# Which band do you like more: Oasis or Radiohead?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![PrettyVacant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/49beb7/32.png) [@PrettyVacant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrettyVacant)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/61 "2009-10-24T07:46:07Z")

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I think Noel Gallagher was hugely derivative in the early days – hardly an idea of his own, but he has developed his own niche, at least to some extent. I doubt he’d ever claim to be ambitious or ground-breaking, it’s guitar-based rawk and you know what you’ll get when you buy one of his CD’s.

Radiohead seem just about the opposite, kind of what R.E.M. wanted to be. Almost post-grad rather than a college band, and actually in a pretty unpretentious way: Most def interesting and ambitious.

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-band-do-you-like-more-oasis-or-radiohead/499354/62 "2009-10-24T09:32:26Z")

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Well, OK, I’ve been avoiding this thread because I knew I wouldn’t be able to contain the snark within. But I can’t keep holding it back …

I can’t stand Oasis. To me, and, mind, this is personal taste, they are one of the most boring and unoriginal “rock” bands that ever hit the big - time. And, yes, I agree with the “whiny” comment, too. I cannot, for the life of me, explain their popularity.

So, in a comparison test, just about anybody beats them. I’d rather listen to, say, Lincoln Park on a bad day (and that is saying something …) rather than submit to more recycling of Beatles/Rolling Stones licks by the Gallagher brothers.

Radiohead? Well, from a strictly musical point of view, I admire their creativity and their “think outside the box” attitude. But I have a hard time listening to most of their stuff, too. Not all, of course, they have a couple songs that I really like ("This is what you get, when you meeesss with us … " :)), but on the whole they’re not really my cup of tea.

I guess I could get on board with the Blur write - in vote.

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