Sorry if this has been spoken of before but on the amazon.com there is an interesting take on the X&Y album sequence.

 

 

X&Y = TWISTED LOGIC, June 12, 2005

Reviewer: Math101 (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews

I'm wondering, has anyone considered that mathematical organization of the album? If you recall the graphing coordinates (X,Y), the x-axis and y-axis, this is the result:

 

(Square One, Speed of Sound) = (X1,Y1)

(What If, A Message) = (X2, Y2)

(White Shadows, Low) = (X3, Y3)

(Fix You, The Hardest Part) = (X4, Y4)

(Talk, Swallowed in the Sea) = (X5, Y5)

(X&Y, Twisted Logic) = (X6, Y6)

 

I'm wondering if there is some sort of hidden meaning or correlation between each pair. You could almost make sentences from each pairing by filling in the blanks. Just an interesting observation. This is a great album that makes for an interesting study.

:o

Guess that's why the album was split up that way? They're supposed to discuss it next ezine so...we'll know for sure soon enough!

Cool. Didn't know about the ezine. Thanks :)

I didn't either. I've been wondering about the significance between the tracklisting for a while now tho

The logic behind the Album Title is very simple, I'll quote from an article called Baby Maker or something:

 

"Every man and woman constitutes 22 pairs of chromosomes plus one pair that is the difference between them; these are the sexual chromosomes X and Y.

 

Men have the chromosomes pairing of XY and women have the pairing of XX."

 

Y'see, what Coldplay are doing with this album, is at last saying, "WE ARE MEN!" and is most apparent when they RAWR at the end of Fix You :charming:

:lol:

The logic behind the Album Title is very simple, I'll quote from an article called Baby Maker or something:

 

"Every man and woman constitutes 22 pairs of chromosomes plus one pair that is the difference between them; these are the sexual chromosomes X and Y.

 

Men have the chromosomes pairing of XY and women have the pairing of XX."

 

Y'see, what Coldplay are doing with this album, is at last saying, "WE ARE MEN!" and is most apparent when they RAWR at the end of Fix You :charming:

 

hahahahaha, hillarious

haha. great findings ;)

(White Shadows, Low) = (X3, Y3)

(X&Y, Twisted Logic) = (X6, Y6)

At the first time that I have listened this album I confused these song between they. They are similar.

The whole thing makes me ill..

damn them. they're so smart. probably because of Jonny aull this happened since he did study maffematics.......

i hate maths :D

(White Shadows, Low) = (X3, Y3)

(X&Y, Twisted Logic) = (X6, Y6)

At the first time that I have listened this album I confused these song between they. They are similar.

 

i confused X&X and twisted logic as well :P

Oops, didn't write it all

 

-edits-

22 pairs plus 1 pair of sex chromosomes = 23 pairs :smart:

Is it just me or does there not seem to be a difference between the tracks listed as X and those listed as Y? I mean to me at least, it seems as though any of the songs could be put on either list... What's the thing that separates them?

whoa, that will give me a brain hemorage if I think too long on it! lol it's an interesting concept though...