Greatest Band Of The 90's

10. The Flaming Lips
09. Belle and Sebastian
08. Suede
07. The Happy Mondays
06. Radiohead
05. Wilco
04. The Stone Roses
03. R.E.M.
02. The Verve
01. Oasis

If a band is being judged and understood within the limits of the actual music and songwriting strength, which should obviously be the standards when judging a band, then Oasis is clearly of superlative rank in the history of pop music.

Circumscribed with the 90's itself, there was no songwriter that held the power of song the way Noel Gallagher did. There was no singer that held the vocal power of Liam Gallagher.

There was no band that could be considered as "timeless" in the 90's as Oasis. The amount of good to great songs that lie in Oasis's 90's output is enormous to say the least, so enormous, that some of their good songs seem average compared to their best, and those songs opined as "average" are in most cases, the A-sides of all the lesser bands in the 90's.

How do you define music in the 90's to an alien that flew down to earth and wanted to know about current modes of music? You play "What's the Story Morning Glory" with its massive wall-of-sound guitar space backing vocals so raw yet so mellifluous.

You then go and play "Live Forever" to inculcate the alien with Oasis's ease at defining the 90's with anthemic anodyne, and these are just two great songs within 20-30 more great songs in the Oasis 90's catalogue, and then there are their B-Sides.

What Oasis pass off as "B-sides" would be the best songs for other bands struggling to broach the pop market medium. That a song like "The Masterplan" is a B-side is obfuscating.

That songs like "Underneath the Sky" and "Let's all Make Believe" are left off official albums is astonishing until you're reminded of how great their album songs are too.

Oasis are the most justified band to release a B-Sides record in this history of pop music. Many an Oasis fan would become converted by their B-side album, and all the subsequent B-sides released on new singles.

When Oasis is considered in a typical setting, what is usually covered most is drug interests and in-band fighting which has nothing to do with the music and quality of songwriting.

These accidents while puerily interesting in the moment, will fade away in the aging of a band, and any form of creativity in general. When these "accidents" fade, all that will be left is the band's creative output, and when new generations uncover this desiderate goldmine of songs, Oasis will be fully considered as one of the hallmark bands in this history of pop music.

If the best band of the 90's is to be solely considered by how many great songs are in their repertoire, then Oasis is clearly the greatest band of the 90's.

Source: www.old-wizard.com