Hard to believe that it's over a decade now that Oasis have been in our lives. General consensus runs that they've never reached the heights of their first two albums, and of course, general consensus is spot on. Yet occasionally, they can knock off a cracking little tune like this one.
Lord Don't Slow Me Down is Oasis' first ever download-only single, but they've certainly not gone all Radiohead on us. Weirdly, this sounds more like the White Stripes than anything, stomping bar-room blues with Noel taking lead vocals. It's nothing radical, but cranked up to full volume it sounds superb.
With even Noel himself admitting the song's somewhat throwaway (it was originally meant to be on the band's last album, but was dropped at the last minute), it also means that it come as a pleasant surprise to most fans, having no ridiculously high expectations to live up. The forthcoming DVD of the same name should be the usual riotously entertaining stuff.
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