the_escapist Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 What do you think of the following ETIAW review??? For a group that squats in the middle of the road, Coldplay sure is polarizing. The politeness of the London quartet’s music irritates those who worry that all the teeth have been pulled out of the mainstream rock enterprise. Detractors claim that all of Coldplay’s ideas have been pinched from Radiohead, Arcade Fire, U2 and Travis, and then bleached to radio-friendly inoffensiveness. That has not stopped fans from turning all four Coldplay albums platinum, several times over. Then there’s Kanye West, who recently suggested that Coldplay would eventually be deemed superior to the Beatles, and compared frontman and bandleader Chris Martin favorably to John Lennon. West says a lot of crazy stuff. But as a musical curator, he usually knows what he’s talking about, and he picks his collaborators shrewdly. So outraged was West when Jay-Z scooped him on Coldplay that he took to the studio and rapped about it on "Big Brother." There’s something about Martin’s approach and his clothespin-on-the-nose delivery that speaks powerfully to West. He’s hardly alone. Maybe it’s just a case of like recognizing like. Martin may sometimes sing like Thom Yorke, but in his restless, omnivorous appetite for pop, he’s far closer to West than he is to Radiohead. Hook recognition is one of his best assets — and the first thing he recognizes about pop hooks is that they often fit best secondhand. He is a skilled borrower, and an even better appraiser of commercial value. "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," the first single from the upcoming fifth Coldplay album, turns on a clever bit of reappropriation: the opening groove is lifted from "Ritmo de la Noche," a flimsy disco record by Argentine dance-pop group the Sacados. That record was, in turn, built around a sample from Peter Allen’s lite radio standard, "I Go to Rio." This time around, Martin isn’t even bothering to hide what he’s filched: he gives Allen a writing credit, and he’s mentioned in interviews that he was inspired to write the song after hearing the Sacados playing in the background of a movie. So let’s rewind and take a look at how far we’ve travelled, around the globe and through time, with Chris Martin. A Londoner, he pulled a lick from a South American dance hit from 1990 that was first recorded by an Australian television personality a decade earlier, and he got the idea while enjoying an entirely different form of entertainment from the one that made him famous. To cut through all that historical and temporal specificity and identify a riff that he can use to construct an international hit record ("Waterfall" is already on the U.S. charts) … well, that requires a special talent. It might be rightly said that if Coldplay wasn’t as rootless as it is, the band would not be able to shop around the global beat market as effortlessly as it does. Martin’s magpie nest is a jumble of decontextualized signifiers that he can mix and match as he pleases until he strikes gold. It’s not visionary, and it might not even be particularly artistic. But it has been an effective business model. But what about the song; how good is it? Well, if you loathe Coldplay, this one isn’t going to change your mind. Brian Eno is back behind the boards, so the record sounds great: atmospheric, glossy, immersive. The lyrics, however, are again self-important and humorless when they aren’t maddeningly vague. The title, too, reads like a parody of Coldplay’s unfortunate taste for the morose. When Martin sings about rebel music, it’s almost as if he’s baiting the punk rockers who have always run him down. This will be another exhibit in their case against Martin and his band, playing, as it surely will, alongside "Clocks," "Yellow" and "Viva la Vida" in perpetuity in supermarkets, laundromats, airports and diners. That’s a guarantee of immortality for Coldplay; a weird kind of immortality, cobbled together from pop scraps. http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2011/06/song_of_the_week_every_teardro.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 "Martin may sometimes sing like Thom Yorke..." LOLWUT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 "Martin may sometimes sing like Thom Yorke..." LOLWUT. He's had his moments ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 On the back of the promo CD of violet hill it said "From The Forthcoming Album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends". Maybe there'll be something on the back of ETIAW like that. Wouldn't that be an interesting way of doing it... :wink3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 On the back of the promo CD of violet hill it said "From The Forthcoming Album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends". Maybe there'll be something on the back of ETIAW like that. Wouldn't that be an interesting way of doing it... :wink3: I bet some people would freak out if they did it that way :wink3: But it would be a rather clever way of going about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugo Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 sorry if this has been asked before but, can anybody tell me the shipping cost of the bundle to the rest of the world? is the VAT included or not when you check out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 They haven't posted any pictures of the back... :inquisitive: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 They haven't posted any pictures of the back... :inquisitive: Probably because it has the tracklisting on it. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Bauer Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Probably because it has the tracklisting on it. . . But we already know the track listing to the CD, it's the exclusive download track listing we don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanma Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 sorry if this has been asked before but, can anybody tell me the shipping cost of the bundle to the rest of the world? is the VAT included or not when you check out? It says on their website! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesey16909 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 I don't like how I just pre-ordered the big bundle, and I won't get the other new tracks because they're "exclusive" to iTunes... What are they doing to us!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dany93 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 I don't like how I just pre-ordered the big bundle, and I won't get the other new tracks because they're "exclusive" to iTunes... What are they doing to us!? That's what I wonder too! :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesey16909 Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 That's what I wonder too! :\ And the world WONDERS why piracy exsists!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dany93 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 ^ And then music labels dare complain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 And the world WONDERS why piracy exsists!? :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi Leo Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 ^ And then music labels dare complain! The way I see it I pre-ordered the bundle because I love collecting vinyls (I also had violet hill vinyl) and would be great to have ETIAW in full cd quality so I can import it as lossless into my iTunes. So I do not feel I wasted my money there. As for the exclusive tracks on iTunes, I really hope they will be available as single downloads, otherwise that would certainly be a rip-off. The worst thing I think was not to announce the availability of ETIAW before just about every fan had already downloaded it digitally...that was really low, probably a desperate move from the record company.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerrymanGirl1 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 The bundle cost $10 and the shipping cost $10 :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanma Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 ^. :uhoh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Bah iTunes exclusives Will probably be only to buy in a bundle with the other tracks for £3.99 knowing sky-i Tunes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerrymanGirl1 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 ^. :uhoh: :sad::nod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanma Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 ^ :bigcry: I wanted the cd but paying like 4 times the cd price because of shipping is not nice :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdplayingfromKansas Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 ^ That's why I'm limiting myself to the digital release :uhoh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldplayer1317 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 When they say the other new songs will be anounced "next week" , do they mean tomorrow, or anytime this next week ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 The problem with Coldplay is that unlike Radiohead they can't go "the album is finished, it will be out next week" as EMI would want to try and milk it as much as possible to get as many sales as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryptophan Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 When they say the other new songs will be anounced "next week" , do they mean tomorrow, or anytime this next week ??? The latter. Could be tommorow :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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