David Stubbs reviews What’s the Story (Morning Glory), 30th September 1995.
A very generous review from Stubbs. I was never a big fan of Definite Maybe but this record was a fucking disgrace after that and the fact that it sold by the truckload was the most depressing thing that happened in 1995.
July 8, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Of course, the way the music press instantly decided that this was The Album Of A Generation – mere weeks after their mostly rather dismissive original reviews – was the definitive moment when they lost their authority and credibility (actually, perhaps it wasn’t, perhaps *the* definitive moment was when they did the opposite over ‘Be Here Now’, a masterpiece one week, overblown dreck the next).
It also remains the moment a certain subculture died, and perhaps so did British politics, in their true sense.