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American Reacts to Blur vs Oasis: The Britpop Battle!
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- This is the epic Battle of Britpop between Blur and Oasis! We'll explore the legendary rivalry that defined the 90s British music scene. From iconic hits to infamous feuds, let's see what made Blur and Oasis the ultimate Britpop contenders!
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As someone who was twenty when this whole debacle was going on, pretty much everyone I knew liked both bands and bought the singles and albums of both bands. I saw Blur at Glastonbury in ‘92 and Damon Albarn couldn’t sing a single word in tune, so I never actually paid to see them live after that, I saw Oasis in ‘93 (where they were the support act for Saint Etienne) in Glasgow and ‘94 (where they were supported by Ocean Colour Scene) in London, they were great both times and honestly not too dissimilar to how they sounded on vinyl. Around this time I met both Graham Coxon from Blur and Noel Gallagher (at different places in London and Graham Coxon on a few occasions as we were both members of club night called Blow Up which was in The Laurel Tree in Camden) and they were both actually really nice guys. There was also always plenty of talk that they all got on pretty well too, I think especially Graham and Liam but just like The Stones and The Beatles, it was purely a creation of the press which was enabled by the record companies but pretty much irrelevant to most of the music buying public that were in their desired demographic.
As for the North South thing…well I’m Scottish, so they were all southerners to me 😊
I was about the same age at that time. I can remember the girls really liked Blur and blokes really loved Oasis.
@@alambyant I can see how that might be the case but for most of the people I knew, they just liked the music. I have two older brothers and both liked both bands but one favoured Oasis a little more and the other Blur. The first time I saw Oasis it was in a mixed group of eighteen year old boys and girls and I certainly knew more girls than fancied Liam than Alex James (the most fancied member of Blur). So it could just be regional differences.
The shipping forecast is perhaps one of the most British things there is. There must be a video you can react to.
Excellent for falling asleep to 😴
@@MrGrahawk and the Blur song about it is perhaps their best
I used to listen to the shipping forecast regularly, it was so relaxing.
Good call!!
Oasis were monumental. Their Knebworth gigs were legendary, and whenever you think of Manchester you have to think of Oasis. When the Manchester bombings happened in 2017, Liam dropped everything in Germany to come back to Manchester to give support and play at the charity concert - full respect to him for that.
Damon could sing Liam couldn't, he just stood with a gruff whiney voice, Noel was the talent and Liam was just very lucky to be allowed to be apart of it 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Loved this. At the time I loved blur but my 12 yo son loved Oasis so I brought him to their July gig in Cork. Just as it was getting dark the Prodigy finished their support set with a pumping rendition of Firestarter and an amazing, unannounced fireworks display. When Oasis came on Liam first words were "what the f*** Keith!?". My son was upset at Oasis being upstaged but I couldn't hide a wry smile😊
I was on Blur's side, Noel and Liam's arrogance really annoyed me. I'm working class but there's no need to be an arrogant idiot. Liam was a John Lennon wannabe.
My favourite Blur song was Tender.
I also liked Pulp too.
I loved the music of them both, and Pulp, and Suede, and Sleeper, and Elastica, and Menswear, and Echobelly, and The Boo Radleys, and Lush, and Radiohead, and Shed Seven, and, and, and, and.....
this takes me back back to being 16, i was in a band, and a lot of things were changing in my life and in the UK, heady stuff.
Blur was formed in London, but all of them except Alex were from Colchester. I liked both bands, but the arrogance from the Gallagher brothers was annoying at times.
13:52 I live a town over from Knebworth and you could literally hear it incredibly clear from back gardens lol
That’s amazing man🤘🏻🎸
Go and check some vids of Liam meeting fans, I get that he was a bit scary but he just didnt stand for bull, this might change your view on him. I always found him funny and Noels hilarious, outspoken but a great guest for any show. They were rockstars at the end of the day. I find Albarn a touch pretentious. Did some great music and Gorrillaz was equally as good I just dont think he ever related as well to the people.
Yes! Liam man of the people
Personally I love both Blur and Oasis. Different tunes for different moods.
Really I love all kinds of music- I love music that oozes talent, and I love music that’s trashy catchy pop- and everything in between. I love thoughtful lyrics, gibberish lyrics, and lyrics that just go “yeeeeaaah”, and I also love no lyrics at all. I love people who are talented at playing instruments, and I love the punk scene where no one can play anything. I love music that goes on a journey of chord progressions, and I love music that just plink plonks a basic tune. I love orchestras that make me feel like I’m riding a dragon into war, I love basic dance music that I can run to, and I love lyrical music that makes me question my existence.
I just properly love music. Blur and Oasis, I don’t mind if you’re northern or southern, I don’t mind if you’re absolute dicks (looking at you Gallaghers), I don’t care what class you are, I just wanna listen to the tunes 🎼🎵🎶
Blur won the battle but got destroyed in the war.
They made that battle happen in the charts, thinking they were clever by moving their single release date for "Country House" to the same date as Oasis' "Roll With It" (they did this twice).
But come 1996, Oasis cleaned up at the Brit Awards, played the biggest gigs of the decade - Knebworth, Loch Lomond, Earls Court - and also had the biggest-selling album of the decade.
5% of the people in Britain applied for tickets to the two Knebworth gigs alone. Going by demand, they could have sold Knebworth out around 20 times!
Don't get me wrong, I love both bands and have a huge appreciation for Blur, but as a contest, it was all over after Morning Glory was released.
The best thing Blur took out of it was that Oasis' success, inadvertently coaxed them into doing away with the pop sound they were renowned for and taking their music in a new direction.
As a massive 90s Britpop fan and especially Oasis fan, I have always liked and listened to Blur. The "rivalry" was defo just produced to try and battle it out for record sales. I know Oasis came across as arrogant and disliked because of their attitude, but that was never an issue for me as a fan since they backed it up with what they produced in the '90s. Their music spoke to me and I just took it as confidence for displaying what they produced with their music. Oasis like it or not did defy a generation of people and uk musicians to follow. Liam is maybe more likeable to more people nowadays and Noel and Damian have worked together for stuff recently for Gorillaz music as seen. Noel and Damian have huge respect for each other. So I get Oasis isn't for everyone, but also I love them and all the Britpop era stuff. Never understood why people couldn't see past the brothers and appreciate the music as im a big fan of them. Them, Blur, Pulp, Suede, Manic St Preachers, Elastic, The Verve...etc were all amazing bands. As someone born in 1997, this is the music I relate to and I wished I would have grown up as a teen in the 90s with this music. What a time!
@@paultaylor9498facts oasis were in a league of their own!🤘🏻🎸
The shipping forcast is of course linked to the weather 😂😂😂 , another of our pastimes 😂😂😂
I was at Glastonbury in 93 or 94 and we were at the NME stage when Oasis a new band at the time played in the afternoon. My mate said this is meant to be the next big thing, halfway through their first song we decided to go to the beer tent as we weren't impressed. I kick myself now, but I did manage to see Blur, Pulp, Radiohead, Orbital, The Prodigy, Rage Against The Machine, Lenny Kravitz and even the full line up of the Velvet Underground who were fucking awesome. The only band I never got to see and wish I did was Skunk Anansie.
We too were at Glastonbury in 94, watched Oasis and after them doing The Walrus went for a beer too at The Brothers Bar.. pear cider🍺
@@pashvonderc381 do you remember Banana Joes blanket stall, they had the best sound system
@@tomfoolery9749 woah, mate now you are asking something, am struggling with what I did yesterday let alone 30 years ago..
I was going to all of the summer festivals during this period of time and when Blur headlined it was amazing. When Oasis it was amazing and when Radiohead headlined it was epic. It was just a great time for British music fans all round.
And as an old fart and veteran of the 60’s and 70’s,I considered the 90’s to be the weakest of all the decades,such was the standard that had been set previously and yet,the 90’s produced some very good British bands.
But not a patch on the 60’s 70’s and 80’s………imo of course.
I fucking love Liam never forgot his roots same with noel
Pulp
Radiohead were always in a different league..
Ok Computer is one of my favourite albums of all time.
Awesome reaction. Hopefully you can do one about British post-punk? Or 90s American Indie?
lest we forget, of course, Blur are still going to this day
Great video JJ - really enjoyed your reaction 🌟
There was a third band that was a part of this but faded away, Shed Seven
Oh interesting, I've never heard of them. Just looked them up and they're still touring! Good for them. They've lasted and are working! 🙌
Always preferred Blur, found their music more interesting and evolved into the ever brilliant Gorillaz. Found Oasis a bit 'one trick ponies'. Radiohead are beyond comparison!
Hi there Blur would have loved to be Oasis lol 250 thousand people at concerts at knebworth over a weekend ...
I'm a massive Oasis fan, but musically speaking Pulp & The Verve were just as good & probably even better, Oasis catalog though as a whole is simply amazing.
I was very much a northern working class, council house boy, so, obviously I jumped for you when Blur won, I even remember where I was as the chart was announced, in the car at Ferrybridge services.
3:48 - I think there's a rivalry between Manchester and everywhere.
Just an impression: there has seemed to me on the occasions I've visited Manchester to be a disproportionately high number of knob-heads. I'm sure there are lots of lovely people too, but unfortunately one notices rudeness and arrogance more than quiet politeness and humility.
I used to visit guitar shops in London a lot and was always treated kindly and supportively. I have come across in-yer-face rudeness twice on the few occasions when I was in guitar shops in Manchester. One shop switched me off when I was playing! (No I'm not *that* bad) It's not as if they sell anything I can't get anywhere else - and of course if I need to buy guitar stuff it will be anywhere else.
It's surely a skewed impression, but one that was reinforcecd for me by the Gallagher brothers' antics and attitudes.
Maybe there was a proportionate amount of knob heads and then your visit tipped the scale slightly.
Everyone thinks they're rivals with Manchester in some way or other.
@@mana3735 I think it's the other way round.
@@psychoprosthetic haha.
My answer over the Blur vs Oasis has been Pulp.. but if we are going by careers now I'd go with Blur, but a lot of people go by music streaming which i guess oasis wins , meh ..still Pulp for me.
Blur were like the school swots whereas Oasis were the cool naughty kids.
Blur won... popscene is still one of my favourite tunes.
The blur oasis thing was media manufactured bollocks imo .. 😊
Blur won the battle but got destroyed in the war.
They made that battle happen in the charts, thinking they were clever by moving their single release date for "Country House" to the same date as Oasis' "Roll With It".
But come 1996, Oasis cleaned up at the Brit Awards, played the biggest gigs of the decade - Knebworth, Loch Lomond, Earls Court - and also had the biggest-selling album of the decade.
5% of the people in Britain applied for tickets to the two Knebworth gigs alone. Going by demand, they could have sold Knebworth out around 20 times!
Don't get me wrong, I love both bands and have a huge appreciation for Blur, but as a contest, it was all over after Morning Glory was released.
The best thing Blur took out of it was that Oasis' success, inadvertently coaxed them into doing away with the pop sound they were renowned for and taking their music in a new direction.
@@HearszAMdidn’t you already post this?
@@marianarivera7084He posted it again in response to the pish above.
Two Great bands with great songs love them both Look out Paul Weller in the 90s and so many more of my youth going to see bands
Shipping forecast. Tone poems... a rare thing. Put them together and you get the odd, mesmerising _Pharaohs_ by Tears for Fears, a brilliant "B" side.
Whats is going on? Britain is surrounded by water - so a metreological forecast of coming sea weather is read out on BBC Radio for ships, often in a monotone and mysterious voice. It becomes a zen-like koan of abstract poetry, meanings and significance somehow just out of reach
Oh yes loved both bands
Oasis bored the hell out of me. I had The Beatles I didn't need third rate imitators. Blue were more creative but I hated the mockney vibe.
Radiohead was never britpop, agree they transcended it and ignored fashions to do their own thing.
Liam Gallagher is the greatest rock n roll frontman in the entire history of the world ✌️🏴
😂😂😂😂😂
@@louisetwissell80 Ok Bot, whatever you say 🙄
Pulp were better than both. Fight me.
I don’t think anyone will fight you on this. They wrote the working class National anthem 🍻
Agreed 🤝
Yes yes yes yes yes yes
Pulp, Blur, Oasis. Easy to order them 😂
Radiohead were better
I won the fight
Oasis is the only correct answer
I remember in the 90s OASIS is more connect to us young no money lads thats why we love them it feels like they are represent us working class we have a feeling like they just like me back then, While blur is so good not denying it but they not relatable as much both bands are good tho happy to be teenager in 90s
Britain had blur vs oasis, the US had confederacy vs union
It's not a north and south thing for me though I am from the south and I liked Oasis better it was just more towards my taste.
My taste in music preferred Oasis but I really like Song 2 by Blur that track rocks I must admit that. Noel is right why just Blur and Oasis there were shit loads of good bands around at the time.
It was Blur's people who started all this.
They may have won the battle, but they got destroyed in the war.
The 90s were a very different times, for both brilliant fun reasons but also sometimes you look back and do nothing but cringe😂
Liam obviously has not heard of alphabetical order , Oasis pure arrogance of ripping of everything the Beatles did + the moronic way they spoke , not really superstar material.
Wow. So much shite in a few sentences.
Blur were not upper class at all, that was another press exaggeration. The video handily ignored the moment when Noel wished Damon and Alex would ‘get AIDS and die.’ The whole thing got very ugly; good on Damon for clearly being the better person and including Gallagher on the Gorillaz track. Anyway, Blur won. Released albums in 2015 and 2023 to critical acclaim and played two incredible nights at Wembley last July. I know they were incredible-I was there 😄
Alex went to make cheese on a farm, Damon's family are all from the art world. I would say upper class, yes.
@@titanium_di2402 Alex’s family ran a hotel in Bournemouth, Keith Albarn taught at a London polytechnic and the Arts Institute in Colchester and Hazel Albarn worked in stage production before having her family. How being part of the arts community makes one upper class is a mystery to me. Alex James Cheese happened far past his 1990s Britpop days. Graham’s dad served in the armed forces and Dave’s dad was a BBC sound engineer. None of Blur went to private school. Upper class: none of them
It's simple you danced to Blur,and sang along to Oasis.
Story of Brit Pop is that British record companies didn't take up indie type bands in the 80's.. some got a career but the charts were full of synth pop and blandness... Then more indie type guitar bands going big in the states made British industry scrabble around and grab the first acts they saw... Meanwhile for every blur or oasis there were hundreds of bands who were way better who had been playing underground or just for themselves who were overlooked... The ones who made it were largely kept in the music news by media hype and they were all kinda bands who had a sort of novelty music hall vaudeville type feel... Feuding brothers using 70's glam rock riffs they didn't write and putting nonsense lyrics with attractive rhymes over it or a pop band with a mockney accent singer... Nothing like as good as underground bands... Other Brit Pop acts... Novelty one hit bands who strung out a few lesser hits... Feel good music with quirky lyrics... Some rehashed stones imitations... A lot of early 70's lifting with a bit of Johnny Marr thrown in.. ex boyband singer trying to please a record label and look sexy.. all music hall acts really.. post thatcher the best of British music was always with acts that didn't make the charts much.
There were a few known bands with potential but even they were not necessarily huge.
Well, damon’s career now proves that he’s more than just a “mockney accent singer.”
@@marianarivera7084 sure, fair point. I guess I'm trying to make a broad point about the 90's but I think he is sincere about what he does and has gone on to do interesting things that a lot of people wouldn't have thought of.
This video kind of skimmed over it but Oasis blew Blur out of the water ! They won the war completely
This guy hates Oasis. Its quite funny though. He’s clueless.
Liam is absolutely smashing it right now. Unlike Noel and Damon.
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hi king
Oasis have brilliant songs
Supergrass wipe the floor with both of them.
Blur,all day long Blur.
Blur won the battle. Oasis won the war.
Oasis outsold blur 10/1
blur won but oasis dominated for much longer
Blue evolved into The Gorillaz. Oasis stagnated. They stayed the same with the most boringly monotonous sound and with massive chips on their shoulders. Just my opinion
@@louisetwissell80 agreed, like i said, blur won the battle but folded after, oasis stayed to have a few more hits and some of their songs have stood the test of time unlike blurs, both bands was over rated, there was better bands out at the time that didn’t get the media limelight
'Take that' are wayyyyyy better. Oasis clearly won.
Oases have the more singable songs
Blur are technically the better band,
Blur moved away from Britpop with there 4th Album, called Blur
I saw Oasis open for The Verve back in 94ish? In a small club in Newcastle, Oasis were the SHITEST band I've ever seen! The whole crowd hated them.
Cool story bro
@@MrBillyboyroge thought you'd like it :P
Or it was just Geordie twats as usual
Blur is a much better band ...
Radiohead are definitely not Britpop
Started off as British Indie but never Britpop
The Charlatans were better than both of them.
This video really misses a great deal of information out, and ends with an ill-informed, and somewhat agrogant dismissal of one of the greatest times in british cultural history.
I'm not mad, just dissapointed.
Just listen to death metal. Simple really
Because tunes and melody aren't important?
@@michaeljohn1978 ignorance is bliss.
Oasis > Blur
Suede were better than them both.
Suede were always let down by Brett's ridiculous voice
@@michaeljohn1978 What a very strange take. If you ever se him/them live he is one of the best frontmen of his generation with real stage pressence. Very Bowieesque in his delivery at times but without ever seeking to be a direct copy.
@@davidcollins9057 How can saying Brett Anderson’s voice is ridiculous be a strange take? It’s all there to listen to. He took the Bowie thing too far. Bowie’s voice was great, but Brett’s voice sounds like a noise one of my old cats made when it was about to throw up. It was a good warning sound for let know you needed to put him outside quickly. Sort of “Ooooooohh” 😂
@@michaeljohn1978 It's a strange take because of how massively successful a career he has had, but whatever.
@@davidcollins9057 So if someone has a successful career that means everyone must like them? Chris Martin has had a successful career. I rest my case. Can't stand his voice either
Park life is a shite song
Hey liam
hi king