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OASIS – Their Underated Sixth Album ‘DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUTH’ Was Released 20 Years Ago

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Significant longplayers from yesteryear

31 May 2025

That siblings band from Manchester, England OASIS released their 6th album,
named DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUTH on 30 May 2005, this day 20 years ago.

The Guardian (English newspaper) wrote in retrospect: “Little is the same as it was back then, for all parties concerned, but this is where Oasis start to mend some broken promises. It feels like a lifetime since a new album from the Gallaghers justified the hype and rhetoric spun on its behalf, but this is so good, it makes you want to pour not one but two glasses of Jack-Daniels over your head.”

TUTV: One of their best longplayers, yet criminally underrated. Some mucky Velvet Underground fingers, a stunning Lyla, and bad boy Liam mad for it once again. Several supersonic rockers and as usual a couple of anthemic ballads. Kaïn and Abel are eternal rock heroes.

Key tracks: Mucky Fingers / Lyla / Let There Be Love /
The Importance Of Being Idle / Keep The Dream Alive

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– THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING IDLE –

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Back in time

31 December 2024

Band: THE WHITE STRIPES

Album: Get Behind Me Satan
Their 5rh LP. #3 in the UK and the US.

Pitchfork: “On their fifth album, the White Stripes’ ambitions finally seem to outpace their limited musical vocabulary. Making an almost-entirely clean break with the jet-fueled blues
rock of Elephant and De Stijl, they forsake electric guitar on all but a couple of tracks, working instead with pianos, acoustic guitars, marimbas, and other assorted oddball percussion.”

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Band: EDITORS

Album: The Back Room
Their first one. No. 2 in the UK.
No21 in the USA.

Pitchfork: “They imitate bands with dramatic vocalists … but the best moments
on The Back Room aren’t the theatrical ones—it’s when the four of them are playing
and discovering their own chemistry”.

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Band: OASIS

Album: Don’t Believe The Truth
Their 6th. #1 in the UK, #12 in the USA.

AllMusic: “Don’t Believe the Truth the closest Oasis has been to great since the
summer of Britpop, when they were the biggest and best band in the world.”


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Band: dEUS

Album: Pocket Revolution
4th longplayer. No 1 in Belgium.

AllMusic: “The group offers an album that refuses to be pinned down to a single
style. Despite the extended break between albums, dEus picks up right where they
left off with The Ideal Crash.”

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Band: BLOC PARTY

Album: Silent Alarm
Their debut. No. 3 in the UK.

NME: Varied in tone and stylistically uncategorisable, one thing
is clear about Bloc Party’s debut album: it’s bloody brilliant.


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Band: HARD-FI

Album: CCTV
1st full length.
No. 1 in the UK.

The Guardian: “Hard-Fi’s edge over more derivative rivals lies in a formula
that delivers old Specials and Clash reggae vibes with the big-tune ratio of
a boy band.”

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Artist: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Album: Devils & Dust
The 13th. #1 both in the UK & US.

Rolling Stone: “In striking and affecting ways, his most audacious
record since the home-demo American Gothic of 1982’s Nebraska.”

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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

Album: Lullabies To Paralyze
4th LP. #5 in the US, #4 in UK.

NME: ‘Lullabies To Paralyze’ will use its enigmatic mysticism to lull you into
a blissful daze so you don’t at first notice that the riffs have broken your neck.
Better. Than. Sex.”

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Band: THE ROLLING STONES

Album: A Bigger Bang
22nd LP. #2 in the UK,
#3 in the US.

The Guardian: “There is a sense of finality about A Bigger Bang. It may not be quite
the blazing ship to Valhalla they intended, but then nor is it the unmarked grave you
might expect.”

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Band: LCD SOUNDSYTEM

Album: LCD Soundsystem
Debut one. #6 in the US,
#20 in the UK.

AllMusic: “Like just about everybody else these days, Murphy’s more skilled at creating isolated tracks than making full-lengths, even though this particular full-length has few weak spots and unfolds smoothly as you listen to it from beginning to end.”

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