{@Chrome Dreams}' Maximum series of hour-long audio books on CD included a title on {$Oasis} written by {$Tim Footman} and recited by {$Sian Jones} in 2000. {^More Maximum Oasis} is a follow-up, tracing the history of the preeminent {\Britpop} band from then to the 2005 release of their sixth studio album, {^Don't Believe the Truth}. As a sleeve note disclaims, "This is a {\spoken word} product and contains no original music by the artist. It is not authorised by the artist, their record company or management." The only appearances by {$Oasis} are brief interview excerpts from group leaders {$Liam} and {$Noel Gallagher} that lead off each of the ten tracks or chapters. After an introduction, {$Footman}, in the voice of {$Jones}, a woman who sounds like a {@BBC} announcer, rehashes the band's beginnings in {&"A Potted History of Oasis in the 20th Century,"} then launches into a critical history that takes in the fourth studio album, {^Standing on the Shoulder of Giants}; the Gallagher brothers' marital and romantic woes ({&"Two Gone Blondes"}); the live album {^Familiar to Millions} ({&"Live and Not Terribly Dangerous"}); the fifth studio album, {^Heathen Chemistry} ({&"Chemical Brothers"}) from 2002; and, finally, the announcement of the imminent appearance of {^Don't Believe the Truth} and a return to touring. {$Footman} has the typically sarcastic, opinionated, and slangy style of many British {\pop} journalists, so that the CD comes off like a long article in the {~NME} read aloud. "To many casual observers, Burnage's greatest [i.e., {$Oasis}] died at some point in 1997," {$Jones} recites, and over and over the suggestion is made that the band is not as good or as important as it was in its early days of the mid-'90s. But {^Heathen Chemistry} is hailed as "a return to form," and by the end {$Footman} is concluding that, while still derivative and occasionally guilty of plagiarism, "{$Oasis} still matters." Their fans, the likely purchasers of this CD, will be relieved to hear that. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide