The Farmer hates Oasis Smashing Tunes thread

[Fagan_ODowd]

@glasagusban

Mainly the UK then? A pretty niche act in global terms.

In fairness the Sex Pistols were a niche act in global terms and blew themselves out in just about 9 months but they have had massive and lasting cultural significance. You couldn’t have had Oasis without the Sex Pistols

[Batigol]

You have to crack America. Whether you like it or not, you have to.

[Cheasty]

@Fagan_ODowd

I would suspect that the two biggest bands of the 90s are U2 and Metallica in terms of both sales and global appeal.
Edit. and of course the Spice Girls.

Elton John sold 33 million records in the 1990s with one song alone.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Cheasty

@Fagan_ODowd

I would suspect that the two biggest bands of the 90s are U2 and Metallica in terms of both sales and global appeal.
Edit. and of course the Spice Girls.

Elton John sold 33 million records in the 1990s with one song alone.

Elton John is not a band. If you were to look at individuals Madonna was probably the most significant act of the 90s.

[Cheasty]

@Fagan_ODowd

Elton John is not a band. If you were to look at individuals Madonna was probably the most significant act of the 90s.

1990 was the last peak Madonna year. After that her career went into a tailspin.

[Arthur]

Was there many other successful British bands made up of those kind of working class, football fan, building sites, punch up down the pub ‘lads’ like oasis were? As in not more arty working class chaps like pulp or the smiths or middle class fellas like blur.

[Mac]

The Verve?

[Cheasty]

@Arthur

Was there many other successful British bands made up of those kind of working class, football fan, building sites, punch up down the pub ‘lads’ like oasis were? As in not more arty working class chaps like pulp or the smiths or middle class fellas like blur.

I’d have thought it would have been easier to identify which of the big British artists pre-Oasis weren’t working class in origin. Mick Jagger wasn’t. Joe Strummer wasn’t.

Outside of punk the Happy Mondays were probably the only major band who embraced a sort of quasi-football hooligan persona similar to Oasis.

Slade and The Jam were identified as solid working class “bands of the people”. Those two were big influences on Noel Gallagher.

[Arthur]

Whether they are actual genuine football fans might be a more simpler rule of thumb. Id say that would be a fairly clear dividing line between your morrisseys and Liam Gallagher types.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Stone Roses?

[Kyle]

The farm, lightening seeds, echo and the bunny men

[Cheasty]

@Arthur

Whether they are actual genuine football fans might be a more simpler rule of thumb. Id say that would be a fairly clear dividing line between your morrisseys and Liam Gallagher types.

Liam Gallagher isn’t a genuine football fan in the real sense. Noel Gallagher is.

Mick Jagger is a football fan. Damon Albarn is.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds is probably a bigger football fan than any of them.

Yer man from Def Leppard who lived in Ireland is a big Sheffield United fan.

Oasis played up their scalliness. In reality Burnage was a grand enough area.

[Arthur]

Most of them are shite at football though. Are there any genuine dual stars in music?

[binkybarnes]

Robert Smith from The Cure was handy enough i think

[Cheasty]

@binkybarnes

Robert Smith from The Cure was handy enough i think

[Cheasty]

@Arthur

Most of them are shite at football though. Are there any genuine dual stars in music?

The singer from Glasvegas played 116 Scottish League games. I’m sure I recall a Scottish football highlights programme on Sky which interviewed him when he was a footballer years before Glasvegas came to prominence.

[Arthur]

They had a few class tunes. Never kicked on. I hope cowdenbeath had him back

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

The Verve were more a shoegaze band when they started. A real ‘prefer their earlier stuff’ band

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Arthur

Most of them are shite at football though. Are there any genuine dual stars in music?

Rod Stewart

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Arthur

Whether they are actual genuine football fans might be a more simpler rule of thumb. Id say that would be a fairly clear dividing line between your morrisseys and Liam Gallagher types.

AC🌩️DC are huge Rangers fans.