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

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I was having a discussion and the other person seemed to think that out there throughout the UK there are 100s, yes that is right, HUNDREDS of bands as good as Oasis and it was 99% luck that Oasis were spotted and the rest weren't. Somehow I completely disagree. If you are good enough you will get spotted, as Oasis quite clearly were. For all you metal head Tool loving fan boys who can't bring themselves to say a good word about Oasis because Liam Gallagher is a 'chav'... 1 in 20 people in the UK applied for Knebworth and people actually reckon there are 100s of bands that are good enough to have the same effect as that.

I used to quite often see local bands around London and along with the internet now it is obviously much easier than ever before to hear unsigned bands. However there are very few that I saw or heard that I thought matched up to what Oasis sounded like before they were signed. For your pleasure here are some live recordings/demos from at least a few months before their first single was released. Most likely most of them are from sometimes in 1993:

Don't link to copyrighted data please

Gilly
 
If you are good enough you will get spotted, as Oasis quite clearly were.
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I'm afraid it's not that simple.

For all you metal head Tool loving fan boys who can't bring themselves to say a good word about Oasis because Liam Gallagher is a 'chav'... 1 in 20 people in the UK applied for Knebworth and people actually reckon there are 100s of bands that are good enough to have the same effect as that.
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The Spice Girls sold out their first O2 arena date in 38 seconds...doesn't at all reflect on the quality of music.

I don't quite know why Tool come into this? A Tool fan touch a nerve with you did he? :p

Oasis are pretty crap.
 
Some of these tracks are B sides.
Some of them are featured on albums, which essentially is copyrighted material.
 
"MP3 aren't something that I know a lot about,
so I'd probably reserve my judgment until I
found out more. I don't have a problem with bootlegs
if it's something that's already been released.
Different versions of songs that people know is
fine by me. I mean, I am the Beatle Bootleg king!
I've got so many that I don't even know where to start."

Noel Gallagher - 24th February 2000
 
Gilly said:
There are very few bands past or present as good as Oasis at what they do.
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I don't often agree with you on matters of music but you're 100% spot-on here; nobody else is as good as Oasis at making trite crap...And churning out more and more of the same crap for years and years...

*n
 
They came along at the right time and produced what the nations teenagers and 20 somethings wanted, tunes you can listen to in the park with a few cans.

what's the story is a classic, granted some of there latest stuff has not been great but how many bands change and be constantly good and popular over 20 years
 
penski said:
I don't often agree with you on matters of music but you're 100% spot-on here; nobody else is as good as Oasis at making trite crap...And churning out more and more of the same crap for years and years...

*n
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Plenty of bands that churn out rubbish, Foo Fighters for one with their random track generator/every track sounds the same old boring stuff, Chilli Peppers have been churning out crap for years, U2 are terrible aswell.
 
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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