Are These Britpop Bands Better Than Oasis?

[@MoonOnAStickFilms]

Only one use of 'by and large' for anyone keeping a record.

[@TheDaern]

Regarding the Evil Empire font - it's open source, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY). This means that it's free for anyone to use, even for commercial use, but the original author MUST be attributed, which in this case means they get a credit. Put simply, they cheaped out :-)

[@KathyD-24601]

Disappointed that they missed the opportunity to talk about the Creative Commons movement and its impact on the internet in particular. Clearly Richard has never heard of it.

[@oofuss]

Iron Maiden have 7 Greatest hits albums, ok 6 if you don't include the "Best of the B SIdes" album. But two of them were multi Disc releases.

[@RobDW24]

Edward the Great: The Greatest Hits was how i got into Iron Maiden in my teens.

[@stuartmiller5724]

My school was closed due to heating failure the day the best of the beast came out, so me and my mates all went up town and bought it!

[@Willy_Elres]

Was going to comment about Iron Maiden having released more than one greatest hits album - but pleased to see that within the first twenty comments four other people have already mentioned it!

[@maxine2798]

What’s the point if all their songs sound the same………?

[@michael1]

@@maxine2798 Having the same genre and style is not the same as all the songs sounding the same - they're markedly different too between the first 2 albums and the 3rd and again later when they started using guitar synths and keyboards. That aside the main reason for greatest hits is because, typically, the record company actually owns the music recordings created by a band. So the greatest hits or any kind of remixes and compilations is a way of the record company getting another bite of the cherry without having to get the band to produce new material.

[@galesito1733]

I totally agree about Pulp, they were on a much higher level than any other Britpop band. Space rarely get mentioned compared to Oasis, Blur and the like but Spiders and Tin Planet were great albums.

[@jonnyrondo507]

"I totally agree about Pulp, they were on a much higher level than any other Britpop band." Did you not hear them mention Oasis?

[@galesito1733]

@@jonnyrondo507 Oasis? I don't recall them. Wait a minute, I remember now. Oasis Quo, only the band the Beatles could have been.

[@jonnyrondo507]

@@galesito1733 Stay off the shrooms

[@sb6482]

@@galesito1733thanks Alan

[@alansouthall8221]

@@galesito1733 pulp were formed in the same year dire straights, the police and van halen released their first albums. they were not so much a 90s britpop band as a band formed in the 70s, who failed in the 80s and rode the coatails of britlop to have some success in the mid 90s

[@sonnybarthl3y]

Good choices Richard. My top 3 Britpop bands are Blur, Suede and Pulp

[@ChrisH78]

I'm starting to suspect these episodes are filmed consecutively on the same day!

[@mtullock]

Was thinking the exact same thing 😂

[@maxine2798]

Continuity……..

[@goneonholidaybymistake84]

Whatever gave you that idea!! 😂 (yes, they’ve rather spoiled the magic with this little slip up)

[@aDifferentJT]

Not concurrently, but it seems consecutively

[@matt4812]

@@aDifferentJTalthough now we’d certainly like to see them try to record them concurrently, this sounds like a nightmarish taskmaster task Richard would go for

[@lmaololroflcopter]

I was more of an Oasis guy back in the Oasis V Blur days, and while I’m still not completely sold on them, Blur did at least expand their artistic ambitions and refused to keep on remaking The Great Escape or Parklife, whereas Oasis got stodgier and stodgier.

[@crouchingotter]

I was definitely an Oasis guy back in the Oasis v Blur days, but in what felt like a decade between What’s the Story and Be Here Now, I found other bands and genres of music that made Oasis and Blur insignificant in comparison.

[@Maytricks_Lee_VR]

I was a music fan during the Britpop days and enjoyed most of the music. Who won the heavyweight clash between Blur and Oasis? No idea. I bought it all I remember a quote from the music press in those days, not sure which publication or journalist. They said. Oasis were the Britpop equivalent of John Lennon And Blur were the Lennon/McCartney. I don't know how true that is, but it struck a chord. For me, Britpop started with Suede. Their first three albums for me are superior to the first three by either Blur or Oasis. But Modern Life is Rubbish, Parklife, Great Escape, Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory, all one after another... With all the other bands. A great time for music. Pulp get a couple of great albums after years of obscurity, The Verve... Radiohead made Rock Music ... And Oasis made some great music later too. Lyla and Shock of the Lightning, Hindu Times, Importance of being Idle, Stop Crying your Heart Out... Many of Blurs later material I think got a little tiring, especially when Damon started putting his creativity into Gorillaz. In fact. I would argue, Blur made a determined effort to sound American. The music became less British. So is it even Britpop at that point? Sorry for the rant... But thanks for the inspiration.

[@rainblaze.]

@@Maytricks_Lee_VR Nah oasis was the brit pop equivalent of status quo and bur was the equivalent of... Herman hermits... And I'll be "figged" if it's not so .... Now pull my finger 👉

[@vurogj]

Richard's top three is pretty good, I think the only change I'd be inclined to make is putting Sleeper in, but I don't know which of Elastica or Shed Seven I'd swap out. (and Suede are obviously still the secret #1 either way).

[@NeilNoble-z7e]

Sleeper, yes. Especially live. But I fear largely forgotten.

[@ManUnitedNZ-ng5jw]

Im a Supergrass guy..great and vastly underrated brit pop band

[@philipbrowne63]

The weirdest Greatest Hits album I can think of is the one was made as a result of a deal between EMI and Warner Music when the Red Hot Chili Peppers changed label. It takes songs off the first four RHCP albums, none of which performed particularly well, and features a selection of singles, some of which never even entered the charts, some of which were never even released as singles, and one of which (Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky) RHCP have never even performed live. Not surprisingly, the album (released in 1992) is called "What Hits?!"

[@Matt-y7l]

Should of called it "Best Off".

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

Jarvis Cocker was a hero. Love the way he lived/lives his life. The summer I worked at Butlins 94, I remember supergrass and Pulp everyday played at the height, great times. I disocvered Oasis early 94 after the stone roses second coming, The inspirals and the stone roses were great, I liked the Charlatans back then too and Blur.

[@thekaratekidpartii2169]

Trying to think of my top 3 Brit pop bands has made me realise how little I actually liked Brit pop. But, let’s give it a go: 3. Pulp (this is based purely on the fact that I know more than 3 of their songs-and quite like those ones. Had Oasis not been excluded they would be at this spot on the list, and for pretty much the same reason) 2. Blur (Modern Life is Rubbish is one of my favourite albums-and Parklife’s not bad either) 1. Ocean Colour Scene (if I were on a deserted island, I’d want to take their first two albums)

[@garyphisher7375]

Pulp are amazing - I'd tie them with James for first place. Listen to Sunrise by Pulp - then Trees, Pencil Skirt, I Spy, Acrylic Afternoons, Monday Morning, Something Changed, She's a Lady... James - Stay, Mobile God, XYST, Recover, Five-0, Bitter Virtue, Many Faces...

[@cybergornstartrooper2157]

100% agree about the 1 of n on series’s. the BBC are really good on this and usually put 1 of n on the description. The number of times I end up faffing around with the menus to try and get the episode list up.

[@bobthegrinch]

Iron Maiden have released a greatest hits. It's called "Best of the Beast"

[@xyoiuzent]

Marina nailed the intro

[@nmfp2943]

Well done Richard! Pulp is indeed the correct answer.

[@mrswinick4115]

Agreed! Just saw them for the second and third time this week. First time in Cardiff last year. Amazing performance every time.

[@MrRhurbarb]

Pulp had two songs: Disco 2000 and Common People. Nobody anywhere can name another Pulp song. Plus, the lyrics to Disco 2000 are just about the worst of any pop song ever: just sub-Oasis gibberish.

[@mikejcross]

The ultimate casting-against-type was Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.

[@JuliaHopewell]

29 minutes in ... Oh yes. Richard! I know WHY they do this, (not giving you how many episodes there are going to be); but it is really, really frustrating!! Great questions all round; especially Marina's solution to the Netflix thumbnail! Thank you.

[@Panda3style]

"(HOPEFULLY)"... still magic edit; bless the talent. Much love all TTFN

[@alipanroosendaal9503]

If you have a mo, read Marina's column on Charlie Mullins in The Guardian. It is so funny but also bang on the money.

[@colourlessbluethings]

The correct response is, of course, Ocean Colour Scene, The Bluetones (if even they came a bit late to be described as Britpop) and The Verve. But, whatever your answer, when you try to think about it you realise how lucky we were to be that age at that time.

[@harrypalmer8808]

Good choices. How about Suergrass as well?

[@lakrids-pibe]

Pulp is a the correct choice haha! Amazing band. As I remember it, they all hated the "britpop" label. But Kula Shaker is my other favorite bands from the era. And fine, Suede can get the last spot.

[@yancowles]

YES, YES, that elastica song, 'borrowing' the 'are you being served' theme! I thought I was the only one who noticed that.

[@Rsutton99]

Hearing that Coldplay aren't recording any new music is the best news I've heard all year!

[@petehasplans]

Iron Maiden didn't do 'one' greatest hits album. They did LOADS! BBC Archives (album) Best of the 'B' Sides Best of the Beast Ed Hunter Eddie's Archive Eddie's Head Edward the Great The Essential Iron Maiden The First Ten Years (box set) From Fear to Eternity (album) A Real Live Dead One Somewhere Back in Time

[@PatDK]

I came to say the same thing! What the heck kind of ridiculous comment

[@domhudd]

I was going to say something similar. They even released an exclusive song on Best of the beast and a game with Ed Hunter, to get people to buy songs they had already!

[@Elwaves2925]

Richard mentioned AC/DC as well and technically they have a greatest hits double album as well, despite folks saying they've never released one. Not sure how that works.

[@AC-sd6fo]

You only just found out for the most part they don’t know what they are talking about?

[@stephensmith5065]

A lot of what you've listed are not Maiden 'greatest hits' compilations...BBC Archives was a disc of previously unreleased live concerts and sessions included in the long-deleted Eddies Archive Box set. The Best of the B-sides was in the same box set. The First Ten Years was when they re-released all of their songs in 1990 on 12-inch. If I remember correctly, The box set is basically the 12-inch box that you could then get separately later to put them all in. 'Eddies Head' is basically a plastic collectible box you could buy containing all of the classic albums when they remastered them on CD in 1998. A Real Live Dead One isn't a greatest hits album, it's a double-live album from the 92/93 tour. The Ed Hunter comp is basically the songs that were played while you were playing the old PC game of the same name, many of which were not 'hit singles'. But yea, they have released a lot of 'Greatest hits' compilations but actually, when they did release songs in the 80's/90's they would always go into the charts at number 5, 3 or 2, or top ten, and then go way down the charts the week after, so it depends on what would you class as 'hit singles'!

[@buenisimoingles4866]

Marina's face when Richard says the same thing but with different words relentlessly again and again and again

[@davidsummer8631]

In the early 90s I was living in London so I got to see many of what became know as Britpop bands playing on the circuit around London and this is and most probably will be my only musical claim of being in the right place at the right time

[@MrRhurbarb]

My dude, to be at the right time, you would have needed to be there thirty years earlier. Or do you prefer Elastica, Echobelly and Shed Seven to the Stones, Beatles and Hendrix? Britpop was just media hype. There was Blur, two songs from Pulp and Ocean Colour Scene. The rest was dross.

[@davidsummer8631]

@@MrRhurbarb That comment shows you have no understanding of what it was like to be part of the London music scene pre Britpop

[@MrRhurbarb]

@@davidsummer8631 My dude, Britpop was just media hype. Very little of the music made then stands up. Carnaby Street in the 60s, the King's Road in the 70s, the new romantics in the 80s. These were movements that made the world stand up and take notice. The bands in London in the 60s - The Who, the Kinks, Hendrix, the Stones. Now that as music. I have to laugh out loud when people compare shite like Shed Seven and Elastica to that. Even Blur and Oasis were weak, one just Chas and Dave soundalikes and the other Status Quo cast-offs. Just pure overhyped, constipated pub rock shite my dude.

[@filmboyuk1]

Some of the Execs on Wild Oats are the Sales Agents, and debt lenders, so they would have made some fees from those activities, regardless of the film's theatrical performance

[@TheDinoKitteh]

6:21 Greatest hits are important for the album charts where all the songs go towards said album on the weekly album charts.

[@TheDinoKitteh]

Live in Buenos Aires by Coldplay is weirdly counted like this on the Australian charts.

[@richardlyth]

I'd go with Pulp, Sleeper and Ash as my top 3. Blur and Oasis would be much further down the list.

[@harrysimpson8522]

Sleeper....nope!!

[@ladyflimflam]

Using Comic Sans as a teacher is a double edged sword for dyslexic students. If a dyslexic student exists in an environment where Comic Sans is ubiquitous it can delay identification of the dyslexia and kids can fall off the cliff when that font isn’t used.

[@geezertechhead]

Nothing sounds like Elastica? Try the first three albums by Wire, literally the template for Elastica's whole recorded career.

[@simonlake_]

Their version of 'I am the Fly' (or 'Line Up' as they called it) was mint, but not exactly original. At least they had good taste and they were a cracking live band.

[@AnUnseenRuler]

I worked for a font reseller in the 90s and you’d be surprised how many copies of the ‘X’ Files typeface we sold just because of the show.

[@FranksMuseumOfGaming]

So with biases you spoke of a few weeks ago, how does that work with your sponsor Sky?

[@alangreenway6695]

7:13 Just pulled ‘Iron Maiden: Edward the Great The Greatest Hits’ (2002) off my shelf. I sort of like 2 of the tracks off of it.

[@cjarmstrong5939]

It was billed as Blur v Oasis but lots of other bands like Supergrass, Pulp, Suede, Charlatans, Ash, Manics were better. Not sure Stone Roses or Radiohead are 'Britpop' but they're better too.

[@brun4775]

Don’t really think the Manics or Suede were Britpop either.

[@lakrids-pibe]

As I recall, they all resented the "britpop" label. Anyway, Pulp is great. Also my choice.

[@Elwaves2925]

@@brun4775 I wouldn't class the Manics as Britpop either, they were a rock band.

[@thebagelsproductions]

Stone Roses emerge 89. I don't remember Britpop being bandied around as a label until the mid 90s. Roses got labeled under Madchester alongside the Mondays, Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets etc

[@Elwaves2925]

@@thebagelsproductions Yeah, they were all earlier and came under the Madchester label. Britpop was about 1993 and had more of a rock/pop feel than the Madchester stuff IMO.

[@andrewobrien1034]

Is Marina subtly trying to pitch for a role in LotR: tRoP? The forced perspective shot of her speaking into an enormous microphone is a cert for the demo reel.

[@m-alexandria-g]

The typeface is the styling of the way the letters look. The font is the digital file that holds and executes the typeface. So, for example, a real ephemeral analog typewriter would only have a typeface.

[@shaunhouse8469]

Prewatch question: Is Richard allowed to mention/vote for the band his brother plays bass in?

[@alansouthall8221]

"better" is subjective. but the cultural impact of oasis was immense and undeniably greater than any of the other bands. and osmans music takes are hilarious "more of an edge"... elastica and shed seven 😂😂

[@lakrids-pibe]

The Beatles' cultural impact is immense. They also sold a lot of records and made a lot of money. Oasis sold a lot of records and made a lot of money. If Oasis is your favorite band, then that's perfectly fine. But all you'r saying is that they topped the charts and therefore are objectively better. Which is objectively nonsense.

[@alansouthall8221]

@@lakrids-pibe good job i never mentioned record sales then, innit

[@tcaudiobooks737]

Any relation to Lee Southall?

[@alansouthall8221]

@@tcaudiobooks737 coral lee? hes my dad's cousins son. but ive met that side of the family once, and lee never 😂

[@phyphor]

As someone with Executive Producer credits on IMDB myself I would like to take offence at it being simply a way for funders to get a credit! I'd like to, but it's completely true, of course!

[@goneonholidaybymistake84]

Iron Maiden!! Of all the bands to choose from, why choose the band with about 37 greatest hits albums?! I’ve got at least 3 of them that just ‘appeared’ in my collection somehow over the years. In today’s internet “just Google it” age, it’s a little embarrassing this one slipped through the net! 😂

[@dibdab101]

I know britpop was big, but to me a lot of the great acts of the 90s were elsewhere: PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Portishead, Massive Attack to name but a few...whole heartedly agree on Pulp though

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

PJ Harvey great :)

[@TheMegaMusicProject]

I recently watched Oasis performing Wonderwall at Knebworth. It was excruciating with their grumpiness on full display as they did the absolute minimum. Whereas Robbie Williams performing Let Me Entertain You there was amazing with the audience in the palm of his hand.

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

Yeah but look at the audience difference? haha robbie williams fans were fans of take that, usually 12 or 13 year olds grew up fixated with williams and accepted his narcissism and his bitchiness about everyone else.

[@browneyedgirlgb1308]

Top three fonts coming up next episode?

[@lakrids-pibe]

Helvetica, Garamond, Comic Sans

[@SpitfireCallum]

Radiohead and Oasis are the greatest British bands from the 90’s in my opinion, and are so different. Britpop doesn’t really define anything apart from a load of bands that started around the same time that had success in the charts, but Blur are the band I think of as THE britpop band.

[@Elwaves2925]

You kinda see Britpop how I do. It wasn't so much the bands themselves but the era they were in and that they're British/Irish.

[@paz1576]

I believe that Iron Maiden did release a kind of greatest hits called 'Edward the Great'

[@NinaGray-eq9on]

Iron Maiden have released best of albums - 2 - career up to millenium and turn of millennium onwards. Queen's Greatest Hits is the greatest selling album in UK history.

[@carrauntoohil86]

I loved Oasis in the 90's as a young boy, but their music hasn't aged particularly well. Pulp and Supergrass spring to mind straight away as two superior bands of the era.

[@ObiJoe808]

Radiohead only retroactively stopped being britpop. They were definitely britpop at the time AND i still think the bends is their best album therefore MY top 5 are: Raidiohead Pulp Super Furry Animals Kula shaker Oasis

[@kubricksmith]

Iron Maiden have released several Greatest Hits albums: Best of the Beast, Ed Hunter, Edward the Great, The Essential Iron Maiden...

[@chris.bradshaw]

Honeycrack were by far the best Brit pop band. They only released one album but were outrageously talented.

[@80sobsessive]

Yes!! Absolutely agree.

[@Maytricks_Lee_VR]

I dont know if The Beatles ever made a 'Greatest Hits' LP. They released compilations, such as the Red and Blue albums which contain a mix of singles and LP tracks, and the 1 album which was a collection only of number one singles, but that was decades after they split up. It seems to have been a way to introduce the music to a new audience rather than repackage materia aw a cheap way to sell the same product to an exisiting fan base. However, I admit, there was a demand for a packagw that included the singles many of which never appeared on albums.

[@BuddhaB123]

Iron Maiden have done several best of albums

[@mydayis5]

Robbie Williams summed up Oasis perfectly. They made 2 great albums and then spent the next 14 years doing a lap of honour! 😂

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

Robbie williams though ffs! narcissistic little dik

[@thetragicyouth]

1: Suede 2: Pulp 3: Supergrass

[@davidwest9375]

Funny that Richard didn't realise the joke about "Best of the Beatles" from Alan Partridge - the album was released by Pete Best, the drummer sacked and replaced by Ringo, and contained no Beatles songs, but was by mr Best (formally) of the Beatles, so was technically correct - just as Alan would love :)

[@ChrisH78]

My top 3 britpop bands would be 3. Supergrass 2. Blur. 1. The Cranberries

[@kevinbermingham6186]

The crannberries ??? Great band but not a britpop band , not even a british band

[@lucasoheyze4597]

You must be a Yank.

[@josephfoulger9628]

I’ve never heard anyone claim the Cranberries, an Irish band, were britpop

[@ChrisH78]

@@josephfoulger9628 Almost as if my post ended on a surprising note in the form of a joke!

[@voxpopdublin]

Listen to masterplan. The B Sides.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

Shed 7 were vastly underated, though granted there are so many britpop bands underrated

[@rjmunro]

Are greatest hits albums in the charts because if I say to my smart speaker something like "play ABBA Dancing Queen" it often counts it from the greatest hits album rather from the original?

[@michael90cr86]

At the risk of sounding like a pretentious idiot, recently I started to listening to albums completely, and it has added a really new flavour to my music listening. For context I tend to listen to music to listen to music, whereas I'm more likely to use podcasts for times when I'm doing something else in the background. I find Spotify mixes don't work well for me, because I have a quite personal connection to specific music across quite a lot of genres (E. G., given to fly by Pearl Jam sits naturally next to Chelsea Daggers in an odd way). I'm not a music purist and I don't do this all the time (I have a Latin and affrobeats playlist for when I want to dance or have an energy boost in the morning ). But I've found album listening weirdly exploratory and fulfilling, I no longer spend time skipping through a long playlist looking for the signs I'm in the mood for, but instead get to focus in detail on an artist I love, remembering songs I liked but haven't heard in ages, or get to focus on listening to one artist that I like but only know one or two songs of. A Classic example is songs for the death and a more discovery has been aya nakamura first two albums (after loving her in the Paris opening ceremony).

[@brianmccaig]

re Nicolas Cage. I'd normally agree that he's normally playing a version of himself, however after recently watching Longlegs, I'd say his performance was a revelation. I honestly forgot it was him. An incredibly creepy performance.

[@PaulMurphyMusic]

For me it’s 3. Oasis 2. Blur 1. Pulp. These aren’t necessarily my favourite bands of the era, but they summarise britpop for me.

[@ladyflimflam]

Wild Oats IRL sounds like the opposite of the plot of The Producers

[@JonCripwell]

Hugh Grant. No idea how he was omitted from this conversation.

[@byghostlight1]

Yes, Pulp!!! Seriously, I get the enjoyment of Oasis but they are nothing compared to the sheer talent of Pulp!

[@davidtomkins4242]

Iron maiden have done Best Ofs. It was called ‘Best of the Beast’

[@derrickmarais]

Jenna Ortega did kick back at the idea of playing a female version of Edward Scissorhands. She said she didn't want to play a genderbent character but rather original female characters , but I thought she just didn't want to become stuck working only for Tim Burton.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

Yep, Pulp is the correct answer. The lyricism, the humour, the references. Pulp and Suede were both way better than Oasis or Blur, Blur got better as they went on. more interesting, but at the height of Britpop, only "Boys and Girls" really stuck out. I was also listening to Curve, Skunk Anansie, The Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead and Chumbawamba (pre the hit) at the time. All of which are better than than that NoWaySis cover band 😜 Even the Auteurs was a more enjoyable band (so much promise, they almost delivered, almost!).

[@lucasoheyze4597]

Girls & Boys pre-dates Britpop by around a year.

[@simondavies419]

Coldplay have literally got a new album coming out soon...

[@dibdab101]

Nooooo!!!! 😫

[@thecroft6070]

30:01 3. Ride 2. Pulp 1. Suede

[@paulandhisguitars]

Iron maiden nave done several greatest hits / best of's.

[@markieveeYT]

Did Richard and Marina just call us C U Next Tuesday’s? 😂

[@Hexon66]

Isn't this all just academic? Any Britpop fan is just going to say what NME tells them to think anyway.

[@lucasoheyze4597]

Not these days...now it's all articles about what trainers Stormzy likes.

[@thegoodthebadandthescribbl7560]

Picture of Elastica with…it was like nothing that had come before…except that they had ripped off both Wire and the Stranglers 😝

[@BrightAsAButton]

The editing of camera angles on Marina was dizzying!

[@joeharper4046]

Do The Divine Comedy count as Brit pop? I know Neil is Irish but he seems to fit in the genre easily

[@no_one_of_that_name_here]

I honestly thought he was joking when he mentioned the Shed

[@MassiveCatLittleLegs]

Blur, Pulp, Suede. Elastica would be close, but only 1 album. And they were a lot like Wire.

[@seanjones180]

Were oasis the best of their contemporaries? That's a Question for idiots and fangirls.. Were they the biggest though? I'm struggling to think of a British band that would generate the same fervour over a reunion.

[@undisputed1291]

1, Oasis 2, Cast 3, the Verve

[@steveb1972]

See You Next Tuesday? Don’t call each other that!!!!😳

[@lexman7179]

I think Queen is a band that really doesn't work if you just listen to the best ofs (they have three). It all sounds too samey listening to the actual albums shows their full range which is a lot greater than just the best ofs stuff.

[@bentilley5412]

I can't help but feel that Marina missed Richard's set-up for a 'maybe' at the end there. Anyway, you're both wrong: the best britpop band was any band Luke Haines was in (which I'm sure he would disagree with most vociferously, but he'd be wrong), or Jack.

[@Robert-f4j5u]

Lol,Iron Maiden have had at least three best of albums, but OK.

[@billyr4556]

Best Of The Beatles is an album by Pete Best.

[@richardwatson70]

Iron Maiden - Best of the Beast. 1996.

[@fraserwebster8761]

Love the edgy desire by so many people to claim Oasis aren't that good. You should follow Stewart Lee's example.

[@bazza5699]

i have to admit i'm not a greatest hits fan. however, if you're recommended an artist there's no better place to start.. then do a deep dive into their music

[@clarekelso7841]

I'm with Hugh Grant. It's bloody boring to be type cast. I'm known as a comedy actor as I'm a professional improvisor but when I do a serious role on TV (which is not often!) I get so many comments about Ï didn't know you could do drama or that was nothing like you. We are actors first. I know a lot of actors I work with feel the same way. Casting agents don't seem to to have much imagination.

[@drdavid1963]

Never heard Shed Seven before - just listened to three of their albums and Noel was right. They are utter tuneless garbage.

[@PeppyOoze]

Osman is such a populist... Beatles greatest hits: damn.

[@andy2950]

Who is General Ortaga ? 😮

[@billsherrington5996]

I believe the Eagles greatest hits album is the best selling album of all time

[@timothygraham4304]

Did Richard make a joke at the end by saying you can never say definitely, taking a jab at Oasis, when the phrase is you can never say never, which he obviously did?🤔😂

[@SeamusLavery]

I assume he was a Font Of All Knowledge

[@factoryfactory7142]

That richards clever, he doesnt even move his lips!

[@leon327]

Britpop? A description named by the media. Just give me a good melody