Oasis are re-releasing and remastering The Masterplan, a B-side collection from the bands heyday, to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
The re-release arrives on November 3rd, having been originally released in 1998. The collection will be made available on a multitude of formats, including CD, limited edition cream cassette and vinyl. The collection will also be made available across the main music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music. The vinyl edition comes in green/black marble or regular black alongside a selection of bundles that includes t-shirts. You can pre-order here.
The Masterplan complies all of the band’s B-sides featured on singles from the albums: Definitely Maybe (1994), (What’s The Story) Morning Glory (1995) and Be Here Now (1997).
When The Masterplan originally released in 1998 it shot up the charts, charting at number 2 in the UK Official Album Chart, selling 122,000 copies upon the first week of release; testifying to the extreme popularity of the band during the mid to late 90’s. The collection has since sold three million copies worldwide, becoming a triple-platinum record.
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‘The Masterplan’ turns 25 this November!
A number of limited edition collectors formats will be made available to celebrate the silver anniversary. New formats will feature remastered audio, taken from the ‘Chasing The Sun’ re-issues, available for the first time as one… pic.twitter.com/MKUBlHZaPV— Oasis (@oasis) September 20, 2023
This anniversary remaster follows the remasters previously done before with full length albums Definitely Maybe, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory and Be Here Now, so Oasis fans will be happy to have a fully complete remastered collection of that era now that the B-sides are being released.
In this era, Oasis’ B-sides were famously very highly thought of, with some fans claiming that the B-side tracks were better than some of the singles from which they came from.
Noel Gallagher has previously mentioned this before, saying in 2016: “It goes back to … giving all those great songs away as B-sides,” that is the germ of the problem. You know, to write ‘The Masterplan,’ and ‘Half The World Away,’ ‘Acquiesce,’ ‘(It’s Good) To Be Free’ … everybody in the f*****g world said to me about ‘The Masterplan,’ ‘Why are you putting that as a B-side?‘ And I was like, ‘Because they asked me to write a B-side, and that’s what I’ve wrote.‘”
Tracklist:
- ‘Acquiesce’
- ‘Underneath The Sky’
- ‘Talk Tonight’
- ‘Going Nowhere’
- ‘Fade Away’
- ‘The Swamp Song’
- ‘I Am The Walrus – Live Glasgow Cathouse June ’94’
- ‘Listen Up’
- ‘Rockin Chair’
- ‘Half The World Away’
- ‘(It’s Good) To Be Free’
- ‘Stay Young’
- ‘Headshrinker’
- ‘The Masterplan’
