Isn't all that posted by Ian on the main site though?

I guess :uhoh:

 

 

I'm quoting that stuff too.. but I don't know.. reading it here it's easier :)

OK :D

 

You're a brave girl fishing out all that info. Hehe. Soooooooooo much over the past few days.

I know :uhoh:

 

too much info

 

 

the day we finally get a new song to hear this board will explode!

Wait so the WHOLE album title is actually

"Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends"

they didn't mean that it could be either 'Viva la Vida" or "Death and all his friends"

 

right?

 

:confused:

Wait so the WHOLE album title is actually

"Viva la Vida or Death and all his friends"

they didn't mean that it could be either 'Viva la Vida" or "Death and all his friends"

 

right?

 

:confused:

maybe...

Well cool then, thats a freakin awsome title. Wait til the mainstream media gets their hands on this, the pure uniqueness will hit them pretty hard

today in the newspaper they had a little note saying that the album will be called viva la vida

^^Its been confirmed by the RS article that 'Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends' is the full title.

^^Its been confirmed by the RS article that 'Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends' is the full title.

Oh shit.. I didn't read that line!

Viva la Vida means long live life

Death and all his friends, obviously has something to do with death

 

so basically the album title represents 'Life or Death'...

I will call it... Life and Death

I'm gonna call it Life or Death...

 

Didn't Chris say this was the 'make or break' album, which is pretty much another way to say 'life or death'

Okay, it'll be okay.

It's not the worst...but The Magic Hat Of Peppy Arnold would've been better...

Loving the picture too! Glad to see Jonny has lost the porn star moustache :P

 

i thought the same exact thing. thank the lord :P

 

and might i say that chris looks particularly gorgy?

I agree! Looks soooo much better without the long hair.

 

I like Will's glasses too :D

Teehee, they are all looking particularily cute, must mean something good :D

sooooo the name is Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends????????

 

I'm not so sure if I like it or not..... I guess not. Seriously, that's the name of it?:thinking:

Honestly and truly Viri. :kiss:

Hey Mim!

 

It's such a long title....... I guess it's the best title they could find that it would fit the 'theme' for the album since they've been saying it's gonna be DARK.... So I assume the theme is Enjoy life or join death and his friends... :shifty:

Hehe, maybe it'll grow on you. :idea2:

Rolling Stone reveals 'In the studio: Coldplay'

 

From Rollingstone.com:

 

In the Studio: Coldplay

 

3/20/08, 2:35 pm EST

On a Saturday night in late February, Coldplay are in their North London headquarters, listening to mixes of new songs. After spending months writing and recording with producer Brian Eno, the band is now painstakingly wrapping up its fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends. A few weeks ago, Eno jetted off to work on U2’s new disc, leaving Coldplay to mix, record overdubs and argue over which tracks to include. “I heard a Bono quote once that said, ‘Bands shouldn’t break up over money, they should break up over the track listing,’” says frontman Chris Martin. “Nothing could be more pertinent at this point.”

Earlier in the day, the group agreed on a core of six songs to anchor the album — and swore to finally stop recording and focus on mixing. While the other three members sit in a lounge listening to a mix of their new Afro-pop-influenced song “Strawberry Swing,” Martin bursts out of the studio and asks guitarist Jonny Buckland to recut some parts for “42.” The track — a thrilling three-part soundscape with multitracked pianos, swirling strings and looped beats — is one of the songs everyone in the band loves and is a front-runner for first single.

With a quick eye roll, Buckland follows Martin into the studio, where they spend the next hour trying increasingly heavy guitar parts. Finally, with Martin pushing Buckland for one more take, the guitarist pushes back. “I think it’s fine the way it is,” he says, before agreeing to give it one more try. “It feels like we’ve been finishing the album for six months,” Buckland says later. “The starting stage was enjoyable — there wasn’t too much hair-pulling. In the middle stage, suddenly you start thinking, ‘Well, we’ve got to figure out which songs are good.’ And this final stage, which has been going on for quite some time, is getting more and more intense.”

With Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends, Coldplay are making a sharp break from the piano-and-guitar-driven anthems that have been their biggest hits. “We felt like the first three albums were a trilogy, and we finished that,” says Buckland. “We wanted to do something different.”

The band plans to reintroduce itself with “Violet Hill,” which will be given away in a promotion before Viva comes out. It opens with a jagged, distorted guitar riff and settles into a stalking, bluesy beat. Among the biggest changes on the disc is Martin’s voice, which has largely shifted from his trademark falsetto into a deeper register. On “Yes,” over an irresistible North African strings-and-percussion arrangement, he practically moans, “If you’d only, if you’d only say yes . . . I’m just so tired of this loneliness.” “My singing teacher said that it got her aroused when I sang low,” says Martin.

Despite the 11 million albums Coldplay have sold, the singer sees Viva as a make-or-break proposition. “This could be our last shot at the big time,” he says. “It’s something in my head, as in artistic relevance. There’s a voice that comes at three in the morning with songs. There might come an age when you say, ‘Ah, fuck it, I’m going to go back to sleep.’ But I’m still at the point where I’ll get up and work it out. Tom Waits or Bob Dylan said sometimes these things bug you until you deal with them. I suppose it’s like the urge to masturbate.” Adds bassist Guy Berryman, “Great bands — Pink Floyd, the Beatles — they’re always exploring.”

Back in the studio, close to 2 a.m., Buckland and Martin play the middle section of “42″ over and over, trying to create the perfect guitar line. As it turns out, the late-night overdubs were inspired by an offhand comment Martin heard about the song sounding like Radiohead. “There’s nothing wrong with sounding like Radiohead,” Martin says. “It’s just, when I hear it in my head, that’s not how it sounds. We have to make it right.”�

For more on Coldplay’s new album, click here.

[Photo: Daniel Green]

I dunno, but I got a strange feeling about all of this...

 

and I think that at the end everyone of us will be like.. OMFG... I don't know why, but I think they're preparing something weird about the title... I mean, something similar to what we already have seen, but maybe one or another... It's not official yet, is it?

 

I guess all of this have been supositions, and because of the RS articles... but... I think it'll be clear when I see it in the Coldplay.com official website, won't it?

yeah we'll see.. The title is not that important anyway....... I mean no one puts off an album because of it's title.....

thanks for posting but... already posted :)