Reminder that these guys were never even slightly popular in America

Reminder that these guys were never even slightly popular in America.

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Literally who

Evidence, OP?

t. history reviser

fucking hate oasis

It must suck to be born in 2002

supergrass tho

b8

Agreed.

And even in England, the peak of their popularity was pretty shortlived off the back of 1-2 hits and grossly overexagerrated. Even Blur beat them in that stupid singles war. They were never really that big and completely forgotten about after 1995, save for one minor hit in 2002 (Stop Crying Your Heart Out). More a running joke than anything.

shitlicker revisionist

They were pretty popular with the Montieboys

>1-2 hits
More like 25

Oasis was huge in the US during the 2000s. Bit late but it happened nonetheless. People worshipped Wonderwall here. Just last week my normalfag roommates were singing don't look back in anger during a karaoke night.

Are you fucking retarded, what's the story is literally like the 3rd best selling album in UK music history.

Now, if only they had never been popular in Britain. If only.

oasis was literally the only britpop band to be culturally relevant in america
blur and pulp and everyone else were completely irrelevant, oasis had multiple hits

What do you mean? I thought John Lennon was very popular in America.

>blur and pulp and everyone else were completely irrelevant
Pulp absolutely were not relevant outside of indie circles/120 minutes viewers/music snobs.

Blur is kind of a different story since they first showed up in the tail end of the "first wave" of what is now generally called alternative rock (essentially covering all the direct outgrowths of punk/post-punk/new wave/synthpop/jangle pop from the late 70s up until grunge broke). They and their single "There's No Other Way" were part of the post-Smiths, post-New Order British indie/jangle/dance fusion wave of the late 80s early 90s that scored huge successes on the newly created modern (alternative) rock format and had mild impacts on the mainstream (See also Stone Roses "Fools Gold", Happy Mondays "Step On", Primal Scream "Moving on Up", Soup Dragons "I'm Free"). A few acts like EMF, Jesus Jones had their hits crossover in a huge way into the mainstream pop scene. The problem was, much like the synthpop/new wave people who flirted with US mainstream in the mid-80s, is that these bands all seemed indistinguishable from one another.

Grunge definitely dominated for the next couple years, but by '94-'95 there was a similar situation as before where stuff like Stone Roses' Love Spreads, Oasis' Live Forever, Blur' Girls and Boys, were finding big success on modern rock stations and some mainstream success as well (the Pet Shop Boys remix of Girls and Boys was a minor Top 40 radio hit for Blur). This set the stage for Oasis to build upon that with their next album and it's radio-ready singles while newly major label Blur fumbled with "The Great Escape" and it's singles.

Around the time the britpop bubble burst, Blur again were given more success, not on pop radio, but on MTV and all rock radio formats (not just alt) with "Song 2". A short catchy sports arena anthem for sure, but there was nothing uniquely identifiable about it to say "this is Blur".

Blur was popular music, but faceless.

>x4 times platinum album in the united states
>Never even slightly popular

Nice bait

this

now explain how Oasis was culturally relevant by the end of the decade (not just in UK, but globally)

>now explain how Oasis was culturally relevant by the end of the decade
I wouldn't say they were culturally relevant as a an active, mainstream music act (because frankly they had fallen A LOT in that time as far as their fanbase, commercial success, critical acclaim). But they were culturally relevant as pop culture figures and well-known reference points of 90s music/culture. There was a about a year between when Oasis first really blew up in the states and when Oasis became commonly referenced or parodied in media (SNL, Daily Show, late night talk shows, etc.) Unfortunately, by them they had become more of a punchline than anything (especially after BHN as a comeback was clearly a dud). But yes, it was there.

Their reputation is what got Liam Gallagher on TRL in 2000 and Oasis booked on late night shows. Though the singles, album, and tour were the least popular of Oasis whole career (even further releases and tour into the 2000s were better). That was kind of the death knell for them, when the platform was still reluctantly given but they didn't deliver for a second time in a row. Not to mention the music scene had moved on since the last album in 97 (which even then was starting to turn away from alternative)

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>tfw you and I are gonna live forever

Who the fuck cares you yanks are always late to the party or ignore it completely, normie cunts.

Mad because the good ol' USA is objectively the greatest nation in the history of the world.

>USA is objectively the greatest nation in the history of the world.

post yfw

nigel garage

nigger garbage

nickel falange

wow, someone who understands the context, knows what they're talking about, and seems to know it from experiencing it at the time.
what the hell are you doing on Sup Forums?

anyway, OP: Oasis was one of the biggest bands of their time over here, at least for a couple years. I saw the stickers plastered on all the highschool kids' cars and their talk show performances. That the Gallagher bros fought all the time was enough of a meme that it made it onto an MTV parody show where animated celebs fought in a ring. I got all that just from the zeitgeist but, unlike the guy I replied to earlier, I was following hip hop at the tail-end of its peak at that time instead of britpop.

Always thought Blur's Boys and Girls was pretty kick-ass, tho, but the album was not my bag. And Bittersweet Symphony was a great tune, was that Oasis? I remember Wonderwall being big but it was just meh to me.

Bittersweet Symphony was the Verve, good track that.

>Who the fuck cares you yanks are always late to the party or ignore it completely

never a truer word said when they ditched the late 80's early 90's house/rave scene in favour of rap and hip-hop and only few years ago jumped on the rave scene

neil babage

Neither were these Americans have garbage taste in rock music.

FUN FACTS:

ELVIS NEVER TOURED OUTSIDE OF AMERICA

THE KINKS WERE BANNED FROM AMERICA

Well I came of age during that time, so I know it fairly well. But yeah, discovered Sup Forums in 2007 as a post-grad student in between jobs, still pop up here on rare occasions.

But yeah, Oasis were big. Only Smashing Pumpkins may have beat them in terms of breakout band with a wider rock fanbase in the states, but Oasis had a particular momentum and ability to crossover with pop audiences that SP didn't. Not to mention for better and for worse, they, like SP, had an unmistakable sound, but also the drama/exploits surrounding the Gallagher brothers and the tales of their ridiculous rise to total dominance in England added to their sense of identity in the states.

And Bittersweet Symphony was the Verve, who was this cult shoegaze act in the indie-sphere with one college rock to their name prior to 1997.

But they came into fill the vacuum after Oasis blew it, because there was still an audience for Oasis-esque symphonic pop rock in the mainstream. But much like Wonderwall bubbling up in the alternative world at the end of '95 and becoming a smash hit, so did Bittersweet Symphony at the end of '97, crossing over in early '98 right as the flip had switched regarding Oasis in America (by early '98 alt radio DJs and audiences were not well responding to their newest single All Around the World, MTV played the AATW video but it was widely ridiculed, Don't Go Away had been an alt radio a few months back started to make headway on Top 40 radio at the end of '97 but stalled and flopped, the US tour was getting poor reviews and the venues were downgraded from '96, etc.). But basically the Verve's followup single "Lucky Man" wasn't anything on the same level as "Champagne Supernova", not even "Don't Look Back in Anger" in terms of success. It was a decent hit on alt radio but didn't even come remotely close to Bittersweet Symphony and was forgotten about soon enough as the Verve broke up.

you could tell there was a heavy sample on BS but it was really blatant when you hear the source, which is a great tune.
youtube.com/watch?v=MKC5cdGBY04

not to diminish the lyrics, which are great and have a good melody, nor how they match up with the sample because it really works.

>Fools Gold
#5 Modern Rock, #23 Dance/Club Play
>I Wanna Be Adored
#18 Modern Rock
>She Bangs the Drums
#5 Modern Rock
>One Love
#9 Modern Rock

And their biggest hit:
>Love Spreads
#2 Modern Rock, #55 Hot 100 Airplay, #4 Mainstream Rock, brief crossover to select mainstream pop stations

Not to mention both albums charted in the top half of the Billboard albums chart, and total sales are probably over a million at this point (though not certified by Billboard).

They also headlined Coachella and played Madison Square Garden too.

Ok but they weren't as popular as in the uk

Suck a fucking cock OP Oasis is and was huge in the states. Stop being stupid as shit

Gay

I loathe Oasis and even I know what you just said is bull

Not entirely. Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova used to play over the PA system at the grocery store I worked at when I was 16 in between Bryan Adams and John Denver tunes. Maybe they were popular with old folks buying their Depends and skim milk.

i think the stone roses sound bad

Cool

I think the main reason why the band didn't last long was because the brothers in the band were really huge douchebags. One brother sent death threats to Blur and the other was banned from an airline because he was bullying passengers.

Oasis are fucking despised in Australia after what happened there.

Pretty much Oasis' management realized how big they were in Australia and scheduled a big ass tour at the end of '96/early '97. But their antics in America right before broke up the band and cancelled the Aussie/New Zealand tour and people were PISSED.

Then it turned out Oasis hadn't broken up and were actually doing another album. But when "D'You What I Mean" came out that summer, some of the hype levels had returned again, but then people realized the song was actually kind of crap. And the album came out and 10x worse. Still Oasis booked another Aussie tour in 1998 to make up for it, though the venues were slightly smaller this time around because the band's currency had declined since '96. They still had a strong cult fanbase that loved the new stuff, and a larger casual fanbase that loved the old stuff but was fed up with the band.

Only problem was that Oasis was once again out of control by this point, just a total booze and drugsfest. They arrived with bad attitudes about the newest single bombing on the Australian charts and the venues being smaller. Liam Gallagher was banned from Cathay Pacific for trying to smoke a joint, verbally harrassed the flight crew and passengers, and started throwing things. Then gave a notorious drunken shirtless interview to a news channel about it. The gigs got terrible reviews and were far from sold out. Oasis and their entourage kept acting like idiots in the media. Noel started shittalking Princess Diana (who had just died) to a reporter, which caused a huge controversy. Liam was arrested after assaulting a teenage fan asking for an autograph, which stirred up even more of a shitstorm. Radio stations stopped playing Oasis' music in protest. The final gig of that tour was only at 28% capacity, and was so notoriously bad that people walked out, the concert stopped after an hour, and the story/official apology made the BBC the next day.

#MADFERIT

Mad ferrit?