So why did Oasis fail in America?

[Bones58]

During the mid-90s Oasis was the one of the world's biggest bands but they never really took off in America. Was it Liam Gallagher's attitude? Or did the britpop culture thing never really translate that well across the pond?

Or maybe you didn't like this music Thoughts?

[willywonka666]

I think they did quite well for a short time, so 4 pretty big albums is good

[Ben Wyatt]

They did well, but could have been bigger if the 2 Gallager brothers could avoid acting like drunken jackasses

[Vampiro138]

every album until heathen chemestry all had number 1 hits, they sold out very very large venues within minutes during every tour. sold out MSG a good number of times within 20 minutes. i dont think Oasis failed in America at all....


now.....Blur on the other hand...who's only hit here was a song mocking popular american music...should have been bigger here than they were. Modern Life Is Rubbish is an amazing album!

[Deleted]

Oasis failed in America? They were pretty big for a while. Great band, by the way.

[willywonka666]

It's hard to last long anymore anyway, MTV still played their videos, but I like most felt something was lost after Be Here Now

[Vampiro138]

May 8, 2012 19:47:34 GMT -5 willywonka666 said:

It's hard to last long anymore anyway, MTV still played their videos, but I like most felt something was lost after Be Here Now

the drugs....also the loss of these gents

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Oasis failed in America? Did I imagine 1996 when Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova were inescapable?

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Oasis didn't flop in America at all. Back in 1996/97, you couldn't get away from them if you tried- they were IT. In fact, they moved a lot more records over here than their rivals Blur did (with the exception of "Song 2").

I think the American public eventually just got fed up with their colossal douchebaggery. As talented as they are, at one point the Gallaghers made Kanye at his worst look like Donny Osmond.

[Ben Wyatt]

May 8, 2012 20:26:42 GMT -5 Clash, Never a Meter Maid said:

Oasis didn't flop in America at all. Back in 1996/97, you couldn't get away from them if you tried- they were IT. In fact, they moved a lot more records over here than their rivals Blur did (with the exception of "Song 2").

I think the American public eventually just got fed up with their colossal douchebaggery. As talented as they are, at one point the Gallaghers made Kanye at his worst look like Donny Osmond.

Hammer. Nail. Head

[DiBiase is Good]

I think their success in the UK was already dying out around the time their attempts to crack America weren't quite the success they hoped for.
The main reason was the album "Be Here Now". There was so much hype for that album, more than for any other album I can ever recall and it frankly, failed to deliver. It's overblown, over-long, over-produced and over-hyped. Oasis were at their absolute peak here when that album came out and they had a perfect chance to go into the types of success levels reserved for bands like The Beatles and The Stones (not that I think they compared to those bands in terms of talent), yet although it's a decent album, they basically hyped it to a level that nothing could reach.
I know we're talking about success in America but to understand it, I think you had to be in the UK in 1996. It was an amazing summer with the whole "Cool Britannia" music scene and the European Football Championships being held here. Oasis were the soundtrack to that period and Morning Glory kept selling albums by the shitload and those songs became anthems.
Although they would have massive success at live venues here later on, this period dictated that they will always go down as a band who really could have been the next Beatles here (I'm serious, that's how big they were here at the time), yet they ruined it with in-fighting, over hype and generally being douchebags.
This is all coming from a massive fan of theirs too and it's a shame to think about not how big they were but how big they could have been.

[Bone Daddy]

Oasis is still one of the biggest bands in America. You can't go to a bar without hearing a crap coverband play wonderwall

[H-Virus]

May 8, 2012 21:27:09 GMT -5 Bone Daddy said:

Oasis is still one of the biggest bands in America. You can't go to a bar without hearing a crap coverband play wonderwall

That's honestly the only song of theirs that I know, and that was all because I once heard that mash-up of it with Green Day's 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'. Wasn't really a big fan of either one.

[sludgehammer]

Live Forever is, in my opinion, their finest piece of work

[The OP]

Oasis was a huge success in America, that's why.

[Chardee MacDennis]

Being from America, they are my favorite band of all time. No one is even close.

[celticjobber]

For a short time in the late 90's, you couldn't even go to Walmart or Taco Bell without hearing "Wonder Wall". So I think they were a huge success in America.

[VenomFang]

Yeah they didnt fail they had quite a few songs that got tons of airplay. The better question is why didnt they have longer lasting success and we know why they didnt due to band infighting. Also America was very trend oriented and there was no place for a band like Oasis on a station that was starting to play nu metal.

[Massive G]

they didn't fail, they just were never as amazing as the UK made them seem.

I'd go into greater detail but frankly it just makes my face hurt.

[Orange]

I can't be the only one who was expecting a punchline, right?