Psh. You know I'm cool.
The handful of songs I know by Blur are good, I'm not going to argue that, but overall I connect with Oasis songs more.

Well maybe you'll appreciate them more when youre older. ;)

Oh... snap!
Touche, my friend.

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Why compare these two bands?
All because a marketing war in june 95 is all for two singles.
Oasis are a rock band anyway from day one and signed to Sony.
Blur is not a band to compare but they did well considering years later they still get mentioned in the same sentance.
Compare Blur to Suede instead.
Compare Oasis to the Stones.
The only reason you compare the two is because a record label decided to put out Country house the same time as roll with it.

The only albums I got of Blur is the Best of and Parklife. Which one should I be getting next?

Mordern Life is Rubbish

I've heard a lot of good thinks about their 1997 self-titled album too.

Get that but it's much less a britpop album and more indie rock than Parklife & Modern Life is Rubbish

if you like shoe gazing music as early Blur were doing get carnival of light by Ride and Going blank again.
Great shoe gazing songs and mellow as that was Blurs inception.

the best blur albums, as voted by me.

1. modern life is rubbish
2. think tank
3. blur
4. leisure
5. parklife
6. 13

mine:
1.Parklife
2.blur
3.the great escape
4.modern life is rubbish
5.leisure
6.13
7.think tank

i forgot about the great escape. I'll put that in sixth, just before 13.

Maybe you'll figure out grammar in time to graduate, child.
Until then, why not listen to an album with an idea or two of it's own.

Then maybe, when you're older, you'll stop listening to Blur and Oasis.

I find it ironic you attack his grammar but you don't even know the appropriate usage of an apostrophe. You're a poor excuse for a grammar snob.

Oh wow insult my bad grammar you got me.
Maybe you should spend less time worrying about my bad grammar and more time not coming off so close minded. There is nothing wrong with either band. Also, try to develop a sense of humor you'd enjoy it and maybe you would see that this
was a joke

Fair.

Getting a little defensive are we?
You saw the punch-line, but you missed the point.

If you would like specific reasons to mock me, I'm easy.
>I have no real future.
>I lost a lot of my mind to a decade of drug abuse.
>I didn't graduate high-school, my girlfriend did for me.
>I have nothing better to do with my time then work, drink, and waste away behind a macbook on my patio watching old episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer back to back to back.
>I like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
>I have been playing guitar for ten years and still have "grabby-thumb"
>I live in a 600 square foot apartment with my crazy girlfriend, her 6 rats, 3 cats and 1 bird.
>I sometimes sit when I pee.
>I haven't taken a shower in four days.
>I have slightly off center bottom teeth.
>I have credit card debt.
>I read comics.
>I'm not pretty.
>I'm a bit short.
>I smoke.
>I drink too much.
>And I can't stand when you try to tell me that a band like Blur is worth listening to. Throw on Atlas Strategic, The Books, Modest-Mouse (before Float On), The New Pornographers, anything you can't find at a ****ing Wal-Mart before telling me that Blur can possibly, at any point, be worth drowning out Buffy for.

^ The fuck?

If it's been said once, it's been said a thousand times: If you have nothing to contribute, why are you posting in this thread?

Lol dont worry used to watch Buffy too, but I perfer Angel. =x
And I actually like alot of those bands.

blur are better than you.

atack attack seemingly defence defence!
Blur are a good band and Oasis are a great band.
Blur tended to jump on bandwagons abit in the UK but they did manage to write songs with opposing meanings like girls and boys and parklife.
All about the MacDonaldisation of the UK and hemogeny of our town centres and 18-30 holidays.
They suffered badly as wherever they went people played oasis songs after knebworth put Oasis on top.
Alex is now a rural farmer and the drummer is a politician and Damon likes diverse music collaborations while Oasis play bar room rock and get drunk.

What bandwagon did Blur jump on?

Like you can't find the New Pornographers at Wal-Mart...

oasis are a pale imitation of what they could have been after their first two albums, in my opinion nothing since has lived up to the hype surrounding them. But in some sort of Primal Scream-esque eternal forgiveness from the public, they are allowed to make **** albums whilst people still adore them. Blur are one of those bands who are very well known, yet not many people know as much by them as they should.

But I also would like to know... what bandwagon has Blur jumped on?

Shoe gazing music and manc scene was popular in 89-90 as early blur left middle class colleges and friends got them a deal and the record company liked the manc scene so made them record 'no other way' and dress all flowery. They did what they were told.
That is jumping on the bandwagon.
Secondly they put off the release of country house to get Oasis rivalry with roll with it (a waeker song off the album) to grow their own sales and make people aware of them.
Hence the still touted comparison.
That is hopping on two different musical bandwagons and riding them till they split and moving on.

When people knock Oasis remember that a bands explosion will always be biggest but they have some hits like I said with sunday morning call, let there be love, stop crying your heart out, stand by me etc.
Black Sabbath only ever did one song paranoid and made a career from it.
Oasis couldn't be expected to sing about the same things forever could they?
Bowie didn't, the stones make new albums and we never hear a single song from them as they tour with the oldies.

I Guess I must have imagined the 5 songs they played from their last album when I saw them.

Were they as good as satisfaction or gimme shelter?????
honestly........

Bob Dylan still makes the odd good tune but plenty of albums.

That is why I say accept a bands initial impact then accept the odd gem on each new album
The reason people often say about Oasis first two albums is because they had the biggest impact on UK music since the Beatles or Punk.

Who else knows the Stones making great songs still?
Be honest.
They make some odd gems for people who grew with them like Dylan and Clapton do.
But Oasis had such an impact that people expect too much.
Do you agree Urban?
What happened to Croquill?
Was he barred?

Blur never considered themselves a shoe gaze band and where dubbed that by the NME because they came out at the right time and place. Also 'they dressed all flowery'? What the hell are you talking about? Also Blur have been around longer than Oasis. And they're was no need to 'get noticed' since their album Parklife was hugley succesful and won many awards such as best album at the Brit awards , so you can throw that entire idea into the trash. The second part of your post is just laughable.

They came at a time and place you say?
so instead of doing what they wanted to do they did what was best for that time and place you say?
Isn't that jumping bandwagon my sweet foe?
What is laughable about the second half?
Explain if you can.
How come people don't say "oh Blur's albums are full of hits throughout?"
Are they?
No bands albums are but Oasis's first two were so people expected it from them unlike Blur.
I have noticed that people call me laughable etc but noone I have shown these threads thinks I am wrong but wants to know what your arguements are rather then taking the piss ad then skirting around the topic.

Never said they were


I don't expect anything from them , they've shown since about 1997 they're nothing more than a one trick pony.

On the sacking of Tony McCarroll...

The Gallaghers, on the other hand, doubted McCarroll’s musical ability, with Noel saying: “I like Tony as a geezer but he wouldn't have been able to drum the new songs”.

...what new songs?

1.I didn't say any of that, but that doesnt matter because, they did do what they wanted. How is coming out at the right place and right time jumping on the bandwagon?
2.Because Black Sabbath made a career out of creating Heavy Metal, and doing something new and original. As for the Bowie and Stones thing, because people want to hear the classics, and they have a lot being around for that long.
3.Blur's albums are full of hits, just none that made it big in America because they were more of an English taste then Oasis was. Blur is a way better band then Oasis because all their albums are good, and sound different. They evolved out of britpop. Also they don't sound the exact same as they did in the early 90's like Oasis does.

The more i listen to blur, the more I'm liking them ;)
Oasis, well, they were the first 'Britpop' band i listened to. Not goona support or go against them. Kinda annoying to listen to them now though.

Blur it is!

Alex James said they didn't want to do it but the RC wnated it so they did it.
No other way I mean.
Bowie and and the stones classics come from stones sixties early seventies and it is now 2008 same for bowie's old favourites. The odd old gem but then most of it old man rock which is what they are.
Black Sabbath did not create heavy metal at all.
And most people only know paranoid that is why any time they show a clip on tele it is paranoid they show.
Some people dislike Oasis because of their attitude and there is a backlash from those who dislike those types.

and the stones are not?

:laughing: I'm done with this dumb argugment. This is all beside the point that Blur are a better band than Oasis.

Cool,
Easy win there.

I don't know

Have Oasis ever done R&B , Blues , Soul , Country & Gospel?

Yeh ok, whatever helps you feel better. :rolleyes: