Again compilations, searching for music to steal. 16 songs, some rubbish and not even 1 by the greatest rock band in music history. And Noel was the one wearing their T-shirts. Led Zeppelin.
Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
In the hands of The King, this Rodgers and Hart standard becomes a thing of crepuscular, country beauty.
"If you are in any doubt as to what a great singer Elvis was before the berks took over, just listen to him go flasetto on this. It's fucking aching! My dad was a DJ so we would hear this kind of thing around the house when we were growing up. He played in Irish social clubs, country and western and all that shit. I play Blue moon on guitar a lot, but the sound of it just grips me. The funny thing is, all the rock 'n' roll geniuses went in show business if they didn't die, so they were doing films and adverts and all that. They did sell out a little bit."
Wondering what do you think of Beady Eye's version eh? Don't listen to them as usual and then speak about them.
Buddy Holly - Well... All Right
Heartbeat was the last single to be released by Holly before his death. This was the B-side.
The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
A mid-period Beatles evergreen and the first Fabs single to break the three-minute mark, Ticket To Ride couples chiming verses with deft pop choruses.
Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy Of Gold
Soundtracking one of the most famous scenes from Sergio Leone's western epic The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, this is a slice of Ennio Morricone at his most awe-inspiring.
Angelo & Eighteen - Flight 2
This mantric Mickie Most-produced oddity used to soundtrack Noel's post-Haçienda comedowns.
Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You
Written by Bacharach and David, made a hit by Herb Alpert and covered by one Noel Gallagher live at the Royal Festival Hall in 1996.
The Smiths - Hand In Glove
The Smith's dark, swooning debut single heralded the arrival of the band that would blow the mind of our guest editor when he heard them on the radio at the age of 17.
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
The band that cemented Noel's vision for Oasis released this acid house meets Krautrock epic in late 1989. "Fools Gold was a peak, one of the greatest things we did," said the Roses' Ian Brown. "It doesn't sound like anybody else. It's just a killer groove."
"You get records that could have been recorded yesterday and this is one of them. It's also the sound of the band peaking: they never did anything that matched it. This is 20 years old and it still sounds like the future. Like the New York Dolls and The Velvet Underground, The Stone Roses came together and something happened between the four members. They stumbled across something.
It was only fleeting for them. They did a few big gigs - Spike Island was 30,000 - and it's laced with sadness, listening to this, because they could never beat it. They came close with Love Spreads, but this isn't even music. Someone was channelling something on that weekend that they don't even know. The amazing thing about this: There's barely a tune in it. Try and play it on an acoustic guitar. There is no song. It's a bass line. It's alchemy. I can imagine how it would have happened. Someone would have started playing something and someone else would have have said, "Do that again." it's an unbelievable piece of music. How can it have ever dated, when it was so of its time."
The Damned - Don't Cry Wolf
The Damned's last single for Stiff Records was produced by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason. Noel saw the band on their 1980 Black Album tour. The future Oasis chief's introduction to live music started here.
Rhythim Is Rhythim - Strings Of Life
An acid house perennial and inspiration for one of Noel's new tracks What A Life!, this 12-inch was released by Detroit techno wizard Derrick May in the summer of 1987. Noel heads to the Haçienda. Leaves three years later.
The Gun - Sunshine
This 1968 B-side mini-anthem from the shortlived British power trio could easily be the distant cousin of Champagne Supernova. "Sun shines brightly everyday/Let it shine, let it shine". Pure Oasis arena fodder.
The Left Banke - Desiree
Another Baroque-pop gem from the New York group that scored a hit with 1966's Walk Away Renee.
Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
Described by Noel as "an incredible recording of an incredible song", the Pistols' Jubilee blitzkrieg still sounds like it might bring the walls crashing down.
Neil Young - Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
Young's brutally honest statement about life in the rock'n'roll hurricane appears in both acoustic and electric format on 1979's Rust Never Sleeps. Oasis covered it during their two-night stint at Wembley Stadium in 2000.
Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
The second Mickie Most-produced track on Noel's list made its first appearance on Donovan's 1968 Hurdy Gurdy Man album. Its jazzy arrangements prompted King Crimson to cover the song live in the early '70s.
Wings - Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
We fittingly end with a Beatle on top post-Beatles form. Macca's Band On The Runcloser is a piano-led pop tour de force. Noel: "He's Paul, isn't he? He's a Beatle. What can you say?
