"The Album You Would Play for a Martian Who Just Landed in Your Yard and Asked What Cocaine Is"

"The Brothers Gallagher became folk heroes in the Nineties because they reveled in all the tropes of rock & roll excess, from onstage fistfights to marrying movie stars. Other bands drank and drugged and decadenced to escape their grunge angst or the pressures of fame. The Gallaghers did it for dumb fun. They loved their mum, hated the Tories, couldn't even spell 'irony,' wanted to live forever and to beat each other's faces in. Always up for cutting a promo with their rivals in Blur. Never into misogyny, because the only time they sang about women was when they needed a Sally to wait or an Elsa to sniff Alka-Seltzer. These boyos approached guitar rock in a totally pop way, making it nonstop fun to be a fan—what a concept."

Rob Sheffield at Rolling Stone marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Oasis's Be Here Now.