Blur’s music has far more soul, playing skill, wordplay, satire and variety than Oasis. The only letdown is Albarn can’t really sing, but then the Gallaghers aren’t much better.
I was at a northern English university and while the first Oasis album was a far bigger hit, by the time their third album shipped they were considered samey retreads and the musicians who’d declared Oasis the better group were playing Blur numbers because they were more of a challenge.
There were even Oasis parodies like No Way Sis’ “I’d like to teach the world to sing” (lampooning the obvious rip-off in “Shaker Maker”) and Mike Flowers Pops’ “Wonderwall” which turned it into Bacherach.
Top Man, Another Century, Bank Holiday, Far Out, Country House.
I agree. I preferred Blur. Never liked anything from Oasis except Wunderwall and that too just the chorus