(What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis

This album was the defining moment for Oasis, and with so many great tracks, its no wonder (wall). Wonderwall is a beautiful song most of us will be aware of, and the next track 'don't look back in anger'; with its sweeping sing-a-long chorus, performs similarly, to dramatic effect. The bands first UK number 1 is also on this album (Some might say), one of my personal favorites from the album as it acts as the counter balance between soft ballads and rocky numbers. An example of one of the great slower songs on the album, although not released, is 'Cast no Shadow'. According to popular myth, the song is dedicated to Verve front-man, Richard Ashcroft. This ...  Read the complete review

This is the album that Oasis have failed to live up to with every subsequent album release that they have done since and for me it represents their best work by a long way, it has some great songs on it and a couple of legendary anthems that means it is one that I still listen to every so often and has a reserved place on my i pod. Oasis are fronted by Noel and Liam Gallagher and it is the angry Manchester voice of Liam that dominates the lyrics on this album. He has a strong distinctive voice with a good range and whether it is belting out the fast paced lyrics of Roll with It or lamenting a love that has been lost in the anthem that is Wonderwall he brings ...  Read the complete review

After the startling adrenaline rush of the debut Definitely Maybe album, Oasis could look down on much else of the musical landscape with a certain amount of smug satisfaction, safe in the knowledge that if they were never to release another single product they had already marked themselves out a decent page whenever the history of great rock music is eventually written. However, for the Gallagher brothers one page just wouldn't be enough. They had set their sights high and they aspired to be nothing less than the new Beatles, as long lasting and magnificent as the marvellous Merseymen. Except the Beatles had a surprisingly short period in which to make ...  Read the complete review

In 1995, Oasis and Blur were vying for the title of the world's biggest band - as they prepared to issue their new albums, the music press was building up the hype and the hate war between the two of them. The first shots in this phoney battle came with the singles, Country House by Blur and Oasis' Roll With It, which were both released in the same week. As it turned out, they were both pretty abysmal records, with Damon Albarn's Cheeky Chirpy Cockney muse just outpointing the Status Quo rip off which Oasis had masquerading as their offering. Everything went surprisingly flat for the papers and they cried out in anguish. However, battle was ...  Read the complete review

Wonderwall, has a lot to answer for -it was due to rather liking this track that I impulse bought What’s the Story: Morning Glory some 8 years after it’s release. It was a bargain and a bit of an embarrassment - I mean me with an Oasis CD! Kept for those long car journeys so I could be that maniac woman in the fast lane singing along at the top of her voice to Wonderwall and Don’t look back in Anger. I never actually bothered with much else on the album occasionally fast forwarding to Champagne Supernova but there really wasn’t much else on it that held my attention. Several years of it living in the glove department I took it out and actually listened to it. For me it ...  Read the complete review