Oasis - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

Oasis’ first ever download single will be upon us in a matter of weeks. The past few weeks have bred a hive of activity on blogs all over the world wide web, and frankly, the internet is currently filled with the mess of thousands of dead links for the forthcoming single that have all but disappeared shortly after emerging.

Dodgy rips are still available in places if you dig deep enough, or you can wait for the official release on 21 October.

So what is it all about then? Well, basically, the single accompanies the DVD which is predictably out in time for the Christmas stockings. So it’s a one off and is certainly not good enough to be a leading single from a brand new full length studio album. Obviously Noel’s hype machine will suggest that it is brilliant, but it isn’t really.

It’s basically the type of one off song that Oasis can put out and make millions, just because it has their name attached to it. Idiots, like me, will more than happily fill the coffers in order to keep our record collection full, and this is why the single, good or bad, may well have smashed lots and lots of records if Oasis had cottoned on to selling stuff online yonks ago. It may not break records when it comes out, but I’d be very surprised if it didn’t go top five in the Hit Parade, if not number one.

The song itself has a Noel vocal, at times it makes me think of the same sort of pounding roll along rhythm of Sweet’s “Blockbuster”, whilst some of the vocal melody leans towards Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and the song overall wanders the same sort of Oasis territory as “Lyla” or, and I can’t quite put my finger on why, but also “Force of Nature”.

It isn’t brilliant, but it’s hardly terrible either, and I know for a fact that I’ll be buying it. Oasis have been one of the most important bands in my life, let’s hope the next album will have some real singles, the kind we’re used to, and keep this type of song as a b-side.