Never understood why this album gets so much criticism? Particularly on here. In my opinion it is brilliant and has some of Coldplay's most beautiful moments like Fix You, What If and Twisted Logic. I think it's a very powerful album. Anyone care to give their opinion? Interested to hear them...

I really like it

I love the album X too ! He is very great ! :D My favorite song of this album is Speed Of Sound !

X&Y is filled with songs that helps us at any life situation. Very inspirational songs there imo.

I've always liked it (although I skip Speed of Sound!)

It just has a different vibe, a big stadium, sing your heart out rock vibe. Some really good, underated songs on X&Y.

Never understood why this album gets so much criticism? Particularly on here. In my opinion it is brilliant and has some of Coldplay's most beautiful moments like Fix You, What If and Twisted Logic. I think it's a very powerful album. Anyone care to give their opinion? Interested to hear them...

 

You aren't alone. The hate never made sense in my eyes. How does it sound "all over the place"? No idea.

 

It's by far my favorite Coldplay record. It's very personal, and in result, it came off as okay to the public.

 

I would kill to have a X&Y 2.0.

I agree. I absolutely love X&Y and it has some of my favorite Coldplay songs on there :)

some songs are a bit too long imo.

I like all the songs better in live the live versions :wink:

In my humble opinion this album is one of the greatest peices of work ever to enter the celestial pool of being. Literally.

X & Y is an excellent LP. I was listening to it this morning and still in awe of it's awesomeness. Very underated and underappreciated. Speed Of Sound, Fix You, X & Y, Low, Swallowed In The Sea, Kingdom Come.

I'll explain.

 

I love X&Y but it has a few problems. Notably, it seems cluttered. While I agree that X&Y contains some GREAT moments that nearly every Coldplayer loves (Square One, Fix You, Til Kingdom Come) it also has a lot of Coldplay's worst moments that lack innovation (The Hardest Part, What If, etc). It's frustrating because if the mediocre moments on the album were taken out, the album would be more cohesive and sound better without being drawn-out.

 

Also, X&Y contains a lot of polarizing moments. I remember when it came out, moments on the album were great points of contention: What If is praised by some (like the original poster) and shunned by others (myself) for its shallow lyrics and simple, boring, drawn-out instrumentation. Many people on here think that Swallowed in the Sea is an awesome song, one of Coldplay's best, while I think the lyrics are stupid so the song is ruined.

 

I don't think that everyone dislikes the album, but I do think that it's Coldplay's least-liked album for these reasons. People who are negative, unfortunately, resonate and have bigger voices than people who are positive. This means that since more people are negative with X&Y, there is more overall negativity.

 

I think that X&Y is a great piece, but it just seems over-thought.

it's so space-y. :dazzled:

Swallowed In The Sea is the best. Square One, Fix You, and Til Kingdom Come are great ad well.

I think its the most liked from this forum lol

My favorite album ever! *-*

A great album. It has some of my favourite individual songs - Square One, Talk, A Message, Low, Swallowed in the Sea, and Till Kingdom Come, in particular. Something I've always loved about X&Y is how spacey it feels. Something that we don't really see again until Moving to Mars and DLIBYH. It's hard to describe yet it makes so much sense when I listen to it. It probably has to do with the synth and guitars.

 

I agree with Baw8cc's post though...the album does have elements that are easier to dislike - the lyrics are "stupid", it sounds too "U2ish", etc.

 

In my opinion, the problems are:

-Illogical/inconsistent track placement. The energy just doesn't really flow the way it does in all the other albums (MX especially, for obvious reasons). My biggest problem is probably the placement of Fix You relative to everything else...it's a big stadium anthem rocking song that's jammed between White Shadows and Talk, both fast spacey rockers. Something about the transition between these three songs just doesn't work for me, and it exemplifies the overall problem. Many people also say X&Y is too long (it's 62:35 compared to around 40-45 for Parachutes, VLV, and MX). I think the best solution though would be to switch Twisted Logic and Fix You so that Fix You becomes the big closer while Twisted Logic is the twisted turning point or summat.

 

-Some of the songs are too long or in other words, not refined enough. The shortest track on X&Y is 3:58 for Swallowed in the Sea. That's saying something. I kind of feel like there could have been more concise ways to express certain tracks or at least stricter cutting down... I'm referring to: the long, slow, and drawn outros in Square One, Fix You, A Message, White Shadows, Swallowed in the Sea... not to mention the really long instrumental fadeouts in X&Y, the Hardest Part, Low. The only tracks to have hard and fast finishes are What If, Talk, Speed of Sound, Twisted Logic, and Till Kingdom Come. Think of the 2011 live version of GPASYUF - Chris no longer sings/plays a verse at the end like on the studio because doing such a thing can really disrupt the energy to a song. It makes sense in Square One and Fix You, but I feel like it's not as well executed in A Message, The Hardest Part, X&Y, and Low. If they had cut down the filler in some of these songs, or one or two songs themselves (well, I couldn't live without any of these songs) the album would be much better.

 

That said, X&Y is definitely the most heartfelt and honest of the albums. Fix You is just pure heartbreak and heart-fix, and What If, despite its "stupid" lyrics, really captures the simple questions of love.