fix you

 

Naaaahhhhhh this can't be true :sad:

Damn! We should have made a massive campaign for Ode to Deodorant voting!! It'd have been amazing to hear it on the radio :P

lol

lets hope not

2) Fix You

 

 

(Came 6th in Coldplaying.com favourite songs poll)

 

"Fix You" is the second single from Coldplay's third album, X&Y. It was released on 5 September 2005 to avoid competing against Oasis' "The Importance of Being Idle" (released 22 August) on the UK Singles Chart.

 

When writing the song, Chris Martin was influenced by Muse's use of a church organ on the track "Megalomania" from their album Origin of Symmetry. To replicate that sound, Martin used an old keyboard that his late father-in-law (Bruce Paltrow) gave to his wife Gwyneth Paltrow. However, in other instances Martin has claimed that "Fix You" is a copy of Elbow's 2003 anthem "Grace Under Pressure".

 

The song is the only song by the band in which all four members of the band sing simultaneously.

 

The song was supported by 60 alternative rock radio stations in the United States, including WNNX (Atlanta), KNDD (Seattle), XTRA (San Diego), and WFNX (Boston). The song was also played on the popular television programme The O.C. and commercials for King Kong. The band also preformed the track at Saturday Night Live and Live 8.

 

The song debuted on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart on August 28, 2005. It reached #18 on the chart. "Fix You" also reached #52 on the Billboard Pop 100, #24 on the Adult Top 40, and #29 on the Hot Digital Songs chart.

 

On 14 September 2005, Coldplay released the Fix You EP on the iTunes Music Store. All of the sales will go to the American Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences’ MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund. iTunes Link This song was also played on Shelter from the Storm. It has also became a tribute song for the victims and eventually became the anthem for the event.

 

Generally speaking, Coldplay videos tend to fall into two categories: those where frontman Chris Martin aimlessly wanders through nondescript locales ("Yellow," "The Scientist") and those where the full band performs in nondescript locales ("In My Place," "Clocks"). Well, the band's new video, for the song "Fix You," is different. It features a wandering Chris Martin and a full-band performance.

 

The video — directed by Sophie Muller (Gwen Stefani, Björk, Blur) — is actually two videos in one: scenes of a solitary Martin strolling through the streets of London at night, and concert footage shot at Coldplay's two-night stand at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton, England, last month. The whole walking thing was Martin's idea, but, as Muller recently told MTV News, she was a bit hesitant to sign off on the concept. After all, it is strangely familiar to Coldplay fans.

 

"It's not like I came up with the idea of 'Let's have you walking' — it was Chris' idea. I think he feels comfortable walking, and I think he likes to wander the streets of London at night," she laughed. "I was worried about it, but I thought, 'Well, the difference this time around is that he's going somewhere.' "

 

In the video, Martin wanders past various London landmarks, including the Royal National Theatre — onto which images of the Baudot code are projected (see "Coldplay's Album Cover Decoded (And You Thought The Lyrics Were Geeky ...)") — and King's Cross station, one of the sites of the London bombings in early July (see "At Least 37 Dead In London Subway Bombings"). Muller shot the video at King's Cross three days before the bombings, but she said that for Londoners who've seen the footage, there's a startling quality to seeing the almost eerie serenity of the area.

 

"It's quite strange for people to see the King's Cross sign. They watch it and they sort of gasp. They have an emotional reaction to it," Muller said. "And it's weird because the sign just made it into the video by accident. We didn't even notice it was in there until later."

 

Martin sings the first few verses of the song on the streets of London, but as the tempo picks up, he begins to sprint, past buildings and buses ... all the way to Bolton (ah, the magic of editing), where he takes the stage at Reebok Stadium just as the rest of Coldplay are getting into the song's chorus. According to Muller, the juxtaposition of the solitary Martin and the gigantic concert goes with the feel of the song, which moves from Martin's quiet vocals to a massive, crashing chorus.

 

"The idea of the video is that you go from the solitariness of the beginning of the song — where Chris is singing about trying to help people — to playing it in front of a mass of people," Muller said. "It goes from being intimate to being a massive sing-along. And everybody knew the words. It's like this: Chris has this feeling. He writes a song about it. He performs it, and then the crowd gives it back. It's like the universal artist/audience relationship."

 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8hSMw0BGVvU

 

"We tried to steal off Many Rivers To Cross but make it more about death. The first song to be recorded and we went back to the first version after 18 months."

 

"I put about 80 guitars on it. We took off 79 of them."

 

This song was written for Gwyneth's dad' date=' who died in October of 2002.[/quote']

 

Wow. Shows how cynical I can be without even knowing it. Perhaps due to my age (43)? This song is beautiful indeed, but first time hearing it I clearly remember thinking it was clever that the singer was being so ironic. I thought he sounded almost angry, as he said he would "fix you". The first time I thought it sounded almost like he was spitting out the words "fix you" in disdain. I really thought the song was tongue in cheek.

 

After all, it's not possible to fix anyone, people have to have to fix themselves. Therefore, I thought he was telling the peron what she wants to hear, but not what he believes can be done; i.e., "fix her".

 

After reading all the comments here, however, I agree with those who think Chris wrote this for Gwyneth after her dad died. I gather that perhaps Gwenyth was mad or sad that Chris perahps was not as helpful and supportive as he could have been through her ordeal, thus his pledge to learn from the past.

 

When you try your best but you don't succeed

When you get what you want but not what you need

When you feel so tired but you can't sleep

Stuck in reverse

 

When the tears come streaming down your face

When you lose something you can't replace

When you love someone but it goes to waste

could it be worse?

 

Lights will guide you home

and ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

 

High up above or down below

when you too in love to let it go

If you never try you'll never know

Just what your worth

 

Lights will guide you home

and ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

 

Tears stream down your face

When you lose something you cannot replace

Tears streaming down your face and I

 

Tears stream down your face

I promise you I will learn from my mistakes

Tears stream down your face and I

 

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

can't believe yellow has beaten fix you!!!!! no way:angry:

awww come on! where is Yellow?

you don't know that yet :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

although I'd go with it as a pretty good guess :laugh3:

Are we so sure Yellow is the number one? :uhoh:

 

I hope so, it's the song that made me fall in love with Coldplay at first listen :nice:

as long as fix you or clocks didn't win i was fine.

yellow's a good song.

obviously the non singles should really be up there.... along with shiver

1) Yellow

 

 

(Came 4th in Coldplaying.com favourite songs poll)

 

The second single, "Yellow", debuted at number four in England. Alternating between a driving electric guitar part and Chris Martin's delicate vocal line, "Yellow" owes a lot to the Radiohead school of songwriting, without seeming like a blatant rip-off.

 

Lyrically, "Yellow" provides a wide-eyed and innocent perspective on love ("I took my time, what a thing to do"), and consequently sounds refreshingly simple and relaxed.

 

The style set by "Yellow" holds true for the entire album.

 

The final recording session for Parachutes was dominated by the feeling of panic. Yellow had already been earmarked as an early summer single and the hope was that the album would be ready for release at around the same time. Any delays in completion would result in its release date being put back to October to co-incide with a third single. This would have been hugely disadvantageous. Everyone suspected that Yellow was a hit and therefore the perfect lead-in single for the album. Noone wanted to see an autumn release.

So the pressure was on.

Deadlines were so tight that originally the band had to forfeit travelling to New York to mix Yellow so that they could remain behind in Liverpool finishing off the album. However when the initial mix came back, the band were unimpressed. They insisted on flying out to oversee mixing themselves. This left them even less time to work on the three or four album tracks that still remained unfinished.

 

It is a wonder that, in the midst of such hurriedness, Yellow turned out as well as it did.

 

 

 

i thought this was about anorexia because when you're really anorexic, you're skin turns yellow.

 

Look at the stars

Look how they shine for you

And everything you do

Yeah, they were all yellow

 

Here he's trying to convince the girl that he loves that she's worth a lot, so much that the stars shine for HER

 

I came along

I wrote a song for you

And all the things you do

And it was called yellow

 

he wrote a song about her and her anorexia

 

So then I took my turn

Oh what a thing to have done

And it was all yellow

 

he tries to convince her to start eating again and not be "yellow". i thought the line "and it was all yellow" was just him in shock over how yellow, or sick, she looked

 

Your skin

Oh yeah, your skin and bones

Turn into something beautiful

You know, you know I love you so

You know I love you so

 

could it be "you're skin and bones"? he's telling her to start eating again because, to him, she was always beautiful

 

I swam across

I jumped across for you

Oh what a thing to do

 

i think this means that he didn't shy away from her, but actually tried to help her. he got over his own problems and tried to be there for her as much as he could

 

Cos you were all yellow

I drew a line

I drew a line for you

Oh what a thing to do

And it was all yellow

 

here he's saying, if you don't try to get better then i'll break up with you. he's still in shock over how sick she looks

 

Your skin

Oh yeah your skin and bones

Turn into something beautiful

And you know for you

I'd bleed myself dry for you

I'd bleed myself dry

 

now he's begging her, saying he would love her no matter what, he'd die for her, but he doesn't want her to die

 

It's true, look how they shine for you

Look how they shine for you

Look how they shine for

Look how they shine for you

Look how they shine for you

Look how they shine

 

his world revolves around her

 

Look at the stars

Look how they shine for you

And all the things that you do

 

she's so special to him

 

 

i don't know, that was just my interpretation. that seemed more likely to me then a simple love song, drugs or happiness. it seems too sad to be about happiness. like...bitter sweet

 

look at the stars

look how they shine for you

and everything you do

yeah they were all yellow

I came along

I wrote a song for you

and all the things you do

and it was called yellow

So then I took my turn

oh wh at a thing to have done

and it was all yellow

 

your skin

oh yeah your skin and bones

turn into something beautiful

and you know

you know I love you so

you know I love you so

 

I swam across

I jumped across for you

oh what a thing to do

'cos you were all yellow

I drew a line

I drew a line for you

oh what a thing to do

and it was all yellow

 

and your skin

oh yeah your skin and bones

turn into something beautiful

and you know

for you I bleed myself dry

for you I bleed myself dry

 

it's true

look how they shine for you

look how they shine for you

look how they shine for

look how they shine for you

look how they shine for you

look how they shine

 

look at the stars

look how they shine for you

and all the things that you do

 

 

although I'd go with it as a pretty good guess :laugh3:

 

Why do you think that? :laugh3:

well looks like Ian's sure its yellow :laugh3:

Why do you think that? :laugh3:

 

because for anything else to beat the other 9 would be a complete travesty :laugh3:

So, the complete list is:

 

Just outside Top 10

 

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face.

Viva La Vida

Hardest Part

Everything's Not Lost

Don't Panic

Spies

Politik

 

10. Trouble

9. Talk

8. Shiver

7. In My Place

6. Violet Hill

5. Speed Of SOund

4. Clocks

3. The Scientist

2. Fix You

1. Yellow

yellow is a good song but i'm not even sure it would make my top 10......:shocked2:

So, the complete list is:

 

Just outside Top 10

 

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face.

Viva La Vida

Hardest Part

Everything's Not Lost

Don't Panic

Spies

Politik

 

10. Trouble

9. Talk

8. Shiver

7. In My Place

6. Violet Hill

5. Speed Of SOund

4. Clocks

3. The Scientist

2. Fix You

1. Yellow

 

Interesting ranking. I am surprised Politik was not in the top 10. I love Yellow, but Fix You should have been number 1 :cry:

YAAAAAAAY!!! it is

Yellow was my first love

well looks like Ian's sure its yellow :laugh3:

 

Yeah! How could he dare to do that?? :laugh3: maybe he has magic powers :stunned:

well that was fun.... WHATS NEXT!

Ok now he can say it was all a joke and play Shiver as the number 1 song :D

excellent countdown, enjoyed that! :)

i wanna meet his brother!! at least its close to meeting with chris! lol

excellent countdown, enjoyed that! :)

 

Yes that was fun. Thanks for putting the the lyrics and history behind each track. Those are very interesting to read :)

mmmmm an hour and a half of Coldplay followed by Snow Patrol. good show!!

Shiver was 8???????:stunned: