Go Let It Out [single]

GO LET IT OUT (Big Brother)
Like most of their work, Oasis’ first single of the new century is a catchy mixture of inspiration and plagiarism. Built around a typically snappy, singa-along chorus of "Go let it in, go let it out", the song is a rolling mid-tempo number which owes more to the Beatles and Stones than to the dance grooves rumoured to feature on the band’s forthcoming album. By the measure of "Go Let It Out", Oasis 2000 is business as usual. The chortling, cadent mellotron on the song’s middle eight recalls the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields", while the loose-limbed acoustic guitar that drives the number along is clearly modelled on the Stones' 'Street Fighting Man'. Noel Gallagher’s jackdaw instincts don’t stop there; a couplet about "princes and kings/caper in their sawdust rings" is lifted pretty much intact from the Heptones’ 'Book Of Rules' [and they in turn from a 1948 poem]. Upbeat and confident, it may be essentially retro, but with its jumbo production and tambourine-rattling swagger, "Go Let It Out" is still as good a way to greet the century as pop is likely to manage this side of spring. Don’t write them off just yet.

c 2000 Andrew Turner

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