Coldplay VS. Metallica in 2008

[Strongbow]

Well, 2008 will see the 4th studio album from Coldplay sometime around Spring/Summer. For Metallica it will be their 9th studio album which should be released around Spring/Summer as well.

Which album do you think will be the most commercially successful?

Which album do you think will be the most critically acclaimed?

Which band will have the more successful tour?

Will Metallica regain the position it had with the "Black Album"?

Will Coldplay's new album be their Joshua Tree?

 

[LemonMelon]

Both of the artists have sucked recently, but, objectively, I'll say it'll end up like this:

1. Coldplay's album will be more successful all across the board.

2. Metallica will never reach Black Album popularity again, but this album may be decent.

3. Please never compare anything Coldplay does to the Joshua Tree. Moderately OK bands don't release classics like that out of nowhere.

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

Both albums will do well, but Coldplay will do better (Metallica doesn't appeal so much to soccer moms)

Neither.

Metallica--stadiums of 20,000+ metalheads can't be wrong.

No.

Oh hell no.

 

[FitzChivalry]

3. Please never compare anything Coldplay does to the Joshua Tree.

Coldplay


You know, I actual used to think they were ok, and that 2nd album of theirs was somewhat decent, but then three things happened, and now I absolutely can't stand them/Chris Martin:

1. Chris Martin said the 1st song he played to his unborn child was "A Sort Of Homecoming". Ok, that's cool. I'm can be on board with that. ASOH is one of my all-time favorite U2 songs, so I could understand and was completely fine with that, but then . . .

2. "Speed Of Sound" came out and it completely sounded to me like some "Unforgettable Fire" outtake. Ok, so now by this point I'm starting to get a bit disheartened with them, but I still think they're ok, even if they're just a little bit U2 wannabes. And then the last nail in the coffin was . . .

3. Coldplay performed at some awards show (Grammys? MTV Music Awards? Billboard?) and Chris Martin was so pathetic playing "Speed Of Sound" and trying SO HARD to impersonate/be Bono. It was sickening. He was wearing all black and had pretty much stolen EVERY move, step, gesture, stance, leap, reach, volley, dance, spin, yelp and cadence that Bono has ever done! I remember my friends and I were watching and I thought Ok, well, maybe I'm just being overly sensitive b/c I love Bono so much, but then my friends turned to me and said, "Could he be any more pathetic? He's trying so hard to be Bono. He's so lame, he can't even have his own personality, he has to steal Bono's." And then I realized it wasn't just me, Chris Martin really was that pathetic.

After that I deleted every Coldplay album off my iPod.

Coldplay

 

[GibsonGirl]

I think it will all suck a lot.

 

[LemonMelon]

I thought Parachutes was very good, and Rush Of Blood was OK. Then, of course, came the unpleasantness...

 

[xaviMF22]

A rush of blood is great


amsterdam

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

I think it will all suck a lot.

 

[Dalton]

I thought Metallica died. Seriously wasn't he in a car crash last year?

 

[MrBrau1]

The Coldplay hate here makes about as much sense as the worship of everything Radiohead do.

 

[LMP]

Isn't Brian Eno producing the next Coldplay record?

mediocrity of Coldplay <<<< Brian Eno's talent

I think we might get something good, I don't know, I only like Radiohead.

 

[LemonMelon]

The Coldplay hate here makes about as much sense as the worship of everything Radiohead do.

Are you implying that Coldplay > Radiohead?

God, you're square.

 

[Dalton]

Sometimes I bathe in Thom's tears while the vibrations of Johnny's guitar genius make bubble.s

 

[GibsonGirl]

Sometimes I bathe in Thom's tears while the vibrations of Johnny's guitar genius make bubble.s

 

[Dalton]

So THAT'S where that song came from ...

 

[MrBrau1]

and there you have it.

 

[xaviMF22]

Are you implying that Coldplay > Radiohead?

God, you're square.

 

[Dalton]

and there you have it.

When you try your best and you don't succeed ....

 

[MrBrau1]

When you try your best and you don't succeed ....

Draw cartoons to make fun of people?

Cause it's cool?

 

[GibsonGirl]

Don't get me wrong, I thought Parachutes was an okay album. I still listen to Spies every once in a while. Great song. It's the rest of
Coldplay's material that I take offence to.

As for Metallica, I've never seen the appeal. They wrote a few cool tunes back in the day, but have long since ceased to be relevant.

 

[LemonMelon]

Draw cartoons to make fun of people?

Cause it's cool?

I take that personally. Very, very personally.

Even though you weren't referring to me and I have no place in this conversation.

 

[xaviMF22]

Don't get me wrong, I thought Parachutes was an okay album. I still listen to Spies every once in a while. Great song. It's the rest of
Coldplay's material that I take offence to.

As for Metallica, I've never seen the appeal. They wrote a few cool tunes back in the day, but have long since ceased to be relevant.

spies

 

[GibsonGirl]

I take that personally. Very, very personally.

Even though you weren't referring to me and I have no place in this conversation.

Oh don't take it personally, he's probably just drunk.

Edit: As usual.

 

[Dalton]

Draw cartoons to make fun of people?

Cause it's cool?

Who the fuck knows? That Chris Martin is all rhetorical questions and no answers. He's the world's most famous Kirby Vacuum Cleaner salesman...

 

[LemonMelon]

Oh don't take it personally, he's probably just drunk.

Edit: As usual.

Sometimes I wish I were drunk 24/7. That would be fascinating. Or maybe not.

 

[GibsonGirl]

Who the fuck knows? That Chris Martin is all rhetorical questions and no answers. He's the world's most famous Kirby Vacuum Cleaner salesman...

I hear he's also rather good at writing songs that are a hundred miles long.

 

[xaviMF22]

coldplay bashing

 

[LemonMelon]

coldplay bashing

Oh, come on, you know you love it.

X&Y makes HTDAAB look like a masterpiece, and LP4 will probably just be a sad attempt to rip off the moodier parts of Unforgettable Fire.

 

[corianderstem]

I seriously love that.

I like Parachutes, and think A Rush of Blood to the Head is very good. Each of those albums has two songs I simply love, and the rest I just think is nice. X&Y is just blah. But I'm still interested to see if they can pull off something else I'd love.

I'm very forgiving.

 

[MrBrau1]

Oh don't take it personally, he's probably just drunk.

Edit: As usual.

Damn straight.

Work. Fuck. Drink.