Don't Believe The Truth
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Don't Believe The Truth
Don't Believe the Truth is the sixth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 30 May 2005 through Big Brother Records. It reached number one in the UK Albums Chart with first week sales of 237,865, and is the 32nd fastest selling album ever in the UK. The album entered the US charts at number 12, with 65,000 copies sold in the first week, the highest any Oasis album had reached there since 1997's Be Here Now, although its chart stay was brief. Don't Believe the Truth went triple platinum in the UK in the first week of 2006 (900,000+ sales), and in the US has sold more than 200,000 copies. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
the best that can be said of Don't Believe the Truth is that it is a slight improvement over their previous two studio efforts, and that they at least had the sense to scrap the recordings they made with Death in Vegas and return to a simpler, more traditional sound.
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Altrockchick
“Let There Be Love” is a beautiful ending to a beautiful album, the album that would prove to be Oasis’ masterpiece.
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AV Club
In short, call it a comeback. Not a huge comeback, and not a reinvention by any stretch
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Rolling Stone
Don't Believe the Truth, their seventh album, isn't the comeback fans have long been praying for, but it's the first Oasis album in years that doesn't sound like pale self-imitation
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The Guardian
Don't Believe the Truth isn't a novel - or novelty - record but it makes you care about Oasis again, and makes you believe they can matter again. So our bond with them is renewed.
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NME
Thanks to ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’ they were as vital and alive as anything the band had ever done.
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BBC UK
After the dust has settled, I doubt that this record will be hailed as a classic Oasis album, up there with Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory butit won't be forgotten. Hopefully it just might be remembered as the moment Oasis regained their sense of direction.
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Drowned in Sound
'Don't Believe The Truth' is a big stinking pile of rubbish.
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Pop Matters
Don't Believe the Truth is far from a perfect album, but despite the four or five throwaway tracks, the fact that some actual positive energy can be heard in Oasis's music for the first time in nearly a decade is enough to give fans hope that there may be some life in this band yet.
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MusicOMH
Better than the first two? Course not. Better than the last three?Definitely. In other words it is the record which should’ve followed MorningGlory.
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Hybrid Magazine
If you like Oasis - and it seems to me people either love 'em or hate 'em - then you probably already have Don't Believe The Truth. If you like Oasis and don't have it yet, get off yer arse! You need it now.
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Prefix Mag
Don’t Believe the Truth might be enough to pull Oasis off the brink and ensure its continued commercial viability.
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EW
Sure, for 11 songs, these blokes can grind out toe-tapping Britpop, but there are no heart-pounding anthems here.
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oocities
this is probably the band's most consistently strong collection of songs since their mid-'90s prime, with quite a few contenders for their eventual, inevitable "best of" compilation.
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CLUAS
Oasis have, you sense, grown up, and tried - successfully, at last - not to be Oasis from ten years ago. And what do you know, it's worked.
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Retro Album & Music Reviews
No masterpiece, no life-changing even, not even an album to hold dear and cherish. Just a good album. It's enough for now and enough to keep them going.
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Exclaim
Normally, overt plagiarism docks you marks, but with Truth, you cant help but wish Noel and co. had snuck a peek at their neighbours paper a little more often.
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RTE
Granted though, songs like 'Live Forever' did have an infectious youthful energy that was hard to ignore. Here on 'Don't Believe the Truth', only 'Love Like a Bomb', which was co-written by Liam Gallagher and relative newcomer Gem Archer, comes close to matching that energy.
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Stylus Magazine
Don’t Believe The Truth is simply Oasis being Oasis with maximum efficiency. Which is to say that if you’re a committed acolyte of the church of Oasis, you’ll love it. And if you’re not, you won’t give a fuck.
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Ultimate Guitar
in short, it's clssic Oasis with new refreshing elements in it that gives you something familiar and different at the same time. This is a must-have for Oasis fans, a must-consider for music fans, and a must-get-another-one for me if I were to loose this album.
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