(What's the Story) Morning Glory? [Deluxe Edition - Remastered]

As the album plays, even now, it’s clear why so many people got involved, it may not be something you head towards when putting a record on these days but as a long player, like all the best albums, it plays like a greatest hits collection.

What makes the set worthwhile are the live tracks and demos.... The largeness of these songs and the powerful punch they packed as both radio hits and Britpop anthems continues to resonate nearly 20 years after the fact.

It may not be as glorious as some would have had us believe first time round; it's still a great album, but here it's packaged with the extra components that could have made it a better one. [Oct 2014, p.101]

For all its flaws, the outcome remains spectacular. [Oct 2014, p.103]

True, it’s rarely a subtle listen, continually more light than shade, but almost 20 years after its release, … Morning Glory can still excite. Some Might Say remains an awful drudge of a lead single, but the rest, pretty much in its entirety, is surprisingly refreshing to revisit.

It’s the boorishness of their football hooligan fanbase, the bravado that they failed to deliver on in their later years and the all-consuming nature of the brothers’ public personas that you really need to put to one side when you listen to records like this one; if you can manage that, and overlook the cynical nature of this release, then you’re left with three discs that contain a generous selection of some of the finest rock songs that a British band ever produced.

This Deluxe Edition does a great job of rounding up the group’s excellent B-sides (including a few that didn’t make it on to The Masterplan), but given how few insights are truly gained through all of these bonuses and rarities, only the most devoted of Oasis fans need apply, as Morning Glory‘s legacy is the same as it ever was, this Deluxe Edition doing shockingly little to alter it in any notable way.