Definitely Maybe

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

This was better than expected. :)

Сорян, не моё.

Pas super fan du délire

Was about to give this a 4.5 because I had a headache going in, then Slide Away comes on. What was I thinking?

One of the craziest debuts of all time probably

Absolute banger, tho I think it’s the weaker of the two between this and WTSMG. The Gallaghers started their career right at their peak and the only to go was down. And that’s rock n roll.

Nice

Pretty good, better than I expected

Unreal

It's not a bad album, but the songs blend together after a while. "Supersonic" remains a good jam. 3.3

Biblical

Good

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

Their legacy makes the album complicated to like.

Quite noisy, the following record has much better songs. i like the photo though.

probably the best Oasis album. When this came out, even if it followed the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, it still found its place. Cigarettes and Alcohol, Live Forever…great days!

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.

A estreia do Oasis é considerada por muitos o melhor disco da banda (o que está longe de ser verdade, na minha opinião). Trazendo um som cheio de energia e com refrãos fortes, a banda capitaneada por Noel Gallagher traz um álbum que passa com facilidade no teste do tempo, com hits que soam excelentes até hoje. Os destaques, ao contrário da maior parte dos outros álbuns do Oasis, ficam justamente por conta de suas músicas mais celebradas, como "Supersonic", "Live Forever", "Slide Away" e "Rock and Roll Star", dando ainda espaço para pérolas como a raivosa e quase-punk "Bring It On Down" e a singela balada "Married with Children". O álbum tem alguns momentos menos interessantes que trazem a média pra baixo, como as repetitivas "Shakermaker" e "Columbia" e a insossa "Digsy's Dinner", mas já mostra a força do que viria a ser o Oasis para o final da década de 90.

"Definitely Maybe" é icônico, com vários hits e grandes canções. A unidade formada pelas composições do Noel com a atitude de Liam nos vocais é muito forte e transformou o Oasis numa das maiores bandas da história. São vários bons momentos pra destacar, mas eu diria que "Slide Away" é uma pérola escondida entre tantas músicas brilhantes. Rock and roll simples, belas melodias e refrãos fortes, não tinha como dar errado.

A debut album that sounds so strong it could be a best of for most other acts. Even the lesser tracks (digsys and married with children are ridiculously strong in their own right

I felt really conflicted about this because when it’s good - “Live Forever”, “Supersonic”, “Slide Away” - it’s perfect. When it’s not, like with “Digsy’s Diner”, it’s just a bit forgettable. A solid 4* album, but not the 5* I assumed it would be when listening back as an adult.

An album I owned as a teenager, and which I'm pretty sure I last listened to in the 90s. It turns out I have the same issue with it now that I did then - Noel has a significantly less annoying voice than Liam, so let Liam fart around with a tambourine or something like Bez from Happy Mondays, and I'd enjoy it more. But clearly Oasis, and this album in particular, did perfectly fine without my advice. A band who expertly stole the best bit of lots of other artists who came before them (which sounds like an insult, but it's really not). It's very obvious why this made Oasis stars, not least that it oozes confidence. 4/5

I like Oasis just fine and this album has some great songs on it. But once again, we have already reviewed a similar work by the same artist. "What's the Story (Morning Glory)" is the better record and adding this one is just redundant.

They're just so good. Really dumb, but damn do I enjoy the stupidity.

I hate this album but I get it.

Another album I really enjoyed! Good to listen to the whole album together as opposed to individual songs!

Some fantastic songs but also some that I didn’t care for.

I hate his voice!

En 1994, alors que le grunge américain commençait à montrer des signes d'essoufflement et que la scène musicale britannique cherchait un nouveau souffle, un groupe de Manchester, arrogant et plein d'une confiance inébranlable, allait déferler sur le monde avec un premier album. "Definitely Maybe" fut une déflagration, un hymne à la jeunesse, à l'ambition et une certaine idée du rock'n'roll, brute et sans concession. Dès les premières notes de "Rock 'n' Roll Star", le ton est donné. Une guitare saturée, une batterie martelée avec conviction et la voix nasillarde et charismatique de Liam Gallagher qui proclame son désir de grandeur. Ce n'est pas une supplique, c'est une affirmation. Oasis ne demande pas la permission d'être des stars, ils le sont déjà dans leur tête, et cet album est la bande-son de cette certitude. L'énergie est palpable, presque électrique. On sent l'urgence, la faim de ces jeunes hommes issus de la classe ouvrière, prêts à conquérir le monde armés de leurs guitares et de leurs refrains fédérateurs. La production, bien que parfois critiquée pour son côté "mur du son" un peu brouillon, capture parfaitement cette énergie brute. C'est un son massif, taillé pour les stades, même si à l'époque, le groupe n'en remplissait pas encore. Noel Gallagher, principal compositeur, y déploie un talent mélodique indéniable, puisant ses inspirations chez les Beatles, les Who, les Kinks ou encore les Sex Pistols, mais en y injectant une modernité et une attitude typiquement mancunienne. Ses riffs sont instantanément mémorables, ses refrains, des invitations à hurler à pleins poumons. "Shakermaker", avec son rythme nonchalant et ses paroles un brin surréalistes, évoque une certaine langueur estivale, une jeunesse qui tue le temps en rêvant d'ailleurs. Puis vient "Live Forever", un hymne à la vie, une réponse optimiste et pleine d'espoir au désespoir ambiant du grunge. "Up in the Sky" critique sociale à peine voilée, tandis que "Columbia", avec son groove hypnotique et ses paroles répétitives, est une véritable transe rock. "Supersonic", le premier single du groupe, est un autre moment de bravade pure. Son riff iconique et l'attitude désinvolte de Liam en font un classique instantané, un concentré de l'esprit Oasis : confiance en soi, ambition démesurée et un certain je-m'en-foutisme. "Bring It On Down" est peut-être le morceau le plus punk de l'album, avec son tempo effréné et son urgence palpable. On y sent l'influence des Sex Pistols, mais toujours avec cette patte Oasis reconnaissable entre mille. "Cigarettes & Alcohol" est un autre hymne hédoniste, une célébration des plaisirs simples et des excès de la jeunesse. L'album se conclut avec "Married with Children", une pièce acoustique plus introspective, presque une observation ironique sur la vie domestique qui contraste avec l'ambition démesurée affichée au début du disque. C'est une fin plus douce, qui montre une autre facette du groupe, moins tapageuse mais tout aussi talentueuse. Ce qui frappe avec "Definitely Maybe", c'est sa cohérence et la qualité constante des morceaux. Il n'y a pas de remplissage. Chaque chanson a sa place, chaque riff est pensé pour marquer les esprits. C'est un album qui transpire l'authenticité, même dans son arrogance. Oasis ne jouait pas un rôle, ils étaient ce qu'ils chantaient. Au-delà des chansons elles-mêmes, "Definitely Maybe" a eu un impact culturel considérable. Il a marqué le début de la Britpop en tant que phénomène majeur, ramenant la guitare rock au premier plan et offrant une alternative britannique fière et assurée à la domination musicale américaine. Il a donné une voix à une jeunesse qui se reconnaissait dans les paroles et l'attitude du groupe. Les frères Gallagher, avec leurs frasques et leurs déclarations tapageuses, sont devenus des icônes, des anti-héros pour certains, des modèles pour d'autres. L'album a également prouvé qu'il était possible de connaître un succès massif en restant fidèle à ses racines et à ses convictions. Il a ouvert la voie à de nombreux autres groupes britanniques et a rappelé au monde l'importance de la Grande-Bretagne dans l'histoire du rock. La force de "Definitely Maybe" réside dans cette combinaison unique de mélodies imparables, d'une énergie brute et contagieuse, et d'une attitude qui a défini une époque. C'est un album qui vous attrape dès la première écoute et ne vous lâche plus. Il sent la bière renversée, la fumée de cigarette et les rêves de gloire. Il est le son d'un groupe qui savait qu'il allait devenir le plus grand du monde, et qui a eu l'audace de le clamer haut et fort. En conclusion, "Definitely Maybe" n'est pas seulement un excellent premier album, c'est un classique instantané qui a résisté à l'épreuve du temps, c'est la pierre angulaire de la discographie d'Oasis et un chapitre essentiel de l'histoire de la musique britannique. Un 4 sur 5 car même si l'album est toujours aussi bon 30 ans après, Oasis reste avant tout un groupe de branleur ;-)

Its good album

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…

Sean is crazy. All rock bands are composed primarily of gimmicks if you break them down far enough. And Oasis's gimmick is basically being sing-songy and melodic while still rocking pretty hard, which is good enough for me. This is without question one of the boldest and most consistently high quality rock debuts of the 90s. Live forever and supersonic both rock. This is probably a 5 for me but going to deduct one star because 'ShakerMaker' is literally the same melody as Coca-Cola's 'I'd like to teach the world to sing' and that resonance might subtly imply that there isn't a huge difference between a great rock song and a commercial jingle used to sell poison to children, and that fact makes the love of rock music I've built a part of my identity on feel sort of tawdry and pathetic if I think about it too much. Rock and Roll!

We finally get to Oasis! 😂 I love this album in the same way I cherish early 60s music. Its cheesy, but it makes you feel like a young punk just trying to party and have fun with the odds stacked against you (and you feel like bitchin about it too). This abum IS rockin’ (Jack Black voice)! Overall, there is a ton of copying and derivative guitar lines. Im not impressed with any of that, but this album is far more than the sum of its parts. This is brit rock at damn near its best The second half of the album (especially the last 4 tracks) is the best material. Digsys dinner sounds like something out of a Fratellas album 10 years before they existed 😂 There are better Oasis albums, but im happy this was here

Fuck, another Brit Pop. Wait, it’s THE Brit Pop album. Rock and Roll Star, SuperSonic, Cigs, Slide Away.

Yes.

Did not hold up for me.

8/10 Guitarras eternas, voz agridulce y reconfortante

What good

Definitely not.

My dad was my age (24) when this came out and was a big fan, and despite the natural inclination to rebel against your parents' taste, this album is undeniable. I've heard Oasis songs a billion times growing up in England, but I don't think I've put on an Oasis album on myself and listened to it front to back before. It's background radiation here, though being from the South and not Manchester it's not so much part of my identity, and I've never felt the need to "get into" them. It's humbling and slightly mortifying to slowly turn into your father (Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were...), apparently he listened to the Smiths a lot as a mopey teenager in the 80s as I did in the 2010s. His parents were older when they had him, being born in the early 1930s they were too old for the Baby Boomer youth culture of the 60s (don't trust anyone over 30), all I can remember my Grandpa listening to is classical music, potentially some crooners, potentially jazz, but nothing too out there, fusion or avant-garde. My music taste is in some ways broader than my dad's, thanks to growing up with streaming, though very americanised. I listen mostly to 60s/70s singer-songwriters and 80s/90s/2000s Alternative/College/Indie rock, probably very little that he hasn't heard or at least heard of (read about in music magazines at the time). I'll often walk by him listening to Oasis, but also many much smaller, more obscure English bands of the 80s/90s that didn't make it as big, probably didn't make it to America at all and I would be unlikely to find out about, finding music largely through the internet. I haven't talked about the music at all because it's hard to say much about it. "It's just Rock 'n' Roll" (complimentary).

Well I’m a bit disappointed. All good songs and vibes, generally a good album, yet nothing significant in there for me, perhaps I needed to let it sink in. Nothing grabbed me by the collar, nothing had me in a chokehold. I’m not amazed. It did not do the thing that don’t look back in anger does for me. Sadly.

Debut Album. Rock n Roll Star, what a way to introduce yourselves on track one ! Tunes like that and Live Forever and Supersonic are so punchy and upbeat in an era where moody Grunge was ruling the airwaves. Shakermaker is also a good track ! Supersonic an absolute banger ! Cigarettes and Alcohol spoke to the working classes in the UK so much! Oasis best album and a seminal moment in Indie music in the UK.I love Married With Children as the last track, so funny.

One of the greatest albums of all time! I love every track. Liam’s voice is spot on, biblical as he would say. Oasis is my favorite band!

Rough around the edges. Expected fora debut.

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

Prima albumpie! Niet baanbrekend maar luistert lekker weg tijdens het opruimen en lezen :)

Easy listening, i LUVED “married with children”, made me fucking cackle. I would listen to a 30 minute bandcamp album of that whole vibe (michael cera?) A lot of the rest felt good to me but not amazing, maybe 3-4 stars leaning 3. Definitely better than echo and the bunnymen lol. Very first album vibes

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

It was nice, it was somehow new and it defenetely started teh cool Britania, in addition it aged quite well.

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

I really cannot stand the voice and the lack of originality.

Super mid. Weirdly mid considering what came next.

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.

A brash, confident debut. Has the sound of a band convinced they’re going to change the world...and for a while, they did.

Incredibly catchy song writing. Can see why it sold millions.

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

When this album came out, I hated it. I still don't like Oasis or the ego they present to this day. It was really rich of them to come out and say they're the next Beatles and everyone should worship us. Neither one of these goons could even come close to writing a song as good as John Lennon or George Harrison. Album is OK, Nothing special as they would want you to think. 3.05/5 = 3 stars

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

It sounded like a mix of The Strokes, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and a touch of Radiohead debut album Pablo Honey. I enjoyed it but it was nothing too too crazy. My favourite songs were Supersonic, Slide Away and Married with Children.

353/1001 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑

For whatever reason I never really got into this album back in the day. Live Forever is great. Supersonic is ok. Cigarettes & Alcohol sounds like a cover of Bang a Gong. A bunch of the songs drag on a bit at the end. There are some pretty great riffs.

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

Another band that I refused to listen to in the 90's but somehow has wormed it's way into my ears over time. Being bored cycling through Netflix one night led me to the Supersonic documentary. Maybe that gave me some appreciation for the band, but honestly, some of these tunes are hard to deny. That guitar sound is so crisp, and that whiny bitch Liam's voice gets under your skin and somehow is infectious. Though not as polished as Morning Glory, I like this one just as well. It's all so. very. 90's.

I would have told you that I’d definitely heard Oasis’ debut album. Maybe? But it turns out that most of it is not familiar to me. I know “Live Forever.” It’s a great song. But the rest of the album is just good. Overall it’s just not on the same level as “What’s the Story, Morning Glory.”

Really a 3.5, definitely, maybe…

What a difference a year made. From this baseline of promising mediocrity came (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? The Gallagher brothers learned, evolved, and stepped up their game. I’m not quite sure why this album is on the list.

Just... ok. First time listening to Oasis voluntarily and I find it all sounded the same after a while.

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.

Dude, again? There are too many bands out there to have multiples of the same artist.. You can't deny the hits, but I don't like Oasis and I'm not going to start now, so I'll give this a 3.

Well, it's okay, this jangly-retro Britpop album. It's kinda funny, Liam's bratty vowel-maxxing delivery, opening wide to make the most out of every dipthong and tripthong. The album neither bothers me nor particularly thrills me. If you asked me if I liked it, I might reply "definitely maybe."

Didn't love

Pleasantly surprised. Way more rock than I expected. Very enjoyable.

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

I vibe with oasis

I vibe with oasis hard, one of like 3 albums of theirs worth it.

Favourite songs: Live Forever, Supersonic, Digsy's Dinner

Not as good as the followup, but still damn good Britpop. 4/5

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 genuinely think Gallagher could start his own solo career, I mean what does the other one do, write songs and play guitar or whatever?

Blur better

quite good, like the vibe, rock n roll but also indie, will bee adding to playlist

There is no other band like them.

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

glad i listened!

You know, I'm one of those people that only knew Wonderwall. Good to hear other stuff from them, I know they were/are very popular but I can't say it's for me.

Definitely maybe listened to this 3 times today

Another no brainer five stars. I have a soft spot for this album as I was in England when it came out and experienced all the hype ahead of everyone else back home.

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.

It's been a while, but I'm sure I've listened to this one once or twice. I've always enjoyed some stuff by Oasis, but never really had anything click when going through their first few albums, and find myself enjoying the singles the most. I will admit I haven't given their early albums more than 3-4 listens, but again, just didn't really have much to really grab me, and the same can be said for this album. I suppose the Gallagher brothers' reputation of being hall of fame douchebags probably hasn't inspired much more digging into their music by me, for what it's worth. The music is fine and totally tolerable, but as far as the "britpop" sound, I'm much more likely to gravitate towards the early Radiohead albums first and foremost amongst others. It is interesting to make note of this music being released towards the end of Seattle's grunge influence, and it couldn't be further from the Seattle sound. Of course this is a very influential album maybe in part due to this contrast, and I wonder if it would have made the same waves if released a few years earlier, before people started to get a bit tired of the grunge sound. While listening this time around I was kind of struck by the album's dull production; even listening to the most modern remaster it's just not a good sounding record. It is interesting because it sounds like they tried to record with a couple producers they weren't happy with, describing the sound of the first attempt as thin and lacking life. Either the Gallagher brothers were full of their usual brand of bullshit, or that session sounded REALLY bad.

Every song a banger. I thought I hated Oasis but this is the second album I have given 5 stars for.

definitely oasis

Probably in the low 4’s good album non the less

Even more boring than I expected

Meh

Rating: 4/5 | Favorite Track: Supersonic --- This was my first real introduction to Britpop and found myself quite pleasantly surprised with this album. I will definitely have to explore more from this genre.

Definitely….Maybe this is a good album.

Mid Brit pop

Aight

Oasis was everywhere when I was younger, but I didn’t really get into them until the past couple of years — and Definitely Maybe was a great place to start. For a debut album, it’s solid from front to back. The Gallagher brothers were clearly onto something early on — full of swagger, hooks, and that raw Britpop energy. You can feel the attitude in every track, and honestly, it holds up really well. Favorite song: "Cigarettes & Alcohol"

Fine, some classic songs but I've always preferred what's the story

Definitely most apt album title relative to the quality of the band ever. Big props to the bass player though, he is underrated.

An amazing piece of rock n roll history.

It's ok, not an Oasis fan though.

5/5

I had expectations going into this, unfortunately, because musicians i know are obsessed with oasis. It’s definitely a mindset, but dudes being guys playing music isn’t ground breaking to me. Gonna have to listen to original versus remaster though to hear the difference. The remaster sounds really refined, so I’m curious if that was genuinely their sound at the time or their experience coming through on it after the fact.

Love this album, my favorite Oasis.

This album drips swagger. Boisterous but stupid. Really nailed the post Beatles sound, with a nice touch of The Kinks. Married with Children the only lowlight.

4/5 plus a star because i owned it. Make it 5/5

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.

rock n roll star is now a key piece of my argument of why first albums are so special kind of a samey back half

Decent rock album with two songs going to my favorites - live forever - up in the sky

Good mix

Agh I am getting tired of the brit pop albums. It's ok ig

6/10

So, which is it?

Great electric guitar, I'm mixed on the vocals. Live Forever is awesome. Overall, it's no (What's the Story) Morning Glory, but it's a solid album.

Good album, nice old school vibes, quite a few songs in the list that I liked, standouts were Supersonic, Rock 'n' Roll Star and Up in the Sky. Honestly reminds me of skater music, which playing Tony Hawk games, definitely took me on a trip down memory lane. My one gripe is the song length, very long songs. Only because I do not typically listen to this type of music on a regular basis.

My first listen. Heard of Oasis before. Gets better with every listen. Was very meh when I first put it on, but it grew on me throughout the first listen and I had to go again. Standouts - Bring it on down & Up in the sky

End songs carried the album. Was ok but it's definitely no The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Primo album loro che sentivo per intero, devo dire che il sound complessivo mi piace molto, anche se ad una certa sono tutte un po’ uguali come melodia

ok

Good fun! live forever and slide away my favs, whole album has a distinct sound and it doesn't differ away from. luckily, it's a good sound. Very random closing song that was the highlight of the album.

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.

Definitely Mediocre

I was obsessed with this one in the 90s. It still holds up.

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

This album is awesome!! I will play this again!!

After listening to the first 3 songs, the general sound of this is offputting to me. I get that at the time this may have sounded more unique, or that regardless of its uniqueness someone else likes this sound. But all I hear is "generic rock sound". The level of distortion and style of the guitars is grating to me and not interesting. Same for the vocal style. Not my cuppa!

not as good as morning glory but a bloody banger of a debut album if 15 yo me has anything to say about it

No bad songs, a couple that I liked a lot. I'm not surprised they went on to get as big as they did

It was good but I had higher expectations.

Not for me

🎧: 15/04/2025

This is a solid debut album. It's nothing unique, but Liam's voice and recognizable singing style are present, which one will later associate with Oasis. Production is flat but not bad overall.

01) Rock 'n' Roll Star - 8,5 02) Shakermaker - 8,5 03) Live Forever - 10,0 04) Up in the Sky - 8,5 05) Columbia - 9,0 06) Supersonic - 9,5 07) Bring It On Down - 8,0 08) Cigarettes & Alcohol - 9,0 09) Digsy's Dinner - 8,5 10) Slide Away - 9,5 11) Married with Children - 9,5 TOTAL: 8,95 (90/100) Current ranking: 62/518

One of my favorite albums of all time.

I don't exactly remember when I first heard this album, but I think it was after I heard What's The Story. While the latter is a much better record, this one is still pretty solid. I was only ever a casual Oasis fan though, I think I owned an album or two of theirs at some point. I remember around the time this came out people were talking about a British Invasion Part 2, and I suppose that is true to some degree. Certainly this album kicked off a huge influx of Brit pop bands into the mainstream, at least here in the US. This is a decent record that holds up surprisingly well. I feel like you could have told me this album came out any time post 2000 and I wouldn't have had reason to not believe you. Great guitar work and wonderful sounding guitars. Simple but effective drums and bass. I dig it. I don't know that I would really seek this one out, but I might play it now and again if I happened to find it somewhere. 3/5

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

It was okay

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

Obra maestra. Un antes y un después en el rock, cambio generacional y otra vez las clases bajas adueñandose del genero. Lleno de hits qué marcarán la historia de la musica en los 90´s y en la qué se inspirarian miles de bandas en todo el mundo para colgarse una guitarra.

Hard to be objective about an album I've listened to probably 100 times.

Liam Gallagher looked in the mirror before recording this and said “By God, I will pronounce every word on this album like no one has ever pronounced it before.” Shoutout to lasaaaaaaagneeaahhh. This was not as good as What’s The Story but you could tell they were getting there. 3.5

Loved to listen to but didn’t have much that really stuck with me. Maybe it was the listening environment or the 90s but I feel like I couldn’t hear the different parts in the songs. You really hear the difference when you compare any song with Married with Children. Caught between a 3 and 4 here. Shakermaker, Live Forever, and Married with Children got a like.

The heavier songs on this album are sick. It’s no what’s the story morning glory but it’s close

This is the stuff that put Oasis in the map - it's not my favourite but I appreciate it's good. Certainly one of the only good things coming out of the 90s

Reviews 9 and 10 of the Easter blitz, Oasis. I insist on listening to these two records side by side. Not because I’ve ever done that before, or because I have particularly strong feelings about Oasis’ imperial phase in the mid 90s. I haven’t, to my present recollection, ever actually chosen to listen to Oasis; in fact has anyone? Hyperbole, sure, but I wouldn’t be all that surprised if Oasis was a site-specific phenomenon that a person chooses to maximise their exposure to through numerous and studied life choices (pubs, football, football pubs, pub football etc.) rather than, say, a band someone buys the CD of. When Oasis reformed recently I didn’t really care. I was born 10 years too late for the full impact – their songs don’t function as a time capsule for me in that way (though their ubiquity as a cultural force means they appear in more than a couple of core memories; one of the worst hangovers I’ve ever suffered quickly springs to mind). The frenzy for tickets seemed quaint, the dynamic pricing totally cynical, the promise of a night transported to the Britpop 90s about as attractive as a night in a cheap tourist trap in Magaluf. But then the months rolled over, the buzz built to breaking point, the gigs loomed, and finally the Oasis vibes were declared to be in the area. And in that moment – awash with declarations from England’s comedy commentariat that this was the defining moment in their own cultural lives – I’d challenge anyone with a pulse and ears to rather be anywhere else than at those first arena gigs. It’s Oasis, they’ve got bangers, come on. Bangers like the immortal might of “Live Forever” – a song which, and I challenge you to better this review – is just really fucking great. Or the immediately hooky “Supersonic”; the blithely pensive “Wonderwall”; the truly, properly anthemic “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova”; the thrilling cycling up the gears of “Some Might Say”; or the purest instantiations of swag ever committed to record, “Cigarettes and Alcohol” and “Roll With It”. Songs that will, rightly, exist forever in the cultural fabric (a cultural fabric that may or may not carry a Stone Island badge between the elbow and shoulder). Then there’s the tier two stuff, stuff that may actually have been the most influential: the melancholic “Slide Away” that sounds like a million subsequent indie bands (and especially mid-career, Marr-inclusive Cribs); or “Up in the Sky” that would slot into the track list of any number of mega selling indie records of the past 30 years, and most recently Fontaines D.C’s Romance. There’s some pretty shit stuff (“Cast No Shadow”, in particular; dreadful) too – but it’s never enough to even partially eclipse the good. And when they’re good, the truth is that there’s very few bands who can compete. It’s why Oasis can mean a great many things to an even greater number of people, and why no matter where you stand on that continuum that run tedious bores to total geniuses … you are standing on it. You can’t fail to have an opinion on them. And in some ways, that feels like the biggest artistic triumph imaginable.

Most of the songs are 1 min too long and the lyrics sounds like they were written by a 7th grader but that’s really a part of the charm of the album. Just a pure rock and roll album before they got too big and self important. I think cigarettes and alcohol is my favourite track, but there are 5 or 6 bangers.

3.9 I mean the songs are pretty standard rock and roll fare but the more I listen to Oasis the more I think they pull it off better than most. Back half of the Album was stong

Maybe Definitely

Average pop to me

Meh. A little nostalgia, but not much

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“Oi. It’s Chewsday, innit?”

This is one of those albums that is potentially harder to rate because I was not there when it was released. Its a fun album, it is full of good songs that are self-assured, strong and bring out emotions. They are fun songs that rock and add to the music of the era. In retrospect the band is plagued by their weird sibling rivalry that destroyed their band. Overall it is enjoyable and I would go back to it, but with other bands coming up, this one kind of becomes one of many bands of that time. Its still a banger, but in retrospect maybe not as much of a banger as it was at the time.

Oasis is okay. Never listened to one of their albums before. I really like their rocking guitar sound. This is an example of a band that has everything "right". They check all the boxes for what I want in music except it just doesn't move me the way that other bands do. I just kind of feel like I'm going through the motions with this band's songs. They don't stir me I guess but I can't point to anything particular that I don't like about it. It just tastes like alot of red food coloring and MSG to me. But still... it's way better than Elvis Costello.

Oasis may be loud assholes, but they made two classic albums in the beginning of their career, so they are often forgiven for being assholes. Definitely Maybe is the first, full of cocksure riffs, confident snarls, and a rock god sheen that makes these songs eternally cool. This was thrilling to hear back in 1994. I recall a guy in one of my art classes in college saying he’d just gotten back from an extended stay in London and that Oasis/Britpop (Blur, Pulp, Suede) were blowing WAY up. I was young and eager to be at the front of a “scene”, so i is snapped this album up. Fortunately this holds up decades later. Whatever a person feels about Oasis as a whole, it can’t tarnish the greatness of their first two albums.

The Gallaghers sound like insufferable children. Gawd. Here's to their 2025 tour being drama-free! Perhaps their old wounds and rivalries have finally healed. We shall see. That aside, the album itself is what's really at hand. I found it bright and catchy and pretty rockin'. It was nothing groundbreakingly deep, but I really enjoyed it for what it was. I found the whole thing very lovable and liked pretty much every song.

Great album. One of his best work.

Randomly saw an Oasis tribute band a few weeks ago - which was funny as the lead singer was about 3 ft tall so struggled with the Liam swagger and the "Noel" couldn't stop smiling and waving to the crowd. It did remind me that Oasis have a lot of songs that I are ingrained into me (despite not listening for many years) and that they still sound good (unlike a lot of Britpop that has not aged particularly well). Their first album was always my favourite - with Slide Away my pick.

Definitely Maybe There’s definitely nostalgia in the mix, but I do still love this album. Rudimentary thump thump drums, tons of shameless musical lifts and nicks and, a barely discernible low end, a thick nearly muddy sound and a confident, brazen embrace of cliche. All that made it exciting to me as a 14 year old in 1994 and I still find it great now. I guess songs about escaping your surroundings and circumstances and imagining something more exciting is a universally resonant theme, irrespective of where you come from or where you are in life. It’s also interesting coming as another right after LK. While that was boringly imitative, this is derivative in a much more overpowering and interesting way, Cigarettes and Alcohol unashamedly nicks the Get it On riff, but the song isn’t a T-Rex copy, passing through the Noel filter and becoming something quite different. The Beatles influence also seems a bit of a chimera on this album. Apart from Nole having a seemingly Macca-esque melodic facility, it’s much more like a psychedelic glam Sex Pistols. There’s a lot of Steve Jones to some of the licks and runs, and on things like the endings of Rock’n’Roll Star and Shakermaker and the whole of Columbia it has a real swampy, psychedelic groove to it. But ultimately the imitations and plagiarisms don’t really matter when there are so many excellent songs. Rock’n’Roll Star, Live Forever, Up in the Sky, Columbia, Supersonic, Bring it On Down, Cigarettes & Alcohol and Slide Away are fantastic. Slide Away is probably their greatest song, it’s got a kind of hooligan, roughhouse sensitivity, combing Liam’s snarl with Noel’s sentimentality, and the way the melody slides from the verse to the bridge to the chorus is fantastic, a kind of obvious allusion to the title, but as with so much of Noel’s best stuff it's the obvious done brilliantly and shamelessly. The only misstep for me is Shakermaker, which I’ve never really liked that much. And while Digsy’s Dinner definitely has the whiff of filler, it at least has some charm and lightness that Shakermaker lacks and I presume they wanted something to break the heaviness between C&A and Slide Away. Married with Children also always felt like a bit of an afterthought, oddly placed at the end, but nowadays I do like that it’s a bit of a downbeat ending. It also seems a bit strange that they didn’t include Sad Song on the CD version but had it on the vinyl version. It's a great track, but maybe they didn’t want a Noel vocal on the album, who knows. Great songs, universal themes, a brazenly pilfering swagger and a big dollop of remembering first getting into music makes it an easy 5. 🚬🚬➕🥃🥃 Playlist submission: Slide Away

As is the way with Oasis, mixed feelings. They mined their seam expertly; in earnest, I don't think it lasted much beyond the two albums, although they mined a few more nuggets of gold amongst the gangue in later years. 'Definitely Maybe' has the naive charm; it has quality above what any debut is entitled to have; and it sliced through the worst of the self-pity of pervading grunge and shoegaze at the time. I listen to 'Live Forever' and it gives me a rose-tinted feel of the optimism back then. This may well be the worst album I'll award top marks - but despite all its faults, for capturing the zeitgeist, for all the nostalgia, for some bona fide classics; that must mean a five.

It is fine, I guess. But a bit overhyped. 7/10

Very good album. Love Supersonic and Luve Forever

It's definitely maybe a 2 from me.

Classic album owned and heard may times. A sound track to my Adolencense

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

Great album, gives an early version of Favorite worst nightmare. Really liked this

Ik had dit album vroeger. Maar vaak heb ik hem niet geluisterd en ik herinnerde me er ook niet veel van. Nu hoor ik toch wel weer wat geinige nummers terug, ook al zijn de teksten soms nogal mallotig ('I know a girl called Elsa, she's into Alka-Seltzer' en dat soort door rijmdwang gestuurde flauwekul). Het is niet zo iconisch als de opvolger What's the story morning glory, maar je kunt niet altijd meteen de bal in de touwen schieten.

Ik kan hier bijna mijn schrijven over het andere Oasis album herhalen. De stem is verschrikkelijk. Maar ze vinden een goed samenspel met de muziek. Ze krijgen het voor elkaar om dat zeurende britse geluid wat weg te laten vallen zelfs. Het andere album had voor mij nog een uitschietertje. Hier heb ik niet echt een opveermomentje.

Zoals wellicht bekend, zit ik als ik moet kiezen tussen Blur en Oasis in het kamp Oasis. Ik ben fan van de muur van gitaargeluid van Noel Gallagher en bovendien schrijft de beste man prachtige liedjes (een van mijn persoonlijke favorieten is Talk Tonight, dat slechts op een compilatie-album terecht is gekomen). Dat Liam af en toe een Johnny Rotten achtige zang heeft en dat het bovendien vreselijk vervelende jongetjes zijn, doet wat mij betreft geen afbreuk aan de muziek. Je kan op dit album horen, dat nog niet alle nummers raak waren, zoals op Morning Glory dat wel het geval was (althans, dat vind ik). Maar ook op dit album zitten al een aantal heerlijke pareltjes tussen, voornamelijk bij het stevigere werk. Er staan ook een paar albumvullers tussen, maar die nemen we op de koop toe. Met nummers als Supersonic, Live Forever, Cigarettes & Alcohol en Slide Away zetten ze het Oasis geluid gelijk op de kaart. Ondanks alle imperfecties, maar omdat ik fan ben, gooien we moeiteloos de maximale score erin.

Oh hey, this is a pretty fun vibe. Nice and rocky musicality, and the lyrics are pretty fun and inventive.

You can give Oasis shit for being brit rock, but they defined brit rock. 5* (4.5 rounded up) even though later albums are better. Highlights: live forever, maybe

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.

Catchy, fun, good listen

Not too bad, enjoyed some songs even though they sounded the same 3/5

Pretty good. Not as many big hits as their next album but still quite solid

One of the strongest debuts of all time.

Sehr gleichförmog

Can appreciate Oasis and how influencial this record was. Live forever is a tune, but tbh not the biggest fan of their sound.

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

No, just no. Why is/was Brit Pop so popular?

Oasis: A Rock and Roll bland. I really dislike Oasis. Absolute arrogance, shitty takes on pretty much all aspects of music, and an endless trail of obnoxious and delusional quotes and petty infighting. Bigger than the Beatles? In what universe? Claiming to be a punk band, and particularly with this album? My god. Separate art from artist? Can't do it. Especially when the offerings are so tepid.

Definitely Maybe wasn't a big deal in the US. At least it wasn't for me. I don't think they really hit the scene until What's the Story, Morning Glory. That being said, this was a cool album. I read up on the recording of it, and they did a lot of work to get it sounding good, and I think it paid off.

meh

Sick.

A good reminder that some of the songs I remembered 🙂

👍

Mad for it

Good album made for arenas.

Typical for the time but not very memorable

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I might have had this CD when I was younger. I may rank it higher because of it.

There's a lot of quality songwriting incorporating everything from rock, to blues, to grunge, and even some jazz melodies. The album is brought down by two factors. First, almost every track is about a minute too long - the band doesn't seem to know how to end a song. Second, Cigarettes and Alcohol is a blatant rip-off of T-Rex's hit song "Bang a Gong". It's almost a carbon copy and should not be on the album. 3.5/5.0: Very Good.

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.

The soundtrack of my youth...definitely maybe

I figured this had to be on here. I guess it's better than a lot of the other britpop stuff on this list.

this is the first time I’ve actually downloaded new songs from what I’ve listened to! see list below: “Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” “Shakermaker” “Columbia” (this one was REALLY good) “Bring It on Down” (peep the long guitar solo at the end 😍) “Slide Away” this album had me crying tears of joy (not really but metaphorically speaking). it’s so 90’s alt rock which is basically my entire music taste. idk why i didn’t listen to this earlier. thank you to this album generator for forcing me to listen to this before i die. 5/5🙏

It was aicht

Pure class

Not listened to this for a while, and for good reason. This album has not aged well. I can understand that at the time this was part of the Brit pop zeitgeist but unfortunately them days are long past. Basically this is uninspiring music played by uninspiring musicians. Apart from the big hits, rock n roll and C&A, this is quite mundane and I am being generous in giving 3 stars.

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

Neither Meh or Wow. Solid rock and roll.

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

It's a classic, not only nostalgia. This is where pop and rock meet up to have a coffee. Five stars!

10 on 10.

It probably shouldn't get a 5 the be honest. But sometimes music doesn't need to be clever, or created with intelligent musicianship, sometimes it just needs to be anthemic rock.

4 - I was expecting more. I can't hate them tbh but listening to it, I do feel like they are very one dimensional. Some bangers though

Never been much of an Oasis guy but did have a sweet spot for this album, I had the CD. On relisten I find it quite uninspiring. It is very very samey, especially the drums. Cigarettes & Alcohol is catchy, but its just TRex's Bang a Gong. This album is 4 or 5 catchy hooks, that are mostly derivative of very obvious influences, drowned in horrible guitar tones. Favorite Tracks; Rock N Roll Star, Live Forever, Supersonic, Cigarettes & Alcohol 3/5

Some cool songs. After a while it can get a bit annoying, but then this subsides as well again.

It is a good debut album, expertly produced and performed. But in terms of all the great music that was coming out from 1990-1995, it's just sort of...blah. Can we please move past the Stones and the Beatles at some point? I know the answer is "no", but I still need to ask. This album would sound fine on any light rock radio station today. Bland, safe, and boring.

нормисовский поп-рок 90-х, все однообразно как один саундтрек, но это ведь не есть плохо часовая атмосфера настроения

A lot of the album sounds more like 80s music than 90s, but I think that’s mostly just because it’s britpop/rock. Some major hits in this like Shakermaker, Live Forever, and Supersonic. My favorite was Supersonic, but I was surprised at how much Portugal. The Man references Oasis - It’s easy to hear similarities in some of the melodies and occasionally lyrics.

There are some good songs on here but overall, I don't understand how it was as big as it was, especially for a debut without a dedicated fanbase. Nothing on here is anywhere close to the quality of Wonderwall or Champagne Supernova or would even lead listeners to believe they were capable of creating songs like those.

Guilty pleasure. Ok, maybe not that guilty.

Oasis, Blur and U2 are the most boring and generic bands ever to exist. Thank you.

This one actually is a 3 isn't it? Some good hits (Live Forever, Supersonic), some overrated hits (Rock and Roll Star, Cigarettes and Alcohol) and some mid songs (Everything that wasn't a single).

Another classic. I’ve listened to this many times, through the years I have started to see some of its flaws and I don’t think every moment here is a work of genius but it is definitely still definitely maybe

Certified classic

Solid album, but nothing really compelled me or changed my view of Oasis. Will always think of them as the band that made Wonderwall

Absolute bangers

This was definitely maybe a 4. Some redundancy in their songs, but I liked it.

A little disappointed it didn't have Wonderwall, but it was ok.

I think the only Oasis track I really knew was Wonderwall. I enjoyed this album. Every song kind of sounded the same, so can't be 5 stars for that reason alone, but it was a fun listen.

I like it. Mainly has a grungy sound but not as much as many other grunge bands.

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 think if I heard this today for the first time, I might be unimpressed, but I remember the effect it had when I first heard it. Some of the tracks are very much filler (e.g. Digsy's Diner, Slide Away, Married With Children), but the likes of Supersonic, Shakermaker, and Live Forever had a huge impact on me. Four stars for that.

Copy of the Beatles or their own invention?

I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would

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)

i love oasis bro

3.5★. Thoroughly fun, although relistening to the first half again and the magic seems to be fading already, so who knows if Oasis (or this album) will become something that I revisit more than once.

This record hasn’t aged well. It’s overly long and there’s too much filler. Columbia seems to go on forever, and the second verse of Supersonic includes several of the worst rhyming couplets ever written. That said, the snarl of Rock ‘n’ Roll Star and the swagger of Cigarettes and Alcohol still take me back to drunken nights in Camden in the mid nineties.

I had this on cassette back in the day along with Parklife and some US rock stuff like R.E.M. and Nirvana. Oasis peaked with this and I had lost interest by Be Here Now, but as a first record encapsulating the 90s, this still stands up. Took off a mark for the novelty song about lasagne though.

Hahahah I got tickets!!

Rock and roll classic

I like the album What's the Story Morning Glory a lot, but I don't really know this one very well. I really only recognized Live Forever. The other songs seem good, so I will need to listen again.

A good album but I find it a bit overrated. I don’t feel the whole album is as strong as others.

Iconic. Listened on Vinyl.

Ehhh

That was oasis that’s for sure

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

This says it all: https://youtu.be/UgSdj79-Bvs?si=a3JjZMJX21dOPUH7

first album i ever done heard 🗣️ tuff tuff tuff their best album easily

Simpelthen bare bundsolidt engelsk rock - det holder

The Good: Uncertainty abounds… The Bad: Well, maybe… The Ugly: Being reminded that we are old farts… I would give tons to be able to go back in time, relive the ‘90s, party my ass off, maybe pay a little more attention in class, or which concerts to attend! My musical pallet was NOT up for Oasis, probably because I was into other sounds; grunge and Texas Roadhouse mainly, Britpop, however, was lacking. Sure, Oasis has nice guitar sound, and melodies are great too. But that fahkin’ annoying voice… Also, I was living on the other side of the pond where people couldn’t really give a rats ass about Oasis or Blur or any of the wankers that believed they were the second coming of John Lennon. If I would not know the provenance of this album, just have to listen to this with “cold” ears, for the very first time, I would not change my mind… This album is not for me, and the vocals are one of the main reasons. So, am I looking forward to other Oasis albums? No. Will I hail this album as great? No. Should this album be on the list? Well, fucking YES… but that doesn’t take away the fact that I will do my best at lowering the average rating as I can’t in good faith give this album more than a 5/10, which I am up-grading to a 3*

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.

Tried to go into this with ‘fresh ears’ and an open mind, as it comes with a lot of baggage; my conclusion…poor songwriting rescued by Liam’s undoubted star quality. Every song drags itself along at exactly the same tempo as the last. The rhythm section are actually terrible. The drums are plodding and is there a bassist? The lyrics sound like they’ve been generated by AI - snippets of half remembered lines from better songwriters, cobbled together randomly so as to lose any coherent meaning. There are one or two moments of light (for example the opening riff of supersonic is amazing), but generally the music is dull. The saving grace (as mentioned already), is Liam’s delivery which against all odds still manages to make the poor songwriting sound exciting. He of course, oozes attitude… In the debate about which Gallagher brother is the real talent, there really is only one answer imo. I wish Liam had been the front man for a better band. If you played these tracks shorn of Liam’s genuinely electric presence, you would be hard pressed to find much of interest in them at all imo.

I know understand the craze of oasis

Ugh. Why would this be on a list of albums you should hear before you die for any reason other than you might off yourself after listening to it? 1/5

Classic 90s rock. Nostalgia. Could be on the soundtrack of Clueless.

Someone said this album "defined a generation"; well it wasn't my generation. I've always regarded Oasis as a band that produced "a few good singles" and listening to this, the first studio album of theirs I have listened to, confirms it for me. There really is no depth here. The musicianship is "high school rock band" level, there is a lot of noise but it is all quite simplistic. I didn't dislike it, so I suppose, grudgingly, a 3/5.

maaaaybe i dont really wanna knoooow

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.

Another solid pop rock outing by the band, not quite full of hits as some of the other release though. Oasis introduced their style on this debut, which is light and airy British pop, with nice song structures and positive lyrical themes. Nothing is too good on this album, but there is also nothing bad, it's a light listen.

Ok but pretty bland for 90s pop rock

fire

In classic Oasis fashion, this isn't super exciting but it is easy to listen to. Overall, an enjoyable album even if it isn't super technical or advanced.

Хороший интересный и звучит не старо

cool

I was only 7 when this came out, and in a super conservative American household to boot, so I don’t really remember this coming out, but what an absolute game changer it must have been. It’s such a contrast to grunge and most of the American rock scene at the time. These blokes just burst into the world with so much confidence. Perhaps a bit more confidence than earned, but that’s part of what makes Oasis so appealing. I do think What’s The Story Morning Glory is the band’s magnum opus, but this is a triumph as well. Rock And Roll Star is the perfect intro to the band. Live Forever and Supersonic are iconic classics. Cigarettes and Alcohol is a song that I took too much to heart in college. A brilliant debut from a band that’s probably going to make a bijilion dollars this year.

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

Live Forever tiene un pedacito en mi corazón, se que no es la super revolución músical. La guitarra es muy animada y pegajosa, mientras que las vocales de Liam me son nostalgicas. Disfrutable, pero nada que me vuele la cabeza,

Uh yeah that’s perfect… to me

Was it good? Definitely. Are Oasis great? Maybe?

Live Forever is incredible. The others range from pretty good to meh

Writing music with your brother so you can explore the hard questions in life. Like, “how does it feel when you’re inside of me?”

Sounds like they're trying to bridge the gap between grunge and indie rock, and didn't do either particularly well. Here's the funniest thing tho - In the remastered version, they must have remixed it to crank up the whiney voices! What a goof! ...what do you mean that's just how they sound?

неплохо. но сложилось ощущение "загрязнённости" звуковой - будто много ненужных звуков.

Rock 'n' roll star, cigarettes and alcohol, and slide away were my favourites. Overall I think the album is pretty good but not something I'd listen to every day.

Huh... Wasn't expecting it to be enjoyable... Dull at times but good overall

4.6/5 i've heard a few songs off this album but this was the first time i listened to it in full and i loved it! so many bangers through and through! i really, really enjoyed Slide Away. long term tho, i think it would be a bit exhausting to listen to. it’s loud, distorted and noisy. but i was in the right mood for it today and really enjoyed it. i even listened to the morning glory album straight after (which i thiiink i like better?!). i know that the way they sing is kind of their thing but i really enjoyed the songs where the voices were more “normal”. then again, LASAAAAANNYYYYAAAA is quite fun haha. in other words; i need to listen to this a few more times to see how i continue to get on with it xD i’ll rate it a weak 5. edit: it’s going down to a 4 after having gone back to it today. solid album still but not a 5 to me.

J’aime le rock pop d’Oasis, mais, après What the Story (Morning Glory), je me demande pourquoi cet album-ci se retrouve dans le palmarès également… Ils me paraissent très similaires

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

Boring

Oasis - Definitely Maybe First time hearing their music other than Wonderwall, and it's way better than I expected. Almost every song here are highlights, really consistent all throughout with it's great riffs and hooks that this album offers. Overall, this is really great! 1.- Rock 'N' Roll Star = 9/10 2.- Shakermaker = 9/10 3.- Live Forever = 9/10 4.- Up In The Sky = 8/10 5.- Columbia = 10/10 6.- Supersonic = 8/10 7.- Bring It On Down = 9/10 8.- Cigarettes & Alcohol = 8/10 9.- Digsy's Dinner = 7/10 10.- Slide Away = 10/10 11.- Married With Children = 9/10 FINAL SCORE: 8.7/10

It was fun and good oasis is fun idk i don't have much else to say

Honestly don't love it. In parts, it's just a bit noisy. Definitely some really strong songs, but some just push the distorted guitar sound too far. Excessive use of feedback too. Still some great songs. 6/10

There’s a few rough spots in this one. But it doesn’t matter, it was a seismic moment for a band that was about to become the biggest in the world.

I like Oasis as much as the next person and there are some good songs on this, but I'd daresay Morning Glory is superior...

It's a cool and pleasant Britpop album.

I Definitely Maybe Liked this album

Has hits, but not really my style

After initially not loving this and it's sonic mush recording, I was pummeled into submission by a wall of guitars and hooks. I didn't see it coming

Meh

Love Forever is s tier. Great fun modern era rock n roll

Track listing : 1 - Rock N Roll Star 9/10 2 - Shakermaker 8/10 3 - Live Forever 10/10 4 - Up In The Sky 8/10 5 - Columbia 9/10 6 - Supersonic 10/10 7 - Bring It On Down 8/10 8 - Cigarettes And Alcohol 8/10 9 - Digsy’s Dinner 8/10 10 - Slide Away 10/10 11 - Married With Children 7/10

Nothing wrong with Oasis.

I love it - most people do. Those that don’t love it, don’t have ears

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?!

Even the best Brit pop is too much brit pop

Pretty good Live forever is a heater

Strong album