4 Oasis The Masterplan

CREATION 1998, £5.68 You say: “Name another B-sides album that blazes out the speakers like a Greatest Hits. You’ll fail.” Andy Dodds, Facebook A central plank to Oasis’s mid’90s dominance dictated that Noel’s songbook was so stuffed with classics, the extra tracks on singles packed more charttopping potential than any other band’s A-sides. Here, as a stopgap after their 1996 Knebworth mega-gig and Be

Here Now, they reinforced the point: The Masterplan trounces all later Oasis LPs, too. Three cuts–opening brotherly solidarity du et Acquiesce, bittersweet soul-searcher Half The World Away, and the orchestral title track – really were Number 1s that slipped the net. Others, like acoustic tearjerker Talk Tonight, clearly weren’t, but their variety of mood and instrumentation make a fine companion to the Oasis-in-overdrive ‘proper’ LPs.