OASIS "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" UK 2LP *MINT

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  OASIS "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" UK 2LP *MINT UNPLAYED?, OUTSTANDING AS-NEW AUDIO, TRI-FOLD COVER
OASIS
(What's The Story) Morning Glory?

ORIGINAL UK CREATION RECORDS (CRELP 189) FIRST 2LP PRESSING (October 1995) OF OASIS' CLASSIC SECOND LP "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" - IN BEAUTIFUL, POSSIBLY COMPLETELY UNPLAYED CONDITION AND DELIVERING TREMENDOUS CRISP, SHARP AUDIO WITH AN EXCITING FRESH SOUND
PRESSED ON 2 QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT RECORDS WITH THE CREATION PICTURE LABELS (the back of Noel's head)
THE LPS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL TRI-GATEFOLD SLEEVE ("Made in England") WITH INTERNALLY PRINTED LYRICS (there is a single extra leaf which contains the lyrics)
COMPLETE WITH THE TWO ORIGINAL BLACK CARD INNER SLEEVES AND OASIS INFO POSTCARD
FIRST ISSUE MATRICES:
SIDE ONE: CRELP 189 A1
SIDE TWO: CRELP 189 B1
SIDE THREE: CRELP 189 C2
SIDE FOUR: CRELP 189 D2

SUPERB UK FIRST PRESSING AND ONE PRETTY HARD TO BEAT - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

If Definitely Maybe was an unintentional concept album about wanting to be a rock & roll star, (What's the Story) Morning Glory? is what happens after the dreams come true.
Oasis turns in a relatively introspective second record, filled with big, gorgeous ballads instead of ripping rockers.
Unlike Definitely Maybe, the production on Morning Glory is varied enough to handle the range in emotions; instead of drowning everything with amplifiers turned up to 12, there are strings, keyboards, and harmonicas. This expanded production helps give Noel Gallagher's sweeping melodies an emotional resonance that he occasionally can't convey lyrically. However, that is far from a fatal flaw; Gallagher's lyrics work best in fragments, where the images catch in your mind and grow, thanks to the music.
Gallagher may be guilty of some borrowing, or even plagiarism, but he uses the familiar riffs as building blocks.
This is where his genius lies: He's a thief and doesn't have many original thoughts, but as a pop/rock melodicist he's pretty much without peer. Likewise, as musicians, Oasis are hardly innovators, yet they have a majestic grandeur in their sound that makes ballads like "Wonderwall" or rockers like "Some Might Say" positively transcendent. Alan White does add authority to the rhythm section, but the most noticeable change is in Liam Gallagher. His voice sneered throughout Definitely Maybe, but on Morning Glory his singing has become more textured and skillful. He gives the lyric in the raging title track a hint of regret, is sympathetic on "Wonderwall," defiant on "Some Might Say," and humorous on "She's Electric," a bawdy rewrite of "Digsy's Diner."
It might not have the immediate impact of Definitely Maybe, but Morning Glory is just as exciting and compulsively listenable.

TRIVIA NOTE:
▪Tracks 6 and 12 are officially untitled. The track listing displays no title for these songs, merely a blank space (although in the Mexican and cassette editions of the album they both appear as "The Swamp Song"). The excerpts from "The Swamp Song" are parts of the instrumental B-side to the "Wonderwall" single.
▪The vinyl LP edition of the album features a bonus track, "Bonehead's Bank Holiday". This song appears as the seventh track on the album, immediately after the 44-second untitled track. It was supposed to be Bonehead's lead singer debut. In the end Noel sang the song as Arthurs had been nervous about his first vocal performance and when Liam took him for some drinks to calm his nerves they overdid it- samples of their drunken singing were used on the track. Noel claims to enjoy the song for its comedic value "Particularly the way he sings it, because he's beyond tone deaf." He highlights it as Oasis' "Ringo track".

Track Listing:
Side One: Hello / Roll With It / Wonderwall
Side Two: Don't Look Back In Anger / Hey Now! / Untitled / Bonehead's Bank Holiday
Side Three: Some Might Say / Cast No Shadow / She's Electric
Side Four: Morning Glory / Untitled / Champagne Supernova

LABELS: MINT(-) CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO wear, NO writing and NO spindle marks (label 3 has a minor pressing flaw - please see close-up photo)
VINYL Visual: MINT(-) The vinyl surfaces still retain their DEEP, LIKE-NEW GLOSSY SHEEN with a couple of superficial light marks which have NO audio consequence
VINYL Audio: SUPERB - CRYSTAL CLEAR, VERY SHARP AND VERY STRONG SOUND. There are NO scratches, NO jumps, NO sticks, NO clicks/pops and NO surface noise. The sound quality here is simply OUTSTANDING and the LP plays up to the highest standard with NO groove-wear and NO distortion (I don't think it has ever been played). Graded a MINT(-) for audio - the playback is pretty much FLAWLESS - SUPERB COPY AND THEY REALLY DO NOT COME MUCH BETTER THAN THIS
SLEEVE: The original tri-gatefold cover is also MINT(-) CLEAN, UNMARKED and FACTORY-FRESH with no edge/surface wear to speak of just a little 'bumping' to the corners. BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, FRESH SLEEVE
INNER SLEEVES: The 2 black inners are MINT(-) CLEAN and UNMARKED with NO splits, just some light record impression (the LPs are now housed in new inners and will be posted in these to prevent any knifing damage to the originals during transit)
POSTCARD: EXCELLENT - It is creased down one side where has caught and been folded inside the cover

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OUTSTANDING, POSSIBLY UNPLAYED AND PRACTICALLY AS-NEW UK FIRST PRESSING AND ONE PRETTY HARD TO BEAT - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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