Oasis - Lord Don’t Slow Me Down DVD Giveaway
And the giveaways keep on coming here at The Futurist. This time around, it’s a DVD that we have to offer you, the new one from Oasis. Here are some details about the DVD from the Brit rockers.
Oasis - Lord Don’t Slow Me Down
Disc One - Feature length documentary tour film, ‘Lord Don’t Slow Me Down’ in stereo and surround sound. - Bonus audio commentary - Noel, Lima, Andy and Gem guide your through the film with their tour recollections - Noel Gallagher Q & A session with fans, alongside out-takes from the film
Bonus Disc - Oasis live at City of Manchester Stadium on 2nd July 2005 - sixteen classic tracks shot in HD with stereo and surround sound - Fan footage and pictures also included.
How to qualifty - For this one, leave a comment with your favorite Oasis album and your least favorite and why. You must do both parts of the question to qualify. We have 5 copies of the DVD to give away and will do our best to get them to you before the Christmas holiday, so get entered now!
Check out a preview of the DVD below, as well as the music video for “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down.”
December 7th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
With apologies to ‘Definitely Maybe’, the best record is ‘What’s the Story, Morning Glory?’. The hardest thing in the world is to avoid the sophomore slump. Not only may an artist have used all his good ideas on the debut album, but success also dilutes the product in subsequent albums. WTSMG found Noel embracing the success he longed for on DM and finding that all that glitters isn’t gold. Who knew? Anyway, it provided plenty of material for a stellar career defining album.
Of course, sometimes the well runs dry, right? Having reheard ‘Be Here Now’,you can hear good ideas gone bad. Having said that, ‘Standing On the Shoulders of Giants’ is the worst Oasis has to offer. To their credit, they weren’t ready to stop trying new ideas. Unfortunately, the public (me included) wanted to hear more of the same. Still, even listening to the record now, you wonder what was going on in the creative process. Those new ideas were barely songs.
December 7th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
As an Oasis fan since the first hour, through thick and (regretfully, more and more) thin, here my take on it:
Favorite Album: it is and remains Definitely Maybe. From the opening riff of Rock ‘n Roll Star\ the albums sounds nothing like a greatest hits album, proper. I myself think that Live Forever is overrated and played to death on the radio (and by oasis itself in its shows), and am ranking it as one of the weaker tracks on here (if that doesn’t tell you how good this album is). My favorite moment on the album is the 1-2 punch of Up In the Sky followed by the mesmorizing Columbia, but the truth is there really are no ‘bad’ songs on here. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this album on the music scene in general. This album is now 13 years old, and remains pretty much as fresh now as it was then, for me anyway.
Least Favorite Album: unfortunately, that would be 2002’s “Don’t Believe the Truth”. To which I say: “The truth? Don’t believe the hype!”. There are a lot of things wrong with this album, first and foremost the fact that Noel is writing only half of the songs for Oasis nowadays, and even those songs are so-so at best. Can you imagine that Noel would allow others to write songs for Oasis in the 94-97 heydays? The brief enjoyable moments on this album are Lyla (if you can stomach the blatant rip-off from the Stones’ Street Fighting Man), The Importance on Being Idle, and the Andy Bell-penned Keep the Dream Alive. But it is not nearly enough. The Gallagher brothers oversold this in pre-release hype by saying “the best Oasis album since Definitely maybe’. As if!
I will go one better and throw in as well:
Most Underrated Album: that would easily be 2000’s “Standing on the Should of Giants”. As the previous post attests, it is not well liked by Oasis fans generally, but I happen to think it is quite nice. How many albums after Morning Glory can bring forth the 1-2-3 punch of Go Let it Out!, Who Feels Love? and Put Your Money Where Yer Mouth Is, and then Gas Panic! is still yet to come, one of my all-time favorite Oasis songs. More so than Be Here Now, I think of SOTSOG as Oasis’ flowerpower-era album. it’s not for everone, but if it is for you, you’ll like it a lot.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I’ve been an Oasis fan since 2002, and my favourite album is What’s the Story (Morning Glory)? because it made me fall in love with them at the first moment I listened Wonderwall. They sounded so rare, peculiar and beautiful to me. They are the cause for my British-music obsession.
My least album would be Don’t Believe the Truth. I don’t know, it doesn’t grow on me. Maybe it’s the fact that they don’t sound so different. But hey, changes are good. It’s just a matter of taste.
Cheers!
December 8th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
i completely and blatantly avoided oasis in their day because i simply thought they were pretenious pricks always battling and doing stupid crap to stay in the news. in retrospect, they did make some great tunes and really what kicked it into my head was woxy v.2 playing “acquiesce” right at relaunch.
so, with that in mind, favorite album :: “clocks, best of” - the only one i got! least favorite :: don’t knowany other albums they have by name!
December 9th, 2007 at 3:21 am
Well, I didn’t win the Brit Box giveaway so here goes again!
Sorry for the terrible pun, but there’s no definitely maybes that my FAVORITE Oasis album is DEFINITELY “Definitely Maybe.” :-) It’s what started my Oasis freakdom back in 1994, and is still the Oasis disc I’ll listen to more than anything else these days. “Rock ‘N’ Roll Star?” - come on, best opening track for an album, EVER. “Live Forever” is pure perfection, and “Slide Away” gets me emotional every time. As Noel once said - if you own “Morning Glory” then you better own “Definitely Maybe” already!
It’s really hard for me to name my ‘least’ favorite Oasis album. I’m sure a lot of people would place “Be Here Now” or “SOTSOG” in this category, but I LOVE those albums. I guess if I had to choose one though, it’s probably “Heathen Chemistry.” Maybe it was because of the time it came out (my crummy summer of ‘02) but I never really got attached to this album like I did with the others. I can listen to it now and love ever minute of it, but it’s still the album I listen to the least.
Otherwise, if you wanna count “The Masterplan” or “Stop The Clocks” as albums, I’ll place those in my least favorite… because they’re just compilations of songs I had already. Singles forever, compilations never. ;-)
December 9th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
my favorite has to be “what’s the story morning glory?” hearing the lines, “all your dreams are made, when you’re chained to the mirror and a razor blade,” when you are 17 seems so incredibly rock n roll and still does when you are 29.
least favorite has to be “standing on the shoulders of giants.” mostly forgettable besides “f’ing in the bushes” and “where did it all go wrong.”
December 10th, 2007 at 1:03 am
best is “What’s the Story, Morning Glory” and the worst, in my opinion is “What’s the Story, Morning Glory because I have listened to it so much, somtimes I is too familiar to me!
I love oasis and the Futurist, and I would love the free DVD.
peace
doug
December 10th, 2007 at 10:24 am
favorite Oasis album - ‘What’s the Story (Morning Glory)?’ I was really obsessed with that album for a long time. I am a huge fan of their entire body of work but this album is the one that made me a lifelong fan. My freshman and sophomore years in college are remembered the instant I play ‘What’s the Story?’. ‘Some Might Say’, ‘Wonderwall’, ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, Champagne Supernova’, ‘Cast no Shadow’, those are all classics. Any band would be lucky to have those songs in a career. Oasis had them on one album!
least favorite Oasis album - that would have to be ‘Heathen Chemistry’. It’s not a bad album, it’s just the one I listen to least.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Favorite Oasis album: Definitely Maybe - They’re hungry & mean on that one, and most of their best songs live there. Some truly immortal stuff.
Least favorite Oasis album: Be Here Now - The one where they lost the plot, big time. The end of the “big rock ‘n’ roll dream.”
December 11th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Whats the Story Morning Glory, for sure, and it seems to be the same for everyone! I mean i grew up with that CD in my hand. I slept with it cuddled up next to me at night. Wonderwall and champagne supernova just sing the melody of my pre-teen life.
least favorite is don’t believe the truth. it just isn’t the same oasis i knew when i was young. too bad, so sad! I have always been a purist and this is not pure oasis as i knew it.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
My favorite Oasis album is “Definitely Maybe”- with their arrogance being heard for the first time, they were making a statement saying they were going to take over the world. Brit-Pop not only had its signature album, but had its poster boys as well.
Least favorite: “Heathen Chemistry”- it’s uninspiring, a tad dull and disappointing. With the new line up making its appearance, the band struggled to find their…chemistry. “HC” just lacks the enormous presence that usually surrounds one of their albums.
December 11th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
This is pretty lame compared to many of the entries above, but my favorite is “What’s the Story (Morning Glory)” only because it is the only one I have. I got it through that lala trading thing.
After reading some of the entries, I think I will add a couple more to my want list.
Oh, and the least favorite one? Heathen Chemistry only because 2002 was a bad year for me.
December 15th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Not to sound like a parrot, but rack up another What’s the Story vote for me.
The album is just too deep, thats why it edges out Definitely Maybe, and in my uncommon opinion Be Here Now as a VERY close third (some days it even eclipses DM).
Why?
Don’t Look Back in Anger. She’s Electric. Cast No Shadow. Hey Now! Some Might Say. Wonderwall. I mean dear lord! Maybe they should have waited to release a few of those down the road as singles to help even out their later releases! And Bonehead’s Bank Holiday, the import-only bonus track only solidifies the deal.
Oasis has been a band that’s always put out stellar B-Sides, in my eyes (or ears, I guess), but this Album contains three or four of my top ten Oasis tunes. It’s just too hard to compete with that.