I personally think its fucking brilliant.

I gave it an 8 because I think it's fairly insane people handing out 9s and 10s on first listens to songs, as we see from how opinion has tended to drastically shift downwards over time. I remember being on the irc channel when heathe and chemistry was leaked and everyone was creaming themselves about it haha.


What's becoming clear is the level of divide on this forum means its barely even worth commenting on the songs of one of the brothers if you know you don't like what they're doing. Some people are never going to enjoy pretty much anything Noel releases now. Fair enough, it's a fair way from the reason those people got into his music, they don't have to like it
Same goes for Liams music, some for valid reasons can't get into that.

It does amuse me though that with every Noel releade some here keep insisting he doesn't like this music and wil imminently revert to old school Noel because he can't stand Liam being more successful. And then Noel goes and releases something even more dancey. It may be time to accept that this is the music noel wants to make. I don't get why anyone is surprised, he grew up at the Hacienda, early pre-definitely maybe Oasis was heavily influenced by it.

I thought people here liked someone being 'real' but it seems if Noel doesn't churn out variations on wonderwall for the rest of his life, and make himself miserable in the process, some get irrationally upset about it. That is exactly what would make him, a fraud if he just chases the easy money rather than enjoying himself with bothering too much about that. Anyone who's seen his last tour knows this is the happiest he's been with what he's doing in years, decades even.

Remember, because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad, and people telling others they don't really like something is really weird.

Noel is proving that you can fool some of the people some of the time. Yet another EP I won't be purchasing.

I like dance, house, electronica, disco, hip hop. In my opinion this is poorly executed, a bunch of random lyrics thrown over a thumping beat without any purpose or soul. Forgive me if I don't think every brick Noel lays is layered in 24k gold.

Exactly. You can hear essentially the same song on any number of Hacienda compilations, only with a more capable singer.

I think it's a pretty solid song with a really nice groove to it and, especially, probably the best mixing NGHFB's ever had. Almost everything is exactly where it's meant to be. Reminded me a bit of Justice's Safe & Sound, except This Is The Place is obviously much fuller in its instrumentation with all its percussions and guitar lines and aaaaah's and the vocals aren't as clear/apparent.

Verses are great. Probably my favourite part of the song, especially when the up-and-down tingly keyboard comes in. The chorus lets it down a bit for me. Not too keen on the "this is the place" line being repeated over and over. At least harmonize a bit over it!   & it could've been a bit shorter, couldn't it?

The early Foals/U2's Pop comparisons are spot on.

I'm giving this a 7 – even though I can totally see myself rating it higher in a few days cause that bass is damn catchy.

If you own any Lennon albums you’d better stop listening to Liam then by that logic.

You’re banned from listening to Cigarettes and Alcohol too.

In fact you should probably bin most of your entire music collection... not every single song released can be 100% original.

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The chords are a ripoff of Blue Monday (he'd better watch it cause, with that Rihanna song they had to give songwriting credits to New Order), so it's decent in that respect, and I MUCH prefer the sounds used here to anything on WBTM, so it's a solid 7/10 for me right now.

I know slagging off Noel's current style is sounding like a broken record now...but it's a simple fact that big productions, style over substance like this, it's ALWAYS where it goes wrong for Noel. Take Magic Pie, for example. Massive, fuck off production values, yet it's a huge pile of poo. Stripped back, that song could have been really great. What he's doing atm is his own solo version of BHN. XD

Very boring, poor vocals. Looking forward to his midlife crisis finishing.

Heathen Chemistry has shit songs on it like Probably All In The Mind, crap production on good ones like Force of Nature, and Liam's vocals on the whole album suck. Noel allowing Hung In A Bad Place and A Quick Peep on there. That record is a fucking embarrassment.

I never want Noel to sound stripped back. His melodies and instrumentals are always better when they're bold, loud, and energetic. True in the mid-nineties, true now.

Talkin' about broken records, yet you're going at BHN's production? I'd say Magic Pie's totally ace in all possible viewpoints imaginable. Never got the Be Here Now -bashing anyway. Great music. Even wish he'd write more and more of those magic pies today.

There's your stripped back version anyway.
hmmm... I may have picked on wrong guy. U don't like the band do you?