Familiar to Millions

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Familiar to Millions
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Live album by
Oasis
Released13 November 2000 (2000-11-13)
Recorded16 April 2000 at Riverside Theatre, United States
21 July 2000 at Wembley Stadium, London
Genre
Length91:43
Label Big Brother
Producer Mark Stent, Paul Stacey
Oasis chronology
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
(2000)		Familiar to Millions
(2000)		 Heathen Chemistry
(2002)
Oasis video chronology
...There and Then
(1996)		Familiar to Millions
(2000)		 Definitely Maybe
(2004)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 60/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Pitchfork 3.5/10 [4]

Familiar to Millions is a live album by English rock band Oasis. It was released on 13 November 2000 by Big Brother Recordings. The album was recorded at Wembley Stadium on 21 July 2000. It debuted at No. 5 in the UK charts with 57,000 copies sold in the first week. To date Familiar to Millions has sold around 310,000 copies in Britain alone (Platinum), about 70,000 copies in the United States [5] [6] and an estimated 1 million copies worldwide. The album was initially released simultaneously on six formats: DVD, VHS, double CD, double cassette, triple vinyl, and double MiniDisc, with different coloured cover art depending on format - the version of the cover art depicted in the infobox to the right of this article is the vinyl version.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Noel Gallagher, except where noted. The disc division and track lengths below are taken from the double-CD edition of the album.

Disc one

  1. "Fuckin' in the Bushes" (intro tape) – 3:04
  2. "Go Let It Out" – 5:32
  3. "Who Feels Love?" – 5:59
  4. "Supersonic" – 4:30
  5. "Shakermaker" – 5:13
  6. "Acquiesce" – 4:18
  7. "Step Out" (Gallagher, Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy) – 4:05
  8. "Gas Panic!" – 8:01
  9. "Roll with It" – 4:43
  10. "Stand by Me" – 5:49

Disc two

  1. "Wonderwall" – 4:34
  2. "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 6:53
  3. "Don't Look Back in Anger" – 5:09
  4. "Live Forever" – 4:52
  5. "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" (Neil Young, Jeff Blackburn) – 3:45
  6. "Champagne Supernova" – 6:31
  7. "Rock 'n' Roll Star" – 6:19
  8. "Helter Skelter" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:32

The 'Highlights' version

(This version is on one CD. All songs are written by Noel Gallagher.)

  1. "Go Let It Out" – 5:51
  2. "Who Feels Love?" – 6:00
  3. "Supersonic" – 4:30
  4. "Shakermaker" – 5:13
  5. "Acquiesce" – 4:07
  6. "Gas Panic!" – 8:02
  7. "Roll with It" – 4:44
  8. "Wonderwall" – 4:34
  9. "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 6:53
  10. "Don't Look Back in Anger" – 5:09
  11. "Live Forever" – 4:53
  12. "Champagne Supernova" – 6:31
  13. "Rock 'n' Roll Star" – 6:24

Video version (DVD/VHS/VCD)

As well as the first night, the DVD features the following:

The UK VHS features the whole show and a 20-minute documentary (entitled "Mad Fer It") featuring exclusive interviews with Liam and Noel Gallagher. This documentary is unique to the VHS format.

Audio version (CD/Vinyl/Cassette/MiniDisc)

Promos

Artwork

Each of the eight different formats (plus the 2001 highlights CD) had a different colour for its own cover art. Below is a table featuring each colour for each format

FormatColour
3× LPGrey
2× CCYellow
2× CDRed
2x MDLight green
1× VHSWhite
1x DVDLight blue
2x VCDWhite/light blue
1x CDViolet

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Album
Japan (RIAJ) [20] Gold100,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON) [21] 2× Platinum300,000 [22]
United Kingdom (BPI) [23] Platinum300,000^
Video
United Kingdom (BPI) [24] 2× Platinum100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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