This is the record the Rock Hall is really inducting, whether or not either brother turns up to collect it. Noel stopped worrying about sounding cool and wrote choruses for a whole country to shout. Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger get the attention, but the stretch from Hey Now! to Some Might Say is where the album lives for me: loose, loud, a bit too long in the best way. Liam is at his peak, sneering through the verses and somehow tender on Cast No Shadow. Champagne Supernova overstays by a minute and I wouldn't cut a second of it. The lyrics don't always mean much, and that was never the point. Three decades on, it still sounds like a band that knew exactly how big it was about to get.
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