Basically I am interested in finally getting some X+Y material on my website . :idea2: Its a tad out of date but I want to get it a little more current.

 

Two things I'm definitely looking to add:

 

1) I need some screen captures of images from the videos of X+Y. I have all earlier singles put on wallpapers (http://thescientist1.tripod.com/videos.htm) but haven't come across captures images except for a few in signatures here.

 

2) I'm looking for quotes directly from band members from shows that show the inspiration for all the songs from x+y. Here is the AROBTTH page of mine as an example of what I'm aiming for: http://thescientist1.tripod.com/AROBTTH.htm.

 

What i have so far:

SQUARE ONE:

'We tried to make a song like Kraftwerk (This composition is the first official song which is done by Guy and Will and not by me - programming on an old Drum-Computer.)' Opening is reminiscent of 2. 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' the theme from 2001: A Space Odyessey.

 

WHAT IF:

Should sound like John Lennon.

 

WHITE SHADOWS

was inspired by Tears for Fears' "Mad World." The title "White Shadows" was lifted from a Seventies TV series produced by Martin's late father-in-law, Bruce Paltrow. Even though Martin never met the man, X&Y is dedicated to him -- the CD sleeve reads, "For BWP." "It's meant to be subtle," says Martin. "It just has a way of making sense of death."

 

Guy: “Sometimes songs we put on the shelf, come back, like White Shadows ended up on the record and that was one that we’d …so we do work hard on every song before we decide it’s not working. They go through a sorting process.”

 

 

FIX YOU:

We borrowed from Jimmy Cliff the line "There's so many rivers to cross". Chris mentioned that they wanted to pull a "Bee Gees" and do a 4 part harmony for the finale.

 

TALK

 

Coldplay take the riff from Kraftwerk's 'Computer Love', Guy Berryman said: "Talk was a song written around a riff so it was quite unique in that respect. It even had a verse that sounded quite like The Smiths and Bowie."

 

Coldplay admit there are 3 versions of this song ;

Jonny: “They started there and got re-written and then they got rewritten back.”

 

Will: “There’s 3 different verses. The chorus has pretty much always been the same and the music and the melody.”

 

X & Y:

We had this track very early but we thought it's boring. One night at home I listened to old Beatles records and saw a making-of of "Dark Side Of The Moon" and then I come up with the idea to play the song in a 60's style.

 

The title track 'X + Y' is much inspired by Abbey Road era Beatles as Jonny Buckland explains: "X + Y is the most psychedelic and most Beatles we've ever been. It's just one of those songs that took a long time to record though." – Guy

 

SPEED OF SOUND:

“We tried to write a Kate Bush song. I've heard "Running Up That Hill" and liked to have a song with the same atmosphere. Even the chords are similar.”

 

Guy Berryman continues, the track is a great bridge between the last album and the new. “Speed of Sound' is a great first single. It kind of shows that we're about melodic songs yet also shows the progression in sound. We were listening to Kate Bush and I was trying to so some Nick McCabe guitar, so that was the influence really behind the track."

 

A MESSAGE:

Even we had to deliver the album on January. There was one song left, somehow remaining just one idea - the melody of an old church song which we sung a lot when we were children "My Song Is Love Unknown".

 

Chris claims he wrote while walking about his house in the buff at 2am. He said: "A Message is incredibly important to me. We were working hard to finish the album and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I went downstairs at 2am, totally nude, and I sat down with the same guitar I used for 'Square One' and this song just arrived in like four minutes! To me it's such a special song which I'm very proud of - it was also the last song recorded for the album."

 

LOW

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THE HARDEST PART:

'We wanted to write a R.E.M. song'

 

SWALLOWED IN THE SEA

 

Influenced by the Pogues.

 

TWISTED LOGIC

 

Very reminiscent of 'She's So Heavy' from Beatles Abbey Road.

 

TIL KINGDOM COME

 

Written for the late great Johnny Cash who passed away before he could record the song

Any help would be fab and mega! Thx! :D