I know this is as close as blasphemy I'll get at this forum, but anyway. For me Riverman doesn't really do much. It has grown slightly on me, but I just think it's a decent song and nothing more. I like the saxophone at the end, but the song is a bit long and the chorus is okay. I'd rather listen to Pinball by Brian Protheroe, which is a far better song IMO. It's not bad, but it doesn't give me anything. Everyone got different taste I guess, for me personally it's not a song that I feel like listening to.

Someone must have a somewhat strong dislike for jazz. Both The Right Stuff AND Riverman are left off of this tracklisting.. 

I actually like The Right Stuff better than Riverman. It has a nice intro and outro (this part is really nice) with saxophone, and I think the girl who sings a duet with Noel sounds amazing. It also has a pleasant atmosphere. I actually had it as one of my favorites on the first times I listened to the record. I like the line where it goes "are you the devil with a heart of gold". However after a while I felt that the line "you and I got the right stuff" got repeated too much trough the song, even if it sounds nice. In the long run it was a bit monotonous, that it doesn't go anywhere besides having interesting instrumentation and a cool intro and outtro. The part with "you heart get's shattered" changes the song for a while, but still. I also don't like the guitar solo very much. In other words, I think there are some appealing qualities to The Right Stuff, but also some things that draw it down. Also, I put together this tracklist with the flow of the album in mind. That means that a cool and different song might not get included if it doesn't work in the context of the album, in terms of track length, energy and tempo etc. On an album with different songs surrounding it, I'd might have put it on the track list. I think The Right Stuff is a good song which I can enjoy, but I feel that I really like some parts of the song rather than the whole song. I think of it more as a good b-side (which it originally was before Noel made some production choices that worked really well), rather than an album track. On some days I enjoy it more than others. Tomorrow I might play it a little, because I got more into it because I remembered how the track sounded while I was writing this post. Youu and I got the right stuff... It's not bad . But on a tracklist where there already are many mid-tempo songs? Maybe not my first pick.

You are right that I'm not that into jazz, My preferences go more towards songs with clear structure, with a strong melody and chorus. I do enjoy some jazz though, such as songs of Peter Cincotti and Jamie Cullum etc. I don't dislike jazz as a genre, I just think that these two songs without being bad at all, aren't super amazing or mindblowing. I applaud Noel for doing something different, even though I don't think the two songs are the greates thing ever. For many on the forum these songs are the best Noel has done in years, and you'd be just as right and wrong as me. Because it's a matter of taste, we all enjoy different things in music. I myself for example think that While the Song Remains the Same is perhaps the best song on the album and one of the best Noel has written in years, while other consider it to be just average. And you know what? I'm fine with that 

While I agree from purely a song strength point of view, What A Life was the big single from the album that in Noel's words it "needed".

While I find it extremely contrived that putting a song like this on adverts and using it to flog albums is what gets you the extra sales, its noel all over.

All three of the B-Sides are great.

Revolution Song is great, but I just feel it isn't album worthy. I love it, but I do feel it should be a b-side

Freak Teeth is one hell of a track, but it really feels like a James Bond theme to me, I don't feel like it fits on the album.

Do The Damage should have made the album, probably instead of You Know We Can't Go Back. I Know that YKWCGB is a nice uplifting song and it sits well where it does on the album, but DTD is a much better song. That switch, to me, would have made Chasing Yesterday flawless