I am posative it will be...they can't keep releasing these songs, and then saying they arnt really on the album! (ie, Moving to Mars, or Major Minus [at least I think they will not be on there])

Every time I listen to this song I really do think Coldplay have made their most perfect pop song yet. It is astonishingly excellent and catchy as hell! So much energy.

Every time I listen to this song I really do think Coldplay have made their most perfect pop song yet. It is astonishingly excellent and catchy as hell! So much energy.

 

Do you really consider CB as "pop song"? For me, the structure and arragement is too difficult for a pop song (no real chorus, no really easy lyrics to cry out live...). It seems more like a "alternative rock song" in my honest opinion.

Do you really consider CB as "pop song"? For me, the structure and arragement is too difficult for a pop song (no real chorus, no really easy lyrics to cry out live...). It seems more like a "alternative rock song" in my honest opinion.

 

I don't disagree with what you say. You make very good points particularly on the lyrics part which have a meaning/story behind them unlike the shit in the top 40 today. But I personally think Charlie Brown (isn't this the HLH thread though?! :D ) is a pop song. Don't be put off by the word "pop". There's trashy pop like your X Factor like guff and your Lady Gaga/Rihanna garbage, but then there is absolutely fantastic pop out there. The word pop has been stolen by (in my opinion) putrid acts like that but songs like Hurts Like Heaven and Charlie Brown really take back. Charlie Brown and Hurts Like Heaven sound accessible like all pop music is meant to be. They both sound like songs that can sell a lot in terms of singles sales. They sound fresh, delightfully catchy and even loveable and ones which you could listen endlessly and which wouldn't age. That is what a pop song should be.

 

And for me Coldplay perfected the pop/rock sound on Viva La Vida. They perfected the alternative rock sound on their first two albums. Their 3rd....well it didn't really know what it wanted to be I believe.

 

Take The Beach Boys for example. AMAZING band who largely produced some of the most amazing songs ever (take a look at Pet Sounds or Today! - especially the former) with beautiful lyrics and intriguing structures. Even something less obvious like a-ha (they're much more your typical pop but some really good efforts from them) you've got to check out songs like Hunting High and Low, The Sun Always Shines On Tv, Train Of Thought and probably their best ever song I've Been Losing You.

Lol, yeah, now I know what you meant...the understood your "pop-song" as "mainstream"... but you're right...its the HLH thread... :D Sorry.

the outro of Hurts like Heaven is simply my favorite bit of coldplay music ever

Charlie Brown is a perfect example of a coldplay song that

the fans love but all the coldplay haters despise about coldplay

the outro of Hurts like Heaven is simply my favorite bit of coldplay music ever

 

It is simply amazing! Can't to hear the studio version of it, the piano, the guitar, everything, may just be my favourite ending to a song :D

 

Charlie Brown is a perfect example of a coldplay song that

the fans love but all the coldplay haters despise about coldplay

 

I disagree, I think it will be on a similar ground to Yellow, and that is probably the 2nd least disliked or non Coldplay liker favourite if you know what I mean, obviously won't be as popular as Viva La Vida but don't think it will get much hate at all.

hurts like heaven has a very traditional rock song format:

verse

chorus

guitar solo

verse

chorus

guitar solo

bridge

guitar outro

i dont think they've done this before but it is quikly becoming my favorite

I disagree, I think it will be on a similar ground to Yellow, and that is probably the 2nd least disliked or non Coldplay liker favourite if you know what I mean, obviously won't be as popular as Viva La Vida but don't think it will get much hate at all.

 

 

Charlie Brown has always reminded me of Yellow :thinking:

It's the BEST new song, simply magic and perfect :) :dance:

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

 

^lol thats awesome!

I really,really love it when Chris in the end still is singing "Hurts like heaveeeen"...like yesterday at the iTunes-Festival ! :dance:

I really,really love it when Chris in the end still is singing "Hurts like heaveeeen"...like yesterday at the iTunes-Festival ! :dance:

 

totally agree :)

 

my favourite has to be jonny's guitar 'solo' about one minute in to the song.

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

 

And 'MX' its amazing!!! :wacky:

totally agree :)

 

my favourite has to be jonny's guitar 'solo' about one minute in to the song.

 

You mean this? http://www.4shared.com/audio/Qj-3lAzy/Hurts_Like_Heaven_Solo.html

You mean this? http://www.4shared.com/audio/Qj-3lAzy/Hurts_Like_Heaven_Solo.html

 

haha, yes that's one. I was told that it isn't exactly a solo because there's still drumming but that's what i call it :P Also, i love that audio, thanks for that!

 

Also i have a question about chris' vocals in HLH. In the video below at about the 2:40 mark, is chris using like a voice effect to make his voice sound a little bit electronic??

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kJiKOkezUg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kJiKOkezUg[/ame]

oops sorry, just realised that there's a already a thread about the voice effects

July 26, 2011 - submitted by Samina, United States of America

 

Q. What songs did Coldplay perform at the iTunes Festival this year?

 

The Oracle replies:

 

It was pretty much the same setlist as most of the other festival shows but with the addition of Moving to Mars making its live debut.

*Hurts Like Heaven

Yellow

In My Place

Major Minus

Lost!

The Scientist

Shiver

Violet Hill

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

Moving To Mars

Us Against The World

Politik

Viva la Vida

Charlie Brown

Life Is For Living

The encore:

Clocks

Fix You

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

 

*I know some will say they began with MX, but I'm not counting that as a track...

I've made a cover of this song but I want to perfect it before I show it to you guys. There is no singing, it's just instrumental, and obviously it won't be exactly the same. But I tried to make it as close as possible. I made this on Garageband so it's not the best way to make a cover.

I don't want Chris' voice to sound like what it sounds like in "Major Minus", I like his voice without any effects.

I don't want Chris' voice to sound like what it sounds like in "Major Minus", I like his voice without any effects.

 

I TOTALLY AGREE!!!

I don't want Chris' voice to sound like what it sounds like in "Major Minus", I like his voice without any effects.

 

Totally agree...TOO!!:P

Yep agreed. I made a thread on it because you can hear vocal effects in a few live performances.