Similar sounding bands.

Agree that Television Talking Heads is odd, but for me Feelies and The Velvets also seems odd, slow tempos vs hyper fast tempos and too cool for school vs hyper nerd sensibility. Maybe later period Feelies bumps up a bit closer

I'll nominate post 1974 Bob Seager and Bruce Springsteen

I've found many of the suggested pairings here a little hard to understand, but it's even harder to understand how anyone would question the Beatles-Oasis connection. I'm not a giant fan of Oasis and can't pretend to know their catalog very well, but the stuff that hit the radio (Wonderwall, etc.) just dripped with Beatles' influences. Not to mention that whichever Gallagher brother sang lead, he always sounded like a parody of John Lennon.

I'm not suggesting that Oasis was a GOOD knock-off of The Beatles, but they were unquestionably a knock-off. I even seem to remember that they were sued by Paul McCartney for plagiarism - but I might be mistaken there. Either way, I completely agree with Czarivey's description of the connection ...."very obviously".

Ghosthouse,

Your post prompted me to visit Wikipedia to see if there was anything there on the connection. Oasis (among a handful of other bands) is prominently featured in their article devoted to The Beatles' cultural impact. Here's the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles%27_influence_on_popular_culture#Beatlesque

BTW, there are many other bands that I might have pointed to first, but the Oasis-Beatles connection apparently seems evident to a lot of folks. FWIW.

Ghost,

Of course you're right that influences do not necessarily "sound-alikes" make. In this case, tho - the musical similarity between these bands struck me immediately (particularly given the vocal aping of John Lennon). As I indicated in my post (above), I'm not familiar with most of Oasis' music, but (for me) their radio play just suggested a straight Beatles knock-off, kind of a minor league Badfinger. That's one reason why their popularity among music-nerd types always surprised me: Oasis' music seemed to go past "influenced" and straight into "imitation"....to my ear. Obviously, that difference in assessing their music means that I heard more similarity than did many other careful listeners, so your point is taken....opinions will vary on the subject.

BTW, per Wikipedia, it appears that I was mistaken about the law suit. It appears that the Beatles parody band The Ruttles successfully sued Oasis for ripping off one of their songs after McCartney had successfully sued the Ruttles on the same basis. In any event, I guess it's safe to say that many folks (at least one of them a judge) hear a similarity, tho not everyone.

Ghost,

Probably the quickest way to hear similarities is to check out the video mash-ups from the time of Oasis' moment in the sun, when wags were bashing them for their pilfering of Beatles material. I'd guess that some of them are probably still available on YouTube. I know that there was one called "A Day in The Wonderwall" which overlayed the vocals from "A Day In The Life" atop the instrumentals from Wonderwall.

There was also a popular one that IIRC mixed Let It Be with Don't Look Back in Anger and another one that mixed an Oasis song (can't recall the title) with the vocals from "I Should Have Known Better". There are a bunch of these videos out there, they're occasionally amusing, and they tend to illustrate the point at hand. See for yourself if you find them convincing.

Happy Listening.

Ozzy,

Personally, I'd go with Yoko Ono and NYC subway train making tight turn at high speed.