Damn it they keep letting me down every week, whats taking them so long at this point! They already finished!!! The tracklisting was done last week!.. and wheres our violet hill giveaway?? I'm starting to feel depressed, there's always this huge anticipation for a tuesday, or a thursday, and then the next week, and nothing happens! even though they said it would :( :( ;(

i know :( i feel your pain. it's an emotionally rollercoaster. 'Hey! it's done! tracklist soon! Chris will have an article talking about EVERYTHING! Heres the album name! Violet Hill is gonna be given away soon!' and then.... nothing. It's like the old Boston Red Sox quote "there's always next year!" only with Coldplay its "There's always later today, or tomorrow!"

yeah! It's like when you were a kid and your dad or mom said, "we'll go to the park (or the airport, or mall whatever you'd love going to) this weekend"... and then they'd say "oh, cant do this weekend, but we'll do it next weekend" and then next weekend it didn't happen again... I've never really been a fan of these type of "promises"... but hopefully the next update is the mythical legendary one we're all waiting for.

To be fair to all you guys, my post (harshly worded as it was) was not really directed at any of you (on this thread at least).

 

I just got set off, because I've got the flu, had a s%#tty day at work, and am getting tired of people latching on to stupid rumors then acting flipped out when there self imposed single release date, album drop date etc. doesn't happen when in fact they've pulled it out of thin air.

 

I think some people here don't get how those articles in Rolling Stone etc. actually work. They interview the band, who tells them something that might possibly happen regarding the album, which they then report using language that makes the whole thing sound more official then it actually is, which are then posted here and latched onto as absolute fact, by everyone here, when they are just as likely to not be true as they are to be true.

 

I am sure Capitol/EMI knows when the album is going to drop, they're probably just holding off until they can be absolutely certain, things are going to be a certain date/title/track list etc before going public. As has been mentioned above, the fact that the ban is gigging rather heavily over the summer still strongly supports a summer release, which is exactly what the only truly official sources of information have been saying a long time now.

 

Violet Hill may or may not, be released as a "freebie", that at this point like so much else is simply a rumor. Technically, we still don't even know if LP$ will be called Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends or if that entry meant they had narrowed it down to a choice between those two titles. Regardless, when the official announcement does come, many her will act scandalized that it isn't what they though it had been "confirmed" as (as they did when it was revealed not to be Prospeykt which everyone "knew" it was, despite the band never actually saying anything of the kind).

 

Simply put, that's what bugs me, I'm not saying it's not fun to speculate, but for the time being, we've simply got to admit that we know very little (or even nothing) about the actual album (from actual contents to release date) and so to act like things have been changed when they were never actually confirmed in the first place is just foolish.

 

Hopefully, this post made my point a little clearer. Thanks for taking the time to work through such a long post (assuming you did;)), and once again if I offended anyone here, I'm truly sorry...:(

yeah, i guess theres a lot of truth in your post, which most things on it I support. But it doesn't change the fact that when a magazine revealed stuff on about the album got me high on it and very anxious, taking their article as facts. When actually I really never put thought into the whole media manipulation stuff that happens, which is a great bummer. But they themselves did say on their official site, tracklisting was being finished a week ago and that they'd let us know what it was going to be once they had it. Even said at the end p.s we are finishing tracklisting today.. but oh well. :s

i for one take the rolling stone reported date of june 16/17 as an official announcement. i definitely think that counts.

Oh I'd agree the June 16th date is most likely official, I was thinking more about their piece on the contents of the album itself, which was more of a "fluff" piece based on what the band thought might be on the album rather then a solidified list of contents. Quite honestly, I forgot Rolling Stone actually set an actual date:embarassed: (My bad!)

 

As a board regular however, you surely know that every month since last fall, someone has posted on this board that VLVOD is "confirmed" to be out in a few months, only to see much sadness and ringing of hands when that date comes and goes with no new info. As I said above, my post wasn't really meant toward any of the people who were posting on this particular thread as none of you are the main offenders in that regard.

 

IMHO, Coldplay seemed to be rather uncomfortable with the "media blitz" that preceded the release of X&Y, and that's very likely a big part of why they're being much more subdued and low key for the new album. Also, keep in mind that things like "soon" or "in a few days" are relative terms, to those of us who have been waiting, we literally take a few days to mean two or three, whereas to Coldplay, Busy as they are being famous rockstars(;)), very likely intend a few days as a generic term for soon.

good news :dance:

We must dance. :dance:

SALSA! :dance:

MACARENA!:dance:

I'm the exact opposite of that post. When everyone thought it was called Prospekt, i didn't believe it because there was no official announcement on the site. When all those sites said May 19th, I didn't believe them because it wasn't on the official site. the only thing I know for sure is the album title, and that's because it's on the official site. It's just frustrating waiting for something you've been waiting for for several years (not to mention the hype and mystery around it)

TANGO! :dance:

 

 

Yeah, it is frustrating, but the longer you wait, the sweeter it is when it finally comes out.

I really hope they don't sell out and play on the friggin Today show! That's so lame!

agreed! I hate when the Today show has concerts, it's annoying and they always have the lamest performers. Why Coldplay is doing this I don't know. IMO they are too big to be going on a morning news show to sing a few songs.

How the hell is Berryman going to be awake/sober at that ungodly hour? Who the fuck booked this? :confused:

How the hell is Berryman going to be awake/sober at that ungodly hour? Who the fuck booked this? :confused:

Hey ANG!! :kiss: hahaa I totally agree with you. But you know, what this means, either CP is going to get of dipdong fans from this, or if we are lucky, lose alot of the dipdong fans they already have! ;)

Mary :kiss:

 

You know Will, Jonny and Guy don't get up that early. Christopher of course will have already ran like 10 miles and wrote 50 songs.

Mary :kiss:

 

You know Will, Jonny and Guy don't get up that early. Christopher of course will have already ran like 10 miles and wrote 50 songs.

hahaha I know he is like a hyper puppy that needs bopped on the nose with a newspaper to calm him down. Wanna bet that Will Jonny and Guy are wearing sunglasses that day, even if it's raining? haha :cool:

hahaha I know he is like a hyper puppy that needs bopped on the nose with a newspaper to calm him down. Wanna bet that Will Jonny and Guy are wearing sunglasses that day, even if it's raining? haha :cool:

ahahahaa that's why we always see Will reading newspapers and mags, he needs them to swat Chrissy on the beak when he gets too spazzed out. :laugh3:

wow!i am coming back to NEW JERSEY back and i wanna visit New York again!

so and also Coldplay are getting closer!

that's interesting!

I've probably already mentioned it but

the 27th is my BIRTHDAY!!! :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

 

Yessss. I need to fly to new york that day. Bday + jetlag+ Coldplay FTW!

 

And yes ive officially gone insane.

 

hmm. perhaps you're insane because it's FIVE AM YOUR TIME. :P

 

and come to new york!!! i would think you couldn't really top that on your birthday. well, maybe a full-length coldplay concert rather than just like 2 songs.

still. come anyway! :laugh4:

hmm. perhaps you're insane because it's FIVE AM YOUR TIME. :P

 

and come to new york!!! i would think you couldn't really top that on your birthday. well, maybe a full-length coldplay concert rather than just like 2 songs.

still. come anyway! :laugh4:

I shall! Make sure you have some phish food in stock! And I'll bring plenty of Pringles! Man this is gonna be awesome :lol:

what is the fascination with this thread.....

I shall! Make sure you have some phish food in stock! And I'll bring plenty of Pringles! Man this is gonna be awesome :lol:

 

well i've always got pringles, but i'll get the phish food. we can party it up in NYC! :p