It's clear to me that Noel's been lacking inspiration, so if writing 'grooves' provides that inspiration, then I'm all for it, because with inspiration comes great songwriting.

If it sounded like KOL or the Strokes I'd be happy, I was just worrying it was gonna sound Paul Weller-ish (his new album is really bad).

P.S. By rock n' roll do they mean more old sounding stuff-cos of the roll -(stooges, rolling stones, paul weller) or their own rock n' roll (columbia, supersonic, rock n' roll star)?

whatever happened to the kitchen sink

now that would of been great

How do we know that they haven't thrown the kitchen sink at it?

I read this topic, and was immediately reminded of the Rolling Stone review of Heathen Chemistry. I know, I know. Fuck Rolling Stone. But the guy made a pretty good point:

"As the principal songwriter of Oasis, Noel Gallagher may have gone as far as he can with the pop song. In the past decade he has written epic anthems and earnest love odes and impossibly sticky melodies that were inescapable on the radio. And yet, for all that variety, he's still not above using the old tried-and-true devices, the stuff that worked for Jerry Lee Lewis and the Beatles, to get his point across"

Of course, I'm sure the new album reviews will say something along the lines of, "Why would Noel Gallagher stray from what has made the band so popular."

I for one am encouraged by the new direction. For once Noel isn't babbling about this being the best since...
Which they never are, and honestly never will be.
I'm not going to say he's nervous, but his comments so far: "no hit singles" "won't sell like coldplay" etc. are not something we're accustomed to.

At least they're trying something new.

While I agree with you, I also take hope that it supposedly is all rockers. Als, think about some of their other tunes. In my opinion, Columbia has a definite groove, so does supersonic.

I had a different idea of what DBTT was from noels description anyway, so who knows

I'll have to politely disagree with you here as I am thinking exactly the opposite. It appears to me that on past albums Noel has over-analyzed the material, thus prolonging recording sessions and whatnot. Though it has been 3 years since Oasis' last LP release it seems that the actual recording process did not seem to take as long as the previous. Furthermore, Noel recently spoke of the immediacy of his songs on this upcoming album. He said 3 of which were written very quickly and that demos, in general, are the best takes.

What seems to be going here is that Oasis- or noel- has placed emphasis on the writing process itself and using this method as the means to discovering the best ideas. On previous recordings Oasis seemed to have utilized a considerable amount of time on particular, pre-established ideas/songs. This would result in different versions of songs, such as Let There Be Love or Songbird. What would happen in this new scenario is that each member is churning out new song after new song until they discover a musical idea, such as a melody or riff, that is strong in-and-of-itself.. At this point they would take the idea and work it into a song. I believe this is why Noel says the album is "groove-based."

I do not think you should worry. Based on Noel's comments I would agree that this upcoming album will sound different than their most recent efforts, but this could be a very cool notion.
The Rolling Stones released a "groovy" album titled Exile on Main Street which had only 1 top 40 hit, however, many people consider this album to be one of the best albums of all time. This is not to say that Dig Out Your Soul will be one of the best albums ever, but it may indicate that a different direction can potentially lead to a masterwork .

Don't you mean fishes?

No, the sink was full of fishes.

ive a feeling they will have thrown everything into this record,just cos he said grooves doesnt mean no orchestras an other stuff,i think he means there pretty basic songs going along a same pattern.no singalongs really means they arent following the same structure as verse bridge chorus but more just genereal vocals over the top with maybe just a key change for the chorus,eg nothing on you is very similar to this,but the songs hes quoted as sayin they sound are very much like this an if you add some string work i think the effect will be quite brilliant

I think 'Dig Out Your Soul' will be their best effort since 'Don't Believe the Truth'.

Quite the opposite I think. The lack of bravado and over-stating is the most telling thing for me about the build up to this album - I think they feel the album will speak for itself.