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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 4, 2019 9:58:19 GMT -5
Would they have been even bigger, or would they have been more likely to be a passing fad?
That’s the spectrum, I reckon. Arguments can be made for either and/or both sides.
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Post by Lennon2217 on Aug 4, 2019 10:04:12 GMT -5
Why think like this? They had perfect timing.
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Post by The-Ghost-Dancer on Aug 4, 2019 10:06:30 GMT -5
Oasis came along at the right time kinda like gandalf the grey the arrived precisely when they meant to
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Post by Aman on Aug 4, 2019 15:32:32 GMT -5
90s Oasis simply too good to be a fad if they made it post-2005.
Songs like Live Forever will always be Live Forever etc.
They would've been huge in the Noughties and 10s.
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Post by The Escapist on Aug 4, 2019 15:52:45 GMT -5
No chance would they have achieved the cultural domination they had in 96/97 at any other time. Good songs are good songs, but every popular act ever owes something to coming along at the right time.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 4, 2019 16:25:16 GMT -5
Heh I guess this was tried anyway with the Arctic Monkeys, innit.
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Post by oasisserbia on Aug 4, 2019 18:47:25 GMT -5
I think that they would be bigger now but with less cultural impact.
DM would be probably great indie record, popular with hipsters etc. There would be no big hype around Whatever, Some Might Say wouldn't be number one single, there would be no Battle of Britpop but then Wonderwall would be even bigger than it was with billions of views on youtube. I think that it would be as popular as Shape of You or Somebody Like You.
With trending video like that, their music would be accessible to more people around the world than in 1995 and with DLBIA also as a hit song after that, I think that they would easily break America. Screaming teenage girls with cellphones in their hands would buy all the tickets for their arena tour in America just to hear Wonderwall and see Liam.
Also, BHN wouldn't be considered a flop, nobody gives a shit about albums today anyway, Stand By Me would probably be enough to remind people that they exist and it would be another popular video and then they would tour again and sing Wonderwall to teenage girls and middle aged mums.
I think that they wouldn't be as wild as they was in the 90s without all that 90's music, fashion...scene around them and I think that they would be more professional today. People in music industry probably know better today how to deal with individuals like them.
But wider audience wouldn't give a fuck anyway about their behaviour, who gives a shit about musicians that much today, people listen 3 minutes long song and that is it.
Who even knows what are Despacito's singer political views, is he an arrogant bustard etc. Kids would love few songs but I don't think that Oasis would have big impact on their everyday life like it had in the 90s.
I also believe that they would be more popular with rock fans today because I think that real music fans today are much softer. Oasis would be the best band in the world today but now without any doubt and you can imagine many people who hated them in the 90s because they were team Blur or Metallica or RCHP or Nirvana, Guns and Roses, Radiohead...today would say: "Hey, at least we have some proper Rock and Roll band today and they are better than all that trending shit on Youtube, radio, Spotify... I like them".
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Post by mimmihopps on Aug 5, 2019 1:08:44 GMT -5
Oasis were there at right time in right place.
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Post by mystoryisgory on Aug 5, 2019 4:53:38 GMT -5
Heh I guess this was tried anyway with the Arctic Monkeys, innit. I dislike the Arctic Monkeys but you can't say that they were only a "passing fad", they're still in many ways a flag carrier of British rock since the 00s. Hell, many more people in the states know them and have never heard of Oasis. They've earned their place when it comes to mainstream success and global recognition, even if I still think they're massively overrated. |
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 5, 2019 8:44:15 GMT -5
Heh I guess this was tried anyway with the Arctic Monkeys, innit. I dislike the Arctic Monkeys but you can't say that they were only a "passing fad", they're still in many ways a flag carrier of British rock since the 00s. Hell, many more people in the states know them and have never heard of Oasis. They've earned their place when it comes to mainstream success and global recognition, even if I still think they're massively overrated. The Arctic Monkeys were not a passing fad, but they also weren’t able to build off of their debut. One of the biggest acts in the world, for sure, but were they ever the biggest of the best....? |
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Post by fartpanic on Aug 5, 2019 12:40:36 GMT -5
I dislike the Arctic Monkeys but you can't say that they were only a "passing fad", they're still in many ways a flag carrier of British rock since the 00s. Hell, many more people in the states know them and have never heard of Oasis. They've earned their place when it comes to mainstream success and global recognition, even if I still think they're massively overrated. The Arctic Monkeys were not a passing fad, but they also weren’t able to build off of their debut. One of the biggest acts in the world, for sure, but were they ever the biggest of the best....? What do you mean by not build off their debut? They got bigger and bigger and now can play arenas and will probably play to 50k next summer. Thats a far cry to the days of playing Leadmill with the first album. |
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Post by heathenchemist01 on Aug 5, 2019 12:50:33 GMT -5
I doubt that it would have had much of an impact. Oasis isn't and has never been about internet culture - though Liam is seriously twitter-obsessed these days - but about being mad fer it and going nuts in the right occasions, first and foremost during concerts while the music is most present and, in contrast, Liam is practicing his 'stillism'.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 5, 2019 12:56:47 GMT -5
The Arctic Monkeys were not a passing fad, but they also weren’t able to build off of their debut. One of the biggest acts in the world, for sure, but were they ever the biggest of the best....? What do you mean by not build off their debut? They got bigger and bigger and now can play arenas and will probably play to 50k next summer. Thats a far cry to the days of playing Leadmill with the first album. “Bigger” in comparison to Oasis 1995. I don’t think there’s been a moment where you could have said that the Arctic Monkeys were the best and/or biggest band in the world - and I personally don’t think they even got close. |
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Post by ricardogce on Aug 5, 2019 13:33:05 GMT -5
Oasis came along at the right time kinda like gandalf the grey the arrived precisely when they meant to “I think that the great thing about the Beatles was that they were of their time, their timing was right. They didn’t choose it – someone chose it for them. But the timing was right, and they left their mark in history because of it.” -- Sir George Martin |
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