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Definitely Maybe is 20 - favourite song on it?


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They'll get back together to do a 20 year anniversary of "What's the story morning glory?" In my opinion.

 

Colombia is an awesome song, as is slide away. Rock and Roll star is amazing too. Probably my favourite live anyway! Seen them in Philadelphia in 2000, Rose Bowl in 05 and Wembley in 09. What a band

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It was, and the rest of their discography suffered for it. Nothing came close after that.

 

What's the Story was very good, but not as good, that was the only thing that came close. Definitely Maybe was very much like the Stone Roses first album, not just about the music but the timing as well. The other albums all have some great songs on but none of them were class from start to finish. Love every song on there.

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What's the Story was very good, but not as good, that was the only thing that came close. Definitely Maybe was very much like the Stone Roses first album, not just about the music but the timing as well. The other albums all have some great songs on but none of them were class from start to finish. Love every song on there.

 

Even digsy's dinner?

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Bring it on down for me, very closely followed by live forever.

 

What an album and era for music!

The album version of Bring it on down was pretty average, I thought. There was a live version on the B-side of Shakermaker and that was properly good.

 

Live forever is the song I'll always think of first with Definitely Maybe, but my favourite has to be Slide Away.

 

What an album.

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The album version of Bring it on down was pretty average, I thought. There was a live version on the B-side of Shakermaker and that was properly good.

 

Live forever is the song I'll always think of first with Definitely Maybe, but my favourite has to be Slide Away.

 

What an album.

 

Yeah it was seeing it live that first made me appreciate just how good it was.

 

Best live forever performance i saw was wembley 2000 with john lennon/quote montage in background - amazing.

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Small world, listened to it this morning, via Spotify (hence this thread?). Great album but sounds terribly dated now, Supersonic for me.

 

Scrolling down that same Spotify page Heathen Chemistry was the album we listened to most. Drove around France for several summers with that one in the CD stack.

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I read something in a review magazine years ago and it went something like this

 

1st album - Wanted the World

2nd album - Seen the World

3rd album - Thought they owned the World

 

Slide away and Supersonic are their best, Supersonic had so much attitude, only beaten by Arctic Monkeys on the dancefloor in my humble.

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Always a conundrum to me that Whatever wasn't on any of their albums. Keep expecting it to pop up on Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory.

 

Yeah that is a great song too. As are a number of songs on the masterplan, Acquiesce, rocking chair, talk tonight, going nowhere to name but 4.

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Good album, and at the time, good band.

 

Slide Away is the best tune on the album.

 

My respect for Oasis as a band diminished when I heard the opening bars to Don't Look Back In Anger, and utterly disappeared by the time I head "The Hindu Times", the point at which they started to rip off their contemporaries (as opposed to The Beatles, etc).

 

 

The Blur/Oasis and Liam/Noel stuff was of no interest to me.

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this thread makes me feel old. Oasis, Blur, Suede, Shed Seven, Pulp, Ocean Colour Scene, Manics, Charltans, Cast and so on. What a great time that was for British Music.

 

It was fantastic, even the very late 80's with the charlatans 'some friendly' and of course the stone roses, then 96 some great Brit pop and a very good year of English football. 96 was one of my favourite years of music.

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It was fantastic, even the very late 80's with the charlatans 'some friendly' and of course the stone roses, then 96 some great Brit pop and a very good year of English football. 96 was one of my favourite years of music.

 

Primal Scream, they were another one, a fantastic band in their day.

 

I'm not so sure about it being a great year for English football, i seem to remember it was the first time i ever saw face paints inside a football stadium and suddenly being a football fan became trendy so we had all the dinlow celebrities and their fake support for clubs. In many ways it was downhill from there.

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Primal Scream, they were another one, a fantastic band in their day.

 

I'm not so sure about it being a great year for English football, i seem to remember it was the first time i ever saw face paints inside a football stadium and suddenly being a football fan became trendy so we had all the dinlow celebrities and their fake support for clubs. In many ways it was downhill from there.

 

Yes, pretty much the same with music, well it never really hit the heights again. Just the right age in 96, early 20's. It was fantastic.

 

Football we were cm from the final!

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Supersonic has a superb bombastic riff (I saw their first TV performance on that C4 Friday night Terry Christian programme), but the lyrics are gibberish strung together because the words rhyme.

 

Unfortunately that is true of a lot of Oasis songs even the really good ones. "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannon ball..." wtf?

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Always a conundrum to me that Whatever wasn't on any of their albums. Keep expecting it to pop up on Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory.

 

Wasn't this because of the violin sampling was a copyright they nicked, and it cost them a fortune in royalties when it was played on air? Or something like that?!

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If you don't think Columbia's the best song on that album then you know nothing about music. Some good tunes in the rest but the lyrics are gash.

 

I remember Steve Lamacq playing white label version of Columbia. It was a jaw dropping moment, I f***ing love that track. the album is good but not a patch on Dog Man Star.

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