FIRST things first. Definitely Maybe is now 20 years old, so not much can be written about the album that hasn’t already been said.

Anyone with a passing interest in guitar or indie music, Britpop, or who was alive in the 1990s, can probably name-check Rock‘n’Roll Star, Live Forever, Supersonic or Cigarettes & Alcohol as being present on Oasis’s debut.

Listening to it now, it’s fascinating to hear how although the style of the band’s music barely changed over the two decades since, there’s a rawness and a boldness here that is impossible to ignore. Who would include a song about having a mate round for lasagne on a debut album? Someone who is ultra-confident and doesn’t care about what people think. Here, Oasis just want to be heard.

The real treasures are on the two bonus discs. For everyone who ever said the b-sides would have made a better album than Be Here Now, there are 33 live tracks, demos and B-sides that have mainly been only available on bootlegs, or not at all.

That means D’Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman is on disc two, as are Listen Up, Half The World Away and the excellent Sad Song. But on disc three, the same tracks are presented from live performances at Manchester Academy or Noel Gallagher’s hotel room in Tokyo.

It’s fascinating too, to hear how Liam’s vocals changed between the demos and the recorded tracks. This is most evident on Cigarettes & Alcohol, where the word ‘sunshine’ only takes up two syllables, rather than the three or four it eventually made.

The strings-only version of Whatever is also adorable, and if (What’s The Story?) Morning Glory and Be Here Now are given the same treatment when they’re released later this year, it’s a great time to rediscover some classic albums.