Recording

Live Forever
Oasis

Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released

1994

Label

Creation

On

Britpop and 1994

Updated

2026-08-31

1. 02

   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.

2. ·

   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.