Oasis “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” (1995) – got it
The band were signed to Creation records, released their successful
debut “Definitely, Maybe”, fired and replaced their drummer then set
about recording this, their second album.
The recording sessions went quickly though (as seems to be standard) not without fighting between the two Gallagher brothers.
The band have been accused of possibly wearing their influences a little
two prominently on their sleeves with the Beatles being a very obvious
influence, touches of David Bowie and even a possible lifting of an REM
riff ("the One I love" for the song "Morning Glory"). Regardless of
this, Morning Glory remains a great rock record, that takes the band's
established swaggering rock ("Hello") and expands out into more melodic
areas such as Lennon-esque balladry ("Wonderwall"), to vaguely psychedelic pop ("Champagne Supernova") to acoustic power ballads ("Cast no Shadow").
This album and the debut were everywhere when I was in high school. The
band have never really topped them with subsequent Oasis albums or
their other projects, but these two albums are worthy enough to have
stood the test of time.
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