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Time Flies... 1994–2009

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Disc one

01: Supersonic
02: Roll With It
03: Live Forever
04: Wonderwall
05: Stop Crying Your Heart Out
06: Cigarettes & Alcohol
07: Songbird
08: Don't Look Back In Anger
09: The Hindu Times
10: Stand By Me
11: Lord Don't Slow Me Down
12: Shakermaker
13: All Around The World

Disc two

01: Some Might Say
02: The Importance Of Being Idle
03: D'You Know What I Mean?
04: Lyla
05: Let There Be Love
06: Go Let It Out
07: Who Feels Love?
08: Little By Little
09: The Shock Of The Lightning
10: She Is Love
11: Whatever
12: I'm Outta Time
13: Falling Down
14: Sunday Morning Call (hidden track beginning two minutes after Falling Down)

Disc two: Japan release version

14: Don't Go Away (Including aforementioned hidden track)

Disc two: United States and Canadian release version

01: Champagne Supernova

Champagne Supernova is listed first track on Disc 2 of the United States And Canadian version. The United States And Canada version does not contain Sunday Morning Call as a hidden track due to time limitations.

Disc 3: DVD

The DVD includes all the music videos from Supersonic to Falling Down, and in addition, previous unreleased live video versions of Gas Panic! and Little by Little. Also included is commentary on the music videos by both Liam and Gallagher.

Two iTunes Live Festival videos of Half The World Away and Slide Away are only available with the iTunes Deluxe Edition.

Disc 4: iTunes Live: London Festival

01: F*ckin' In The Bushes
02: "Rock 'n' Roll Star
03: Lyla
04: The Shock Of The Lightning
05: Cigarettes & Alcohol
06: Roll With It
07: Waiting For The Rapture
08: The Masterplan
09: Songbird
10: Slide Away
11: Morning Glory
12: My Big Mouth
13: Half The World Away
14: I'm Outta Time
15: Wonderwall
16: Supersonic
17: Live Forever
18: Don't Look Back In Anger
19: Champagne Supernova
20: I Am The Walrus

Notes

All tracks recorded live at the iTunes Festival in the London Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, Camden Town, London, England in 2009.

Tracks 1, 7, 12 and 20 are only available with the iTunes Deluxe Edition.

Tracks 5, 8, 10, 16 and 17 were previously released as part of the iTunes Live: London Festival '09 EP.
 
Release Date: June 14th 2010

Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1

Time Flies... 1994–2009 is a compilation album by Oasis. Released on June 14th 2010 by Big Brother Recordings, the album contains all twenty seven UK singles released by the band between 1994 and 2009, including Whatever and Lord Don't Slow Me Down, which had previously never appeared on an Oasis studio album. Sunday Morning Call is not listed anywhere on the artwork but appears as a hidden track on track fourteen of the second disc.

Five different versions of the album were released, the two-disc CD version, DVD, the deluxe box set, five-LP box set and the iTunes deluxe edition. A box set featuring postcards of the sleeves of every UK Oasis single was released concurrently with the album.

In Japan, Time Flies entered the charts at number two, with first-week sales of 59,348 copies while in the United Kingdom, it entered the charts at number one, with first-week sales of 101,297. It was the 900th album ever to top the UK Albums Chart.

The Masterplan

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01: Acquiesce
02: Underneath The Sky
03: Talk Tonight
04: Going Nowhere
05: Fade Away
06: The Swamp Song
07: I Am The Walrus (Live)
08: Listen Up
09: Rockin' Chair
10: Half The World Away
11: (It's Good) To Be Free
12: Stay Young
13: Headshrinker
14: The Masterplan

Release Date:  November 2nd 1998

Highest Chart Position: Number 2 in the UK


Tracks 1, 3 and 13 taken from the Some Might Say single.


Track 2 taken from the Don't Look Back In Anger single.

Track 4 taken from the Stand By Me single.

Tracks 5, 7 and 8 taken from the Cigarettes & Alcohol single, but track 7 is 1:50 shorter here and track 8 is 18 seconds shorter.

Tracks 6 and 14 taken from the Wonderwall single.

Track 9 taken from the Roll With It single.

Track 10 and 11 taken from the Whatever single.
Track 12 taken from the D'You Know What I Mean? single.

Photography By – James Burns
Design, Art Direction – Brian Cannon
Design [Assistant], Art Direction [Assistant] – Matthew Sankey
Sleeve Notes – Paul Du Noyer

The Masterplan is a compilation album from Oasis, comprising B-sides frpm singles which never made it onto an album. The album was originally intended for release only in areas such as the United States and Japan, where the tracks were only available on expensive European import singles. It was first released on November 2nd 1998. The Masterplan reached  number two on the Official UK Album Charts in the UK.

Four songs from the album appear on compilation album Stop the Clocks.

Trivia

The versions of Listen Up and I Am The Walrus are edits of their original releases on the Cigarettes & Alcohol single. Listen Up has eight bars removed during the guitar solo (4:3–4:39). I Am The Walrus, with a fade-out, finishes at 6:25, whereas the original runs fully to a natural conclusion at 8:14.

I Am The Walrus was given its correct recording location and date on the sleevenotes. On its original release on the Cigarettes & Alcohol single, the location listed was the Glasgow Cathouse, in June 1994. However, in promotional interviews for The Masterplan, Noel revealed that it was actually recorded at the soundcheck for a gig at a Sony Music seminar at Gleneagles, Scotland, in February 1994. He said the credit was changed because he thought "recorded at a Sony seminar" would "look shit".

Chris Griffiths of The Real People was given a co-writing credit for Rockin' Chair. On its original release on the Roll With It single in 1995, Noel Gallagher was credited as the sole songwriter.

Acquiesce was released as a radio single in the United States, and a promotional video was created for this purpose. It consisted of a live performance of the song from Manchester's G-MEX, recorded on December 14th 1997, with various behind-the-scenes footage of the band on tour. For the video, both Liam's and Noel's vocal tracks were overdubbed over the originals recorded live in Manchester.

All of the B-sides from the Cigarettes & Alcohol and the UK version of Some Might Say singles appear on this album.

Familiar To Millions

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Disc one

01: F*ckin' In The Bushes
02: Go Let It Out
03: Who Feels Love?
04: Supersonic
05: Shakermaker
06: Acquiesce
07: Step Out
08: Gas Panic!
09: Roll With It
10: Stand By Me

Disc two

01: Wonderwall
02: Cigarettes & Alcohol
03: Don't Look Back In Anger
04: Live Forever
05: Hey Hey, My My
06: Champagne Supernova
07: Rock 'N' Roll Star
08: Helter Skelter

Release Date: November 13th 2000

Highest Chart Position: Number 5 in the UK

Each of the seven different formats released (plus the 2001 highlights CD) had a different colour for its own cover art.

The vinyl release is grey
The cassette release is yellow
The double CD release is red
The mini disc release is light green
The VHS release is white
The DVD  release is light blue
The VCD release is white/light blue
The single CD version released in 2001 is violet

Familiar to Millions is a live album by Oasis from their July 21st 2000 concert at Wembley Stadium.

It debuted at number five in the UK charts with 57,000 copies sold in the first week.

The album was initially released simultaneously on six formats: DVD, VHS, CD, double cassette, triple vinyl and MiniDisc.

The CD features an extra bonus track, a cover of The Beatles' song Helter Skelter, which was recorded at the Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, USA on April 15th 2000.

A highlights CD was released on October 1st 2001 to celebrate Oasis' tenth anniversary as a band. F*ckin' In The Bushes, Step Out, Stand By Me, Hey Hey, My My, and Helter Skelter were all omitted.

As Liam let the audience sing the choruses of Wonderwall and also changed the words to other parts of the song ("By now you should have somehow realised not to sniff glue" / "And all the lights that light the way are doin' me f*ckin' 'ead in!") at the 22 July gig, the version on the various audio formats features a different vocal track to the original one recorded at Wembley. This also applies to Noel's backing vocals. Most of these overdubbed vocals were recorded at Oasis' gig at the Yokohama Arena, Kanagawa, Japan on 5 March 2000. Only one line ("I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now") in the first verse is from the actual Wembley gig, as Liam failed to sing this line correctly in the Yokohama performance.

The audio version of the album is also missing various bits of between-track banter.

Dig Out Your Soul

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01: Bag It Up
02: The Turning
03: Waiting For The Rapture
04: The Shock Of The Lightning
05: I'm Outta Time
06: (Get Off Your) High Horse
07: Falling Down
08: To Be Where There's Life
09: Ain't Got Nothin
10: The Nature Of Reality
11: Soldier On

Bonus tracks

Japanese version & Limited Korea Tour Edition

12: I Believe In All
13: The Turning (Alt. version No. 4)

Box set bonus CD

01: Lord Don't Slow Me Down
02: The Turning (The Jagz Kooner Remix)
03: Boy With The Blues
04: Falling Down (The Chemical Brothers Remix)
05: The Shock Of The Lightning (The Jagz Kooner Remix)
06: I Believe in All
07: To Be Where There's Life
08: The Turning
09: Waiting For The Rapture
10: The Shock Of The Lightning (Primal Scream Remix (Italian Version Only)

Box set bonus DVD

01: Gold & Silver & Sunshine (The Making Of Dig Out Your Soul)
02: The Making Of The Shock Of The Lightning
03: The Shock Of The Lightning

Release Date: October 6th 2008

Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1


Oasis

Liam Gallagher – vocals (1–2, 4–5, 8–11)
Noel Gallagher – electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, electronics, drums (1, 3, 11), melodica (11), lead vocals (3, 6, 7), backing vocals
Gem Archer – electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, bass guitar
Andy Bell – bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, tamboura

Additional personnel

Zak Starkey – drums (1–10)
Jay Darlington – mellotron, electronics (7)
The National In-Choir – backing vocals (2)
Dave Sardy – production, mixing
Ryan Castle – engineering
Andy Brohard – Pro Tools editing
Cameron Barton – engineering
Chris Bolster – engineering
Ghian Wright – engineering
Ian Cooper – mastering
Alec Gomez/Lawrie Medina – assistant

Design

Artwork [Album Art] – Julian House

Dig Out Your Soul is the seventh and final studio album by Oasis. It was released on October 6th 2008.

The first single The Shock Of The Lightning was released on September 29th 2008. In promotion of the album, the band embarked on a world tour, debuting in Seattle, Washington at the WaMu Theater.

Dig Out Your Soul received positive reviews from critics for its harder rock and psychedelic rock sound that the band created. it and was a commercial success. The album was supported by a world tour, debuting in Seattle at the WaMu Theater, and continuing for eighteen months. In 2009, the tour concluded (due to Noel Gallagher quitting the band) with a summer of major dates at some of the UK's biggest stadiums, Wembley Stadium, Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, and Edinburgh's Murrayfield, along with three hometown shows at Manchester's Heaton Park.

Concept and sound

In a January 2007 interview with the NME, Noel Gallagher gave new details on his vision for the album: "All the tunes I've written recently have been on the kind of acoustic side, you know? But for the next record I really fancy doing a record where we just completely throw the kitchen stink at it," he explained. "We haven't done that since Be Here Now. I'd like to get, like, a one hundred piece orchestra and choirs and all that stuff. I think since Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants we've been trying to prove a point of just bass, drums, guitar and vocals and nothing fancy. But I kind of like fancy! I'd like to make an absolutely f**king colossal album. You know? Like literally two orchestras, stuff like that."

In October 2007 Noel spoke about the album to BBC 6 Music: "Funnily enough, we all write separately, but for some reason all the songs sound like they've got a common thread. We've been focusing round the grooves more this time, the last album was quite 'songy,' if that makes any sense, I don't know. But it was quite 'songy:' The Importance Of Being Idle, Let There Be Love - it was quite a British, retro, 60s sounding album. This is kinda focusing round the grooves more. Saying that, we've only done two tracks but all the demos that we've done are great." Noel also revealed details about his lyrics for his new songs: "I've literally got nothing left to write about: I've wrote about being a youth, and I've wrote about being a rock star, and I've wrote about living life in the big city. I've been re-visiting some of my more psychedelic trips of a younger man, because I remember them all you see...putting them to music."

In a November 2007 interview with Reuters, Liam Gallagher revealed more details on how the record is going: "All the songs are wrote, this record's gonna be f*cking rocking. There's no acoustic on it, man. We rehearsed about ten tunes before coming in. Three are mine. Some are Noel's, some are Gem's, some are Andy's. We're there for a long time, so we just keep picking em off the tree, man. Some are sounding really f*cking heavy, and then we're picking some out, and you go, 'Well that doesn't sit with that, right.' So we just keep moving about. We've got plenty of songs. We're not gonna go bored." Gallagher also revealed that the record,"Will have everything thrown at it. Let's just hope that Noel's learnt his lesson in the studio this time!"

In an interview on June 15th 2008 with talkSPORT, Noel said the album was "colossal", "rocking'" and added "It's gonna sound great live, which is the most important thing." In further interviews, Gallagher was also quick to challenge the belief that the album would be a continuation of the band's Britpop history, claiming "It's not Britpop... some of it sounds a bit glam. There's no pop singles on it."

Recording

Sessions were due to begin in July 2007, but it is believed proper band sessions did not begin until the start of August, during which Noel and Liam were photographed outside Abbey Road Studios with fans.

Sessions were halted in September 2007 due to the birth of Noel Gallagher's second child, he told BBC 6 Music: "We done a few tracks in Abbey Road about six weeks ago. Then we've taken some time off for me to get acquainted with my new son and then we start back in Abbey Road on November 5th. - we'll probably work through a couple of months there, have Christmas off, then go and mix it and see where we're at."

On November 8, 2007, the band's official website confirmed that they returned to the studio on November 5th, and they were working with Don't Believe the Truth producer Dave Sardy.

In Liam Gallagher's Reuters interview on November 13th 2007, he revealed more about the expected timespan of the recording sessions: "We've got six weeks there, seven weeks. We'll have it done by then, without a doubt. It'll be done by Christmas. It'll be done by the 15th of December, if everything goes well. Then we'll have Christmas off, and we'll go to L.A., mix it and maybe do a bit more over there. But not too much."

Oasis announced, through its website on February 5th 2008, that the band was in Los Angeles to finish off recording the album and to mix the record.

In a February 28th 2008 radio interview for LA radio station Indie 103.1 with former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, Liam, Noel and Gem said mixing had been slowed down by the equipment constantly breaking, but that they hoped to be finished in a couple of weeks.

In an appearance on Russell Brand's BBC Radio 2 show on March 8th 2008, Noel declared he would be going home on March 12th, suggesting that work was finished in LA and, subsequently, on the record, although this wasn't confirmed. Oasis had also booked tour dates; a further indication the album was finished. Also in the interview Noel said that the album title came from one of Gem's lyrics on his song To Be Where There's Life.

In February 2008, Liam Gallagher left LA and returned to the UK to marry his girlfriend, Nicole Appleton. He did so without notifying any other members of the band and as a result, according to Noel Gallagher, two songs were left incomplete - I Wanna Live In A Dream (In My Record Machine) and Come On (It's Alright) - due to Liam's absence, as he was unavailable to record vocals. These songs were intended for inclusion on the album, but instead were scrapped and two other songs - Ain't Got Nothin' and (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady - which were originally slated as b-sides, were included instead. However, Noel has stated that these two unfinished songs will most likely be included on the next Oasis album.

On April 14th 2008 Noel Gallagher announced in an interview that the album was indeed completed and the band were in discussions with several record companies with which to release it. In August 2008, Reprise Records announced that it would distribute Dig Out Your Soul in North America.

Critical reactions for the album were mostly positive. In an article for the July edition of Clash, BBC Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman said she thought the band were "back on total firing form", adding that the songs were "huge", that the first single would "hit you like a tonne weight and just really reminded me of when I heard stuff like "Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Supersonic" for the first time", and to "get excited 'cos it will blow you away, and also that Liam had "properly acquired the title of 'great songwriter'."

In Noel Gallagher's June 15th 2008 talkSPORT interview, presenter Andy Goldstein said he had heard a few tracks and that he thought it was some of the best work the band had ever done.

Reception

BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe announced the release dates of the album and the first single on his show on June 24th 2008. When doing so, he briefly spoke about the album saying that a few people at Radio 1 had heard a few of the tracks - he declared, "Oh yes! Oasis are officially back and in rocking form."

In an interview with Noel Gallagher from NME magazine dated August 6th 2008, the article claimed that the forthcoming album is "really great" and "a huge step forward from Don't Believe the Truth.

Jonathan Cohen of Billboard says that with Dig Out Your Soul, the group "[Gets] back to its stripped-down rock roots" and that the opening song, Bag It Up harks back to Definitely Maybe's Columbia.

Luke Bainbridge of The Observer gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying "You could say that if Definitely Maybe was their Stone Roses, Dig Out Your Soul is their Second Coming. It won't win them any new fans, but those that believed the truth last time will dig this."

On September 11th 2008, 45 second previews of every song on the album were made available on the Sony Japan website, but were quickly taken down again. Whether this was intentional or not is unknown. The album was uploaded in its entirety on the official Oasis MySpace page on October 1st, and was also made to Oasis community members on the band's official site's Radio Supernova.

Alan McGee, Oasis' former manager has recently hailed the album as the "true follow-up to (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, completing the elusive and perfect rock'n'roll trilogy that began with Definitely Maybe." in his column in the Observer, McGee compared the album to The Beatles' Revolver and The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet, McGee also wrote Dig Out Your Soul works because Noel has returned to the original inspiration of his youth for his songwriting. Definitely Maybe was about their dreams of rock'n'roll stardom, Morning Glory was about achieving the dream, Be Here Now was the coked-up aftermath, now Dig Out Your Soul is a glance to a psychedelic yesterday, again. For me, the past four post-Morning Glory albums never captured the magic of the first two. Songs from the past five albums had moments of pop reverberations and incredible songwriting, but were never complete statements. With Dig Out Your Soul, the notorious Oasis brothers have found their mojo. It's back, without a doubt."

Ryan Adams compared the album to Kid A, claiming "The first time I heard Kid A I went ‘OK, I have no fucking idea what kind of music this is but it's moving me. It sounds like a revelation.’ That's what the new Oasis stuff sounds like, it sounds like they have entered into some strange uncanny spiritual crazy door and have just lost themselves completely to it and it is marvellous."

The album also received more great reviews after several days from its official release, with critics arguing that Dig Out Your Soul is "Oasis sounding as pumped and as hard as they've ever been" and that "it seems Oasis have made something that can happily play along side Morning Glory."

Not all the reviews have been positive though, Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone magazine gave the album a 2 1/2 out of 5 stars. Rosen said of the new album that, "Oasis' latest is heavier on groove than normal, and there are a couple of gripping moments, especially Liam's stately, Lennonesque ballad I'm Outta Time. But for the most part, Dig Out Your Soul is an almost comically generic Oasis release, from its preponderance of plodding midtempo rockers (Bag It Up, Waiting For The Rapture) to the vaguely Indian raga-flavored psychedelic anthems (To Be Where There's Life). Then there's the issue of Liam's "philosophising" — he's entered the Maharishi phase of his Beatles worship, clogging songs with beatitudes like "Space and time and here and now/Are only in your mind."

In the UK, the album sold 90,000 copies on its first day of release, making it the second fastest selling album of 2008, behind Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. It debuted on the UK album chart number one, with first week sales of 200,866 copies. The album debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 53,000 copies sold. It is the highest chart position of any Oasis album in the US since 1997's Be Here Now which debuted at number two but fewer total opening week sales than Don't Believe The Truth.

Heathen Chemistry

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01: The Hindu Times
02:  Force Of Nature
03:  Hung In A Bad Place
04: Stop Crying Your Heart Out
05: Songbird
06: Little By Little
07: A Quick Peep
08: (Probably) All In The Mind
09: She Is Love
10: Born On A Different Cloud
11: Better Man

Release Date: July 1st 2002

Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1

​Oasis

Liam Gallagher – vocals, tambourine , acoustic guitar
Noel Gallagher – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 2, 6, 9, 13, drums on track 11
Gem Archer – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Andy Bell – bass guitar
Alan White – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

Paul Stacey – mellotron on track 1, piano on tracks 2–3 and 11, Hammond organ on track 6
Mike Rowe – piano on tracks 4 and 10, pump organ on track 9, Hammond organ on tracks 8–10
Johnny Marr – guitar solo on track 8, slide guitar on track 10, guitar and backing vocals on track 11
London Session Orchestra – strings on track 4

Design

Design [Cover Design] – Noel Gallagher, Simon Halfon
Photography By [Additional] – Andrew MacPherson, Jay Brooks, Pennie Smith, Simon Halfon

Heathen Chemistry is the fifth studio album by Oasis, released on July 1st 2002. It ended up in the top ten best selling albums of 2002.

Heathen Chemistry was received more warmly than the previous Oasis album, Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, by both fans and critics alike. It spawned four singles, each of which made the top three in the UK charts: The Hindu Times, their sixth number one single in the UK, Stop Crying Your Heart Out, a song made famous as it was played on the BBC when the English football team were knocked out of the World Cup, the Double A-Side, sung by Noel — Little By Little/She Is Love and Songbird, the first single written by Liam Gallagher.

This album was the last one to feature the band's drummer, Alan White, who left in early 2004, with Noel Gallagher claiming White's commitment to the band wasn't up to scratch. He was replaced with Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey.

Album History

The title of the album, according to Noel, came from a t-shirt he bought in Ibiza which featured a logo reading, The Society Of Heathen Chemists. Similarly, the name of the first single, The Hindu Times, originated from a logo on a t-shirt that read the same thing, which Noel saw during a photo shoot for GQ's 100 Greatest Guitarists edition.

The album was recorded during 2001–early 2002, and was the first studio album written and recorded with the two new members, Andy Bell and Gem Archer. Bell and Archer wrote one track each, and Liam Gallagher contributed three, thus the album signalled the end of Noel Gallagher songs dominating Oasis albums (though Liam had previously contributed Little James on Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants).

The release of the album was overshadowed by an internet leak of all eleven tracks almost three months prior to release. However, listeners of the commercially released album heard slight differences to two tracks, Little By Little and Better Man.

Recording

Heathen Chemistry was recorded during 2001–early 2002 and is the first Oasis album to have significant writing contributions from members other than chief songwriter Noel Gallagher. Liam Gallagher contributed three songs, Andy Bell and Gem Archer contributed one song each as well.

The band headed into Wheeler End Studios to begin working on their fifth studio album. Noel tells the NME that Liam is delaying the process. "I was really happy with [the album] until recently, but I'm fucking livid now," he says. "I finished my bits three-and-a-half months ago, and then we handed it over to Liam, and in three-and-a-half months he's done nothing. Just concentrated on his drinking habit again. It's just drifting at the moment. All the backing tracks are done and it's a fantastic album of instrumentals. Hand it over to the singer and it just slows down and becomes this one really long, drawn-out, painful process. So, to be honest with you, I don't know when it'll come out now. It's down to him.".

Despite the setbacks during the recording process, when the album was finally complete Noel was confident that it was the group's second best album to date, behind their debut Definitely Maybe.

The length of track eleven, Better Man is 38:03; this is because of a hidden track called The Cage, which begins after 30 minutes of silence.

In the Japanese and digital versions, "Better Man" and the hidden track The Cage were separated and the 30-minute silence was removed.

Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants

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01: F*ckin' In The Bushes
02: Go Let It Out
03: Who Feels Love?
04: Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is
05: Little James
06: Gas Panic!
07: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
08: Sunday Morning Call
09: I Can See A Liar
10: Roll It Over

Release Date: February 28th 2000

Highest Chart Position: Number 1 in the UK

Oasis

Liam Gallagher – vocals (2–6, 9–10)
Noel Gallagher – lead and rhythm guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals (7–8), co-lead vocals (4), production
Alan White – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Paul Stacey – keyboards, additional lead guitar (1), backwards guitar (3), bass guitar (3, 6, 9–10), additional acoustic guitar (7)
P. P. Arnold and Linda Lewis – backing vocals (1, 4, 10)
Mark Coyle – electric sitar (4), twelve-string acoustic guitar (5)
Mark Feltham – harmonica (6)
Charlotte Glasson – flute (6)

Production

Mark Stent – production, engineering
Paul Stacey – engineering
Wayne Wilkins – assistant engineering
Paul "P-Dub" Walton – assistant engineering
Aaron Pratley – assistant engineering
Howie Weinberg – mastering
Jan "Stan" Kybert – programming, Pro Tools
Steve "Rambo" Robinson – studio assistant

Design

Art Direction – Noel Gallagher
Art Direction, Artwork [Photo/collage] – Simon Halfon
Photography By [Chateau] – Jill Furmanovsky
Photography By [Cover] – Andrew MacPherson 

Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants is the fourth studio album by Oasis, released on February 28th 2000.

In 1999, the year preceding the final release of this album, Oasis had lost two founding members Bonehead and Guigsy and hired a new producer (Mark "Spike" Stent). As a result of these changes, the album's tone was more experimental, with electronica and psychedelic influences. The darker feeling and psychedelic tone of this album is a departure from earlier Britpop-influenced Oasis records.

Songs such as the Indian-influenced Who Feels Love?, the progressive Gas Panic! and the electronica Go Let It Out depart from Oasis' old Britpop style. The album on it's release was the sixth fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. Despite becoming their fourth number one album in the UK, it is one of the band's lowest-selling albums.

Trivia

The album's title was taken from the words of Sir Isaac Newton: "If I can see further than anyone else, it is only because I am standing on the shoulders of giants". Noel Gallagher saw the quote on the side of a £2 coin whilst in a pub and liked it so much he thought it would be a suitable name for Oasis' new album. He then wrote the name on the side of a cigarette packet whilst drunk. When he awoke in the morning, he realised he had written "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants — A Bum Title".
 
Due to the departure of Bonehead and Guigsy from the band whilst the album was in production, their parts had to be re-recorded, for legal reasons. Thus, the album only features the Gallagher brothers and Alan White. The sleeve of the album also features them.

The first track, F*ckin' In The Bushes, is featured on the soundtrack for the film Snatch, and is regularly used in introductions for high-tempo events, due to its quick tempo and loud volume.

In the April 2006 issue of Q magazine, the album was the only Oasis record to feature in a countdown of the "50 worst albums of all time". It was placed at number forty six and described as "the low point of their fallow years", despite the fact that the album had been favourably reviewed in the magazine at its time of release and featured in the magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2000" list. In response to the Q feature, Noel has said, "Even though it wasn't our finest hour, it's a good album born through tough times. I worked harder on that album than anything before and anything since."

A notable B-Side was Lets All Make Believe. This song was on the Go Let It Out single and is said to be one of the bands finest songs. Q Magazine declared it the greatest ever "lost" track in the February 2007 issue and said that if it was on the album it would have carried "an extra star" on the review. Q gave this album 4 Stars back in 2000, meaning an extra star would be 5 stars. So with Lets All Make Believe on the album, according to Q magazine's logic, SOTSOG would have been a five star classic.

Demos

A bootleg of demo sessions recorded for this album was leaked onto the internet in January 2000. Most of these songs were recorded by Noel Gallagher with the help of a couple of friends in his home studio at Supernova Heights and at Oasis' own Wheeler End Studios complex. All of the songs, apart from "Little James", were sung by Noel.

The tracklisting of the demo bootleg was.

Carry Us All
Who Feels Love?
F*ckin' In The Bushes
Little James
Gas Panic!
Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is
Sunday Morning Call
I Can See A Liar
Go Let It Out
Roll It Over
Revolution Song
Where Did It All Go Wrong?
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Don't Believe The Truth

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01: Turn Up The Sun
02: Mucky Fingers
03: Lyla
04: Love Like A Bomb
05 The Importance Of Being Idle
06: The Meaning Of Soul
07: Guess God Thinks I'm Able
08: Part Of The Queue
09: Keep The Dream Alive
10: A Bell Will Ring
11: Let There Be Love

Release Date: May 30th 2005

Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1

​Oasis

Liam Gallagher – lead vocals, backing vocals, tambourine
Noel Gallagher – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on tracks 2, 5, 8, co-lead vocals on 11, producer (tracks 2, 3, 5), drums (track 11)
Andy Bell – bass guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar
Gem Archer – rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, harmonica, backing vocals (track 6)

Additional personnel

Zak Starkey – drums, percussion (except track 2), handclaps
Dave Sardy – mixing (except track 2), producer (tracks 1, 4, 6–11), additional production (track 3)
Lenny Castro – percussion (track 8)
Martin Duffy – piano (track 4)
Terry Kirkbride – drums and percussion (track 2)
Henry Phillpotts – mixing assistant (track 2)
Paul 'Strangeboy' Stacey – mixing (track 2), piano and mellotron (track 11)

Design

Layout – Simon Halfon
Photography By – Lawrence Watson
Painting – Luke Dane

Don't Believe The Truth is the sixth studio album by Oasis, released on May 30th 2005. It reached number one in the UK Albums Chart with first week sales of just under 238,000. The album entered the US charts at number twelve. It was the highest any Oasis album had reached in the US charts since Be Here Now was released in 1997.

Every member of the band contributed to the writing of tracks for the album.

On a number of the tracks Andy Bell handled guitar, while Gem and Noel contributed bass to other songs. Don't Believe The Truth is the first Oasis record to feature the drumming of Zak Starkey, who replaced Oasis' longtime member Alan White.

Liam also had a larger impact on the album by his developing songwriting. Noel has said that this album is his favourite of Oasis' last four, because all members have contributed to it. This, he claims, has given it a different feel to a typically Noel-written Oasis album.

The band embarked on a massive world-wide tour and started off at the London Astoria for their Don't Believe The Truth Tour.

Recording

The recording process for Don't Believe The Truth was prolonged. The album was originally supposed to be released around summer/autumn 2004, with an initial 3-4 week session produced by Death In Vegas. The recording finally began after Alan White's departure in January 2004 at Sawmills Studios in Cornwall, the same place where Oasis had recorded their debut album Definitely Maybe. These sessions were completed but the band weren't happy with the results.

Noel has commented since on numerous occasions that there was no problem with the work done by Death In Vegas, but he felt the songs they were working on were simply not good enough to form a record, and felt a break was needed in which new material would have to be written. In Noel's words: "we were trying to polish a turd". Around 10 tracks were worked on with Death In Vegas of which, according to Noel, 6 were "not even good enough to make the b-sides". Four of the tracks which eventually appeared on the album were worked on with Death In Vegas, those songs being: Turn Up The Sun, Mucky Fingers, A Bell Will Ring and The Meaning Of Soul, although all of these had extra work done to them or were re-recorded before being released.

After a short break in which many new songs, including Let There Be Love, Lyla and Part Of The Queue were written, the band reconvened at their Wheeler End Studios with Noel as producer. The band were joined on these sessions by The Who's drummer Zak Starkey. In June 2004, Oasis debuted two new songs from these sessions, the Liam-written The Meaning of Soul and the Gem-written A Bell Will Ring at two live shows in Poole and at the Glastonbury Festival.

After hearing of the band's production problems from Oasis manager Marcus Russell, American producer Dave Sardy expressed interest in taking over production duties. Sardy was given tapes of existing recording sessions to mix, and after his work was praised by the band, he arrived in the UK to oversee new recording sessions at Olympic Studios in London.

These sessions didn't last long before he asked the band to travel to Los Angeles and re-record most of the album there, as he felt more comfortable working in a studio closer to home. With the band eventually agreeing to this, recording sessions began at Capitol Studios in October 2004 with the band spending around nine weeks there.

Release

The decision to have the leadoff single, Lyla, on the album was a controversial one, prompted by the label's feeling that there wasn't a suitable lead single among the tracks originally presented. As a result, the decision was taken to record Lyla, a song which Noel had written and demoed a year previously, but which wasn't recorded by the band during the previous recording sessions. It was decided that Dave Sardy would remix Noel's original demo with Liam recording a set of lead vocals and Zak adding a fresh drum track. Lyla reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and number nineteen on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart.

After having initial reservations about the choice of the first single being taken out of the hands of the band, Noel, who initially wanted Mucky Fingers to be the first single, has now reluctantly conceded that the song has indeed "done the business".

In April 2005, four tracks from a promo disc leaked: The Meaning Of Soul, Mucky Fingers, Keep The Dream Alive, and Let There Be Love. The full album found its way onto the Internet on May 3rd 2005, when Apple Inc. accidentally put the album up early for sale on their iTunes Music Store service in Germany. While there was no official comment by Apple or by Oasis management, it was speculated that Apple simply got "May 30" confused with "May 03" or "May 3".

Knebworth 1996

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Disc one

01: Columbia (Live at Knebworth, August 10th '96)
02: Acquiesce (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
03: Supersonic (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
04: Hello (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
05: Some Might Say (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
06: Roll With It (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
07: Slide Away (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
08: Morning Glory (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
09: Round Are Way (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
10: Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live at Knebworth, August 10th '96)

Disc two

01: Whatever (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
02: Cast No Shadow (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
03: Wonderwall (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
04: The Masterplan (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
05: Don’t Look Back In Anger (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
07: My Big Mouth (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
08: It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
09: Live Forever (Live at Knebworth,, August 10th '96)
10: Champagne Supernova (Live at Knebworth, August 11th '96)
11. I Am The Walrus (Live at Knebworth, 11 August '96)

Release Date: November 18th 2021

Highest UK Chart Position: Number 4

Oasis

Liam Gallagher – lead vocals, tambourine
Noel Gallagher – lead guitar, vocals
Paul Arthurs – rhythm guitar
Paul McGuigan – bass guitar
Alan White – drums

Additional musicians

Mark Feltham – harmonica
Janet Mason – keyboards
Anne Morfee – 1st violin
Anna Hemery – 2nd violin
Katie Heller – viola
Sue Dence – viola
Emma Black – cello
Dave Bishop – saxophone
Jamie Talbot – saxophone
Steve Sidwell – trumpet
Simon Gardner – trumpet
Stuart Brooks – trumpet
John Squire – guitar on "Champagne Supernova" and "I Am the Walrus"

Design – Matthew Cooper 
Design [Assisted By] – Paul J Street
Photography By – Jill Furmanovsky

2021 marks twenty five years since Oasis’ two iconic record breaking live concerts at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire on the 10th and 11th August 1996. The shows were both the pinnacle of the band’s success and a landmark gathering for a generation of young people.
 
Released alongside the cinema debut of the feature length documentary film of the event, ‘Oasis Knebworth 1996’ is the definitive live recording featuring a setlist packed with stone cold classics album taken from across both nights of the concert, from the opening salvoes of ‘Columbia’ and ‘Acquiesce’, to ‘Champagne Supernova’, ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, ‘Live Forever’, an orchestra backed ‘I Am The Walrus’, and ‘Wonderwall’ the first song from the 1990’s to reach over one billion streams on Spotify and universally loved anthem.

(What's The Story) Morning Glory?

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01: Hello
02: Roll With It
03: Wonderwall
04: Don't Look Back In Anger
05: Hey Now!
06: Untitled (AKA The Swamp Song - Excerpt 1)
07: Some Might Say
08: Cast No Shadow
09: She's Electric
10: Morning Glory
11: Untitled (AKA The Swamp Song - Excerpt 2)
12: Champagne Supernova

Release Date: October 2nd 1995

Highest Chart Position: Number 1 in the UK

Oasis

Liam Gallagher – vocals (1–3, 5, 7–10, 12)
Noel Gallagher – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals (4), Mellotron, piano, EBow, bass (3, 6, 8–9, 11),production
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs – rhythm guitar (1–2, 4–12), Mellotron (3), piano, Hammond organ (4)
Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan – bass (1–2, 4–5, 7, 10, 12)
Alan White – drums, percussion (1–6, 8–12)

Additional musicians

Mark Feltham – harmonica (6, 11)
Tony McCarroll – drums (7)
Brian Cannon – keyboards (10)
Paul Weller – lead guitar, backing vocals (12)[12]

Additional personnel

Owen Morris – production
Neil Dorfsman – multichannel mixing (SACD version)
David Swope – assistant mixing (SACD version)
Barry Grint – original audio mastering at Abbey Road Studios
Vlado Meller – mastering (SACD version)

Design

Brian Cannon – artwork, design
Michael Spencer Jones – photography
Mathew Sankey – assistant design

(What's The Story) Morning Glory? is the second album by Oasis, released on October 2nd 1995. The album went straight to number one in the UK, selling 347,000 copies in its first week. (What's The Story) Morning Glory? spawned four hit singles in the UK, two of which were number one. It has sold just over 4.9 million copies in the UK, 16x platinum, and is currently the fifth biggest-selling album in UK chart history.

The album, which was recorded in less than two weeks, contains arguably the band's two most famous songs, Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger, along with Champagne Supernova and their first UK number one single Some Might Say.

In 1997 Morning Glory was named the fifth greatest album of all time in a Music Of The Millennium poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998 Q magazine readers placed it at number eight, and in 2000 it achieved the same position in Q's list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The editors of Q magazine declared it the "album of the decade" in 1999. The readers of Q placed it seventh 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.

History

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 massive open air concerts in the UK during 1996, which included two nights at Knebworth in front of a combined audience of 250,000 people (125,000 each night), with over 2.5 million applying to buy tickets.

Miscellanea

Hello contains elements of Gary Glitter's Hello Hello I'm Back Again as Liam jokingly sings part of the song's chorus when the song begins to fade out.

On the cover of the album a man is seen brandishing what looks to be a vinyl record in its sleeve. This is in fact the master tape for the album. The man in question is Owen Morris, the producer. The photo was taken on Berwick Street in Soho, a London street well known for its independent record shops. The other man is BBC London's Sean Rowley.

Stop The Clocks

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Be Here Now

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01: D'You Know What I Mean?
02: My Big Mouth
03: Magic Pie
04: Stand By Me
05: I Hope, I Think, I Know
06: The Girl in the Dirty Shirt
07: Fade In-Out
08: Don't Go Away
09: Be Here Now
10: All Around The World
11: It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)
12: All Around the World (Reprise)

Release Date: August 21st 1997

Highest Chart Position: Number 1 in the UK

Oasis

Liam Gallagher – vocals (1–2, 4–11)
Noel Gallagher – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals and Mellotron (3), string arrangements, production
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs – rhythm guitar
Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan – bass guitar
Alan White – drums, percussion

Additional musicians and production

Mike Rowe – keyboards
Mark Coyle – backwards guitar (track 1)
Johnny Depp – slide guitar (track 7)
Mark Feltham – harmonica (track 10)
Richard Ashcroft – backing vocals (track 10)
Nick Ingman – string and brass arrangements
Owen Morris – production
Mike Marsh – mastering

Design

Brian Cannon – art direction, design
Martin Catherall – design assistance
Matthew Sankey – design assistance
Michael Spencer Jones – photography
Jill Furmanovsky – photography collage

Be Here Now is the third studio album by Oasis. Released on August 21st 1997, the album was highly anticipated by both music critics and fans as a result of the band's previous worldwide successes with their 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe, and its 1995 follow up (What's The Story) Morning Glory?. The album's pre-release build up led to considerable hype within both the music and mainstream press. At that point, Oasis were at the height of their fame, and Be Here Now became the UK's fastest selling album to date, selling over 420,000 units on the first day of release alone, and over one million in seventeen days in the UK.

Oasis' management company Ignition were aware of the danger of overexposure, and before its release they sought to control the media's access to the album. Ignition's campaign included limiting pre-release radio airplay, and requesting that journalists sign gag agreements. These tactics resulted in the alienation of members of both the music and mainstream media, as well as many industry members connected with the band. Ignition's attempts to limit pre-release access to the album only served to fuel large scale speculation and publicity within the British music scene.

Artistically

Be Here Now failed to live up to the expectations that preceded its release. Although initial reviews were positive, retrospectively the album is viewed by much of the music press and by most members of the band as over-indulgent and bloated. In 2007, Q magazine described Be Here Now as "a disastrous, overblown folly—the moment when Oasis, their judgement clouded by drugs and blanket adulation, ran aground on their own sky-high self-belief." The album's producer Owen Morris said of the recording sessions: "The only reason anyone was there was the money. Noel had decided Liam was a shit singer. Liam had decided he hated Noel's songs. Massive amounts of drugs. Big fights. Bad vibes. Shit recordings." None of its songs were included on the band's 2006  compilation album Stop The Clocks.

Album cover

The cover image to Be Here Now was shot at the Stock Hotel in Hertfordshire in April 1997. It features the band standing outside the hotel surrounded by assorted props. At the centre of the image is a Rolls Royce floating in a swimming pool. The photographer Michael Spencer Jones said the original concept involved shooting each band member in various locations around the world, but when the cost proved prohibitive, the shoot was relocated to the Stock Hotel. Michael Spencer Jones remarked that the shoot "degenerated into chaos", adding that "by 8pm, everyone was in the bar, there were schoolkids all over the set, and the lighting crew couldn't start the generator".

It was Alice In Wonderland meets Apocalypse Now. Despite various meanings people have tried to read into the selection of the various props used on the cover.

Brian Cannon said in 2013 "All the props around the pool have no meaning whatsoever, I just took Liam and Noel down to a BBC props warehouse in White City and they picked loads of random stuff, it was total nonsense".

Two of the props that had considered thought in their inclusion were the inflatable globe (intended as a homage to the sleeve of Definitely Maybe and the Rolls Royce, which was suggested by Bonehead.

The release date in each region was commemorated on the calendar pictured on the sleeve. It was thought that dating the album would encourage fans to buy a copy on the day of it's release, like they thought they were participating in some kind of historical event."

Definitely Maybe

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01: Rock 'N' Roll Star
02: Shakermaker
03: Live Forever
04: Up In The Sky
05: Columbia
06: Sad Song
07: Supersonic
08: Bring It On Down
09: Cigarettes & Alcohol
10: Digsy's Dinner
11: Slide Away
12: Married With Children

Release Date: August 29th 1994

Highest UK Chart Position: Number 1

Oasis

Liam Gallagher – vocals, tambourine
Noel Gallagher – lead guitar, backing vocals
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs – rhythm guitar, piano on "Live Forever" and "Digsy's Dinner",
Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan – bass guitar,
Tony McCarroll – drums

Additional personnel

Anthony Griffiths – backing vocals on "Supersonic"
Mark Coyle – production, mixing on "Supersonic" and "Married with Children", engineering
Owen Morris – additional production, mixing
Barry Grint – mastering at Abbey Road Studios, London
David Batchelor – production on "Slide Away"
Anjali Dutt – engineering
Dave Scott – engineering, mixing
Roy Spong – engineering

Design

Michael Spencer Jones – photography
Brian Cannon for Microdot – sleeve concept, design, art direction

Album History

In 1994, Oasis were seen as a distant echo of the moribund 'Madchester' scene which had exploded in the early 1990s. Unlike other Madchester bands who indulged in experiments with funk, dance or hip-hop, Oasis presented themselves as a relatively straightforward rock and roll band. Along with bands like Blur and The Verve they seemed to encapsulate a new wave, one which did not yet have a name. By the end of the year the media coined the term Britpop, of which Definitely Maybe retrospectively became one of the pivotal albums.

Many of the songs had originally appeared on Oasis' Live Demonstration demo recorded in Liverpool the year before with Chris and Tony Griffiths of The Real People. The main recording sessions took longer than expected, with the bulk of the album having to be recorded three different times with Mark Coyle producing, before Owen Morris came up with a mix that everyone was satisfied with.

The album cost nearly £85,000 to produce, a huge amount of money for a debut album at the time.

The album title, according to Noel Gallagher, comes from a poster he saw in a pub, although he cannot remember what the poster was advertising.

Release and reception

The release of Definitely Maybe was preceded by a third single, "Live Forever", which was released on August 8th 1994. Live Forever was the group's first top ten single. The continuing success of Oasis partially allowed Creation to ride out a period of financial straits. The label was still £2 million in debt, so Tim Abbot was given only £60,000 to promote the upcoming album. Abbot tried to determine how best to use his small budget. "I'd go back to the Midlands every couple of weeks," Abbot said, "and people I knew would say, 'Oasis are great.

This is what we listen to.' And I'd be thinking, "Well, you lot don't buy singles. You don't read the NME. You don't read Q. How do we get to people like you?'." Abbot decided to place ads in publications that had never been approached by Creation before, such as football magazines, match programmes and UK dance music periodicals. Abbot's suspicions that Oasis would appeal to these non-traditional audiences were confirmed when the dance music magazine Mixmag, which usually ignored guitar-based music, gave Definitely Maybe a five-star review.

Definitely Maybe was finally released on August 29th 1994. The album sold 100,000 copies in its first four days. On September 4th the album debuted at number one on the British charts. It outsold the second-highest album The Three Tenors In Concert 1994, which had been favoured to be the chart-topper that week, by a factor of 50%. The first-week sales earned Definitely Maybe the record of the fastest-selling debut album in British history. Cigarettes & Alcohol was released as the fourth single from the album in October. Noel Gallagher said Slide Away was considered as a fifth single, but he ultimately refused, arguing, "You can't have five [singles] off a debut album.". However, Slide Away was later used as a b-side to the non-album single Whatever, along with Half The World Away and (It's Good) To Be Free.

Legacy

In 1997 Definitely Maybe was named the 14th greatest album of all time in a Music Of The Millennium poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 2005 Channel 4's '100 Greatest Albums' countdown placed the album at number six.

In 2006, NME placed the album third in a list of the greatest British albums ever, behind The Stone Roses and The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead. In a recent British poll, run by NME and the book of British Hit Singles and Albums, Definitely Maybe was voted the best album of all time with The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band finishing second and Revolver third.

Q magazine readers placed it at five on their greatest albums of all time list in 2006 and in that same year NME hailed it as the greatest album of all time.

In a 2008 poll by Q and HMV in 2008, Definitely Maybe was ranked first on a list of the greatest British album of all time.

The Masterplan

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