cobl04
45:33
If you're looking for good lyrics from Chris Martin you're an idiot.
Coldplay - Everyday Life
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LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
That's not really an excuse for lyrics being shit though. Otherwise, all lyricists could start their career writing absolute garbage, establishing such low standards that anything they write would be deemed relatively decent.
For what it's worth, I didn't think this album's lyrics were bad, just OK. Which for Chris Martin is a nice surprise.
For what it's worth, I didn't think this album's lyrics were bad, just OK. Which for Chris Martin is a nice surprise.
iron yuppie
ONE love, blood, life
Coldplay lyrics are terrible, but Martin usually sells them pretty well IMO. Like Elton John in that regard.
LuckyNumber7
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The particular criticism at hand seemed to be focused on some lazy writing but that individual song is I think the exception. And even it is consistently interchanging terrible to good to terrible.
cobl04
45:33
This implies Chris Martin has some sort of higher standard of lyricism that he is lazily forgoing. He's been a terrible lyricist for a long time; he ran out of things to say and ways to talk about love and loss and catharsis many years ago. But I agree with iyup, up until the last album I was of the view that they generally made songs better than the sum of their parts. This album's collection of lyrics is fine for him, as you say, the ratio of embarrassing to fine lyrics is lower than it has been in some time.
DaveC
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you can also apply this nearly word-for-word to bono for at least the last decade or so too.
mikal
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What rating system do you guys use for lyrics? I can’t find any means to measure their quality online.
DaveC
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maybe orgororpora or whatever the alt that he's lurking with these days can help you out, he has experience taking abstract complex ideas and converting them into handy 1-5 scales.
Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
Rating Scale For Lyrics
1. I have a loaded gun in my mouth
2. Quietly throwing up in mouth a little bit
3. Neutral
4. Salivating
5. Twitching and salivating
1. I have a loaded gun in my mouth
2. Quietly throwing up in mouth a little bit
3. Neutral
4. Salivating
5. Twitching and salivating
LuckyNumber7
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Jokes aside, I just try to see:
(1) how much I cringe
(2) how annoying it sounds
(3) how well an idea can be delivered
(4) how cliche the idea is delivered
(5) how well it supports other ideas on the album
(6) how much I relate to the idea
Usually loosely in that order. All subjective.
DaveC
Blue Crack Addict
this scale is misguided and a little naive.
Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
used as a photo in time magazine
ok my turn to be serious(ish). I don't think there is any possible scale. A lot of it comes down to:
What is the artist trying to do? Lyrics, it should go without saying, do not always play the same role within the overall work. Sometimes it's not really about the lyrics, although even then they kind of matter a little bit. Most of the shite Chris Martin comes out with would be a dealbreaker for me, if only that it lacks any discernible personality or individual vision. That 'something' that says, 'oh this is actually somebody, this isn't just generic pablum, this is actually somebody's take on the world'.
Are they doing that something well?
Does the artist even know what they are trying to do?
Iggy Fizz
War Child
you like the word idiot. that's awesome. from the guy who goes to a U2 show and cries when he hears Ultraviolet.
Iggy Fizz
War Child
in other news... the rest of the new album is questionnable at best.
Cry Cry Cry anyone? Good God awful.
Trouble in Town -with the Matt Damon-infused nasty white cop in Boston scene - are you fucking kidding me?
Gospel choirs on BrokEn ( I think?).... holy shit is this a bizarre Rattle & Hum reprise / tribute / copy/paste?
Cry Cry Cry anyone? Good God awful.
Trouble in Town -with the Matt Damon-infused nasty white cop in Boston scene - are you fucking kidding me?
Gospel choirs on BrokEn ( I think?).... holy shit is this a bizarre Rattle & Hum reprise / tribute / copy/paste?
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
It was just the break in Living for the City but shitty.
intedomine
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
A Rush Of Blood - A+
Viva La Vida - A
Mylo Xyloto - B
Parachutes - B-
Ghost Stories - B-
X&Y - C
An Ass Full of Shit - E
Everyday Life - probably sitting at a B I’d say. Although the First disc is awfully superior to the Second disc.
Churches and Arabesque the two standouts for me. And I do really enjoy When I Need a Friend, it’s lovely.
Viva La Vida - A
Mylo Xyloto - B
Parachutes - B-
Ghost Stories - B-
X&Y - C
An Ass Full of Shit - E
Everyday Life - probably sitting at a B I’d say. Although the First disc is awfully superior to the Second disc.
Churches and Arabesque the two standouts for me. And I do really enjoy When I Need a Friend, it’s lovely.
cobl04
45:33
lmao you are a sad little man.
Iggy Fizz
War Child
57 thousand posts from a 29 year old know-nothing malcontent who comes on here 24-7-365 and spends his time calling people he doesn't like idiots.... now that is truly sad. maybe you need to get a job...?
are you still lyao?
are you still lyao?
iron yuppie
ONE love, blood, life
Mocking someone's employment status is several steps over the line IMO.
Iggy Fizz
War Child
how about whenever you post you have the same sad asshole calling you a fucking idiot.... how do you see that?
cobl04
45:33
keep going mate, this is giving me life. I'm the happiest I've ever been. I can see through you. The fact you need to belittle me to give yourself some sort of satisfaction demonstrates that you might not be all that happy in life. so yes, I'm laughing my arse off still. not sure who you got so offended by original post, I'd have said the same thing about anyone.
mikal
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This proves the theory I’ve had for quite a while that Coldplay brings the worst out of people.
#listentomorebiffyclyroanddancegavindance
#listentomorebiffyclyroanddancegavindance
DaveC
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intedomine
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Bullying someone on an Internet forum is so 2006.
And pray tell, what has Iggy Fizzy accomplished in life that he look down on people from such a level?
Exhibit A in how to take things too far, iggy.
If you’re going to critique someone for calling other people names, perhaps don’t convey that criticism through your own harsh, over-the-top string of invectives.
Iggy Fizz
War Child
Diemen - perhaps I did take it too far but when a specific individual decides to continuously post 'you're a fucking idiot' or something equivalent every time I put up a comment then you know what? I am going to punch back.
And your failure to call out the individual who started this nonsense tells me all I need to know at this point...
And your failure to call out the individual who started this nonsense tells me all I need to know at this point...
Iggy Fizz
War Child
if I posted 'you're a fucking idiot' as a reply here, would that be cool? Pray tell...
I continue to be amazed and amused by how fragile people here are.... you can dish it out but when it comes back at you, oh no....!
the tourist
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Remember back when this thread was about Coldplay?
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Guy calls you an idiot, you go about 5 times as far in response. Notice how I don’t call out minor sniping between people (like calling someone an idiot once or twice) because people keep it minor and don’t escalate needlessly. You didn’t do that.
Drop it and move on. Put him on your ignore list if he triggers you so much.
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mikal
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That’s awesome that it’s ok to call people idiots here now. That might come in handy down the road! [emoji16]
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