Stop The Clocks
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Stop The Clocks
Stop the Clocks is a compilation album by the English rock band Oasis, released on 20 November 2006. The "retrospective collection" is an 18-track double album with the featured songs chosen by Noel Gallagher; however, it does not actually include their song "Stop the Clocks" after which the album is named. It went 5× Platinum in the United Kingdom, with sales better than any Oasis release since Be Here Now. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
When compiling this contract-fulfilling 2xCD best-of, Noel Gallagher apparently realized what the rest of us have known for a decade: His band made all its best music in 1994-95.
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Sputnik Music
If you haven't heard oasis, listen to this. If you have, maybe put on an album instead.
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MusicOMH
Stop The Clocks is the compilation of the year, a chance to assess just why they’re such a special band and exactly how Noel Gallagher has become the defining songwriter of his generation. Absolutely essential.
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Drowned in Sound
Stop The Clocks may just be the start of Oasis's journey aboard the compilation gravy train.
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The Guardian
A new greatest hits' mid-90s bias suggests Oasis might have done well to take a permanent vacation while their Champagne Supernova still had bubbles.
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Slant
Stop The Clocks is simultaneously a terrific introduction for the unfamiliar and a smartly assembled mixtape for the Oasis faithful.
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All Music
Stop the Clocks doesn't contain all of the best of Oasis, but it does contain Oasis at their best and enough of it that it can indeed be passed along to future generations as an introduction to one of the best bands of their time, just like how the Red and Blue albums converted many young listeners to the Beatles.
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Classic Rock Review
It’s not a perfect collection or a balanced overview, but it’s a solid collection of damn fine music.
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Pop Matters
Stop the Clocks ends up the sound of a band who enviably never had to consider what judicious restraint might sound like, and what happens when rock-star dreams go unfiltered by silly pittances like humility, showing up places on time and not frequently punching your brother in the nads. It's just rock 'n' roll. Anything less would be some other band, probably one smaller than Jesus.
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Webwombat
A great double compilation, which will hopefully be picked up by a new generation in a few years time, and show the world once again that Oasis weren't just another Beatles rip off - but were Oasis.
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Retro Album & Music Reviews
Blood-ties will ensure Oasis never truly die, even if the gaps between albums are likely to continue to grow. Why only an '8' by the way for 'Stop The Clocks'? Well, why not? It hardly seems to matter as far as Oasis is concerned.
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NME
This is an album of celebration – a toast to the band that embodied everything you ever believed rock’n’roll ever could be. And moreover, the band who embodied everything you ever believed life could be.
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Daily Record
a bold move which echoes the confidence exhibited by Noel and Liam in their heyday.
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Glide Magazine
If you’ve already got their back catalogue, though, there’s not much reason to purchase Stop the Clocks; it adds nothing you don’t already have.
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Uncut
Stop The Clocks takes us back to where we came in with Oasis – to remind us that this was always a band with a fondness for great music of the past, even if it’s their own.
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The Skinny
As 'best of' compilations go, 'Stop the Clocks' is not at all badly assembled. There are some brave and surprising singles left out - Shakermaker, or Whatever - replaced by b-sides and album tracks, from the over-rated but popular The Masterplan to the glory that was Champagne Supernova.
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The Japan Times
The band’s unwavering refusal ever to do anything new is admirably bold, even if it is artistically bereft; as a result, at least “Stop The Clocks” sounds consistent from start to finish.
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