well, ok, the two songs are really good and i like them very much.. but i hope that there will be tracks like "The Scientist", "Fix you", "Amsterdam" and so on as well.. In my opinion this atrabilious and melancholic kind of music, is typical "coldplayish" I think, this is what coldplay makes so unique .. if there won't be tracks like that, i would be disappointed...

Wow, this blows me away. I love "Violet Hill", and enjoy "A Spell A Rebel Yell", but this is it for me. This is the song I've been waiting for them to release. My question is, in the lyric "For some reason I can't explain / I know St. Peter will call my name", doesn't that mean he knows he is going to die? St. Peter is at the Pearly Gates. Just a thought.

 

First post, too.

 

Welcome to the forum!!:D

 

Does it mean he's going to die, or just that he knows he'll go to heaven when he does? Not sure.

I'm absolutely in love with this song. And I agree, at first it sounds too much like "Oh, what a typical pop song", but the strings are GORGEOUS and it's all in all wonderful.

 

I'm one of the few here who's not impressed with "A Spell A Rebel Yell", but "Violet Hill" grows more and more on me, while I'm loving "Viva la vida" more and more each time I listen to it. I bought it on iTunes and don't regret it at all.

I love the way the strings are produced! There are some very subtle shifts in them throughout the mix.:D

 

Not a complaint AT ALL, but I would have mixed the choral part at the end differently. Maybe double it up and add a bit more reverb and delay. But Eno's a LOT smarter than me, so it really doesn't matter.:D

Welcome to the forum!!:D

 

Does it mean he's going to die, or just that he knows he'll go to heaven when he does? Not sure.

 

Isn't it won't call my name? Then it would make more sense for me. St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, saying "Sorry, Chris/Random King person, your name ain't down, you're not coming in!". A probable reference to all the bad things he's done as King meaning he doesn't get into heaven, and he now realises that?

This to me is the direction X&Y should have gone after AROBTTH. It's just so heart felt yet upbeat. I get the impression that after AROBTTH, they had little fuel left to create the emotionally sad songs coldplay expertise in (possibly due to Chris finding love, having children etc.) and X&Y tried to fake it a bit, you could hear in Chris' voice that the pain and emotion in previous albums wasn't there. I'm not saying that's bad! I hope very much that the band are happy! But with X&Y they didn't really write for their new emotions whereas the two new album songs strike me as very emotionally driven but in a different way which is brilliant, a perfect evolution and it's no surprise so many of us have reacted emotionally to this song because the old Coldplay are back it would seem with songs where we can feel and relate to the emotions the band is feeling and it completely absorbs us.

 

I've got to admit I missed the feeling more than I realised.

I really thought i clicked the wrong link wen it started playing.. I like it a lot

Wow that's a great song. Its reminiscent of older Coldplay material, but with a new fresh feeling and sound. I still like Violet Hill a little more though, I dont know why but I really love that song.

And BTW: This song is no doubt Famous Old Painters but renamed. It had the band instruments (Strings, some background horns maybe) and I dont know about a Spanish theme, but there was maybe a little Spanish influence. It is almost exactly how Prospekt described Famous Old Painters, but with a different name. So now Im happy because the song I was most looking forward to got released after all.

 

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Isn't it won't call my name? Then it would make more sense for me. St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, saying "Sorry, Chris/Random King person, your name ain't down, you're not coming in!". A probable reference to all the bad things he's done as King meaning he doesn't get into heaven, and he now realises that?

I definitely think you're right there. Nice interpretation! :D

Isn't it won't call my name? Then it would make more sense for me. St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, saying "Sorry, Chris/Random King person, your name ain't down, you're not coming in!". A probable reference to all the bad things he's done as King meaning he doesn't get into heaven, and he now realises that?

 

After my last post, I went back and listened to it again since I though it sounded more like 'won't' and I think you're right. THat's how I took it this morning, but I'd only had a couple of hours sleep, so I looked again. (Of course, I REALLY didn't want to hear the song again...but for the good of Coldplaying, I made the sacrifice,lolol:lol::lol::lol:.)

yes i agree these songs are great but we still need out classic ones that aren't so 'electronic' .....

I thought it said will until I read the lyrics thread, and then the next time I listened it was so clearly won't it made it alllll so much clearer. I really love Chris' lyrics this time around, blinkin' genius that man is.

I am not sure i know which one of VLV and VH i like best. While i am listening to VH i like VH better, but when i listen to VLV i like it better. this is confusing.

BTW, does anyone else get an Amsterdam/AROBTTH feel at 1:38 - 1:50 on VLV?

I like it. But I do have a complaint:

 

It's not a very organic song. IE, instead of guitar, bass, and actual drums you get synths, strings, drum machines. I prefer to hear the band play, not some electronic doo dads.

 

The melody and lyrics are fantastic, but I wish the actual music was different. Violet Hill is still the best song that we've heard.

I thought it said will until I read the lyrics thread, and then the next time I listened it was so clearly won't it made it alllll so much clearer. I really love Chris' lyrics this time around, blinkin' genius that man is.

 

I've agreed with people in the past who've said some of his lyrics were weak, and I was delighted to hear we was really working on crafting them for this album. He's really come through on this song. Even more than VH or ASARY.

I could be here for weeks picking their songs apart but i'm just going to sit back enjoy these songs for now i think :)

 

i like the oooohhhhh part...is that chris???

This song seems kind of familiar... in terms of being sung. I love it nonetheless!

 

I'm so glad though, that coldplay decided to use violin! That's my favourite instrument. :D

 

 

I'd like to add: Viva la vida makes me appreciate Violet Hill a little more because it has made me realize that VH has its' own charm! It's unique.

even now i found a snippet from "lost" it sounds a little more like the old coldplay tracks

 

http://www.cede.ch/de/music-cd/frames/frameset.cfm?aobj=705448

yep and those 8 even have the cynisism to compare it with shitty artists.

:lol:You definetly live in your own eight-year-old-minded world. I voted "Really good" not "boo". Just 'cause it's my opinion. Are you gonna break out into tears everytime that someone compares a Coldplay song with another artist's?

Yeah, it's true: Alizee is crap. And guess what? her song and "Viva la Vida" both still have the same chord progression. And you won't change that.

 

And guess what else? Coldplay are coming to Spain because they love it and they aren't as xenophobe as you! :D

I don't know why you guys say this is a pop song, Madonna/JT's "4 minutes" is a pop song, this is a beautiful piece of music.

:lol:You definetly live in your own eight-year-old-minded world. I voted "Really good" not "boo". Just 'cause it's my opinion. Are you gonna break out into tears everytime that someone compares a Coldplay song with another artist's?

Yeah, it's true: Alizee is crap. And guess what? her song and "Viva la Vida" both still have the same chord progression. And you won't change that.

 

And guess what else? Coldplay are coming to Spain because they love it and they aren't as xenophobe as you! :D

im not xenophobe at all just i dont like the alizee thing sorry. and i was reading in a web page that coldplay was boo in their last concert in barcelona when they change to acoustic that is a fact. and yep maybe vlv have similarities with that song but the alizee song is more pop its not the same and one other think the fact is that alizee its crap as an artist. but i dont saying anything about the music who is produced by talented musicians who dont recieve the credit. VH AND VLV ARE AWESOME.

yeah its growing on me, very very good

here it is in mp3 rip http://www.zshare.net/audio/11694945e7dfcfd3/ but if anyone has a higher quality version please tell me....

This could be the quintesential song, even though we all think its supposed to be 42. this is just so beautiful

anyone else notice the lyric lifted from The World Turned Upside Down b-side?

 

listen to the chorus of VLV "for some reason i can't explainnnn...."

 

then listen to the chorus of WTUD "what is this feeling i can't explain..."

 

i don't know if it's just a coincidence... not saying it's bad. was just bugging me that i heard that somewhere before.