Battle Of the UK's Mega Bands: OASIS VS COLDPLAY

LOLOLOL oh my god. I don't know if I even want to go here.

coldplay doesn't have a full album as good as "definitely maybe" but they also haven't done hundreds of terrible albums in a row, so they win.

You know what, honestly? I don't even know if I can vote between them. They deserve each other. I mean I don't hate them, see, but...yeah this was pretty much a brilliant idea for a thread, imo. Two bands with rare streaks of greatness who are nevertheless pretty trivial in the end.

oh man

There are no members of Coldplay that I would like to punch in the face, so they get my vote.

yeh zackly chris martin's more the knee-to-groin type i reckon

who cares who's likable, when i turn the radio on i don't give a fuck. oasis has released some really outstanding stuff and some dross, i'm not familiar with coldplay but from what i've heard it's all MORish. for me these kinds of TS are about who was better at their peak and who i would listen to if i had the choice versus a mathematical average of their hits and misses.

aged 14 in 1995- this is relevant.

who cares who's likable, when i turn the radio on i don't give a fuck. oasis has released some really outstanding stuff and some dross, i'm not familiar with coldplay but from what i've heard it's all MORish. for me these kinds of TS are about who was better at their peak and who i would listen to if i had the choice versus a mathematical average of their hits and misses.

Yeah, Coldplay have always been boring apart from maybe 1 good song "yellow". Oasis had a classic 1st album and some decent songs on the next couple before falling off my radar. Coldplay annoy me more and Chris Martin annoys me more than noel liam ever did.
However it comes down to the fact that despite oasis being shit now Oasis made Definitely Maybe and Coldplay are boring shit who have always been crap.

The poll isn't about personalities, it's purely about which bands music you prefer or dislike least.

Yellow is so not Coldplay's best song.

But yeah, 16 in 1995 = don't give a fuck in 2009.

well it's the only one i liked

Both awful but oasis better by a country mile.

Holy fuck I cannot believe I am actually voting for Oasis in a poll, but I am.

Thought long and hard then voted Sug Ban.

Isn't there a cheat that lets you vote for Kula Shaker?

I also hold Yellow almost entirely responsible for the virtual elimination of rhythmic interest from British guitar pop for several years in favour of plodding midtempo 4/4 chords and that might actually be worse than any of the appalling records that Oasis and their imitators churned out.

i like yellow though! sometimes a song can only be responsible for itself in this lonely world, man.

and, even though i'm all for oasis in this, coldplay wannabe bands >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> oasis wannabe bands

I like a reasonable bit of Coldplay's output but "Yellow" is a big wet lettuce of a song. On the other hand, at least it's not Snow Patrol.

oasis in a mfkn heartbeat.

"virtual elimination of rhythmic interest from British guitar pop for several years in favour of plodding midtempo 4/4 chords"

people have blamed oasis for this to be fair. but ver play were still much worse.

uh, don't ask me to name any coldplay imitators though.

like Keane?

Snow Patrol?

is it it just accepted that any band that makes it on to the radio twice a day is a heap of shit at this stage?

snow patrol, oasis, coldplay- not exactly the apotheosis of popular culture but ffs competent guitar bands are not the worst evil in musc either.

radiohead, frinstance

It's the new Rockism, dude.

Imagine you're stuck in a car that's being driven by some guy you barely know, and he's slowly cruising by a movie theater with a long line waiting outside. The car windows are down, and the driver is blasting Oasis/Coldplay. You're in the passenger side, and since everyone standing there can mainly just see you in the car, you become sort of the representative of this car and the music blasting out of it. Which would be the lesser of two evils, Oasis or Coldplay?

oasis stans vs radiohead stans vs coldplay stans ugh now there's a poll

depends on the oasis track xposts

By the way, this situation happened to me last year when I ended up living with a moron in Boulder. He rolled down the windows and he blasted Kottonmouth Kings as random people at the gas station flipped us off.

Do Coldplay have stans?

Snow Patrol's first two albums are fucking wicked little indie record with funny songs and awesome guitar sounds; their debut was produced by Jamie Watson who engineered all Long Fin Killie's record, ffs, and had a song called Absolute Gravity on it which had a big groove and chunky guitar and some scratching on and was great, great FUN, and then their second album had a really, really beautiful song called An Olive Grove Facing The Sea on it, and a really heart-rending lone trumpet solo, and is awesome, and even the third album isn't actually that bad if you ignore Run, it's just the awful fucking target-market mush that came afterwards that's sinful. Die die die Jacknife Lee.

I knew a big Coldplay stan in high school, before the one with Clocks on it came out. So yeah, I guess they have stans, or they once did.

Oasis

I never thought I'd see the day Tom D voted Oasis in a poll

"Run" is alright, as a chorus. I like the weird backward drum noise on it, it's kind of unexpected. It's that lying down in the road song that sounds like the equivalent of a hot chocolate advert about cuddles for frustrated spinsters.

i admit that coldplay stans might be disaffected radiohead stans that couldn't take the heat of no mainstream radio play- therefore they may be harder to categorize

Oasis by a hair.

Darragh - think of them as the Didier Zokora of rock. Occasionally competent, more often than not useless and cackhanded and in the way.

One of the best lines I read about Snore Patrol* is that they know how to write a huge festival friendly anthemic ballad in the way other people know how to build a wall, which is pretty apt.

*This DJ Martian gem is more than enough to justify their existence.

coldplay by a long way, wtf dudes

I think Snore Patrol have sold more records in the UK than both Oasis and Coldplay in the last five or so years but can anyone confirm that?

who, matt? all of them or a particular band. seems harsh to label a group 'competent' and then slap them with a fuckin zokora comparison

I can see them outselling Oasis but not Coldplay.

^ was gonna say

I don't know guys, I'm wiki-ing for "Snore Patrol" and not coming up with anything.

Oasis had some good-to-great songs for about two years. Coldplay has none. Oasis wins.

shakey motm

If I think of the worst records by either band, in Coldplay's case it's "Fix You", which is horrible turgid slop. In Oasis' case though, it's either "wonderwall", "all around the world", or especially "don't look back in anger", well they are just so much worse....

Those are all absolutely fantastic songs, and among the best music of the past 20 years.

Geir, I know it's pointless saying this to you, but Definitely Maybe is the Oasis masterpiece, not Morning Glory, and certainly not Standing.. (the album I jumped off the Oasis bus)

Coldplay have not released any good or great albums.
Ballads generally suck.

Truthbomb.

also liam's annoying voice is the BEST thing about oasis, not the worst thing.

geir you don't even like the shit you like the right way

was
his voice is shot now (still preferable to chris martin's though)

oasis can occasionally get a little glammy and loud and obnoxious, coldplay reminds me of the music they pipe into cineplexes during the pre-credits slideshow of trivia questions and pepsi ads.

Ballads generally suck.

This is seriously wrong. Oasis have always been at their best when turning off those annoying guitar amps, sung instead of scream, and trying to sound more like Beatles than Sex Pistols.

oasis can occasionally get a little glammy and loud and obnoxious

But they are much better when they are not.

Liam's voice is one of the WORST things about Oasis ... just one of many reasons why "Don't Look Back In Anger" is Oasis' best single.

On the 1st album Liam's voice was great.

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just one of many reasons why "Don't Look Back In Anger" is Oasis' best single.

dont tell pashmina that.

Oasis, for their brilliant initial run of singles/b-sides: Supersonic-Whatever.

standing on the shoulders of giants? seriously?

not even as good as be here now, imo

I'd agree

Be Here Now is still better than every album that came after it.

of the ones that i even listened to , yeah.

early oasistans

better than an oasisgeir i suppose

Hmm. Neither band means anything to me now but I'll go with Oasis because from those first two LPs (and the related singles) I could find at least one album's worth of really great material whereas Coldplay have maybe three likeable songs at best.

Disagree with Geir that the second Oasis album is their classic but I do think the drop in quality from DM has been overstated by some (particularly Noel himself) - both are flawed records with flashes of brilliance.

Acquiesce is a far far far better song than Chris Martin could even write in his dreams.

The early Oasis b-sides are better than anything Coldplay could muster.

listening to wibbling rivalry now...so awesome

"Shut the feck up - this lot thinks it's rock n' roll to get thrown off a ferry like a buncha scouse shleppers"

I actually own that wibbling rivalry 7". Dont suppose it's worth anything?

standing on the shoulders of giants? seriously?

By far their most underrated album. Oasis fans hate it because it contains too many ballads, but that is exactly why I love it, because 90 per cent of the Oasis songs I love are big anthemic ballads.

which are by far their worst songs

infact ballads tend to be the worst thing by any act. Especially big anthemic rock ballads.

Obviously not. Anthemic ballads is one of the best kind of songs that has ever existed. Nothing quite like huge singalong qualities. That is the kind of songs that survive because they can be sung by school classes, choirs etc. Exactly the kind of song the world needs much more of.

And that is exactly why Coldplay are even better than Oasis too.

I mean, just like "Yesterday" and "Michell" and "Hey Jude" and "Let It Be" have those obvious qualities.

oasis had real simple singsong melodies that would be way more appropriate for a choir IMO

who knew a Coldplay v Oasis thread could yield such dumb opinions

Geir do you ever go to concerts to join in with these great anthemic songs everyone can sing along to?

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Discouting the most recent album because it's the only one I've never been forced to listen to and therefore haven't listened to, Coldplay are practically the opposite of anthemic. They're bland, forgettable, and unemotive. I can't really imagine any group of people anywhere other than a Coldplay concert having a singalong to any of their songs. When I try to, it bores and depresses me. Just like Coldplay does.

Singalong is a good thing. Obviously you guys judge music from the wrong criteria. Singalong is my number one, which is why Coldplay are great (and rap sucks)

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Geir do you ever go to concerts to join in with these great anthemic songs everyone can sing along to?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:46

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Singalong is a good thing. Obviously you guys judge music from the wrong criteria. Singalong is my number one, which is why Coldplay are great (and rap sucks)

Singalong music is fine by me but the fact is there are thousands of songs I'd rather sing along to than anything by Coldplay.

obviously you guys judge music by the wrong criteria- first time i've ever really 'got' the geir fuss.

Geirbot alert, A+ trolling.

Is he really trolling since he does genuinely believe in what he's saying?

Aye, we've had this discussion before. Geir's not a troll in the way I understand the word. He's just fucking insane.

Maybe not trolling, but could certainly have been written by a robot convinced of the melodic superiority of Coldplay.

is there any other way?