And it’s a good microcosm for Be Here Now in general. While most Oasis music videos are notoriously bad (even Noel Gallagher hilariously went MST3K on several), the video for “D’You Know What I Mean?” is just as cool today as it was in 1997.

That’s the one with the helicopters, where brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher look like they’re playing a concert for a bunch of extras from V for Vendetta. If you’re a casual fan, and of a certain age, you probably remember “D’You Know What I Mean?” in heavy rotation on MTV. Pretty much everyone who doesn’t like Oasis considers this album just as annoying as any other Oasis album. In 1997, Oasis thought, why not have an epic at the beginning and an epic ending? And while we’re at it, maybe a handful of nearly seven-minute long songs in the middle?īe Here Now was released 25 years ago on Aug. Not only is the first song on Be Here Now over seven minutes long, but the 10th track, “All Around the World,” is nine minutes long. But Be Here Now had to be bigger and for Oasis in ’97, bigger meant longer.

In 1995, they saved the super-long epic song for the end of the record. The first single off Be Here Now was the seven-minute-and-forty-two-second long anthem “D’You Know What I Mean?” In 1995, Oasis closed out their critical hit album What’s the Story? ( Morning Glory) with another seven-minute long epic, “Champagne Supernova.” So, the difference between 1995 Oasis and 1997 Oasis was pretty simple. For American fans of the band Oasis, the year 1997 was the moment when the Gallagher brothers should have been bigger than ever.

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