If you want the Noel Gallagher albums in order, there are eleven of them, and my map runs them as a single route: the seven Oasis studio albums and the four Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds records, from Definitely Maybe in 1994 to Council Skies in 2023.
Two brothers started that route. Only one of them finishes it.
The short version. My Noel Gallagher map plots 11 studio albums across 29 years, 7 as Oasis and 4 as Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, with 105 credited contributors on my research sheet, six of them choirs, orchestras or groups. Noel appears on all 11. Liam appears on the first 7 and stops at Dig Out Your Soul in 2008. Definitely Maybe carries 6 names, Council Skies carries 42. Guests include Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, Johnny Depp, Richard Ashcroft, Zak Starkey, Robert Smith and the Pet Shop Boys. Available as a Giclée art print in A2 and A1, unframed or in a black wood frame, from £42.00.
The Noel Gallagher Albums in Order, and the One Line That Covers Them All
Here is the sequence the map draws, station by station. Definitely Maybe (1994), (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995), Be Here Now (1997), Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000), Heathen Chemistry (2002), Don't Believe the Truth (2005) and Dig Out Your Soul (2008) as Oasis, then Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (2011), Chasing Yesterday (2015), Who Built the Moon? (2017) and Council Skies (2023).
Noel is credited on every one of the eleven, which sounds obvious until you look at what else is on the print. This is the only line with no break, no late start and no ending.
Liam's line spans seven albums and ends with Dig Out Your Soul in 2008. Bonehead reaches three. Guigsy reaches three. Tony McCarroll gets one and a bit, and I mean that literally, which is the strangest thing in the whole research.
Noel Gallagher and Oasis Discography Map
Eleven studio albums across 29 years and 105 contributors, from Definitely Maybe to Council Skies, drawn as one transit network.
Explore This Art PrintNoel Sings One Song in 1995 and All of Them by 2011
This is my favourite thing on the print, and it is entirely in the credits. On Definitely Maybe Noel has no lead vocal at all. On (What's the Story) Morning Glory? he has one, "Don't Look Back in Anger". On Be Here Now, he has one again.
Then it climbs. Two lead vocals on Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, three on Heathen Chemistry, three plus a co-lead on Don't Believe the Truth, and three on Dig Out Your Soul. By the first High Flying Birds album in 2011, he sings everything.
Nought, one, one, two, three, three and a half, three, and then all of them. Nobody announced that. It just happened one track at a time across fourteen years, and you can follow it station by station.
Two Drummers Share One Album, and One of Them Plays a Single Song
Every map forces a decision the fans never see, and this catalogue gave me one I had not hit before. Usually, a line ends at one album, and the replacement starts at the next. On Morning Glory, the handover happens inside the record.
Tony McCarroll is credited on drums for "Some Might Say" and nothing else. Alan White is credited on drums and percussion for everything except "Some Might Say". One album, two drummers, and the join is a single track.
The bass on the same record splits the same way. Guigsy plays bass on every track except "Cast No Shadow", "Wonderwall" and "She's Electric", and Noel plays it on those three. So a station can hold two people doing one job, and the map has to show both arriving rather than pretending the change happened cleanly between albums. It almost never does.
The Album Everybody Owns Is the Emptiest Point on the Route
Definitely Maybe in 1994 carries six credits: the five in the band plus Anthony Griffiths singing backing vocals on "Supersonic". That is the narrowest station on the whole print.
Council Skies in 2023 carries forty-two. French horns, trombones, trumpets, three percussionists, a bass trombone, an accordion, and a backing vocal group. Who Built the Moon? in 2017 is not far behind with thirty-two.
So the print gets denser as it goes, which is the opposite of what most people assume about this career. If you are buying for somebody who stopped listening in 1997, the right thing to point at is the far end of the line.
There Is a Pair of Brothers on This Map Who Got On Fine
Paul Stacey and Jeremy Stacey are twins, and both of them are deep in the solo years. Jeremy drums on all four High Flying Birds albums. Paul plays guitars, bass, keyboards and mellotron across six stations, going back to Standing on the Shoulder of Giants in 2000.
Between them, they cover seven of the eleven stations, against the three that Bonehead and Guigsy reach. I did not go looking for that, and I am not going to make more of it than it deserves, but it is sitting there in the credits of a catalogue defined by two brothers who could not work together.
Mike Rowe does something similar without the family angle. He played keyboards on Be Here Now in 1997 and is still doing so on Council Skies in 2023, across six stations spanning both bands.
Johnny Depp, Robert Smith, and the Pet Shop Boys Are All on Here
The guest list crosses more genres than the music does. These are the ones that stop people when they read the print closely.
| Guest | Album | Credited for |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Weller | Morning Glory (1995), Who Built the Moon? (2017) | Lead guitar on "Champagne Supernova", then organ 22 years later |
| Johnny Depp | Be Here Now (1997) | Slide guitar on one track |
| Richard Ashcroft | Be Here Now (1997) | Backing vocals, and the Verve on somebody else's record |
| P.P. Arnold | Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000) | Backing vocals on three tracks, alongside Linda Lewis |
| Johnny Marr | Four albums, 2002 to 2023 | Guitar, slide guitar, harmonica and backing vocals |
| Zak Starkey | Don't Believe the Truth (2005), Dig Out Your Soul (2008) | Drums, percussion and handclaps |
| David Holmes | Who Built the Moon? (2017) | Keyboards, tape loops and programming on all but one track |
| Robert Smith | Council Skies (2023) | Guitar and piano on one track |
| Jason Cooper | Council Skies (2023) | Drums on the same track as Robert Smith |
| Pet Shop Boys | Council Skies (2023) | Additional vocals on one track |
The Robert Smith and Jason Cooper pairing is the one I would not have found without reading every line. They are the Cure's singer and drummer, and they are on the same track on the same album, which means half a different band turns up in one place on this map.
A Gift for Noel Gallagher Fans, and Which Size It Should Be
The A2 at 420 x 594mm reads the whole structure cleanly. Noel's unbroken line, Liam's stopping at seven, and the way the map thickens after 2011 are all legible from a few feet back. It starts at £42.00 unframed.
The A1 at 594 x 841mm is for the fan who will read the small print. Forty-two names converge on Council Skies, and at that size you can pick out Geraint Watkins on accordion and the four French horn players rather than a solid band of interchangeable marks. There are two US inch sizes as well, 24 x 18 in and 36 x 24 in, which are separate formats rather than conversions of the A sizes.
Every size comes unframed if they would rather choose a frame themselves, or ready to hang in a black wood frame. Every print is a Giclée on 230gsm premium fine art paper, textured matte, archival and acid-free, with the full detail on the print and frame specification page.
Liam, Bonehead and Johnny Depp: The Common Questions
Is this an Oasis map or a Noel Gallagher map?
Both on one route. Seven Oasis studio albums from 1994 to 2008, then the four High Flying Birds albums from 2011 to 2023, in release order.
How many albums has Noel Gallagher made?
Eleven studio albums appear on this map, seven with Oasis and four as Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, spanning 29 years from 1994 to 2023. Live albums and compilations are not mapped, because the maps cover studio records only.
Is Liam on it?
Yes, on the seven Oasis albums, credited on lead vocals and tambourine throughout, plus acoustic guitar on Heathen Chemistry and tin whistle on Dig Out Your Soul. His line ends where Oasis does.
Are Bonehead and Guigsy shown?
Both, on the first three albums each. Bonehead on rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar and piano, Guigsy on bass.
Did Johnny Depp really play on an Oasis record?
He did slide guitar on one track of Be Here Now in 1997, and it is his only credit anywhere in my catalogue.
Does it show who played what on each track?
No. Each line tells you which albums the musician appears on. Track-level roles appear only on my Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup album map.
Follow Any of These Names, and You Land on Another Print
The obvious companion is the other half of the family. Liam's line stops at seven albums on this print and carries on elsewhere, which is exactly what the Liam Gallagher map covers. Hung together, the two prints show the split as a shape rather than a story.
The rest come off the credits. Paul Weller played on Morning Glory, and Noel has played on Weller records in return, so the Paul Weller map connects in both directions. Johnny Marr's four stations link it to the Johnny Marr and Smiths map, Zak Starkey's two link it to the Who map, and Robert Smith and Jason Cooper link it to the Cure map.
The wider scene sits in the Manchester bands collection and the Oasis and beyond collection. If you came here for the gift rather than the research, the Noel Gallagher discography map is the print itself, in A2 or A1, unframed or in a black wood frame, from £42.00. If you are not sure which map they would want, there is an art print gift card.
