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 ... Read review
month of it going multi-platinum,The Timesclaimed they were more important than the Fabs; and Liam Gallagher was inviting George Harrison to fight him on Primrose...
month of it going multi-platinum,The Timesclaimed they were more important than the Fabs; and Liam Gallagher was inviting George Harrison to fight him on Primrose...
month of it going multi-platinum, The Times claimed they were more important than the Fabs; and Liam Gallagher was inviting George Harrison to fight him on Primr...
month of it going multi-platinum,The Timesclaimed they were more important than the Fabs; and Liam Gallagher was inviting George Harrison to fight him on Primrose...
month of it going multi-platinum,The Timesclaimed they were more important than the Fabs; and Liam Gallagher was inviting George Harrison to fight him on Primrose...
with full lyrics and 2 CDs with full instrumental demos and 'soundalike' backing tracks.This new deluxe edition features all-new arrangements and includes 2 specially recorded 'soundalike' CDs with full instrumental demos and backing tracks for every song. Songs: (Untitled), Cast No Shadow, Champagne Supernova, Don't Look Back In Anger, Hello, Hey Now, Morning Glory, Roll With It, She's Electric, Some Might Say, Wonderwall.
month of it going multi-platinum,The Timesclaimed they were more important than the Fabs; and Liam Gallagher was inviting George Harrison to fight him on Primrose Hill. But then, you'd feel cocky enough to pick on a Beatle if you'd just recorded these songs. Obviously the singles--"Wonderwall", "Don't Look Back In Anger", "Some Might Say"--rock; but it's a shocker rediscovering just how ace the album tracks are. The minor-chord that the chorus of "Hey Now!" pivots on could liquefy a brick; "Champagne Supernova" is the sound of a band riding the nose-cone of a rock&roll Concorde, and as for "She's Electric"--ah, well. Every New Beatles must have their "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".--Caitlin Moran
A review by The_Nursey on (What's The Story) Morning Glory - Oasis February 15th, 2005
Author's product rating:
Originality
Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics
Sublime
Quality and consistency of tracks
A couple of weak links
How does it compare to the artist's other releases
Outstanding
Value for Money
Excellent
Advantages:
One hellva good album
Disadvantages:
None !
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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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 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 and What’s the Story each are unique in their own way and each are great album’s in their own right. What gives What’s the story that edge for me is perhaps the mellower sounds, a production that doesn’t appear to have just turned the amps up full blast in places, but added strings, harmonica’s and some rather good keyboard. Liam Gallagher sneered his way throw Definitely Maybe on What’s the Story he shows his a singer with a fairly decent range, yes you’ve still got the sneery Liam in places but you’ve also a softer more gentler sounding Liam in places even at times sounding poignant.
As with any notoriously difficult second album What’s the Story had a lot to live up to. Add on the media hyped up battle with Blur then Noel Gallagher back in 1995 had a job and a half on his hands to write an album that would show the world Oasis were a force to be reckoned with and not as some thought a bunch of plagiarists. Which was unfortunately how some had seen some of the more Beatlesque tracks on Definitely Maybe. Did he pull it off? That is open to personal opinion, for me What’s the Story is a brilliant album and up until I bought Heathen Chemistry their 5th studio album I’d have said it’s their best to date but now I’m in two minds! What’s the Story gives you a great big dollop of pure Oasis sound mixed with some more mellow moments.
Opening with Hello, another of their opening tracks that could be thought as the band hitting the ground running. It’s loud it’s brash and it’s typical Oasis doing what they do best. Throw in a mean sounding Liam, add some fantastic guitar playing and crank the amp up to full blast and you’ve got one rather good opener for an album. Hello with it’s sampled Gary Glitter piece is not typical of the album as I said previously it does have it’s mellower moments but Hello is one of those tracks that grows on you.
With Roll With It - one of the first tracks to be lifted off the album and released as a single you would be forgiven in thinking that this album was going to be nothing but loud and brash. Roll with it was one of those tracks that grew on me to the point now I don’t hit the skip button. A review at the time of What’s the Story was released came up with the thought that Oasis were trying to be a mixture of the Beatles and the Sex Pistols on this track. Yes it’s loud, yes it’s in your face but where the Sex pistols come into I’m really not too sure! What Roll With It is, is the typical Oasis formula, stick a mean sneery sounding Liam on vocals, add a decent guitar sound, drowned out Liam at times with the drums and crank up the amps. Cynical maybe but it really does work. Roll With It was described by one reviewer as mediocre at best I’ll admit it was a view I held for along time but now you know it’s actually a rather decent track, maybe not their best but mediocre isn’t a word I’d use to describe it.
Wonderwall was the reason why I bought the album in the first place. The album at this point steps down a tempo. Wonderwall shows the listening public that Liam Gallagher isn’t just a vocalist who belts out the lyrics sneering before he grabs another beer/spliff. On Wonderwall in places he sounds all most poignant. Wonderwall is perhaps one of those Oasis tracks that everyone knows and loves even if they loathe the band. Rumoured to have been written, by Noel Gallagher for his then wife Meg Matthews a claim that he now veomontly denies. Whether or not it was doesn’t really matter but it does sound like it was written by someone who was in love and perhaps just a bit over whelmed by the situation he found himself in. It’s one of those songs you can’t help but love and sing along to! Should you ever see a mad woman driving a blue car on the M62 singing along to something you can bet it’s Wonderwall!
If their was one track on the album that could be classed as a Lennon rip off then it would have to be Don’t Look Back in Anger. For a fleeting moment as it opens you really do feel as if you’re about to here a version of perhaps Lennon’s greatest song Imagine. Throw out the track you are greeted with a slightly mellow hippy trippy sound. Noel Gallagher proves he’s not the only one in the family that can sing a decent lead vocal. Noel pulls it off extremely. Noel Gallagher wrote Don’t look back in Anger with the philosophy that there is no point in look back and regretting what you should or shouldn’t have done or said. Look to the future not past regrets. With lyrics like: “Take me to the place where no body knows” it appears escapist in place and perhaps not the usual material Oasis sing about. Just perhaps we could all remember that looking back and thinking if only is in some instances a waste of time! Wise words from the man who’s not known for them! Don’t Look back in Anger along with Wonderwall were the two tracks that actually made me wonder if there was any thing more to Oasis than pictures in the Sun with Liam smacking some photographer or other.
The Album moves back to the brash Oasis sound with Hey Now which along with many others I have to say is an album filler. What you get with Hey Now is 5 minutes 41 seconds of a rather mediocre track with Liam Gallagher belting out rather mediocre lyrics in a whiney bored manner when he’s not being drowned out by the only redeeming factor of this track the guitar playing. As you might well have gathered this track has not grown on me and the skip button is often hit before the first few bars are played out.
After the dirge that is Hey Now, you are treated to a 40 second instrumental which sounds like the boys couldn’t be bothered to finish off the glam rock sounding track and add a few vocals! Perfect to put the kettle on and come back to the next treat in store for you!
The album gets back on track with Some Might Say, a mix of Oasis does glam rock in places. Some Might Say was rightly the first track to be lifted from the album probably due to the fact it wouldn’t have been out of place on their first album Definitely Maybe. Some Might Say with it’s Sladesque opening bars is another of those tracks that after a good few listens actually grows on you, with it’s typical Oasis feel to it and Liam doing his finest sneery/nasal vocals you find you just can’t help but sing along badly on my behalf. But it’s such a catchy tune.
Cast No Shadow, is perhaps the biggest surprise on this album, even though you could describe both Wonderwall and Don’t Look Back in Anger as fairly mellowish songs Cast No Shadow is poignant, mellow and gives an air of being totally chilled out with it’s backing track. Noel Gallagher wrote Cast No Shadow as a tribute to Richard Ashcroft Ex The Verve front man. If you look closely at the lyrics you do find it rather surprising that Noel Gallagher actually wrote what is a very poignant song. Noel Gallagher has since wrote equally poignant songs but for me having heard this first I was a wee bit surprised. With lyrics like “As they took his soul they took he’s pride it” and "Here's a thought for every man Who tries to understand what is in his hands He walks along the open road of Love & Life surviving if he can" It gives a bleak look at being famous. If you always thought of Oasis as some arrogant bunch of noise polluters then listen to this track and perhaps you might see them in a different light.
She’s Electric rids the album of it’s sombre over tones with one of those feel good tracks that you could imagine being belted out by a pub singer some place! It’s one of those jingly tunes, silly tracks with just a hit of the Beatles in it. In places you feel it’s more of a jam track then an actually fully produced album track. The thing about it is that it works! You can’t help but sing along for what it is a very silly track that doesn’t fail to rise a smile!
The Album steps back into serious mode with the title track Morning Glory. With it’s opening bars that incorporate sniper helicopters over head you do wonder if the boys had be partaking in “recreational” drugs whilst watching re runs of old Vietnam war films. Morning Glory is a dark moody track with some wonderful electric guitar rifts but a very bleak look at drugs.
Prior to the final track you are again treated to a 40 second instrumental track that merges very well into the intro of the stunning Champagne Supernova. Noel Gallagher readily admitted that Champagne Supernova was about taking drugs. It’s a mellow, soothing song that you can’t help but like. Yes the lyrics are psychedelic in places and if you study them closely they make no sense at all but then it was written by a bloke who was off his face when he wrote them in it’s defence how many other song lyrics make total sense to anyone apart from the author. Champagne Supernova is an anthem that perhaps summed up Noel Gallagher’s life at that point in time and a wonderful one at that! I readily admit that I bought this album for Wonderwall alone but in my mind the best track on here is all 7 minutes 30 seconds of Champagne Supernova.
What’s the Story is in it’s own right an excellent album, it built on the foundations of Definitely Maybe and as I said previously up until I bought Heathen Chemistry I thought this was perhaps their best album to date. Perhaps it was the best album they released in the 90’s but that’s my personal opinion and I know others will disagree citing Definitely Maybe as the best!
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 ...
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Advantages: Choruses sung out to absolute perfection and the instrumental side also excellent. Disadvantages: I honestly fail to think of any.
It was the year 1991 that Oasis originally formed as a band; in 1994 debut album 'Definitely Maybe' was released and in 1995 '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' followed. The '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' album consists of twelve tracks and this therefore provides for 50 minutes of music. When it comes to Oasis albums you're absolutely spoilt for choice when picking a favourite; several of the bands releases are absolutely excellent, for me ... ...just about has the edge however as it's just absolutely brilliant from start to finish and never here is there ever a dull moment. From opening track 'Hello' right through to closing anthem 'Champagne Supernova' the music is just absolutely exceptional and I fail to find any fault whatsoever with this incredible Britpop album from Oasis.
So 'Hello' is the track which opens the album, its chorus is taken from Gary Giltter's 'Hello, Hello, I'm Back ...
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Advantages: Lots of strong tracks, can be found very cheaply Disadvantages: The two untitled filler tracks
What's The Story Morning Glory is an album I have listened to hundreds of times, however not particularly recently. Last night I was at a loose end and decided to dig out some old CDs to FINALLY put them onto my iPod and found this. I know there are a lot of reviews for this on here already, and music reviews aren't something I've done much, but I'm so enjoying listening to it again I felt compelled to write about it.
I calculated that I was 10 ... ...cassette, replacing it for a CD when they became more commonplace because I loved it so much. Although it is their second CD, following Definitely Maybe in '94 which also shot straight to number one, this CD contains all the hits I would immediately list if asked some Oasis songs.
If Wikipedia is to be believed (which it often isn't!), this is the third biggest-selling CD in album in UK history - and it has been very well received abroad too. So ...
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...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 ...
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Advantages: Excellent album and a superb follow up to Definitely Maybe Disadvantages: None, unless you dont like Oasis
Its possibly one of the most recognisable albums to come out of the 90's, it was the album that officially put Oasis onto the musical map. More importantly it's the centre of god knows how many debates about the best Oasis album. Between it and the debut album Definitely Maybe the debate has gone on for almost ten years. For me there has never been much in it and my favourite can change from one week to the next depending on my mood and surroundings. ... ...little to choose between them is a rarity these days, but Oasis did just that.
Of course where the first album relied on the raw energy of recording in bedrooms and generally doing whatever they could to cut costs. This second album was more focussed on the song writing and production element. The vocals sounded more produced than the debut, but for certain tracks on this album that actually helped Liam. I mean could you imagine Wonderwall sung ...
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Advantages: The album has good songs and very interesting lyrics, also the album has an atractive cover. Disadvantages: This is not what you would usually expect from Oasis
...I am not a great fan of Oasis and the last album which I purchased was (What?s The Story) MorningGlory. However, their new album which they have recently produced, Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants I find quite appealing to oneself. This album has a more laid back style to the theme (which is relaxing and chilled out) than present albums. This CD was recommended to me and when I heard it for the first time I enjoyed quite a lot of the songs which included of, Sunday Morning Call, Little James, Gas Panic, Where Did It All Go Wrong etc.
This album is excellent for a background tunes when having friends come round for a party or gathering as it is sociable album which everyone will not mind it when played. Also, I am very impressed with the price which I paid for it as I got it for only £ 6.99....
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...Oasis are a band who have inspired a whole generation of music lovers and definitely maybe is their first and their best album to date. It was not a commercial success such as What?s the storymorningglory but I think it has an all round better sound and capture s the overall Oasis sound perfectly. The best songs on the album are Rock?n?roll star, Live forever , Digsy?s diner and supersonic. This is the sound of oasis at their best when they were ready to take on the world and not just settle for mediocrity which they are now....
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...Oh dear, where should we begin?
Back in '95, Menswear had it all. They played the right style of music (Britpop), they were from the right part of town (Camden) and were front-page news before they even released a record. So why the low score?
In a nutshell, this album isn't very good.
125 West Third Street is OK, Daydreamer got into the top ten but isn't really anything special and Being Brave is quite a good track. Ultimately though, the album could not live up to the hype.
If you want great songwriting, buy an Oasis album - What's The Story (MorningGlory) would be the best one.
If you're looking for the sound of Britpop in the mid nineties, go for Blur's Parklife.
If you're looking for a band with the style to go with the songs, you should get Different Class by Pulp.
Menswear, I'm afraid, were very much style...
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Album Notes: Oasis: Noel Gallagher (vocals, guitar, E-Bow, piano, Mellotron); Liam Gallagher (vocals); Paul Arthurs (guitar, piano, Mellotron); Paul McGuigan (bass); Alan White (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Paul Weller (guitar, background vocals); Tony McCarroll (drums). Recorded at Rockfield Studios, South Wales, United Kingdom. "Wonderwall" was nominated for 1997 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. The state of English popular music in the mid-'90s will be looked back upon as a time when groups like Blur, Supergrass and Oasis rode the UK charts with a style (nicknamed Brit-Pop by that country's press) that fused the 1960s pop aesthetic of the Beatles, Kinks and Small Faces with the flamboyance and cocksuredness of T. Rex and the Buzzcocks. But (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? is a more tempered follow-up to Oasis' 1994 debut, DEFINITELY MAYBE, the band having gone from enfant terrible to dreamy romantic this time round. Oasis has also crossed the Atlantic this time; (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY has made the band a major U.S. success. Toning down the brattiness, Oasis guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher brings minimal orchestration into the mix, while still mining for inspiration in the past. A buzzing amp cues up the opening cut, "Hello," before giving way to a thunderous rocker that credits Gary Glitter as a co-writer by way of a line lifted from his "Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again." The innovative use of strings on songs like "Cast No Shadow," "Wonderwall" and "Don't Look Back In Anger" avoids any mawkishness, leaning more towards a melancholy sheen. Such ambitious chance-taking turns "Don't Look Back In Anger" into a grand epic that has singer Liam Gallagher sounding like Ian Hunter to brother Noel's Mick Ronson. All these external tools do nothing to detract from Oasis' ability to play rock and roll with a religious fervor. The first version of "The Swamp Song" (the untitled track 6) is a bluesy, instrumental rave-up complete with a wailing harmonica that sounds unlike anything they've done before. It's followed by "Some Might Say," a sweeping epic layered with chunky riffs. While new pal Paul Weller's guitar lends some grit to "Champagne Supernova," the best song on MORNING GLORY is "She's Electric," a '90s equivalent to "Itchycoo Park" with the end-chorus of "With A Little Help From My Friends" grafted onto it.
Album Reviews: Q (6/00, p.86) - Ranked #8 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...A wonderful, often beautiful album, which single-handedly spoke for a generation of slobbishly dressed inarticulate men. It was a complete album..." Spin (9/99, p.160) - Ranked #79 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Q (12/99, p.84) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." Q (10/01, p.105) - Ranked #5 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" Rolling Stone (1/25/96, p.41) - Tied for #7 in the 1996 Critics' Poll. Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #10 in the Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Q (2/96, p.63) - Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995 - "...a latter-day classic..." Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67) - Ranked #3 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year.' NME (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #2 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995. Rolling Stone (10/19/95, p.147) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Oasis...borrow shamelessly from...artists like the Rolling Stones, T. Rex, the Kinks, Small Faces and, especially, the Beatles without losing their own snide identity..." Musician (11/95, pp.85-86) - "...as exciting and chock-full of insta-classics as their wake-up call of a debut....Clever production tricks and chord changes are [Noel] Gallagher's passions. His lyrics flit between inane and ingenious...but every last one fits snug as a puzzle..." NME (9/30/95, p.52) - 7 (out of 10) - "...their second LP...sends them off in an altogether different direction; away from the conscience-free overloaded hedonism towards an understanding of its consequences..." Entertainment Weekly (10/06/95, p.64) - "...An earnest, relaxed undertaking that is less about making a splash and more about making a point." - Rating: A- Alternative Press (12/95, p.92) - "...the first truly convincing rock'n'roll album of the '90s....You liked the first album? Then you'll love this one....This is the business, the real thing....it's bloody great."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Hello, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
2.: Roll With It
3.: Wonderwall
4.: Don't Look Back In Anger
5.: Hey Now
6.: Some Might Say
7.: Cast No Shadow
8.: She's Electric
9.: Morning Glory
10.: Champagne Supernova
11.: (untitled)
12.: Champagne Supernova
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