I'm sure we've all heard Noel claim interviews that most of the songs he's written, he just "remembers" them. I think he's said something like "if they are any good, you'll remember them the next morning."(EDIT: it may have been Mccartney that actually said this quote) This is something I've never really quite believed from him. When you are constantly writing albums year after year like Noel was in the 90's there's no way you're just remembering every chord sequence, chord change, every vocal melody line just off the top of your head. 

For example take a look at the list The Crimson Rambler composed of the songs and ideas from Noels Notebook:

forum.live4ever.uk.com/post/1342507

Yes some may be lyrics, or instrumentals. But there's no way all this information, aside from a title, is just stored in Noels head. The melodies, the chords etc. This leads me to believe that Noel had to be doing something which many songwriters to to this day, (except with a phone instead of a Walkman) and thats recording your ideas down during the songwriting process in order to complete and remember the arrangement and melody of a song. This is where i stumbled on a few quotes from Noel himself about using a Walkman to record to when writing his songs:

In a Feb 96 interview with Q, on the topic of Noel adding his acoustic bit into the sets, he had this to say:

Further proof of Noel using a walkman to record his ideas can also be seen in this Sept 97 interview with Q on the topic of him creating the "scream" part of Fade In/Out:

We also have an interview with GP shortly after the release of SOTSOG, in which Noel claimed:


We also have this quote from a 2005 Interview with MOJO from Bonehead:


Add all these quotes together and I think it gives us a pretty clear indication that Noel was pretty much recording all his songs and ideas firstly to a Walkman throughout the majority of the 1990's. My questions are:

Do these tapes still exist?

If so, who has them?

How many possible tapes could there be of this nature that DO exist? (It's possible Noel just recorded over tapes that already had songs on after the songs had been released, instead of using new ones)

What exactly is on these tapes? I'd bet good money plenty of those "Noels Notebook" songs we never heard could have existed in one form or another on these tapes. I'd honestly prefer a CD full of prime Noel ideas from stuff like this as opposed to a new album.


TLDR:

Ignition/Noel, we know there are tapes from the 90s containing Noel songs and ideas that may exist in their original form, so release them!