I'm not worried about the length.

 

And I also object to X&Y being the weakest album to date. I love X&Y... It's one of my favourites, if not my actual favourite.

 

Unlike what some people are saying, I find that VLV actually is a little short and I was actually really disappointed with the running time. The tracks do make up for it, but I hate when albums are short.

 

I think that as long as the music is good and isn't long for the sake of it, I'd love a 60-ish minute album

Apparently, they are confident enough to do a long album, even after X&Y. So they're either being naive, or this album is a masterpiece.

 

Or they're all short songs. :|

 

 

Edit: nothing against X&Y.

Viva had also 13 tracks and a length of 45 minutes. Come on guys. The album won't be longer than 50 minutes, I'm still believe it will be under 45 minutes...

The fact that they have included so many tracks indicates to me that they are really going all out for the big "career-defining" album this time around. With what they have learnt from Viva, I have confidence this will be their epic masterpiece :)

My feeling is that some of these songs might be instrumentals like Parachutes or even Postcards from Far Away.

 

If you count the hidden tracks in Viva La Vida or even Parachutes, you probably have 13-14 songs (too lazy to count!)

I think we have to trust them! They've worked so hard for us :)

Sound of songs >>>>> length of songs.

imo it doesn't matter how long the album is so long as the songs are good. Like The Suburbs by Arcade Fire.

I'm sure that length would be about 42 minutes, maybe more - but not longer than 50 minutes for sure. I guess I've heard enough from the band about long albums and how X&Y turned out to fail mostly because of length. Not very logical to say all that, and than go and make an hour-long album. Besides they seem to be obsessed with making the album sound cohesive.

Sound of songs >>>>> length of songs.

 

VIOLET AGAIN?!

 

saying what I want to say but a lot clearer. :P

Sound of songs >>>>> length of songs.

 

Very, very true. Honestly I'm thinking more like 55 minutes. That's about 4 minutes per song. I don't think there will be any instrumentals or really short songs for some reason. I just don't see it. They INTENDED on having it around 45 minutes when they had 10-12 songs lined up to make it. I think it's more like 50-55 minutes. Definitely. :nod: 3 and half to 4 minutes per song. But that's just speculation, you know.

I hate when people use the X&Y comparison for length. X&Y wasn't weak because of it's length. It was weak because the band was in a rough patch and wasn't as musically focused as they are now.

 

With all the hard work, focus, and dedication they've put into meticulously crafting this album, I have no worries about its length/cohesiveness.

I hate when people use the X&Y comparison for length. X&Y wasn't weak because of it's length. It was weak because the band was in a rough patch and wasn't as musically focused as they are now.

 

With all the hard work, focus, and dedication they've put into meticulously crafting this album, I have no worries about its length/cohesiveness.

 

Very true, good point. And also, they were making music they thought people EXPECTED of them rather than what they WANTED to.

Too early to be whining about length and such, time will tell :)

I voted that it's too long, on the basis that it would be X&Y length.

 

But like others have said, they hopefully almost certainly know what they're doing, so I hope my vote was the wrong choice!

 

:)

imo it doesn't matter how long the album is so long as the songs are good. Like The Suburbs by Arcade Fire.

 

I like The Suburbs, very good album, but is impossible to listen to the whole thing wthout stoping or paying attention to other things at the same time.

They'll probably do something like the suburbs where they're going to make interludes or small instrumentals. Which is just fine with me, if it's just 14 songs that it's a perfect length. BUT if they're all long ballads then ok lets just hope they're good.

You guys like to speculate and worry about everything, right? :lol:

We'll see soon enough!

 

It'll be shorter once I've deleted ETIAW! :P

 

It'll be shorter once I've deleted ETIAW! :P

 

:awesome:

It'll be shorter once I've deleted ETIAW! :P

 

Too true! :awesome:

:whip:

I love long albums, and X&Y was my favorite so I'm feeling great about this! I also love concept albums, and this looks lke it's shaping up to be one!

14 tracks. Maybe this will be about 60 minutes long? The last time Coldplay made an album that long was X&Y and I don't know about you guys but I and many other people consider it their weakest album by quite some distance. I'm worried this album will be too bloated or not have enough going on to hold my interest for the full 14 tracks. Anyone else feel this way?

 

Sorry, but you are crazy, and your way of think is too subjective. X&Y for me is actually the best creation of Coldplay. An epic album, simple awesome. Coldplay once say that X&Y was they best work. Subjective, in my way, I hate short albums. But however, I really think this album may can unseat X&Y from my top.

Of course I'm being subjective, how do you expect me not to be

 

I'd also like to know what makes you think I'm being 'crazy'

Of course I'm being subjective, how do you expect me not to be

 

I'd also like to know what makes you think I'm being 'crazy'

 

Consider X&Y their weakest album make me think in that way :rolleyes:

But well, it doesn't matter.