# Which band do you like more: Oasis or Radiohead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354 "2009-06-10T17:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/41 "2009-06-10T22:41:44Z")
In the history of rock, Radiohead will have a pretty substantial chapter. Oasis will be a paragraph and a footnote or two. Oasis want to be rockstars, Radiohead want to be artists. Both have succeeded, IMO. I agree with a previous post that Radiohead has made my tastes more open to different music. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/42 "2009-06-10T23:06:15Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > This, too, is flat-out wrong. Speaking anecdotally - the amount of music I enjoy expanded exponentially after I got into Radiohead - their post-OKC noodling introduced me to an entire new sonic palette that included not just electronica, but prog rock, indie rock, and hip hop as well. Good point. Although in a roundabout way you are proving what I MEANT to say. The people I meant (NOT necessarily you **Tanbarkie** ) listen to Radiohead, move on to music like them, and shun the “popular” stuff once it comes out, because they are so caught up in their different sounding “sonic palette”. ---
**Author:** ![mj\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@mj\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mj_2)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/43 "2009-06-10T23:40:49Z")
If you like the first two Oasis albums and then grew tired of all the drama then forget Oasis and go get all the Stereophonics albums you can get your hands on. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/44 "2009-10-22T00:50:36Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > ?? > > What albums even rock more than Definitely Maybe? Oasis, Radiohead, Blur, Coldplay, Keane, Travis, Kasabian, The Verve, et al don’t rock. They “britpop”.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/45 "2009-10-22T01:21:04Z")
Radiohead. Even Pablo Honey is a perfectly serviceable Britpop album. It doesn’t measure up to what came later but even the weakest link in the chain is still fun. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/46 "2009-10-22T01:32:02Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > The people I meant (NOT necessarily you **Tanbarkie** ) listen to Radiohead, move on to music like them, and shun the “popular” stuff once it comes out, because they are so caught up in their different sounding “sonic palette”. And you personally know how many people who did exactly that? ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/47 "2009-10-22T16:38:01Z")
Oasis practically wore their Beatles inspiration on their sleeves. But ironically, as mentioned in this thread, Radiohead practically became the Beatles of my generation because of their vision, talent and artistic ambitions. Radiohead is simply more intellectually engaging, on several levels. Even though I think they have been more uneven in their later efforts, they still release songs that on the level as anything they’ve released prior. They evolve and challenge themselves. In any case, if I were in a “Brit-pop” mood, I would choose Blur over Oasis anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/48 "2009-10-22T20:30:57Z")
Like many others in this thread, I love Oasis, but would pick Radiohead over them any day of the week. It has nothing to do with being fashionable, and everything to do with being a more talented and interesting band. (I still hold that WtSMG is one of the most perfect rock albums ever produced, however) > [@cactus\_waltz](#): > > In any case, if I were in a “Brit-pop” mood, I would choose Blur over Oasis anyhow. I’d choose Muse over them all. But that may just be my man-crush on Matt Bellamy speaking. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/49 "2009-10-22T20:33:38Z")
I would put Radiohead on my list of ten favourite artists but then, when I really think about it I realize it’s Oasis I keep selecting from the CD rack. Oasis it is. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/50 "2009-10-23T06:55:04Z")
They aren’t two bands that I would ever put in the same category. For me, Radiohead has a bunch of really cool unique stand out songs spread out amongst otherwise mediocre or at best atmospheric albums. Oasis has a generally more consistent and listener friendly sound, concentrated mostly in one awesome album, with declining quality in subsequent albums. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/51 "2009-10-23T09:44:37Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Oasis, Radiohead, Blur, Coldplay, Keane, Travis, Kasabian, The Verve, et al don’t rock. They “britpop”.:dubious: If you use some weird definition of rock that doesn’t agree with music reviewers’? I agree that Coldplay doesn’t rock. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/52 "2009-10-23T09:51:55Z")
I’ve been amazed by Radiohead since Pablo Honey. Saw them on the Bends tour, then on the OK Computer one, then Amnesiac, then Hail to the Thief. Two of the gigs (1 and 3 above) were the best live music I’ve ever experienced (the other two sucked). Whereas Oasis - one album of passable anthemic pub rock in my opinion, with almost none of the musical depth of the other band. I don’t find them comparable. It’s not “fashion” to feel this way, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/53 "2009-10-23T12:57:52Z")
I’m a big Radiohead fan and I never saw the appeal of Oasis. Even their most popular songs struck me as soggy and mediocre. When Oasis was new on the scene, the music press liked to compare them to the Beatles, but the Beatles never whined that much. Not even close. ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/54 "2009-10-23T13:40:09Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I’m a big Radiohead fan and I never saw the appeal of Oasis. Even their most popular songs struck me as soggy and mediocre. When Oasis was new on the scene, the music press liked to compare them to the Beatles, but the Beatles never whined that much. Not even close. Which Oasis song would be a good example of this whining? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/55 "2009-10-23T14:23:44Z")
All the ones I heard on the radio during the 1990s. And on top of that was the bitching the Gallagher brothers were always doing in the press: if they weren’t insulting each other, they were trashing other bands. ---
**Author:** ![Dorothea\_Book](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dorothea\_Book](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorothea_Book)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/56 "2009-10-23T14:32:34Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Oasis, Radiohead, Blur, Coldplay, Keane, Travis, Kasabian, The Verve, et al don’t rock. They “britpop”.:dubious: A few additions. The first CD from Doves is sublime (and better than anything Oasis ever did or will do, IMO. The Stone Roses, Massive Attack, Elastica. Radiohead, being so truly experimental and musically serious bring to mind other kinds of bands: The Chameleons, the Smiths, the Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, even Depeche Mode. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/57 "2009-10-24T02:37:56Z")
Oasis could maybe cobble together a decent album in the entirety of their career, and almost all the songs would be from the first two albums + a B-side or two. I’m not sure I’m such a huge Radiohead fan either, although they are many orders above Oasis, and they at least experiment. I like Kid A and Amnesiac a lot. Anyway, here’s two cover versions from Radiohead playing around that are fucking great: [The Smiths: Headmaster Ritual](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtmS2ePSSdU) [Joy Division: Ceremony](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF9xO2Tpwzs&feature=related) (Definitely Joy Division rather than New Order, I feel) I shudder to think of what a mess the Gallaghers would make of those. Cocaine is a terrible drug. ---
**Author:** ![Dorothea\_Book](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dorothea\_Book](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorothea_Book)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/58 "2009-10-24T05:05:35Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > Oasis could maybe cobble together a decent album in the entirety of their career, and almost all the songs would be from the first two albums + a B-side or two. > > I’m not sure I’m such a huge Radiohead fan either, although they are many orders above Oasis, and they at least experiment. I like Kid A and Amnesiac a lot. > > Anyway, here’s two cover versions from Radiohead playing around that are fucking great: > > [The Smiths: Headmaster Ritual](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtmS2ePSSdU) > > [Joy Division: Ceremony](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF9xO2Tpwzs&feature=related) (Definitely Joy Division rather than New Order, I feel) > > I shudder to think of what a mess the Gallaghers would make of those. Cocaine is a terrible drug. Nice links, **Baron**. Indeed hard to imagine Oasis not making anything by these bands not sound like a bad cover of Wonder Wall. But you do not like the glorious “OK Computer”??? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/59 "2009-10-24T05:09:27Z")
I’m not a big fan of either. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/60 "2009-10-24T06:16:47Z")
I was brainwashed some time ago into liking Oasis so I’ll have to go with them. Radiohead just…eh, not my thing, but there is aboslutely nothing sensical about what I like and what I don’t. (Frex: NAS “I Can”? Good. NAS “anything other than ‘I Can’?” Bad.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354.md?page=4)