At their career zenith, Oasis were lauded as the best band in the world.
They were actually never the greatest rock & roll band at any time, but
for a few years they were the biggest. While they offered the '90s two of
its most defining albums, and a resurgence of '60s-influenced Manchester
rock, Oasis tumbled off the top of the mountain in the last half of the
decade. Heathen Chemistry is their first step back up the ascent, albeit a
small step. The album opens with "The Hindu Times," which will certainly
be listed among Oasis's best anthems, and it closes with "Better Man," a
distorted-guitar-driven thrill that revs up to 60 mph in second gear. But
between the strongest songs on the disc, Noel "Walrus" and Liam "Eggman"
Gallagher exploit the Beatles references almost to the breaking poin...
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