Different times. Equally as important to their generations. I grew up in the Oasis era but still prefer the Beatles. Both timeless but Liam's voice has gone. Then there's the poo-pooing online and threads like this cropping up. There was no talk of decline with the Beatles. Lennon and McCartney were never hammered in the media in spite of things they did. Never whiter than white but never the villains. Not the villains that Oasis are made out to be. I just can't shake this notion that Oasis and the Gallaghers have courted controversy to stay relevant.
I disagree they were a cover band, they took inspiration from the Beatles, as the Beatles did from other musical genres But yes, the Beatles to my mind are the no1 band.
What you’ve just described is a synonym for the social media age. it’s not oasis v Beatles… there is no debate and never will be…. but what there is a chance now for everyone to tell each other how crap they think something is whilst thinking other people give a f**k… No one ever bothers if somethings good!
I remember listening to the Beatles when I was young (in the 90s) and I didn't get the hype. Revisited them more recently to see if i had been rash in my youth. Still don't get all the hype.
Not a fan of either (Do like the odd few songs) but The Beatles win hands down on popularity. Oasis not even in the top 20.
There’s no doubt for me that the Beatles were the best ever - John Lennon was amazing in my view They had a lot of stick towards the “end” with the US Bible Belt burning their albums etc when John made a comment about they were bigger than Christ- not quite reported correctly but he faced it head on in The Ballard of John & Yoko
I always find it a bit weird the Beatles thing. I mean clearly Noel is a massive fan but their music is more an amalgamation of T Rex and Status Quo.
It's all down to taste, and I'm not a superfan by any means but I don't think any band has used, and also innovated so many different styles of music in such a short time...start to finish in 7 years. I can still remember hearing Eleanor Rigby, Help, and Helter Skelter and thinking no-one had ever written popular music like that.
Eh? John informed the other three he was leaving the band, but was asked to keep it under wraps, as they still had a record to come out, promotion to deal with, etc. But then Paul sneakily told the press that he was leaving the band, leading to the news of the break-up. John, naturally, wasn’t particularly impressed. George was the first one to say he didn’t want to tour any more in 1966. The knock on effect of this to their music is immeasurable, as they became a studio based band and pushed boundaries in all directions. George went on to walk out of the band whilst they were recording their penultimate album, but was coaxed back in shortly after, whereby he invited his mate Billy Preston down to the studio, totally changing the mood and salvaging a decent album out of what was becoming a mess. During this temporary absence he picked up a guitar in his mate Eric’s garden and wrote what could be the Beatles’ best ever recording. So if you watch the film of the final days in the studio before he walked out, where he was getting more and more frustrated by Paul’s criticism of his guitar contribution (and of Yoko eating his biscuits, apparently!), to think that a day after he walked out in an emotional huff he would pick up a guitar and compose Here Comes The Sun, you can’t help but have some sympathy with his plight. You might also think Paul and John have cloth ears if they didn’t think All Things Must Pass or Not Guilty weren’t worth recording properly. But George didn’t ’split them up’.