(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis > Reviews

Advantages: Oasis at their best, a classic
Disadvantages: Only 50 minutes of genius

The antics of Oasis have been well documented over the years – the Gallagher brothers infamous arguments, babies, divorces, knocked out teeth, picking fights with Robbie Williams. The list is endless. But despite all that I still think they produce high quality music, consistently and back in 1995 they released what I believe to be their best album to date – (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? When this album was huge in the mid-1990s ... Read review

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: nay

We all know the score. We all know what's going down here. It's all over now baby blue. (What's The Story) Morning Glory is the second Oasis album. It came out in 1995 -the height of the foul Britpop outbreak- a year after it's marvellous predecessor Definitely Maybe. That album had been quite unbelievable fantastic, with the birth of a new breed of baggy rock'n'roll being seen. That album had been a massive number one smash hit, that album my ... Read review

Advantages: Beatle like music in places
Disadvantages: Not enough tracks

The blessing of Oasis One of the best albums I have heard in years, I first heard it from when I went to uni to visit my sister, after a rough night she slapped the CD in and for the rest of the night we talked from dusk till dawn. I still had the funky beats in my head and I could remember the hard-hitting lyrics of ‘Cast no shadow’, ‘Champagne Supernova’ and ‘Wonderwall’. I bought the album as soon as I got home and left it going all night leaving ... Read review

Advantages: Modern classic the likes of which have seldom been seen in British music
Disadvantages: Set an impossibly high standard for the band's future albums to aspire to

WTSMG is Oasis' second album, the follow-up to the mega-successful "Definitely Maybe" that established the band as THE major force in British music in the mid 90s. It is actually one of those albums whose brilliance you take for granted, and it can be easy to forget just how good it actually is - I played it the other day for the first time in months, and it knocked me for six. Yet again. WTSMG begins with the aptly titled "Hello", a rather formulaic ... Read review

Advantages: Great, great, great, great, great, great
Disadvantages: None, None etc

What’s the story morning glory? The pinnacle of Oasis’s career to date and in all likelihood ever. This was from the time that Oasis were being proclaimed as perhaps the Macunian version of The Beatles. That time seems like ages ago now, this album however still sounds as fresh as the day I bought it. This is definitely a classic album, despite how much some people loathe Oasis, they did do some incredibly good songs. Latter albums however ... Read review

Advantages: A classic album
Disadvantages: MP3's will outdate CDs

If I were only allowed to keep one album from the nineties “What’s the Story Morning Glory” would most probably take this title. The much anticipated album arrived in late September after a fierce summer battle between indie rivals Blur and Oasis, the launch of the album was closely followed by the release of the Wonderwall single in November Hello, is a an upbeat opening song to the album, it reflects the mood of summer 1995, ... Read review

Advantages: Mancunian music at its best!
Disadvantages: They don't write them like this anymore

Where would we be without Oasis? Well the TV programme "Royle Family" would not have a theme tune for a start, and the press would not have had as much to write about in the papers.... The music scene in the summer of 1995 was dominated by the battle of the bands between Blur and Oasis. In round one, Blur's "Country House" may have pipped Oasis' "Roll With It" on points, but in round two Oasis delivered a knock out punch. In the September of that ... Read review

Advantages: superb tracklisting
Disadvantages: none

This is probably the best Oasis have managed to produce in my own view. The track listing says it all with songs such as Don't look back in anger, champagne supernova, Roll with it every oasis fan has to have a copy of this album. For some reason I have only just got around to buying this master piece myself 6 years on from release, here is a rundown of the tracklisting to give you an idea of why the album is so good! Hello- As with a lot of Oasis ... Read review

Advantages: Oasis in their peak period
Disadvantages: Not their finest album though

Looking back on the summer of 1995, I seemed so innocent and naïve in those days. I lived for football and impressing girls, but very quickly another force was getting hold of me. My brother had received ‘Definitely Maybe’ for Christmas ’94 and we shared a love for that album. We bought ‘Some Might Say’ two days before it’s release in late spring and marvelled at the energy of ‘Acquiesce’, ‘Talk ... Read review

Advantages: brilliance
Disadvantages: can't think of any

This is truly a superb album and possibly the album of the nineties. The album contains some brilliant and wonderful tracks that are Beatles influenced, but this is slightly and it adds to the overall definition and feel of the album. The Beatles influence does show in "Don't Look Back In Anger" but that was one of the most popular songs on the album showing that there is a place for classic brilliance in the 90's dance tunes. Champagne supernova ... Read review

Advantages: One of the best albums ever!
Disadvantages: None, absolutely NONE!

...waited and prayed that with (What's the story) Morning glory, they would deliver. Quite simply they did. The songs. The album kicks off with 'Hello' a very good guitar lead tune which straight from the off gives you a feeling of a more mature sounding oasis and the line 'hello, it's good to be back'(taken from garry glitter) has you saying 'it's good to have you back'. From that they go in to the the first of many anthems on this album 'Roll with ... Read review

Advantages: The tracks
Disadvantages: Roll With It

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 ... Read review