Could The Oasis Reunion SAVE Rock and Roll? 

I’m sure it is, but not been recognised maybe, there hasn’t been any band that’s had the impact of oasis since 1994, some have come close but they’re unique in that way.

You’re right there’s so many great bands out there who are still selling out shows. Since Streaming became the dominant way of listening to music there’s zero barriers to entry to get your music out there but it’s harder to make money due to apps like Spotify pay artists next to nothing per stream.

@@MW-dd8vk agreed. Bands like oasis, (and it’s not exclusive to them) are a reset to the current music scene as regards indie rock etc. it depends on peoples personal taste and stance and take on it all, but for we’re a reset albeit in a different way back in the mid 90s, and they’re about to be that again. I think that’s a good thing . I remember years ago a 90s indie musician said that secedes come and go and their default setting is pop music, then that dies and other things take over, again and on an on it goes, she was so right, we’re potentially looking at that happening again but in the favour of indie rock etc as opposed to pop and the hangover of manufactured pop and xfactor etc (which granted died a few yrs ago) but the music industry needs some kind of revival . The amount of interest for the new oasis etc, is refreshing (again) , and also makes me giggle that other bands should have sorted this years ago, and did to some degree, but we need it on a new scale. Once again great bands like oasis will start that, the stone roses could have in 2016, but never came up with anything after the great gigs they did. I just hope oasis will take it further than the 2025 gigs. And then it will all fall back into place for me, at least in the UK. I just have the feeling it’s a start of a new era, and it’s not totally down to oasis, but this is the start of it.

Arctic Monkeys for their first 2 albums then they sold out!

@@Damon759 Arctic monkeys are great I love em, I wouldn’t say they sold out as such, but yes the first 2 albums were the closest since oasis. I like the third album, the last 2 were a different direction and still good, but a bit meh. And certainly weren’t massively successful commercially. To me a monkeys are the best band we’ve produced since oasis definitely.

Mmmm as a musician I’d like to make music I like

The only problem is that the rock musicians are not earning as much money as they should

@@arkhamguard6479 I wish they could. I’m not sure if people don’t know where to find new rock music or they just simply aren’t interested.

@@perry4777 I think people are just too lazy to discover new music

@@arkhamguard6479 I think you are 100 percent right

They don't want a bunch of fellas on drugs drunk on a Tuesday

Well said people don't get it!!! I think that's why many bands became independent and against establishmenr it matters how educated you are in the music and business you need to see where it stands now it's not anywhere and it being anywhere is a issue blame record labels. Most popular music right now is terrible!!

Once Pop Idol started I thought that would be the end for UK rock bands but then there was the Darkness in 2003 followed by Franz Ferdinand, the Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian. It seemed like the last hurrah for rock music because after that it was just 'r and b', hip hop and pop music dominated the charts leaving only legacy bands and unsigned bands to keep on making rock music. But the legacy bands are getting older even Kasabian the youngest of them. These bands are playing the Radio 2 Weekend rather than the Radio 1 Weekend.

Yes there were still great rock bands, but the genre’s popularity (success in the charts) declined steadily from 1972 👍

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@@MusicMongooseidk about judging success by the charts. Rock has always been live music, after 72 you still had cultural phenomena like GnR, Nirvana and Oasis who could sell a stadium out on any day of the week. The people who charted over these bands could not do that, I’d go as far to say that only Taylor Swift could rival/beat Oasis today (even if they didn’t break up) because of how culturally embedded they are into the live music scene.

​@@MusicMongooseThe disco era was the first "rock is dead" moment

There was British rock in the 80s but it was more melloŵ than in the 70s. Bands such as Spandau Ballet, the Style Council, Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Big Country, the Cure and the Smiths dominated the charts. Punk, prog and metal went out of fashion. The Clash and the Stranglers changed musical direction. Rock bands experimented with jazz, reggae and Celtic folk and mixed it with rock. Then in the 90s there was Britpop which was a fusion of pop and punk rock music.

Yeah people don't get it I'm doing rock and I'm so passionate I will send my music in but it's no guaranteed!!! This is my life what I'm good at!!! the peoel in the industry don't want it!!! Around so it's not streamed also the music is a hassle to big record companies!!!!

Back in the 70s and 80s the record companies were more bothered about what would sell records. As long as the bands had talent and didn't sound exactly like anyone else they stood a chance of getting a record deal. Now they have no chance. It really is a dictatorship as there are only two major record labels now as the others were bought up.

I did have a line in the original video after mentioning Coldplay which was 'And you can't even call them rock, can you?' but I decided to cut it. They are officially classed as a rock band and the single that went to number 1 with BTS was pop rock.

Oasis neither.

​​@@MusicMongooseI call them soft rock. Soft rock has always existed. In the 70s there were America and Fleetwood Mac.

Thats a valid point, but we're living in a vastly different time. In the 50s/60s and the 70s/80s, audiences had very little to choose from and were given whatever the labels and mainstream press deigned suitable. Music is now MASSIVELY democratized and the factors that helped rock become significant in the past are no longer factors that influence people. People are stupider now. They need instant gratification. Through degenerate rap and social media culture, they've become obsessed with bragging about money and violence and sex. We'll never see a Pink Floyd or David Bowie again because people just dont have the patience or capacity to process it when they can listen to a Jay Z or a Nicki Minaj and get an instant hit of dopamine that has been manufactured to appeal to base instincts.

Yeah but it has a come back right around!!!! You seem like you know your stuff but great music came out of the post era disco!

​@@_boracic_atreus_23 people are programmed NPC brain rot from the media!!!

​​@@_boracic_atreus_23There were more record labels in the 70s to the 90s. Now they have been bought up by huge parent companies The 80s and early 90s hip hop wasn't too bad compared with now.

Record labels and who they choose killed it

New bands…. New music.

There's something pop about Oasis as well as rock but the pop groups that inspired them would be classed as rock now.

Rock n roll has been derivative from day 1. Idk if oasis speaks to you but I know for a fact they are a voice for so a lot of people. Name another band from the past 30 years that fits into rock n roll like they do. And no metal isn't rock n roll

Definitely the sound of youthful rebellion I don't understand what u mean

@@alexkidnotlive If you look at what music is popular with young people currently it isn’t Rock music and it really hasn’t been since the early 00s. The way the youth express themselves through music is constantly in flux. Before rock it was jazz, now it’s hip hop and electronic music, and in the future it’ll be something else that probably hasn’t been invented yet.

​@@AaronAnayafor sure but, a lot of young people are completely rejecting what's mainstream. There's still loads of hype and excitement about rock n roll and a lot of people still feel that relation to rebellion and rejecting social norms. Hence avoiding mainstream music. The SCENE is still alive, its just not mainstream anymore.

They have a unique image which is northern working class laddishness that most northern working class men grow out of by their 30s. But their music is a mixture of the Beatles, Slade and the Clash.

Right, Oasis is not rock, it´s a ballad band.

The Kaiser Chiefs too. Someone called them the Pfizer Chiefs. It's only Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Morrissey who seem to be anti Establishment these days. Both the Manic Street Preachers and Oasis are non woke.

Wesley Willis

I also skipped Folk Rock, Glam Rock, Soft Rock and Garage Rock among others in the interest of time! I do talk about post-punk towards the end of the video. Plus, this is a video about rock in the mainstream - the very thing punk challenges! (although of course Punk did become mainstream anyway) 😉

Thanks 🙏

I noticed when bands such as Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Oasis are booked to play stadiums tickets get sold out. But so do Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. Morrissey was right when he sung about music being played in discos says nothing to him about his life in the song Panic but you have to search for the deeper meanings to most rock songs.

Glad to see them mentioned. Should be way more well known.

Yeah, the reason young people used to buy guitars and form bands was because that was the easiest way for them to express themselves through music. The rise of home computers means that’s just no longer the case.

@@AaronAnaya It's sad because they can take the easy way out and not practice on an instrument and have actual talent to be proud of. I'm older but glad I play guitar and bass. It gives me a feeling of worth yet I feel like I'm part of a dying breed

"Rock is Dead " started in the 60''s . People are stupid.

Dying? We had Nirvana, Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Chillies, Stone Temple Pilots, Oasis, Soundgarden, Radiohead, Alice In Chains

@@darrenthomas7402 yeah and which bands are we still talking about 30 years later? No rock bands have made the same impact since then.

​@@darrenthomas7402Blur, REM, Pulp and the Manic Street Preachers as well.

Interesting perspective! I think you could argue that people actually want that attitude in the reunion shows… as it reminds them of the band’s attitude in the 90s. Plus it’s worked for him so far in his solo career! Noel praised Liam’s voice in an interview recently something along the lines of ‘Liam’s voice is like 10 shots of tequila on a Friday night, mine is like half a Guiness on a Tuesday’ 🤣

The Beatles were "all upper class"... That would be news to the working class hero..

I mentioned them in this video. I've also made an entire video about them too! You can find it on my channel :)

Why do anything Richie? Why do anything?

Thier not indie rock

They're not indie rock; they're not rock n roll; they're britpop / alt rock.

I love DMA's - saw them live in 2023!

@@MusicMongoose great aren’t they?

How? Explain

Clearly didn't watch the video then as this is pretty much the exact conclusion I come to... Thanks for the comment though.

They’re*

@@MusicMongoose thank you

​@@MusicMongooseI mean they're almost a 20 years old band lol

My guy band camp exist

Oasis, Blur, Pulp are Gen Z's classic rock / dad rock lol

Great band

Yeah first really good band in a long time

So what are they then

@@freesbi a pop ballad band with electric guitars. I love Oasis, but they are not rock that's all. Guns and Roses, Metallica, Soundgarden, Ramones, those are real rock bands.

@@Matyasmon can I ask what qualifies as a ‘real’ rock band to you ?

@@freesbi "to me"? Rock comes from blues, it needs high tempos, syncopation, it needs anger, energy.. Oasis tunes lack of all of these. I think their first album is quite rnr, but from then on they were just a pop ballad band.

@@Matyasmon If we’re going off your metric then I’d argue that their second and third album have that anger and energy you’re on about but whatever you say. Just curious as to what other bands people typically class as rock that you don’t

I bet Starmer has a no listen list for his MPs to adhere to.