Random Coldplay thoughts...

[Troxley]

^ was in reply to this

But if people who aren't into Coldplay or have heard of them but never really took the time to listen to their music hear this interpretation and decide to take a listen to the original and love it, it's all worth it. That's all the band wants.

 

Although Coldplay has sold 55 million albums and counting, there's a world out there who knows nothing about them. I live it every single day. Most people I meet at the store or the gym either don't know about Coldplay or aren't interested in their music. The Glee exposure seems to only hurt some fans for reasons I have a hard time undertanding.

[Dany93]

Hopefully, it doesn't happen with everyone. I know some people who like Glee although they're into metal or other kinds of music. Who knows, maybe they'll fall in love with Coldplay songs thanks to that show, or maybe not. It's worth a try anyway.

 

edit: THAT, THAT is emotion

 

True... Anyway, the Glee version is not that terrible. They re-arranged it pretty well, in my opinion, without adding too much but also without letting it remain too similar to the original, that would've been poor.

It reminds me the American Idiot Cast version of 21 guns.... It's almost at this level. Not yet though.

 

i love when camera turns around chris , then zooms out, jonny starts playing .... :wacky:

 

:nod: :wacky: :')

 

But if people who aren't into Coldplay or have heard of them but never really took the time to listen to their music hear this interpretation and decide to take a listen to the original and love it, it's all worth it. That's all the band wants.

 

Although Coldplay has sold 55 million albums and counting, there's a world out there who knows nothing about them. I live it every single day. Most people I meet at the store or the gym either don't know about Coldplay or aren't interested in their music. The Glee exposure seems to only hurt some fans for reasons I have a hard time undertanding.

 

:nod:

 

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true stroy.. :lol:

 

:lol:

[Coeurli]

But if people who aren't into Coldplay or have heard of them but never really took the time to listen to their music hear this interpretation and decide to take a listen to the original and love it, it's all worth it. That's all the band wants.

 

Although Coldplay has sold 55 million albums and counting, there's a world out there who knows nothing about them. I live it every single day. Most people I meet at the store or the gym either don't know about Coldplay or aren't interested in their music. The Glee exposure seems to only hurt some fans for reasons I have a hard time undertanding.

Of course, of course. I was just sayin that it was a couple of painful minutes for a fan like me :lol:

[jeremyy]

god knows how many times i watched that trailer :|

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-NbV4JTjU]Coldplay Live 2012 (Official Trailer) - YouTube[/ame]

 

still goosebumps!

[Mollyxyloto]

god knows how many times i watched that trailer :|

 

 

still goosebumps!

 

Same, the first time I saw the trailer my eyes filled up :laugh3:

[KristenCaNaDiAn]

Trying to write a paper for class and I keep getting distracted cuz Coldplay is blasting in my earphones ;)

[Mollyxyloto]

New avatar time!

[Mollyxyloto]

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=w2gSDs3UyKgFor anyone who wants to watch:

 

 

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=w2gSDs3UyKg

[coldplaymom]

Of course, of course. I was just sayin that it was a couple of painful minutes for a fan like me :lol:

 

Oh I totally got you! That was just a general vent:) And don't ask me what kind of wind :lol: You won't get the joke unless you've listened to Coldplay Artists Confidential. :lol:

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true stroy.. :lol:

 

Lawl, I would wear that. :P

[coldplaymom]

This Fix You cover by Carrie Underwood on VH1 Unplugged is decent as well. I don't expect any artist to cover Coldplay and sound better than Coldplay. The test for me is whether or not a non-fan would like the cover enough to want to check out the original.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmiMIr9T_Ik]Carrie Underwood - Fix You (Coldplay) - VH1 Unplugged 2012 Live - YouTube[/ame]

[LeonieArienne]

How do you insert the multiple quotes? I pressed the multiquotebutton at a few people but I don't know how it should appear in my reply?

[PrincessofChina]

^ Press the multiquote button for the quotes you want, and then press the 'regular' quote button at the last one you want to select. That way, they'll all appear in your new post.

[coldplaymom]

I think you do multiquote for the 1st quote, for the rest you just press quote. All the quotes will appear in your post.

[Troxley]

Yeah, that didn't work. Which is the multiquote?

 

Edit: never mind, I got it.

[Troxley]

How do you insert the multiple quotes? I pressed the multiquotebutton at a few people but I don't know how it should appear in my reply?

 

^ Press the multiquote button for the quotes you want, and then press the 'regular' quote button at the last one you want to select. That way, they'll all appear in your new post.

 

Yes! I got it!

[Dany93]

I was having lunch with my family today while watching tv, when suddenly some ads comes on with ETIAW as background music, and it totally clashed with the spot itself, so I started saying loud "NO, NO, NO! :disappointed:", thinking that it was a complete waste... My dad thought that I didn't want too see/hear that spot, so he changed channel. I kinda shouted: "CHANGE IT BACK! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!", and I was a little angry 'cause he absolutely knows that song, he should know he must never stop or disturb me when Coldplay music is involved (I'd actually just finished listening to AROBTTH :P, didn't go to the kitchen until it was over :P), so once he put it back on the previous channel, I muttered: "You fool! :angry:"...

After a bit, he said, in slight disappointment: "What? Your dad is a fool then?", I replied: "You could be my sister, brother, father, mother, grandma or grandpa, husband or son, but if you mess with their music, then yeah, you're a fool! :snobby:"

[Mollyxyloto]

What would my life be like without Coldplay?

[UdaPruda]

I sometimes listen to Ritmo de la Noche. I never stop wondering how Chris came up with Every Teardrop.

[Troxley]

If you wanna find out if someone likes Coldplay, ask them what their favourite number is.

[Coeurli]

Sorry not related to Coldplay but if you can watch this, it's happening right now!!

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull?feature=results_main

[KristenCaNaDiAn]

For my teaching English class, my prof wants us to write a personal narrative about a memorable experience we had. I'm so writing about the Coldplay shows I went to this summer :D

[Mollyxyloto]

Anyone here go to the Coldplay show on May29th at the Ricoh?

[zzz]

Sorry not related to Coldplay but if you can watch this, it's happening right now!!

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull?feature=results_main

 

Thanks! I really wanted to see that, but didn't realize there was another attempt today!

[Coeurli]

NME ‏@NME

Coldplay's Chris Martin told us this was the best thing he'd read in ages http://ow.ly/eqQ4q

 

Article in spoiler

 

Let’s Stick Together - Why Bands Should Never Banish Their Boneheads

By Henry Yates - Posted on 10/05/12 at 10:18:30 am

 

February 2013 is the big one. It’s the comeback of the century. It’s the return of the king. It’s the second coming of Bonehead, back with a new album in Parlour Flames. At this point, some of our younger readers may be wondering who or what a ‘Bonehead’ is. It has the ring of a nasty scalp condition, the Elephant Man’s secondary-school nickname, or a particularly vile euphemism for an erection. It’s none of these. Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs was the Oasis rhythm guitarist from 1991 to 1999. Pattern-bald in his twenties, his index finger permanently locked into an artless barre-chord, he was the epitome of the rock ‘n’ roll drone bee, writing no songs, stirring no loins. I’m not really selling him to you, am I?

 

That's Bonehead on the left if you didn't know

 

The point is, Bonehead was more important than anybody realised. Every truly great band has one. He’s the beating heart. The Manc-next-door. The musician who would be laughed out of any session gig for not being able to play in 6/8 time, but whose presence makes the band feel real and romantic, epitomising the critical difference between a lineup of friends who’d take a bullet for each other, and some cut-and-shut X Factor abomination, spliced at Boot Camp, with the stitches still visible. When you see the black-and-white Pennie Smith shot of the four young punks, backs to the brick wall, howling at some in-joke, you’re seeing a gang before you see a band. It’s them against the world. Similarly, when you hear, say, Guns N’ Roses’ 'Appetite For Destruction', you’re hearing collusion and chemistry (both kinds).

 

Sadly, most bands shed their Boneheads, generally after their debut album, typically to be replaced by some technically impeccable session wizard, who plays, laughs and shits to order. Within five years of 'Definitely Maybe', Oasis had lost three of them – which to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, might be seen as carelessness – when you factor in founding bassist Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll.

People don’t care about dotted minims and sticking to the click-track. They care about four friends from a former mill town, sitting in the gutter eating cheesy chips and looking at the stars

Now, you don’t need to be a musicologist to appreciate that Gem Archer, Andy Bell and (in that period) Alan White were superior players. A shaven monkey could have done Bonehead’s job (and indeed some unkind observers might have suggested that a shaven monkey was doing it). Likewise, Matt Sorum has better ‘chops’ than Steven Adler (best mates with Slash at high-school, but booted from GN’R in 1990). Javier Weyler is tighter than the late Stuart Cable (ejected from the Stereophonics in 2003, despite growing up on the same street as Kelly Jones). Whoever replaced Bill Ward in this summer’s half-arsed Black Sabbath reunion was presumably a paradiddle monster.

 

No one can replace Bill Ward

 

But as we saw from the forum reaction to that last example, nobody gives a toss about that stuff. People don’t care about dotted minims and sticking to the click-track. They care about four friends from a former mill town, sitting in the gutter eating cheesy chips and looking at the stars, linking arms and marching on London with a fistful of tunes drawn from their school days, scraps and underage fags. As Andy Nicholson – the epitome of pre-Chung Sheffield authenticity, but out of Arctic Monkeys on his arse by 2006 – put it: “We don’t look like superstars. I think people look at us and think, ‘They’re just normal people making good music. I’m sure I could do it’.”

 

The Boneheads might seem like ballast, but don’t be fooled. They’re a vital strand of any band’s DNA, defusing arguments on the tourbus, challenging the new jazz-polka direction, mocking the frontman when he starts wearing a diamanté cape. They’re the cogs of the lineup, and without them, the wheels duly fall off. When a band ditches its supposedly least-important member, it’s like losing a secondary appendage in a bear-trap; they might stagger on for a while, but eventually they’ll bleed to death. Oasis felt like a two-headed solo project post-1999. GN’R recorded ever-bigger albums, but meant increasingly less. For me, the Monkeys never had quite the same twinkle in their eye after 'Whatever People Say I Am'.

 

 

By contrast, Led Zeppelin totally understood this, rightly calling time after the death of John Bonham (never ‘just the drummer’). In retrospect, Slash did too, citing the exit of Adler and, later, Izzy Stradlin, as killer blows in his autobiography: “[They] were such an integral part of the band’s sound and personality... without them, the band no longer had its original chemistry”.

 

A lifetime’s wry observation of rock ‘n’ roll has taught me a few things. Don’t let the dogs out. Don’t fight the law (the law will win). If you like it, then you should probably put a ring on it. Most of all, as Morrissey once put it – albeit slightly hypocritically – hold onto your friends.

 

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