Noel Gallagher On The Stone Roses 'Fools Gold'

From Elvis Presley and the Sex Pistols to Derrick May and Herb Alpert, Noel Gallagher has told the current issue of Mojo (on sale now) the tracks that shaped his life.

"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."