Your Second Favorite Band Next to the Beachboys

[I. Spaceman]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

[Runaways]

The Misfits, T. Rex, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Broken Social Scene, and yes, Radiohead. and if you don't listen to a band because people in the band say stupid things you shouldn't listen to any band ever. Especially the Beach Boys.

never said they said stupid things.  again, did you see i listed oasis as one of my favorite bands? obviously band members saying stupid things doesn't bother me.  but interpretive dancing to your own song in a music video...oh man...if you do that, then you deserve this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgeT2hzxrQ

they were but so were radiohead, i just think that oasis put out 2 good albums and the rest was ehhhhhhhhh lol
  oasis is extremely over-rated.

So they weren't at the forefront of one of the most significant music scenes of the last thirty years? Are you suggesting that didn't happen?

who contributed more to rock and roll in the 90's? oasis or radiohead?(creatively)

Oasis. Although, to be fair, there would have been no Travis or Coldplay without Radiohead. So they got that.

Oasis will always be remembered as one of the best 90's but radiohead will always be remembered as one of the best groups of all time..not just by me or my peers but by musicians period.
look ----->http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/radiohead-19691231

Good lord, you're starting to sound like an annoying Beatles fan who thinks its necessary to constantly post their greatness.  Its radiohead, they're acclaimed.  Everyone knows.  There's no point to make

[Runaways]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

No one said they were haha, and theyve never tried to be, which is probably why their middle years were so bad.  They've always said we're just a rock in roll band who wrote some classics. But comparing them to three dog night is already laughable

[SMiLE Brian]

Radiohead really take themselves too seriously for my taste.

[I. Spaceman]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

No one said they were haha, and theyve never tried to be, which is probably why their middle years were so bad.  They've always said we're just a rock in roll band who wrote some classics. But comparing them to three dog night is already laughable

Your lack of proper punctuation is laughable. And what the hell is "rock in roll"? "No one said they were haha"? Go bother someone who cares, good luck finding someone.

[Runaways]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

No one said they were haha, and theyve never tried to be, which is probably why their middle years were so bad.  They've always said we're just a rock in roll band who wrote some classics. But comparing them to three dog night is already laughable

Your lack of proper punctuation is laughable. And what the hell is "rock in roll"? "No one said they were haha"? Go bother someone who cares, good luck finding someone.

Sorry chum, typing on an iPad.  It likes to autocorrect things like rock n roll.  But please don't go, I love talking to assholes,.,.,,.,.,,,,!!,!"'??.,,,,,,.I'd love to talk grammar with you, and try to understand that I was laughing at you because you were countering to a point that no one made ,,.,l. I'm sorry I drove you away

[ivy]

Because there really is no substance to their music, which is fine usually but not when it masquerades as being something that does have substance. I find Radiohead to be empty, cold, emotionless, trifling, and silly and all of this is exacerbated by the fact that they take it so seriously.

Ok, well, subjective. I think the opposite. This song screwed with my head for a good 6 months: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvv-LpTBWVk

Also Thom's voice is powerful and unique enough to keep him on lists of top rock vocalists of all time. I love him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmQe_eBvrc

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

They essentially created what is understood to be the Britpop sound. That's about as creative as it gets.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

The Misfits, T. Rex, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Broken Social Scene, and yes, Radiohead. and if you don't listen to a band because people in the band say stupid things you shouldn't listen to any band ever. Especially the Beach Boys.

never said they said stupid things.  again, did you see i listed oasis as one of my favorite bands? obviously band members saying stupid things doesn't bother me.  but interpretive dancing to your own song in a music video...oh man...if you do that, then you deserve this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgeT2hzxrQ

they were but so were radiohead, i just think that oasis put out 2 good albums and the rest was ehhhhhhhhh lol
  oasis is extremely over-rated.

So they weren't at the forefront of one of the most significant music scenes of the last thirty years? Are you suggesting that didn't happen?

who contributed more to rock and roll in the 90's? oasis or radiohead?(creatively)

Oasis. Although, to be fair, there would have been no Travis or Coldplay without Radiohead. So they got that.

Oasis will always be remembered as one of the best 90's but radiohead will always be remembered as one of the best groups of all time..not just by me or my peers but by musicians period.
look ----->http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/radiohead-19691231

The list was compiled by "55 musicians, writers, and industry executives." Even if we are being generous and say that 70% of those 55 were musicians - that accounts for about 39 people. Hardly a major sampling. Rolling Stone is a junk magazine anyway and the fact that Dave Matthews is singing their praises hardly convinces me. Furthermore, they placed 73rd in a list of Best Artists that was compiled by, estimating generously, 39 musicians, only eleven years after the band started releasing music (eight years have passed since this list came out). That definitely does not allow anyone to plausibly conclude that they "will always be remembered as one of the best groups of all time...by musicians period."

[Newguy562]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

No one said they were haha, and theyve never tried to be, which is probably why their middle years were so bad.  They've always said we're just a rock in roll band who wrote some classics. But comparing them to three dog night is already laughable

you totally destroyed him/her.

Your lack of proper punctuation is laughable. And what the hell is "rock in roll"? "No one said they were haha"? Go bother someone who cares, good luck finding someone.

[Newguy562]

Because there really is no substance to their music, which is fine usually but not when it masquerades as being something that does have substance. I find Radiohead to be empty, cold, emotionless, trifling, and silly and all of this is exacerbated by the fact that they take it so seriously.

Ok, well, subjective. I think the opposite. This song screwed with my head for a good 6 months: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvv-LpTBWVk

Also Thom's voice is powerful and unique enough to keep him on lists of top rock vocalists of all time. I love him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmQe_eBvrc

great song choices check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkeVkYq8Es

[Alex]

The Misfits, T. Rex, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Broken Social Scene, and yes, Radiohead. and if you don't listen to a band because people in the band say stupid things you shouldn't listen to any band ever. Especially the Beach Boys.

never said they said stupid things.  again, did you see i listed oasis as one of my favorite bands? obviously band members saying stupid things doesn't bother me.  but interpretive dancing to your own song in a music video...oh man...if you do that, then you deserve this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgeT2hzxrQ

oasis is extremely over-rated.

not really, i think they've earned the disregard they've gotten over the years.  albums 3-5 are baaaaad...BAAAAAAD.  but albums 1 and 2 are full on rock n roll pop classics. 

radiohead 4 albums are classic...3 well received by critics and 1 albums that is considered trash by some(mostly radiohead fans) which is their debut.

Which is weird, because their debut is my favorite one by them.

[wavedancer]

               Queen............ in my view they didn't release one poor track in thier whole career.

[Alex]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

They essentially created what is understood to be the Britpop sound. That's about as creative as it gets.

I don't mind the occasional Britpop. But honestly, with the exception of Oasis, it seems like the rest of Britpop was only a footnote over here in the States. I can't speak for mid-90s hipsters (or whatever the equivalent was at that time), but in small-town-redneck-land when I was a kid the big non-C&W musical things circa '94-'96 seemed to be Hootie and the Blowfish, Alanis Morrissete, Dave Matthews, Deep Blue Something, the Cranberries, etc. The only Blur song to really get any airplay where I'm from is "Song 2". And as sad as this sounds, I was aware of the Gorillaz before I'd even heard of Blur.

[Newguy562]

The Misfits, T. Rex, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Broken Social Scene, and yes, Radiohead. and if you don't listen to a band because people in the band say stupid things you shouldn't listen to any band ever. Especially the Beach Boys.

never said they said stupid things.  again, did you see i listed oasis as one of my favorite bands? obviously band members saying stupid things doesn't bother me.  but interpretive dancing to your own song in a music video...oh man...if you do that, then you deserve this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgeT2hzxrQ

oasis is extremely over-rated.

not really, i think they've earned the disregard they've gotten over the years.  albums 3-5 are baaaaad...BAAAAAAD.  but albums 1 and 2 are full on rock n roll pop classics. 

radiohead 4 albums are classic...3 well received by critics and 1 albums that is considered trash by some(mostly radiohead fans) which is their debut.

Which is weird, because their debut is my favorite one by them.

their first album is still a great effort ..the reason why they disregard it is ..well if you compare it to anything else they released you'll understand why.

[Alex]

The Misfits, T. Rex, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Broken Social Scene, and yes, Radiohead. and if you don't listen to a band because people in the band say stupid things you shouldn't listen to any band ever. Especially the Beach Boys.

never said they said stupid things.  again, did you see i listed oasis as one of my favorite bands? obviously band members saying stupid things doesn't bother me.  but interpretive dancing to your own song in a music video...oh man...if you do that, then you deserve this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgeT2hzxrQ

oasis is extremely over-rated.

not really, i think they've earned the disregard they've gotten over the years.  albums 3-5 are baaaaad...BAAAAAAD.  but albums 1 and 2 are full on rock n roll pop classics. 

radiohead 4 albums are classic...3 well received by critics and 1 albums that is considered trash by some(mostly radiohead fans) which is their debut.

Which is weird, because their debut is my favorite one by them.

their first album is still a great effort ..the reason why they disregard it is ..well if you compare it to anything else they released you'll understand why.

RH should have been marketed as a singles act rather than an album act. Too much inconsistency. I don't care how "experimental" they get. The songwriting quality just isn't there on a lot of their post-Bends stuff. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Ripcord" get me pumped up, get my fingers tapping, get me singing along..."15 Step" gets me rolling my eyes and hitting the skip button.

[Bedroom Tapes]

Goes pretty much like this:  Beatles, Brian Wilson, Queen, The Turtles, The Monkees, Michael Nesmith (solo), The Who, George Harrison, Lovin' Spoonful, The Doors, The Band, Grateful Dead, etc. etc.

[Newguy562]

The Misfits, T. Rex, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Broken Social Scene, and yes, Radiohead. and if you don't listen to a band because people in the band say stupid things you shouldn't listen to any band ever. Especially the Beach Boys.

never said they said stupid things.  again, did you see i listed oasis as one of my favorite bands? obviously band members saying stupid things doesn't bother me.  but interpretive dancing to your own song in a music video...oh man...if you do that, then you deserve this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgeT2hzxrQ

oasis is extremely over-rated.

not really, i think they've earned the disregard they've gotten over the years.  albums 3-5 are baaaaad...BAAAAAAD.  but albums 1 and 2 are full on rock n roll pop classics. 

radiohead 4 albums are classic...3 well received by critics and 1 albums that is considered trash by some(mostly radiohead fans) which is their debut.

Which is weird, because their debut is my favorite one by them.

their first album is still a great effort ..the reason why they disregard it is ..well if you compare it to anything else they released you'll understand why.

RH should have been marketed as a singles act rather than an album act. Too much inconsistency. I don't care how "experimental" they get. The songwriting quality just isn't there on a lot of their post-Bends stuff. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" and "Ripcord" get me pumped up, get my fingers tapping, get me singing along..."15 Step" gets me rolling my eyes and hitting the skip button.

how about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkeVkYq8Es
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKBUJ0z0Mk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJ_EFt_gqU

[Aegir]

15 Step is one of my favorite songs by them. I think it's really catchy!

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Speaking of Radiohead, I am a big fan. Especially love Kid A and Amnesiac. As for my second favorite band behind the Beach Boys, it is Grandaddy. The lyrics, melodies and production of Jason Lytle is closest to the magic of Friends/Wild Honey/Love You type Beach Boys IMO.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Oasis was absolutely the face of britpop in the 90s.  Blur, suede, the verve, pulp nor supergrass were as big in the mid 90s.   And three dog definitely didn't have the cultural impact in the states that oasis had in England

They were at the popular forefront. Not the creative forefront, by a long shot.

They essentially created what is understood to be the Britpop sound. That's about as creative as it gets.

I don't mind the occasional Britpop. But honestly, with the exception of Oasis, it seems like the rest of Britpop was only a footnote over here in the States. I can't speak for mid-90s hipsters (or whatever the equivalent was at that time), but in small-town-redneck-land when I was a kid the big non-C&W musical things circa '94-'96 seemed to be Hootie and the Blowfish, Alanis Morrissete, Dave Matthews, Deep Blue Something, the Cranberries, etc. The only Blur song to really get any airplay where I'm from is "Song 2". And as sad as this sounds, I was aware of the Gorillaz before I'd even heard of Blur.

I think that's pretty much true although there were things that had a degree of success. Blur was fairly successful with things other than Song 2. I remember Country House being fairly popular. Common People by Pulp was a pretty big hit overeseas too. Elastica were very popular. The Verve's Urban Hymns album was quite popular too, particular its lead-off single Bittersweet Symphony. But you're right, for the most part, Britpop was overlooked and it makes sense since Britpop was very much a reaction against American culture. But nevertheless, whether or not something is popular in the United States doesn't really mean much to me. Britpop is still a major movement.

[Myk Luhv]

If my last.fm plays are any indication, it seems after The Beach Boys comes Randy Newman. I think I would be okay with that, 12 Songs to Good Old Boys is as classic a run as it gets!

[Peter Reum]

Little Feat is my favorite group....Brian Wilson is my favorite musician. The Beach Boys' material through KTSA is always fun to hear, although albums were spotty at times. The material up through Love You is great...there are a number of tunes on post Love You albums that are very enjoyable as well.

[Bill Ed]

My second favorite group, behind the Beach Boys, is the Bee Gees.

I could be wrong but I think nobody has mentioned them in this thread. That's a little hard for me to understand given their similarity to the Beach Boys. (Great melodies, great harmonies, three brothers who didn't always get along, an image problem that deafened people to the music, . . . )

[jimmy1949]

My second favorite group, behind the Beach Boys, is the Bee Gees.

I could be wrong but I think nobody has mentioned them in this thread. That's a little hard for me to understand given their similarity to the Beach Boys. (Great melodies, great harmonies, three brothers who didn't always get along, an image problem that deafened people to the music, . . . )

You are so right my friend..You totally read my mind. People forget about all the great records they made before SNF especially the first half dozen or so. I also enjoy "Life In A Tin Can" and "Mr Natural". A blend only blood could produce. A lot a drama and break-ups as well as tragedy.