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The Official Coldplay Thread; New album "A Head Full of Dreams"
Topic Started: Jan 13 2008, 03:17 PM (6,458 Views)
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VIVA La Vida flew off shop shelves and clocked up huge downloads after being released yesterday.

COLDPLAY’s eagerly-anticipated fourth album looks certain to be the fastest-selling of the year when figures are announced this weekend.

The collection should romp to No1 on Sunday with sales of around 200,000 — shattering DUFFY’s 2008 first-week record of 183,000.

Woolworths reported copies were being snapped up at a rate of 20 every minute. HMV had placed their biggest ever pre-order.

And web forums are flooded with posts raving about the album, the band’s most experimental yet.

One said: “It’s their best album to date. Ten out of ten.”

Favourable comparisons to fellow stadium-slayers U2 were rife, as was praise for producer BRIAN ENO.

But CHRIS MARTIN and the lads were just glad to have finished the job.

Chris said: “I feel very relieved that the album is finally released.

“It’s out of our hands now. It doesn’t belong to us anymore.”

Their sales tally is still a long way behind OASIS’ record-setting Be Here Now, which shifted 695,000 copies in three days back in 1997.

But the industry has changed hugely and I don’t think we’ll see those frantic first-week sales again.

But full marks to Coldplay for moving with the times with ideas including letting fans listen to the new album online before its release.
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Awww, Queen Duffy AXED. At least it's a good record who's detroning her.
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Viva off to flying start
10:11 | Friday June 13, 2008

By Ben Cardew

Coldplay’s Viva La Vida sold 125,000 units on its day of release, according to sales figures released today by The Official Charts Company.

As such, the album is near-guaranteed the number one slot in the chart this Sunday, despite being released unusually on a Thursday.

Indeed, after just one day’s sales Viva La Vida is already outselling the rest of the top five albums.


The album has also made a notable impact at radio: it is on playlists at Radios One, Two and 6Music, among others.

The band plays a free gig at London’s Brxton Academy on Monday (June 16) to mark the release.
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I have my copy in my bag and plan to listen to it in the car on the way home. am VERY excited. Some wee fell out.
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Just bought mine and I wondered, is the regular edition the card sleeve one? I prefer a jewel case but it looks very nice, the artwork is fantastic!

On first listen I really enjoy the album, at least it's way better than X&Y which was a borefest with only one or two good songs. A Rush Of Blood remains my favourite though, will be hard to beat.
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i think its the regular cover because thats all HMV and Tesco had.
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I haven't seen the jewel case anywhere.
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A reminder that they're on the Jonathan Ross show tonight performing Violet Hill and Viva La Vida!
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Jun 12 2008, 08:51 PM
Oh well! I absolutely *adore* the melodies. I love his voice. The lyrics are fine, but nothing special.
I completely agree....I adore his voice + the melodies...but the lyrics sometimes can be really good but most of the times are annoyingly pretentious...
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Who cares about lyrics anyway? Most of the times is the melody/beat what hooks you up.
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Who cares about lyrics anyway? Most of the times is the melody/beat what hooks you up.
Exactly. It's all about the melodies for me really, and few people right now can write better melodies than Chris Martin!
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The Sun UK: Coldplay Returns With Brilliant Live Gig


Chris Martin compared the Coldplay live comeback to a pre-season friendly last night.

The singer told the crowd of friends and family at London’s Wembley Arena that getting back on stage was like a trip to the football with his dad when he was a nipper. He said: “Excuse us for this embarrassing shambles of a rehearsal. This reminds me of when my dad, who is 107, took me to Torquay for a pre-season game against Liverpool — and they were absolutely shit. We see this as a pre-season and we’ll be on it when the season starts. Luckily none of you have spent a blind penny.”

In typically modest fashion, Chris was only telling half the story. Coldplay were brilliant as they made their return to the stage in front of an almost empty venue. When it comes to seeing live shows, this job lands some great tickets. But one of the best I’ve ever had was last night’s. Within 30 seconds the audience were smiling as single Violet Hill kicked in with a video montage playing in the background.

World leaders including George Bush and Tony Blair had been edited to dance along to the song. Next song Clocks kicked in and the crowd were on their feet.

The band showed off their wealth with six fancy video orbs, hanging from the ceiling which cost the band a jaw-dropping £900,000. Chris performed his trademark lyric-changing to suit the gig, poking fun at relatives and pals who had turned up to see them on free tickets. And his wife, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, sang along while standing in front of the lighting desk.

Normally you would say the crowd got their money’s worth but even if tickets were £100 each it would have been a snip. The band moved from the main stage to a tiny platform in the middle of the arena and were almost elbowing each other off stage as they played.

They made plenty of mistakes but that was the whole point of the exercise. By the time they have perfected it the show will be unmissable. It’s brilliant to have one of Britain’s best live bands back.

***Set List***

Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love
Trouble
42
In My Place
Yes
God Put A Smile On Your Face
Strawberry Swing
Yellow
If Death Will Ever Conquer Me
Politik
Lost
Fix You
Viva La Vida

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1291939.ece
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A- review from Entertainment Weekly! :)

No one's been more painfully aware of Coldplay's mellow ''Yellow'' aesthetic than the band itself: Frontman Chris Martin once joked to EW about ''driving a Bland Rover.'' It took a while to do something about it, but Viva La Vida, their fourth and best album, feels emboldened at almost every turn. Jonny Buckland's guitars howl insistently; Martin has discovered sub-falsetto vocal registers; and a stark, recurring string section lends an edge. But none of these developments dampen the group's essential melodiousness: Even with this MO, Coldplay can't help but do ''pretty'' proud.

The band's new producers are Brian Eno and Markus Dravs — of U2 and Arcade Fire fame, respectively — so you won't be shocked when, at its most poundingly anthemic, Viva sounds a little like The Unforgettable Funeral. Despite how long Coldplay have been dogged with that U2-wannabe tag, they're clearly not feeling defensive about it. (The nearly vocal-free opener, ''Life in Technicolor,'' for one, is a dead ringer for ''Where the Streets Have No Name.'') But the group also cannily borrows from different sources. The pipe organ powering ''Lost!'', a lament about spiritual bereftness, will remind indie rockers of a trip to the Arcade. The dissonant guitar jam in the trifurcated ''42'' finds Buckland turning on the Radiohead. Several tracks echo John Lennon's vocals or Beatles-period orchestration, including the dark, antiwar teaser single ''Violet Hill'' and, most deliciously, ''Yes,'' an uncharacteristically sexy seduction tale on which the violins switch from ''Strawberry Fields'' mode to a Middle Eastern motif.

Other songs satisfyingly elude easy comparisons. Hidden track ''Chinese Sleep Chant'' is a guitar-based charger that would be an instrumental were it not for Martin wailing incomprehensibly in the beautifully sludgy background. The ebullient ''Strawberry Swing'' throws Afrocentric guitar atop one of those Eno/Dravs soundscapes. Even Martin's keyboards — which had come to feel like an antiseptic drag by 2005's uneven X&Y — get put through revitalizing sonic paces. On the blissful ''Lovers in Japan,'' it brings to mind an old music-hall piano; on the hymnlike ''Reign of Love,'' it transforms into a cathedral instrument.

Throughout, allusions to love, death, ghosts, and God emerge — yet the overriding theme remains Martin's mostly endearing insecurity. Take the title track (now a single, pimped in an iTunes ad), on which he imagines himself as a paranoid monarch. ''Who would ever want to be king?'' Martin asks. ''Revolutionaries wait/For my head on a silver plate!'' The confident majesty of the music, however, belies how he and his bandmates have invigorated their rock-lite reign. Protestations aside, the singer can rest assured that it's still good to be the king. A-

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20206310,00.html
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Coldplay album goes platinum in three days
Sunday, June 15 2008, 19:06 BST
Source: Digital Spy
By Nick Levine, Music Editor


Rex Features
Coldplay have entered the UK charts at number one with new album Viva La Vida.

The album has sold 302,074 copies since its release on Thursday - enough to earn it a platinum award after just three days on sale.

The band have now topped the UK albums chart with each of their first four studio albums.

Last week's chart-topper, 22 Dreams by Paul Weller, drops to four behind albums by Neil Diamond and Duffy.

Meanwhile, The Fratellis score the second-highest new entry of the week, debuting at five with sophomore effort Here We Stand
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That's a staggering figure!!
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It is, indeed, a stunning result. In this market, even if it has done that in a full week, it would have been fantastic.
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Surprise, surprise...Pitchfork doesn't hate the album!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51286-viva-la-vida-or-death-and-all-his-friends

How anyone could review the album without even mentioning the incredible "42" is beyond me though!
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I'm on the fourth play of this album and I'm kind of divided. What I like, I love, what I don't like, leaves me cold. Its half and half. Their last two albums I thought were flawless. This one just doesn't do it for me like it's predecessors.
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Hmm, I kind of thought that at first too. Give it a bit longer and perhaps you'll end up loving it?

Which ones are you loving/not loving so far anyway?
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