Bold (Liam Gallagher) (LP 2569 - 2571)

Liam Gallagher  As You Were (CD, Warner Bros Records, 2017) *****  

Liam Gallagher  Why Me? Why Not (CD, Warner Bros Records, 2019) ****  

Liam Gallagher  MTV Unplugged (Live at Hull City Hall) (CD, Warner Bros Records, 2020) ****  

Genre: Pop rock

Places I remember: JB Hi Fi

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Once (Why Me? Why Not)

Gear costume: Wall Of Glass (As You Were)

Active compensatory factors: After the ropey Beady Eye years (I only bought their first of their two albums), I didn't hold a lot of hope for Liam's first solo album.

Wow! Where did this one come from?? Not only a return to form, but the best post Oasis album from either Gallagher brother, and by some distance!

Each song has a hook, melodies, excellent execution (the sixties/ Beatles obsessions work completely via Greg Kurstin's input), and Liam sings better than ever. An absolute triumph.

Second solo album, Why Me? Why Not is good, but not as consistently great as As You Were. It still houses a couple of his greatest songs though - Shockwave, One Of Us and the brilliant Once (surely a song of appeasement to Noel).

The live album is good too - he was on a roll (all four of his solo albums have jumped straight to number 1 in the charts).

The atmosphere is terrific - Liam Liam Liam football chant included. The song selection is good - a smattering of Oasis songs among cuts from the first two solo albums. And Bonehead appears on a few songs.

Where do they all belong? C'mon You Know is his fourth solo album and I'll need to pick up a copy sometime.