Track Listing

1. Fuckin' In The Bushes
2. Go Let It Out
3. Who Feels Love?
4. Put Yer 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6131 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
With Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, Oasis--the self-professed "biggest rock & roll band in the world"--continue exploring their fascination with Great British Bands of the late 1960s. Paying homage to your heroes is one thing, but many of Standing On The Shoulder's best moments sound like their icons' worst. However, this is Oasis, and they do manage to pull some stunners out of their hats: "Gas Panic" and "Where Did It All Go Wrong?" demonstrate the command of catchy hooks and epic anthems that made their first two albums--Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story) Morning Glory?--such classics. Elsewhere, their influences are more obvious. The psychedelic "Who Feels Love?" is a perfect example of George Harrison in full Eastern Mystic mode, complete with sitars, tablas and tape-loops. Outright rocker "Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is" has the strut and stomp of vintage Doors or Rolling Stones, but is ultimately let down by its weak songwriting ("Ready or not, come what may/The bets are going down for judgement day"). The most dubious lyrics are saved for the Liam Gallagher-penned "Little James", his paean to paternal love which--perhaps unintentionally--contains some of rock's most laughable couplets ("You live for your toys, even though they make noise"). Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants doesn't represent a major step forward for Oasis, but it is a definite improvement on the band's previous album, Be Here Now. For stronger evidence as to why Oasis is credited with resurrecting Britpop in the late 20th century, newcomers to the band would do well to investigate Definitely Maybe or (What's The Story) Morning Glory?. --Rob Burrow

CD Description
Fourth studio album by the Mancunian indie-rock act, and the first on their own Big Brother label. Most of the guitar/bass parts on the album were played by Noel Gallagher, as it was recorded at the time of a lineup reshuffle. The singles,'Go Let It Out' and 'Who Feels Love' are included.

Customer Reviews

Better than you may think...
The album kicks off with possibly the most original Oasis track ever written. 'Fuckin In The Bushes' opening drumbeat means that the album starts off with a bang, aided by some angry shouting, typical of the Gallaghers rock 'n' roll attitude. The lead guitars in the chorus are very effective and the rhythms are excellent. This is a blatent mission statement from Oasis showing that they mean business. The only downside of this track is that the production work is a little shabby, on the one hand making it more ragged and aggressive, but on the other hand taking away some of the quality of the track. However, overall this is another fantastic opening album track from Oasis.

Number 1 single 'Go Let It Out' follows and, whilst it's not the best Oasis single ever released, it is still a great track. Not as powerful as 'D'you Know What I Mean?' but still having the feel-good charm of 'Roll With It' and 'Shakermaker' and containing a classic "ugh" from Liam after the 1st chorus, 'Go Let It Out' builds up so much that it explodes with an crescendo of Liam's amazing vocal and another of Noels fantastic solo's. It may not be 'Live Forever' but don't underestimate 'Go Let It Out', it's a brilliant track.

So far so good. 'Who Feels Love?' is a fantastic psychadelic George Harrison style track. Very spiritual in lyrical content and nice use of backwards guitars. Again, not quite up to the standard of former glories, but we can't keep comparing everything Oasis do to the 'Definitely Maybe' and 'Morning Glory' days. Although it was maybe a bit too bland for radio airplay as a single, this is still a solid track.

'Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is' is the first of the "weaker" tracks. Having read some reviews, this is classed as an "up-tempo rocker", which is true, but for those expecting 'Headshrinker' or 'Bring It On Down', you will be disapointed. The lyrics are the fundamental flaw but to be honest the music isn't that great either. To be honest, there are worse songs out there. However, for me this track doesn't cut the ice.

One thing worth noticing about 'Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants' is the contrast of lyrical quality. 'Where Did It All Go Wrong?', 'Who Feels Love?', 'Sunday Morning Call' and especially 'Gas Panic!' are fine examples of the excellent lyrics Noel is able to write. However, songs such as 'Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is', 'Little James' and 'I Can See A Liar' suffer somewhat from bad lyrics. Liams 'Little James' is possibly the most tragic of these 3 as the 1st and 3rd verses are beautiful, very reflective and touching from Liam. Personally, in my opinion I think that the "nursery-rhyme-like" 2nd verse lets the song down though. However, Liam isn't stupid, he knew what he was writing and he probably intended for it to sound somewhat innocent and childlike to link in with the twinkling piano and choir. They almost pulled it off, and part of me respects them for it. However, the other half of me can't help feeling a little bit dissapointed that such a huge rock 'n' roll band are writing lyrics such as this. Lyrics aside the vocals are superb and the music is near perfect, although by the end of the album those church-choir effects are a little annoying, as they appear again in 'Sunday Morning Call'.

'Gas Panic!' is dark, sinister and cold and sounds like a more emphatic and glorified version of 'Fade-In Out' (one of 'Be Here Now's finest tracks). The claustrauphobic acoustic intro erupts into a grandious of rock, with lyrics crafted by Noel about the paranoia of cocaine psychosis, the perennial aftershock to the cocaine theme of 1995's title track 'Morning Glory' ("My family don't seem so familiar and my enemies all know my name"). The harmonica enhanced guitar solo is the icing on the cake. Best track on the album.

Close behind in second place is the classic 'Where Did It All Go Wrong?'. Noels vocal is the best since 'Talk Tonight' and 'Don't Look Back In Anger'. Again, brilliant lyrics and a great ending of guitars. Very powerful.

'Sunday Morning Call' is another Oasis great, although the previous track seems a more attractive proposition as a single release. The beauty of the lines "it's ok, it's alright" and the imensely powerful outro of "Will It Ever Work Out Right?", dealing with similar themes as 'Where Did It All Go Wrong?' Another beautifully crafted track.

'I Can See A Liar' is, musically, a classic Oasis rocker with a riff and guitar solo to rival some tracks from 'Definitely Maybe' and has another strong vocal from Liam. However, once again the lyrics falter. But could you really imagine Liam singing deep, thoughtful and meaningful lyrics to such a raucous tune?

'Roll It Over' is the most disappointing track on the album for me. While the verses are slightly emotive, the bridge is awful and the chorus a bit of a non-event. Some compare it to 'The Masterplan' and 'Champagne Supernova', a huge exagerration in my opinion, relying to heavily on Beatles licks, and with poor lyrics for the bridge and chorus.

A mixed bag, generally good though. Tracks 6, 7 and 8 deal with some of the problems the band has face, mainly the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and the come down off drugs. These are possibly the most personal tracks Noel has ever written. He seems to be getting a lot off his chest which, while not as good as the first 2 albums, makes this Oasis' most important album. It allows the band to put the past mistakes and drrug problems behind them, the parting with Bonehead and Guigsy is cast aside and this acts as a transition between the old Oasis line-up and the new one. Not brilliant, patchy in places, but when its good, its very, very good.

Standing on the Shoulders of Nothing
Despite releasing 2 incredibly successful albums during the britpop hayday, Oasis' 3rd was seen as a overproduced and worthless attempt of a rock classic and it basically ruined there career in America, things got from bad to worse when 2 original members Bonehead and Guigsy left the band to be replaced by Gem Archer of Heavy Stereo and Andy Bell of Hurricane#1, these 2 members weren't included on the album and Standing on the shoulders of giants sounds like an album that reflects the times for the band. There is a dark feel to this album especially on songs like Gas Panic and Where did it all go wrong strangely enough these 2 songs are the best songs on the album along with the single Go let it out and the ballad Sunday Morning Call, the rest of the songs are boring and uninspired, even Liam Gallagher found the time to right a song which is by far the worst song that Oasis ever did. This album has some potential but is ruined by some simply awful songs.

Key Tracks: Go Let it Out,Gas Panic,Where did it all go Wrong,Sunday Morning Call

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Woeful mess
Utterly dreadful. Evidence that they very quickly ran out of ideas. A mess. Avoid like the plague.