the walrus-9/10 excellent cover, does the orginal justice

listen up-song of the album (joint with aquiese and masterplan)

rocking chair-9/10 a mash of different hooks check it out.

half the world away-9/10 would have given it a 10 if it had not been on royal family.

stay young-10/10 well oasis-esque

headshrinker-10/10 rock n bleedin roll

masterplan-10/10 oasis' best evr? could well be

The Masterplan
Well from track 1-14 pure quality music, it just shows you if these are Oasis' b-sides what must there studio albums be like! (Amazing everyone of them)

Well top tracks are Track 1 (cant spell it) , Talk Tonight , Fade Away , Rockin Chair , Half The World Away , (Its Good) To Be Free , Stay Young and THE MASTERPLAN. You all probaly have this CD but there some people who dont and i urge you to get it you wont regert it!