Chakroff, Evan (1 September 2003). "Oasis – Heathen Chemistry – Review". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 February 2010 . Retrieved 27 January 2013. Painstakingly underwhelming ... At a first glance many would jump into this album with open arms after hearing the singles like Songbird and She is love but this inviting nature is a mirage . Oasis were irrelevant from the mainstream now, although their singles sold well it wasn't the alarming sales number's of Be here now which led to the poorly aging comment by Noel Gallagher that the album was the best since Definitely Maybe . Liam’s most thoughtful tune on DBTT, it’s nice to see him branch out into structure a little more. It’s not a perfect song by any means, but it’s nice, and it’s Liam’s, and sometimes that’s all you need. One of the most decorated artists of the 1990s, for the best part of two decades Oasis were an instantly recognisable part of British culture and a key cog in the all-conquering machine that was the Cool Britannia movement. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Heathen Chemistry – Oasis". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021 . Retrieved 10 February 2013.

Larkin, Colin (2011). "Oasis". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th conciseed.). London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. Disco de Oro y Platino – Oasis" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 31 May 2011 . Retrieved 14 January 2021. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Oasis; 'Heathen Chemistry ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien . Retrieved 14 January 2021.Ask Billboard: Mariah Carey, Abba, Oasis, The Verve". Billboard. 7 February 2009. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009 . Retrieved 14 January 2021. Turns out writing about the bad Oasis songs is a lot easier than writing about the good ones. So many words have already been written about these songs, there’s damn documentaries about these songs. I don’t have much extra to contribute. I wrote this, but it sounds like something I’d already read before. Here it is if you’d like to read it: One can only wonder what the early Oasis b-sides could have been if they saved them for a proper LP. “One fine day, we’re gonna leave it all behind,” laments Liam- too bad the day the Masterplan was released was the day they left their best years behind. Noel finally steps in on SOTSOG to lament the band’s fever dream crash landing. A song I’m sure he wishes he could have sung to his younger self. One of Noel’s favorites, and it certainly took on a new life and meaning as he’s played it at most of his shows since leaving Oasis. Wonder why.

When Heathen Chemistry came out, Noel famously proclaimed it was the band’s second best album behind Definitely Maybe. He was, of course, catastrophically wrong. But The Hindu Times was a fairly strong opener- it’s just that it never got much better from there. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 14 January 2021. Noel calls this the archetypical Oasis song- if one song embodied the band for all their glory and faults, it’s Some Might Say. The song was the first one recorded for Morning Glory, and the last one featuring original drummer Tony McCarroll on the skins. That apex moment between their two definitive first two albums was probably the moment Oasis plateaued in the universe, so it’s fair to say it is the archetypical Oasis song, even if they never found that brighter day. Hilburn, Robert (30 June 2002). "Oasis, 'Heathen Chemistry' Epic". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 14 June 2016. Offiziellecharts.de – Oasis – Heathen Chemistry" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 25 August 2021.Willman, Chris (12 July 2002). "Heathen Chemistry". Entertainment Weekly. p.84. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015 . Retrieved 14 June 2019. UK Albums Chart" (PDF). UKChartsPlus. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2012 . Retrieved 4 November 2020. End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2002". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016 . Retrieved 4 November 2020.

One of Noel’s favorite songs- and this time he’s not just saying it because he’s on a promotional cycle. This one was called the best song of 2005 by Q Magazine.

Moon, Tom (4 July 2002). "Oasis: Heathen Chemistry". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 16 December 2007 . Retrieved 27 June 2017. Oasis was the beacon of relentless optimism among contemporaries focused on the dour and apathetic, and they never carried that torch more than they did on I Hope, I Think, I Know.