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I agree with a lot of criticism of Be Here Now, but I won't have a bad word said against 'All Around the World'. It's the already over-the-top nature of the album taken over-the-top. A straight-forward four minute song stretched out to nearly ten. You can just see Noel going "hey I've written another nah-nah-nah bit for the end. Stick in another key change while you're at it!" It's so utterly daft it becomes totally gleefully enjoyable. The fact that after sitting through the utterly wretched 'It's Getting Better (Man!!)', it pops its head back around the door and says "ah, you didn't think you'd heard the last of me, did you?" just makes it all the more brilliant. Total brilliant lunacy.
It's also the longest UK number 1 ever, which jars wonderfully with the image of them being musically conservative.
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