For Fans of Oasis

People reach for (What's the Story) Morning Glory? as the masterpiece, and they are not wrong, but Definitely Maybe is where the magic is purest. Every track sounds like a band that has been waiting its whole life to explode. Rock 'n' Roll Star, Supersonic, Live Forever: these songs are not careful, not polished, not polite. They are the sound of wanting everything and believing you can have it. No debut since has combined that level of melody with that level of raw ambition.

Michael Winterbottom's film about Factory Records and Tony Wilson is technically about Joy Division and the Happy Mondays, but it is also the definitive document of the Manchester scene that made Oasis inevitable. The Hacienda, the attitude, the sense that this wet northern city was the center of the universe: all of it feeds directly into the Gallaghers' worldview. Watch it as a prequel to Supersonic.

Urban Hymns arrived in 1997 at the exact peak of Britpop and briefly made The Verve the biggest band in Britain. Bitter Sweet Symphony and The Drugs Don't Work have the same hymnal quality as Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger: huge feelings, simple chords, anthems for everyone who ever felt like the world owed them something. If Oasis hits you somewhere deep, Urban Hymns will hit you in exactly the same place.

Tim Schafer's heavy metal action game is the only video game that truly grasps why rock music inspires the kind of devotion Oasis fans know. The world is literally built from the imagery of album covers: stages as mountains, riffs as weapons, the battle for the soul of music as an actual war. It is funny and beautiful and completely sincere about why this music matters, which is exactly the register Oasis operated in.