Which of these rock bands are more successful in your view, "Oasis" or "The Beatles"?

Are they kidding??

Who is Oasis?
You know, I have actually heard of the beatles, and even listened to some of their music.
Oasis? What have they ever done?

@NerdyKeith – the last sentence…. “beatles did not break America” – is utterly false.

Any of us who were alive in the 1960s-onward remember how the Beatles were huge catalysts in the generation gap, the liberalization of damned near everything, and to some degree contributed, through their disruptiveness, to the end of the Vietnam war.

I agree with @ragingloli – Oasis who?

@elbanditoroso You have misunderstood my last sentence. I was saying that Oasis (unlike the Beatles) did not break America. I am saying Oasis did not break America. I was not claiming that the Beatles did not break America. I’m emphasising how delusional and bitter Liam Gallagher is.

I know nothing about Oasis, yet I have every Beatles album. This could mean that I’m either an old fogey, or that I’m a harbinger of excellent taste. There’s no question that the former is true; may I hope that the latter is at least somewhat valid?

Did Oasis ever have all 5 of the top 5 songs at one time from the pop charts?
That’s my standard.

@filmfann Well put it this way, Oasis don’t have a greatest hits album comprised of nothing but number 1s. Only the Beatles have that.

I have listened to one or two Oasis songs in my time. I was curious because they were called “Beatles-like”.

But no one has ever said the Beatles were “like” anyone else.

Both Gallagher brothers are massive Beatles fans, modelled their whole brand on them & openly admitted this throughout their peak years. McCartney, in response to the infamous claim from the band that they were “bigger than The Beatles” said that this was their biggest mistake & as proven here, was the kiss of death for them. Be better than the Fab Four, just never say it or you’re basically screwed.

Success depends on the subject’s own goals, not on mine. If Oasis’ goal was to “be the bol***ks” in their own views, then they succeeded.

Comparing degree of success seems meaningless to me unless both parties agree to the same way of measuring success.

What if their goal was to outlive the other? How many of Oasis are still kicking?

It seems silly to compare two bands based on relative “success” – success is one of those value judgements that can be helpful but more often becomes a trap or a shaming tool or something else malignant and meaningless.

Although… having said that, and looked up Oasis in Wikipedia, and following all the links under Music/Bands:

Oasis (1980s band), a short-lived English music group
Oasis (American band), an American rock band active in the 1970s
Oasis (band), an English rock band (1991–2009)

and not being able to even tell which one would be comparing themselves to The Beatles without coming back to this question and searching them to see that Liam Gallagher makes them a band formed in 1991 (whilst the The Beatles were active ), makes me think both that wow I really had no clue who Oasis was – I assumed they must be some band from the 1960’s or 1970’s, and that ya this is an even sillier comparison than I initially thought.

However I did see this related but more intelligible semi-comparison on the wiki page:

“What Oasis has done in Britain, unifying an entire country under the banner of a single pop act, a band could no longer achieve in a country like the US. In Britain the band reigns unchallenged as the most popular act since the Beatles, there is an Oasis CD in roughly one of every three homes there. Last month, the band drew 250,000 people to Knebworth for the biggest outdoor concerts in the country’s history; The group’s battling brothers, Liam and Noel Gallagher, appear as regularly as royalty on tabloid covers.”
— Neil Strauss writing in The New York Times on the group’s escalating popularity (September 1996)[33]

I also listened to the short clip on the site of:
“D’You Know What I Mean?” – The lead single from Be Here Now, “D’You Know What I Mean” became the 12th biggest selling single of 1997 in the UK.”
and if the contest of “success” is about me liking them, Oasis fails big-time. They sound whiny and annoying to me, though I think I just dislike that style of music.

Oasis? Never heard of them.

@Zaku Strauss’s basis for popularity, …there is an Oasis CD in roughly one of every three homes there was not at all unusual in the 70’s in the US. And, it wasn’t unusual i the US in the mid 90s, either.

Seems like everybody born between 1945 and 1965 had at least one copy of Carole King’s Tapestry in their family, along with the eponymous Fleetwood Mac album.

It’s not even close.

I do like ‘Wonder wall ’ though.

I’m a Mancunian. I like Oasis. I think the Gallagher brothers are full of shite. I like their music. I think Oasis have been very successful. Their success does not compare to the success and longevity The Beatles achieved.

https://youtu.be/Vy1ueZf1WMQ

Yeah baby :D

@ucme I’m so surprised that they let him cover it haha.