Was Oasis the biggest band in the world?

From 1994 to 1997 they were probably the best bet....I guess.

But Britpop was way to regional to produce a large of bands with world conquering potential.

So they were the biggest band in the world same way U2 was the biggest band in the world from 2000 to 2005. The only band who wanted that distinction and had enough talent to know how to serve the marketplace.

But it can be argued that the title lost it's true significance the moment Kurt pulled the trigger.

 

"Biased hate"!!!! Just, like, an opinion man. Like your biased love.

A lot of people can't stand Oasis. I don't mind them but their meat and potatoes rock is an easy target.

 

Is Coldplay "stadium vegan pop" ?

 

Also Lars Ulrich of Metallica, saying ‘Oasis has been the soundtrack to my life for the last 20 years’ -

Metallica's Lars Ulrich: 'Oasis has been the soundtrack to my life for the last 20 years'

 

Oasis and Blur are both "after-realtime" discoveries for me, so I certainly am not a part of fan rivalry supporting one band over the other. (I'm enjoying both bands...and NG's High Flying Birds). After reading all the Oasis-Beatles stuff I was quite surprised to hear Beetlebum which, in the early part of the song anyway, seems extremely Beatle-ish.

 

sure in their heads

 

Ha I just tried to google that and came up with this instead

Steve Earle calls Noel Gallagher 'the most overrated songwriter ever' - NME

“I dislike Man City because it is Oasis’s club, Noel Gallagher is the most overrated songwriter in the whole history of pop music. They were perfect for the Brit press because they behaved badly and got all the attention. Blur were really great. That guy Damon Albarn is a real ****in’ songwriter.”

Steve is a more than a decade late for the battle of Britpop, but his superior taste is noted

 

It would be if Damon hadn't gone to such great efforts to make Blur seem like a footnote in his overall career.

 

I was not referring to people who simply dislike them. Many of the comments in this thread about them had nothing to do with music but pure hate for them as people. I don't like Queen but I would never try to disregard them musically because I don't personally like them. That has happened throughout this thread and it was those people I referred to as having "biased hate".

What I found astonishing in this thread was how so many people dismiss them based on them being rude and loud yet those people are in many threads here worshiping artists who have been involved in activities that lean toward the disturbing, exploitative, illegal and yet because they are the biggest artists in music it is OK.

 

Agreed. As I posted upthread, even if you hate them, you can't dispute the number of records they sold, especially with the first two albums.

 

I don't hate them but do resent how popular they were with my generation. Without wanting to sound too condescending there was other, more talented artists from both sides of the pond who deserved that exposure. Then again without Oasis wiping the floor with Damon we may never have gotten the Blur or 13 albums or Gorillaz, Damon may have been happy doing what Noel does and writing weaker versions of Parklife and the Great Escape, so they may have, indirectly, contributed some good to the world of the world of music afterall

However mediocre their music was, credit were credit is due; they at least were never as bland as Coldplay who took over their crown as the world's favourite (British) band.

 

Outside of this forum, I've actually never encountered someone who admits to liking Coldplay.

 

Anoyher big influence, not yet mentioned here, was Teenage Fanclub.

 

Good post. I've noticed a couple of people on this thread, have dismissed them without actually hearing them.

 

I only have The brilliant Grand Prix, but I don't really hear an influence on Oasis there.

 

Wouldn't They Might Be Giants be the biggest band in the world?

 

Answer to the question; no, at no point was Oasis ever the biggest band in the world.

 

I don't know that album, I'm referring more to their earlier ones, A Catholic Education (1990) and especially Bandwagonesque (1991). Here's a track off the latter:

 

Biggest band ?
No. Tbat usually implys big in America which was not the case with the mancs lads.

 

I hope not. I don't even know who they are!

 

I agree they were the biggest rock band in europe but not the biggest band in the world because outside the UK they did not have the cultural impact that Nirvana had all over the world. The last UK bands to have been the biggest band in the world were The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

 

It must be strange to live in a world where everyone dresses like a lumberjack and nobody's heard of Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.

 

U2 at couple points in their career have been the biggest band in the world (whether you like them or not). Irish, not UK, you got me there.

 

Or Duran Duran, for that matter (briefly, around the time of Arena).