I like beautiful things…It’s not all dark in Liam World. I take me shades off every now and again and have a look at the world and see some nice things. Hey cool, Liam learned how to write a catchy chorus- and the whole song is actually an enjoyable listen. Maybe he’s taking himself a little too seriously, and the Lennon words at the end of the song are WAY too on the nose, but I’m Outta Time is debatably Liam’s best tune. Ask Billboard: Mariah Carey, Abba, Oasis, The Verve". Billboard. 7 February 2009. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009 . Retrieved 14 January 2021. This song is caught somewhere between putting you in a hypnotic trance and punching you in the teeth. Columbia proves Oasis doesn’t just talk the talk, they walk the walk. Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2002". hitparade.ch. Archived from the original on 16 February 2021 . Retrieved 4 November 2020.

Disco de Oro y Platino – Oasis" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011 . Retrieved 14 January 2021. Oasis: Heathen Chemistry" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 25 August 2021. Eurochart Top 100 Albums – July 20, 2002" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.20, no.30. 20 July 2002. p.8 . Retrieved 17 November 2021. Oasis was the beacon of relentless optimism among contemporaries focused on the dour and apathetic, and they never carried that torch more than they did on I Hope, I Think, I Know. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 14 January 2021.

Versions

Like most of Oasis’s late-career Hail Mary attempts to emulate the Beatles, this one hasn’t aged well. But any song that combines front-and-center vocal duties between Noel and Liam is playing to their strengths, at least. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Heathen Chemistry – Oasis". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021 . Retrieved 10 February 2013. Moon, Tom (4 July 2002). "Oasis: Heathen Chemistry". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 16 December 2007 . Retrieved 27 June 2017.

Willman, Chris (12 July 2002). "Heathen Chemistry". Entertainment Weekly. p.84. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015 . Retrieved 14 June 2019.Mega. Absolutely biblical. I don’t remember much about it, but obviously it’s stood the test of time. I f**king love that record; I still play some of the songs. A f**king mega album,that was. That’s exactly what made us. For a lot of the kids, it means a lot to their generation.”

When Heathen Chemistry came out, Noel famously proclaimed it was the band’s second best album behind Definitely Maybe. He was, of course, catastrophically wrong. But The Hindu Times was a fairly strong opener- it’s just that it never got much better from there. I’m just gonna rip this off Wikipedia: “Upon first hearing the song, the man who discovered the band, Alan McGee, boisterously claimed that the song was ‘one of the greatest social statements of the past 25 years.’” And uhh yeah, he’s not wrong. Perfectly encapsulating disenfranchised youth, it scratched a cultural itch to just come out and say it: In a post-Thatcher UK, drinking and smoking was way better than chasing runaway capitalism. Liam’s first song! This one might get more hate than it deserves, but the lyrics, man. Liam had a long way to go. And here it is: the best song Oasis that wasn’t written by either Gallagher brother. Andy Bell penned a genuine Oasis tune, and it’s a highlight on an album that sparked a bit of an Oasis renaissance. There’s nothing really special about Keep The Dream Alive, but that only shows that sometimes all you need is some momentum and an authentic performance from Liam to carry a song.

Credits

The song famous for battling Country House for the Britpop title. How many times has it been written that Oasis lost the battle but won the war? Are we sure about that at this point? Maybe Blur never gained the traction of Oasis, but Damon Albarn certainly knew how to carve out a lasting role in the cultural zeitgeist. Anyway, Roll With It rules. Oasis Album Sales Ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011 . Retrieved 3 November 2021.