Best Britpop Bands

Oasis are legendary. They have so many wonderful songs and two of the most important albums of the '90s. They completely changed my perspective on music. Noel Gallagher is such an amazing songwriter and definitely one of the best of the '90s. Liam has such a cool voice too. Noel also has a great voice. He sings some of my favorite tunes. Just a wonderful band.

My favorite Oasis song is Half the World Away. Oasis is probably the band I turn to the most when I'm upset - or really in any mood. They cheer me up.

Great band, so many hits, and their albums are still on the charts. It shows how awesome they still are. Much better than Blur.

Much better than Oasis. I hope Oasis will never reunite and that all of the band members stop making music. Also, I hope that Blur gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame instead of Oasis because Blur always wrote amazing and catchy songs. Oasis kept pumping out lame songs that always sounded the same, making them the Britpop Nickelback.

So long story short, Blur is better than Oasis and will always be that way.

I think Blur are the definitive Britpop band even though Oasis was more globally famous. Oasis are a solid rock band who went downhill from their debut in my opinion, but Blur covered all the bases and all the genres. From pop to rock, new wave to experimental, serious to lighthearted, and they kept changing their sound in compelling ways.

Oasis and Blur are great, but derivative. Oasis is basically a Beatles imitation band, albeit a very good one, and Blur are trying to imitate the Kinks. Pulp were the only one of the three who did something genuinely original. It didn't always work, but they deserve credit for it.

Well, for starters, they're actually Britpop, unlike Coldplay. Such a fun band, however, can do serious stuff amazingly as well. Jarvis Cocker is a fantastic frontman, and he brings his own amazing style of charisma to the band.

Suede's first three albums are the most perfect expression of a band that any group has ever achieved. They are relentless, neo-glam masterpieces, each distinct from the other. Suede is the band from this list that I find myself revisiting most often.

I've heard all of the Britpop bands in the top 10, and I have to say that no Britpop band can be better than Suede. Suede is so underrated.

Most of the bands in the top 10 aren't even Britpop. Suede are better than basically all of this list.

The Bends is very much Britpop.

The Verve are in a league of their own. Simple song construction, haunting arrangements, and deeply personal lyrics are at the forefront of what Richard Ashcroft does. Like Oasis, I don't feel the "Britishness" of their music as strongly as I do with bands like Blur, but that's not an insult. It means they write timeless, amazing music.

This is the band that breaks my heart. Ashcroft is amazing, but I think he never got back to his Northern Soul and Urban Hymns form. The Verve were a band that was more than the sum of its parts. I wish Ashcroft and McCabe had made more records together, though some of their output was inconsistent at times.

I love this band! They deserved to be more popular than they were.
Drummer Danny Goffey is very fit, and Gaz Coombes is so cute! I got their autographs a long time ago.

Easily top three on this list. Songs sounding better with time. Best album - In It For the Money.

Agree, in the top five, for Sun Hits The Sky if nothing else.

Any music by Coldplay has a different meaning, and this makes me think... How did they change the style of music, song by song?

Some are more electronic, some are alternative, some are melodic, and some have solos that stick in your head. Anyway, Coldplay is the best British band ever.

A very hit-and-miss band but deserve to be high up the list.

Snow Patrol light up as if they have the choice, which makes them light up by being a successful band!

The Stone Roses are a million times better than Franz Ferdinand.

Best band of our time, it's a fact. Who Built the Moon? is a masterpiece, a work of art. It's brilliant. Noel can't do anything wrong. He's the greatest songwriter of the last 20 years and just keeps getting better. He truly is a godlike genius.

The only band I know of that has no bad songs. All of Muse's songs are beautiful and epic, and Matt's voice is utter perfection.

Coldplay doesn't even know which end of the guitar to fret on, while Muse is just an all-around good band.

I love this band to bits, as well as many others like Oasis, Blur, and Supergrass! Tom has an amazing voice and is a total gift from God!
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While late to the Britpop game, Keane is just a maddeningly brilliant band. Perfect Symmetry, Everybody's Changing, and Bend and Break are some of the most magnificent songs to my ears.

Nothing short of perfect! Somewhere Only We Know, Nothing in My Way, Everybody's Changing... One is better than the other.