(What's the Story) Morning Glory?

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(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? cover
Studio album by Oasis
Released 2 October 1995
Recorded March 1995, May–June 1995 at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales
Genre Britpop
Length 50:03
Label Creation/Big Brother (U.K)
Epic (U.S.)
Producer Owen Morris
Noel Gallagher
Professional reviews
Oasis chronology
Definitely Maybe
(1994)		 (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
(1995)		 Be Here Now
(1997)
Singles from (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
  1. "Some Might Say"
    Released: 24 April 1995
  2. "Roll with It"
    Released: 14 August 1995
  3. "Morning Glory"
    Released: 15 September 1995 (Australia only)
  4. "Wonderwall"
    Released: 30 October 1995
  5. "Don't Look Back in Anger"
    Released: 19 February 1996
  6. "Champagne Supernova"
    Released: 13 May 1996 (Australia and USA only)

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by the English rock band Oasis. Released on 2 October 1995 in the UK, the album was Oasis' most enduring commercial success, charting at #1 in the UK and #4 in the U.S., selling 347,000 copies in its first week and 19 million copies worldwide as of 2007.[1] It is the third biggest-selling album in UK chart history, and has gone 4x platinum in the United States.[2][3]

Album singles "Some Might Say", "Roll with It", " Wonderwall", and "Don't Look Back in Anger" were hits in the UK, with "Some Might Say" being the band's first UK number-one. "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova" went gold in the United States. The cover photo was taken on Berwick Street in Soho, London,[4] a London street known for its independent record shops. The two men on the cover are Sean Rowley and Owen Morris.

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[edit] History

Main article: The Battle of Britpop

The success of Morning Glory catapulted Oasis from being a successful Britpop band to being one of the biggest bands in Britain, with substantial international fame, and considerable press coverage in the mainstream and music press. The band played several large open air concerts in the UK during 1996, including two nights at Knebworth in front of a combined audience of 250,000 people (125,000 each night); at the time, they were the biggest gigs ever held for a single band on UK soil. Over 2.6 million people had applied to buy tickets.[5] Noel reflected that it wouldn't be possible to top this. "For a six-week period building up to that gig we were the biggest band in the world," he said "We were bigger than, dare I say it, fucking God."[6]

[edit] Reception

Like Definitely Maybe, the album was met with massive critical acclaim, ecstatic praise from fans, earning the band the label of "the biggest band in the entire world".[citation needed] The album also debuted at #1 on the British music charts and stayed there for almost a year.

In 1997, Morning Glory was named the fifth greatest album of all time in the "Music of the Millennium" poll, conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at number 8, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums Ever" list. In 1999, the editors of Q declared it the "album of the decade". The readers of Q placed it eighth again on the 2006 top 100 greatest albums of all time list. In 2003, the album was ranked number 376 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2008, a poll conducted by Q magazine and HMV to find the best ever British album put the album in second place behind Definitely Maybe.[7]

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Noel Gallagher except where stated.

  1. "Hello" (Noel Gallagher/Gary Glitter/Mike Leander) – 3:23
  2. "Roll with It" – 4:00
  3. "Wonderwall" – 4:19
  4. "Don't Look Back in Anger" – 4:48
  5. "Hey Now" – 5:42
  6. Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 1") – 0:45
  7. "Some Might Say" – 5:29
  8. "Cast No Shadow" – 4:52
  9. "She's Electric" – 3:41
  10. "Morning Glory" – 5:04
  11. Untitled (aka "The Swamp Song - Excerpt 2") – 0:40
  12. "Champagne Supernova" – 7:30

[edit] Notes

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"Champagne Supernova"

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  • Tracks 6 and 11 are officially untitled. The track listing displays no title for these songs, merely a blank space (although in the Mexican edition of the album they both appear as "The Swamp Song"). The excerpts from "The Swamp Song" are parts of the instrumental B-side to the "Wonderwall" single.
  • The vinyl LP edition of the album features a bonus track, "Bonehead's Bank Holiday". This song appears as the seventh track on the album, immediately after the 43-second untitled track.
  • "Step Out" had to be removed from the album at the last minute. The song, sung by Noel, was intended to have been the original track 8 (after "Some Might Say" and before "Cast No Shadow"), but was removed because the chorus was similar to that of Stevie Wonder's 1965 track "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". The track was eventually released as a B-side on Oasis' 1996 single "Don't Look Back in Anger", with an amended song writing credit of "Gallagher/Wonder/Cosby/May", and was included on the live album Familiar to Millions.

[edit] Singles

Information
"Some Might Say"
"Roll with It"
"Morning Glory" (AUS only)
"Wonderwall"
"Don't Look Back in Anger"
"Champagne Supernova" (AUS and US only)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] Album

Year Chart Peak
1995 UK Albums Chart 1
1995 The Billboard 200 4[8]
1996 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1

[edit] Singles

Year Single Chart Peak
1995 "Morning Glory"
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 24
1995 "Some Might Say"
UK Singles Chart 1
1995 "Wonderwall"
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 9
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 1
1996 "Champagne Supernova"
Billboard Adult Top 40 33
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 8
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 1
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 10
1996 "Don't Look Back in Anger"
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 10
The Billboard Hot 100 55
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 33
UK Singles Chart 1
1996 "Wonderwall"
Billboard Adult Top 40 30
Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 17
The Billboard Hot 100 8
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 10
UK Singles Chart 2

[edit] Certifications

[edit] Release history

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? was released in various countries in October 1995.

Country Date Label Format Catalogue numbers
United Kingdom 2 October 1995 Creation Records CD CRECD 189
LP CRELP 189
United States 3 October 1995 Epic Records CD EK 67351
United Kingdom 14 August 2000 Big Brother CD (reissue) RKIDCD007
LP (reissue) RKIDLP007

[edit] References

  1. ^ The BRIT Awards 2007 with MasterCard honours Oasis with ‘The Outstanding Contribution to Music’ Award
  2. ^ The BPI's Top Ten UK Album Bestsellers
  3. ^ Rock The Net:Oasis
  4. ^ London's wash and brush-up
  5. ^ 90s Rock Knebworth Rock House
  6. ^ Q Magazine June 2007 - Pg79
  7. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7249473.stm
  8. ^ Oasis > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums
  9. ^ (What's the Story) Morning Glory? 14x Platinum
  10. ^ Rock The Net:Oasis
Preceded by
The Memory of Trees by Enya		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
February 4 - March 9, 1996		 Succeeded by
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
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