Remember after than one terrorist attack last year when a crowd of people (((spontaneously))) broke into a song called "Don't Look Back in Anger" by the band Oasis. No fucking way in hell that a bunch of strangers would start singing some semi-obscure track from fucking Oasis. Those dudes were nothing but a one half-hit wonder at best.
I'm 28 and I'd never even heard that song before in my life, and didn't even realize that they were the Wonderwall meme band until recently. I literally had to look them up and still was unfamiliar with them. Yet people all over Yea Forums (aka psyop shills) act like they were supposedly incredibly popular and super well-known back in the day. Apparently they were supposed to have had success even in America, yet I never even knew they existed outside of Wonderwall until that event. I even checked out the Wonderwall video too and there was blatant MKULTRA imagery in it.
I did more digging and found out they were linked to Tony Blair who worked with George Bush on numerous false flag terrorist operations including 9/11 and 7/7. What's more, other people have come out on record saying that this band and others like them had falsified critical acclaim and inflated sales/reputation in order to brainwash the masses. Kevin Shields, one former member of these youth Brit Pop "bands" (aka political brands) and on one of the biggest Brit Pop record labels came out and said it was a government conspiracy a few years ago. These bands have also been affiliated with the members of U2 and Coldplay, Bono and Chris Martin are known globalists. They were simply buffers so they could be used as """anthems""" for false flag terrorist attacks, socially engineering meant to convince people to accept their circumstances as the new normal, without retaliation. That's the end result of the programming: a complicit, docile people.
i agree it was very suspicious. I had never heard that song either.
Jaxson Price
They were extremely popular in Britain, like a modern Beatles to them.
Take your schizo meds.
Jackson Ortiz
tasty pasta
Christopher Gray
Oasis is just really popular in the north of England. Someone I went to school with's Dad has Noel and Liam's face tattooed on his back.
Evan Bennett
Tldr I am retarded American zoomer
Robert Miller
semi-obscure? dude, every oasis song is like a national anthem in europe.
Nicholas Hill
>semi-obscure track their second biggest hit
Xavier Wood
Yeah but if Oasis are a MKUltra Psyop program, why does their music slap so much? Checkmate, nerd.
Austin King
why would people in power benefit from encouraging compulsive, thoughtless, repetitive behavior that has no distinct purpose or substance beyond being adorned with personal meaning and a pretty good distraction?
If you live in the UK, you know every word to at LEAST five Oasis songs. And that's a super conservative estimate.
Carter Collins
>Remember after than one terrorist attack last year when a crowd of people (((spontaneously))) broke into a song called "Don't Look Back in Anger" by the band Oasis. No fucking way in hell that a bunch of strangers would start singing some semi-obscure track from fucking Oasis. Those dudes were nothing but a one half-hit wonder at best. americans should not be allowed opinions on bripop
>I don't know about something, so it's clearly the rest of the world that is being led on by some conspiracy and not the biggest UK pop-group in the last 3 decades. The world will be a much better place without you. Please exit.
Brayden Kelly
Oasis had 7 number 1 singles in the UK and none of them were Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall
Michael Rodriguez
No way. It's a fan favourite but Oasis have many songs bigger than that: Stop Crying Your Heart Out, Live Forever, She's Electric, etc.
It is a bit odd how Oasis are still hotly debated and discussed like 20 years after their artistic peak. It's like fucking Weezer. 99% of people agree both these bands first 2 albums were by far their best and they fell off a cliff after that, yet we still constantly hear about them daily.
Robert Watson
In the US, it goes Wonderwall, CS, DLBIA, and then the rest only the diehards or people around in the 90s know.
Michael Williams
Live Forever used to get played every now and then on the radio at work up until about a year ago, but has since disappeared.
But yeah the rest of their singles that were played on alt stations back in the day probably haven't been heard at all in 20+ years
Jackson Adams
Oh, I didn't realize you were yanks. That makes more sense now.
A bit odd that THAT was their second biggest hit out of everything they did, but you all have pretty different tastes I guess.
Austin Cook
>Remember after than one terrorist attack last year when a crowd of people (((spontaneously))) broke into a song called "Don't Look Back in Anger" by the band Oasis. No fucking way in hell that a bunch of strangers would start singing some semi-obscure track from fucking Oasis. Those dudes were nothing but a one half-hit wonder at best. it was in fucking Manchester. God i hate Americans
Jace Sanders
yeah idk, americans do love guitar solos and psych/hard rock kind of stuff and "epic" rock songs
oasis from 1995-1997 were big in the US but after be here now they were more of a cult band, had fans but wouldn't get radio play for their singles or anything. a lot of people know the name but only a few songs.
Henry Foster
It's because they both, shockingly, had a few great albums. It's not even worth debating.
Luis Price
It was probably also just because Champagne Supernova was the direct followup single to Wonderwall. If Don't Look Back in Anger had been instead it probably would have been bigger than CS (especially with the pop crowd).
Colton Moore
this
Austin Jones
Interesting. The connection to bono is particularly sketchy, as he has a lot of ties to globalism and mega corps
Kevin Thomas
Oasis ruled hard for about 2-3 years in the mid-90s. Ruled much harder than Pavement or Superchunk or whatever loser shit suburban US indie kids listened to at the time.
>suddenly, out of nowhere, a whole genre appears all about stuff being good and happy it is little weird
Zachary Morales
>We were on tour in England when that album was released and we made it to number two in the Indie Chart. What surprised me was that number one was a band called Oasis who I was unfamiliar with because I was an American and Americans didn't know anything about Oasis. While we were on tour, I saw a television interview with one of the brothers in Oasis. I don't know which one. He was going on about how if he was a kid and he heard this band Oasis, they would be his favourite fucking band. They were so fucking exciting, he couldn't believe how fucking incredible this band was. He was in the best fucking band there ever was and if he wasn't in the band then Oasis would be his favourite band because they were so far ahead of everybody else and so much more powerful and exciting. I thought, "Fuck. If a dude in the band is going off about how they blow him away, I really want to hear this band."
>Then they followed that interview with filmed footage of that band playing a bunch of songs in concert for twenty minutes or something and I'll assume you know what Oasis sounds like. It was fucking horrible. It's just the most trivial, whiny reiteration of the lowest denominator of English rock and pop clichés. Don't get me wrong, bearing in mind my profession, I have heard worse music. But the dissonance between this guy's enthusiasm for the band that he was describing in the interview, which sounded like a band I would fucking love, and then the actual [starts impersonating the signature Gallagher vocal bleat] "aah-eee-yaaaah" of it. The dissonance was just stunning. It was like a guy talking about how impressive this bodybuilder was and then out trots a toddler infant.
kek yeah this faggot is better off pretending he likes The Fall
Ryder King
>single sells over two million copies >album which features said single sells over ten million copies >obscure
Caleb Evans
Who is Sally? Is she a reference to AG Sally Yates, then Chief of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section? Who was she waiting for, Trump? The connections are being made people, somewhere in Area 51 we will find the answers to who was better: oasis or blur
WWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNN WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY OUT
Jack Howard
From about 1995 until about 1998 Oasis were arguably the biggest rock band on the planet, aside from maybe The Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam.
Colton James
based schizo
Chase Cook
Oasis were never as big in the US as they could have been, but they were a big deal for a few years and in tabloids and shit. They just deliberately tanked their status there by cancelling tours, having Liam show up to gigs drunk and singing off key, and just badmouthing Americans in interviews and blowing off media engagements and things like that. The fans loved it, but the normies got sick of it and combined with Be Here Now being mediocre people started to get tired of them.
Asher Taylor
I never heard an Oasis song in my life
Jordan Murphy
Some might say is their best song, prove me wrong
Alexander Thompson
Do you live in a cave or something? I heard a fucking Be Here Now deep cut blaring in a bar the other day.
I can't find sales figures on all of their albums but Oasis sold at least six millions albums in the U.S. and the single "Don't Look Back In Anger" sold four million units in the U.S.
Bentley Watson
They didn't exactly "tank" everything, but they went from getting multi platinum records and top 10 albums/singles to the albums stalling out at like 25 for the first week then falling out of the charts with no radio singles beyond some minor alt rock play. They could still sell arenas in a few cities, but they wouldn't reach the height of their first 3 albums era in the US again. Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova still get a lot of play today though.
Nicholas Perry
slide away for me, but some might say second. phenomenal intro with that guitar tone, and then the melody, it all has uplifting melancholy to it, and some of noel's best worst lyrics. perfect combination of a catchy pop song and rock n roll
Joseph Rivera
For all its faults, Be Here Now is a great album to get shitfaced to.
They did play some pretty huge shows in America during the mid-to-late 2000s though. IIRC they played a show in Boston that was their biggest US show ever in like 2006(30+ thousand in attendance) and sold out Madison Square Garden around the same time.
Liam Morales
I'm sure they still have a pretty large amount of fans here even after their big peak. Hell even their last album was their best performing one since Be Here Now and did pretty well.
fuck yeah this is a good track, was a decent hit back when it was out too i remember it playing on the radio
James Clark
Why is "Oasis were a one hit wonder in America" such a meme here? They weren't. Sure Wonderwall was definitely their biggest hit and they weren't as big here as in the UK, but they were definitely very popular. Morning Glory was the 12th biggest selling album in America of any genre in 1996. Most people 18-45 would recognize the name at least.
Jace Reed
cos of people like you making posts like this
John King
would love to hear albini do a liam gallagher voice
David Wilson
Oasis is still massive as fuck, my entire family is wrapped around the Gallagher’s to this day. I was almost named Liam, but instead the name was given to my younger brother years later. Every time we’re in the car, I hear High Flying Birds or stuff from the As You Were album from my dads phone being played, even when the Bluetooth cuts out. Every walk I go on, I’m probably listening to DM or (WTS) MG, I even own more parkas than shirts at this point. Albeit I don’t smoke, my skin is ass enough to make it look like I’ve been on a cig diet. Being in Canada, the radio is always ass, so we use radio X with some random shitty postal, we even vote for the Best of British every year, hoping to beat Queen for rank 1. Even the Britpop era feels fresh to me, having been born during 99 and not really experiencing it. Almost a the same week as Oasis broke up, my parents divorced because of a drinking problem my dad had. I still look online for band shirts but can only find shitty mugs of their album covers. If I’m down at the snooker hall, I’ll look for the music box to play Hello or Married with Children, a few of my favourites. You can tell the people around like it aswell, the. AT40 list is horrible and the rock n roll feel of DLBIA’s rift is enough to get anyone into the band.
oasis are ok but it's lame that was the only britpop band that got any real traction there. blur i guess did too a bit but they were a minor college band with 1 major hit (which was a novelty sports song) to my understanding until after the gorillaz blew up and they reunited
i can forgive you for not getting pulp, too steeped in english culture. i can forgive you for not getting madchester. suede could have made the jump though i reckon if you had any semblance of taste.
Easton Taylor
instead they picked up on bush
lol
Benjamin Robinson
Zoomers who never lived through the 90s and whose only knowledge of the decade comes from memes and a very selective assortment of media, yet posit themselves as experts on the era.
Also people who were either ultra-normies at the time/not paying attention to pop culture/lived in flyover states where country music and buttrock dominated
Robert White
Suede were too British for the average American and Columbia didn't know how to pitch them. They were never gonna be anything more than a college radio band in the US.
Kevin Morris
Bush literally sounded like bootleg Pearl Jam. Nobody knew they were British. Hell people in England didn't even like them.
Gavin Ramirez
I've loved Oasis since I was like 8 years old and have played their first 3 albums + Masterplan over and over again. It still holds up and definitely up there as one of my favorite bands. I'm a 20 year old American, wasn't there back then but got into it from my parent's cds at an early age, the songs are just really well written and resonate with me. I like the attitude and backing it up, the melodies, the ability to go from loud boisterous hard rock to lush ballad and do both well, the guitar work, the rags to riches backstory, Noel's lyrics and Liam's voice/swagger, they're a great band.
Juan Mitchell
definitely maybe is by far their best
morning glory is overrated, i don't like their polished ballady stuff and soft rock lighter waving anthems like wonderwall, cast no shadow, don't look back in anger, that kind of shit isn't the oasis i like. give me bring it on down and supersonic and columbia man.
Lucas Brown
Take your meds Damon.
Michael Cooper
Definitely Maybe is the better record, but Some Might Say, Champagne Supernova and the title track are fucking bangers.
Ayden Hernandez
You just don’t feel the swagger or the emotion of a song like that in rock anymore. “Chained to the mirror and the razor blade” still hits me really hard, even more so now that I get older, looking for a job and the ambitions that come with it. I can’t imagine they’ll ever die out in the next 50 years, just amazed that they don’t hold up in NA worth of shit
John Myers
Suede had a hit on alt rock stations at the time but it was quickly forgotten as grunge dominated
Andrew Wright
DM also has my preference, but I can't knock WTSMG. it's so brilliantly crossover and well-written and era defining.
where do you get your crack from cause i sure as hell want some
Easton Richardson
I'll agree, it's odd. Oasis has a great amount of digging value in their b-sides too. But I certainly fell for the MKultra in high school, listening to those 2 albums and b-sides constantly
Zachary Cook
Bring it on Down is best
Jonathan Hughes
>liking your parents' music
Hudson Johnson
>not including She's Electric
Julian Davis
>Not liking tradition
Bentley Myers
it sucks
Brody Bell
so fucking based
Matthew Bailey
You're not wrong that they fell off and made mostly trash, but I feel like you're understating just how massive the oasis-mania was. They're one of the last pre-internet era massive musical acts. Entertainment media was more limited and curated, and Oasis was what sold, so you were sure to see them constantly. There are plenty of big top 40 hits today, but it's just as easy to escape them. Oasis was much more difficult to avoid.
To add to that, you've also got to consider that they were a rare "crossover" band, where they had a strong following as an "underground" act. In america, they were heavily played on college radios and were a "cool" band long before crossing over into wonderwall-meme territory. I can't necessarily speak for Britain, but I know they rose up from the indie world.
To Americans it's true. Champagne Supernova was Oasis' other top 10 song here.
Lucas Thompson
Ameritards are too shallow and stupid to understand real music. They didn't noticed brit-pop because they were too busy listening to nigger shit, Britney and another abominations fed to them by corporations. That's why they only know Wonderwall, one of the worst Oasis songs, and Song 2, which was actually a parody on a degenerative american music, but burgers obviously couldn't notice it. They will never get into superior bands like Pulp, Suede, Mansun, it's simply too complicated for them. You can't hear them in Mcdonalds when you, your pig wife, and you mutt children fill yourselfs with carcinogens, you need to be able to think, to feel to understand it and what feelings can scum of the Earth have?
I believed you until your brought kevin shields into it all
Brody Ross
he's right desu
Xavier James
>how do people know this song?
It's really not that obscure at all. I hear it on the radio here in Portland from time to time and surely it's a much bigger deal in the UK where it was a #1 single (and where Oasis was quite huge in the 90s), particularly their hometown where the attacks took place.
You are just incredibly ignorant and a paranoid schizo.
Aiden Phillips
Amusing considering how much Kevin Shields has worked with Primal Scream
Christopher Watson
huh
Isaac Anderson
No
Bentley Campbell
>be almost bankrupt record label >sit on an album for years, with gigantic production costs >finally deliver album, it's loveless >unsellable to the public at large McGee had every right to kick them off. Shields it's just a man out of touch with the musical zeitgeist
Eli Torres
this
Easton Bailey
>Dad has Noel and Liam's face tattooed on his back. That's an old tattoo of Ringo & George.
William Anderson
They were the acts standing there when the carpet got pulled out from under the music business - they stayed on all safe bets while they adapted and got hold of the digital music world. Very smart to pretend to advocate for artists rights at that time, because the truth could have been game over. Look how successfully Foo-Fighters doubled up the Nirvana money. That's why I say: hey man, nice shot.
Henry Sullivan
Have schizo medication
Juan Wood
>Remember after than one terrorist attack last year when a crowd of people (((spontaneously))) broke into a song called "Don't Look Back in Anger" by the band Oasis I dont, what the fuck are you talking about? Stop spending time on pol and x
Jose Allen
>I did more digging and found out they were linked to Tony Blair who worked with George Bush on numerous false flag terrorist operations including 9/11 and 7/7.
Radiohead,who is responsible for killing britpop, had thom yorke being very critical of tony blair back in the day, both in their music albums and in the interviews as well. Thom Yorke really sounds like a fucking cia-mi6 agnt.
Oasis is, no kidding, the biggest and most popular band in the world...if you're from England.
There has been some historical revisionism regarding their US push, but no, they did not achieve anywhere near the popularity in the US as they did in Britain.
Cooper Brooks
>liking your parents Year Zero ideology
Logan Jackson
Albini exposed as a basedboy
Levi Parker
>imagine something like this in the American charts >goes on to post four of the worst songs I've ever fucking heard
England is small and gay and everyone sounds like they have bad breath.
>There has been some historical revisionism regarding their US push
as in what?
Eli Gutierrez
I legitimately don't understand how people say this band or The Verve are anything beyond "just okay" as far as Britpop goes. I hated the debut SFA album. For the record, Pulp is one of my all time favorite bands. Somebody who likes SFA or another off-Britpop band redpill me?
Joseph Peterson
Bong here, I don't like Oasis but you have no idea how much of a cultural force they were and continue to be.
Nathaniel White
That's Supergrass
Carter Richardson
I'm retarded and fixated. Supergrass too then, I never quite got the appeal.
Anyone who's curious about what Oasis's impact in the mid 90s was like should watch the documentary Supersonic. Something like 5% of British population applied for tickets for their 1996 Knebworth concert. People went fucking nuts for them in Japan as well after Definitely Maybe. In America I still hear songs like Live Forever on alt rock radio all the time and I even heard a Liam Gallagher song yesterday.
Charles Perez
thanks. I enjoyed these, but yeah I'm always underwhelmed. I'll have to just make myself sit through some of their stuff again
Zachary Davis
this
Owen Barnes
oh man what wouldn't I give to not have heard that song before. I was a teenager in the 90's. It was pure horror. Every day, every fuckin' day you either heard this song or wonderwall or read about this fuckwits fighting.
I hate Liam's voice So. Much. ughgughghgu
Mason Martin
that's what you get for being british
Eli Foster
>le riff from T Rex >same riff they used in Cigarettes and Alcohol >"turn up the fookin compression to fookin 11, I want the fookin guitars to bash me fookin head in" >"sink is full of fishes, she's got dirty dishes on the brain" nah mate, it's pretty shit.
>That's why I say: hey man, nice shot. what a good shot, man
Logan Taylor
Oasis were an industry plant created by Jews to dumb down the working class white male in Britain. The white working class were once the proud backbone of the UK but now they're basically nigger tier and a lot of the blame lies with Oasis and 90s lad culture that came with them.
Jordan Hughes
yeah, strange that just as they started to get more technical with instrumentation and production, they started to lose their commercial appeal. The final album had some decent psychadelic vibes.
Carter Parker
Mansun were so fucking good. I'd take Grey Lantern over any other Britpop aside from the first two Suede LPs.
Christopher Davis
Based. Your first two picks are some of the best of the era for me period.
Dylan Nelson
Best Britpop albums: 1. Attack of the Grey Lantern 2. Parklife 3. Different Class 4. Dog Man Star 5. Suede 6. Morning Glory 7. Definitely Maybe 8. In It For the Money 9. Modern Life Is Rubbish 10. This is Hardcore (not really britpop...)
Elijah Torres
no
Julian Sanchez
Hahahahahahahaha
Elijah Rogers
Why were/are Americans so bewildered by Britpop? Even the Japanese got Britpop more than Americans did.
Oasis played to some sizable crowds in East coast markets in America well after their moment in the sun. Like audiences of 15-20k in the mid to late 00s.
not at all america was more into jesus jones and emf
Ryder Butler
Lmao Christ, EMF?
Easton James
EMF - Unbelievable was an unironic #1 hit in 1990, not just rock chart but top 100 and still gets played today. Jesus Jones had a #2 hit but both bands got quickly forgotten after 1990-1991.
Bentley Bell
america really has shit taste in uk music roses and mondays don't take off but fucking emf do? suede and pulp are ignored? oasis's best music is ignored for their wonderwall schlock? stones over kinks?
EMF didn't really take off per se, Stone Roses are probably more well remembered now. Those shit bands were just one hit wonders because grebo and baggy stuff was kind of trendy in the US underground in 1990-1992. Happy Mondays had some minor chart hits then too.
Kevin Wright
oh yeah this is a good one
Henry Powell
Some of that stuff was good. I like the Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Jesus Jones and EMF were shit though yeah.
literally who well not really into them as bands but the two or so hits they had were decent in an era of hair metal, bad dance pop, and boybands
Andrew Scott
nope, unknowns basically a lot of uk indie bands had 1-2 songs that became random billboard hits in the 90s but weren't really big beyond that. stuff like james, lightning seeds, soup dragons snagged a couple charting songs but most people wouldn't know them here.
Daniel Smith
Catherine Wheel had a string of hits on the modern rock charts in America in the early 90s.
yeah they were a good band and i think they could have been bigger here, they had a more rock style shoegaze sound that could fit on the radio next to stuff like smashing pumpkins and nirvana
Connor Cruz
Trent Reznor shilled these guys haaaaaard back in the mid-90s. I think Nothing even distributed some of their shit in America. Awful band desu.
This. Basically a few grebo/madchester/indie/rave adjacent songs majorly crossed over on the back of UK pop rock/synth music having been dominant for most of the 80s. But stuff like the Mondays or The Roses were more the domain of non-commercial college radio stations or indie mag readers or the fledging "modern/alt rock" format, and were still considered smalltime compared to majorly successful alternative type acts like REM or U2 or The Cure.
Yeah this was one of the tracks I was thinking of when I wrote Lots of kind of odd stuff crossed over at the time, particularly to radio. The KLF had a few hits here. Also the song "Love You More" by Sunscreem. Anything that was kind of dancey was accepted.
Even alt rock stations like KROQ were playing literal UK rave tunes like 'Sesame's Treat'
Jeremiah Mitchell
That song is also in a car commercial right now too
Ethan Clark
>tfw you won't see stuff like this be mainstream in 2019
I don't mind rap but there's 0 variety now and none of this stuff would get that far today, I don't want to sound like some wrong generation youtube fag commenting on an ac/dc video but I'd much rather have music like Oasis and Stone Roses and Primal Scream on the charts.
>Remember after than one terrorist attack last year when a crowd of people (((spontaneously))) broke into a song called "Don't Look Back in Anger" by the band Oasis I was in that crowd. Ask me anything.
Luis Hernandez
why
Jason Jackson
I don't know exactly. The attack felt like an attack on our city, and our values. I felt compelled to go to to the vigil out of a sense of solidarity and defiance, and a determination that the attack should not be a focal point to sow division and hatred in our city.
Colton Baker
I see
Kayden Parker
OaISIS
Leo Harris
>DUDE THERES NO WAY PEOPLE WOULD JUST MAKE NICE HAPPY MUSIC INSTEAD OF DISTORTED WHINY NONSENSE
Eli Collins
Also they were on the same label as Oasis???
Robert Morales
Obviously. Blair needed more things to help identify with the kids and they all pushed it heavily. Noel and a few brit pop stars hung out with the PM
Mason Nelson
agreed
Hudson Gutierrez
This explains so much
Liam Anderson
oasis were proper rock n roll wouldnt make it today not enough lil thug features
Ryder Phillips
Thanks for this thread, Yea Forums. As a Brit who was a kid in the 90's, I'd forgotten most of these songs existed, and hearing them all again for the first time in 20-25 years has been nostalgic and wholesome as fuck.
Colton Sanchez
cheers
Wyatt Flores
I thought their overly simplistic loud music was just a style choice, not mkultra scheme. Makes sense tho
Jeremiah Hill
>I literally had to look them up and still was unfamiliar with them.
....
>As of 2009, Oasis had sold over 75 million records worldwide.
>At 369 million streams on Spotify, Wonderwall is the most streamed pre-2000 song.
>At 14,92 million equivalent album sales, Wonderwall is the 2nd most successful song from 1995.
>At 26,55 million equivalent album sales, (What’s the story) Morning Glory? is the 4th most successful album from 1995.
>At 5,115,000 copies sold, (What’s the story) Morning Glory? is the third best selling studio album of all-time in the UK.
>At 663,389 copies sold, Be Here Now was the fastest selling album ever on a weekly basis in the UK until 2015. It remains the fastest selling album by a band as well as the fastest selling album ever on a daily basis.
>At 282 weeks, Oasis has the most weeks on the Top 75 UK Singles Chart of the 90s.
>At 134 weeks in 1996, Oasis has the most weeks on the Top 75 UK Singles Chart inside a calendar year ever for a band.
