I was listening to Violet Hill, and I just thought that it would be really cool if the song started off with the Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! instead of the atmospheric intro. So then I decided to make this thread :)

That is a very cool idea, though I love the atmospheric introduction.

 

In that same song, I wish they would go into a different key for the guitar solo. Where they do the bang! chords (c#minor) just before the solo, they could do c#minor four for four bangs then C#Major four times, then change to f#m for the solo. And they would go back to c#minor later.

 

And you have no idea how much I wish they had kept a steady rhythm going when the first part of "42" transitions into the second. Just a few piano chords keeping time would make the transition seem so much less choppy for me.

 

In "Glass of Water", I wish that instead of going from the second chorus into the ambient bridge, they would have just charged right into the guitar solo. And I wish the guitar solo were epic in that song; it just seems like two or three notes the way it is.

 

Don't get me wrong; I like all three of these songs.

I might start up a thread in multimedia later for this type of thing :wink:

 

Depends how successful I am with changing the song structures without them sounding too 'choppy', though.

I'd remix most of X&Y- strip them down a bit and add more acoustic and organic elements. Especially the Hardest Part. It really shines when there's less going on in it so that the underlying chords carry it.

I would make rainy day a bit smoother at the end of the second verse into the chorus.

I would make rainy day a bit smoother at the end of the second verse into the chorus.

 

I completely agree. That always bothered me a bit, but I'm used to it now!

I'd remix most of X&Y- strip them down a bit and add more acoustic and organic elements. Especially the Hardest Part. It really shines when there's less going on in it so that the underlying chords carry it.

 

I totally agree, it was very overly produced!

I was listening to Violet Hill, and I just thought that it would be really cool if the song started off with the Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! instead of the atmospheric intro. So then I decided to make this thread :)

That is a very cool idea, though I love the atmospheric introduction.

 

In that same song, I wish they would go into a different key for the guitar solo. Where they do the bang! chords (c#minor) just before the solo, they could do c#minor four for four bangs then C#Major four times, then change to f#m for the solo. And they would go back to c#minor later.

 

And you have no idea how much I wish they had kept a steady rhythm going when the first part of "42" transitions into the second. Just a few piano chords keeping time would make the transition seem so much less choppy for me.

 

In "Glass of Water", I wish that instead of going from the second chorus into the ambient bridge, they would have just charged right into the guitar solo. And I wish the guitar solo were epic in that song; it just seems like two or three notes the way it is.

 

Don't get me wrong; I like all three of these songs.

I made a new thread in multimedia where I took some of your suggestions, tweaked the songs and uploaded them to be downloaded. Namely soufpawbandit28's proposed version of Violet Hill and Gabriel's shortened version of Glass of Water :D. You can find them here:

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2661631#post2661631

aww, why are you so awesome? :nice:

 

and, why aren't you on MSN? :P :thinking:

awesome! thank you!!

No problem!

 

(And I'm on MSN now :dance: but the you already know that :wacko:)

Zemy you are awesome! :D

another cool one would be putting the last 38 sec. of white shadows, just with chris singing, at the beginning and then after that have the intro come in!

^ Depends if both those songs are in the same key, but I'll look into it.

Just a thought, it would be nice to have Life in Technicolor (Instrumental) over the top of 42...That WOULD be interesting ;)

^ Depends if both those songs are in the same key, but I'll look into it.

 

no no no, i meant put it at the begininng of the same song

Oh right, gotcha :P

Your proposed version of White Shadows has been posted in the thread in multimedia :D

hahaha

i wish that 'Prospekt's March/Poppyfields' was much longer. with a bit more repetition of "here i lie..." etc. and then a longer outro of 'Poppyfields'

nothing.....noooooo wait lost+ i hate it

Personally I'd have Jonny's guitar more audible in Warning Sign, Some kind of bridge or solo after the first chorus of AROBTTH, if not the live solo. Surely they could've filled that space with more than piano chords.

:thinking:

 

I would definitely remove the handclaps in Lost!, make Jonny's solo in Lovers a lot more audible as well as his guitar in SOS.

I would change violet hill and scrap the begining of it too! the start of violet hill is way to quiet and long and you really dont even know if anything is playing. without that part the song is less than 3minutes!

well, in one of the previews of vlvodaahf it said that violet hill opened with a distorted jagged guitar riff, presumably the same one as later in the song. would be interesting to hear that riff at the start of the song, perhaps as originally intended by coldplay...

I'd like to be able to hear a version of Viva la Vida without the thumping beat.