Over the past few months, I've noticed quite a lot of people don't want songs they've already heard on Noel's album. With the tracklisting now announced, there are a few unhappy that only half the songs are 'new'.

I was just thinking, imagine if the Internet had been about when The Beatles split up. George's solo album, All Things Must Pass, had songs dating all the way back to 1966. I'd say he made one of the greatest albums of all-time (Liam agrees) but using the logic some people have expressed round here, half the songs would have been binned.

I think we have to remember that 90% of oasis fans have never heard Stop the Clocks and Record Machine, or at least before yesterday when youtube links to them started cropping up in blogs all over the web. These are songs which, I think, could go on to be remembered as classics. It's pretty naive to think these should remain unreleased to prevent Noel from reproducing 'old' stuff. It's new to most of the world.

I imagine a large chunk of all 28 songs across the two albums were written before oasis split (no doubt a few were written before he was born ). I don't see why it matters. If Noel thinks they are worthy of inclusion, then let's trust him. Let's not be precious that we've heard all these songs before, as it would be great if Noel had some success on his own. And I for one am delighted that Record Machine will get a proper release.