- Hello
- Roll With It
- Wonderwall
- Don't Look Back In Anger
- Hey Now!
- Untitled
- Some Might Say
- Cast No Shadow
- She's Electric
- Morning Glory
- Untitled
- Champagne Supernova
Supersonic Reverie
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory? isn’t just an album - it’s a mirror held up to the fever dream of the mid-1990s, a time when swagger felt like salvation and melody could still save your soul. In 1995, Oasis bottled lightning. They took the dust and disillusionment of working-class Britain and turned it into something mythic - louder than doubt, bigger than heartbreak, and brighter than the grey skies above Manchester.
There’s a strange magic at work here: a kind of romantic arrogance that believes every chord can reach eternity. Noel Gallagher’s songwriting pulses with both bravado and vulnerability, stitching together the everyday - pints, pavement, and broken hearts - with the language of anthems. Liam’s vocals, half-sneer and half-prayer, channel that defiance into something elemental. It’s not about perfection. It’s about belief - raw, stubborn belief that music could make you immortal.
The sound of Morning Glory is colossal yet intimate. Its guitars don’t shimmer - they blaze. Its choruses don’t invite you in - they lift you up. And yet beneath the wall of sound lies something tender, even lonely. This is the paradox at its core: songs built for stadiums but born from solitude. It’s Britpop at its loudest and most luminous, but also its most human.
Listening now, the album feels like a time capsule of a generation that refused to bow its head. Every track radiates that reckless optimism of youth - the conviction that something extraordinary might still be waiting around the corner, if only you keep singing. Oasis didn’t just chase the sky; they convinced the world it could be reached.
Some thirty years later, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? still feels unstoppable. It’s not subtle, and it doesn’t need to be. It’s a love letter to noise, to hope, to the eternal echo of a crowd shouting the same words into the night. Oasis didn’t just give us songs - they gave us the sound of wanting more from life, and believing you might actually get it.
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My personal view:
As good as the debut was, it did not prepare us for this album, the best of BritPop, and one of the best (and best selling) of the decade regardless of genre. The attractive rawness of their debut has given way to even more attractive refined songs, including anthems that one automatically sings along with three decades later. Three of these are the standout power ballads Champagne Supernova, Wonderwall and especially Don't Look Back In Anger, but there are also other very high quality songs like Roll With It, Hey Now!, She's Electric, and Some Might Say. And the others are very good as well....