Standing On The Shoulder Of The Giants
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Standing On The Shoulder Of The Giants
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000 by Big Brother Records. It is the 16th fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Like most of the future stadium singalongs on this album, “Go Let it Out” doesn’t really say much of anything. But if we must endure vague platitudes shouted from the rooftop, let them all sound this gloriously drunk with belligerence.
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Sputnik Music
But, despite the occasionally mediocre lyrics, SOTSOG is a very important record, mainly because it shows even in the worst of times, the band could still deliver a great product.
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NME
Oasis’s fourth is categorically not a shit album. It’s just not a masterpiece, at a time when only a masterpiece would suffice. So give ‘Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants’ another spin.
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Louder Than War
As Oasis and rock music entered a brave new Millennium, Standing… really did seem to be the end of the Gallaghers as we’d known them.
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AV Club
Sure, there's an occasional unnecessary and unsuccessful nod to electronica, but for the most part, Giants is full of the sort of long, windy, forgettable songs that made Be Here Now such a chore.
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All Music
Yes, this flows well, but it's the work of a self-consciously older band and it's hard not to miss the hard rock, pure attitude, and gigantic hooks that made the group's reputation in the first place.
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Altrockchick
I rarely recommend this album to people unfamiliar with Oasis, as I don’t think it shows them at their best. I see Standing on the Shoulder of Giants as the final act of Oasis: Phase One, a dead end that would inspire the Gallagher Brothers to seek a way out.
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Musicko
It is quite funny, but now I don’t feel the album is that much of a letdown. Of course, knowing what came afterwards tips the scale in its favor a little – yet, that little is enough to appreciate its good bits.
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Diffuser
So the band’s fourth album loaded up on every possible psychedelic furnishing you can imagine, including sitars, mellotron and primitive drum loops. Even with the departure of two original members (who quit during the sessions), ‘Standing on the Shoulder of Giants’ sounds big and spaced out. But, like every album Oasis made after ‘Morning Glory,’ it also sounds full of itself.
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The Austin Chronicle
In the final analysis, this album is far better than the last, but far worse than the first. And nothing's as good as the early B-sides. Boys, where have all the good times gone?
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oocities
This album sees a more mature Oasis, as lines like “’cause it never works out right” reveal a world weary mindset that's a far cry from the supersonic rock n’ roll stardom they once reveled in. As such, this is their mellowest album yet, though their swirling psychedelic sound still makes several songs rise to epic proportions (the band just can’t help themselves).
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Retro Album & Music Reviews
Judged by the standards they'd set themselves on the first two records, this is a hugely disappointing release. Still, they've recruited half a new band line-up now, so perhaps that will re-energise them.
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Riff Raff
Maybe they don't realize it but in the title of this album, Oasis have summed themselves up perfectly. This is good music, but I doubt if anyone in the future will ever be standing on Oasis's shoulders.
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Orlando Weekly
"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants," a larger-than-life, bombastic endeavor layered in swirls of pretense and choir vocals.
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Rock You Like
There y’go, classic Oasis album.
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EW
The results are less clotted and grating than 1997’s Be Here Now, and the sonic openness allows Gallagher’s melodies and guitar and his brother Liam’s pissy bray to shine brighter (they’re the only original band members left, by the way).
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What Culture
Despite the lofty album title, most of the songs fail to reach the heights of even their shoddiest previous efforts, and the album spends far too much time entrenched in mid-tempo, droning territory.
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Britpopnews
The trouble is the tracks are all quite good but miss the Oasis mark and the better songs like Carry us All and Lets all Make Believe didn't even make the album.
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Hip Online
Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants is similar to their first two releases which touched on life and love. Oasis is back to what got them on top, and that is cocky, but sincere.
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Entertainment.ie
Although more reflective than the bombastic and soulless 'Be Here Now', 'Standing.' lacks the tuneful swagger of the two earlier, seminal albums.
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