^ :nod:

 

Britney, for instance, would cross my line. :| I'm fine with Rihanna. +She fits the song and matches Chris' voice.

 

:nod::nod::nod:

I see MX as a storytellers album. As someone who enjoys writing and stories and reading and stuff, I see the plot and I see the characters and I see the girls POV with paradise and the boys with up and flames. It's my favorite album because I feel and see the story. For most it's COLDPLAYS most unorganized album, but for me it has the most feeling and isn't as maudlin and depressing.

Definitely not their best album. I find myself skipping a bunch of the songs because they do nothing for me. It's all an opinion though. I don't like them any less because of this album. I know they work their asses of to put out the best music they're feeling at the time.

OFF TOPIC!!!

 

but Caroline your profile pic cracked me up is that like "Gansta Chris"

I feel the opposite. I can't press the next button on MX as I feel that I need to hear the album the whole way through to get the whole thing but not for VLV.

 

Anyway, not to upset anyone but why start another thread on this? Isn't there already a billion threads on how disappointed one is about MX? Why not post there?

 

And there are plenty more threads of people going "OMG!!!!!!!1!! MYLO XYLOTO IS LIKE THE BEST THING EVAR!!!!1111!!!! <3

 

Let OP share his/her opinion.

 

 

 

 

And I completely agree, this album was laem, especially when compared to their earlier work.

And there are plenty more threads of people going "OMG!!!!!!!1!! MYLO XYLOTO IS LIKE THE BEST THING EVAR!!!!1111!!!! <3

 

Let OP share his/her opinion.

 

 

 

 

And I completely agree, this album was laem, especially when compared to their earlier work.

 

Megalo! I started watching Sherlock now...saw 4 episodes! All from 2010 but brillient none the less! :D

They collaborated with Rhianna. Just think about that..

 

^^^^EXACTLY^^^^

Also, been listening to Prospekt's March EP a lot lately | Rainy Day, Prospekt's March, and Glass of Water could easily go up against any MX song and, IMO, be classified as better. That's saying a lot considering those were songs that didn't make the VLV cut.. again, IMO.

I can easily understand your point of view, and nice to see such a thoughtful post :). I like to listen to the b-side songs of MX more (- for PoC, +Moving to Mars), and I don't usually listen to the album from start to finish as I do with the other albums.

 

I think most of the MX a-side songs are the best when played live, and for me some of the summer festival shows are the best live shows Coldplay have ever done.

 

I certainly understand your disappointment in the album, but I think the live shows that we get to watch more than make up for it.

Well but i think Coldplay themselves thought they needed some more upbeat!and thats what i think too:cool:

Well and Their first plan for the LP5 was acoustic and stuff

that can be LP6 or something who knows

About MX, I had my expectations a little high because of Viva La Vida so I was kind of dissapointed when ETIAW came out and they played the first gigs at festivals, not that I disliked the songs, I was just waiting for a VLVII lets say. But after listening to the whole thing I really love it, not as much as Viva, but love it.

 

 

 

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Finally someone that thinks the same as me about that album. There are some really good songs, but listening to the whole thing might be painful (High Speed and Sparks are extremelly boring)

 

I was quite dissapointed too when ETIAW came out. I immediately thought Coldplay would become a pop group with the same kind of song you can hear every day on the radio. I think Chris is trying too much to want to please everyone. But that's just my point of view.

 

How can you not like High Speed?! :phu: :P

 

Definitely not their best album. I find myself skipping a bunch of the songs because they do nothing for me. It's all an opinion though. I don't like them any less because of this album. I know they work their asses of to put out the best music they're feeling at the time.

 

:nod:

Some songs could have been better in lyrics, but otherwise It's a very good album! (mylo xyloto)

But that's just my opinion! :)

MX is not better than A Rush or Viva, however it does contain some killer tunes (Hurts Like Heaven, Charlie Brown, Us Against the World... and I think Paradise and ETIAW are better than they get credit for). MX is obviously the furthest Coldplay has ever gone into the pop genre, which was a bit off-putting at first because I was expecting VIVA 2.0 . But now I enjoy the album, especially the first half.

 

Plus, I believe MX is the best live compared to the other albums.

 

thats my two cents

OFF TOPIC!!!

 

but Caroline your profile pic cracked me up is that like "Gansta Chris"

 

Yes, it is gangsta Chris. It was a picture with Jay-Z, but I'm cropped him out.

^ :nod:

 

Britney, for instance, would cross my line. :| I'm fine with Rihanna. +She fits the song and matches Chris' voice.

 

Excuse me but Britney is untouchable. I'd rather listen to Britney bitch than Coldplay's new failed attempt at being cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't even really like Britney but that's a sad reality.

^If I felt that they were attempting to be cool and popular, you know, specifically making an album to please the mainstream audience, I'd be offended.

I honestly think that this is genuinely what they wanted to do, it's a direction they wanted to take.

Underneath its popyness it's a regular rock album with some additional studio manipulation a.k.a. enoxification and fake drum parts, not unlike Achtung Baby.

It's not at all like other mega popular "artists" out there - LMFAO, Guetta, Pitbull etc. Compared to them this is VERY original shit! :P

 

I don't know why I'm writing here, I like MX.

:escaping:

You know, I would have hoped people didn't have to write 'that's just my opinion' (etc) for someone to realise that is their personal opinion...

Alright, before you all roll your eyes and write me off, just hear me out.

 

My friend and I are as big as Coldplay fans as you will ever meet, we are from the United States, we've seen them 3 times in 3 different corners of the United States (our next target being a major venue in the United Kingdom), we've waited outside Wal-mart at midnight to grab our copies of Viva La Vida, Mylo, etc, you get the point, we are HUGE Coldplay fans, and consider their music the Gospel.

 

HOWEVER, him and I are in complete agreement when we say that we are vastly disappointed with Mylo Xyloto. For us, it's a random, chaotic mixture of songs that don't really go together. Eno's presence is far too noticeable, and at times it sounds as if u2 came in to the Studio and recorded a couple of tracks. It doesn't tell a story, it's a collection of poppy/electric tracks that sounded like they were produced to satisfy the casual Coldplay fan who only knows of 'Fix You' and 'Viva La Vida' as Coldplay songs.

 

Viva La Vida the album told a story, it's not only possibly to listen to it from start to beginning, it's f_cking incredible to do so. I find myself constantly pressing the 'Next' button on my iPod when listening to Mylo Xyloto, and it frustrates me, we waited 2 1/2 years for this album, and I don't feel like Coldplay delivered.

 

But hey, it's just our opinion, I think there are some good songs on MX, just don't think they came close to what was anticipated/expected. But maybe thats our problem, the bar was set too high. Hard to imagine so with the brilliance Coldplay exerts.

 

IF Coldplay make another album, I'd like to see them part ways with Brian Eno, and I'd like them to rediscover themselves and their sound. Maybe something of a Parachutes/Viva mixtures.

 

Cheers,

 

KL

 

*braces for out-lash*

 

I love the album but I understand what you are saying. I also think they should part ways with BE. There is only so much he can do for them. There is no doubt they have learnt a lot from him, as he is an indisputable genius, but I think it might be time for them to take a slightly different path. But then again, I can still see them creating a brilliant LP6 with Eno.

if you admire this album so much etc and think that parachutes is boring, fine its your opinion! but please for the love of god admit from a musical point of view, nothing from this new era can even come close to what they achieved with parachutes and AROBTH. im sick of people rating MX higher than those two and viva! you cant fool yourself!! and i reckon every critic out there would agree. keep an eye out for coldplay ft. pitbull by the way

I love the album but I understand what you are saying. I also think they should part ways with BE. There is only so much he can do for them. There is no doubt they have learnt a lot from him, as he is an indisputable genius, but I think it might be time for them to take a slightly different path. But then again, I can still see them creating a brilliant LP6 with Eno.

I do not know what people want more, Chris will have to write the songs.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/XbzDRAWRTnQ/Chris+Martin+Goes+for+a+Stroll/lLkNPuEmxEm/Chris+Martin

Completely agree with the OP. I've seen them 16+ times over nine years, and for me MX is utterly, and desperately, disappointing. I'm certain I'm wrong, but I just feel like there's nothing left to hope for from this band right now, so I'm giving up.

 

I think they tried to make a REALLY cohesive album (with the career-defining capitals at the fore!) - the coming-together of everything they've been moving towards. Well, it's cohesive enough, but (in many places) it's light, superfluous, and resembles cheap tat imho. And it's cohesive and consistent enough that for the first time ever I don't want to listen to it over and over and over again :(

 

That's quite amazing for me when I actually consider it has three of their most amazing and ground-breaking songs ever (Hurts Like Heaven, Charlie Brown and UatW). With those I feel like they reached a whole new level - unbelievable and inspirational; a true evolution of what they've produced before - even if Eno's production renders them less than their live versions. Princess of China is probably their most dramatic and powerful song since Politik imo (powerful dynamically and acoustically, rather than in the emotions it provokes a la Lovers in Japan, 42, et al). But it's a Chris Martin/US popstar collaboration, not a Coldplay song. I don't mean 'popstar' in any derogatory sense whatsoever here - it just sounds like Chris and Chris/Kanye and anyone similar. Hell it could be Timberland, Timberlake or Timberforest and I'd never know the difference. I absolutely LOVE it, but 'Coldplay' it is not :(

 

Paradise is an incredible pop song in the X-Factor style. Ever-increasing orgasms of light and drama over what is, essentially, nothing at all. Again, I really like it, but it's not Coldplay. On the radio in the car? Cool enough. On the CD player in the car? Only once, and never again.

 

I still cannot believe we waited over three years for this (largely) pap piece of plastic. VLV was a concert of colours, feeling and emotion; experimentation, brave risks, edginess, the unpredictable; a band pushing their limits. MX largely shows a comfortable band getting complacent and appearing to snuggle in for the ad money to roll in. I can only guess Chris has got nothing left to get really passionate about, so he just pretends (hence the meaningless ciphers). Eno pushed them last time, but this time it looks like he pushed them into what he wants them to be.

 

Up In Flames was for me the only chance they took on the disc (apart from PoC), and it fails where the latter was a triumph, not because it's a bum song (it's not, it's ok) but because they pinned so much on it (the new Fix You - come on?! :o) Total complacency.

 

I could go on and on, but I won't. The old album's dead, but there isn't yet a successor. We're left in limbo and I guess won't know until their next album in three to four years if there's something to take over. I'm not hanging around for it anymore...

 

In Coldplayland, I guess we're now (temporarily?) a republic. And, you know what? I don't much care. These guys have lost me.

^If I felt that they were attempting to be cool and popular, you know, specifically making an album to please the mainstream audience, I'd be offended.

I honestly think that this is genuinely what they wanted to do, it's a direction they wanted to take.

Underneath its popyness it's a regular rock album with some additional studio manipulation a.k.a. enoxification and fake drum parts, not unlike Achtung Baby.

It's not at all like other mega popular "artists" out there - LMFAO, Guetta, Pitbull etc. Compared to them this is VERY original shit! :P

 

I don't know why I'm writing here, I like MX.

:escaping:

 

This! :nod:

if you admire this album so much etc and think that parachutes is boring, fine its your opinion! but please for the love of god admit from a musical point of view, nothing from this new era can even come close to what they achieved with parachutes and AROBTH. im sick of people rating MX higher than those two and viva! you cant fool yourself!!

 

So, it's fine to have the opinion that they like the album, but for them to dare suggest it can compare to, if not be better than, their earlier work would be wrong to admit and they're "fooling themselves"? Isn't that still their opinion?

 

and i reckon every critic out there would agree.

 

Some do, some don't. I have read professional reviews of this album that were glowing. It's all a matter of opinion, on both ends.

 

keep an eye out for coldplay ft. pitbull by the way

 

Or not. Just because they work with Rihanna doesn't mean they're automatically crossing over to some "dark pop side". The dismissive attitude about certain music doesn't make sense to me, nor does this:

 

Completely agree with the OP. I've seen them 16+ times over nine years, and for me MX is utterly, and desperately, disappointing. I'm certain I'm wrong, but I just feel like there's nothing left to hope for from this band right now, so I'm giving up.

 

It's totally fine to dislike the album, to each their own.

 

But one misstep and people are proclaiming "I'm done" and giving up? I could understand being upset if they'd had a streak of bad work, album after album being bad, then that sentiment might have some merit. But this is the first one someone doesn't like and suddenly it's a big deal, a major problem?

 

No band is perfect. Every one will make a misstep here and there. All my favorite artists have made works that I'm not particularly fond of. But the fact that they overall consistently make good music means I'm willing to allow them the occasional falter. It happens. It's not the end of the world if they mess up every now and again. Nobody here is perfect every day at their jobs, are they? You all mess up, right? Well, this is these guys' job. They have brilliant days, they have bad days.

 

I mean no disrespect to anyone here, again, you're all entitled to your feelings on this whole thing. Just some of the dramatics about it strike me kind of funny.

 

Nice post, Nikola, by the way. That's pretty much how I've viewed it, too.

I love every track but Princess of China. :( Shortened to "POC" I call it the "Poc mark" of MX. :P

I think MX is their most cohesive album yet and the songs certainly go together - they tell a story and they share themes. They were specifically put together to do this..

 

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