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Originally Posted by mr dave
oasis WAS mostly hype though, they were in competition with blur to be the next big thing from the UK in north american press once grunge started repeating itself.
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Actually it was the other way around.
It was Blur who were hyped to death. Blur were from London and were middle class. The people who worked for the NME & Melody Maker were from London and middle class. The last thing they wanted was a bunch of northern working class oiks muscling in. Most of the Oasis hype came from Noel & Liams mouths.
Blur were the media darlings , while Oasis were the people's favourite.
The whole Blur vs Oasis thing was all down to Damon Albarn & his buddy Steve Sutherland who just happened to be the editor of the NME. They thought they could sell more papers & records by instigating the whole thing. It was Blur who moved release dates so that their stuff would come out the same day as Oasis.
Sadly it backfired on them badly , Blur released easily their worst album ever in The Great Escape while Oasis went on to become the biggest selling British band in the UK ever and have 10% of the entire population of the UK apply for tickets to their 2 Knebworth gigs.
These days Albarn refuses to even discuss what happened during that whole time while Noel just laughs about it. Which for me says everything.