Maturity always seemed an alien concept to
Oasis. The brothers
Gallagher may have worshiped music made before their birth but there was no respect to their love: they stormed the rock & roll kingdom with no regard for anyone outside themselves, a narcissism that made perfect sense when they were young punks, as youth wears rebellion well, but the group's trump card was how their snottiness was leveled by their foundation in classic pop. This delicate balance was thrown out of whack after the phenomenal success of 1995's
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?, when the group sunk into a pit of excess that they couldn't completely escape for almost a full decade. When
Oasis did begin to re-emerge on 2005's
Don't Believe the Truth they sounded like journeymen, purveyors of no-frills rock & roll.