Blogcritics Comments on Music DVD Review: Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Comment by Josh on Music DVD Review: Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:36:45 EST

Sir Duke, thanks so much for checking it out then. There's a bonus feature on the first disc of the DVD where Noel does some Q&A and he talks a bit about those Be Here Now days. You and I have talked about that album and I have to say I've softened up on it a bit. I think I unfairly lumped it in with Shoulder of Giants. Be Here Now is big on ambition and short of ideas, but at least it has ideas and the ambition leads to some pretty cool places. Giants is mostly bereft of ideas. I think the other reason I've slagged Be Here Now is because I've heard the B-sides and created better third albums in my own mind. Noel is a victim of his own prolific nature. I'm currently listening to Shotter's Nation as I prepare my review of it. I know we'll have a good chat about that.

Comment by DukeDeMondo on Music DVD Review: Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:04:46 EST

Excellent review Josh. I haven't seen this yet, but i DID see the hour-long version Channel 4 screened here in the United UK earlier in the year. I enjoyed it, although as you say, a document of the Be Here Now tour would've been a fuck of a lot more explosive. Noel himself has said in interviews something to that effect, which leads me to believe that the tame Oasis captured herein has nothing to do with restricted access and more to do with the fellas being knocking on in years and more likely to be shoppin at Homebase for a new coffee table than FREEBASING coffee tables. Incidentally, there was documenary produced back in the day that was screened on BBC1 the night before (i believe) Be Here Now was released. It was a much more This Is What Led To Here biographical sort of affair, but some great performances therein of tunes of that much-maligned and underrated slab of hedonistic genius.

Comment by Mark Saleski on Music DVD Review: Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:52:02 EST

i've always wondered how big the market is for these kinds of documentaries...because i love them. especially when they show the musicians trying to put the material together (i'm thinking here specifically of the first half of Sting's Bring On The Night). heck, if there was enough of that kind of thing on this disc, i'd be interested in it even though i can't stand Oasis!