For the record, I heart songy Noel

Glad to hear it's less "songy".

It's time he moved on from writing songs like You Know We Can't Go Back.

My excitement is growing

The way he spoke about Live Forever gave me chills. His eyes were almost watering talking about it.

More songs like While The Song Remains The Same plz

a really great episode this one. nice to hear that Jason faulker is playing on th e new album

The less "songy" bit is worrying for me. That is the type of comments artists typically do when they know they do not have great songs. For me, CY was almost perfect and I would like an album in the same vein, maybe modernizing the production a little bit. I don't need Noel to experiment with other styles: in the Spotify world, I can listen to any style of music at any moment. If I want dance-rock, I simply listen to LCD Soundsystem (or a myriad other groups). If I want stoner rock, I can listen to QOTSA, etc. From Noel, I want the great, anthemic songs he excels at. 10-12 great oasis-like songs every 3 years don't seem too many for me

For Noel it's somewhat experimental.

That was a good listen. The most interesting bits for me were the original guitarist essentially failing the audition and, more importantly, Russ felt that he couldn't sing properly because Noel's guitar was so loud so he had to switch to IEMs. Where have we heard that before?

I wonder what happened to all the songs Noel had in the vault before he decided on the "write in the studio" thing. I'm still waiting on a proper release of:

- Just Let It Come Down Over Me
- Don't Stop (Being Happy)
- God Help Us All
- Come On Outside (..give that one to Liam!)

Jazz is legitimately one of my favorite genres of music. Sure, a lot of it is a million miles away from DLBIA, but I feel like everyone could get jazz if they gave it a chance. Try listening to this tune by Acoustic Ladyland - not a Hendrix tribute group but what you get when you electrocute a jazz quartet. This song is actually kinda catchy too, far from the stuff you would call pretentious.

The problem here is that many think that he doesn't excel at this anymore. And I sympathise with that view - it's difficult to listen to songs like Lock All The Doors and You Know We Can't Go Back without thinking these are poor pastiches of classic Oasis songs.

It lacks that youthful vigour, aggression and spontaneity of old (the flat guitars and lack of Liam vocals certainly doesn't help). As a 50 year old bloke, you just can't replicate that.

Something that sounds sonically expansive yet intimate and reflective at the same time is what I want from Noel. Perhaps the best example to use would be Falling Down. Now granted, I don't think the studio version does that song full justice (too retro when it should be more modern) and many brilliant individual elements within the numerous remixes it was given adds further weight to the idea that more could have been fulfilled with that track. Yet the bare bones of that song is very melancholy and downbeat, despite it having a fantastic rhythm to it.

I don't want to listen to middle aged man rocking out having a great time. That fools nobody and just looks pathetic in my opinion. And I don't want to categorise Noel into anthemic tunes, because that doesn't do his songs justice in my opinion. The anthemic qualities were a bonus rather than the central factor in his songs; instead it was the emotional weight and depth behind those melodies. That is the key to Noel's songwriting and if he were to provide that with something more contemplative then he'd have a great album on his hands. I don't get that sense with Noel's modern day 'anthemic' songs - if they had the power and scale of earlier ones, then why have none of them been hits?

It all feels rather contrived and because of that, I'm bored by them. I'm open to any form of diversity within his music now because it might tap into a naive and innocent wonder of new sounds that can often inspire and conjure up magical moments.