The Beatles were pop, but they were not bland by any means, even in their early years they wrote some pure genius pop songs.
Oasis took that sound, mainly the poppy side from it, without taking risks like The Beatles did. Then they just made it more generic and more appealing to the "adult alternative" crowd, I hear songs like Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova being played on the radio alongside songs by Barenaked Ladies, Matchbox Twenty and The Goo Goo Dolls. Compare them to those bands and tell me how they stand out, they don't.
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