8 Oasis Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

BIG BROTHER 2000, £5.80 You say: “A stand-alone record. The hangover and anxiety from Britpop.” OslOasis, Twitter The sixteenth-fastest-selling album in UK chart history got a universal kicking at the time of its release, as critics perhaps detected, of all things, a crisis of confidence in Oasis’s leader over creative direction, after the “cocaine expansionist” lunacy of 1997’s Be Here Now. Despite side two’s Noel-sung missteps, the lumpy Gas Panic! and Little James’s cheesy newfather lyrics, the rest of Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants has weathered much better than later records. Opening breakbeat instrumental Fuckin’ In The Bushes is a pulse-quickening Zeppelinesque monster, while the hazy-lazy Go Let It Out offered a superb, acoustic-rattling response to the hot post-Britpop sound of The Beta Band.