Oasis A to Z

The Weller cover is better than Noel’s version.

Part of the Queue

The other Noel-led highlight from DBTT, a rare deviation from 4/4 time a la Golden Brown, we later found out that the guitar line was originally a component of "Stop the clocks".

It's catchy, though not exactly rock 'n' roll, what with talk of falling out of love with TCOTU (touched upon previously in Mucky Fingers - "fed up with life in the city"), we do get some particularly good lines - "the streets and the thousands of colours all bleed into one", and "every begining has broken its promise". 7/10

A bag of shite unlike One Way Road

remember hearing a tune, it was a 70s or 80s dance tune with the exact same melody as that, fucked if i can find it tho. not a song i think ive ever deliberately put on or ever will. not outright awful just a bit meh, 4/10.

Pass Me Down the Wine

Liam penned raspy effort from the DBTT era - it's fine; maybe with a better vocal it'd deserve a place on the album ahead of Keep the dream alive. Maybe. Builds nicely before the vocal. "Will you dance for me tonight - I promise I won't bite". Eek. Unnecessary swearing during the climax. Quite pretty backing vocals during the "in the morning..." bits. 6/10

Put it a 9 from me.

Pass Me Down The Nine

'Let the Music Play' by Shannon.

thank you! wouldve drove me mad until i next randomly next heard it.

Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is

The other Noel throwaway from SOTSOG, Liam was a fan as it let him get a bit narky on an album that's otherwise quite down and docile for the most part. Derivative of the Doors' Roadhouse Blues, but not to the point that you cringe. It's… fine. 6/10

always hated this and icsal....im pretty sure noel acknowledged before the album was released that they were pretty shitty...always amazed me that someone who wrote the masterplan and spunked it on a bside let the quality control slip this much as to allow something this poor to make an album. 3/10.

Rock 'n' Roll Star

Opener to the debut album, it starts sounding like a yawn and a stretch in bed, before getting going, which is just right. Noel descrbed it as a statement of intent, and it is. The highlight lyrically is the middle eight - "you're not down with who I am - look at you now you're all in my hands tonight" - that's the working class lad to onstage superstar journey in short. All the haters, all the doubters, all the knockers, mocking Noel as wannabe musician suddenly among the throng jumping, singing along, and hanging on every word from the stage. ends a bit poorly with that plodding "it's just rock and rolllllll" stuff though. 8/10

thats the best bit. 10 obviously

Yep

Always preferred both Morning Glory and RnRS live, even in later years - Liam's raspier voice suited the tunes more. Nowt wrong with the recorded versions though, clearly. Pass Me Down The Wine is decent enough for a b-side. PYMWYMI is mega, terrific vocals and those dirty guitars and weird pounding drums are music to my ears. I'm clearly biased towards anything Giants but this is clearly the greatest song on earth (for the next few minutes).

Rockin' Chair

The only Oasis track with a fade-in, right? Acoustic full band b-side, with Liam on vocals and backing vox - sung well, we get some of Noel's usual themes from this era: wanting to leave his town, and feeling/being old. The "bring me down, I think you're rude" is a bit crap bit still - 7/10.

10

7?! It's at least a 10 and a bit more. A tune I always come back to, without doubt one of my favourites. 'I'm older than I wish to be, this town holds no more for me' is such a morbid yet hopeful lyric all rolled into one. I've taken that advice a couple of times down the years and packed my bags. How many other acoustic solos did they do? Zilch I'd say.