What's The Story Morning Glory

Certain Songs #1366: Oasis – “Champagne Supernova”

November 9, 2018 by Jim Connelly

Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Year: 1995

And so it came to pass, that on April 13 1996, Rox, Steph and I journeyed across the Bay Bridge to see Oasis in concert at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

As you can imagine, after nearly six months of non-stop playing of (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? we were tremendously excited to see Oasis do their thing in person in a place that wasn’t either a stadium or arena, despite the fact that those were the venues that they were aiming for.

Certain Songs #1365: Oasis – “Morning Glory”

November 8, 2018 by Jim Connelly

Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Year: 1995

What’s the story morning glory?
Wellllllllllll?

Oh fuck yeah. I love this song so fucking much, from the opening near-industrial guitar stabs to the massive hooks in the middle to wall of sound at the end, “Morning Glory” just kills me. Brit-pop? More like Brit-ROCK!

With a riff that splits the difference between Neil Young’s “Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)” and R.E.M.’s “The One I Love,” and a druggy lyric that crashes into a desperate chorus, “Morning Glory” is the sound of what happens when you ingest the exact right amount of cocaine.

Certain Songs #1364: Oasis – “Wonderwall”

November 7, 2018 by Jim Connelly

Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Year: 1995

What was the tipping point with “Wonderwall”??

When did it transform from a massive, but slightly silly, worldwide hit single to a song that Slate recently declared to be part of the “New American Songbook,” sandwiched between two other songs written by non-Americans, “Rolling in the Deep” and “I Want It That Way.”

Certain Songs #1363: Oasis – “Roll With It”

November 6, 2018 by Jim Connelly

Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Year: 1995

Coming out in the autumn of 1995, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? was the soundtrack to a pair of different life-changing events. The first one was my job at a company in San Francisco called Art & Science, an agency that built websites for other companies.

In late 1994, I’d discovered the World Wide Web, so in early 1995 I taught myself HTML, built my own personal web page (which still exists!), and that summer, responding to an ad on Usenet, got myself a temporary gig with Art & Science building the first website for The American Association of Neurological Surgeons.