October 17, 201114 yr I thought everyone knew Chris' vocals were distorted on HLH or is it the whole song? On the live recordings you can clearly hear portions where his voice is synthesised or something. I can resist listening to the album before the release date, but can't resist reading everyones opinions who did cave! :lol: Must say I'm excited that lots of people are saying it's better than they expected and that the 2nd half is great. Since I have already heard most of the first half dur to the singles and live shows and like most of those tracks, thinking I'm going to like the whole thing!
October 17, 201114 yr The Album is all over the place. Disappointment: Princess of China <- This was clearly made to play on Z100 or some pop station Surprise: Just about every other track. This is a really good album, not their best (which in my opinion is Rush of blood to the head)
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment - hurts like heaven vocals, DLIBYH (it doesn't get in me :\). Surprise - us against the world (it's beautiful) and up with the birds.
October 17, 201114 yr Biggest Disappointment (because there are many disappointments) - Hurts Like Heaven. I know we had a live backing track that was really distorted and were hoping it wouldn't be indicative of the studio version. Well, too bad. Ugh. Biggest surprise - Us Against the World. I made sure not to judge this one too much live because it was fully acoustic, whereas we knew the studio version would have a fair bit more production. But they thankfully restrained themselves in most areas and it's a candidate for my favorite on the album.
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: Hurts Like Heaven. Not produced correctly. Up In Flames was my least favorite song in the album. Surprise: Don't Let It Break Your Heart. Amazing!!!
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: Overproduction, Chris' vocals on HLH (Why they did it? :cry:), the interludes. Surprise: Up with the birds (I LOVE IT!), Up in flames, Us against the world. I give 8/10 to Mylo Xyloto ;)
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: Hurts Like Heaven. It's still a good song, but the live versions are what made me love this song. Felt a little disappointed, but it isn't bad nonetheless. Surprises: Princess of China, Don't Let It Break Your Heart and Us Against The World. PoC - They made Rihanna work into the song really well. I couldn't believe it when I first heard it. DLIBYH - Cheesy title. Not-so-good reviews. Me = :anxious:. Then I heard the song. Me = :shocked2:. Where did that song come from? Brilliant stuff. UATW - Didn't like the live version that much. Was a little boring, to say the least. But after hearing the studio version, I quite like it now. Definitely fits in after the energetic Charlie Brown :)
October 17, 201114 yr Hmm. Biggest Disappointment: Princess of China. I only say this because its currently my least-favorite track. But it's growing on me. Biggest Surprise: U.F.O. I thought this was going to be some instrumental. Turns out it's one of the band's best acoustic balads. Absolutely beautiful.
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: Princess of China, vocal effects of Hurts Like Heaven Surprise: U.F.O. , Up With The Birds
October 17, 201114 yr Positive: I love the vocals on HLH, totally different and I'm glad that it sounds different to the live versions!!! Same with Charlie brown really!!! Negative: PoC just doesn't sound right to me, poor lyrics and I'm not 100% sure on the guest vocals!! Also think MTM would have been better, as someone else on he mentioned!
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: Hurts Like Heaven being mixed weird, doesn't sound as deep as live versions. Surprise: U.F.O, DLIBYH and Up With the Birds. Phenomenal songs.
October 17, 201114 yr Surprise: A Hopeful Transmission's little reprise of the melody from MX, it's done a lot better. It almost sounded like salsa when I first heard it. :awesome: DLIBYH threw me off too, it was just some explosion of sound. Disappoint: Charlie Brown is incredibly disappointment, the vocals are wishy-washy and the guitar is too quiet. UFO was a little underwhelming too.
October 17, 201114 yr Dissapointment: UWTB, UFO, Charlie Brown Surprise: The rest of the album. WTF? The best tracks on the album!
October 17, 201114 yr Suprise: By far UWTB, It's easily the best song on the album! Disappointment: Princess of China, I like it but it's the worst on the album!
October 17, 201114 yr Surprise/positive : I love all of it Minor dissapointment ( but not really worth mentioning) : Major Minus doesnt sound like the live version which is better. Album version is also cool though I love MX !
October 17, 201114 yr Dissapointment ; Pretty much like everybody here, Chris' voice on HLH. Surprise ; Up in Flames + UATW
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: Those promising "speeding shadow" lyrics from the cover are not on there. WTF? Surprise: UATW studio version. Beautiful.
October 17, 201114 yr Surprises: That little ending to UFO was awesome, UWTB was the perfect ending Disappointments: awkward transition from Up in Flames to AHT, i think they needed something else there Still this album was fantastic 10/10
October 17, 201114 yr Dissapointment: Princess of China, abomination, I didn't know what to think when I first heard it, I just really hope for the sake of Coldplay I grow to like this song. Suprise: UFO! It was such a treat to hear atleast 2 minutes of Parachutes back on this album! And just the fact the majority of the album actually turned out to be a masterpiece!
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: I would have liked the random piano notes that Chris plays live in UIF at the beginning of the song to be on the studio version of the song. Seriously. THAT's my disappointment. Yeah, I think this album is perfect. Surprise: Probably the mixing of HLH. so much more amazing and powerful than I expected.
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointing: The vocals and possibly mixing on HLH and Charlie Brown, it just feels like they're missing the mark (ya see what I did there?). Also, the very last line on Up in Flames I think would have sounded better if it were the way they had done it live, not in that higher voice Surprise: How absolutely spectacular the rest of the album is! The actual track Mylo Xyloto was a bit different, but that's fine. HLH and Charlie Brown, which may be fixed if this is indeed an incomplete version, are still great, and Up in Flames is still a simple, touching song. Princess of China, despite being the most dreaded track by most people, was pulled off quite well. And U.F.O., DLIBYH, and Up with the Birds are better than I could have hoped! Up with the Birds and DLIBYH are probably my favorite songs of the album.
October 17, 201114 yr Dissapointment: All the intros (Mylo Xyloto, MMIX, A Hopeful Transmission), they'd be better as part of the song, not seperate tracks. And Up With The Birds. Not a huge fan of that song. Surprise: Up In Flames sounds more electric. (But I guess the whole album does).
October 17, 201114 yr Disappointment: All of the instrumentals (they should just be a part of the other tracks) up with the birds and that annoying kick drum on up in flames Surprise: UFO. Sounds like it was recorded in a closet but it's nice.
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