It’s cool and I remember this place going nuts for it when it was released, but the entire album would need to be incredibly psyched up to make it flow. Maybe it could be shorter too.

For all it’s talk that it’s ‘psychedelic’ and ‘groove based’, it’s not really an interesting sonic experiment that album. Very sludgy sounding and bland. The only songs I really like sound wise is Shock of the Lightning and Soldier On. The latter is very hypnotic with the mellotron (I think?) and that weird whooshing sound at the end. A proper producer could have had a lot of fun with that tune and really taken it to its limits and made it epic. I think it’s one of Liam’s best songs, but with a real producer on hand it could have been Liam’s masterpiece.

It's an interesting idea although I don't think people would have appreciated the reduction in track numbers, regardless if they knew the second half was of lesser quality.

Imo the ending of The Turning would have been perfect to be the end of the album.

For a while in 2008 when the Chemical Brothers remix / reimagining of Falling Down was released as the first studio track from the DOYS era publicity campaign (before Shock of the lightning if I remember rightly) I think most of us were all blown away that this was what the album might sound like - it would have been easily the most experimental departure under the Oasis banner, the dance-rock big beat hybrid Noel frequently hinted at (in assigning death in vegas as previous producers etc). Of course for good or bad DOYS turned out not be that far out in any way shape or form.

An absolute banger though to be sure.

This. I was actually disappointed with the album version after hearing the depth and clarity of that Chemical Brothers Remix. FD has grown on me over the years - never was a bad song, just the remix (especially the piano part) had my expectations too high.

It's more an AA sound than a Noel sound.

It's a remix first and foremost, so it has its liberties, it's too trippy for Noel tastes and also very different from the Oasis trademark sound, it would trasform Oasis into another thing entirely, they wouldn't know how to sing and play it live, if that is possible.

I was very open for Oasis to be more experimental, but that is waaaayyy too out there, maybe only Pink Floyd could get on with that, people wouldn't digest it very well, a very subjective form of sound and all over the place, too pretentious even for the Gallaghers.

There's no need to eliminate any tracks - just swap the album version of Falling Down for the AA version and it would all still comfortably fit on a single CD.

A variation of the same question - what if the AA had produced DOYS instead of Dave Sardy. I would LOVE to hear an AA version of the same album - really bring out the dark psychedelic hints and grooves that the album has already but make it more colorful and sonically interesting...could have been AMAZING I think!

What is fascinating to me about the whole AA saga is that Noel shelved it because it "wasn't right", but now, he is essentially doing very similar things with his last two sets of releases (WBTM and the two EP's): less stadium rock, more groove driven and experimental (for him) -- even including female vocalists singing lead. I could be describing the Falling Down version above as well with that statement. It makes me wonder how much of it had to do with him not yet being in a place where he felt he could break away from Oasis/the Oasis stadium rock sound and probably had more to do with him not being willing to let AA do what they wanted with the production. In that regard, you can dislike WBTM and the new stuff, but at least David Holmes got Noel to loosen up a bit and allow for other possibilities with the production and direction. Of course, that is also the source of the ongoing tribalness now between those who want Oasis and those who appreciate the different direction Noel has gone in. This is why we can't have nice things.

Totally. My point is not to compare the musical output of the two endeavors. It's interesting that 2011 Noel was not having any of it, especially if you believe the AA guys that it was ultimately shelved because Noel felt he was losing control over the direction of it. 2017 Noel is all about showing up to the studio with a guitar, bag of effects pedals and recording some riffs that are sent to California for some faceless bass player to record tracks on it. Basically, it seems that Holmes was able to do what AA was not able to do: get Noel to loosen up a bit and allow a producer to help pull him in some new and interesting directions.

Noel is a giant Pussy. I get it too. He didn’t want some weird psychedelic cosmic record launching his solo career. I think you are right that Noel prob took a backseat when Gaz and company shaped his material and for Noel in 2010 that is a major change of philosophy. He loved these guys immensely in 2008. Sorry to see it sour by 2012. I still wish he’d make it a record store release or just drop it for free via his website. Artists do that stuff all the time. A no pressure fun filled release for the fans.

This made me laugh out loud. That would be the most non-old man fist waving Noel move of all time, if he did that. Don't get me wrong, I agree with you 1000% here, but there is probably a better chance of Oasis reforming than Noel giving anything away for free, let alone over the internet (which is to say 0% chance). He is going to die on that hill.