(What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis

Advantages: One hellva good album
Disadvantages: None!

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 ...
...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 was a bit of a revelation it actually showed Oasis weren’t just that mindless yob Liam Gallagher but a band that had talent with a capital T. What’s the Story is a diverse album, mellower then their first album Definitely Maybe but still with a strong rock sound. If you compare both Definitely Maybe ... Read review

Advantages: Simply a great alnum
Disadvantages: Some naff tracks

(What's the story) Morning Glory is a bit like the brothers Gallagher, it's loud, it's brash and it's in your face at times. By no stretch of the imagination could this CD be considered back ground nor easy listening music, even if some of the tracks are rather soulful and indeed poignant at times. It's the kind of CD you bung in the car CD player, put your foot down and sing along at the top of your voice avoiding eye contact with all the other ...
...described Morning Glory as an energetic,confident and creative album. With Morning Glory, Oasis pulled off the notoriously difficult second album with style and panache. Given that it was only released a year after their first chart success, Morning Glory is one hell of a good album which showed that rightly Oasis were a force to be reckoned with in the so called Britpop era. Released in 1995,with much hype and critical acclaim Morning Glory is Oasis's ... Read review

Advantages: Songs, Performance, Hugely Influential
Disadvantages: Hugely influenced

...collection by the name of (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - an enormous, blistering, invigorating collection of some of the most excellent rock and roll of the decade. The battle was effectively over as Blur teetered on the edge of inanity and drifted away from centre stage, while the stock of Oasis soared (although they came back to earth with a bump when they stumbled badly with Be Here Now). Prior to Morning Glory, the Brothers Gallagher had ...
...the themes were strictly post-Fab Four with Quo, Gary Glitter and Flame-era Slade all getting a look in as the Glam Rock Show came to town. However, Oasis revelled in this brash, flamboyant smorgasbord of sound, belting out classic after classic. Plagiarism and wearing your influences on your sleeve have long been almost omnipresent within rock, so this was nothing new, and the fact that they carried the whole thing off with such marvellous panache ... Read review

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 ...
...all the tracks have great significance for me. The album defines my student days and listening to it always takes me back. I know Oasis aren’t everybody’s cup of tea but this album would get into my Top 10. As far as I am aware all the tracks are written by Noel Gallagher, although if any of you know differently, let me know and I’ll edit. HELLO (3.21) The first song on the album is a shortish rock and roll tune, setting the ... Read review

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: nay

...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 people was in short one hell of an album to have to follow up on. Sometimes ...
...up by trying to go in a new direction in order to avoid the inevitable comparisons being made and that most terrible of conclusions being drawn: The follow up ain't as good as the previous album. Oasis didn't experiment. They went exactly into the same realm as before. Potentially then this is a tired and un-unique album. In reality however this album is in fact as good if not even better than the first one. A pretty impressive feat to pull off, ... Read review