Oasis' Definitely Maybe

Oasis?s incendiary 1994 debut album "Definitely Maybe" managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century.

In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis everymen: Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll. On "Definitely Maybe", Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping.

Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as "Live Forever", "Supersonic", and "Cigarettes & Alcohol". In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.

CONTENIDO:

Foreword

Intro: A speck of dust in a football stadium
1. Earth
2. Water
3. Fire
4. Air
Postscript: Quintessence

Notes
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