com/Oasis-Definitely-Maybe/release/14057872 - Just keep in mind this album was recorded at everything brick-walled to red-line at 11, so it's as good as can be expected.

It helps that this album is so incredible, but the sound of this pressing is so clean and vivid and wonderful. Warning: There is a counterfeit made in 2008 looking like the original - only the sleeve has an slight unsharp print and records have different runouts.

This mastering is much richer in sound than the 2014 press and likewise 2019 (picture vinyl) release.

Not sure if I'm allowed to do this, but because there is so much speculative discourse on these pressings, I think an audio sample is needed. however, i got the 2009 UK press and compared it to this and the original UK CD, and this is easily the worst.Original and 2009 pressings are still the ones to have, but you can't beat the QC with these Japanese pressings barring the actual sound.

A bit compressed, but considering the drug fueled mastering and overdubbing Noel was apparently responsible for, a listener of this pressing can tell it has been re-mastered to bring it all under control. After 29 years of this record changing my life I finally got a copy of this on original 1994 pressing. Until then, this pressing is pretty top notch, and unquestionably better than some of the other re-releases. I waited until he had he had smoked one of his special herbal cigarettes, then I put the record on the turntable to play.No matter how many reissues or mixes of this debut album you make they won't sound any better than when they're turned up to 11 and you're piling down the front during the opening beats of Columbia in a sweaty, intimate venue (in this case The Barrowlands in Glasgow in 2001. The original release from Creation may be better, but back then I was only interested in the 7" singles, so this is definitely a worthy purchase! I think it is very clever, that they (Oasis) decided to make one of these picture discs (Side C) literally look like it is a record that is already playing on the turntable. So with all that said - of course it's still an enjoyable ride, but to truly experience Oasis it was to see them live anywhere during the Alan White years IMO.