Hi Tim,
I remember buying this album on the actual day of release.
Tunes like Supersonic and Shakermaker are class Oasis tracks (which admittedly isn't saying much) I even bought their first single Supersonic and thought wow this sounds pretty good.
I thought that they could have been as good as the Stone Roses but I was way off the mark because as musicians they were all fairly poor, song writing, terrible. The only thing that Oasis were good at was PR and getting stories in tabloids.
Noel used to be a roadie for an Oldham band called Inspiral Carpets in the very late 80's early 90's maybe that where he should have stayed as I think he really did get ideas above his station, saying that they all made a few quid out of it but so has Simon Cowell and we all know how p1ss poor his contribution to music has been.