When talking about "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" we are talking, like it or not, about a CD that has made and will make history. We were smack in the middle of the nineties when the Gallagher brothers released these 12 songs and entered the lives of a whole generation that by then experienced rock solely as excess and not for what it could convey. And so the CD soared to the top of the charts and entered the hearts of many who surely will never forget it. The reason for this true revolution lies in the fact that the 12 gems contained in the album enter you like water and inevitably leave you with something you cannot erase.
It starts with "Hello," which as an opener is not bad at all. Then it moves to the straightforward and simple “Roll With It” that acts as a kind of bridge between the world of normal songs and the world of masterpieces. Then silence. A little cough from Liam (as if to say “wait a minute, I'm going to sing this wonder... hope it turns out well”) and off we go with “Wonderwall,” which remains to this day an indescribable song for ordinary people. So I too stick to what the legendary Paul McCartney said: “one of the best songs in the history of music”. After these four abundant minutes of emotions, you expect a song that will bring you back to earth, but instead from the very first notes you understand that “Don't Look Back In Anger” only continues the divine work. And so you listen to it all in one breath, just like the poems that follow and make you see the world from a whole different perspective, and even if they are not divine musically, their words go straight to your heart. “Champagne Supernova” concludes this wonder of a CD and even today somewhere you can find someone sitting under the world listening to it and learning to live a little better.
Wonderwall and Don’t Look Back In Anger are untouchable, timeless masterpieces.
The great success of this CD is deserved, but from here to say that it is a timeless masterpiece is a bit too far.
"You realize you don’t need a perfect knowledge of the instrument to write beautiful acoustic gems like 'Wonderwall' and 'Cast No Shadow'."
"I’ll keep my beloved idiots who don’t write ‘songs’ for idiots but rather, they write FANTASTIC ‘songs’ for idiots."
So I see them and I say "Let's give these sacks of shit a chance"...
I was so disgusted that I switched to ReteAllmusic...
We are faced with an absolute masterpiece, a page of history, a symbol of mid-’90s England, the highest point reached by Oasis.
The most beautiful piece in the career of the Manchester group is ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’... the memorable solo of this song is something absolutely unique.
"Wonderwall" is a fundamental song of that entire decade.
"The masterpiece entirely written by Noel Gallagher definitively demonstrates his creative genius."