10 Perfect Rock Albums That Everyone Hated Making
5. Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Oasis really had a lot to live up to before they even had a record to their name. In every single piece of buzz that the band was generating, you had Noel or Liam Gallagher proclaiming themselves as the greatest band that England had ever seen and how they were going to take over the music scene overnight. So when you make a claim like that in the press, you can imagine how hard it was to actually record something that delivers on the hype.
During the recording process of Definitely Maybe, the band went through many different producers and even separate studios to try and find the right sound. While some songs like Supersonic were able to capture the magic fairly quickly, the rest of the album was a chore to find the right person, down to Noel re recording the entire album on 3 separate occasions after noticing that it didn't sound like the band's live sound.
It might have made sense for their sound man Mark Coyle to produce the record, but things didn't really click until Owen Morris was brought in, cleaning up the mixes and pushing the limiter as far as it would go before the sound starts to distort. Now they had a sound that was brash, loud, and in your face, and they had the rest of the British music scene laying at their feet.