The Amoeba music store in Hollywood hosts an occasional series where bands choose their favourite albums or new discoveries. Included in Noel Gallagher’s bag?

T-Rex

The Slider
Metal Guru, Telegram Sam

Marc Bolan on Metal Guru: “”Is a festival of life song. I relate ‘Metal Guru’ to all Gods around. I believe in a God, but I have no religion. With ‘Metal Guru’, it’s like someone special, it must be a Godhead. I thought how God would be, he’d be all alone without a telephone. I don’t answer the phone any more. I have codes where people ring me at certain times.” Metal Guru was the inspiration for a musical homage in The Smiths’ Panic.

Can

Anthology 1968-1993

Includes Moonshake from 1973.

Hawkwind

Epoch-Eclipse: Ultimate Best of Hawkwind

Includes Silver Machine (1972). Written by Robert Calvert and his then-wife Sylvia MacManus, Silver Machine with the vocal finally being recorded by Lemmy, after a bipolar Calvert had been sectioned.

David Axelrod

David Alexrod (1931-2017) recorded one of these albums, Songs of Innocence, in tribute to William Blake.

Songs of Innocence

The Edge

Earth Rot

Pink Floyd

A Collection of Great Dance Songs

This anthology includes Money released in 1973 and a tape loop of jingling cash register sounds and coins. “Money interested me enormously,” Roger Waters remarked on the twentieth anniversary of Dark Side. “I remember thinking, ‘Well, this is it and I have to decide whether I’m really a socialist or not.’ I’m still keen on a general welfare society, but I became a capitalist. You have to accept it. I remember coveting a Bentley like crazy. The only way to get something like that was through rock or the football pools. I very much wanted all that material stuff.”

Money

Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Wish You Were Here

Another Brick in the Wall