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Tales From The Studio: Coldplay

 

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“Really geeky” Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland discusses the making of Viva La Vida.

 

Where did the magic happen?

In North London, at our new studio, the Bakery.

 

The money spent recording this album could buy … Eight thousand Dalmations.

 

Studio demands?

Lunch. Not so much the food but the sitting down together. Brian [Eno] taught us that you should all eat together and have a break. It’s a bit like going to school.

 

The thing you can’t record without?

Clothes. We don’t like to record naked.

 

Why should someone buy your album?

I don’t want people to be taking this record back. Maybe listen to a friend’s copy first, then buy it if you like it.

 

Album you unabashedly ripped off?

There was this Donna Summer song Brian brought in. I cannot think of the name, but—this is really geeky shit—it had an interesting form.

 

Number of babies in the studio?

Occasionally we brought them in, but they tended not to play.

 

Number of paparazzi sightings?

Zero. I don’t think they are that interested in me, to be honest. I’ve tried to sell pictures of myself. Believe me, no one will pay.

 

The haters will say?

That it’s shit. But whatever anybody says about us, at least the album is not really long.

 

http://www.blender.com/Tales-From-The-Studio/Blender-Blog/blogs/1168/26581.aspx?src=dx18:mtd

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The money spent recording this album could buy … Eight thousand Dalmations.

 

The thing you can’t record without?

Clothes. We don’t like to record naked.

 

Number of paparazzi sightings?

Zero. I don’t think they are that interested in me, to be honest. I’ve tried to sell pictures of myself. Believe me, no one will pay.

 

awww puppies :D

 

Excuse me Mr Buckland....just how exactly do you know you don't like to record naked? Have you tried it? That Eno bloke knows fuck all about making records. Naked is the future! You should let me produce LP5. :wink3:

 

I have $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Another quote from Chris in Blender (along with the Guy one we had a few days ago):

"Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes."

 

From Perez (:dozey:)

 

The magazine should be out soon then :D I've been looking online, but it hasn't updated yet.

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Some more:

 

"People make a big fuss over names. Names of babies, names of albums, names of bands. There’s nothing weird about calling your baby Chewbacca if that’s what you want to call your baby. It’s no stranger than Sarah. A name is just a noise, and if you like it, then f--k what everyone else says."

 

Chris Martin (aka Apple and Moses' dad), on quirky baby names in Blender magazine's August issue...where the Coldplay frontman also reveals his hidden talents: oral sex and making oatmeal. At the same time?

 

http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b145631_chris_martins_not_gonna_justify_funny.html

 

Sigh, oral sex and oatmeal? Why must he do this to us? :P

 

Cue the 20,000 spin off stories from this article. :dozey:

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Some more:

 

"People make a big fuss over names. Names of babies, names of albums, names of bands. There’s nothing weird about calling your baby Chewbacca if that’s what you want to call your baby. It’s no stranger than Sarah. A name is just a noise, and if you like it, then f--k what everyone else says."

 

Chris Martin (aka Apple and Moses' dad), on quirky baby names in Blender magazine's August issue...where the Coldplay frontman also reveals his hidden talents: oral sex and making oatmeal. At the same time?

 

http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b145631_chris_martins_not_gonna_justify_funny.html

 

Sigh, oral sex and oatmeal? Why must he do this to us? :P

 

Cue the 20,000 spin off stories from this article. :dozey:

 

 

 

*explodes*

 

 

 

 

*recovers, looks at the post and explodes again*

 

 

 

 

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Jonny you lucky man x___x

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Dear Superstar: Chris Martin

 

The Coldplay sensitoid-in-chief once stabbed someone, used to think he was gay and digs Limp Bizkit. All his secrets are out as he answers Blender’s reader questions.

 

Jonah Weiner

 

Blender July 02 2008

 

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No one on Earth could fault Chris Martin’s political crusades. He hates poverty. Loves global debt relief. Wants to marry fair trade. But, ducking in to a Korean vegetarian restaurant on a rainy Manhattan afternoon, Coldplay’s lead singer unveils his most controversial cause yet: The redemption of Muzak. "This is lovely," he says, gesturing toward the ceiling-mounted speakers, which ooze a tinkling, Asian-ized version of "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da," all zithers and erhus. "These instruments are so beautiful. It reminds you that bad Muzak is often the composer’s fault, not the genre’s itself."

 

Nothing, not even Muzak, is too cheesy for Chris Martin. In fact, the defense of cheese might be the campaign he’s most passionate about. The Devon, England–born singer, 31, invests baldly sentimental music with a deep, lived-in sense of yearning; he is an irony-vanquishing, tear-duct-exercising master craftsman of swoons and breakup jams. He’s in New York to work on a politician-mocking video for "Violet Hill," the first single from Coldplay’s fourth disc, Viva La Vida, which offsets Martin’s hug-the-world side (the gorgeous, tender piano ballad "Reign of Love") with a newfound musical adventurousness (the booming beat on "Lost!"; the grinding metal riff on "Violet Hill"). The album was completed only after a storm of revisions, rejections and sleepless nights, familiar to anyone who’s followed the band’s career. Even now that Viva La Vida is done, the notoriously insecure singer isn’t sure about it. "Some days I feel like I’m in a really good rock band," Martin says. "But I never feel I’m really good." Unsurprisingly, then, the prospect of answering Blender’s reader questions has him a bit uneasy. "Ready when you are," he says, fidgeting with some chopsticks and eyeing the tape recorder on the table. "But … am I allowed to skip the ones I don’t like?"

 

Producer Brian Eno had you hypnotized while you were recording the new album. What weird stuff did he make you do while you were under?

74Oblique, Morehead, KY

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/mrOv5Sed/chris_martin_on_eno/

 

The new album was originally subtitled Death and All His Friends—what’s the closest you’ve ever come to dying?

Jefferson.Miller, New York

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/6-nucK-w/chris_martin_on_death/

 

I tried to be a vegetarian, but bacon cheeseburgers were too hard to quit. What dish do you miss most?

Magalag, Port Washington, NY

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/dle__MhW/chris_martin_on_being_a_vegetarian/

 

Don’t lie: Just how much did you pay for Radiohead’s In Rainbows?

MorningBells, Pittsburgh

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/7gKes1Ji/chris_martin_on_radiohead/

 

On the rare occasions when you drink, what kind of a drunk are you?

YabbaDabba2, Billings, MT

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/8FPVYFCh/chris_martin_on_getting_drunk/

How’d you get to be the lead singer when Guy Berryman looks like such a badass?

LazerBlitz, Providence, RI

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/MeIu7T7V/chris_martin_on_guy_berryman/

Do you know how I know you’re gay?

Heskyn8, Tulsa, OK

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/YbC3DdLm/chris_martin_on_sexual_identity/

 

At home, who ends up on diaper duty: You or Gwyneth?

Entrancexit, Los Angeles

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/B2_2q_FA/chris_martin_on_diapers/

Why is it that so many rappers love you so damn much?

NastyAston, Chicago

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/Pzj9kOm1/chris_martin_on_rap/

I’m getting married in Kentucky this summer—what would it take to get you to sing "The Scientist" at the ceremony?

A.Dot, Lexington, KY

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/mZ38b2ND/chris_martin_on_playing_weddings/

My husband and I are expecting our first baby, and we’ve got the name narrowed down to Papaya, Chewbacca and Sandal. Can you help us pick?

SandyMartin, Austin, TX

 

http://www.imeem.com/people/IYOwl_Y/music/4Lkx2zLp/chris_martin_on_baby_names/

 

 

http://www.blender.com/DearSuperstarChrisMartin/articles/27066.aspx

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