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The Official Coldplay Thread; New album "A Head Full of Dreams"
Topic Started: Jan 13 2008, 03:17 PM (6,453 Views)
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The font is very Janet Jackson Discipline. :shock:
it's the same font used for the viva la vida album cover. there's no way coldplay were aware of discipline, considering only a bunch of people in the european territory have known of its existence.
I think the word "bunch" is probably even an overstatement. "Handful" is probably better. :lol2:
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The font is very Janet Jackson Discipline. :shock:
it's the same font used for the viva la vida album cover. there's no way coldplay were aware of discipline, considering only a bunch of people in the european territory have known of its existence.
I think the word "bunch" is probably even an overstatement. "Handful" is probably better. :lol2:
They're the same people who showed up in drove to buy multiple copies upon its release. Thank God for all of Janet's fan.
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Edited by Manu Alexz, Oct 15 2008, 03:34 AM.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCEw2Et86Y
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I can't believe these shitty awards are still on the go...

Coldplay have been named as the world's top-selling act of 2008 at the World Music Awards (WMAs) in Monaco.

Their latest album, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, topped charts in countries including Britain, the US, Japan, Germany and France.

The group, fronted by Chris Martin, were also named rock act of the year.

The best pop female award went to Leona Lewis, who outsold Madonna and Mariah Carey, while US singer Kid Rock won best pop male.

Outstanding contribution

Kid Rock, who was once married to Pamela Anderson, also scooped the prize for best male pop/rock artist.

Singer Amy Winehouse won the female pop/rock award.

Beyonce
Beyonce performed at the ceremony in Monte Carlo

Alicia Keys was best R&B artist while Lewis also won the new artist prize.

Beyonce, who performed at the ceremony, took home the outstanding contribution to the arts award while the special achievement prize went to pop diva Mariah Carey.

Lil' Wayne was named top hip-hop/rap artist top and Akon was crowned biggest internet artist of the year.

Ringo Starr picked up the diamond award on behalf of The Beatles.

The prize was created in 2001 to honour artists who have sold more than 100 million albums.

Michael Jackson performed at the 2006 ceremony, which took place in London.

The awards, based on worldwide sales, take place every year.

Record figures are provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a London-based body representing the recording industry.


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Ooh crimps!
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Off topic I know, but my mum has become completely obsessed with Coldplay :bradleh:
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http://www.nme.com/reviews/coldplay/9998

The modern world, eh? Time was when you’d get an album, preceded and followed by a couple of singles, and that’d be that. Now, with labels desperately trying to figure out how to keep their clients’ wares afloat, you get ‘leaks’ (some deliberate, some not), streams, downloads, covermounted singles, bonus discs, download-only singles, singles, albums, special edition albums, albums and singles. ‘Prospekts March’ — billed as “an EP of eight previously unreleased tracks” — comes hot on the heels of a single release of ‘Lost!’ and will simultaneously be teamed with the album and released as ‘Viva La Vida Prospekts March Edition’. Cripes!

In truth, of the eight previously unreleased tracks, one is a not-massively-adventurous reshuffle (the Osaka Sun mix of ‘Lovers In Japan’), another a 48-second long incidental piano piece, another the version of ‘Lost!’ that features Jay-Z on autopilot (ie, still quite amazing) but is on the flip of the single. So they don’t count. The opener is ‘Life In Technicolor (ii)’, which takes ‘Viva…’’s opening almost-instrumental and adds a typically bombastic melody, plus a chorus whose words (“Now my feet won’t touch the ground!”) are reprised as the title of the stripped-down, acoustic guitar-led closing song. And in-between? Well, there’s a positively garagantuan, only slightly Eno-ified stadium filler entitled ‘Glass Of Water’, featuring such deep and meaningful musings as “Dream that you could see your future/Inside a glass of water/The ripples and the lines”; a vaguely dance-y, ever-so-vaguely funky “experimental” effort called ‘Rainy Day’; and the title track, which tries oh-so hard to be a bit, y’know, strange, before the inevitable arrival of synth strings (buoying a ‘Wish You Were Here’-aping line in the guise of, “We’re just two little figures in a soup bowl”) and the even more inevitable arrival of – you guessed it — a life-affirming™ chorus.

All of which is far more complicated than it needs to be, a hefty bout of smoke and mirrors ultimately intended to add some mystery to the Coldplay campaign and re-ignite interest in ‘Viva La Vida…’ which, at the time of going to press, is residing in the lower regions of the Top 40. Will it work? Is ‘Prospekts March’ a stroke of marketing/brand reigniting/whatever genius? Lord knows. But can someone do me a fucking favour and please figure out the best way to do all this shit, so we can get back to reviewing actual music rather than all these crazy little projects?!

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it sounds like crap, really, but even so i'm happy i've waited this far without buying the original edition of viva la vida. when even the likes of coldplay use such marketing ploits, u can tell the music industry's in a state of plain desperation.
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Life in Technicolor II 9/10
Postcards from Far Away 7/10
Glass of Water 8/10
Rainy Day 9/10
Prospekt's March/Poppyfields 8/10
Lost + 6/10
Lovers in Japan (Osaka Sun mix) 7/10
Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground 7/10
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The song is called "Lhuna" and will be available at www.redwire.com later today. Proceeds go to a HIV/AIDS charity!
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5292481.ece

Coldplay’s award-hoarding, chart-topping year hit a snag yesterday when guitarist Joe Satriani filed a law suit against the band, accusing them of plagarising his music.

In a copyright infringement suit, filed at Los Angeles federal court, the American rock musician is understood to have claimed Coldplay’s world-wide hit Viva La Vida incorporates “substantial original portions” of his 2004 instrumental If I Could Fly.

The guitarist is reportedly seeking a jury trial, damages and “any and all profits” attributable to the alleged copyright infringement.

The suit was filed the day after Coldplay made headlines around the world for bagging seven Grammy Award nominations, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year for the disputed track.

The track is the most successful of Coldplay’s career and went straight to No 1 on the UK charts when it was released in June. Song-writing credits list singer Chris Martin, bass player Guy Berryman, guitarist Johnny Buckland and drummer Will Champion.

The album the song came from, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, spent six weeks at the top of the charts, topping all of the band’s previous hit albums, including their debut Parachutes and the epic A Rush of Blood To The Head.

Last month at the World Music Awards, the band was officially declared the world’s biggest-selling music act of the year.

Satriani, whose guitar skills have been employed by the cream of the music world, including Mick Jagger, released If I Could Fly on his tenth studio album Is There Love In Space?

The Grammy Award-winning guitarist is not the first to lay claim to Viva La Vida. In June, the American band Creaky Boards insinuated, via YouTube, that Coldplay had copied their song, ironically entitled Songs I Didn't Write, after Chris Martin attended one of the little-known band's gigs. Coldplay was quick to point out that Viva La Vida had been penned and demoed long before that concert.

Neither Satriani or Coldplay have commented on the suit.

Listen to If I Could Fly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMcjXo8ZuqE
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Um...they are VERY similar in chorus part.
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Are they? I couldn't really hear any similarities at a casual listen!
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In the chorus parts of the melody are virtually identical.
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I must have another listen.
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Take the cloth out of your ears first.

And the cake out of your mouth.
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Coldplay should be sued for being crap!
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I am still on a major Coldplay buzz after seeing them a week ago. Fucking best gig of 2008. Chris Martin, all is forgiven.
Phew - just needed to say it and share it!
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