im thinking avant-garde now theres no kermit to hold him back

yeah so I seriously think they'l be beats on it ( chemical brothers and what not) and then theyll be guitar driven music

for a guess

Hopefully stuff like one way road

I HOPE we get a real fuckin moody album. I hope it's produced like SOTSOG with some dreary soundcheck numbers mixed with some rockier numbers and a really cool instrumental thrown in for good measure.

I'm thinking like Teotihuacan + Falling Down + Record Machine + POTQ + WFTR #2

A good mix of energy with some slight electronic influences in places, and some odd sound effects mixed in for good measure.

If I had to guess, I would say that that's how the album will partly sound. It just seems like Noel was moving towards that, toward the end of Oasis. Those songs really have the groove effect that he really wanted.

I think we will get some of the alt. version like tracks, I think we'll get some semi acoustic like tracks, and I do think that we will get 1 really nice stadium anthem like ballad. The reason I'm saying the stadium anthem like ballad is because of the reports that Noel was laying down string tracks. And usually when Noel does some string tracks, its for a ballad stadium anthem type song.

Another thing which points me to thinking that this will not be some drear acoustic album are the reports of all these people working with Noel. How many people do you really need to do a dreary acoustic or even a semi acoustic album? And why have a full backing band if that's what you're going to do?

There are just so many factors which really point away from a semi-acoustic album and it just seems to me that the only reason that people are saying dreary acoustic or semi acoustic are because of some incomplete sketches of random songs at soundchecks. As if the songs in the soundchecks are written in stone. People think that they have to sound dreary because that's the way Noel is playing them. Noel plays with an acoustic guitar and there is no reason for him to a random sketch of a song on an electric at a soundecheck. Coupled with the fact that Noel's acoustic style is meant to be somewhat dreary, its not surprsing that they do sound that way. But that does not mean that they are going to sound like that on an album with a backing band and full arrangements. I mean really, other than the soundchecks are there any other reasons to suspect that Noel is going to come out with a dreary acoustic album? No. So why are people harping on that. It just seems a bit too simplistic to me.

I think we'll get a good mix. I think that Noel is itching to do that. Anyone who thinks that this is gonna be one specific type of album is probably being just a bit too simplistic imo.

There is also the interview from
Japan end of last year where they said they were working with Noel.

I don't know why Noel would bring in people like that if he was planning for dreary acoustic.

Depends on a lot of factors. Producer, musicians hes got on it, etc.

Dont discount stuff like Falling Down and the fact he's worked with guys like Amorphous and let diverse people like Davendra Banhart remix his stuff. Also his work with the Chemicals. POTQ is another good example. The percussion on there is distinctly unique in Oasis' catalog with Lenny Castro's input. If Dave Sardy is producing as has been rumored, it could go places.

Those saying "semi-acoustic" are a bit off I believe. If anything, I think this could stretch the boundaries of anything he's done before. Then again, I could also see him playing it safe for his first solo outing and do something a bit more "experimental" as a follow up.

Until we hear anything, its anyone's guess. Did anyone expect Falling Down to sound like it did when we first heard it?

I really disagree with this opinion. I would love and embrace overproduction. Noel's good at big ideas...I want orchestras, choirs, and layers of guitar tracks. If he made something as intricate as Be Here Now again I'd be completely surprised and impressed.

I take back what I said about If I Had a Gun...just listened to it again, and it's bloody brilliant.

Everybody on the Run doesn't appeal to me though.

think it will sound paul weller'ish

I can tell you there's gonna be some trumpet in there unless they change plans.