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  "slug": "oasis",
  "name": "Oasis",
  "description": "Oasis appears 3 times in our Britpop and 1994 lists, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/oasis/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 2,
  "years": {
    "first": 1994,
    "last": 1995
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 2,
    "list": "Britpop"
  },
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      "kind": "genre",
      "slug": "britpop",
      "name": "Britpop",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/britpop/",
      "entries": 2
    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "nineteen-ninety-four",
      "name": "1994",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-ninety-four/",
      "entries": 1
    }
  ],
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    {
      "trackKey": "oasis--live-forever",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/oasis--live-forever/",
      "title": "Live Forever",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Creation",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Noel Gallagher wrote it as a direct answer to Nirvana's I Hate Myself and Want to Die. Whatever one thinks of the band, the argument is stated cleanly.",
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        {
          "kind": "curator",
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        }
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          "exact": false
        },
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=TDe1DqxwJoc",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 2,
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        "slug": "britpop",
        "name": "Britpop",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/britpop/"
      },
      "artist": "Oasis"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "oasis--wonderwall",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/oasis--wonderwall/",
      "title": "Wonderwall",
      "year": 1995,
      "label": "Creation",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Ubiquitous to the point of parody, and worth hearing again. The chord sequence is a very good chord sequence, whatever the last thirty years have done to it.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Oasis%20Wonderwall",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1Bh8ZvH84",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 8,
      "on": {
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        "slug": "britpop",
        "name": "Britpop",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/britpop/"
      },
      "artist": "Oasis"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "oasis--live-forever",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/oasis--live-forever/",
      "title": "Live Forever",
      "year": 1994,
      "label": "Creation",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "The least fashionable inclusion here and the hardest to argue away. It turned a scene of art-school records into something a stadium would sing, which is a change of kind rather than of scale, and Britpop dates from it.",
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        {
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          "slug": "britpop",
          "name": "Britpop",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/britpop/"
        }
      ],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Oasis%20Live%20Forever",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
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          "exact": true
        }
      },
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        "slug": "nineteen-ninety-four",
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      },
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    }
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}