“Columbia” by Oasis

Oasis parked "Columbia" fifth on their 1994 debut Definitely Maybe, but it dates from the band's first days: Noel Gallagher most likely wrote it in late 1991, and it takes its name from the Columbia Hotel in London. The credit is Noel's alone, though Liam found the melody and the chorus in a jam, and what the words are getting at is still anybody's guess. Mark Coyle produced it with the band, Owen Morris mixed it, and Noel and Paul Arthurs lock their guitars together.

It opened the band's second gig, at the Boardwalk in Manchester in January 1992, and they played it at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut the night Alan McGee first saw them. It was also on the white label demo that got them onto McGee's Creation label, and that stripped-down take later turned up as a B-side on "Supersonic", their first single.

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