That's what recording typically is. It's rarely a guy comes in for two hours and you have a great song. You add, you think, you subtract, and you add again, and even then you don't get a great song. I didn't really think that Noel came in for a couple hours. That's a pretty simplistic way to think of recording to think that, especially when it can usually be far more convoluted, since when you're recording, you don't really know what's a throw away track and what isn't. But you have to treat all the tracks the same, and put in the same amount of effort.

As I said before in this thread, there's a difference between process and result. Some people hear the result and believe the process was the same, but that's rarely the case in music. Usually, the process is more work than the result would seem to have.

As of the moment, I'm more interested in what song on Noel's album would have had a melodica on it.