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Label:
  Epic - http://www.epicrecords.com/
Serial:
  ES 67351
Title:
  Oasis: (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Description:
  "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?"

Oasis
Track listing:
  1. Hello
2. Roll With It
3. Wonderwall
4. Don't Look Back in Anger
5. Hey Now!
6. The Swamp Song
7. Some Might Say
8. Cast No Shadow
9. She's Electric
10. Morning Glory
11. The Swamp Song
12. Champagne Supernova
Genre:
  Pop/Rock
Content:
  Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
  Single Layer
Recording type:
 
Recording info:
 

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Review by Kevin April 3, 2004 (5 of 6 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:
Without a doubt, Morning Glory marks Oasis' climax in terms of songwriting and performance.It was an album that truely facinated me back in 1995 and turned me into a fan.

The sound of the album was never considered as high fidelity, or produced under that purpose.
In fact it's the full-blown 20 layers of overdriven guitars and the heavily compressed punching drums that rock in songs like Hello, Morning Glory or Roll With It and singer Liam Gallagher did some of his best vocals.Comparing the original CD version with the Stereo SACD version, I immediatly noticed a severe lack of high frequencies, especially in the rockier songs.This must be because of the new mastering engineer, who probably tried to avoid or reduce hiss.But this also makes the drums and strings sound very unnatural and cut off.While it was clear that the compressed sound of the album wouldn't benefit that much from DSD Mastering, I hoped to hear an improvement in the frequency bandwidth. But this is not really recognisable, probably because of the strange reduction of high frequencies (see above). Also ringing noises are much more annoying now (Hey Now, Some Might Say).
It's probably up to personal taste if the Stereo layer offers an improvement or not.

The Multichannel layer came out worse in most cases. While the instrumental sound is quite ok and a finer channel separation is noticeable, they really messed up the vocals using a very sharp und unnatural reverb in most cases. (Hello! and Some Might Say sound awful!)
The best results, in my opinion, offer Cast No Shadow (nice slide-guitar and string sound) and She's electric (less reverb which makes it sound almost better than the stereo version).

In the end, what's left to say is that the SACD is a matter of taste and a nice addition to a fan's collection, but it could've been done much better, even considering the difficult source material.

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Review by David Jay June 29, 2014 (4 of 4 found this review helpful)
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I greatly enjoyed this Super Audio CD for its exclusive multichannel mix of the album by the producer Neil Dorfsman. It's great to hear some of the different choices made in expanding Oasis's dense 'wall of sound' to the discrete surround sound format. The remix manages to be very faithful to the original stereo mix by Owen Morris (also included on this disc), whilst enhancing the clarity and sense of space on tracks like Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger. The dynamics are also a little more open than the original CD, with a corresponding increase in separation between each instrument, whilst still preserving the intense energy that characterises the original mix. One of the best-sounding tracks (on my system) is Cast No Shadow.

I believe that the version of the original stereo mix included on this SACD is most likely derived from the original CD mastering, as it seems that the original analogue master tapes of each mix were not available to the producers of this disc. In casual comparisons I found the mastering of the Owen Morris mix here and on the original Creation CD to be very close.

Anyone interested in learning more about the production of this SACD may find an article on my Oasis website of interest. In an exclusive new interview by Tom Stroud for Oasis Recording Info, the Grammy award-winning producer Neil Dorfsman, perhaps best known for his work with such diverse artists as Dire Straits, Sting, Björk, and Paul McCartney, speaks for the first time about remixing Oasis’s classic album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? in 5.1 surround sound for the Super Audio CD edition.
http://www.oasis-recordinginfo.co.uk/?page_id=1201

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Review by FredCamp July 19, 2003 (3 of 3 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:
I am a huge fan of Oasis, so I am bound to be a little more forgiving for this SACD than most. My advice to any other die-hard Oasis fans is to buy this SACD but consider the source material when evaluating it. The mix on the first few songs is odd, but the rest of the cd falls into line eventually. To me, it was all worth it just to get to the multi-channel mix of "Champagne Super Nova"

When this album was recorded, Noel Gallagher still had aspirations of being the next Phil Spector. The "wall of sound" on the source material must have proved challenging when it came to to remaster it for SACD. It seems that when the mix couldn't be improved, they opted to make it different. It's an okay disc, but I expect better things from the remasterings of the later discs, STANDING ON THE SHOULDER OF GIANTS and HEATHEN CHEMISTRY.

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