Oasis - (Whats the Story) Morning Glory - Music & Performance - CD

Deluxe three CD edition includes two bonus CDs containing b-sides, demos, live tracks and more. Digitally remastered 20th Anniversary edition of the classic sophomore album from the Britpop band. The follow-up to Oasis's 1994 debut album DEFINITELY MAYBE, (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? was recorded between May and June 1995 in Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire, with Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher producing. Released on October 2nd 1995, it sold a record-breaking (at the time) 347,000 copies in it's first week. The album spent 10 weeks at #1 in the UK, and is Oasis's most commercially successful, with 22 million copies sold worldwide to date, including four million in the US. Features many of Oasis's biggest hit singles, including 'Don't Look Back in Anger', 'Wonderwall', 'Some Might Say', and 'Roll with It', and won the Best Album at the 1996 Brit Awards, with Oasis also taking Best British Group and Best Video awards.

If Definitely Maybe was an unintentional concept album about wanting to be a rock & roll star, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is what happens after the dreams come true. Oasis turns in a relatively introspective second record, filled with big, gorgeous ballads instead of ripping rockers. Unlike Definitely Maybe, the production on Morning Glory is varied enough to handle the range in emotions; instead of drowning everything with amplifiers turned up to 12, there are strings, keyboards, and harmonicas. This expanded production helps give Noel Gallagher's sweeping melodies an emotional resonance that he occasionally can't convey lyrically. However, that is far from a fatal flaw; Gallagher's lyrics work best in fragments, where the images catch in your mind and grow, thanks to the music. Gallagher may be guilty of some borrowing, or even plagiarism, but he uses the familiar riffs as building blocks. This is where his genius lies: He's a thief and doesn't have many original thoughts, but as a pop/rock melodicist he's pretty much without peer. Likewise, as musicians, Oasis are hardly innovators, yet they have a majestic grandeur in their sound that makes ballads like "Wonderwall" or rockers like "Some Might Say" positively transcendent. Alan White does add authority to the rhythm section, but the most noticeable change is in Liam Gallagher. His voice sneered throughout Definitely Maybe, but on Morning Glory his singing has become more textured and skillful. He gives the lyric in the raging title track a hint of regret, is sympathetic on "Wonderwall," defiant on "Some Might Say," and humorous on "She's Electric," a bawdy rewrite of "Digsy's Diner." It might not have the immediate impact of Definitely Maybe, but Morning Glory is just as exciting and compulsively listenable. [A remastered, Super Deluxe 40-track CD version was released in 2014.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Performer	Oasis
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	CD - ROCK
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	October 2nd 1995
Edition	Standard
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	3
Series title	Oasis - (Whats the Story) Morning Glory [CD]
Track listing	Hello (Remastered), Roll with It (Remastered), Wonderwall (Remastered), Don't Look Back in Anger (Remastered), Hey Now! (Remastered), [Untitled] (Remastered), Some Might Say (Remastered), Cast No Shadow (Remastered), She's Electric (Remastered), Morning Glory (Remastered), Champagne Supernova (Remastered), Talk Tonight (Remastered), Acquiesce (Remastered), Headshrinker (Remastered), It's Better People (Remastered), Rockin Chair (Remastered), Step Out (Remastered), Underneath the Sky (Remastered), Cum on Feel the Noize (Remastered), Round Are Way (Remastered), The Swamp Song (Remastered), The Masterplan (Remastered), Bonehead's Bank Holiday (Remastered), Champagne Supernova (Brendan Lynch Mix) (Remastered), You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (Remastered), Acquiesce (Live at Earls Court), Some Might Say (Demo), Some Might Say (Live at Roskilde), She's Electric (Demo), Talk Tonight (Live at Bath Pavilion), Rockin Chair (Demo), Hello (Live at Roskilde), Roll with It (Live at Roskilde), Morning Glory (Live at Roskilde), Hey Now (Demo), Bonehead's Bank Holiday (Demo), Round Are Way (MTV Unplugged), Cast No Shadow (Live at Maine Road), The Masterplan (Live at Knebworth Park)
Record label	Big Brother Recordin
Songwriter	songwriter
Occasion	Anniversary
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N