The best No 1 records: The Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher – Setting Sun

What better use of Gallagher Snr's commercial clout at Oasis's apex than to take this psychedelic nervous breakdown to the very top? The Chemical Brothers would soon get there under their own steam with Block Rockin' Beats but this is a much more ragged, brutal piece of work: Tomorrow Never Knows with Satan on drums instead of Ringo, and so crazed with distortion that Noel's voice becomes just another noise in the melee. It was the sound of two parallel mid-90s trends – Britpop and breakbeats – smashed together like Tonka trucks. And like Born Slippy, another riotous dance record that tore up the charts that year, it evokes a hedonism so intense that it feels like it's already spiralling into chaos. That's a sensation Noel in his cocaine pomp must have understood.

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