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| The Official Coldplay Thread; New album "A Head Full of Dreams" | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 13 2008, 03:17 PM (6,461 Views) | |
| Riverwide | May 27 2008, 10:50 PM Post #201 |
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You can hear some of the song "Yes" during this interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iygl-WMo-Ic You can also hear the GORGEOUS Guy Berryman speaking. I don't think I've heard him talk before. I didn't realise he was Scottish! |
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| Riverwide | May 28 2008, 10:23 AM Post #202 |
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The album gets 8/10 from NME this week. |
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| Riverwide | May 28 2008, 10:39 AM Post #203 |
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| Deleted User | May 28 2008, 08:21 PM Post #204 |
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I'm so excited about Brian Eno's influence! I restrained myself from downloading other songs than Violet Hill. Release date is June 13th? That's like months away...
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| Riverwide | May 28 2008, 10:08 PM Post #205 |
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Another wee interview clip. Guy and Will are so, so HOT. http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/1117600/Vi...ds/Product.html |
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| Riverwide | May 30 2008, 06:30 PM Post #206 |
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| Riverwide | May 30 2008, 06:31 PM Post #207 |
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| Riverwide | May 31 2008, 04:35 PM Post #208 |
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I was browsing in my local Zavvi record store today and saw the "Voilet Hill" promo CD sitting amongst their previous albums. It's not even meant for sale! I just walked out of the store with it. How on earth did it end up there though?!? |
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| Riverwide | Jun 2 2008, 10:25 AM Post #209 |
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Dodgy performance of "Viva La Vida" on the MTV Movie Awards last night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4rY8W807nE |
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| Fembot 1 | Jun 2 2008, 02:15 PM Post #210 |
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Did he swallow some confetti
:unsure: His voice sounded a bit off. Lovely song though. |
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| FuckBuddy | Jun 2 2008, 10:36 PM Post #211 |
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i'm neither fond of the performance, but then this is a great song, so all is forgiven. |
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| Riverwide | Jun 3 2008, 12:24 PM Post #212 |
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Long clips of 'Lovers In Japan' and 'Chinese Sleep Chant'... http://www.amazon.de/gp/mpd/permalink/mYI7GRM10SS3L |
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| Riverwide | Jun 4 2008, 11:02 AM Post #213 |
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I do wish this album would hurry up and leak! It's out next thursday in the UK! |
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| Riverwide | Jun 4 2008, 01:58 PM Post #214 |
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Who's going to like Coldplay's new record? Everyone who liked their previous records. On The Record: Coldplay Get Massively Minimal on Viva la Vida Given everything contained within, it's fitting that Coldplay decided to saddle their new album with two seemingly disparate titles (it's called Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, in case you weren't aware). Because if anything, it's the most bipolar thing they've ever done. Lyrically, it's obsessed with the duality of, well, everything, full of ruminations on life and death, corporeal pleasure and spiritual anguish, the emptiness of wealth and the reverence of poverty (all sung by a millionaire rock star with an Academy Award-winning wife, of course). Musically, it's Sagrada Familia-massive and quark-microscopic, all strings and church bells one moment, tiny tack piano and shimmery joules of synthesizer the next (and surprisingly organic for an album produced by an electronic legend like Brian Eno). And thematically, it's hyper-focused on both the celebration of living and the bloody business of revolution, two yin/yang ideals that sort of make sense as one unified concept when you think about it long enough. In keeping with that (non) ideal, the album takes its title from a sunny Frida Kahlo painting, yet features an overwrought Eugène Delacroix work on the cover. Basically, there are about 15 albums buried somewhere within Viva, each about wildly different things, and each of varying degrees of quality. And this is not necessarily a bad thing, though it does make "reviewing" it in any real context next to impossible. So rather than attempt to do just that, perhaps the best approach is to consider the album in a vacuum, completely devoid of any context whatsoever. This isn't a review of Viva la Vida, since: A) to review is to contextualize, and an album of this scope, depth and breadth can't really fit into any single set of conditions; and B) since when would any Coldplay fan be swayed by a review anyhow? (In other Coldplay news, read about our reporter's sorta-lunch with Chris Martin before the MTV Movie Awards.) So here's what's good about the album: It opens and closes with a single piece of music, a pretty and shiny bit of bookend-ry the band co-wrote with electronic artist Jon Hopkins. It is worldly and mature without being overly so. From Martin's decidedly lower singing range to Jonny Buckland's churchly and majestic guitar work, Viva sounds very much like a band stretching its legs, having earned the right to do so, yet in a testament to Coldplay themselves (or perhaps Eno), there's also a level of self-awareness that only comes with the realization that most records that feature a band "stretching its legs" are terrible. The songs display scope and execution, whether it's the Bolero guitars below "Cemeteries of London," the stomping build of "42," or the twisting, R&B middle of "Violet Hill." And there are three tracks on the record that effortlessly combine two songs into one: "Lovers in Japan/ Reign of Love" starts off with a spacey player piano and morphs into a dainty minuet; "Yes/ Chinese Sleep Chant" begins with swoony strings, switches into a horny take on a Spiritualized jam and concludes with Martin's voice trapped behind a wall of ice; and "Death and All His Friends/ The Escapist" closes the record with pretty pianos, a big, pounding exercise in drums and finally the same spacey bit that opened the album, this time with Martin singing, "And in the end/ We lie awake and we dream of making an escape." And since we're on the subject, Martin writes with both an alarming openness and a disarming obtuseness on the record. In the case of the former, "Lost!" sees him keening, "Just because I'm losing doesn't mean I'm lost"; "Yes" has him singing, "When it started we had high hopes/ Now my back's on the ropes" in one bit, then "It's not easy when she turns you on" in another; and "Violet Hill" features him pleading, "If you love me/ Won't you let me know." In the case of the latter, there's "Viva La Vida," which seems to be sung from the perspective of deposed French monarch Charles X; "Death and All His Friends" has him begging, "So come over, just be patient, and don't worry" to no one in particular; and "42" is full of mentions of ghosts denied entry to heaven and "those who are dead ... living in my head." (I told you dude was bipolar!) As for the bad, well, it's basically all the same stuff that's good about the album. There's an awful lot of ground to cover — Viva really, truly sounds like a band trying to be all things to all people — but when you're a band as massive as Coldplay, that's just covering your bases since, you know, "all people" is your core demographic. And to that point, everything I just wrote is null and void. Who's going to like Coldplay's new record? Everyone who liked their previous records, which is to say pretty much everyone on the planet. Blog snobs? Check (they'll begrudgingly admit to liking Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head). Sorority girls? Yep (huge fans of "Fix You," think Chris Martin is hot). Business guys who love to cut loose on the weekend? Count them in (saw band at rock-radio fest, own iPod because of "Viva la Vida" commercial). The Coldplay army is massive and loyal. They will follow you to the ends of the earth. And buy, buy, buy — no matter what. And you get the feeling that's also why Viva is so, well, everything. Happy, sad, cavernous, claustrophobic, beautiful, depraved ... it all depends on which version you're hearing this time around. Is the record great? Yeah, parts of it. Is it better than X&Y? Definitely. Rush of Blood? Maybe, but probably not. Then again, you might disagree. Long live life, indeed. But also, let's hear it for death. Depends which part of the demo you're in. mtv.com |
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| Deleted User | Jun 5 2008, 12:08 AM Post #215 |
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that EMA perfomance was really awful.... |
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| Riverwide | Jun 5 2008, 12:10 AM Post #216 |
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It wasn't awful, but it wasn't great. Still, the song is now at #3 in the US thanks to the performance! |
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| Manu Alexz | Jun 5 2008, 12:47 AM Post #217 |
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| Riverwide | Jun 5 2008, 12:50 AM Post #218 |
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I guess he means the MTV Movie Awards. |
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| Manu Alexz | Jun 5 2008, 12:50 AM Post #219 |
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I thought so. I wanted to be sure. |
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| Deleted User | Jun 5 2008, 01:03 AM Post #220 |
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oh yeah...sorry I meant the MTV Movie awards (I confused it with the MTV European Music Awards) the thing with the show is that his voice was awful...)..Chris Martin has an incredible voice..so for his standards I cant say it was a good perfomance... at least it helped the song which is stunning... |
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