Blur or Oasis

Pulp! to be awkward.

I was always Oasis at the time, but in hindsight blur are leagues better.

I like both :-)

ended up at a blur gig by mistake back in the day... great gig from what I remember....the rds

Funny to realise that those with an opinion on the matter are probably several decades older than I was at the time, wondering what all the fuss about these two new-fangled and, to my ears, decidedly average bands, was about. An ageing thread.

I’ll go with blur. At least they were a bit original.

I cringe every time I see this question, or every time they use the footage in some BBC4 music documentary. The whole premise that you had to choose was, at the time, awful to the average indie kid.
This was the pinacle of indie finally becoming mainstream, and because it was mainstream suddenly there had to be a battle as to who was the best - whose side you were on. Were you an arty London sort, or were you a working class northern "lad". Honestly - how boring.
If, two years before that, you had, say, both Suede and Pulp, for example both destined to be the top two on TOTP, as an indie kid it would have been celebrated as a great achievement.
But no, we had to choose between, frankly, two of the s*ittiest songs either band had released.

And still the question lives on. Ugh.


Anyway, the answer is obviously Blur.

Dexter2019 wrote: »

In what context?

In the sense that blur had less than 10 hit songs that anyone remembers, but oasis had.. dare I say.. more than 20 hit songs that everyone remembers, and remembers all the lyrics to?

Edit: "Everyone" has a loose definition here..

Blur were a much better band, creatively, than Oasis were. By quite a margin.

tototoe wrote: »

1995 called, looking for its thread back

Oh I wish it was 1995 again
What a brilliant time for music

Anyone who was at Glastonbury on the Sunday in 1994 had this as the lineup on the NME stage

Spiritualized
Blur
Radiohead
Inspiral Carpets
Pulp
Chumbawamba
Credit to the Nation
Oasis
Echobelly
Tiny Monroe
Rub Ultra
Burning Glass

I mean seriously ?

Neither.

CPTM wrote: »

Here's 17 that come to mind straight away without thinking too hard. I challenge anyone to put together a set list of blur songs that would be more entertaining than this.

Don't look back in anger
Champagne Supernova
Wonderwall
Cast no shadow
Cigarettes and Alcohol
All around the world
She's electric
Some might say
Rock and Roll star
Slide away
Talk tonight
The master plan
Roll with it
Live forever
Little by little
What's the story morning glory
Hey Now

Very subjective these but go on...

Stereotypes
Song 2
End Of A Century
Lonesome Street
Trouble In The Message Centre
On Your Own
Coffee & TV
Entertain Me
There's No Other Way
Bettlebum
Popscene
It Could Be You
For Tomorrow
Tender
Chemical World
The Universal
To The End


(The real answer is to the OP is Suede anyway)