The younger Gallagher now has better ballads than Noel – but his lyrics will have you beating your head against a tableThe relative commercial failure of Liam Gallagher’s post-Oasis band Beady Eye counts as one of the more perplexing events in recent pop history. To an neutral observer,their two albums seemed neither better nor worse than Oasiss multi-platinum latter-day efforts. It was surprising that a fanbase who once seemed perhaps the most devoted and undiscriminating around – people who dutifully trooped out in their millions to buy albums as mediocre as Heathen Chemistry, people who sent a track as slender as Songbird to the upper reaches of the singles chart – suddenly became so capricious, and so seemingly discerning in their pursuit of Beatles/Slade-influenced bloke-rock. But they abandoned in their droves: comparing Beady Eye’s sales figures to those of even the least successful Oasis album,90% of them jumped ship. Why? Was it loyalty to Noel? Or does some kind of super-sense lurk beneath their feather-cuts that enables them to discern a qualitative dissimilarity between the contents of the Beady Eye album Different Gear, Still Speeding and all the forgettable old toot Oasis peddled in the noughties? Related: Liam Gallagher is an unfiltered star who rescues us from pop boredom Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk