Definitely Maybe vs Morning Glory

Best Oasis album

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I’m actually not a huge fan of Definitely Maybe ! :shy:

Although I feel like I’ve never given it a fair shot. I don’t even remember knowing who Oasis were until “Roll With It” came out…
 
At the time I’d have said the debut, but I have such memories of the follow up that I think it wins. If you add the b-sides in, though, the debut album era wins.

I bought both on release day.
 
It’s funny how much of a difference a year (ish) can make in the life of a teenager
I loved both of course but I was sort of already moving on from the maleness of Britpop by the time the 2nd album was out so I never “loved” it in the same way I did the debut
 
It was What’s The Story and Jagged Little Pill that ended my not-intentional, self-imposed exile on guitar music, after living in a dance/R&B bubble since about 1989.

It was not long after that I went out and bought White On Blonde and Garbage. I didn’t even get into Tuesday Night Music Club until about 18 months after it was released!
 
funky said:
It was What’s The Story and Jagged Little Pill that ended my not-intentional, self-imposed exile on guitar music, after living in a dance/R&B bubble since about 1989.

It was not long after that I went out and bought White On Blonde and Garbage. I didn’t even get into Tuesday Night Music Club until about 18 months after it was released!
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One of these albums is garbage and I don’t mean Garbage 💅
 
Okay maybe “garbage”Is hyperbolic and attention seeking but let’s face it White On Blonde is 3/5 as an album - however, I accept it will always be number 1 in the charity shop CD pile (alongside Sing when you’re Winning and Music rounding up the top 3)
 
funky said:
It was What’s The Story and Jagged Little Pill that ended my not-intentional, self-imposed exile on guitar music, after living in a dance/R&B bubble since about 1989.

It was not long after that I went out and bought White On Blonde and Garbage. I didn’t even get into Tuesday Night Music Club until about 18 months after it was released!
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Love that White on Blonde is considered guitar music aligned with Garbage :D :disco:
 
It’s guitar music when all you’ve listened to for years is Toni Braxton, TLC and endless house mixes!
 
DM easily.

Morning Glory has it's moments and contains the biggest British song of the decade, but also keeps Gary Glitter in mansions.
 
AGinAg (37) said:
DM easily.

Morning Glory has it's moments and contains the biggest British song of the decade, but also keeps Gary Glitter in mansions.
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It doesn't. Glitter sold all his rights for a flat fee several years ago.
 
Morning Glory, and it's not even close. Every song on that is 8/10 or above - whereas the debut has a bit of filler. I'm not even a fan of Shakermaker.
 
I've been mulling it over and I can't decide. The raw energy on Definitely Maybe is incredible. For all the hyperbole around Oasis, it's an album that sounds every bit as exciting today as it did then. A true rock n roll moment.

But then, What's The Story was a cultural landmark, perhaps it was the fact I was a teenager, but reading the inlay while listening to Champagne Supernova as a kid moved me, defined me.

Coming down off the nova somewhere near the boiled egg that is the Royal Albert Hall, we watch Paul's sun crossed with John's star and hold ice cream hands. Someone slipped on a cassette as the one you wanted left with someone else but somehow it was cool because as the music filled the shadows, you heard a sound that was a million miles away from fakery and a step away from your heart.

Just like it always did, this sound puts the swagger back into your step, the rush into your blood, but somehow, and I don't know how, they had become deeper, wider, soulful, better at their craft, inspired by so many things like a world that is tilting who knows where and the applause they always knew was theirs but waited so impatiently to receive. Words cut you from all angles, backed up by a monumental sound that rises high, high and high to crash against your rocks and then changes, majestically and magically to soothe the wounds inside.

As you are dragged inside on this trip abandon, you hear a council estate singing its heart out, you hear the clink of loose change that is never enough to buy what you need, boredom and poverty, hours spent with a burnt out guitar, dirty pubs and cracked up pavements, violence and Iove, all rolled into one, and now all this.

At the end you flip over and start again because now you are not isolated. They have gone to work so that you can go home. High above the day turns pink and you feel your feet lift above the ground as new roads open up in front of you. In this town the jury is always rigged but the people know. They always know the truth. Believe. Belief. Beyond. Their morning glory.
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They're both very good. Definitely Maybe is a boisterous, exhilarating statement of intent; ...Morning Glory delivers on said intent with anthemic musculature. Thought I'd swung around to the latter in recent years, but I'm subtracting points because I never need to hear 'Champagne Supernova' ever again (the two big hits have survived perennial overplay much better imo), and looking at these tracklists 'Live Forever' is actually the best anthem of them all. Going Definitely Maybe because it captures the rowdy possibility and faux swag of that era with a bit more charm. Still only my third fave Britpop album of 1994 tho! What a time to be alive.
 
The title track is my favourite, to be fair…
 
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