Will an Oasis reunion be a success? Definitely. Will it be worth it? Maybe | Alexis Petridis

But of course, Definitely Maybe and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? are only part of the tale. If no one would ever claim it as a great album, there’s a certain perverse pleasure to be taken in 1997’s Be Here Now – its claustrophobic, clenched-jaw sound literally embodying the excesses of the Britpop era running horribly out of control – but thereafter Oasis usually sounded bloated and weary, as if struggling to locate whatever had made them special in the first place, usually without success. Something would very fitfully spark – as on 2002’s The Hindu Times or 2008’s Shock of the Lightning – but, for the most part Oasis’s output for the remainder of their career was a pretty joyless trudge.