Definitely Maybe

Ik heb een beetje een haat-liefde verhouding met dit album. Sommige nummers vind ik echt goed en sommige vind ik niet om aan te horen. Helaas overtreffen de laatste nummers de eerste voor mij.

Had me voorgenomen deze challenge de muziek helemaal los te zien van de persoon erachter, maar toen ik dat plan maakte was ik het bestaan van Oasis vergeten... Noel, arrogante kwal die hij is. Tuurlijk schrijven ze best wat mooie nummers, maar zó interessant en tegen de hype op levend is het ook weer niet.

cosplay rock

Definitely maybe not

idk man its fine but i don't get it.

Eh

Mostly boring, I'm sorry Oasis u.u, I really liked Bring it on Down and Live Forever, but most of the songs felt repetitive for too long and not as interesting to keep enganged.

Not my style

It's not the gem for me that others have found. The people I hear in the album, I just don't like or respect. An unpleasantness about them. As to musicality and significance, similar to Milli Vanilli or Frankie goes to Hollywood, it feels manufactured and sterile after the first few listens. Two stars.

Album is honestly kind of ass, which I'm betting people disagree with. Doesn't have any Oasis classics... fave was Supersonic I guess

I don't think I've ever listened to this album. When these guys blew up, I was at the peak of my punk stridency, and Oasis' rockstar bullshit was anathema to me (and I didn't think their songs backed up their egos). I also was also on Team Blur during the completely-invented-by-the-British-media rivalry between Blur and Oasis. I've softened since; I listened to the 20th anniversary edition of (What's the Story) Morning Glory a bunch of times when it came out, though I haven't gone back to it. All that said, this album still gets a shrug from me. The songs are too long for what they are—"Live Forever" would be so much better if they chopped a minute off—and the lyrics have no shortage of clichés. It's totally fine mid-'90s Britpop. I don't say this often, but 1994 me was on the right track.

I just hate britpop. I hate it. I've always hated it.

The songs had some nice concepts but then went on and on and on and on and on and on and on. I nearly dozed off during it. 2 stars

Eigenlijk is het eerste nummer het beste... vanaf dan gaat het bergaf tot het een vlakke lijn is (zoals ECG van een dode)...

Zerst bini happy gsi das Wonderwall ned Part vo dem Album isch. Denn hani aber gmerkt, dass Oasis hald immer sehr nach Oasis tönt, au wenns ned Wonderwall isch. Und wie ihr bis jetzt alle wüssed chan ich singer songwriter bands ned guet usstah. Darum und us vielne anderne Gründ gits zwei Nippelzwicker für de Australier wo mit sinere Gitarre am Lagerfüür im Surfcamp in Bali scho zum 5te mal Wonderwall singt.

Is this on here because they would go on to make (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? Because it isn’t here on its own merits.

Gallagher? I hardly know her! 2 liked songs

Ugh every song sounds the saaaame bro and it gave me anxiety.

Lot of noise. Songs were fairly repetitive with only a couple that saved it for me.

The distorted guitar sound was not enjoyable for the whole album, and the voice is just not good. It's a shame too, because there are some good melodies in there. They just make them sound bad.

Not my style but I'm glad a I gave this album a chance. Every song blended the same for me. The only one that stood out for me was Slide Away but then it went on way too long. I felt some Beatles influences throughout the album which wasn't bad. Anyway, here's Wonderwall...wait never mind

Сорян, не моё.

Pas super fan du délire

Every song kinda hits the same vibe and tone. I absolutely hated the way this dude pronounced some words: “sunsheee-ine” and “acksheee-un”.

I don't get the appeal. It pop rock. It's modern Beatles which means it's not innovative like the Beatles. It's also not as good. Oasis is to the Beatles as Greta Van Fleet is to Led Zeppelin, but Oasis is serious.

Brit Pops final boss is here. I’m a hater. I’ve been hating on Oasis my whole life and now I’m committed to the belief they are one of, if not the most, overrated band in history. Here’s my case: The main reason people like them is because they conjure nostalgia for British Invasion music, primarily and unapologetically The Beatles. A band being heavily influenced by a genre or band is fine if the output is strong, but IMO it’s not. The over the top British accents is also irritating, but wouldn’t be so if they didn’t insist on holding those notes “rock and roll stahhhhhhhhhhhhhh” or “maybaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy” The overall bullshit rocker attitude doesn’t work for me either. You’re a Beatles wanna be hack! Get your own sunglass/haircut combo. Being a hack is fine. When I was 16 I aspired to be a rock and roll hack. I just don’t think they deserve to be considered “great”. Something nice I’ll say is they are clearly the best brit pop band…

Definitely not.

Single making machine Didn't like how this album is mixed Really don't like how the Gallagher brothers sing

Now I know why I overlooked Oasis in the 90'. This is definitely average.

I never really enjoyed Oasis. Listening again this album doesn't change my mind. It remains as a "definitely maybe" bad & not good either album

Pretty disappointing. It’s very chaotic yet somehow repetitive. I like a couple, but I cannot listen to this for the whole duration.

Shakermaker incredible. Rest of the album eh. I really dont like liams voice. He has this way of saying "imaginatieun" which i find really over the top, and somewhere between pretentious and annoying.

I never really liked Oasis. They are not bad, but I just don't resonate with them. This is ok.

Unknown band once again. OK rock and roll band but I find the lead singer's voice to whinny.

An easy listen, definitely formulaic though compared to some of their other works. Still seems to be a great debut release. 3

Oasis has escaped me thus far. I found it self indulgent with an unsubstantiated sense of self importance back then, and time hasn't changed my mind. Maybe I'm missing something, but its just mid rock with delusions of grandeur.

Didn't love

Start and end song carried hard the rest was mid, not an oasis fan

I know people love this band and this album, and maybe it's just because I missed the boat, but I can't get past how shitty the mix on this album is. It's like they were ahead of their time going for the compressed, tinny, shallow, lossy digital format sound that wouldn't dominate the industry for another decade. There is not high or low end, and this just sounds so shallow and empty, I hate it. Certainly some good and catchy songs, but man this sound grates on my ears.

I tried , I want to like this but if i ever was into pop rock ( which I usually am not) this wasnt gonna move the needle for me

Yeah........no......I would say I like Oasis, and none of the songs that would crack my top 10 are on this album. Yikes. Best song maybe the last one, otherwise......I dunno, maybe I'm just in a bad mood but it did nothing for me.

Mid Brit pop

It's ok, not an Oasis fan though.

Difficult for anyone who lived through the 90s in the UK to be objective and this. It hasn't aged that well and doesn't have most of the hits. The overall sound isn't great and the whiny Gallagher vocal is like nails on a chalkboard, mostly. Other Britpop has aged better.

ok

First Oasis listen. Not a huge fan. I can see why people like it. I appreciated some of the lyrics on this album. Highlights: Supersonic, Live Forever. Unlikely to return.

Didn't like them then and don't like them now.

Not for me

i liked 2 out of the 11 songs, everythings a little too slow for me, just not my jam, music good but my boy the lead singer just moaning in that mic. Married with children is goated. Expected a lot gotta little, its all good tho ik some people fw this album I in fact do not

Most songs bled into the next. No real change in tempo or arrangement. Lackluster

Average pop to me

Meh. A little nostalgia, but not much

“Oi. It’s Chewsday, innit?”

It's definitely maybe a 2 from me.

Yeah I’m quitting halfway through. His voice is annoying and there’s no wonderwall

Honestly, the longer I listen, the lower my rating is getting. The playing is decent, although maybe a bit boring and generic, but I just can't stand Liam's voice or affectation when singing. Favourite track was probably Rock 'n' Roll Star. It just went downhill from there.

Sehr gleichförmog

Num é ofensivo mas é Oasis, oq faz com que não seja inofensivo

More boring than I remembered.

Oh boy, another Oasis album. I thought they were a one hit wonder. Well. In terms of albums anyway. This is the debut I guess. Earlier albums can be the peak for bands in terms of raw emotion and musical urgency, but they can also be a let down after hearing the advancements the group had made the following year. I was surprised that I enjoyed Oasis’ critical magnum opus, so will I be equally enamoured with their debut. Enter the time warp. Time to get British. I can’t decide if I like this melody. I assume this song is somehow lampooning the rock and/or roll lifestyle. Or at least the egos that can dog the reputations of musicians. That’s kind of fun I guess. I liked the more buzzy close. Alert! I have decided that this is a mostly catchy, enjoyable song. Huzzah. If you can’t tell. I’m braindead today. So this, slow, middle of the road rock song is hitting its intended audience. I can’t even think of some sort of milkshake based joke. Uhhh. This milkshake uhh doesn’t bring any boys to the uh album review. That was good. Let’s go with that. Oh isn’t this that other song that they do?? This is Wonderwall. Whatever. I said maybe, you’re gonna be the one that turns me off of Oasis forever. This was not good. Hey you. Music reviewer. Yeah, you. Do you realize you don’t use enough sardonic prose NOR do you use enough hyperbolic descriptions of depth that wouldn’t stand out in a Shakespearean produced tour of Cats the musical?? Where you say, “this song sucks,” you SHOULD be saying “what “Up in the Sky” lacks in a cohesive timbre pales in comparison to the drought of intellectual forethought in the lyrics.” What I’m saying is that I have no idea how to critique music, so I’ll stick with saying that this song does indeed, suck. Man. I’m really bored with this one. I can’t believe there are so many songs left. This song is an extended guitar solo that I might have put together when I was 13 if I could play the guitar at all. And I mean at all. Any level. Oh man. What is this riff?? Ive definitely heard this in another song. Despite the dumb lyrics, this is pretty cool. Man the lyrics are dumb though. It’s Punk Rock Loser by the Viagra Boys. Damn. Stolen valour by a modern band I really enjoy. Ah well. This is probably the best song so far anyway. I’m finding this really boring. Can’t really muster a huge review in this track. Which is a shock considering my track record of excellent missives dedicated to each and every track I’ve heard ever. Bang a gong, Turn it off. Yeah this one is, as the kids say, completely abhorrent. Also a direct rip-off of a good T Rex song. The Digby Big Stop? Is that where we’re going? YES. Oh. Wait. Digsy’s. So close. A song as disappointing as missing a hot hamburger sandwich at the big stop. This is the kind of melody I wanted coming into this album. Tortured and sweet. At least it starts that way. Too long and repetitive to call this great in the end, but it had its moments. Oh Al Bundy. What is that rapscallion shoe salesman up to now? Finally, a quiet moment. Pretty fun song. Way to go fellas. Yeah this wasn’t great. I am feeling the weight of misery, and yet I don’t feel like that was the objective with Definitely Maybe. There are flashes of good songwriting in here, but a lot of this felt like meat and potatoes rock music. And while that is the most British thing possible, another unfortunate reality about cuisine on the British isles, is a lack of flavour. I besmirch my ancestors and even my immediate family here, but it is true. Spice may have been aplenty in the lands they colonized, but back in home soil? Salt is all you need. Where was I? Oh yeah. This album. It wore its influences on its sleeves but in the end, came across dull and left me wanting less Oasis and more of the influences. Bring on the endless stretch of desert. Time to find a new watering hole. 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, Supersonic, Married With Children

meh

Typical for the time but not very memorable

i've never understood the appeal of oasis. they are the musical embodiment of a headache. ill be the first to admit that this was way better than i expected but my expectations were through the floor so it wasnt a very high bar.

If Oasis had buggered off after two albums, we'd all remember them as a great little indie band that put guitars back in the charts for a bit. However, now all I see are just ape-like, gobby, money grabbing hacks worth so little self-awareness it's painful to watch.

Nothing stood out

I like the end of the album - it's cute. Really though, the album just sounds like music in a traditional rock bar that opened in the late 90s early 2000s. It's just kinda derivative of the time period and not all that interesting all the way through. Also, not a fan of the main vocalist. His accent is a bit annoying. Can see why this is a must-listen album if this sound was revolutionary for its time, but honestly, there are so many similar bands/songs since this album came out that it feels pointless and dull. 2/5

I haven't heard this album since the 90s. I'm OK with that. I heard it a lot back then. I don't remember it being so terribly boring. All the melodies are too alike. 2 things though. 1. Shakermaker is just 'I've Been Working on the Railroad' 2. Don't slip Alka-Seltzer in your cocaine.

I have never been particularly a fan of Oasis, and I must confess that I could not recall the reasons why. After several listens to "Definitely Maybe," I will admit that Oasis is capable of crafting catchy hooks and melodies. However, the excessively nasal and whiny quality of the vocals, which linger on nearly every syllable for far to long, is constantly irritating. Whether or not Oasis believe their own press by considers themselves the greatest band in the world, the reality is that they are, at best, a rather mediocre knock-off of the Beatles. Perhaps with a better vocalist, their music would be more interesting. (I mean, look at what Ryan Adams was able to do with Wonderwall)

This one didn’t do much for me, since I kind of got lost in the drawn out repetition of the album around the third track. It is pretty sonically enjoyable so I can’t roast it too much. Rating: 2.5

The UK rock scene must have been pretty bleak in 1994 for this record to come out and hit it big and sell millions of copies. This feels like very lowest-common-denominator, generic, arena-style rock. Somehow the band has maintained relevance well into this century.

Lowkey alles wat er mis is met de rockmuziekindustrie maar dan tegelijkertijd soms bangt het. Dus onmogelijk om te weten of het goed is

From Pulp to Blur to now Oasis, I've realized that Britpop is just not for me. While I do think this particular record remains truer to classic acts adjacent to this sound, from The Beatles (especially with Digsy's Dinner or the closer 'Married with Children') to the Smiths, it still lacks all the variety and kick that made those bands so incredible. I just find it all kind of flat, with choruses in the first half that are borderline insufferable to me, like on 'Up In The Sky'. The longer songs really don't need to be as long as they are - they're really not that interesting lyrically or structurally. And yeah, Liam's just a very shallow vocalist to me, which may be the most disappointing thing here. I did like him on the bluesier 'Cigarettes & Alcohol' though. For an album with a "pop" genre tag attached to it, there's not much here that's fun or sticky - say for maybe 'Slide Away' and 'Supersonic, by far and away the best songs here. And it doesn't commit to going very far in the other "experimental" direction either; the entire thing just meanders in this very safe, fuzzy guitar space and absolutely refuses to do anything remotely interesting. But I guess you could also argue that it's harmless, so I don't know. Didn't hate this thing, and I do think the second half is superior to the first, but I'd be kidding myself if I said that I didn't, at times, want to turn this thing off.

Ok but pretty bland for 90s pop rock

Didn’t finish. Don’t really know what to say, just didn’t like it

They are good but I never understood the hype about them.

Boring

Meh

Boring and repetitive, and the over pronunciation of the vowels is obnoxious.

If I time travel back to 1994, I can see why this appealed to the masses. Nowadays… my goodness, is it too much to ask you change the tempo once or twice?!

Imagine if Oasis was your favourite band. It's fine at what it is going for and Live Forever is a good song but it's not much of anything.

Okay, I didn't expect to see them again. The first track is over compressed, just loud for no reason and that trend continues. Lacking dynamic range. The last track is the exception, it sounds good but the song sucks. They didn't like the recording the first try and didn't like it the second time but just worked with it. They should have just kept re recording it. This sounds like a tin garbage can. The song compositions manage to carry the album, but the production is trash.

Oasis has two good songs, neither are on this album.

Honestly pretty boring. I think this one might get a 2, because it just does absolutely nothing for me. It fades squarely into the background. Not even squarely, because at least squares have edges.

This is not very good

pretty basic, a bit too emo rock

Thats it?

Admittedly I’ve never been a massive oasis fan, their big songs were fun in nightclub cheese-rooms when I was in uni, but they were never something I’d seek to listen to in my free time. Listening to this in full I’ve gained a new appreciation for the bands songwriting, but the sound still doesn’t do it for me unfortunately. Live Forever, Up In The Sky were the stand out tracks for me, Cigarettes & Alcohol was probably the most grating track to me. 2/5

Definitely an album. Maybe a good one. I don't think so though.

No me termina de convencer Oasis

I don't like Liam's voice or singing style. Never lived up to the hype for me.

I don't like them

Better than I expected

Fortunately not available on Spotify, what a shame. I know the songs, how could I not. Born in the late 80s you either loved or hated these songs. They're ok aren't they? Let down a LOT by Liams screaching and "Arm from Manchester me, mayt" attitude. It's not rock n roll it's shite garage punk.

Boooo

Some really good ideas here - Live Forever is a standout. This cannot beat the fact that I hate rock men's voices.

Definitely boring

At first, I thought "Not so bad; not was I was anticipating"! The songs seemed interesting and I was willing to give it an honest go. By the 6th song, I heard myself ask "How long is this going to go on?". My friends and I used to make fun of party DJs whose sets droned on calling them DJ "I-Only-Have-This-One-Record". Similar story here. What was interesting at first turned stale quickly. Maybe it's time for the "We-Only-Have-This-One-Sound" Band

Very guitar forward mixing— vocals and drums seem lost behind a wall of guitar sound. When vocals do manage to punch through, they sound whiny and nasally. I remember not caring for this album when it came out for some of the same reasons, and my feelings apparently haven’t changed in the past 30 years since its release.

I thought it was fine but largely unmemorable, which unfortunately is a crime. Favorite track: "Live Forever," maybe, I think. I don't know, I'm probably not listening again to make sure.

There's a couple of good songs, but mostly it just all sounds the same.

You think that everything you've done's fantastic Your music's shite it puts me to sleep There. Fixed it. Kind of boring. The most interesting part is a T-Rex riff. Lyrically dull and essentially just nursery rhymes over a pub band who liked The Beatles a bit too much. I don't understand how this was considered exciting or new but Oasis have always been their own biggest fans so hype and tabloid headlines help with the promo. The mix is also pretty bad: muddy and no space. I'm sure Oasis will crop up again and I expect that later albums are better than this. At least I hope so.

Definitely maybe never listening to this again.

Not really.

Not my jam. I can appreciate some parts of the music. Can’t stand the voices. 2

Fake working class dickheads tbh more of a blur man myself

Not my kind of music

I get what people like about Oasis, I just find it annoying. Musically, they're a decent evolution of the Stone Roses/Charlatans sound. Noel's guitar playing is derivative but engaging. What makes Oasis' sound unique is Liam's vocal styling. But that's a product of that particular combination of conceit and idiocy that I find most loathsome in human beings. The one thing that's unique and interesting about this band curls my upper lip. So I get it, but it irritates me.

Ugh. I really don't care for Oasis. They just run me the wrong way. Liked this one even less than their second album which I've already listened to on this list. Just not that interesting and boring. This broke my incredible streak of 5 star albums. Hope to get back on that track.

I’ve had to endure 25+ years of insufferable Gallagher ego and self-importance to buy into the general what would otherwise feel like an earnest but fairly one note album. Other than Live Forever, the album blended into a forgettable blur of mid-tempo drumming and left me reaching for more memorable Brit-rock albums from Blur and Radiohead.

I don't often get through an album without many thoughts, but this album is one of those rare exceptions. There is nothing particularly of note or interest to me with this album. It is simply a fine pop album. But this isn't supposed to be a list of fine albums; it's supposed to be a list of the greatest albums of all time. And it just doesn't do anything noteworthy for me. Favorite Song(s): Columbia

Hate these Manc pricks.

It’s generic rock flavoured Brit-pop. There’s really not a lot more to say about this record than that. It was clearly written with the intent of generating radio singles, and I’m not overly sure if it succeeded. I’ve seen Oasis live and yet I still didn’t recognize a single song on this album. It’s not particularly helpful that they all sounds strikingly similar, and it seems to be a distinctly different style of rock flavoured Brit-pop than the sound they later found extreme success with like “Champagne Supernova” and “Wonderwall” from the album released after this one. I don’t care for it, but I don’t hate it. It’s just generic and boring. 2 stars. Meh.

I bought this when it came out and liked it a lot. Now, thirty years on, and having listened to a lot more and more varied music, I can hear how basic, plodding and dull it is. I remember it was a double LP but really, it wastes an awful lot of space on that format (each side is only about 15 minutes rather than pushing 25). I can't help thinking they could lose a song or two and definitely lose a minute or two of uninteresting music from each of the songs.

Never got Oasis and their music then, certainly don't get it now. Just find it very vanilla and uncaptivating.

Whiny bullshit songs that all sound the same. I don’t hate Oasis when the random song comes on the radio but a full album is way too much. It’s a definitely maybe not for me.

Just not my jam. It’s not atrocious. But I don’t particularly like any of the songs. All of which sound the same to me. 2/5

Bland. I'm good.

Deeply unpleasant from start to finish. Characterized by trite, repetitive and uninspired lyrics with instrumentation to match. The first 15-20 seconds of each song were almost enjoyable as a reprieve from the previous, but by 2:30 I wished that it, too, would end. Instead, every song rambles on far beyond its welcome. I suspect that copious drug use and terrible music were a bit of a chicken-and-egg dilemma for Oasis, and one I am entirely uninterested in cracking. Choosing a favorite song feels a bit like choosing the STD I’d most like to contract, but I’d have to go with “Married with Children”. 3/10.

Oasis is just whatever to me. Nothing bad, but nothing I'd even considered enjoyable.

Not it chief. Very bland, gave it two listens and liked it even less the second time.

Pretty boring

I don't really enjoy this. Sorry.

Like kje Oasis, men detta va heldigvis ikkje da verste albumet

I don’t really get it. A couple good songs.

The headlines: Oasis is back together, they're going on tour, their tickets are too expensive, blame Ticketmaster! Sound familiar? "Woo-hoo" (Blur quote). From the hype I expected better, way better. Liam's voice sounds snotty and the songs are neither great nor horrible. Basic rock and roll at it's lowest common denominator. There were some highlights. Bring it On Down and Married With Children. "You think that everything you've done's fantastic Your music's shite".

This is who is going to eclipse Taylor Swift in concert ticket sales? What delusional planet are they on?!

I've hated Oasis since the 90s so that's probably my bias. But I listened to this whole album and then some. It's just not that good. Generic Brit rock. Nothing inspiring at all.

Bland, mediocre, just kinda simple

It should be higher for me, but it just didn't do it for me right now. Some bangers for sure, but not overall for me today

Excellent lyrics and instrumentals cannot keep my attention off the drawn out vocals that turn each track into a marathon. Maybe one day I'll be able to keep my mind off it, but today was not that day.

🤷

So bloated and the tunes are not incredible. Love live forever tho

Bit droning I fear. Live forever is nice, and the last song is by far the best. I think Oasis goes a bit too Oasis on this record.

Okay-ish. Expected more.

STANDOUTS: Maybe...Supersonic? OVERALL: 2.5/5

Somehow this album is too much Oasis. Every song should be 1m30s shorter. And even then I’m not sure I need much of it. It’s 90s rock noise for the sake of 90s rock noise. They finally switch it up on the last track, which was my favorite song on the album.

I wouldn't go as far as to say this sucked, but it is really not for me. I found it uninteresting and dull.

I thought maybe overexposure to (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and its consequences had permanently damaged my opinion on Oasis, but upon pressing play I thought maybe I'd been too harsh with my opinion on this band. Upon finishing, I'm not so sure.

Rock, 1994 -> 2

2.5

2.5

Why does he sound like that

Mid compared to other indie rock albums

Very very lame

There was nothing that stood out for me.

Never got the hype for Oasis. What a whiny way of singing.

Bro, I'm listening for the first time because I always thought the Gallaghers were insufferable. The instrumentation is fine, bro. The vocals lose me. Seems like the tracklisting could flow better. The lyrics in Supersonic especially... not for me. Cigarettes and Alcohol is just Bang the Gong. Married with Children feels totally unnecessary. "SAID MAYBEEEE" maybe 125 times, bro. Get a little less indecisive before finishing a song.

This wouldn't have even registered if they were not from the UK

I did not want to listen to this album. I hate britpop, and I really can’t stand Oasis. I realize they’re “highly acclaimed,” but, my word what an annoying voice. After listening, I must say, I didn’t like Oasis in the 90s, I don’t like them any better now. I do not see any reason this is considered by so many to be one of the greatest albums. There’s been worse stuff on this list, though, so I’ll be generous with two stars.

Not the biggest Oasis fan. From an engineering standpoint, I find the mix bright in the rocking songs and that’s through a couple of tube amps where the high end might already be rolled off. Something in the high-mids.

Ugh. Oasis.

Oasis is probably one of the top most overrated bands in all of rock history, all the way up there with U2. Their sound is so generic that at the start of more than one track, I mistakenly thought it's an advertisement jingle. It's not just entirely stale and unimaginative, but there's really just nothing to like. The singing is plain bad, lyrics too. The tracks are repetitive within as well as between tracks. I imagine if you asked a generative AI program to create 90's brit-pop album, this is exactly what it would spit out.

Okay let's get this over with. I don't like Oasis, I don't like their shit(e) attitude, their pissy quarrels, their egos while they blatantly rip off other artists. There's some okay moments altogether and they are clearly talented. I wish that they would stop their bitching at each other and at Blur and just start making solid music from their own imagination. If you want to sample and such, that's a different game. Damon knew that when he fired up Gorillaz. It's different than being in a rock band. All well and good to pull a thing or 2 here and there in a clever way, but Oasis just sounds too stoned and lazy about it, pulling Beatles riffs and titles among other artists nonstop. Can't respect that.

inoffensive but forgettable, 2.5/5 Rock 'N' Roll Star 1.5/5 Shakermaker 2.5/5 Live Forever 2.5/5 Up In The Sky 2.5/5 Columbia 2.5/5 Supersonic 2.5/5 Bring It On Down 3/5 Cigarettes & Alcohol 2/5 Digsy's Dinner 2/5 Slide Away 3.5/5 Married With Children 1.5/5

It’s alright I guess. The nasally voice and wall of sound kind of sell it for me. I think it’s a little better than what’s the story morning glory, but it doesn’t have a clear defining single like don’t look back in anger 4/10

Nothing really stands out to me about this one, and it got pretty grating toward the end.

Meh. Bitz generic und ich han di meischte Lieder nöd chönne usenandhalte.

I did not hear anything special on this album. Blur is the much better band from this era.

At the risk of sounding old…. Is it possible there’s just too much noise? I don’t mind the feeling that I’m catching a show at The Bronze in Buffy, and the album certainly feels youthful, but also inexperienced. It feels like a first album, exciting at times, but lacking depth (not unlike a high school boyfriend).

2.5

Eine Band, die ich nur von einem Song aus dem Radio kenne: Wonderwall. Fein, dann ergibt sich jetzt die Gelegenheit, die Band näher kennenzulernen. Aber ich denke ich habe nichts versäumt. Selten eine Band gehört, die so gelangweilt ihre Songs runterrotzt. Hat vielen gefallen, mir nicht.

Doesn't do much for me. Fine but not punchy enough for me.

On paper, I should love this, but... i just don't.

I could have swore I already got this album, but then I remembered all of their shit sounds the same. That'll happen when you work the word "maybe" in the hook of every goddamn song.

Je ne contracte pas

Mira, no

I love britpop, and I have always wanted to love Oasis because of that. But I have always been a Blur gal all the way. I have always thought that Oasis are inferior to Blur in every way imaginable. Their music just feels so safe and watered down, like they never try anything interesting or or experimental in their music, and the gain on the guitars sounds so weird like some weird uncanny valley between acoustic and electric. Liam's voice is just whiny and annoying, and each song just drags on for so long which only makes the whiny nature of his voice all the more promenant. At the end of the day, britpop is one of the reasons the 90s is my favourite decade for music, and I get that Oasis are the main band of that scene. But I can't help but feel that they are one of the most overrated bands of all time.

The Oasis sound. Beatles influence is very clear as everyone says. Very 90s, progenitor of a lot of other Britpop. Up In The Sky was a bit of a gem but everything else very samey. (And was Up In The Sky just a worse version of Rain by the Beatles?)

An average rock-pop album made worse by Mancunian wailing. My listening experience (in bed at midnight) is best described with an excerpt from the final song; "Your music's shite, it keeps me up all night".

115 charges.

so what.

I like their other album a lot and was hoping this one would be good but it was so bland, just generic 90s rock. I can't believe the outro to Columbia was the same guitar riff repeated for almost 2 minutes. 2.5 Stars

I didn' t care for this music.

maybe

Def more a fan of what's the story morning glory

Pop-rock. Beetje ruis met zang eigenlijk; niet iets wat mijn interesse wekt. Ik heb het gevoel dat ik continu aan het wachten ben op de knaller. **

It was good but didn't feel super special. Unclear why anyone thought Oasis was the biggest thing since the Beatles, because there's really not much innovative sound in this album.

I like his sloppy singing attitude. But it just doesn't hold a match to the better stuff of the era

💩

I'm not really sure what to say about this one. It's oasis, it sounds like oasis. A lot of their music kinda blends into one wall of sound for me. Bring It On Down did break it up a bit. It's decent, but never really been my thing. Solidly OK, often more enjoyable a few pints in.

honestly pretty generic

does not touch me, boring, foreseeable

There should be an edict that songs longer than four-and-a-half minutes should be reserved for prog, jazz, dance etc and not for beatles-inspired pop rock

Music good. Lyrics annoyingly vapid

I guess I’m not a britpop fan

Quintessential '90s alt-rock -- I only knew 'Wonderwall' so it was interesting to hear more of their stuff, but probably not an album I'd come back to in the future.

Meh

Another UK centric pick. Jangly bad songs.

So, bland. Not the worst, but I was glad to be done with this one.

It's like listening to The Rolling Stones with a bit of The Beatles and ELO (I love ELO). For me the album is too noisy and scratchy. The only songs I found ok were "Up in the Sky" and "Married with Children". It's not the type of music I would listen to though.

ugh

3 and a half hours

Wayyyyy too repetitive even tho I usually like the Oasis

Oasis would have been a good band if it wasn't for the gallagher brothers being such garbage individuals. The music is okay, the vocals are whiney and the guitar/beats are typical.

The definitive one hit wonder band. I know I say this a lot but man so many of these songs all sound the same. At one point I thought we were listening to Wonderwall but it was a song that sounded almost exactly like the lead up to chorus of Wonderwall. It’s not terrible but it’s not great kind of just repetitive and forgettable. 4/10

This might be a big, influential album. But I'm team blur, I'm sorry.

It’s fine, I guess. I really didn’t feel anything listening to this. Not even nostalgia, even though I owned it on cassette and listened to it at least several times back in the day.

Meh, maybe it needs another listen tho

To stjerner

I’ve heard of this album but didn’t know a single track. I still don’t. It’s fine but Morning Glory is so much better. I guess this is where Fountains of Wayne got a lot of their inspiration. Does every song have to be 5 minutes or more? Oops. I was wrong. I know and like Married w/Children. One of the two shortest tracks and the most like their better known songs. Tracks added to Spotify: 0

All songs sound the same and follow the same pattern, until the last song, but by then it’s a case of too little too late. Overrated band and album.

Couldn't listen in Canada

After the third or fourth song, it felt like I had been listening to the same thing over, and over, and over.

Live forever was a good song, next

Definitely Maybe not going to listen to this again. No knocks to Oasis, but questionable inclusion on the top 1,000. It sounds like the other Oasis album, which I like better and has three legitimately amazing songs

It sounded very familiar - I don’t remember band names well - so it may have been the same band that it reminded me of. It was ok. Nothing jumped out at me where I thought oh this is great. Although nothing jumped out at me where I thought god I hate this. All the songs seemed very similar throughout the Al I’m.

interesting Definitely Maybe lacks a unique sound, nothing sounds daring or sticks out, and the album falls flat overall. Stand outs on the album include tracks such as Live Forever and Supersonic. Other then those, I felt that this album had nothing notable to give and pales in comparison to Oasis' later albums. Definitely Maybe not listening again.

This guy's voice is the worst

meh, didn’t feel anything maybe because it’s outdated maybe because i put it against ok computer maybe because i have a prejudice

Muddy, poor instrumental mix combined with being tonely flat for the most part. I see how this was with the Brits response to the grunge era but is a pretty forgettable sounding alt rock album. Where is the emotion? Even the slower acoustic stuff just feels fake and bland.

Some might say best Rock and Roll album of the 90s? Nope. All rock and zero roll. This album sounds like it was written and preformed by a couple of arrogant high-schoolers. Unimaginative scaley guitar solos/licks, whiney yell-singing, muddy flat mixing, mediocre lyrics, derivatave drumming, and the most basic base possible - with no rhythm interplay. The fact that many Brit’s consider this album incredible, is horrifying, and it says some very telling things about the state of pop culture in Britain. It’s depressing. I listened to the first Beatles album AND Blur (their immediate competition) album as a comparison, and wow, the first couple of bars of each, blow this lame-dick album out of the water. The one song I thought started with a little creativity (cigarettes and alcohol) is an obvious rip-off of that T-Rex song everyone knows. In all honesty, it’s hard to find anything I like about this album. I can only think of couple: Sometimes their melodies are decent, and some of their bridges are well-crafted, I like the way their voices crack when they push a vocal. I’m sensing the end of this critique, and I’m getting joyful because I know when I press send, I’ll never have to listen to them with attention ever ever again.

1st track : too loud, too much guitars, original ending (3/10) 2nd track : more psychedelic (5/10) 3rd track : a Hit! (7/10) 4th track : to much guitars, boring, repetitive (2/10) 5th track : how to play guitar like a rock'n'roll star ? boorriinngg (1/10) 6th track : more pop, much more better (7/10) 7th track : pretty dark, heavy but to long (4/10) 8th track : the singing is great, but the guitaaaars are to boring (4/10) 9th track : dancing and happy, good vibes with the organ (6/10) 10th track : out of interest. boring, too long, can't bare the guitars... (1/10) 11th track : very good song, soft and pop, guitare voice, simple and effective (7/10) TOTAL : 4,27

Definitely not.

Eh I really don't think this is great

bleh.

Known before: Band Standouts: 3. Live Forever 3.5

While I understand the mass appeal of the whole second British Invasion, and I would say some fun is to be had I. This album, I just got bored with it a few tracks in. It’s not a particularly cohesive album. More of just a jumbled collection of “oh yeah rock n roll” songs. The opener is almost a cringy eye roller, and even the catchier songs are more or less forgettable. Anyway hereswonderwall

It’s ok, a little repetitive.

Why is everything so long. And so loud?

I really expected to hate this. Found the first two songs a bit bland and hard to listen to, but LIve forever felt good and I was in for the ride after that. Still not great and holds no real nostalgia for me. I don't think I'll ever think, \"Man, this calls for Oasis!\" but this was fine and not terrible. 2/5

Maybe a definite pass? Luke warm fan and their best stuff is on later albums.

not the biggest fan of this one. there were some nice ones, but mostly not my vibe.

I didn't think I wanted to hear droning guitar and adult men sob; after listening to this I know for a fact that I do not.

Definitely Maybe not their best effort. Average at best. 2.5/5

Nothing special -all songs sound alike. Has that 90s feel... nothing stands out

I usually like sneering, hirsute rockers, but some of these lyrics are unforgivably bad. I liked them as a teenager but in hindsight not so much.

Overrated band, overrated album.

oh man this band is going to be bigger than the beatles!

This is supposed to be one of their best? Boring, repetitive and uninspired.

Boring

Good

I just dont like Oasis. Their music is as bland as british cuisine

Some of the songs by Oasis hit different, but I keep finding myself just wishing I was listening to the Beatles instead.

bloody thing is arse

I just can’t get over Liam’s vocals

Why do I keep getting generated mid generic albums can I get a good one again?

Not my cup of tea. Lyrics are cliche and so are most of the songs. I get why people like it, but I don’t sadly. It had its moments though, wasn’t down right terrible but it was kinda bad to me.

You can see what people love and hate about Oasis here. A couple decent tracks, but the vocals are nasally and grating and the songs are overblown and melodramatic. Ultimately this was a tiresome listen.

Too extreme on the ears in my opinion, just not really my music taste

Fuck manchester

never really cared for oasis and until today was only familiar with their hits. always thought people tend to overrate them. but, i listened to the full album and gave them a fair chance. now after listening to the album in full, i realize why i never cared for them. the band sounds great, but the vocals… too whiny, too nasally, and gratuitously bri ish. a different singer and i would probably really be into this album, but as is? meh…

5/10 du oasis ben plate

Bleh.

Definitely Not Really

Urgh. Been about 25 years since I last wanted to hear this, I reckon. Stop saying they're like the Beatles. It's only Rain. Oasis pushed it later with Whatever. The rest is Status Quo. And the odd stolen T-Rex riff. Ironically, Cigarettes and Alcohol is probably the most Quo. So I was a fan for these first two albums, went to see them at Maine Road, then got very sick of them very quickly. I caught myself singing along to Live Forever and Rock and roll star so I guess they're still embedded. Shaker Maker is shite. Supersonic is obviously iconic for them. Most of the album tracks are absolute trash. I always did prefer the second album, I wonder if that has aged poorly as well. Oh god, Colombia is so so bad. I never liked this one, Oasis fans saying it's a belter is mystifying. What is that chorus, and then the song finishes but they just carry on for two minutes without doing anything. Slide Away does the same but at least it's a little bit better of a song. It's a high 2 at the absolute tops I reckon.

I know it's Oasis but I've never been a fan of Liams angry attitude to life and singing. I really liked the last track which was alot slower

2.5 maybe

Meh

meh

oasis' definitely maybe, while containing a cute album name, didn't do much for me. liam gallagher, who i am sure is talented, had a droning voice at times, and i checked out. i did try. i did like the lyrics! the other gallagher brother, noel, came to my rescue. all in all, uninteresting--and i guess it was some sort of super influential game changer?

I definitely (maybe) did not like this.

C- Rock ‘n’ Roll Star - 2, I don’t like the Oasis sound. At all. This is the epitome of an Oasis song. Ugh. Shakermaker - 2 Live Forever - 2 Up in the Sky - 2 Columbia - 2 Supersonic - 2 Bring It on Down - 2 Cigarettes and Alcohol - 2 Digsy’s Dinner - 2 Slide Away - 2 Married With Children - 2 This thing was a pure 2. Walking the tightrope with shit on one side and pretty good on the other, this was as mediocre as they come. I think I'm too depressed and angry a person to like Oasis.

Beaucoup de chansons qui ont mal vieilli. Des fillers sans importance. Quelques classiques, mais rien pour se jeter par la fenêtre.

Highlights: "Slide Away" What else comes to mind for the jangly 60s-retro alt rock sound? Cranberries' "Everybody Else"? 1993. REM's "Automatic"? 1992. Gin Blossoms' "New Miserable Experience"? 1992. Live's "Throwing Copper"? April 1994, four months earlier. Jane's Addiction's "Ritual"? 1990. B-52s' "Cosmic Thing"? 1989. It gets hard to tell what Oasis was supposed to have influenced. And then you hear this album, and it's hard to tell if they've *made* anything. Not every band has to invent a sound, but Oasis doesn't epitomize it either, and they don't even contribute something to it. Its virtue is that the performance and production is not bad most of the time. Categorically a two-star album. Do you wish you had totally inane Beatles lyrics and tired Stones chords but without a single memorable hook or an ounce of originality? Join the club, apparently. But if you're making a point of rating pop albums across history and you give this five stars, stop this listening series and leave this website.

As with most Britpop I have my usual qualms with this record. It comes off pretty dang bland without many memorable bits to catch onto and get stuck in your head. The noisy guitars overwhelm any sense of melody and even make the lyrics difficult to understand sometimes, leaving you in a cloud of whining drone noises and basic drums. 4/10

Definitely maybe not a favorite album

Found this kind of fatiguing to listen to to be honest. Some of the lyrics are clever enough but a bit on the repetitive side - almost as if there are two different drafts for a first verse rather than a true second verse. Not bad, but I don’t see myself digging this one back out. 2.25

quite samey innit

- meh. Sounds like oasis.

lol :^ )

Aggressively meh

Dritt album, oasis æsj

Before if you asked me if I like Oasis I’d say “Yeah I think so”. Now if you asked me I’d say “I don’t know.”

I do not like this album

Ei vielä valmista tavaraa - hittibiisi puuttuu. Olen silti riittävän kiinnostunut pohtimaan, olisiko joku raita ollut parempi kuin ensivaikutelman perusteella.

Has some moments where the band rocks properly, but the songs overall are quite boring. On top of that, the vocals are too annoying for me to give this more than two stars.

Overall I can just say this album is fine. I don’t think the band had found their sound with it being their first album, and a lot of the songs are too long and dull in my opinion.

Margt hér sem ég ætti að fíla, verandi almennt skotinn í britpoppi. Hér eru það bara gítararnir sem eru ágætlega nýttir, en þessir textar, þessi söngur, og þetta attitúd ... úff barasta!! Það eru ekki öll lögin jafn leiðinleg, en ekkert lag er gott.

Not my favorite, although I recognize it might have felt like a groundbreaking album at the time.

Thought I would like this more than I did! It was just a little boring.

Also boring

Britpop bleibt Britpop. It’ll always be a hard pass for me. The last song was alright, but I didn’t need anything leading up to that.

Too rowdy for me

Just a drone

Patpat.

I love the Beatles, and a lot of Beatles fans seem to like Oasis, but it just isn't quite there for me. I do not like Britpop very much, so I didn't really expect to like Oasis. Also, I already knew I hated their most popular song. Still, this wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, as I half expected to give it a 1, but it didn't do much for me. It felt very long and I was glad when it ended. My favourite song was Married with Children, I guess.

I like oasis. Decent album.

Somewhat overrated in the best album of all time lists that appear all too frequently these days. Catchy (and quite often familiar!) tunes let down by shockingly poor lyrics.

I've never really "gotten" Oasis, sure it's not easy to write a popular song, but these guys write such paint-by-numbers songs that I feel like most of the mystique is in their terrible attitudes and haircuts. This was more of the same. Don't hate it, but watching a kettle boil might be just as entertaining.

Never been a fan of Oasis

Every once in awhile there's an Oasis song that I really like. And everything in between is garbage. This album represents that.

I've somehow managed to live over 32 years on this earth without listening to any of Oasis' albums in their entirety. I've always been pretty firm in my dislike of them apart from a few songs. However, I knew going into this journey that I would probably have to listen to about 3 of them at least, and I completely understand why this one is on the list. So I tried to go into this with an open mind. Unfortunately, this was close to torture for me, apart from "Live Forever", "Columbia" and "Supersonic". And even those songs aren't that good. They wrote some good melodies and obviously know how to play their instruments well, to some degree. But the lyrics...as Phife Dawg famously said, "Go get yourself some toilet paper, cuz your lyrics is butt".

30 years later, still a Nope from me but the original is still available so stop listening to the remasters and save yourself precious hours!

This album was ok. Most of the songs sound like other bands and there is nothing remarkable about anything.

Doesn’t have wonder wall on it 👎

2.5/5. Did not really like this. I guess it's not bad, but it's pretty boring. Most of the songs sound the same.

Never liked the singer’s voice. Songs were meh.

I thought all the songs sounded the same but then I realized it was still track 2. There’s unnecessary use of a poorly developed falsetto. Then again, maybe that was just track 4, I’ve lost all sense of time as everything just draggggggggs on.

"Cannae help feeling that Manchester had a witch of some sort, that promised musicians fame and fortune, with one catch. You will later become a right stupid cunt and an embarrassment." - Limmy Then again, Limmy also noted that Johnny Marr, Bez and Shaun Ryder were just a bit too cool to be considered members of the cunt club. The Gallagher brothers though? Oof. Way before the cocaine fever dream that was 'Be Here Now', Definitely Maybe is the progenitor for their pompous shiteheadery and inflated sense of musical worth. I can understand why people would like this, but Oasis to me is a lot of background noise played by psychedelic wannabes, singing about mystical junkie incantations brought on by four eccies and the coronation of a Burger King crown. If Oasis really want to be 60s, they ought to take their sleeping meds and call the carer for an early night. 2 stars, one because I like Mad Fat Diary, two because Noel Gallagher is... sort of okay these days.

Alright album, I preffered the second half, the first half the songs sounded too similar, the last song made the album have a rather satisfying conclusion

Its okey 2

Drones a bit

Definitely no LOL

Least insufferable Oasis moment

Boring slog. Feels like it can't decide between pop and punk, so it does neither.

Ogillar sångaren, tråkigt ljud, själva låtarna är inte ens så bra. Det fanns en hit jag såg fram emot men den var medioker också...

I honestly want to give them most stars but I’ve always found their music to be pretentious and premadonna-ish. Never been a fan of their music overall

I've never liked oasis so I went in to this album expecting to not like it. I can see why other people would enjoy it but it's not for me. The songs are boring and the vocalist has an incredibly annoying voice.

britpap

Nostalgic not great.