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Morning Glory (Oasis song)

{{Short description|1995 single by Oasis}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = Morning Glory

| cover = Morning Glory (Oasis single).jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Oasis

| album = (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

| B-side = {{ubl|"It's Better People"|"Rockin' Chair"|"Live Forever" (live at Glastonbury '95)}}

| released = {{start date|1995|9|18|df=y}}Released as a commercial single only in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Rock{{cite web |last1=Petridis |first1=Alexis |title=Oasis's greatest songs – ranked! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/05/oasis-greatest-songs-ranked |website=The Guardian |access-date=21 November 2023 |date=5 March 2020}}

| length = 5:03

| label = {{hlist|Creation|Epic}}

| writer = Noel Gallagher

| producer = {{hlist|Owen Morris|Noel Gallagher}}

| prev_title = Roll with It

| prev_year = 1995

| next_title = Wonderwall

| next_year = 1995

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Wm54XyLwBAk|"Morning Glory"}}}}{{Extra track listing

| album = (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

| type = single

| tracks = {{(What's the Story) Morning Glory? tracks}}

}}

}}

"Morning Glory" is a song by the English rock band Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher and included on the band's second album, (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, in September 1995. It was given a commercial single release only in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, and it was also a radio single in the United States and Canada. In North America, it was the first song of the album to receive significant play on modern rock radio stations, which "Some Might Say" and "Roll with It" had not achieved.

Content

=Lyrics and themes=

"Morning Glory" contains lyrical references to the drug cocaine and to the Beatles' song "Tomorrow Never Knows", and partially serves as the album's title track; the full line in its parent album's name is present in the chorus' lyrics.

=Musical style=

Kenneth Partridge said of the riff that opens "Morning Glory" that it is "strikingly similar" to that of "The One I Love" by American rock band R.E.M.{{cite news |last1=Partridge |first1=Kenneth |title=Oasis' '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' at 20: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/album-review/6714516/oasis-whats-the-story-morning-glory-anniversary |access-date=4 July 2020 |magazine=Billboard |date=2 October 2015}}

Music video

The song's accompanying video is directed by Jake Scott. The band is performing in an industrial apartment, suggested by the opening shots of the video to be the Balfron Tower (not to be mistaken with Trellick Tower), as the building's tenants (including a man with a baby, a young boy, an old man and a female cyclist, an elderly woman with a hair dryer, a middle-aged woman in a house coat, a mafia boss and two bodyguards, an Indian couple, a drug addict, another elderly woman, and young woman and her mother) take offence to the loud noise of the band's playing and come up to knock on the door and look in the mail slot. The video concludes with all the tenants gathering around the door, beating on it and yelling, just as the band finishes playing and packs up their instruments.{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm54XyLwBAk|title=Oasis – Morning Glory|date=7 September 2011|via=YouTube|access-date=22 September 2020}}

Other releases

  • In October 2005, a remix of the song was released on the soundtrack to the movie Goal!. It was done by Don't Believe the Truth producer Dave Sardy.
  • The song is included on Oasis' compilation album Stop the Clocks. On the original album, the song segues into the 40-second untitled track, which in turn segues into "Champagne Supernova". This is the same thing that happens on Stop the Clocks, except the untitled track is not included, leaving the water sounds from "Morning Glory" to directly segue straight into "Champagne Supernova".

Track listings

Australian CD and cassette single; Japanese CD single {{small|(662488 2; 662488 8; EICP 707)}}{{cite AV media notes|title=Morning Glory|others=Oasis|year=1995|type=Australian CD single liner notes|publisher=Epic Records, Creation Records|id=662488 2}}{{cite AV media notes|title=Morning Glory|others=Oasis|year=1995|type=Australian cassette single sleeve|publisher=Epic Records, Creation Records|id=662488 8}}{{cite AV media notes|title=Morning Glory|others=Oasis|year=1995|type=Japanese CD single liner notes|publisher=Epic Records|id=EICP 707}}

  1. "Morning Glory"
  2. "It's Better People"
  3. "Rockin' Chair"
  4. "Live Forever" (live at Glastonbury '95, 23 June 1995)

Personnel

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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|+ Weekly chart performance for "Morning Glory"

!Chart (1995)

!Peak
position

{{single chart|Australia|25|artist=Oasis|song=Morning Glory|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 October 2018}}
{{single chart|Canadarock|4|chartid=9053|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 March 2018}}
{{single chart|New Zealand|29|artist=Oasis|song=Morning Glory|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 October 2018}}
{{single chart|Scotland|84|date=19951001|rowheader=true|access-date=22 January 2022}}
scope="row"|UK Singles (OCC){{cite magazine |date=7 October 1995 |journal=Hit Music |title=Hit Singles |url=https://i.postimg.cc/brx9Twxs/OCC-UK-Singles-Chart-peaks-101-150-7-October-1995-Hit-Music-magazine.jpg |publisher=Compiled by Millward Brown for CIN|access-date=22 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_O.HTM|title=Chart Log UK 1994–2010 > The O – Ozric Tentacles|publisher=zobbel.de|access-date=31 March 2017}}

|147

{{single chart|Billboardalternativesongs|24|artist=Oasis|rowheader=true|accessdate=21 May 2020}}

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=Year-end charts=

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|+ 1995 year-end chart performance for "Morning Glory"

!Chart (1995)

!Position

scope="row"|Australia (ARIA){{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/aBqgAcE.jpg|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles 1995|publisher=ARIA|access-date=27 January 2019}}

|76

scope="row"|Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM){{cite magazine|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.9212&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.9212.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.9212|title=RPM Top 50 Alternative Tracks of 1995|magazine=RPM|via=Library and Archives Canada|access-date=21 October 2018}}

|18

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Certifications

{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for "Morning Glory"}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=single|award=Gold|relyear=1995|certyear=1996|access-date=9 July 2021}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Oasis|title=Morning Glory|award=Platinum|relyear=2005|certyear=2024|id=15164-1114-1|access-date=17 May 2024}}

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Release history

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scope="row"|Australia

|18 September 1995

|CD

|{{hlist|Creation|Epic}}

|662488 2

|{{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/bBdEkGK.png|title=New Release Summary – Product Available from: 18/09/95 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 292)|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur|access-date=31 March 2017}}

scope="row"|United States

|26 September 1995

|Contemporary hit radio

|Epic

|ESK 7302

|{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1995/RR-1995-09-22.pdf|title=Selected New Releases|magazine=Radio & Records|issue=1113|page=32|date=22 September 1995|access-date=9 May 2021}}

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927005614/http://www.oasisinet.com/site.php?site=songlyricssingle&idx=73&songidx=561&country=172&atype=0&from=&boxidx= Lyrics]

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Category:1995 songs

Category:1995 singles

Category:Oasis (band) songs

Category:Creation Records singles

Category:Epic Records singles

Category:Music videos directed by Jake Scott (director)

Category:Song recordings produced by Noel Gallagher

Category:Songs written by Noel Gallagher