you're one reason the world is fucking daft.

can't believe some people's deception. you'd still expect another morning glory?

If I was Noel would do 2 things: I'd make a double album (songs such as HFB) and one cd which included songs from AA or in the following singles put these songs as b-sides.

I think that it's a bad joke to compare this with Dark Side of the Moon.

what is it that some don't get (this is not completely directed at you, i'm just quoting you at the moment). This is it. there won't be a double album. He's not going to scrap this album and then do the songs "straight". These songs were specifically made for AA to play around with.

You've got your HFB's. ffs, let Noel have his album instead of constantly pandering to his fanbase. If followed your suggestion, I'd lose more respect for him than if he had tried this and failed. If he wants to release this then he should release this and not cop out and release something that he nows he can do in his sleep.

The idea that Noel is doing anything different here is absolute rubbish. Noel wrote some great tunes, dropped a recording of them, and then AA took them and did this to them. Noel is who he is, and that will never change.

This album will be AA's take on Noel Gallagher's tunes.

All that being said, I think the restructuring and remixing is interesting. Not my cup of tea really, but I can get into it all the same. I can see why Noel is apprehensive about releasing it though? This goes against everything that a Noel Gallagher album has been for more than 20 years!

I'll buy it regardless, so it really doesn't matter what it is or is not.

This gets better and better each time I hear it, I even like the ending 1 minute section of vocalisations which the first time I heard it I couldn't stand.

That's directed at me, you sweaty butt!

Well this is one tune that I couldn't form an opinion on quickly. It's a very interesting listen.

Not exactly sure why anyone is shocked at the direction that this tune went in at this point.Obviously the Ride the Tiger clip didn't tell the whole story and even if you were present at the gigs you coudn't hear the finer points of the tune. But they still gave you the general indication

It's only more than I thought it would be...but not different, if that makes any sense. I like it and it is growing on me...although there are a few things that annoy me a bit. During the "the sun, the sun, the sun bits" there are are the occasional phrase where they obviously intentionally make the the vocals go off key. That offended my ears a lot the first listen through and I still notice during every listen.

I can understand a complaint of formlessness or lack of clear direction. I get that, and I think they have a point. But the common complaint of "repetitiveness" is a bit nonsense. No two sections sound totally to same. There is always something new going on. If you are listening to just the vocals...then sure. But there is so much else going on that you have to be ignoring for it to be repetitive to a careful listener.

There isn't a lot of form to it...which takes some getting used to for me. I was and am excited about this collaboration. Up to this point this kind of thing hasn't really been the kind of this that is on my playlist. But I'll give anything a chance. It's a big stretch for Noel because he is a songwriter with an obession with song structure. This is obviously a true collaboration...where it seems that many want it to just be a standard Noel Gallagher album produced by the AA.

I've generally been bored by artists going into the depth about recording sessions. But I hope there is talk about how they recorded some of these. Hopefully there is an interesting and lengthy documentary on the special edition with more information on the actual recording sessions than there were in the HFB doco

I love the guitar @ the 4 minute mark. And the keyboards scattered through I also really love (particularly the portion from 6:25). THe drums and basslines are absolutely great and I like how they are used. It never fails to give me a kick when it comes back in. I love the sax (at least I think that's what it is) that pops in a out. It took few listens but now I really like the interweaving vocals in the last minute or 2. I love the dynamics in the song. There is no big single climax...but there is a build up to several little ones and the payoffs come frequently enought keep me interested.

The bit where the music and the vocals weave in and out from 4:50 (Let me fly you to the moon/cause your the only/god that I would ever need) is genius. My favorite part by far. I LOVE the effects on the vocals and the delivery is even more heartfelt than on the HFB version. It actually kind of reminds me of the soundcheck take. Every beautiful line of melody is allowed to linger before the next begins. I definitely prefer to phrasing.

Listening to the number of parts on this tune I can see why mixing might be a nightmare. LOL. No wonder it's taking a while if every tune has this many parts or more. I can imagine that everything they recorded for this tune didn't actually make it onto the song.

It's not a remix or Noel handing something over to AA.

He has completely re-recorded IIHAG and gone into the studio with AA.

IIHAG and ISAHITS are completely different songs.

I would seriously lose a ton of respect if he did that. Release the songs in their own album/setting or don't release them at all.

Yeah, it was the point that I was making that the mixing for this album will take a ton of time because there are so many tracks within the songs and so many moving parts. On most songs, especially ones that are structured, mixing is a fairly quick process. But on an album like this it takes time and you have to go through every track and think about how that track fits with the song on a whole. The mixing for this album is quite cumbersome because of that.

But it's why I'm confident that this album will come out in its full form. Because it's taken too much to get to the mixing stage for any of it to be thrown away or used as b-sides or have a double or whatever people are thinking about. The album that is being mixed is probably the album that we will get. As of now I completely believe Noel when he says that the main problem is the mixing.