Bands that were better than Oasis in the 90's

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:14 am

'kin shite were Oasis, I just don't get it.

Here's one.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXs8zmfqXvg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:17 am

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:20 am

Impossible to find one

Clarinetclaret · Post by **Clarinetclaret** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:22 am

It's all subjective though isn't it? First 2 Oasis albums were up there with the best, then it went downhill from there imo.
One band I thought were on a par were The Verve, Urban Hymns was sublime.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:24 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OesTFysRzbc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

colne-claret · Post by **colne-claret** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:35 am

Bin Ont Turf wrote:'kin shite were Oasis, I just don't get it.

Here's one.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXs8zmfqXvg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Millions of people do get it though and that's why they were so big.

DCWat · Post by **DCWat** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:38 am

Despite not being a particularly good singer, his nasal whining Manc twang and his faux ‘ard man image, they did churn out a few decent songs.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:43 am

colne-claret wrote:Millions of people do get it though and that's why they were so big.

I know and that's what puzzles me.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:55 am

Blink 182!

Oshkoshclaret · Post by **Oshkoshclaret** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:01 am

Radiohead for sure.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:01 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPfhAksS28g" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:03 am

Definitely maybe was f***ing brilliant. It was all downhill from there

Oshkoshclaret · Post by **Oshkoshclaret** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:04 am

Teenage Fanclub

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:05 am

My son played oasis to death when he was at home.
Initially I wasn't keen on them but they gradually grew on me to the point where I listen to them quite regularly myself now.

Love this live Slade cover...far better than Noddy screaming.

https://youtu.be/kTem8y6gAYQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Oshkoshclaret · Post by **Oshkoshclaret** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:05 am

Crowded House

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:05 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:13 am

Damo wrote:Definitely maybe was f***ing brilliant. It was all downhill from there

D'you know what I mean
My big Mouth
Stand By Me
I hope, I think, I know
Don't go Away
Be Here Now
All round the world

Fuckin in the bushes
go let it out
Little James
SUNDAY MORNING CALL*

The Hindu Times
Force of Nature
Stop Crying your Heart Out
Songbird
Little By Little
All in my mind
She is love
Born on a different cloud
Better man

Turn Up the Sun
LYLA*
The Importance of Being Idle
A Bell Will Ring
Let There Be Love
Can y'see it Now

Waiting for the Rapture
The shock of the lightning
Im outta time
Falling down
Soldier on.

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Were all **** songs?

***** me I'd love to have a career as an unknown musician on benefits being the one who penned those **** songs that no one every liked.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:13 am

Apart from knowing certain bands that my son listened to I haven't really kept up with the music/chart scene for 25 years.
Apart from my favourite bands that were already established.

Here's one from The Cure from 1992

https://youtu.be/GTm8SpDPO3s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

50 shades of Grey · Post by **50 shades of Grey** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:33 am

Erm, now I know this is a personal and subjective thing, but has somebody really said 'Crowded house'.

That's a thousand yard stare/ tumbleweed moment if ever I saw one.

(I'm currently and annoyingly humming 'always take the weather with you' in my head as I write this).

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:38 am

This band did some great driving tunes.

https://youtu.be/nB-tnUqLHyg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:42 am

starting_11 wrote:D'you know what I mean
My big Mouth
Stand By Me
I hope, I think, I know
Don't go Away
Be Here Now
All round the world

Fuckin in the bushes
go let it out
Little James
SUNDAY MORNING CALL*

The Hindu Times
Force of Nature
Stop Crying your Heart Out
Songbird
Little By Little
All in my mind
She is love
Born on a different cloud
Better man

Turn Up the Sun
LYLA*
The Importance of Being Idle
A Bell Will Ring
Let There Be Love
Can y'see it Now

Waiting for the Rapture
The shock of the lightning
Im outta time
Falling down
Soldier on.

----------

Were all **** songs?

***** me I'd love to have a career as an unknown musician on benefits being the one who penned those **** songs that no one every liked.

What?

You may have got the wrong end of the stick there.
I've seen them twice, one of those was knebworth in 96. I've got box sets, limited edition vinyls and I own every album they produced as a band.
Not sure how you came to the conclusion I think they put **** music out from my short comment

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:46 am

"All went downhill" is NOT a postive comment.

Anyway on the plus side you've got me listening to Oasis for the first time in years.

Cheers!

(don't have to get up... *much* in the mornin so might enjoy another half hour here)

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:49 am

I somehow missed *THE MASTERPLAN out of SOTSOG.

Duno how.

Anyway.

Dazzler · Post by **Dazzler** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:58 am

Thought these 2 bands were in for a good run..

https://youtu.be/1ClCpfeIELw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://youtu.be/DL7-CKirWZE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:06 am

starting_11 wrote:"All went downhill" is NOT a postive comment.

Anyway on the plus side you've got me listening to Oasis for the first time in years.

Cheers!

(don't have to get up... *much* in the mornin so might enjoy another half hour here)

It was downhill imo. Just not as far down hill as I probably came across with my original comment haha

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:07 am

Apology accepted. The almighty (noel) forgives you.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:08 am

starting_11 wrote:Apology accepted. The almighty (noel) forgives you.

I'm quite sure Noel would agree

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:11 am

Damo wrote:I'm quite sure Noel would agree

Just be thankful it wasn't Liam.

As Frank Gallagher said... "licckle liam... hes gonna be a star... once we get the fits under control"

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:18 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVE0JtnmqcA

My fav new Ashcroft song. Was at this gig. I was on the top mezzenine whatever stood next to the guy with a camera with a long pole from the side pointing it straight down the middle.

Had a great day drinking Sainsbury's Local stella, eating KFC Zinger Burgers (or whatever the ****) on Shepherds Bush common or whatever before going into the O2 Empire.

Spiral · Post by **Spiral** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:18 am

Dazzler wrote:My son played oasis to death when he was at home.
Initially I wasn't keen on them but they gradually grew on me to the point where I listen to them quite regularly myself now.

This is a phenomenon sort of similar to Stockholm syndrome. Here's a study into how your familiarity with a piece of music relates to your emotional response to that music.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl ... ne.0027241" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is often called the mere-exposure effect. Familiarity plays a crucial role in how much you enjoy a song and repeated exposure to a song-even one you initially dislike-can have a significant observable effect on your emotional response to that song. Exposure to a familiar song activates the brain's reward centre more than an unfamiliar song, but not more than an unfamiliar song within a style of music you usually enjoy.

Here, as we can see, is scientific evidence as to why otherwise decent people can admit, in public, and without shame, to enjoying derivative, objectively uninteresting children's music. My advice would be that if you hear a song you dislike, find a way to never have to listen to Oasis ever again. It's a shame this study was published in 2011 and not the mid 90's. This awareness could have saved millions of people from a lifetime of poor taste and bad decisions.

I hate Oasis.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:26 am

Woah...

Free boat ride for three...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM

CardyTheClaret · Post by **CardyTheClaret** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:50 am

Dazzler wrote:Apart from knowing certain bands that my son listened to I haven't really kept up with the music/chart scene for 25 years.
Apart from my favourite bands that were already established.

Here's one from The Cure from 1992

https://youtu.be/GTm8SpDPO3s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Pictures Of You is, for me, the greatest song ever written. It’s from 1989 though! (Released as a single in early 1990)

Westyorkclaret · Post by **Westyorkclaret** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:02 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm262cXxRrU" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

THEWELLERNUT70 · Post by **THEWELLERNUT70** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:44 am

starting_11 wrote:D'you know what I mean
My big Mouth
Stand By Me
I hope, I think, I know
Don't go Away
Be Here Now
All round the world

Fuckin in the bushes
go let it out
Little James
SUNDAY MORNING CALL*

The Hindu Times
Force of Nature
Stop Crying your Heart Out
Songbird
Little By Little
All in my mind
She is love
Born on a different cloud
Better man

Turn Up the Sun
LYLA*
The Importance of Being Idle
A Bell Will Ring
Let There Be Love
Can y'see it Now

Waiting for the Rapture
The shock of the lightning
Im outta time
Falling down
Soldier on.

----------

Were all **** songs?

***** me I'd love to have a career as an unknown musician on benefits being the one who penned those **** songs that no one every liked.

A great list which has omitted a few, which includes the magnificent "Gas Panic" and "Let There Be Love"

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:05 am

Blur......

djt2006 · Post by **djt2006** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:09 am

Never got Oasis ... two Creation bands that I preferred were Teenage Fanclub and Super Furry Animals.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:21 am

Super Furry Animals

And The Family Cat, of course.

With impeccable timing, Teenage Fanclub just come on on the radio.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 7:28 am

According to a few experts on here their music won't stand the test of time

As for better bands, they had a number of equals at the time.

Verve, Blur, Pulp, Shed Seven, Suede to name a few.

I'm just glad to have been around when they were all releasing music.

Slide Away is my absolute favourite Oasis song.

TurfyMoore · Post by **TurfyMoore** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:04 am

The best band of the nineties and new album out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFc_I8LXKak" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:05 am

Bin Ont Turf wrote:'kin shite were Oasis, I just don't get it.

Here's one.............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXs8zmfqXvg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There is no better

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:07 am

https://youtu.be/vvvMHXVUc5M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Shivvers

jlup1980 · Post by **jlup1980** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:15 am

It's hard to find anyone better than Oasis in the 90s. People can say they went downhill (I'd say that was more in the noughties) but if you're just talking about the 90s they're very hard to beat.

Definitely Maybe and What's The Story (Morning Glory) have and will stand the test of time. Be Here Now was a good album hiding inside an over-produced one!! If they'd taken it down a notch and trimmed a minute or so off most songs it would have been great. I know that's a ridiculous thing to say but I find the album is more an advert for their drug excesses at the time. Noel just wanted to put layer after layer after layer of guitars on every track!!

The only other album released in the 90s was The Masterplan, which ironically was a much better album than Be Here Now and highlighted how many great songs they wrote in the early years.

One band that hasn't been mentioned on this thread so far, apart from the OP link, is The Charlatans. The 90s were also their peak. They had 6 albums released in the 90s, peaking with the self-titled The Charlatans in 95, Tellin' Stories in 97 and Us and Us Only in 99. For that 4 or 5 year period they were unbelievable IMO.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:40 am

Super Furry Animals
Radiohead
Teenage Fanclub
Pulp
Primal Scream
Spiritualized
Jesus & Mary Chain
Manic Street Preachers
The Charlatans
James
The Wedding Present
The Verve

I get the feeling this thread is only intended for guitar bands but I'm going to throw Underworld and Orbital in there.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:51 am

Sidney1st wrote:According to a few experts on here their music won't stand the test of time

As for better bands, they had a number of equals at the time.

Verve, Blur, Pulp, Shed Seven, Suede to name a few.

I'm just glad to have been around when they were all releasing music.

Slide Away is my absolute favourite Oasis song.

Shed Seven? Funniest thing I've ever read on here!

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:05 am

Rialto, surely.
Or that band that sang about Mars Bars and Twixes.

CharlieinNewMexico · Post by **CharlieinNewMexico** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:07 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:Shed Seven? Funniest thing I've ever read on here!

I'd also venture The Family Cat (family cat)

karatekid · Post by **karatekid** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:15 am

You are all wrong, the best band of the 90's was definitely The Spice Girls. No smiley.

Right_winger · Post by **Right_winger** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:30 am

Oasis were superb back in the day but they weren't anywhere near the pinnacle of being the best band around.

You can't even put Oasis in the same breath as the likes of Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chilli peppers, Foo Fighters, etc etc

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:37 am

THEWELLERNUT70 wrote:A great list which has omitted a few, which includes the magnificent "Gas Panic" and "Let There Be Love"

I picked the "obvious" ones.

I could have included a few more.

I certainly don't think everyone would have got Let There Be Love if i had.

Bertiebeehead · Post by **Bertiebeehead** » Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:37 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:Super Furry Animals
Radiohead
Teenage Fanclub
Pulp
Primal Scream
Spiritualized
Jesus & Mary Chain
Manic Street Preachers
The Charlatans
James
The Wedding Present
The Verve

I get the feeling this thread is only intended for guitar bands but I'm going to throw Underworld and Orbital in there.

Sounds like the soundtrack to my life in the 90s and probably to the present day.