Album Review - Oasis "Definitely Maybe" (1994) (from a complete Oasis virgin)

[Music] hey guys and welcome back to another album review so this one goes a little outside of my Norm because we're going into one today from band I have actually never heard a single song from in my life some of you were thinking Jen you were around in the '90s uh-uh M no legit I never have and we are talking about Oasis which the only reason I didn't was my own very naive in the '90s being like oh they called themselves the next Beatles well them 30 years have passed I've had time to take a breath and in light of whatever the announcement tomorrow although by the time this goes up it'll be today uh is seemed like a perfect time to take my own Oasis virginity you know so no better place to start than at the start so I'm going to listen to the Definitely Maybe album and give you my thoughts track by track as I listen to it and maybe I'll end up loving it maybe I'll end up being like I I wasn't wrong to have skipped them all this time I don't know this could go either way just as easily so for science first science we're doing this so without further Ado let me go listen to that first track all right so the first track is called rock and roll star and admittedly looking at the lyrics they're not the world's most inspired lyrics let's be real but on the other hand I have to admit first track in I'm already surprised at how much more I liked this than I expected to so I mean the guitars especially on it just very on point with the kind of things I like it's hard to articulate what exactly I mean by that especially if this is like the first you've ever seen of Me on YouTube but um I don't know it both hearkens back to a kind of classic rock inspiration without sounding like an imitation and sounding for what was then '90s modern you know so I I don't know if the whole album's like this I I'm kind of scared to say it too early we are only on track number one out of 11 so but I tentatively I'm like oh if this is what they sound like I I might like like them I might like them I liked this song anyway we'll continue on so second track in is Shaker maker and admittedly we are two for two and me not hating this oh my God so this one really does hearken back to a 60s sound but with a more modern flare on it and this is where okay now I get why both they themselves and other people have compared them to the Beatles cuz all right all right I saw it with this one well heard it rather but um again the lyrics kind of nonsensical but then again comparing it to the era of The Beatles that I feel it sounds like that's kind of on par and may have been intentional so that's not a deal breaker there but I'm like the jangly guitars and everything I just H oh okay strong showing so far I'm kind of curious to see how this keeps going after this I'm just like on a first time listen knowing absolutely nothing about this band going in besides like that the two brothers fight and that they made themselves out to be the next Beatles that was all I knew going in so this is quite enlightening so track three is called live forever and now we're back to more 90s kind of stereotypical pop rock kind of a sound on this one at least musically vle H this is the first one where I'm like I don't know about this one because it's just like that nasly kind of whiny sound not a huge fan of that but but don't write me off yet I looking at the lyrics of this one especially objectively compared to the first two tracks this one is stronger lyrically than the other two put together so what it may have lacked on the vocals it makes up for in the lyrics I feel so it's still worth the time of day and might be one of those songs that could grow on a person with repeated listenings it definitely has potential musically and everything so so fourth track in is called up in the sky and this is another one that has like that stereotypical like '90s rock sound I'm not saying that in a bad derogatory way I'm just saying that's what it sounds s like um but I do like this one more musically and everything lyrically a little lacking um mostly to me if you just read the lyrics apart from the song but just on their own it kind of smacks of like you know when people just start attempting to write poetry and they're so hung up on making everything rhyme that everything else Falls flat and it a kind of loses a message and B it just feels clunky that is what those lyrics read like to me however in just listening to the song itself you don't notice that nearly so much it's only when you just look at the lyrics themselves on their own I guess I'm spoiled by the artist that I like generally having lyrics that are a bit higher caliber but I mean just as you know silly pop song I don't hate it which I think it's probably going to be the tagline of my review just I didn't hate it so fifth track in is entitled Colombia and this one it just it's kind of um Al almost like one of those slow jams but not really slow if that makes sense but slow comparatively to the other ones that have preceded it on here the lyrics almost Fade Into the background I mean you can hear them but they are not the focal point here the music is the focal point on this one um that's said it's a six- minute song kind of stretches on at least 2 minutes too long in my opinion that wasn't Wild on this one it was just kept checking the time how much more is there of this one this was like yeah no this I think was more like what I think in my head I had envisioned Oasis sounding like with something like this actually so I don't know this might be a one off or maybe I pegged them more accurately than I thought I did we shall see okay sixth track in is called supersonic I think this was one of the ones that came out as a single from this according to Wikipedia so anyway this one does even more so like the last one sound like what I imagined Oasis would sound like but this one at least has better lyrics this one from what I can gather seems to be about Fame and what Fame looks like but whether not he's speaking from experience or what he thinks Fame looks like that is what the lyrics consist of here there is one nod to the Yellow Submarine so again with the beetle thing but um it's not bad it almost has a little bit of a not quite alternative feel but uh it's not bad I'm kind of neutral about it leaning slightly in the direction if I think I like it but again I might need a few more listens to really decide one way or the other I might just be biased because of the Yellow Submarine mention I don't know but I don't hate it I know I said that it was probably going to be the whole thing that this hinges on but I think I knew myself well here okay so seventh song in it's called Bring It On down and honestly this one might be my favorite one so far listening through this uh the guitar work on it reminds me a lot of you's vertigo even though this came first by like what 20 years or something maybe 10 years I forget when that came out but regardless regardless that's what it reminds me of uh with the guitars and something just about the tempo of it now the vocals on it they're very distorted so good luck telling what they're singing unless you're looking at the lyrics but lyrically this one's one of the stronger ones comparatively when looking at the whole album but yeah I like this one I like this one a lot okay so the eighth track is called cigarettes and alcohol and the guitar on this one and the drums the musicality of it does sound more throwback rock and roll uh something about I can't put my finger on what though something musically makes me think of the stones a little bit here but again I can't put my finger on what it is I just know that it's exactly what I thought of immediately when I heard this one and then lyrically this one stronger uh but there's certain lines in it like when it hits the end of certain lines like the first line like is it my imagination the way that he sings it something about it makes me think of Johnny Rotten a little bit little bit and I'm like huh not sure if it's the accent thing or I don't know but it's kind of interesting that of all the people that this song could have reminded me of these two this combo of two St and Johnny rot I'm like okay all right this one's all right this one's all right yeah I'm just like okay you know again like most of the way through this album I'm like maybe I have been robbing Myself by not giving Oasis a chance all this time wow so the ninth track in is called digies dinner and of course the first thing my brain thought is Dixie sounds like a dog's name so my brain's thinking diy's dinner dog dog's dinner is it supposed to be like a British thing like dog's dinner so because that is you know I think Cockney rhyming slay uh slaying but I could be wrong on that but the song itself has little to nothing to do with that uh musically it kind of sounds a little bit like 60s Garage Band if that makes sense but lyrically kind of a silly little song but it caught my attention in all of the beetle comparison made with Oasis that I'm like wait is this their take of trying to write a song in the style of Paul McCartney Maybe correct me if I am completely off base here but that is what I thought of with this one cuz I was just like what does this sound like and I'm thinking about it I'm like wait wait I think I know and that's what I came up with so again but I enjoyed it silly song or not but just like okay it's catchy it's a shorter one it's only about 2 and 1/2 minutes long versus most of the songs on here that are at least four if not longer but still catchy little thing okay we are almost through it so 10th track is slide away and while lyrically nothing to write home about musically this one really I think sums up what I think of as being the Oasis sound and not just that but also kind of like the sound of like earlyish mid90s if that makes sense I'm also having listened to this one having this feeling of deja vu of I think maybe I did in fact hear this back then at some point Didn't consciously know it was Oasis but I'm like I've heard this before I don't know where I don't know when I've heard this one before somewhere at some point but I don't think I knew who did it but I think it was one of those things that must have just been so just pervasively everywhere at the time that I'm like must have been impossible to dodge that one cuz I'm like I could swear I've heard this but again I couldn't tell you any kind of specifics on that but this what I mean I'm just like it's okay it's okay um maybe because I like the ones that feel more 60s esque this one doesn't to me this one feels more '90s esque but uh but it's all right though I don't hate it but it was bizarre just that like brain flash moment of I've heard this one I don't know where though but I know I've heard this one and something like and it had to have been back then cuz it like instantly like for some reason flash of just sitting on the living room floor at like maybe I don't know 9 years old or so uh watching TV and it had to have been on something it had to have been on something cuz I have for sure heard that anyway so the last track on here is called Married with Children and I am again having that Deja Vu feeling of I don't know where or when I've heard this but I I feel like I know this one too which is a really weird feeling for somebody who is so confident that they'd gone their whole life without ever having heard an oasis song but now I'm like oh maybe I did without realizing well I didn't consciously know I'd heard them but I feel like I knew this one um lyrically though this one is another one that kind of hits me like a somebody just learning how to write poetry and they're still new at it it's still not as smooth as it could be it kind of feels like that um I'm trying to think of what exactly the musicality sounds like but um it's essentially little more than just like a guitar and a bass not quite acoustic but definitely stripped down but it's not bad it's not bad at all and honestly think of this album and everything on it I think I would give it like a seven out of 10 and I cannot believe those words are coming out of my mouth for somebody who so hardcore rejected Oasis at every term for all these years I listen to the album on and I'm giving it that high a rating I kind of get it now I think I kind of get why people like Oasis am I saying that I'm instantly a fan no but I'm saying that I get the appeal and I think I might give more of their stuff A shot maybe uh it also is not lost on me that listening to it on Spotify has the original release date listed at the bottom is August 29th 1994 and I'm like I'm even doing this almost on the 30th anniversary to the day I swear to God that had nothing to do with this timing but I'm like whoa that's okay that's Goosebump but yeah I'm like all right this I guess I kind of see why pretty much my whole life people fighting out I'm a beetle fan like but do you like Oasis and I was always like no but then again I've also never listened to them to find out to be fair but um now I'm like oh maybe I should have a hell of a lot sooner better late than never right okay I can admit when I'm wrong and I think I may have been I was just naively wrong about Oasis this is kind of like how I felt with the monkeys after how many years I had rejected them and then finally gave them a chance and was like oh my god this is my new favorite thing I don't think I feel that strongly about Oasis but I I definitely see the appeal and I definitely see the beetle inspiration that kind of flows throughout it which is cool as a Beatles fan so it's not annoying in the way that I thought it was going to be but then again I've gotten better at tamping down my music snobby over the years so anyway those are my thoughts take them or leave them for somebody who literally had never listened to Oasis before today so anyway that is it for this one guys so as usual you know 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