All Change and Back to 1994

"On the one hand, like Welsh's Trainspotting, early Oasis songs spoke of a Thatcherite scorched earth in which nothing was worth working for and the simulated escape route offered by drink and drugs seemed like the only option. But at the same time, and much more radically, Oasis also wrote songs–Live Forever and Acquiesce–of rare optimism and euphoria, songs that seemed to hint that some sort of spectacular collective recovery might be won in the teeth of the 80s nightmare."

In a 2014 Guardian article, Alex Niven argues that "we could do a lot worse than look beyond the stereotyped accounts of the 90s and try to recover their undertow of disaffection and supressed idealism."