It's true the opener, Everybody's on the Run, sounds a bit more
interesting than Oasis: it is beautifully orchestrated and features the
massed voices of the Crouch End Festival Chorus. Alas, the arrangement
is there to serve precisely the kind of song you would expect to turn up
on a Noel Gallagher solo album: a wistful acoustic mid-tempo plod on
which Gallagher repeatedly pleads with us to hold on, advice presumably
aimed at anyone among his audience not already holding on following the
repeated instruction to do so issued by Gallagher in Stop Crying Your
Heart Out. Or perhaps they've simply forgotten to hold on, in which case
the fact that the exhortation to hold on is set to exactly the same
four-note tune as it was in Stop Crying Your Heart Out should refresh
their memories....
Track List:
01 Everybody's On the Run
02 Dream On
03 If I Had a Gun...
04 The Death of You and Me
05 (I Wanna Live In a Dream In My)
06 Aka... What a Life!
07 Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks
08 Aka... Broken Arrow
09 (Stranded On) the Wrong Beach
10 Stop the Clocks
11 A Simple Game of Genius
12 The Good Rebel
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