History YMMV / Oasis

--> "They should have the decency to wait until I am dead (before stealing my music). I, at least, pay the people I steal from that courtesy."

* BrokenBase

* EpicRiff: More than enough to go around.
* FaceOfTheBand: The Gallagher brothers, to the point that some people think they're a strictly a two-person band, a la Music/TheWhiteStripes.

** ''Standing on the Shoulders of Giants'': "Go Let it Out".
** ''Heathen Chemistry'': "Stop Crying Your Heart Out". Also well-known are "Little By Little" and "Songbird"; the latter is also notable for being the first Oasis song released as a single to be written by Liam.

* HilariousInHindsight: The ''Magazine/{{NME}}'' spoofed the band's thrall to Music/TheBeatles and their tendency to plagiarize with a fictitious interview in which Noel Gallagher claimed to be '[[BiggerThanJesus Bigger Than God]]'. Just ''one year later'', in real life, he made exactly the same claim.

* HypeBacklash: Even at their peak, critics wrote the band off as nothing but self-important and [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks unoriginal]], only changing their tunes for ''Music/BeHereNow'' (and even then, it was more an act of peer pressure, with most of them revoking their praise upon revisitation after even fans of the band admitted that the album was a drastic step down in quality), while fans defended Noel Gallagher's [[AwesomeEgo shameless egotism]] and [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} outright cannibalization]] of both Music/TheBeatles' music ''and'' mythos by arguing that his songs were just that good. Retrospective listeners, however, tend to side with the critics, especially when it comes to [[LoudnessWar the ear-splitting volume of the recordings]], Liam's questionable singing style and Noel's [[ItsAllAboutMe bad attitude]] in the name of [[SexDrugsAndRockNRoll "rock n roll"]] both in and beyond the music, to the point that many can't understand how the band had even a cult following, let alone were called one of the best bands of the 90s. Even their most popular song, "Wonderwall," is better known as a derisive joke about [[DreadfulMusician terrible beginner guitarists]] who just want to get girls.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:
** "Champagne Supernova" and its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni2G1eTB-Bs video]], even though there are ridiculous oxymorons and unrelated adjectives, and the line "Where were you while we were getting high?"
** Averted when it comes to the entirety of ''Be Here Now'' as both the Gallaghers admitted to being high out of their minds while recording the album, and it shows, particularly in "All Around The World".

*** Exactly, "Roll With It" is notable for rather infamous reasons; indeed, besides the fact that [[https://www.encartespop.com.br/2011/03/encarte-oasis-time-flies1994-2009.html Noel considers it as "a bit of a throwaway"]], it is also famous for its appearance at the ''Top of the Pops'' show with Music/RobbieWilliams. As Oasis hate playback, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUTL2jSRIgE they were deliberately mocking the audience, with Liam pretending to play guitar and Noel pretending to sing and play tambourine, also stopping moving his mouth during the song lyrics]].

** Similarly, "Champagne Supernova" was not released as a single anywhere else but the United States, where its probably their best known song outside of "Wonderwall".
** "Whatever" seems to be well-liked in Japan, having been used in TV advertisements. However, in other countries, maybe not so much.

* FaceOfTheBand: The Gallagher brothers.

** The Gallagher brothers' constant quarreling and self-entitled behavior. Either you will love their {{awesome ego}}s and say it improves the entire experience, suspend your disbelief that they're both {{jerkass}}es and just enjoy the music on it's own or you will absolutely loathe them both for constantly letting their personal baggage ruin the band's music and, to an extent, lead to their breakup.

* DorkAge: In a rare case of by the band's own admission, Noel Gallagher writes off much of the late '90s output, and also chunks of the mid '00s. On a greatest hits DVD, he even went so far as to ask why somebody didn't just to tell them to "stop".

** To be precise, the verse of "Lyla" sounds remarkably similar to "Street Fighting Man" by Music/TheRollingStones; "Shakermaker" rips off "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)"; "Roll With It" sounds so like Music/StatusQuo that t-shirts were made with "Quoasis" on them (Noel even [[http://www.nme.com/news/blur/12608 wore one]].) Despite this, Noel Gallagher [[https://factorysunburst.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/noel-gallagher-and-influences/ insists]] that his primary influences are "[[Music/TheKinks Ray Davies]], Music/JohnLennon and [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]]."

* MemeticMutation: "Anyway, here's "Wonderwall"".

!![[VideoGame/{{Oasis}} Video game]]
* ThatOneLevel: For the campaign, it's "Up the Nile" where in the majority of levels, levels are divided by the river, making it impossible to connect the cities and much harder to defend against barbarian attacks. For the level modifier, it's the meteors which can destroy cities and roads.

*** Also the single "Shakermaker" is reasonably well-known, it's often considered as a rather bad song, being often considered as kind of an overproduced psychedelic rock pastiche, and... well, see SuspiciouslySimilarSong.

* FirstInstallmentWins: All Oasis fans with very few exceptions like ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'' and ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory'', and to the general public those albums (along with the non-album single "Whatever" and the B-sides from these album eras collected on ''The Masterplan'') ''are'' Oasis.

* FirstInstallmentWins: All Oasis fans with very few exceptions like ''Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum'' and ''Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory'', and to the general public those albums (along with two popular non-album songs from the same era, "Acquiesce" and "Whatever") ''are'' Oasis.

** ''Definitely Maybe'': "Live Forever" and "Supersonic", though there are many very notable songs, such as "Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Cigarettes and Alcohol".
** ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory'': their aforementioned absolute signatures, fo course, although, again, the list of notable songs here ("Some Might Say", "Roll With It", the TitleTrack...) is big.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The video for "Live Forever" has the band members burying drummer Tony [=McCarroll=]. He would later leave the band following ''Definitely Maybe'' under very acrimonious circumstances.

* HarsherInHindsight: "Don't Look Back in Anger" contains the lyric, "Please don't put your life in the hands of a rock and roll band who'll throw it all away". Over the next few years, this rock and roll band really did throw it all away.

** ''Definitely Maybe'': "Live Forever" and "Supersonic".
** ''(What's the Story) Morning Glory'': their aforementioned absolute signatures.
** ''Be Here Now'': "Stand by Me" and "Don't Go Away".
** ''The Masterplan'': "Half the World Away".

** ''Heathen Chemistry'': "Stop Crying Your Heart Out".
** ''Don't Believe the Truth'': "The Importance of Being Idle".
** ''Dig Out Your Soul'': "I'm Outta Time".

* SignatureSong: "Wonderwall", [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale the only 90s song visible from space]]. Second place is "Don't Look Back in Anger" in the UK and "Champagne Supernova" in the U.S.

* HilariousInHindsight: The ''Magazine/NewMusicalExpress'' spoofed the band's thrall to Music/TheBeatles and their tendency to plagiarize with a fictitious interview in which Noel Gallagher claimed to be '[[BiggerThanJesus Bigger Than God]]'. Just ''one year later'', in real life, he made exactly the same claim.