Yeah cos they had loads of good albums didn't they!!

Just everyone they made mate . Obviously not as good as standing on the shoulders of giants tho


A quote from Liam .... Stones roses are the best band to come out of Manchester .

Tbh pal the first 2 oasis albums were brilliant and will always remind me of good times growing up

Yeah, all 1 of them - and a mediocre 2nd album that just lived off the hype of the 1st.

Not much poimt arguing about oasis with someone who's avatar is a picture of Noel and Liam is there haha it's like me arguing who's better out of fc and kr
Fwiw I don't dislike oasis ,my favourite is shampaign super nova with john squire on guitar

Don't worry, I didn't even realise that was still my avatar - been like that for years, and as I use the mobile version of the site I never see it!



Oasis aren't my fave band, far from it, I just find it weird how people compare a band like the Roses who are still living off 1 album that wasn't really that successful at the time (only got to #19 on the album chart), to a band that ( despite some of the poorer latter efforts ) sold massive quantities of 7 albums!

This one time, I was in Milan, I went to a trattoria. Inside there were about 5 tables. I asked what the waitress recommended, she said the lasagne. It was the single best lasagne I have ever eaten in my life. Nothing has ever come close. I asked how many they sold a day. They baked one large dish a day.

Tesco sell 10,000 microwave lasagnes every day.

Which is better?

Not really the same though is it. And if you like microwave lasagne then thats what you are gonna pick if you have never been to the restaurant in Milan. Just cos you say its the best lasagne you've ever, doesn't make it so for everyone else does it! That is what opinion is all about.

The Roses had 1 album that only came to the mainstream after bands like Oasis came to the forefront of music and said the Roses were the best Manchester band ever - and everyone jumped on the bandwagon.

Oasis had 3 great albums (and 4 dross ones) compared to 1 from the Roses.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not bagging the Roses in anyway as that album is superb and I still have my original copy from when it came out - but if you are comparing success no matter your opinion of the bands, then there is no comparison!

Well, yes, it is entirely the same. By your reckoning One Direction will go on to be than Oasis.

Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high?

What does that mean tho ???

Burst into heaven
Kissing the cotton clouds
Arctic sheets and fields of wheat
I can't stop coming down
Your shrunken head
Looking down on me above
Send me home like an elephant stone

What does it mean though???

And they are and they will be. One Direction cracked America - Oasis never did. Plenty of other UK pop/boybands have tried but never done what One Direction have done since The Beatles.

She's got a sister
And God only knows how I've missed her
And on the palm of her hand is a blister
And I need more time

I rest my case haha

Touché - no argument there! Was waiting for that

Tbf you could probably rip a lot of song lyrics to bits non more so than the Beatles (most overrated band in the history of music) in my opinion of course

That must be only in there to make it rhyme

So that makes them better? Just to clarify, your definition of better is populairty/quantity sold?

What would the super league table have looked liked if it was on average attendances ?

About the same - Wigan at the top, London, Widnes and Salford at the bottom!

Oasis were the greatest rock band of the 90's "some might say" they only had 1/2 good albums but if you asked 50 people what their favourite Oasis track was you would get 50 different answers.

My favourite would be Columbia

I myself am a big Oasis fan, not sure about a reform though. Oh, The Masterplan album is better than the Morning Glory album.... in my opinion

Heavily influenced by LSD would be my bet.

This thread is quite amusing - that people still have debates like this in the 2010s as if Oasis and the Stone Roses are still as important as they were in the 1990s!

I liked Oasis when I was a teenager in the 90s. However, the more I found out about music, the more I realised that they didn't have any attributes of a great band. Definitely Maybe is still a good album but their failure to innovate or match it on later releases is a poor legacy. All Oasis had that many other derivative britpop acts of the 90s didn't was that extra bit of swagger and posturing that won them a place in lad culture and lots of sales. Musically they are completely unremarkable. I can understand why people like them, but the same applies to the Spice Girls, who were presumably more commercially successful at the time.

I'm in exactly the same boat. I remember walking into a pub as a 16 year old underage drinker in the mid 90s to the sound of Don't Look Back in Anger and the whole pub were singing along. And there ends my reminiscence of Oasis. They were anthemic songs at the time but I'd never sit and properly listen to an Oasis album these days, maybe just stick it on for old time's sake while I made breakfast. My soundtrack to the 90s would be a whole different beast.

Hope not Liam's voice is shot.

Listened to their early back catalogue again the other day.

Definitely a single's band.

Oasis just a poor mans shed seven as I used to say to my oasis obsessed mate to wind him up