No I am not worried at all. You described the perfect album to me and I hope it's just like this. And STC makes it even better.

On a scale of 1-100 regarding how worried I am about Noel's album, with 1 being not at all and 100 being shit-my-pants-petrified, I'm at about -5,000,000. Give or take a million.

No collection of Noel tunes have ever let me down...HC included.

I agree with the sentiment that Noel has never let me down. I love every oasis album; I very much disagree with the forum majority on Heathen Chemistry and in its first year of release I lapped it up, possibly more than any other new album I've ever got, certainly up there anyway.

Anyway, I digress. Yeah so I do think all the tunes will be great and that. But the opening post does have a point. I like songs like Idler's Dream but I wouldn't want an album full of them.

However, Record Machine certainly isn't a slow whinge. Stop the Clocks has potential if more is made out of the frankly astonishing final minute of the version we've all heard. And the soundcheck songs? They could well wind up unrecognisable to us when they come out.

So my conclusion: the album could contain ten great songs but be an album I don't want to listen to in one go often, but I don't really think its likely that it will.

Just enjoy it for what it is, whatever that may be.

im not worried at all. i reckon he's probably crafted a great album that we can all enjoy

have trust in the chief

not worried in the slightest .... hes been bigging up albums for years knowing that the press, not the fans, are going to slaughter him but from the first interview he seems kind of modest, maybe he knows the music will do all the talking for him

i mirror what the NME article in the news section said. i think Noel has too much to lose for this album not to be great, what with Beady Eye and to a greater extent his legacy.

This.

I'm not worried about the songs particularly but I really hope he goes for a kind of early Neil Young vibe and doesn't try to 'get down with the kidz' production wise. Particularly considering that he seems to think 'the kidz' still sound like the Chemical Brothers circa 1995.

except stop the clocks and record machine are m.o.r. dead rock classics in their current forms.

Well I don't think my worries are common on here but "worried" was probably the wrong word, more disappointed than worried.

I never liked the way Noel hoarded songs for later albums in the old days. In my opinion, songs should be released at the time of writing the songs. Songs should represent how you're feeling at that moment in time. I think Noel is one of the best ever in expressing his emotions in a poetic way but for me when he released songs years after he wrote them, I lost a sense of knowing how Noel felt at that time and it loses context.

For instance Going Nowhere which I think he wrote in 91' when he was going nowhere but it wasn't released till 97' on Stand by Me when he had made it big.You might argue that he had heaps of songs to choose from back then but surely he knew it was better than likes of Alive. I think understandably he wanted to cement his legacy by saving good songs for later times when he feared he would lose inspiration but in my opinion it's the wrong idea.

I think its understandable bringing maybe two songs from Oasis days onto this solo album but four if not more is a bit much I think. Then with the possibility of two of them being instrumentals that leaves barely any songs for us to experience exactly how he feels post-Oasis and what sort of musical direction he has craved to take.
I'm still looking forward to this opening album but I am more looking forward to the potential raw sound and emotions of the 2nd album.