• Top 10 Most Important Bands Since Oasis

  

  Written by Zeromage 100 Comments
  Last Updated:: July 22, 2009

  If hasn’t be objectively and empirically proved already by Old-Wizard, then we will just categorically state right now that Oasis is the greatest band of all time. Any argument against this claim has been refuted by the Old-Wizard staff and our recent neophytes. Our position is also held by the post-Oasis bands that have made landmark albums after them. Oasis’s influence on these bands is undoubted if not outright expressed in interviews. In this list we will go through these bands and list them as the most important bands since Oasis. If Oasis was the most important band of all time, then certainly the most important bands after them would logically have to be influenced by them. This list will define the most important ones though in a very definite order of importance.

  10. Sam Roberts Band

  Sam Roberts is Canada’s answer to Oasis. It wasn’t their first album that established them with the power of Oasis (although their 1st album certainly had quality songs on it). It was their 2nd album “Chemical City”, specifically the first song off the album in the name of “The Gate” that took the Oasis sound and gave it a Canadian Rustic aesthetic to it. It’s as if a bunch of lumberjacks were listening to Oasis for 5 years and then started a band. It’s hard to think of a band that comes across as earnestly as Sam Roberts. Sam Roberts’ lyrics are as heart on sleeve as they come without ever falling into banality. Sam Roberts passion is unlimited. All their songs are on a quest for infinite spirituality and their sound is as huge as their quest sounds. One listen to Chemical City and you will understand the importance of this band.

  9. The Space Monkeys

  The Space Monkeys flew under the radar in the late 90’s influenced by a ton of music but their Manchurian roots were undeniable. Much like Kasabian, they took the pulse of Oasis and quickened it with acid house. Their first track off their debut album “The Daddy of Them All” in the name of “Acid House Killed Rock n Roll” is a raucous speed drenched song with Richard McNevin-Duff singing with more vitriol than Liam Gallagher at times. This song setup the rest of the album full of great songwriting across the board and factory-records-beats behind all the great melodies. Equally Oasis, The Roses, and The Happy Mondays; The Space Monkeys never got the recognition they deserved, but their debut album is of great importance. It will be rediscovered some day by a generation of kids looking to find bands that mean more to them than Oasis. They may find it in a band like The Space Monkeys.

  8. The Strokes

  The Strokes were a maelstrom for rock music when they released their first album “Is this It”, more specifically their first single “The Modern Age”. The last time a song was this hypnotic was Oasis’s “Columbia”. This song grooved with the best rock music ever released. It was hard and slow at the same time. Lead Singer Julian Casablanca crooned like a Jersey singer from the 50’s. The sound of the album was aesthetically on the level of Oasis’s “Definitely Maybe“. When a band captures this spirit it shows a direct signification for being timeless. The rest of the album followed suit with even stronger singles like Last Night and Hard to Explain. If you were in college when The Strokes came out, it would mean your memories of that time would always be tied to this album, and this is just their first album. They would continue the quality of their first album with “Room on Fire“ and more specifically “Under Control“; finally a song that dudes could think about girls to without feeling so fucking gay. The album “First Impressions of Earth” transformed The Strokes into an even further musical powerhouse showing a technical musicality that surpassed every band on this list. The Strokes will be remembered for some time to come. They have yet to release a bad album and is unlikely they will in the future.

  7. Travis

  With the release of “All I wanna do is rock”, it was pretty evident for the time being who was going to have filled the shoes of Oasis. This song was sung by Fran Healy with the exaggerated snarl of Liam Gallagher. One wonders how much Liam Gallagher must have wished Noel wrote this song for him. It wasn’t just their first album though they gave Travis their importance. It most importantly came from their 2nd album “The Man Who” which was filled with some of the best singles of 1999. “Writing Reach You” was a ballad that you could listen to without feeling sick. Their was a purgatorial sense of tragedy to the song and the chorus was catchy, but in a very curious way. It wasn’t predictable, but incredibly satisfying to listen to. Certainly having Nigel Godrich behind the boards on this album helped with the amount of great songs on this album. Travis continued to consistently make good to great albums all in the footsteps of the great Oasis.

  6. Idlewild

  Idlewild has the production pomp of Oasis but took the sometimes effortless stream-of-conscious lyric writing of Noel Gallagher and brought it into an caustic critique of modernity that was neither political nor cultural, but much more metaphysical. Attacks on self-identity, post-modernism, and thinking in general were enveloped by stellar musicianship that was abrasive and sung with fire by lead singer Roddy Woomble. Oasis for intellectuals? It would be more accurate to call them the Oasis for James Joyce and Jean Genet lovers. Roddy Woomble made the sound of Oasis sound much more poetic without losing any of the bite of Oasis’s vocal delivery and sound. Check out their album “100 Broken Windows” to see how strong of a band Idlewild are.

  5. New Pornographers

  Whether A.C. Newman admits it or not, he was influenced by Oasis. One listen to the incredible “Twin Cinema” (one of the best albums of the decade) will show a taste for perfect pop that was very much it’s own sound though. Listen to “Sing me Spanish Techno“, “Bones of an Idol“, “Jackie Dressed in Cobras“, and the song “Twin Cinema” and you will find a band operating under a very classic mode of songwriting but integrating it in less obvious changes and chord progressions than the rest of the bands on this list. It wasn’t just Twin Cinema though that makes The New Pornographers an important band, it was their debut album Mass Romantica with incredible songs throughout the whole album. “Letter For an Occupant” and “Slow Descent into Alcoholism” are some of the most catchy songs of the decade but they don’t sound like normal pop songs at all, but certainly operate under the traditional structure. This slight bending of the rules of what quality songwriting is puts The New Pornographers in their rightful place as one of the most important bands since Oasis.

  4. Coldplay

  Coldplay has been called every derogatory term by the indie crowd from generic to bed-wetter’s, to soft. You’re not getting away from the fact that Chris Martin writes great songs. This is undoubted, and anyone who questions this quality in Coldplay doesn’t listen to music for good songs. Chris Martin consistently spreads his love for Oasis by covering a song from every new Oasis album that comes out. The highlight of them all though was his live version of Liam’s songbird. For better or worse, Coldplay took the pure songwriting quality of Noel Gallagher and made it even more crafty and pop, but never enough to be considered a “guilty pleasure” except by the queer indie crowd. No one is arguing “Yellow“, “Lost“, “Talk” (Regardless of it’s obvious Kratwerk affectations), “Shiver“, “The Scientist“, and “In My Place” are not great songs. You just cant argue that these are not great songs after only 1 or 2 listens. Oasis paved the ground for this songwriting craft that had to always reach a certainly quality.

  3. The Thrills

  Like many bands on this list, The Thrills took the pure songwriting quality of Oasis and put it into their own sonic style. In the case of The Thrills it was the sunkiss sparkle of Southern California that made a bunch of Irish boys leave their country to live in southern California soaking up the sun and all the influences around it from smooth relaxed backup vocals to lyrics about the “Big Sur” and the California sun. Their sound wasn’t timid. It was mastered hard, it was layered pretty heavily. This band may have come across sonically and aesthetically as breezy and laid back, but their ambitions and songwriting were as big as Oasis’s. It had to be. They toured with Oasis multiple times. Noel Gallagher was seen whistling and singing “Big Sur” by himself walking to the supermarket one day in London. The ultimate approval for any band.

  2. Kasabian

  Kasabian IS the most important band since Oasis. They have carried Oasis’s bravado to a new level and layered it with a newage-electronica that sounds like a combination of Oasis and The Chemical Brothers. All their songs have grit and sass known to the best Oasis songs. Lead singer Tom Meighan spews out vocals as resonant as Liam Gallagher and as loose as Shaun Ryder. The lyrical output of Serge Pizzorno is that of a boxer fighting a heavyweight, not some small personal battle against personal demons but a fight to take over the world. This shits like a Martin Scorsese film. Kasabian is like Napoleon on the battlefields and even more ruthless, on par with Vlad the Impaler which they actually wrote a song about (the best song on their new album). See them live and you will seen one of the best live shows of your life. Pure Energy, pure groove at wall of sound levels. Kasabian is the true heirs to Oasis’s crown.

  1. Oasis

  For better or worse, Oasis have still made at least average music into the new millennium. Their album “Don’t Believe The Truth” still showed that they could make a rock album better than any rock band in the genre today. They still tour non-stop selling out stadium everywhere they go. With the additions of Andy Bell and Gem Archer to the band, Oasis has become a force to be reckoned with. The only band that could compete with them is the Oasis of the 90’s so it makes sense that Oasis’s only competitors are Oasis themselves. The only band that can come close to their crown is Kasabian listed at number 2 and they haven’t put out enough albums yet to take Oasis from the kings chair. Hate to say it, Oasis are the best band since Oasis.

100 Comments

1. #1 Liam says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 11:48 am

   Rise Against? Are you fucking serious? Better than Oasis? LOL. Americans are retards.
2. #2 Mike says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

   Objectively speaking, Oasis might be in the top 20 most important bands of all time. But that’s just by virtue of how big they got in the 90s. They really did influence all British bands that came after them. No question. But no band listed here besides Coldplay deserves to be on this list.
3. #3 BERSERKR says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

   There is a basic rule when it comes to music, if its New and is played on mainstream Radio then it most likely sucks balls:P
4. #4 RavenWolfx says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

   i find it amusing that i don’t listen to oasis or any of the bands influenced by oasis. possibly because oasis is overrated by OW?
5. #5 George says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 11:52 pm

   No, Mike. I keep telling everyone here, the most important English band of the 90’s, hell, the best band of the 90’s period, was Radiohead. It’s not even a contest.
6. #6 Ice Ninja says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:18 am

   Radiohead is a great band, but they are no Oasis. Sorry. You fail.
7. #7 BERSERKR says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 6:24 am

   Radiohead also overrated.
8. #8 Mike says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

   George: I’m not knocking you, but I’m not sure how you can argue that Radiohead was more important than Oasis. MAYBE when you are arguing about their place in the history of world music. But in the history of English music, there really is no contest. Oasis was far more influential in England at least than Radiohead. By a factor of 10.
9. #9 Mike says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

   Berzerkr: Why do you think Radiohead is overrated?
10. #10 Big Al says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    Oasis is maybe the 4th most important band of the 90s. After Nirvana Pearl Jam and Radiohead.
11. #11 George says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    Sorry, Mike. I misinterpreted “influential” with “best.” I don’t know your view on their quality though, so I won’t knock you.

    To anyone that thinks I’m backing down though, you’re wrong.Oasis had a lot of influence for the 90’s, but that doesn’t make them great.
12. #12 Mike says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    I liked their first two albums. Most bands can’t make 1 good album. They made 2. They weren’t epic though. To me there’s really 2 types of music. Good and bad. Oasis is good. Are they the best ever, as OW likes to say? No. Are they influential? Well, you can’t really argue that they weren’t. Everyone I know owns Morning Glory.
13. #13 Mike says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Btw I like Radiohead better.
14. #14 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 8:35 pm

    @Mike

    Just not my cup of tea i guess, there are better bands that sound similar that you won’t hear on the Radio.
15. #15 Bruce says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:57 am

    You guys should do top 10 most important bands/musicians ever. Here’s mine:

    1. Elvis
    2. Bob Dylan
    3. The Beatles
    4. The Rolling Stones
    5. The Sex Pistols
    6. The Ramones
    7. The Clash
    8. Pink Floyd
    9. Oasis
    10. The Grateful Dead
16. #16 UP2IP2 says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:10 am

    never realy heared of some of these bands
17. #17 President Steve says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    UP2IP2: You should really check out the Thrills. Great band. I first heard of them on this site, and really got into them.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1S0pTEydb8
18. #18 Dave says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

    Oasis is a much more important band than Radiohead. There is absolutely no doubt about that. I do think Nirvana was more important than Oasis though. As for the bands on this list, besides Coldplay, I don’t think any of them are very important at all. At the same time, I can’t think of ANY important bands that have come out since Oasis besides Coldplay. It seems music has gone downhill BIG TIME since the mid-nineties. It seems like all the great bands today are from that peroid or before. Metallica, U2, Oasis, R.E.M., Wilco, and Dave Matthes. Today’s bands write one or two songs and disappear as fast as they arrived. They don’t even write albums anymore. Most of today’s albums have 1 or 2 songs on them worth listening to. Its sad what downloading music as done to it.
19. #19 Ice Ninja says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    @Bruce: The Grateful Dead?! WTF?
20. #20 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    @Dave

    “It seems music has gone downhill BIG TIME since the mid-nineties”

    That’s because your not looking hard enough, that statement is totally true if you just listen to the radio, you need to move past the FM and you will find some truly AMAZING bands.
21. #21 Dave says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    Maybe some decent bands. But none on the level of U2, say.
22. #22 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:09 am

    Tons far above U2, i am not a fan of U2 at all, it all depends on how broad your horizons are i guess, and mine are quite broad my friend:P
23. #23 Vintage Junkie says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Has OW ever weighed in on U2? I can’t recall.
24. #24 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 6:03 am

    Oasis make a rock album better than anyone in the genre today? yeah right guys like i said maybe if you only listen to the radio, whats popular or whats from the UK or the states, expand your horizons guys seriously.
25. #25 Colin says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    Muse are currently the greatest band and are so important, they set such a high standard in modern rock and their live shows are the greatest on earth. Much better than Oasis if i say so myself
26. #26 Noel's Nose says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    For people with such good taste in one sense (yes, I agree, Oasis is the greatest band of all time), how can you like such shite music as Idlewild and New Pornographers?
    And come on, Is This Is was an amazing and high influential album, but The Strokes have been going down hill ever since. I can’t even rate First Impressions of Earth. As a one time huge Strokes fan, I couldn’t even remember the name of that third album until you reminded me of it here.
    Coldplay and Kasabian are the only bands that should truly be on this list. Kasabian are far more entertaining, but it cannot be denied that Coldplay is greatly influenced by Oasis.
27. #27 Nate says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    This might be the most ridiculous idea for a list I’ve ever seen.
28. #28 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Anyone wanna hear a real rock Album? Start with the Album Pink, Heavy Rocks or Akuma no Uta by Japanese rockers Boris.
29. #29 Keith says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    This list is wrong. There have been NO important bands since Oasis.
30. #30 Sam says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    I am Oasis biggest fan but god damn OW goes on about them. They are brilliant but really what a silly idea for a list.

    Whilst BERSERKR is right in a sense, there is some good music out there, if you look. But this music is good and not great. Great albums are like great art works, they have an unmeasurable and undefinable quality. Music isn’t made in the complete artist album way much anyone.
31. #31 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    @Sam

    Thanks for kinda agreeing with me:P but i believe there are still plenty of GREAT albums still being made today, Try any album by Opeth for instance:P Enslaved, Acid Mothers Temple, Boris, Ghost, Tiny Vipers, Sunn O)), the list goes on forever, just depends on personnel taste i guess and how open ones mind is.
32. #32 Dan says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    Oasis is not all that great. This site just goes on and on about them and they are a second rate band. I agree with Berserker, radio sucks today but the real music is all underground.
33. #33 Zoidberg says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    If you look outside old England, I find the Swedish band Kent being my favorite band since 2002, but they can’t match the superstar-arrogance of the Gallaghers, nor the high on dope guitar-solos of Noel and the over-productions like almost entire “Be Here Now” when Oasis was the biggest band in the Universe.

    I recommend Kent’s “Weapon and Ammunition” and “You and me Death”, unfortunately they are only available in Swedish.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_(band)

    Of English bands White Lies and Muse are great, not up to Oasis standard but way better than RadioShite.
34. #34 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    Oasis IS Radioshite:P
35. #35 Avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    BERSERKR, I think he meant Radiohead.
36. #36 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Avi, ahh i see, but i still think Oasis is Radio shite, same with Radiohead:P
37. #37 Avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    well, he didn’t think Oasis was shite.
38. #38 BERSERKR says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    I’m a bigger music snob than OW difference is i have better taste:P
39. #39 Avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    anyone else notice that they listed Oasis as the most important band since Oasis?
40. #40 Delta says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Yes, and they pointed that out. They said that Oasis’ only competition is the Oasis of the 90’s and that Oasis is the best band to come out since Oasis.
41. #41 Sammy says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    Liam
42. #42 Avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    um…
43. #43 Sammy says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    Liam,

    Sorry about that I don’t know what the hell happened. My computer just “blipped” that’s the only way to describe it. Rise against is musically and lyrically superior to Oasis. Oasis is a shit band. It’s funny you call yourself Liam, when Liam Gallagher is the most arrogant asshole in all of Europe, and that’s saying something. The Beatles caught a bunch of flack for saying there were bigger than Jesus. Liam Gallagher said Oasis was bigger than The Beatles. So if The Beatles thought they were bigger than Jesus, and Liam said they were bigger than The Beatles, that’s a pretty arrogant comment to make don’t you think? Especially when he really couldn’t back it up. Just one thing to prove my point. There are many other comments he has made. His arrogance isn’t what makes Oasis suck though for the most part, it’s their music. They had a few good songs, and I’m not talking about songs on the radio, although Wonderwall was their biggest hit in the states atleast. Other than that they are a shitty band, that is only liked by people that don’t appreciate real music. Rise Against may not be the best band in the world, but they are vastly superior Oasis. Infact to just say they are vastly superior to Oasis is an insult to Rise Against. From now on I won’t even mention their name in the same paragraph, nay sentence as Rise Against. They will now be known by me as PURE SHIT!
44. #44 Christian says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:20 am

    When I hear Oasis, I say “I remember that song” or I might even sing along (actually I beat other bands in a high school band battle singing and Oasis cover lol)..

    But Radiohead? I still seek Radiohead out… And yes… They’ve gotten a bit sleepy lately, but some of their tracks still RULE.
45. #45 Avi says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am

    of course, that’s assuming liam thinks the beatles were bigger than Jesus.
46. #46 matt says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Oasis might very well be the most overrated band of all time. They were popular for about one year, until everyone realized that all their songs were already written by the Beatles. “Don’t Look Back in Anger” is pretty much John Lennon’s “Imagine” note for note. Being a songwriter myself, I can honestly say that your opinions about music are worthless. Try to expand your horizons and listen to some original songwriters who have their own voice.
47. #47 Alexx says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:04 am

    Damn right! Kasabians awesome
48. #48 Poppy says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    This list is insane.
49. #49 Anonymity says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 2:41 am

    thanks, Liam. Thanks for that inherently idiotic and narrow-minded stereotype.