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@tjalke, you should delete this thread and re-do it with a poll. (I do love me some polls).

Tough One -

HC needs a complete overhaul. Fucking shit album.

SOTSOG and DOYS would have been top, classic albums with a few adjustments. So it's between those two.

BHN reissue disk 3. Appear to be Just some random demos that we haven't hear about and are of the same songs. Don't get why they are on there. Just sound the same but with Noel singing them.

She Is Love is Noel's version of Song Bird. Wonder if there's a subconscious element going on there?

Definitely Maybe:
Axe: Shakermaker and Columbia
Replace: Cloudburst and Fade Away

(What's The Story)Morning Glory?:
Axe: Swamp Song snippet one
Replace: Bonehead's Bank Holiday

Be Here Now:
Axe: Magic Pie and Fade In/Out
Replace: The Fame and Stay Young

Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants:
Axe: Fuckin' In The Bushes
Replace: Let's All Make Believe

Heathen Chemistry:
Axe: Force Of Nature
Replace: Just Gettin' Older

Don't Believe The Truth:
Axe: Mucky Fingers, A Bell Will Ring and Love Like A Bomb
Replace: Can Ya See It Now, Eyeball Tickler and Pass Me Down The Wine

Dig Out Your Soul:
Axe: (Get Off Your)High Horse Lady, Ain't Got Nothin, Soldier On and Waiting For The Rapture
Replace: Boy With The Blues, I Believe In All and Four Letter Word

So going off my list, Dig Out Your Soul has the worst tracklisting (as far as I am concerned)

If we're talking Oasis, DOYS was the worst tracklisting mess-up.

The first eight tracks are some of the best and most consistent they ever did in the 2000s until the terrible twosome. If only they had finished Come on Outside and put it on, instead of Ain't Got Nothin', then closed the album with Boy With the Blues and Soldier On. That would've been perfect.

SOTSOG is close, but a lot of the tracks that feel unfinished and rushed. Although, I do think that One Way Road being on instead of Little James and Let's All Make Believe being on instead of I Can See a Liar, with stripped down versions of Sunday Morning Call and Where Did it All Go Wrong?, would've made for a much better album than the official release we got.

DM and MG is perfect, BHN only needed Stay Young instead of Magic Pie, HC should've been an EP, and DBTT is good but Eyeball Tickler instead of The Meaning of Soul and a Liam-sung Lord Don't Slow Me Down instead of A Bell Will Ring would've made that album better.

Now going back to the first sentence, Beady Eye's two albums were the worst tracklisting choices I've seen on any Gallagher-related album. BE is probably the worst though since three of the era's best tracks (Evil Eye, Back After the Break, Off at the Next Exit) didn't even make the album. 

None. They're all perfect

Oh SOTSOG for sure. The band needed to prove Be Here Now was just a blip and seeing as it was the only step the band had put wrong so far there must have been some hope that the band could release something special, so when the band released something worse they only proved the naysayers right. Personally I think they came back at least a year to early and should have got someone like the Chemical Brothers to produce it.

I'm guessing Liam's shortening range twisted Noel's hand when it came to tracklisting choices (like much of the noughties - Heathen Chemistry is real bad in this regard) but here's my attempt.

SOTSOG
1) Fuckin' In The Bushes
2) Go Let It Out [Austin Powers Edit]
3) Force of Nature
4) Who Feels Love?
5) Put Yer Money Where Your Mouth Is
6) Revolution Song
7) Little By Little
8) Full On [Liam Sung*]
9) Teotihuacan [Album Edit]
10) Gas Panic!
11) Where Did It All Go Wrong?
12) Let's All Make Believe
13) Let There Be Love

*Only to balance out the Noel/Liam ratio. Doubt he could have in reality.

Would this had been enough to be seen as a return to form? Unlikely, however I'd have certainly prefered it to Be Here Now. Single wise I'm going with Little By Little, Go Let It Out and err... Gas Panic!, maybe? Force of Nature? Hmm...

DM, WTSMG, BHN are all fine I reckon. Would've liked to have seen Strange Thing used as a b-side on one of the earlier singles tho (maybe Live Forever instead of the random live Supersonic track).

For SOTSOG I reckon....
1) Fuckin In The Bushes
2) Go Let It Out
3) Who Feels Love
4) Full On
5) Little James
6) Gas Panic
7) Where Did It All Go Wrong? (Demo version)
8) Let's All Make Believe
9) Sunday Morning Call
10) I Can See A Liar
11) Roll It Over

I'd then replace LAMB on the b-side with Revolution Song as that was recorded by that stage anyway.

For HC....
1) The Hindu Times
2) Shout It Out Loud
3) Hung In A Bad Place
4) Stop Crying Your Heart Out
5) Songbird (demo version)
6) Little By Little
7) Thank You For The Good Times
8) Probably All In The Mind
9) Born On A Different Cloud
10) Better Man
11) Idler's Dream

Wouldn't change DBTT at all. I'd have I Can See It Now and WPTWOTWOMS as proper b-sides tho replacing SHISOMO and the live track they used on the LTBL single.

For DOYS....
1) Bag It Up
2) The Turning
3) Waiting For The Rapture
4) The Shock Of The Lightning
5) I'm Outta Time
6) Get Off Your High Horse Lady
7) Falling Down
8) The Boy With The Blues
9) To Be Where There's Life
10) The Nature Of Reality
11) Soldier On

I was with you until you left Don't Look Back in Anger off of Morning Glory!

I'm not a nutter for the song like others are, but this cannot happen.

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Also, how can you add Pass Me Down The Wine and Eyeball Tickler to any album and not feel guilty about it?

Okay, I've got a dull Saturday. Read some "Pride & Prejudice", now there's no football, girlfriend is in the Netherlands, and it's too cold for tennis. So here's my fantasy Oasis career!!

DEFINITELY MAYBE (1994)
01) Rock 'n' Roll Star
02) Supersonic
03) Live Forever
04) Half the World Away
05) Columbia
06) Bring it on Down
07) Cigarettes & Alcohol
08) Listen Up
09) Slide Away
10) Married With Children
11) Whatever...

If you're gonna say Whatever wasn't available, then throw on Shakermaker at track two and Supersonic back to it's original place after Columbia. That'd still be pretty good, don't you think?. Singles:

#1: Supersonic
#2: Live Forever
#3: Whatever
#4: Cigarettes & Alcohol
#5: Rock 'n' Roll Star

(And again, sub Slide Away in for Whatever if you're gonna be all literal about the time-lines here. Loosen up!!)

(WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? (1995)
01) Hello
02) Roll With it
03) Wonderwall
04) Don't Look Back in Anger
05) Hey Now!
06) -
07) Some Might Say
08) Cast No Shadow
09) She's Electric
10) Morning Glory
11) - 
12) Champagne Supernova

Perfect tracklist! Just trim "Hey Now!" down a bit. Make "Cast No Shadow" like the Maine Road version. Singles:

#1: Some Might Say
#2: Don't Look Back in Anger (that'd beat Blur, ffs)
#3: Wonderwall
#4: Morning Glory + Roll With it
#5: Champagne Supernova

BE HERE NOW (1997)
01) D'You Know What I Mean?
02) My Big Mouth
03) The Masterplan
04) Stand By Me
05) I Hope, I Think, I Know
06) The Girl in the Dirty Shirt
07) Stay Young
08) Fade In/Out
09) Be Here Now
10) Don't Go Away
11) Acquiesce
12) All Around the World
13) We're Getting Better (Man!!)
14) All Around the World (Reprise)

You madman! You've made Be Here Now longer!!! Au, contraire. With my trims of the songs (trims, not edits), this playlist comes it at one whole minute shorter than the original. But the average song length is considerably shorter, there's more variety, there's more singles, and it's just better all-around. It's still a big, mad, joyous album, though. Singles:

#1: Stand By Me
#2: Don't Go Away
#3: D'You Know What I Mean?
#4: The Masterplan
#5: All Around the World 

One thing I would say is that, if you're willing to stretch the hypothetical, this album should have come out in 1996. Let it be the glorious last victory of the mid-nineties culture in Britain, and then finish on Knebworth in 1997 before the mood changed forever. That's stretching things a bit, though, so fair play if you're not having that one. 

UNDERNEATH THE SKY (1998)
01) Underneath the Sky
02) Shakermaker
03) Magic Pie
04) Up in the Sky
05) Rockin' Chair
06) Talk Tonight
07) My Sister Lover
08) Digsy's Dinner
09) It's Good to Be Free
10) Headshrinker
11) Fade Away
12) Sad Song
13) Bonehead's Bank Holiday
14) Going Nowhere
15) I Got the Fever
16) Take Me Away
17) Round Are Way
18) D'Yer Wanna Be a Spaceman?
(Bonus Tracks: Let Forever Be and Setting Sun)

Had to change the title, obvs. This should help with anyone going "You shouldn't change any of the tracklists, the amazing b-sides were all part of the magic!!". Like, this is still a pretty magical set of b-sides. This is still pretty good, you know?


STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS (2002)
01) Fuckin' in the Bushes
02) Go Let it Out
03) Who Feels Love?
04) Little by Little
05) The Hindu Times
06) Gas Panic!
07) Idler's Dream
08) Let's All Make Believe
09) Where Did it All Go Wrong?
10) Stop Crying Your Heart Out
11) Roll it Over

This is the biggest shift, but so it should be; this was their biggest mis-step. They should have waited a long time after the nineties, let that memory settle and age well, and then come back only once they had the great new songs to go with the great new sound. All these tracks would've been sang by Liam (bar "Idler's Dream"), and "Hindu Times" and "WDIAGW" would be much more like the demo versions. "Little by Little" is faster, darker, heavier. It's a belter! Singles:

#1: Go Let it Out
#2: Stop Crying Your Heart Out
#3: Little by Little
#4: Where Did it All Go Wrong? + The Hindu Times

DON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH - EP (2005)
01) Turn up the Sun
02) Songbird
03) Lyla
04) The Importance of Being Idle
05) Part of the Queue
06) The Roller
07) Pass Me Down the Wine
08) Let there be Love

I just don't think there were the songs at this time for a good album. Group the acoustic-y tracks together and make a nice little EP. Produced by someone who is not Dave Sardy, and don't let anyone who looks like Dave Sardy with a fake moustache in through the door, either. You can add Eyeball Ticker, WPTWOTWOMS, and She is Love for an album, if you want. Singles:

#1: Lyla
#2: The Importance of Being Idle

DIG OUT YOUR SOUL (2008)
01) Bag it Up
02) The Turning
03) Waiting for the Rapture
04) The Shock of the Lightning
05) I'm Outta Time
06) Come On Outside
07) Falling Down
08) To Be Where There's Life
09) Record Machine
10) The Boy With the Blues
11) Stop the Clocks

Again, NOT produced by Sardy. Get someone who can bring out the heaviness of the grooves. Liam sings all tracks. I'd have done a surprise release for this, I think, since it's not really a single-heavy album. Bring out "The Shock of the Lightning" one Friday, and then the next Friday, the album. Get the #1 single that it should have been, and move on for a good final tour. 

It took me ages to decide between "Stop the Clocks" and "Soldier On". I'm fine with either. I like them both enough. 

I just think their career should've ended with a song written by Noel and sang by Liam, though. 

CHASING THE SUN: THE BEST OF OASIS (2009)
01) Supersonic
02) Don't Look Back in Anger
03) Stand By Me
04) She's Electric
05) Morning Glory
06) Go Let it Out
07) Roll With it
08) Falling Down
09) Gas Panic!
10) Cast No Shadow
11) The Masterplan
12) Don't Go Away
13) Little by Little 
14) Half the World Away
15) Champagne Supernova

01) Some Might Say
02) Wonderwall
03) Live Forever
04) Stop Crying Your Heart Out
05) Whatever
06) The Shock of the Lightning
07) The Importance of Being Idle
08) D'You Know What I Mean?
09) The Hindu Times
10) Songbird
11) Whatever
12) Slide Away
13) Acquiesce
14) All Around the World
15) Rock 'n' Roll Star

And that's that! I wonder how it would have changed their perception. I think the nineties would be more-or-less the same: a golden age with a mad third album that wasn't quite the record for the time it came out in. The 2000's would be fascinating to know the difference, though; I think waiting a while for SOTSOG, and coming back with a single-studded record in a darker sound would have given their career a massive second-wind, and in all honesty, I don't think the later albums even happen in that timeline. More likely Noel enjoys the success that ambition would bring and keeps Oasis a more vibrant band in their second half.

Who knows? It was pretty good the way it was, still.