Italian Plastic Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 VLVAODAAOHFWHATEVENISIT is a really fucking well produced album. REALLY. I was listening to it before and it sounds SO GOOD. It is almost worth listening to! Too bad the songs are so average. :( GOD DAMNIT STOP MAKING THREADS EDDIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest howyousawtheworld Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I don't think it's produced that great. Just because it's Brian Eno doesn't automatically mean it's great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudy_o Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I hate Cemeteries of London, just saying. I love Violet Hill, just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyAndy136 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 What's not to love about Cemeteries of London? :P One of my favourites! :) It is a good album technically (in terms of production, instrumentation, etc), but like you said, most of the songs aren't actually very good. Don't even get me started on the abomination that is 42. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauriane Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Most of the songs on it are just OK to me. I deeply love Violet Hill and Chinese Sleep Chant though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest howyousawtheworld Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I hate Cemeteries of London, just saying. I love Violet Hill, just saying. Actually I feel that's one of the best produced songs on the album. It's just a fantastic and along with Amsterdam Coldplay's best song IMO. I think the best produced album is AROBTTH. Simple but incredibly powerful and effective. It's got the best batch of songs on it. VLVODAAHF comes second in terms of standard of songs. Both are easily their 2 albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaths_friend Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 i think VLV is very well produced but just produced in the wrong way. the reason why rush of blood sounds so good is because the production qualities on it suit coldplays brand of music. they haven't tried too hard to smooth out all the blemishes and make it sound perfect and that works for coldplay. it complements the emotions and feeling in chris's melodies and vocals. but with VLV you can tell they tried to perfect every little aspect of it so it turned out sounding overtly polished. in turn making it almost emotionless and plastic. still a good album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lore Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 VLV is so :blank: I mean I loved it at first but it gets boring after a few listens :blank: and I agree, it sounds plastic sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest howyousawtheworld Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 i think VLV is very well produced but just produced in the wrong way. the reason why rush of blood sounds so good is because the production qualities on it suit coldplays brand of music. they haven't tried too hard to smooth out all the blemishes and make it sound perfect and that works for coldplay. it complements the emotions and feeling in chris's melodies and vocals. but with VLV you can tell they tried to perfect every little aspect of it so it turned out sounding overtly polished. in turn making it almost emotionless and plastic. still a good album. What I really didn't like about VLV was the tampering with Chris's voice. The overdubbing/distorting of his voice on a few of the tracks (they did that on Christmas Lights as well) and the fact his voice never really broke cover or was allowed to disappointed me. It can work and has worked on previous songs but it never worked on this album. He was almost drowned out by the music on a few tracks as well. I thought it really sucked the life out of his voice. It wasn't the crystal icy powerful voice we got from the first two albums. A lot of tracks early on were built around his voice but with the last two albums that doesn't seem to be the case and isn't to the benefit of their sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh42 Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Chinese Sleep Chant <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
an angel Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I hate Cemeteries of London, Viva la Vida, Reign of Love, and Chinese Sleep Chant, just saying. I love Violet Hill, just saying. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i'maveryneatMonster.' Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I only like CSC and Reign of love. The rest... eh... Deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laga Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I think some songs sound "average", like LIJ but some others don't, like imo DAAHF or Chinese Sleep Chant. I still like it and I listen to most songs when I listen to it. Contrary to Lore's case, I did not like it very much at first, after a few listens I dicovered I started liking some songs and then some more. However, I agree with that the way emotions are expressed has been changed or sort of tempered down a bit. That's how it feels to me. They're still there, but on the other albums, they were more palpable, raw, etc. oh, and Cemetries of London is one of the songs I like :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lore Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 nothing will be better than Parachutes and AROBTTH:dazzled: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laga Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I think those albums are the ones we associate with the sound of the band. I still think they can do great things, but it will be difficult to recreate something similar to those albums -and the same reactions to them- cause if they do, it won't be fresh or new as those were. And well, they're not the boys they were back then, that surely must affect what they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italian Plastic Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 I don't think it's produced that great. Just because it's Brian Eno doesn't automatically mean it's great. i never said that bro. I'm quite surprised it sounds so good. Some of Brian Eno's recent production work isn't really that great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i'maveryneatMonster.' Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I feel like listening to it so I can cringe again. It's too happy for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe_Martin Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I love it and thought it was a great album but i do have to admit Parachutes and A Rush of Blood To The Head are the best!!! Maybe it was because they made the mistake with X&Y how they made it sound like people wanted to not what they wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laga Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I feel like listening to it so I can cringe again. It's too happy for me. Maybe it's not the album for you...don't listen to it if it makes you cringe :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i'maveryneatMonster.' Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Maybe it's not the album for you...don't listen to it if it makes you cringe :P I honestly tried to like it, I did. I listened to it for that whole summer, non stop, and it just didn't work for me like X&Y and AROBTTH. I waited for LP4 so long that when I listened to the free download of Violet Hill I got immensely disappointed, then VLV was available, and it just got worse. It all went downhill after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laga Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Well, maybe it does not work for you :shrug: it has happened to me with other albums, like No Line On The Horizon. Sometimes when you try to like something, it just does not happen, I did not like it at first (VLV), I mean I did not hate it, but I wasn't amazed by it either, then I spent a couple of months without even listening to it, but then I gave it another go and I started liking it, I don't know what makes one like it or not :thinking: maybe cuz the second time I listened to it after a few months I had no expectations and I knew it was different from the other albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandyAndy136 Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I was the same with OK Computer, The Joshua Tree, Perfect Symmetry, and so many other albums :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe_Martin Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I guess there are certain things that we don't like by our favorite artists sometimes they are as big as albums.......... we all have different opinions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaths_friend Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 back on the production of the album. i can't help but feel that on parts of the album that brian eno was trying to make coldplay sound like U2. the guitar work on cemeteries of london and the way its been produced/engineered is an obvious example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i'maveryneatMonster.' Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Excuse my silly question, but which other bands besides U2 and Coldplay has Eno worked with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(1).thumb.png.4eba209dc40059c13694859b20e23ec1.png)
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now