(What's the Story) Morning Glory? review

The second and most acclaimed album by the beloved English rock band Oasis, which hailed from Manchester. This is a significant work of Britpop with some of the band's most famous songs.

Tracks:

1. Hello: 6/10 this routine but fun track starts the album on an average note.

2. Roll with It: 6/10 simplistic but perfectly fun.

3. Wonderwall: 5/10 perhaps it's blasphemy to say this, but I really can't stand this song. It's catchy at times, but Liam Gallagher's vocals are so annoying, it's fairly simplistic as a song and nothing about it is genuinely grabbing.

4. Don't Look Back in Anger: 9/10 this song was heard frequently after the devastating events in Manchester last month. Wonderwall might be overrated, but this is a genuinely great song with a serious emotional punch and superb introspective songwriting.

5. Hey Now!: 6/10 more or less the same as the first 2 tracks.

6. Untitled: 5/10 difficult to judge. It's just a small, passable rock instrumental inserted into the middle of the album.

7. Some Might Say: 8/10 a step back up for the album, this excellent track is an optimistic and highly rousing anthem.

8. Cast No Shadow: 7/10 its subject matter isn't always clear but it's another good one.

9. She's Electric: 7/10 another decent one, if nothing ground-breaking.

10. Morning Glory: 7/10 the title track of the album is largely decent, if fairly by the numbers.

11. Untitled: 4/10 why this was put in is a mystery.

12. Champagne Supernova: 8/10 a heavy, long and epic finale with confusing lyrics but it's otherwise an enjoyable and powerful track,

Best song: Don't Look Back in Anger
Worst song: Wonderwall

Summary: Don't believe the hype; this is no great album. All the praise seems completely over the top. It's a record essentially saved by several bangers and elevated to its levels of fame by the wildly over-praised Wonderwall. The trouble with this is a lack of anything truly new or charismatic and this is generally just a fairly bog-standard, fun rock album without a lot of substance. It just isn't good enough to justify the hype. That being said, some of the songs are really good and none of them are bad, so this is just an average album. It's far from awful.



Final rating: 6/10