(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: Oasis
Album Title: Definitely maybe
Year released: 1994
Details: Gatefold, double LP, original pressing
The skinny: A few weeks ago I posted about how purchasing Oasis’s b-sides compilation, “The masterplan”, completed* the Oasis section of my vinyl collection. So I thought I might spin and take pics of the rest of said section over the next few weeks. (Don’t worry, I don’t have everything they ever released, just the important pieces.) And as mentioned in the preamble to my record collection list, Oasis’s debut album, “Definitely maybe”, was one of two albums purchased by wife at a Greenwich Village street sale, effectively kick-starting my obsession with vinyl. Not coincidentally, it is also one of the only two used records in my collection. As your can see by the pics, the album’s sleeve is not perfect, yet in pretty good shape considering its age. However, the sound that comes from the discs’ grooves is immaculate. Victoria once told me that she wouldn’t be offended if I wanted to dump this record in favour of a new reissue but the thought has never crossed my mind. It already has that built-in sentiment because it came from her. And oh yeah, the album? In my opinion, it’s up there amongst the best debut albums ever.
Standout track: “Live forever”
* I say ‘completed’ but I might be tempted if I ever found certain EPs or singles on vinyl out there in the wild.
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6 replies on “Vinyl love: Oasis “Definitely maybe””
Nice one. Just wrote about this for Discrepancy Records.
https://www.discrepancy-records.com.au/blog/our-blog/definitely-a-classic/
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Great piece. It really is a fantastic record and it’s sometimes easy to forget this fact with everything that came afterwards… and seemingly, is still coming. I just had to give it a spin to let those first few hooks seat into me…
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Agreed! All the verbals and nonsense can easily obscure what a great rock and roll band they were. Like you, I thoroughly enjoyed spinning it again.
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Speaking of great!
What a debut – and a fine start to a vinyl collection obsession too. Slide Away is one of my all time favourite tunes
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Yes. Great tune that one too. It had been a long time since I’d spun that one. It was a fun revisit
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[…] “Definitely maybe” and “(What’s the story) morning glory” are now modern rock classics. But everything the band wrote and recorded during their first few years in existence was pure gold. Indeed, they even have so many excellent b-sides from this time that, “The masterplan”, the compilation they released in 1998 is still better than many of their contemporaries’ best albums. Like many others, I was pumped for their third record, 1997’s “Be here now”, and remember listening to its first single on the radio with great interest, but unfortunately, it was a bit of a letdown. They were finally completely let loose in the studio given their huge success thus far and it felt to me at the time that the results were overwrought and underwhelming. Of course, nowadays, I can appreciate it more but it just wasn’t the same and I began to drift from the boys from Manchester. […]
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