A slight variation on our theme for The List this month — this is Edwyn's favourite eight tracks from the tour car's cassette player, rather than from something clamped to his head. And the tour just reaching a conclusion when the Listers pounced had provided Mr Collins with a new insight into the role of the electric guitar in Orange Juice.

"I've had a religious experience, almost," he explained, "on this tour, in that I realised that you don't actually have to play your guitar. All you need to do is turn your pre-amp up to 10, your amp up to 10, and your guitar up to 10. It plays itself! Although I must admit it is very self-indulgent."

His feedback-prone Gretsch aids the process — a Black Hawk semi, second only to the White Falcon in the Gretsch range, and chosen live for its versatility. In the studio (RAK in June for a new album) Edwyn opts for the toppier precision of Fenders: a 1966 XII, a blonde '64 Tele, and a Jazzmaster of 1962 vintage. And a Burns NuSonic, too. And a last word: "I would say I'm one of the best contemporary non-guitarists."

Harry Hippy

Bobby Womack

"This has a really corny lyric all about this drop-out, a hippy, who sells the Free Press on Sunset and has a 'lady' called Mary Hippy — she's Harry's lady. All this anachronistic language. But the backing is absolutely superb, very Memphis-y guitar playing, which is what I like, very much like Steve Cropper. Great rhythm section, great groove. I do like ballads."

Dreaming My Dreams With You

Waylon Jennings

"The song was featured in Nicholas Roeg's film 'Bad Timing', that's when I first heard it, a version by Billy Kinsley who used to be in the Liverpool Express and the Merseybeats. But then I heard this version. It's a really moving ballad to an ex-lover, and like a lot of country-and-western it seems to be very sincere. The backing is minimal, a bass, a tambourine, guitar, and a string section — no drums."

I Want You

Bob Dylan

"It's so exuberant. I was interested to hear that it's a song about Edie Sedgwick. The line in it: 'The dancing child with his Chinese suit/He spoke to you, I took his flute/I wasn't that cute to him/But I did it because he lied, because time was on his side', well, the dancing child was Brian Jones, and at the time they had that single out, 'Time Is On My Side'. An interesting bit of rock trivia!"

Galveston

Glen Campbell

"A Jim Webb song, one of my favourite songwriters because of his sense of presence. Here the guy's gone off to fight in the Civil War and he's dreaming of Galveston in Texas — a kind of anti-war song, he's convinced he's going to be killed. You're just there. Great twangy guitar, too, just like Duane Eddy. Glen Campbell's a very under-rated guitarist."

Pet Sounds

The Beach Boys

"A kitsch piece of Sixties nonsense, the title track, an instrumental with a great guitar sound going through a Leslie speaker. I love that sound. And there's a great percussive backing; good to drive along to, great cruising music. And it's brilliantly arranged, the whole album has such good production."

Roadrunner

Jonathan Richman

"The definitive cruising song, and one of the first 'punk' singles I bought. It had 'Friday On My Mind' on the B-side by a group called Earthquake, an abominable version. Jonathan Richman's deadpan delivery and that cute Boston accent of his — it made me realise that you don't have to be a great singer to make great pop. There's quite a few guitars on this record. More than two."

Keep Me Hanging On

Ann Peebles

"This was on her 'I Can't Stand The Rain' LP, and was also a single — I think Willie Mitchell co-wrote it. It's the same kind of backing as on Al Green records, Willie Mitchell's a great drummer. This has presence in a musical sense. Nowadays in production everything's swamped in echo so that often, things sound like they were recorded in a swimming pool, huge great ambient snares. But this has a good wooden snare sound, it's a brilliant production."

Almost Saturday Night

John Fogerty

"Dave Edmunds covered this. On the original here, John Fogerty produced, arranged and played everything, and yet it all sounds very live, not like a musical jigsaw at all. It's so exhilarating — a bit like 'Up Around The Bend' from when he was in Creedence Clearwater Revival. Great chiming Rickenbacker guitars, absolutely superb. I think John Fogerty's a genius — he just seems to understand every component part."