There are 100s of bands as 'good' as Oasis

Column Matrix said:
The point of this thread was to highlight or look at how good Oasis were BEFORE they were signed and whether there are many unsigned bands now that can match them, not how good they are now or 10 years ago or what they influenced. But until I can put my bootlegs up again there is little chance to do it.
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Just gonna quote myself again.
 
Column Matrix said:
The point of this thread was to highlight or look at how good Oasis were BEFORE they were signed and whether there are many unsigned bands now that can match them, not how good they are now or 10 years ago or what they influenced. But until I can put my bootlegs up again there is little chance to do it.
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They were gash before they got signed, they are gash now. What they had back then was marketability as they rode the britpop wave. All they have going for them now is a reputation built on a handful of substandard albums released ten years ago.

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penski said:
They were gash before they got signed, they are gash now. What they had back then was marketability as they rode the britpop wave. All they have going for them now is a reputation built on a handful of substandard albums released ten years ago.

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Did you actually get the chance to listen to any of the bootlegs I posted?

Do you think its pure luck they got a contract?
 
Column Matrix said:
Did you actually get the chance to listen to any of the bootlegs I posted?

Do you think its pure luck they got a contract?
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It would have been a culmination of circumstances which led to their being signed. I don't believe in luck so I couldn't comment with respect to that.

I certainly don't think that they were signed based on talent or the quality of their live show as one is barely discernable and the other is shoddy at best.

I would say that every town has at least one band 'as good as if not better' than Oasis.

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penski said:
It would have been a culmination of circumstances which led to their being signed. I don't believe in luck so I couldn't comment with respect to that.

I certainly don't think that they were signed based on talent or the quality of their live show as one is barely discernable and the other is shoddy at best.

I would say that every town has at least one band 'as good as if not better' than Oasis.

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50 million album sales and 8 UK number ones would beg to differ with you :)
 
They're vastly over-rated. Few decent songs but I'd never, ever own any of their music. Wouldn't even download it.
 
Granted I do enjoy their music, but I think Column Matrix - you're going a bit OTT and getting defensive over something petty.
 
Oasis deserve a hell of a lot of credit for what they acheived, their lyrics were never the best, their chord progressions were so simple but they just had "it", some people can't quite grasp that and it seems to upset them.
 
Column Matrix said:
There was nothing copyrighted in that link. They are all BOOTLEGS.
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Music enthusiasts may use the term "bootleg" to differentiate these otherwise unavailable recordings from "pirated" copies of commercially released material, but these recordings are still covered by copyright despite their lack of formal release, and their distribution is still against the law.

Just because Noel Gallagher says it's ok doesn't mean it is.

That said, I think that Oasis are a good band but just because an artist sells a load of records or is commercially successful doesn't mean they're good.

There are plenty of artists/bands that I think are amazing and they have hardly any commercial success at all. Most of the general public won't even have heard of them.
 
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This thread is laughable due to the nature of Column_Matrix child like arguments. He reminds me of a friend who won't accept that I don't like Lost and probably never will. I had a taste in the 1st season, didn't like it, so get over it.

Same applies here, yes I like a few of their songs, but they didn't grab me in a way that Tool do or The Smashing Pumpkins in that I actually buy their albums.
 
This is a bit random is it not? Oasis, tool, spice girls and soad.

Anyway.. Gilly did sum it up best in one line.
At the time Oasis had a great booster in that Britpop was the new thing it had been coming since the Happy Mondays / Stone Roses era. Oasis along with the help of Blur, NME, Ocean Colour Scene and just about any UK band with a record deal (excluding Pitchshifter) gained benefit, it was a fashion, exactly like punk and mods in the 70's early 80's.

...very few bands past or present as good as Oasis at what they do.
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Oasis jumped into the middle of a upward spiral and came out top, quite possibly because they had good management/marketing. Their supremacy came about with the Blur spat, at that point that point they were given the crown, the interest died even with the band members, later they do nothing more than some TV interviews, (yeah, I do know they are mixing the new album this week).

That's what happened, they were lucky, the music business champions one band/artist as figureheads of a genre in that case it was Oasis.
They did well out of it.
Last year it was Amy Winehouse, this year probably Kate Nash.

I agree with the other person you spoke with.
 
I think Oasis have been crap since 1997. However, from 1993-1996 they were incredible.

When I started seeing local bands and hearing them talking about making demos to send to companies, trying to get bigger venues to play etc I wondered how good bands actually have to be to get their 'break'. I wondered whether any of the bands I saw were any good considering the limitations of not having a record company providing you with all the nessacary advantages.

So, with Oasis being probably the biggest band in the last 20 years, it didn't take me long to get my hands on some material from before they were signed and when I compared it to all the other unsigned bands I'd heard it was quite clear why they made it. There is no way there are hundreds of bands that are on the same level as Oasis were when they were playing in a pub to 30 people, at least on the evidence of the local bands I've heard.
 
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