Although a commercial smash , the record received initially lukewarm reviews from mainstream music critics ; many contemporary reviewers deemed it inferior to '' Definitely Maybe '' , with the songwriting and production particular points of criticism . In the ensuing years , however , critical opinion towards the album reversed , and it is now generally considered a seminal record of both the Britpop era and the 1990s in general , and appears on several lists of the greatest albums in rock music . At the 1996 Brit Awards , the album won Best British Album . Over several months in 1995 and 1996 , the band performed an extensive world tour in support of the album . Among the most notable of these concerts were back-to-back nights at Earls Court in London in November 1995 , which were the biggest ever indoor gigs in Europe at the time . They also performed two " homecoming " gigs at Maine Road in Manchester in April 1996 . In August of that year , the band played to 80,000 people over two nights at Balloch Country Park at Loch Lomond in Scotland , before two performances a week later at Knebworth House to a combined crowd of 250,000 people
1996 Brit Awards
1996 Brit Awards
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