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highplainsdem

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5. The term was first used before Oasis had that huge instant success. It never really fit them.

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Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:04 AM

Sep 30

Article about how the term came into use:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stuart-maconie-britpop-anniversary-more-3390694

And from Manchester came the ultimate lads, Oasis, whose version of Britpop was more blokey, less arty and whose first album entered the charts at No?1 and became the fastest selling debut in history.

Guitar music was no longer the realm of the awkward indie kids.

Oasis fans were labourers, office workers, football lads in replica tops, much like the band.

Only three years after playing to a few dozen kids in Manchester, the band were playing to a quarter of a million people at Knebworth in 1996.

Oasis never fit with the others. Their rock lineage was Beatles > Sex Pistols > Stone Roses. It was ludicrous to compare them to Blur.

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Oasis borrowed from T.Rex's Get It On for Cigarettes & Alcohol, but rocked much harder. Earthshakingly harder. [View all] highplainsdem Sep 30 OP

I'm reposting the OP above after mistakenly posting it in GD first. highplainsdem Sep 30 #1

Reply posted in GD by johnp3907: 1. Marc Bolan cast a big big shadow! highplainsdem Sep 30 #2

Reply posted in GD by flvegan: 2. Score one for Oasis! highplainsdem Sep 30 #3

Funny that they called it BritPop speak easy Sep 30 #4

The term was first used before Oasis had that huge instant success. It never really fit them. highplainsdem Sep 30 #5

Ahem ... speak easy Sep 30 #7

The Beatles, Sex Pistols and Stone Roses are the bands they mention most. But you're right that glam rock, highplainsdem Sep 30 #8

Ditching the glam costumes speak easy Sep 30 #9

Considering that Liam's standard uniform is a parka, baggy jeans and athletic shoes, I don't think he'd've highplainsdem Sep 30 #10

I can see Liam doing glam. speak easy Saturday #15

Nope. That's a colorful parka, and Liam and Noel both own a lot of colorful as well as fairly drab parkas. highplainsdem Saturday #16

I think we are talking at cross purposes, speak easy Saturday #17

Okay. I didn't realize you were talking about what Liam might've done if he'd been born 20 years earlier highplainsdem Saturday #18

Rod Stewart? Working class / Football fanatic. speak easy Saturday #19

Liked his music, thought the glam costumes were ridiculous. No matter who wore them. highplainsdem Saturday #20

How many people danced to "You're in my heart, you're in my soul" unaware of the soccer ⚽️ reference? underpants Sunday #24

You can't copyright a rhythm sequence speak easy Sep 30 #6

Something in that live clip I don't understand... LudwigPastorius Sep 30 #11

That's the Poznan, which was started by a Polish football (soccer) team and adopted by the Manchester highplainsdem Sep 30 #12

Thanks! LudwigPastorius Sep 30 #14

Oh, and that Polish football team thanked Noel and Liam: highplainsdem Sep 30 #13

I love Oasis ....but.... I've always found them to be a bit derivative underpants Sunday #21

The Beatles were accused of being derivative at times, too. highplainsdem Sunday #22

I get that and I agree. The "British Invasion" was basically selling American black music back to white people underpants Sunday #23