Artist
Oasis
Oasis appears 3 times in our Britpop and 1994 lists, placing as high as No. 2. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Britpop and 1994
- Years
- 1994–1995
- Highest placing
- No. 2 in Britpop
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Appears on
Live Forever
1994 · Creation
Ranked No. 2 in Britpop
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.
Also on 1994
Wonderwall
1995 · Creation
Ranked No. 8 in Britpop
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.
Live Forever
1994 · Creation
Picked by 1994
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.
Also on Britpop