From the first song 'Rock n Roll Star' it grabs you with it's sheer power, the lyric 'I'll be scraping your lives from the souls of my shoes tonight' gives a clue to the bands certainty of the big times coming their way. The song closes with the mantra 'It's just rock n roll' repeated over crunching guitars.
Next up is 'Shakermaker', everyone knows that this is a rip-off of 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing' but the song is still a classic, catchy as hell.
The next tracks 'Live Forever' and 'Up In The Sky' are classics too, best played very loud.
'Columbia' is good but this version is nowhere near as good as the original white label version, it's a shame that it isn't on the album.
Next track is the best on the album... 'Supersonic' remains one of the bands best songs even with it's completely senseless lyrics.
'Bring It On Down' is a fast and heavy rock song again best played very loud. It's an excellent song, why the hell doesn't Noel write songs like this anymore?
So the first seven tracks on the album are nearly all true classics, from here though things start to take a little downward turn...
'Cigarettes and Alcohol' is meant to be this classic song but I just don't get it. Maybe it's because the guitar riff is robbed from T-Rex - and I bloody hate them and all glam rock with a passion.
'Digsy's Dinner' is a good but silly track but is a poor relation to some of the other songs on the album.
'Slide Away' is meant to be a classic too but for me it's just boring and Liams' voice sounds weak and whiny.
Last song 'Married With Children' is a slow acoustic song which while fairly good is really only B-side material.
So that's 'Definitely Maybe' -- most definitely a very good album. But it is a classic? For it's place in musical history I would have to say yes... it's just a shame the last four tracks aren't as epic as the rest 4/5
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