アンダーグラウンドのインスタグラム(resul80k2) - 8月30日 20時00分

Definitely Maybe hit the charts yesterday 23 years ago yesterday, and there it remained for a staggering 117 weeks. The debut album of Oasis, it became the fastest selling album of its time and 8 million copies were sold worldwide. Truly momentous for a first album. Sitting here in 2018, we are all too familiar with the Gallagher brothers and the successes they tow. Can we dislike something for being too popular? Sure. It’s all too easy in fact. But a flicking through a favourite 1994 copy of The Face that we keep at our studio, the impact and all together meaning of the band is entirely readjusted in your mind.

This particular copy of the publication features an insightful interview with the band as they were dealing/basking in the aftermath of Definitely Maybe.
The piece begins with a 1980 quote of John Lydon: ‘Don’t you understand? Rock n Roll is over! It’s got to be cancelled!’ The following text demonstrates the growing pains of the band- and you come to realise that, although they garnered support fairly early in their career, they really did not have the guarantee of success that we award them with today. Here, Liam is a 22-year-old brat, unsure of everything except his love of John Lennon and his determination to be a rockstar. Noel is almost patronisingly aware of this, yet is nowhere near reaching tiresome of it.

Parallels that are drawn to bands you’ve never heard of, and the pedestal that the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses are propped up on which far tower above the young band are eye-opening. Same for the accusations of the now classic ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’s plagiarism to T-Rex, a grossly obvious similarity which is totally forgotten about now.

The piece overall deserves to be fished out, as Oasis deserve some bigger-picture appreciation. It wasn’t phenomena or fluke- it was work. And hard work at that- if the countless altercations between the brothers are anything to go by.

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