Coldplay Announce New Album Tracks

[LemonMelon]

I do think that A Rush Of Blood To The Head is brilliant, and was the previous high water mark for them, but I think Viva has passed it.

The reason I don't regularly praise that record is In My Place. Fucking mush, like everything I mock X&Y for except not quite that bad. That and the second half is a bit slow and repetitive. GPASOYF is brilliant though. As would be Clocks if I hadn't heard it 82493781561937562 times.

For now anyway, I definitely prefer Viva.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Amsterdam owns all...

elfa has spoken

 

[Zoots]

Rush of Blood is awesome! I like it more than Parachutes which I also like. This new album sounds good but I'm not totally bowled over by it yet.

 

[BoMac]

The title track of A Rush...is my personal favourite.

 

[phanan]

The reason I don't regularly praise that record is In My Place. Fucking mush, like everything I mock X&Y for except not quite that bad. That and the second half is a bit slow and repetitive. GPASOYF is brilliant though. As would be Clocks if I hadn't heard it 82493781561937562 times.

For now anyway, I definitely prefer Viva.

See, it's funny you say that, because I find parts of Parachutes slow and repetitive, which is why I don't like that album as much.

To each his own...

 

[Zoots]

Plus Parachutes has some falsetto I'm not fond of... like on Spies.

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face on the other hand may very well be my favorite Coldplay song.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

See, it's funny you say that, because I find parts of Parachutes slow and repetitive, which is why I don't like that album as much.

To each his own...

I agree, although I can't put my finger on what it is, all the songs on Parachutes are good but when you put them together the flow* is off or something imo...










*say what?

 

[LemonMelon]

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face on the other hand may very well be my favorite Coldplay song.

Agreed.

1. Shiver
2. Yes
3. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
4. Yellow
5. High Speed






671. Swallowed In The Sea

 

[Zoots]

I still haven't heard X&Y except for some 4 or 5 tracks.

 

[LemonMelon]

If we could all be so lucky.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I still haven't heard X&Y except for some 4 or 5 tracks.

it's not nearly as bad as some :cough:Mel:cough: would have you believe...

 

[Zoots]

If we could all be so lucky.

I like what I have though... except for maybe Fix You... and the album version of Talk which is inferior to the demo.

 

[LemonMelon]

it's not nearly as bad as some :cough:Mel:cough: would have you believe...

It's not ALL bad. It's just not particularly coherent, and has about 4 good songs. If you don't mind that, carry on.

 

[thetitans2k]

when's this album gonna leak?

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

i just loled

 

[LemonMelon]

when's this album gonna leak?

Tomorrow, 6:48 PM CST.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

titans, what is your email address?

 

[phanan]

when's this album gonna leak?

What album?

 

[Sicy]

Is that Vida song the one on the commercials?

 

[LemonMelon]

Is that Vida song the one on the commercials?

Viva La Vida was on iTunes commercials, yes.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

it's Coldplay's Vertigo

 

[phanan]

it's not nearly as bad as some :cough:Mel:cough: would have you believe...

Agreed, and if you substitute the weaker tracks for selective B-sides, you'd really have another great album.

 

[phanan]

it's Coldplay's Vertigo

Only better, I'd dare say.

 

[Sicy]

it's Coldplay's Vertigo

lol yeah um kind of reminded me of U2's itunes commercial

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

lol yeah um kind of reminded me of U2's itunes commercial

I think you'd better start a thread in EYKIW...

 

[phanan]

I think you'd better start a thread in EYKIW...

 

[LemonMelon]

Agreed, and if you substitute the weaker tracks for selective B-sides, you'd really have another great album.

Replace every X&Y disc with Parachutes and you'd have a really great album!

 

[phanan]

Replace every X&Y disc with Parachutes and you'd have a really great album!

 

[LemonMelon]

The huge difference between X&Y and Viva IMO is Chris Martin. That's pretty much it. Had Chris Martin been arsed to write an album's worth of good lyrics and NOT sing every note in falsetto, X&Y could have been great because, melody-wise, it's not that much weaker than Viva. But, as it is, Viva has the better lyrics, vocals, energy, and production, so it's no contest.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

for the record, other than Fix You, The Hardest Part and Swallowed In The Sea I think X&Y is a cracking album...