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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 20, 2024 9:19:44 GMT -5
Okay, this is meant in good faith and is a serious question. It's top of mind due to the recent hubbub about the reunion and tour and all that. Can someone explain Oasis to me? Specifically, why they were so massively famous, why there was so much buzz about them potentially reuniting, and now that they have, the level of excitement? I am not super familiar with them, but of what I've heard of their well known stuff, it's just the most generic, cookie cutter 90s radio fare I've heard. There is, to my ears, nothing remarkable whatsoever in music, lyrics, vocal performances, anything. There are a dozen other bands that sound exactly like them, so I don't get the fuss? Is this a matter of they did that sound first and everyone else copied them, so in hindsight it seems generic? Similar to how some younger folks see the Beatles? Was it just the lucky combination of the right album at the right time? Am I just on my own on this one? Just wondering. Can't help you there, as I share your opinion about the unremarkability of their music and never understood what the attraction was (or is). |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 20, 2024 10:16:50 GMT -5
Can someone explain Oasis to me? Humans, as a whole, have very bad taste. That's all I got. |
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Post by commond on Nov 20, 2024 16:39:35 GMT -5
Oasis were at the forefront of the Brit-Pop explosion. They had a meteoric rise to fame and were constantly in the news because of their antics and the problems between the Gallagher brothers. They had a specific look and people were attracted to their attitude, especially their front man. Their music was simple and catchy and they had plenty of stadium anthems. Their music videos were on constant rotation when I was young. They were inescapable. I had a couple of their albums, though I preferred Blur and Pulp. Young folks were looking for their generation's iconic rock band and for a lot of people it was Oasis. It all kind of fell by the wayside when Radiohead released OK Computer, at least in New Zealand, but for a while there Oasis were the biggest band in the world. It could have been, should have been, The Stone Roses, but they infamously had trouble following up on their legendary debut record.
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Post by Mormel on Nov 20, 2024 23:28:00 GMT -5
I think here in mainland Europe, Oasis and the other Britpop groups were something different after grunge, and certainly a welcome alternative to the boy bands and Eurodance that were ubiquitous on the radio in the mid 90s.
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Post by berkley on Nov 21, 2024 1:28:34 GMT -5
I think in Canada the Brit-Pop explosion of the 90s was a little under-exposed - with the exception of Oasis, who were played so much on the radio that I got tired of them before I had a chance to get to like them. But partially it was just the bad luck of hearing one or two songs I didn't like played over and over and then writing them off as all hype. Later on I came across some songs of theirs that I did like so my feelings about their music have changed and I plan to go back to it soon.
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