Who do you prefer? Oasis or The Beatles?

[Spandex]

My parents were into the Beatles so they were ever present as I grew up. When I started developing my own taste in music the question of whether they were good or not had become irrelevant. They just were, a part of the background to my childhood, like the green curtains in the front room or the orange door to the kitchen. I didn't develop an aversion to them exactly, I just had no need for them. I therefore completely ignored them for over 30 years. Considering how culturally important they're perceived to be, it was very easy to ignore them. I very rarely hear a Beatles track played in the wild; years can pass without me hearing them or giving them any thought.

Then when I was at a toddler group with my daughter someone put a Best of the Beatles on. It's the first time I had actually listened to the Beatles for decades. Some of it was just 60s pop of the sort I don't go for, some tracks were good, some were terrible. I've not really given them any thought since, except to wonder why they're put on such an elevated cultural pedestal.

Oasis are dog shit. I wish I could ignore their existence every time I hear drunks staggering past my house singing Wonderwall after closing time.

 

[Raheem]

How do you feel about The Cranberries?

No Cranberries, no Sixpence None the Richer.

 

[danny la rouge]

No Cranberries, no Sixpence None the Richer.

Denied.

 

[8ball]

No Cranberries, no Sixpence None the Richer.

Makes you think.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Stone Roses

 

[Raheem]

Stone Roses

Too prolific and consistent. Not really fair on the Beatles to make the comparison.

 

[Babe Rainbow]

How do you feel about The Cranberries?

Don't know any of their stuff. I do know her voice - very distinctive - but couldn't name any of their songs.

 

[Knotted]

Sort of interesting this thread. In 2021 Oasis are really just 90's nostalgia now. I think they always had a certain appeal but I think it was a "you had to be there" sort of appeal. Beer swilling singalongs and quite decent quite relatable ballads. That peculiar time when apollitical northern working class chic was a thing including and especially among southern middle class students and the arrogant sense the whole nation was rallying behind Tony Blair and the Gallaghers. I hated them at the time but now it feels utterly pointless hating them. Just a funny old thing that we're well past now, I can't see the zoomers rediscovering and lauding them.

And the Beatles I think are now no longer the "greatest rock and roll band ever" or the foundation of all modern music as they were perceived in some quarters and it's pointless railing them. I think they did some songs that will really last and many many more that have already been long forgotten. I've yet to watch that Yesterday film but it's premise seems outdated now. The song Yesterday itself blows me away everytime I hear it and it's become this brass band staple and I admire it hugely, but it has no baring whatsoever on modern pop music - even if I do still hear a bit of Beatles influence every now again it's not because of that sort of melodic line. The Beatles will also be remembered as historical important, having an expansive melodic/harmonic vocabulary and in their later years some genuine experimentalism. I think their significance will continue to last but it will become more niche, which is a good thing - all music should be niche.

Obviously the answer is "well it's The Beatles because who are Oasis?"