History Music / WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory

* ExcitedShowTitle: "Hey Now!"

After the success of their debut album, ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'', the bar was certainly raised high. After being recorded in just 15 days, it was released on October 2, 1995, to such success that it was reported that a copy was sold every two minutes. It has sold over 4.5 million copes in the UK and is currently the fifth-best selling album of all time there.

*** A second one, [[UpToEleven even more hidden on the same song's intro]], has a small conversation between Liam and co-producer Owen Morris played backwards.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The music video for "Morning Glory" has at least 20 actors in it.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Goes from 1 to 6:
** 1: "Wonderwall", "She's Electric"
** 2: "Don't Look Back in Anger", "Hey Now!", "Cast No Shadow"
** 3: "Roll with It"
** 4: "Some Might Say", "Champagne Supernova"
** 5: "Hello", "Untitled/The Swamp Song"
** 6: "Morning Glory"

More infamously, however, is the album's status as the arguable catalyst of the LoudnessWar. While CD mastering had been growing progressively louder since the format's introduction in 1982 (and vinyl having done the same throughout the 60's and 70's before hitting a limit), the heavy amount of dynamic range compression implemented throughout the album resulted in a loud, distorted sound that was unprecedented for its time, and not in a good way. After this album's release, CD releases of albums saw a noticeable jump in both loudness and compression, rapidly escalating throughout the rest of the decade and the following one, to both consumer apathy and music enthusiasts' vitriol. As music journalist Nick Southall put it, "if there's a [[JumpingTheShark jump-the-shark moment]] as far as CD mastering goes, then it's probably Oasis."

The album was listed at #378 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'' (and at #157 in the [[{{UsefulNotes/Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time 2020}} updated 2020 list]]), at #67 on Magazine/{{NME}}'s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime response list]], was included on Magazine/{{Time|Magazine}}'s [[TimeAllTime100Albums 2006 list of their all-time essential albums]], and is currently the 77th-most-acclaimed album of all time according to Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

** The final line from "Morning Glory" has "[[Music/{{Revolver}} Tomorrow never knows]] what it doesn't know too soon".

The album was listed at #378 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'' (and at #157 in the [[{{UsefulNotes/Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time 2020}} updated 2020 list]], at #67 on Magazine/{{NME}}'s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime response list]], was included on Magazine/{{Time|Magazine}}'s [[TimeAllTime100Albums 2006 list of their all-time essential albums]], and is currently the 77th-most-acclaimed album of all time according to Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

The album was listed at #378 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'', at #67 on Magazine/{{NME}}'s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime response list]], was included on Magazine/{{Time|Magazine}}'s [[TimeAllTime100Albums 2006 list of their all-time essential albums]], and is currently the 77th-most-acclaimed album of all time according to Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

* BonusTrack: "Bonehead's Bank Holiday" was included on vinyl editions of the album.

* SpecialGuest: Paul Weller, who plays guitar in "Champagne Supernova" (and "The Swamp Song", featured in the nameless excerpts). "Cast No Shadow" is dedicated to him.

More infamously, however, is the album's status as the arguable catalyst of the LoudnessWar. While CD mastering had been growing progressively louder since the format's introduction in 1982, the heavy amount of dynamic range compression implemented throughout the album resulted in a loud, distorted sound that was unprecedented for its time, and not in a good way. After this album's release, CD releases of albums saw a noticeable jump in both loudness and compression, rapidly escalating throughout the rest of the decade and the following one, to both consumer apathy and music enthusiasts' vitriol. As music journalist Nick Southall put it, "if there's a [[JumpingTheShark jump-the-shark moment]] as far as CD mastering goes, then it's probably Oasis."

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "All your dreams are made, when you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade" in "Morning Glory" is just a really nice way of saying the song's narrator is addicted to cocaine.

* LyricsVideoMismatch: The music video for "Morning Glory" has the band [[CeilingBanger performing the song loudly in an apartment complex]], while the building's other tenants come up to the door to bang on it and yell at them to keep it down. {{Justified|Trope}}, though; if they made a video depicting cocaine use (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar above), it would ''never'' air on television.

* BrokenRecord: The endings of "Roll with It" ("I think I've got a feeling I lost inside..."), "Some Might Say" ("you know what some might say!") and "Morning Glory" (the whole chorus).

* EpicRocking: "Champagne Supernova", the only song on this album longer than six minutes, goes for almost 7½.

*** A second one, even more hidden on the same song's intro, has a small conversation between Liam and co-producer Owen Morris played backwards.

* LoudnessWar: One of {{LoudnessWar/the worst offenders}}, in fact. Also, the one album that ''[[UrExample started it all]]''. The title track in particular is so rife with audible digital distortion (especially towards the end) that it borders on unlistenable.

* OdeToIntoxication: "Morning Glory" has a few not-very-subtle cocaine references; it's not the only example in their discography.

** "Roll With It" has [[Music/YellowSubmarine "'Cause it's all too much for me to take"]]

** A second one even more hidden on the same song's intro has a small conversation between Liam and co-producer Owen Morris played backwards.

* LoudnessWar: One of {{LoudnessWar/the worst offenders}}, in fact. Also, the one album that ''started it all''. The title track in particular is so rife with audible digital distortion (especially towards the end) that it borders on unlistenable.

** "Wonderwall" is a reference to Music/GeorgeHarrison's album ''Music/WonderwallMusic''; it also has the line [[Music/LetItBe "And all the roads we have to walk are winding"]]
** "Roll With It" has [[Music/YellowSubmarine " 'Cause it's all too much for me to take"]]
** "Don't Look Back in Anger", along with an "Imagine"-esque piano intro, the second verse draws from a Music/JohnLennon quote during the Bed-In ("trying to start a revolution from my bed, because they said the brains I had went to my head.")

After the success of their debut album, ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'', the bar was certainly raised high. After being recorded in just 15 days, it was released on October 2, 1995, to such success that it was reported that one copy was being sold every two minutes. It has sold over 4.5 million copes in the UK and is currently the fifth-best selling album of all time there.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: Liam's continuous yelling of "WELLLLLLLLLLLLL" in "Morning Glory". Live, it was done by Noel.

* LoudnessWar: One of {{LoudnessWar/the worst offenders}}, in fact. Also, the one album that ''started it all''. The title track in particular is so marred with audible digital distortion (especially towards the end) that it borders on unlistenable.

* LoudnessWar: One of {{LoudnessWar/the worst offenders}}, in fact. Also, the one album that ''started it all''.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Where were you while we were getting high?"'']]

* BrokenRecord: The endings of "Roll With It" ("I think I've got a feeling I lost inside..."), "Some Might Say" ("you know what some might say!") and "Morning Glory" (the whole chorus).

The album was listed at #378 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime'', at #67 on Magazine/{{NME}}'s [[UsefulNotes/NME500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime response list]], was included on Magazine/{{Time|Magazine}}'s [[TimeAllTime100Albumbs 2006 list of their all-time essential albums]], and is currently the 77th-most-acclaimed album of all time according to Website/AcclaimedMusic's [[UsefulNotes/AcclaimedMusicAllTimeTopAlbums compilation of various critics' lists]].

The album was listed at #378 in Magazine/RollingStone's ''Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime''.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The line "All your dreams are made, when you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade" in "Morning Glory" is just a really nice way of saying the song's narrator is addicted to cocaine.

* LyricsVideoMismatch: The music video for "Morning Glory" has the band [[CeilingBanger performing the song loudly in an apartment complex]], while the building's other tenants come up to the door to bang on it and yell at them to keep it down. It is {{justified|Trope}}, though; if they made a video depicting cocaine use (see GettingCrapPastTheRadar above), it would ''never'' air on television.

* BrokenRecord: The endings of "Some Might Say" ("you know what some might say!") and "Morning Glory" (the whole chorus).

''(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'' is the second studio album by Music/{{Oasis}}. It was a smash hit critically and commercially, spawning the hit singles "Some Might Say", "Roll with It", "Champagne Supernova", "Don't Look Back in Anger", "Morning Glory", and [[SignatureSong "Wonderwall"]].

** "Wonderwall" is a reference to Music/GeorgeHarrison's album ''Music/WonderwallMusic''.
** Same song has the line [[Music/LetItBe "And all the roads we have to walk are winding"]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The line "All your dreams are made, when you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade" in "Morning Glory" is just a really nice way of saying the song's narrator has a cocaine addiction.