Be Here Now: Chasing The Sun Edition

Potatoes have long memories! We’re nearing the 20th anniversary of Be Here Now, Oasis’ grand and bloated third album, the one they made when they were absolutely on top of the universe and when they couldn’t imagine that they wouldn’t stay there forever. And as the third in a series of 20th-anniversary Oasis reissues, Big Brother Recordings is planning a grand, deluxe Be Here Now 20th-anniversary reissue. It’ll include a version of the album that’s been remastered from the original tapes, as well as a set of unreleased demos that the band recorded in 1996, and some rare tracks from that era. It’ll also include a new version of the gloriously meaningless first single “D’You Know What I Mean?” — the one with the helicopters in the video — that co-leader Noel Gallagher recently put together. Gallagher says that he had been planning on remixing the entire album but that he only got as far as the first song. If possible, the new version of the song sounds even more grand and silly than the original.

Noel Gallagher writes:

As the years went by I’d started to accept that the songs on Be Here Now were in fact insanely long… too long! Someone (I can’t remember who) had the idea that we re-visit, re-edit the entire album for posterity’s sake. We got as far as the first track before we couldn’t be arsed anymore and gave up….it does sound fucking mega though!

Be Here Now: Chasing The Sun Edition is out 10/7 on Big Brother Recordings. Also, Noel’s brother and forever-enemy Liam Gallagher is teasing some new music of his own in his own inimitable fashion: