"The Swamp Song" is an endless, clumsy blues jam. But they're the kind of updated '60s power-pop anachronisms that Matthew Sweet had already perfected on 1991's Girlfriend and 1993's Altered Beast. On The Masterplan there are a few scattershot moments of crackling energy on "Fade Away," and "Headshrinker" that certainly blow away "Wonderwall" and "Alcohol and Cigarettes," for example. An' gimme another snort o' that fookin' Borax, chappie." That's where they usually find lost tapes. Check in a basement or dustbin or somethin'. "Noel's brain's in hibernation, chaps," you can hear Liam saying. Maybe the Gallagher brothers caught wind of Yoko Ono recently raiding her late hubby's closets for every last note, screech or belch he ever put on tape. Easy, eh? "Blimey, look wot I found, it's The Lost Oasis Anthology!" And hey, what better time to hawk a few throwaway tunes to the general public? This previously- ignored garbage gets scraped from the bottom of some dumpster behind Epic records, and packaged as newly- discovered gleaming treasures. Now that Oasis, too, are bigger than Jesus Christ, they suddenly they find themselves at a major creative impasse.
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