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Keith Moon

Career Killers: “Be Here Now” by Oasis

I read several articles commemorating Oasis’ mammoth 1997 album, Be Here Now, which was recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The consensus has long been that this bloated, overproduced, self-indulgent, chemically non-enhanced album is what ended Oasis as a major commercial force and may have even killed off the Britpop phenomenon. As Rolling Stone famously put it, Be Here Now is “a concept album about how long all the songs are.”

Then I saw this review. Fatherly called Be Here Now a “perfect album” but not in terms of quality. Instead, this critic argues that the album was a perfect encapsulation of where the band was at the time and a honest reflection of everything they stood for. To me, that sounds a bit like arguing that The Room is a perfect movie because it flawlessly captures Tommy Wiseau’s delusions of grandeur and limitations as a filmmaker.

I don’t know if I buy that argument. But this album was perfect in one sense — it was a perfect disaster.

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Perfect Harmony – A Concert Review of Fleetwood Mac at the United Center

Concert Review:

Fleetwood Mac

October 3, 2014

United Center

“So, where have you been?” Stevie Nicks jokingly asked Christine McVie during Fleetwood Mac’s show on Friday at the United Center in Chicago.

“It’s a long story,” replied McVie, who recently returned to the band after nearly 15 years in semi-retirement.

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