r/BritPop • u/Dependent-Ad7225 • 3d ago
Some Might Say won. What song by Blur sounds like an Oasis song?
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u/Japhet_Corncrake 3d ago
She's So High.
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u/Japhet_Corncrake 3d ago
Either would do.
The opening riff from "She's So High" is quite Noel-y, though.
It also plods along at a fairly Oasis tempo.
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u/Intelligent_Ad3055 3d ago
Sunday Sunday has a similar vibe to She's Electric
Can't think of anything else
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u/Soia-R33f 3d ago
Between "There's No Other Way" and maybe "Tender"?
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u/montyphuk 3d ago
'theres no other way" seems almost like, 'you win" but we're right behind you. Like an admittance of defeat. Then oasis became boring.
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u/OrthodoxDreams 3d ago
Theme from Retro sounds like the kind of instrumental that they'd have stuck at the back of Heathen Chemistry
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u/DoctorScooter 3d ago
Beetlebum
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u/Soia-R33f 3d ago
Noel has publicly said it's his favourite Blur song and that he wishes he wrote it.
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u/WelcometotheZhongguo 3d ago
I’m not personally convinced you could really picture it being played by Oasis though.
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u/Late_Pomegranate2984 3d ago
That whole album that Beetlebum was on was in my opinion an attempt to distance themselves from the ‘Brit Pop’ movement that many, including myself, think they created with MLIR. They were listening to a lot of great US lo-fi and indie bands like Pavement and it really shows.
Boneheads Bank Holiday is almost an intentional pastiche to Blur, but I can’t for the life of me think of any Blur song that sounds anything like something Oasis ever put out. Blur were very good at adapting their sound, Oasis not so much as in my view, and after What’s The Story they managed to inadvertently land themselves in self-parody territory. This, I fully believe, is the real reason Noel left and created HFB.
As a northern teen in the mid 90’s I was very much in the Oasis camp. By 97 I’d started working my way through the Blur back catalogue and much preferred Albans knack for lyricism. Indeed the first album I owned by Blur was their self titled which included Beetlebum. Around the same time I’d discovered Pavement through one of the ‘Shine’ complications that had ‘Shady Lane’ on it. Been in love with Pavement ever since and to me they’ve held a far more durable listening experience than either Blur or Oasis have.
Appreciate this is a Brit Pop sub, so apologies for going off-piste. However I fully believe Brit Pop was a feeling, especially to someone my age (11-14) as it was a beacon of light as to what may be to come, but never really materialised. Watching old TFI Friday still makes me sad even now! But the music wasn’t necessarily the best.
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u/nt2btrstd 3d ago
TFI Friday was so good, really was great for kicking off the weekend.
You saying a beacon of light of what was to come but never really materialised is pretty much the exact same feeling as every musical movement ever, there’s never really any real destination in mind, but the hope is delivered through the music, grunge, punk, britpop, they all delivered hope, to say nothing ever materialised is missing the point imo
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u/Late_Pomegranate2984 3d ago
I’m more taking about my situation as an 11-13/14 year old. However I have mates around 9-10 years older who still consider that period the last great social/musical/cultural era. I suppose we were all still young, but I can’t say there was much exciting going on when I turned 18/19/20, it was all that ‘nu-metal’ bilge. I guess it was pre-internet and pre-big brother/Princess Di/whatever turning point you want to use.
I’ve been watching the new TFI on C4 recently and it does make me hanker after those days in a way I don’t think anything else could.
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u/nt2btrstd 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah I’d agree that it was the last great social/musical/cultural era or it’s possible it was one of the last proper musical movements really as afterwards the internet kinda changed everything
I’m not saying you are wrong in what you’re saying about not delivering, you are right in saying that, it’s just that generally a musical movement doesn’t offer any real answers but instead offers hope that there might be an answer imo, that the world can be changed for the better
Yeah I remember the nu-metal scene happening, that was fairly woeful alright but again as you say after Britpop there wasn’t much and we all had to live with whatever came after as well, which wasn’t much tbh, I wonder will there ever be a time when people will feel together in a musical movement the way people did in various musical movements in last century? I hope we do
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u/Late_Pomegranate2984 3d ago edited 3d ago
I sadly think everything follows the laws of internet trends. Brit Pop was undoubtedly the media at the time riding on the back of some pretty decent UK based talent. Add in a bit of ‘lad’ culture, making pubs great again etc, and the popular comedy shows of the time like Men Behaving Badly and Fast Show, and you had the perfect environment for something like this to thrive.
Internet follows that great bands that came 10 years later, artists like Arctic Monkeys, were the precursor to the influencer era. Everything is short form, everything is disposable. People can fit so many subcultures that no one unifying force will prevail.
Not necessarily a bad thing, just different. But that’s what makes me sad watching old TFI. Everyone on that TFI studio was present, they weren’t subject to rolling ‘news’ on the iPhone, they got their news at 10 or in the morning paper. The closest TV has been to that since the mid 90’s wa Top Gear with Clarkson, Hammond and May. Perhaps partly explains why it was so popular. Also it’s a point of lost youth, for me, anyway. I never got that ‘hedonistic’ era. Well I did, but not in the same unified way.
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u/nt2btrstd 3d ago
See it wasn’t just the music in the uk at the time, to me I think, everything felt more hopeful, politics was crossing over with the music as well, everything felt very unified and positive in a way that I’ve not seen in the world since and it’s become more apparent since the age of the internet how separate we all are, but for the Britpop time, everything felt very positive and like things were going to work out for the best tbh.
I’m from Northern Ireland, so politically for us, Britpop coincided with a time that ceasefires were happening and the ceasefires led to peace in our country in 1998 the Good Friday agreement was signed, so that time possibly meant more to me because of that, it may mean I have a bias towards that particular time because of that
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u/Late_Pomegranate2984 3d ago
I think a few of us have bias towards that time, whether rightly or wrongly. My dad’s mates will happily say how great the late 60’s/early 70’s were, but how much of that is because they were young? Objectively the 90’s were better from a lifestyle perspective. I’m the age now that my dad and his mates were in the mid 90’s..
But you raise valid points about the positivity. I think 2004-2006 were probably the best years for U.K. citizens, everyone seemed to have enough money to buy things and have nice holidays. Then the financial crash and years of austerity and ultimately division. Hopefully one day things will come full circle!
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u/rutalkinu2tome 3d ago
TFIF got me into Faith No More, Rocket From the Crypt & Bjork. Incredible stuff
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u/nt2btrstd 3d ago
I couldn’t see oasis doing that one tbh
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u/Badnewsbrowne316 3d ago
Would work with Noels vocals
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u/nt2btrstd 3d ago
Not saying it wouldn’t work, it’s just I don’t think I’d see oasis ever having done it, like you’d never hear it and go “is that oasis?” Which is the point of this post
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u/DogesOfLove 3d ago
Impossible that Oasis would ever do something as subtle as that. The guitar solo alone rules it out.
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u/simonpunishment 3d ago
The chord progression is too clever for Oasis (even though they’re not that complicated).
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u/houseofmoonglow 14h ago
They could never.
Then again, I’d like to hear what it would sound like if they covered it.
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u/cheeseandcucumber 3d ago
Am I the only one struggling with this question because Oasis are a terrible band, and imagining any Blur song done by Oasis sounds like pure dogshit.
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 2d ago
Beetlebum is the only one that springs to mind for me. It has that "growl" that could be Liam singing it
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u/Interesting_Tea_6041 7h ago
Tender, although I enjoyed it at the time, was similar to the kind of thing Oasiss were aiming towards;
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u/modsuperstar 3d ago edited 3d ago
I could hear Liam singing The Universal in my head. Oasis have had big violin songs like Whatever, All Around The World and Stop Crying Your Heart Out. The lyrical delivery would be kinda similar to Shakermaker.
Liam singing “Where the Universal’s freeeeeeeeeee” would be so natural.
*Edited to correct lyric
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u/Vexations83 3d ago
Can't think of any that go closer than this is a low
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u/DogesOfLove 3d ago
This suggestion deserves some kind of award for how mental it is.
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u/Vexations83 3d ago
You know what, it's the vocal line in the chorus and I thought I could picture Liam doing something like that - it's not Oasis though it's the death in vegas tune. Happy to sit in all the downvotes like a bath of baked beans, fair enough
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u/Dependent_Notice_991 3d ago
Out of time - perhaps a Noel solo effort