Definitely Maybe

This article is about the Definitely Maybe music album . For the English film title Definitely, Maybe , see Maybe, maybe not .

Definitely Maybe
Studio album from Oasis
Publication (s)	August 29, 1994
Label (s)	Creation Records / Big Brother
Format (s)	CD , vinyl
Genre (s)	Britpop
Title (number)	11
running time	52:04
occupation	Singing : Liam Gallagher Vocals, guitar: Noel Gallagher Guitar: Paul Arthurs Bass : Paul McGuigan Drums : Tony McCaroll
production	Oasis , Mark Coyle, Owen Morris, and Dave Batchelor
Studio (s)	Sawmills Studios, The Pink Museum, Out Of The Blue, Monnow Valley and Loco Studios
chronology - Definitely Maybe (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)

Definitely Maybe is the debut album of Britpop - band Oasis , which for the first time on 29. August 1994 at Creation Records was released.

background

production

The recordings for the album cost around £ 85,000. The first recordings were made in Monnow Valley with producer David Batchelor, but were not used for the later release. In an interview in 1995, Noel Gallagher gave the reason for the large age difference and a fundamentally different artistic conception. Gallagher had to choose between Batchelor's "cleverness" and his own "madness" and therefore parted ways with the producer. The Sawmills Studios were completely re-recorded under producer Mark Coyle.

Many of the tracks first appeared on the live demonstration demo that was recorded a year earlier in Liverpool with Chris and Tony Griffiths from The Real People.

All the songs were written by Noel Gallagher .

Track list

1. Rock 'n' Roll Star - 5:22
2. Shakermaker - 5:08
3. Live Forever - 4:36
4. Up in the Sky - 4:28
5. Columbia - 6:17
6. Supersonic - 4:43
7. Bring It on Down - 4:17
8. Cigarettes & Alcohol - 4:49
9. Digsy's Dinner - 2:32
10. Slide Away - 6:32
11. Married with Children - 3:11

On the vinyl version of the album also appeared as the sixth song Sad Song .

Notes on individual songs

Live forever

Noel Gallagher wrote the lyrics for this song in response to the negative attitude in many grunge works of the time, especially the lyrics by Kurt Cobain ; According to his own statement, Gallagher had shown incomprehension that the Nirvana frontman had hated himself as a successful rock star, so that he had come to the realization that he love himself and will "live forever".

The video for Live Forever shows how drummer Tony McCarroll is buried alive by the other band members - less than a year later, the band and drummer split up. Some of the UK versions of the promotional video were filmed in the Strawberry Fields Memorial dedicated to John Lennon. The cover of the single shows the house where Lennon spent his childhood (251 Menlove Avenue).

The third single from the album stayed in the UK charts for over a year, peaking at # 10, making it the first Oasis single to hit the UK top 10.

Shakermaker

The name of the song goes back to a toy ( Shaker Maker ) that Noel Gallagher owned in his childhood.

DVD

In September 2004, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the first publication, a double DVD was released. It contains a one-hour documentary about the recordings of Definitely Maybe , including rare and current interviews with the band and directly involved employees, as well as some live and TV appearances and the promotional videos for Supersonic (UK & US versions), Shakermaker , Live Forever ( UK & US versions), Cigarettes & Alcohol and Rock 'n' Roll Star .

The DVD also includes a version of the CD that contains the track Sad Song , which was originally only found on the vinyl and Japanese versions of the album. New and old versions of the song are slightly different. The voice of Noel Gallagher in the passage

"Throwing it all away
don't throw it all away"

is recorded in two tracks on the DVD. The reasons for this are unclear.

Extensive bonus material rounds off the DVD, including a. Wibbling Rivalry , an excerpt from the infamous Wibbling Rivalry interview.

The DVD received the NME Award in the Best DVD category , beating Nirvanas With The Lights Out , Pixies' Pixies , Scissor Sisters' We Are Scissor Sisters And So Are You and The White Stripes' Live Under Blackpool Lights .

reception

The album was awarded a gold record in the UK just two days after its release . In the same year, the album was certified with the platinum record . Oasis has now received seven platinum awards for Definitely Maybe in the UK , after selling over two million copies there. In 2001 the album was also certified platinum in the United States of America . In the German-speaking area, Definitely Maybe was certified gold in Switzerland in 1997.

The four singles released from Definitely Maybe all entered the UK charts and reached positions within the Top 20. In the United States of America and in German-speaking countries, the singles from Definitely Maybe did not have any chart successes .

Definitely Maybe came 14th in the “Best Album of All Time” category in the Music of the Millennium vote from HMV , Channel 4 , The Guardian and Classic FM . The album also reached # 6 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums in 2005 .

Singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Definitely Maybe   DE 26th 02/06/1995 (14 weeks)   AT 27 05.03.1995 (7 weeks)   CH 25th 02/26/1995 (11 weeks)   UK 1 09/10/1994 (310 weeks)   US 58 02/11/1995 (21 weeks)

Singles

Supersonic   UK 31 04/23/1994 (60 weeks) Shakermaker   UK 11 07/02/1994 (62 weeks) Live forever   UK 10 08/20/1994 (66 weeks) Cigarettes and Alcohol   UK 7th 10/22/1994 (79 weeks)

Supersonic

• Released: April 11, 1994
• Author: Noel Gallagher
• Producers: Oasis & Mark Coyle

Shakermaker

• Published: June 13, 1994
• Author: Noel Gallagher
• Producers: Oasis, Mark Coyle & Owen Morris

Live forever

• Released: August 8, 1994
• Author: Noel Gallagher
• Producers: Oasis, Mark Coyle & Owen Morris

Cigarettes & Alcohol

• Released: October 10, 1994
• Author: Noel Gallagher
• Producers: Oasis, Mark Coyle & Owen Morris

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Europe (IFPI)	2 × platinum	(2,000,000)
France (SNEP)	2 × gold	200,000
Canada (MC)	platinum	100,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Sweden (IFPI)	gold	50,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	25,000
United States (RIAA)	platinum	1,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	7 × platinum	2,100,000
All in all	4 × gold 12 × platinum	3,490,000

Main article: Oasis / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ryan Leas: Definitely Maybe Turns August 20 , 2014, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
2. ^ Hugh Davies: Beatles beaten by Oasis in vote for greatest album. June 2, 2006, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
3. ^ A Definite Maybe: The Monnow Valley Recordings. oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
4. ^ A Definite Maybe: The Monnow Valley Recordings. oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
5. ^ A Definite Maybe: The Monnow Valley Recordings. oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
6. ↑ What's The Story Behind Live Forever By Oasis? radiox.co.uk, June 1, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Alex Niven: Definitely Maybe. Bloomsbury: London 2014, p. 10
8. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Oasis - 'Definitely Maybe' July 21, 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Certified Awards Search. British Phonographic Industry , accessed September 14, 2014 . 
10. ↑ riaa.com: SEARCH RESULTS. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
11. ↑ hitparade.ch: search for: Oasis Retrieved on February 11, 2010.
12. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: The music of the millennium January 24, 1998. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
13. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US