Dr Gloom 21965 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Which camp were you in? Got to say I always preferred Blur. Loved the first two Oasis albums but all got too samey after that, no real progression. Albarn on the other hand will be looked back on as one of the best songwriters of his generation. I love how every album had a different sound to the last but he consistently penned good tunes. His latest stuff couldnt be more different to Leisure. That said, I do quite like Noel Gallaghers new solo material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajax_andy 0 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Blur had great singles but I always found the albums to be sub par compared to Oasis' As a teenager I actually preferred Blur (1st gig I ever went to) but it was much more about singles back then... If I was going to sit and listen to an album I'd always put Definately Maybe or Whats the Story Morning Glory on over a Blur album any day of the week. When you then look at the singles Oasis had on top of a couple of really outstanding albums then Blur weren't as good despite still being an excellent band IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I thought they were both shit at the time. Blur and 13 turned me round on them......All Around The World on Oasis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Blur were better. Though personnel wise, they're both a right set of knobheads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Oasis are the best band that's ever been in my eyes, particularly there stuff pre 1996. Comparing them to Blur for me is like comparing Man Utd to MK Dons. Damon Alburn was a stuck up middle class prick too pretending to be something he wasn't. Some Oasis songs are to this day my favourite songs, but for some reason it's quite popular these days not to give their music the praise that they deserve. Songs like Supersonic are better songs than almost any band could dream of creating, and some of their songs which weren't even properly released and used as b songs like "It's good to be free" would be the best song the vast majority of bands ever created. They made great songs after 1996, but they weren't as consistently good as they were prior to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) I thought they were both shit at the time. Blur and 13 turned me round on them......All Around The World on Oasis. All Round The World wasn't even in Oasis best 50 songs, in fact I'd say it was the second worst song on the third album without a doubt. Edited December 15, 2011 by McFaul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostile_statue 0 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Early Oasis all the way. I was a huge fan. Definitely Maybe - still a fantastic album. I like some of Blur's stuff too though, particularly 13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 What struck me while listening to a song that sampled Radiohead last night is that someone who's 14 now (same age i was for Blur vs Oasis vs Radiohead etc) was born the year that OK Computer came out. That's the same gap as there was between my birth and Rubber Soul...which I thought was the holy grail at that age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30680 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I don't mind Oasis, the only thing they were lacking were decent lyrics. Some of the shit they came up with was absolute piss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44996 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Tbf, I don't think it's anything to do with it being popular not to give their music the praise it deserves. I was a big Oasis fan back in the day, but every release after their first two albums was a disappointment, and was deserving of very little praise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostile_statue 0 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I don't mind Oasis, the only thing they were lacking were decent lyrics. Some of the shit they came up with was absolute piss. I think it was part of their charm tbh and I mean "I'm feeling supersonic, give me gin & tonic" - pure genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I thought they were both shit at the time. Blur and 13 turned me round on them......All Around The World on Oasis. All Round The World wasn't even in Oasis best 50 songs, in fact I'd say it was the second worst song on the third album without a doubt. Noel would disagree, it's one of his favourites too. It was written before the first album, but they never had the funds to do it justice productionwise until that third album, and it's by far the best thing on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostile_statue 0 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I felt like Oasis ment something, unlike Blur. A song like "Cigarettes & Alcohol" I think could be seen as very political, even though it wasn't written as such. Great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 At the peak of the "war", i.e. 1995, I was definitely in the Oasis camp - they were the better singles band and "The Great Escape" was a bloody awful album (though in hindsight I'll give a pass to "The Universal"). Blur and their individual members went on to do far more interesting things though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I seem to remember one of my first arguments on here was due to my hatred of Oasis generally. I've mellowed since then like. If I had a Gun is a lovely song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I thought they were both shit at the time. Blur and 13 turned me round on them......All Around The World on Oasis. All Round The World wasn't even in Oasis best 50 songs, in fact I'd say it was the second worst song on the third album without a doubt. Noel would disagree, it's one of his favourites too. It was written before the first album, but they never had the funds to do it justice productionwise until that third album, and it's by far the best thing on there. Never had the funds to include a song till their third album, what a load of shit. They had funds to include pish like Be Here Now, which the third album was named after. Strange you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostile_statue 0 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 always liked Blur better, mainly because i couldn't stand liam gallagher, like HF it's mellowed now and i do like some of their stuff, but still can't stand that twat. He's a cunt no doubt, proper rock'n'roll star back in the day though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I seem to remember one of my first arguments on here was due to my hatred of Oasis generally. I've mellowed since then like. If I had a Gun is a lovely song. You're good at using calculators and pie charts, but I don't think your musical taste is up to much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Think Oasis are canny average looking back. Couple of the early tracks are good but for the most part, the hooks that everyone loves are poor knock-offs of better bands. Don't Look Back in Anger is a well put together song though and I like the guitar sound Noel gets on the second track on The Masterplan. A lot of those early albums are a load of overblown rubbish with half-decent choruses and samey guitar solos and they didn't get any good until the drugs wore off and they had a couple of Kinks rip offs as singles in the 2000s like Importance of Being Idle. The less said about Beady Eye and Noel's new project, the better. Dull as dishwater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 They're nee Suede, the pair of them. Well, Suede up until Butler left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Doesn't Stevie think The Animals are better than The Beatles though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I thought they were both shit at the time. Blur and 13 turned me round on them......All Around The World on Oasis. All Round The World wasn't even in Oasis best 50 songs, in fact I'd say it was the second worst song on the third album without a doubt. Noel would disagree, it's one of his favourites too. It was written before the first album, but they never had the funds to do it justice productionwise until that third album, and it's by far the best thing on there. Never had the funds to include a song till their third album, what a load of shit. They had funds to include pish like Be Here Now, which the third album was named after. Strange you like. A 38 piece orchestra is quite an expense for a fledgling band on their debut album. They didn't want the grandiosty lost to the standard guitar/drums/bass that makes up the first couple of albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 Doesn't Stevie think The Animals are better than The Beatles though? Who are Wings? Only the band The Beatles could have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13894 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I think my favourite Beatles album would have to be...The Best of The Beatles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 I don't think your musical taste is up to much. Can't remember if it's you or CT that bigs up Phil Collins, but the fact there's some confusion there says it all about your taste. Quite pleased to be at the other end of the spectrum from you and CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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