It's a sample.

[filiprasmusson]

In the "book" you get with the CD, in the credit section there was alot of text.

And there stood that Princess of China was a sample from the song "Takk" by Sigur Ross.

[an angel]

That Takk sample is just the transition from UFO to Princess of China.

[freezingcoldplay]

In the "book" you get with the CD, in the credit section there was alot of text.

And there stood that Princess of China was a sample from the song "Takk" by Sigur Ross.

 

Refers to a different part of the song.

[Wyrd]

Meh! It doesn't say Princess of China IS a sample of Takk. It just says "features a sample from Takk" and this is the thing you hear when Mylo Xuloto transits into Princess of China.

[Lukestar1991]

Some people really are so slow. Its hilarious actually because i was only thinking the other day that 'some really slow people (Who havent really got a clue about the bands direction) will only just be realising this now.'

[Wyrd]

Some people really are so slow. Its hilarious actually because i was only thinking the other day that 'some really slow people (Who havent really got a clue about the bands direction) will only just be realising this now.'

I don't get what you mean by this. In what manner are you slow when you read in the booklet that in de CD a sample of Takk is used?

How were you supposed to know this before if you hadn't heard the songs yet and hadn't read the booklet yet? Just by knowing/understanding what directing Coldplay is going to? Please tell me that you mean something else by this and that I just understood you wrong or that you posted in the wrong thread. And otherwise tell me how knowing the band's direction would automatically lead to realising that Coldplay must have used a sample of Takk in Princess of China.

[Wyrd]

^ I'd really like an answer to that :)

[Cheese Nip 2]

So, let me get this straight. I recentally loked up takk...., and I figured it would be the little guitar part at the end of U.F.O, but it's actually not. It's just the one syth note that transitions U.F.O to PoC. I don't even think they'd need to credit Sigor Ros for that, it's essentially 1 note. It's cool they did though, shows how consientious the band is of respecting other peoples work.

[James.]

So, let me get this straight. I recentally loked up takk...., and I figured it would be the little guitar part at the end of U.F.O, but it's actually not. It's just the one syth note that transitions U.F.O to PoC. I don't even think they'd need to credit Sigor Ros for that, it's essentially 1 note. It's cool they did though, shows how consientious the band is of respecting other peoples work.

 

It's probably because of the whole Viva La Vida-Joe Satriani bullshit case. :nod:

If they hadn't credited Sigur Ros then someone was bound to notice a similarity and say "OMG THEYZ STEALIN FROM SIGUR ROS!!1" and Coldplay would have ended up in the same trouble they were in 3 years ago. So naturally they decided to go for the safe option and give credit no matter how tiny the sample was.