Customer Reviews
Oasis' Worst Album - But Still Good - By: M. Dawson, 27 Sep 2008 
Heathen Chemistry is probably Oasis' worst album. But that doesn't mean it's bad.
Many tracks are very average by Oasis standard, such as All In The Mind, Force of Nature, Better Man & Hung In A Bad Place. However, saying that, personally it contains some of Oasis best tracks.
The Hindu Times is a fantastic rocker that would perfectly fit on to Definitely Maybe. Great guitar rifts & a great chorus, it is real ballsy stuff. Other highlights include Liam Gallagher's Songbird, which surprised many by being an incredibly sweet soft nice little tune - something many would not associate with rock's & hardest frontman. He also contributes with the heavily influenced Lennon song Born on A Differen Cloud - a song that shows a far cry from the average Little James he wrote a couple of years back. Little By Little is a radio friendly number with a superb shout it out chorus, but is probably so good because of Noel Gallagher's absolutely fantastic vocals.
However, the highlight of the album is Stop Crying Your Heart Out. Incredibly emotional song, it harks back to the days of Don't Look Back In Anger. It's one of those songs that is bound to bring a tear to your eye.
The rest are really just average. It's also the first album to contain Gem Archer & Andy Bell, & their songs on this (Gem's rocky Hung In A Bad Place & Andy's short instrumental A Quick Peep) are rather average, compared with their later work on future albums which are very very good. Fast forward to 2008, & it has emerged that Oasis have reinvented themselves & have stopped trying to recreate past glories, which is what this album tries to do.
But don't let that put you off. It's an average Oasis album, but compared with today's crap, it walks all over that stuff.
Oasis' weakest album.Still moments of greatness - By: Ted Maul, 20 Aug 2008 Heathen Chemistry marked the somewhat unlikely emergence of Liam Gallagher as a songwriter of note- he had a handin writing the highlights of this record.Better Man,Born On A Different Cloud & Songbird, while all still clearlyin thrall to Solo-Lennon music, are by far the most interesting moments. Conversely,Noel's songwriting here is at his weakest. She Is Love is his most unconvincing love song, Little By Little a dull stadium epic, Force Of Nature a bad-tempered rant.
An album of two halves... almost - By: Mr. A. J. Preiss, 27 May 2008 Following up the dreadful Be Here Now & the okish Standing On the Shoulders Of Giants comes Heathen Chemistry. There's not really much to say that hasn't been said before. The first 7 tracks range from passable to pretty good (Hindu Times is probably the single truly great song on this album), whereas the rest are fairly mediocre & dull. For completists only
Its just rocknroll. - By: Is he local!!, 27 Oct 2007 
Alright, heres the deal, best album since Morning Glory & bought me to Oasis. Oasis might not always make the albums you want, but they are what you need!!
They went all acoustic & 60's on Don't Beleive The Truth, it did'nt work! Lets have another corker like this onein 2008! Next Year!
Better than most critics said at the time - By: Greg Farefield-Rose, 12 Oct 2007 
There was a lot of anticipation leading up to the release of Heathen Chemistryin 2002. Many were hoping & predicting that this would finally be the album to regain the critical acclaim & widespread appeal of the first two Oasis LPs. Most of these critics left HC feeling a bit disappointed which is a bit unfair as it is a very good albumin places.
Unlike all previous Oasis LPs, only six of the 11 tracks are written by Noel Gallagher with three by brother Liam & one each from Gem Archer & Andy Bell. Of Noel's tracks, the highlights are the Beatle-y psychedelia of (Probably) All In the Mind, acoustic She Is Love & opening single The Hindu Times. Another highpoint Little By Little has an excellent minor key verse which is spoilt slightly by a rather naff chorus.
From the other writers, Liam's rather sweet Songbird & Andy's finger-licking one-and-a-half minute instrumental A Quick Peep are among the better tracks. The closing Liam-penned Better Man also includes some fine spiky guitar but is followed by 30 minutes of silence & presumably a hidden track or two. Leaving such gaps at the end of CDs is an annoying trait, making it very wasteful to burn the track on to an 80-minute disc...
Track timing issues aside, Heathen Chemistry is a very good LP even though it includes a couple of rather lumpen, workman-like rockers. Not a classic but a perfectly fine album with a pleasing variety of styles yet still ostensibly Oasis. Maybe it didn't quite reach the level that many were hoping yet its detractors could do far worse than have another listen...
