GamingForeverAUS Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 1 hour ago, IslandToDiscover said: This acoustic version is SO much better than the single! Hope they play it like this live. I can see them playing this only in small venues, a radio appearance or on a livestream on instagram or something 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteShadow7 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 WellΒ this acoustic version is a little disappointing to me. One reason is that the original song has that unmissable energetic flair, which makes Higher Power so powerful. This is just in between chaotic and relaxed, is fun though, but imoΒ still too much 'extras'. Go big or go home. They already have much better acoustic songs.Β 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
42Escapist Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) 19 hours ago, BerheavedTripod8 said: Β Acoustic version of Higher Power out in some parts of the world. Works for me when using australian VPN It's alright. I don't really like how the vocals are mixed and implemented into this version. It'd sound better with brand new vocal tracks apart from the ones in the normal version of the song. A good acoustic Coldplay song in my opinion is one that sounds like it's being sung with natural vocals. No auto tune or fancy effects. And this version falls short in that regard. It doesn't sound intimate like Til Kingdom Come, Us Against The World, Old Friends and all the other acoustic Coldplay songs do. The instrumentals are pretty, though. Edited June 15, 2021 by 42Escapist 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteShadow7 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 7 minutes ago, 42Escapist said: It's alright. I don't really like how the vocals are mixed and implemented into this version. It'd sound better with brand new vocal tracks apart from the ones in the normal version of the song. A good acoustic Coldplay song in my opinion is one that sounds like it's being sung with natural vocals. No auto tune or fancy effects. And this version falls short in that regard. It doesn't sound intimate like Til Kingdom Come, Us Against The World, Old Friends and all the other acoustic Coldplay songs do. The instrumentals are pretty, though. This is exactly how I feel. Especially the vocals make sense in the whole Coldplay acoustic repertoire.Β I feel this could also be a side project of Max Martin who was up to mixΒ some early versions into one.Β 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famous_Old_Painter Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 I'm with you guys on the acoustic version. It doesn't get me like their other acoustic songs. It sounds more like they've stripped down the original recording. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyrott1 Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 Acoustic Review TLDR: Honestly, I'm kinda disappointed at the lack of a new performance & overall production. I really appreciate the band giving us a version of the song that has some instrumental call backs to Oldplay, but I wish they delivered a better recording that added some unique flavor to this acoustic version (think strings from LiJ, more choir vocals on COTW NPR). I'll overall forget this probably like I did the Princess of China acoustic version, which feels super similar to what we got here 10 years later. Spoiler The Good:Β I love getting alt versions, so that's a plus in itself.Β The build up/bridge are amazing. That mini organ that will plays on Daddy makes a return and it's super beautiful as it builds into the chorus. I love Jacob Collier's piano that imitates the synths on the studio version, it's very lovely, light and pleasant.Β Guitar playing is cool -- nothing like a good ol strumming song from the boys.Β The Bad:Β What is this mixing though? The guitar sounds like its from a poorly recorded Dashboard Confessional song in the mid-2000's. It sounds compressed as heck and like they threw it together way too fast.Β Jonny still not present. I feel like this acoustic version was an opportunity to add a lot more instrumentation to breathe more life into the chorus. For example, between "you've got...." and "...a higher power" they simply hit a piano key. Kinda drab.Β The vocals. Okay so hear me out. On Princess of China acoustic, Coldplay just re-recorded the instrumental and then laid the original vocal track over it. It's awkward. It sounds like two songs being mashed on top of one another. Here, it's the exact same thing. Chris, the Love Choir, and the boys didn't sit in a room and record this authentically. Instead, they worked separately to record the different instruments and then threw the original vocals on top of it and called it a day. This really dooms the song for me -- the tempo isn't different, the vocals in the finale aren't different, it's all the same song without the synths, which just isn't creative imo.Β I'm feeling worried if other, quieter MOTS tracks have this poor of production... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shred Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 (edited) Love love love love the guitar in the acoustic version. And there's piano???Β ? It's a shame we can't hear all of these in the original version. Edited June 15, 2021 by shred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
42Escapist Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 6 hours ago, lennyrott1 said: Acoustic Review TLDR: Honestly, I'm kinda disappointed at the lack of a new performance & overall production. I really appreciate the band giving us a version of the song that has some instrumental call backs to Oldplay, but I wish they delivered a better recording that added some unique flavor to this acoustic version (think strings from LiJ, more choir vocals on COTW NPR). I'll overall forget this probably like I did the Princess of China acoustic version, which feels super similar to what we got here 10 years later. Β Hide contents The Good:Β I love getting alt versions, so that's a plus in itself.Β The build up/bridge are amazing. That mini organ that will plays on Daddy makes a return and it's super beautiful as it builds into the chorus. I love Jacob Collier's piano that imitates the synths on the studio version, it's very lovely, light and pleasant.Β Guitar playing is cool -- nothing like a good ol strumming song from the boys.Β The Bad:Β What is this mixing though? The guitar sounds like its from a poorly recorded Dashboard Confessional song in the mid-2000's. It sounds compressed as heck and like they threw it together way too fast.Β Jonny still not present. I feel like this acoustic version was an opportunity to add a lot more instrumentation to breathe more life into the chorus. For example, between "you've got...." and "...a higher power" they simply hit a piano key. Kinda drab.Β The vocals. Okay so hear me out. On Princess of China acoustic, Coldplay just re-recorded the instrumental and then laid the original vocal track over it. It's awkward. It sounds like two songs being mashed on top of one another. Here, it's the exact same thing. Chris, the Love Choir, and the boys didn't sit in a room and record this authentically. Instead, they worked separately to record the different instruments and then threw the original vocals on top of it and called it a day. This really dooms the song for me -- the tempo isn't different, the vocals in the finale aren't different, it's all the same song without the synths, which just isn't creative imo.Β I'm feeling worried if other, quieter MOTS tracks have this poor of production... That's right, the acoustic version of Princess of China does have the same vocal tracks... and even it sounds better than this. Chris does the "3, 2, 1" count in at the beginning and that's the only part that differs. Most of the acoustic stuff on Everyday Life sounds so good. Listen to that guitar tone in Old Friends. It's beautiful and it sounds crisp rather than overly compressed. WOTW/POTP has awful sound quality, but that's the point. It was recordedΒ fromΒ a phone and the simplicity is charming. It'sΒ a calm little interlude before the grandiosity of Arabesque. But this just isn't the same. If anything on MOTS sounds as bad as this version of Higher Power, I'm gonna be quite disappointed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosesTheMarshmallow Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 3 hours ago, lennyrott1 said: Acoustic Review TLDR: Honestly, I'm kinda disappointed at the lack of a new performance & overall production. I really appreciate the band giving us a version of the song that has some instrumental call backs to Oldplay, but I wish they delivered a better recording that added some unique flavor to this acoustic version (think strings from LiJ, more choir vocals on COTW NPR). I'll overall forget this probably like I did the Princess of China acoustic version, which feels super similar to what we got here 10 years later. Β Hide contents The Good:Β I love getting alt versions, so that's a plus in itself.Β The build up/bridge are amazing. That mini organ that will plays on Daddy makes a return and it's super beautiful as it builds into the chorus. I love Jacob Collier's piano that imitates the synths on the studio version, it's very lovely, light and pleasant.Β Guitar playing is cool -- nothing like a good ol strumming song from the boys.Β The Bad:Β What is this mixing though? The guitar sounds like its from a poorly recorded Dashboard Confessional song in the mid-2000's. It sounds compressed as heck and like they threw it together way too fast.Β Jonny still not present. I feel like this acoustic version was an opportunity to add a lot more instrumentation to breathe more life into the chorus. For example, between "you've got...." and "...a higher power" they simply hit a piano key. Kinda drab.Β The vocals. Okay so hear me out. On Princess of China acoustic, Coldplay just re-recorded the instrumental and then laid the original vocal track over it. It's awkward. It sounds like two songs being mashed on top of one another. Here, it's the exact same thing. Chris, the Love Choir, and the boys didn't sit in a room and record this authentically. Instead, they worked separately to record the different instruments and then threw the original vocals on top of it and called it a day. This really dooms the song for me -- the tempo isn't different, the vocals in the finale aren't different, it's all the same song without the synths, which just isn't creative imo.Β I'm feeling worried if other, quieter MOTS tracks have this poor of production... Β This triggered some thoughts for me: -The acoustic guitar mixing actually reminds me a lot of Old Friends. I don't think it's bad, but I do find it a little loud relative to the other instruments.Β -I quite like the organ too! Reminds me of the organ on Careful Where You Stand.Β The near-lack of drums reminds me of the same, as well as things like See You Soon or any of the band's AHFOD era request songs where generally Will played piano. That kind of added a particular brand of intimacy that I found fun.Β -Agree on the vocal weirdness. I wish they had just kept Chris's and Will's vocals. The extra ooh's at the end are fun though, and kind of wish that was on the album version.Β -Agree on the electric guitar. There was some nice interplay between the piano and electric guitar especially in the 2nd verse and outro, but the live full band version still wins on having the most Jonny. -The kickass Guy bassline is basically gone, and Will's urgent drumming is also gone. If I had designed this experience I would've kept the bass and drums - perhaps on a cajon - and then have Chris on the piano or acoustic guitar only and Jonny on electric guitar. The acoustic version of POC actually sounds pretty good now. I totally forgot that existed.Β Β 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvdmm Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 They must be high as fuck when they're making decisions! The beautiful instrumentation with the organ and the piano didn't deserve to be murdered by those unchanged vocals. The guitar work is lovely too! Another recent one that was weird was how better the music video version of Orphans was, compared to the studio version; so much so that I replaced it on my playlist. The first half is super acoustic and beautiful and Moses' voice just makes it "work" somehow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosesTheMarshmallow Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 5 hours ago, nvdmm said: They must be high as fuck when they're making decisions! The beautiful instrumentation with the organ and the piano didn't deserve to be murdered by those unchanged vocals. The guitar work is lovely too! Another recent one that was weird was how better the music video version of Orphans was, compared to the studio version; so much so that I replaced it on my playlist. The first half is super acoustic and beautiful and Moses' voice just makes it "work" somehow. It's funny because I accidentally listened to the music video version BEFORE the lyric video with the studio version and I got quite confused. ?Β Also, remember when they just quietly released this gem...I've always thought Orphans is such a great song built on a very smart beat, bassline, lots of guitars, etc. My only complaint about the studio version is the kid voices are a bit much (wish they had saved it for the final chorus like in Up&Up where each successive choruses becomes progressively louder).Β Also some of the posts that seem to be having an existential crisis about Coldplay's authenticity based on an offhanded release of an acoustic version of a song seems a bit of an overreaction, but that's just my opinion. How can they be not authentic when you see a video like this vvvvv or Instagram Live concert from last year.Β Β Β 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisonrules Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 ReminderΒ Coldplay to perform tonight on Jimmy Fallon Β 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IslandToDiscover Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 On 6/15/2021 at 12:40 AM, GamingForeverAUS said: I can see them playing this only in small venues, a radio appearance or on a livestream on instagram or something Hahah just played it live on the Tonight Show. Sounded incredible! This is what Iβve been waiting for! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CP-EST Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 This acoustic performance on Jimmy FallonΒ had definitely nice vibes, but probably at this point fans are getting already a bit tired of the promotion of Higher Power. Waiting for something new!? About this performance. Really nice to see so many people on stage with them playing and singing. I didn't have time to look too much into it for now, I hope these guysΒ were actually playing for real and it was performed mostlyΒ live.Β These Chris' nice littleΒ harmonies on the last chorus are unfortunately coming from tape andΒ some parts of choir too probably, but overall at first watch this performance felt definitely veryΒ human and real compared to the ones with tons of fireworks. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
42Escapist Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Well... this acoustic live version was really good. I enjoyed it a lot. Sounded better than the studio acoustic version because the vocals seemed to be live and the performance actually felt... natural. "Natural" as in not artificial with a copied and pasted vocal track, just the band, the Love Choir, and Jimmy Fallon at the end having a great time. It reminded me of this. Fun, uptempo, and back to basics. That's the Coldplay I like to see when they do acoustic stuff for promo appearances. Β 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosesTheMarshmallow Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, CP-EST said: This acoustic performance on Jimmy FallonΒ had definitely nice vibes, but probably at this point fans are getting already a bit tired of the promotion of Higher Power. Waiting for something new!? About this performance. Really nice to see so many people on stage with them playing and singing. I didn't have time to look too much into it for now, I hope these guysΒ were actually playing for real and it was performed mostlyΒ live.Β These Chris' nice littleΒ harmonies on the last chorus are unfortunately coming from tape andΒ some parts of choir too probably, but overall at first watch this performance felt definitely veryΒ human and real compared to the ones with tons of fireworks. Agreed...not sure why they didn't have one of the Love Choir members sing those ooh's??? Nice energy indeed, Chris's acoustic sounds on point. Sad about the lack of bass, and Jonny's guitar is woefully quiet. But Will does some cool stuff on the piano like on the album-acoustic version!!Β ^^^Acoustic stuff during the MX era was the best. ? Β Edited June 17, 2021 by MosesTheMarshmallow 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskapist Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 That acoustic live version of Higher Power was surprisingly good, better than the acoustic studio version ! I loved Will's piano work and those little high notes at 3:10 ! It gives a more colorful atmosphere, close to MX acoustic songs.Β And man ... This acoustic versionΒ of Hurts like Heaven was flawless. One of their absolute best songs without a doubt. 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jluismujica Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I'm really happy. The 2 performances of Higher Power (Acoustic and Studio versions at Today Show) were really great, refreshing, and more importantly, authentic. I loved the part when Chris said: "Thanks for making us feel live again".Β Related to the acoustic version, that was totally brilliant. It remembers the HLH acoustic version in MX era. Almost everything was live there. The only downside was the always egocentric presence of Jimmy Fallon at the middle, which was fully unnecessary. It was emotive to feel a stripped-vibe from the band, after a while. Wonderful and elegant piano arrangement by Will, and even the percussion was live.Β About the Today Show performance of HP, that was what I really wanted to see from a real performance. Feel the interaction with the audience. Feel the chorus doing that great job, and creating a more authentic atmosphere about a live performance. Is like if the boys were read what we shared here or in Social Network! ?Β (which of course didn't happened) Anyhow, that was the Coldplay I was expecting to see. And that feels super good. A hug to everyone. Stay safe.Β Β 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IslandToDiscover Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 3 hours ago, jluismujica said: I'm really happy. The 2 performances of Higher Power (Acoustic and Studio versions at Today Show) were really great, refreshing, and more importantly, authentic. I loved the part when Chris said: "Thanks for making us feel live again".Β Related to the acoustic version, that was totally brilliant. It remembers the HLH acoustic version in MX era. Almost everything was live there. The only downside was the always egocentric presence of Jimmy Fallon at the middle, which was fully unnecessary. It was emotive to feel a stripped-vibe from the band, after a while. Wonderful and elegant piano arrangement by Will, and even the percussion was live.Β About the Today Show performance of HP, that was what I really wanted to see from a real performance. Feel the interaction with the audience. Feel the chorus doing that great job, and creating a more authentic atmosphere about a live performance. Is like if the boys were read what we shared here or in Social Network! ?Β (which of course didn't happened) Anyhow, that was the Coldplay I was expecting to see. And that feels super good. A hug to everyone. Stay safe.Β Β Where can we watch the Today Show performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaFeehily Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 The acoustic version is refreshing, especially the live performance of it. Seeing the choir on stage with the band is lovely. That being said, it's not a game changer for me. Acoustic or not, the song's just a bit flat. I'm also still getting used to how playback is the new live. IΒ really don't buy that the Today Show performance was live, even if they call it that. Their visuals are always very beautiful and finally seeing a real audience is super nice. With real live music it would be a thousand times better though.Β 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideon_Mx Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, IslandToDiscover said: Where can we watch the Today Show performance? Here are the full performances of Clocks and Higher Power at the TODAY Show Plaza in NYC! I'm glad there's a lot of Jonny in the Higher Power performance here! Β https://www.today.com/video/watch-coldplay-perform-clocks-live-on-the-today-plaza-114987589961 https://www.today.com/video/coldplay-performs-higher-power-live-on-today-114989125797 Edited June 18, 2021 by Gideon_Mx 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcebatofvalikinRRBZ8 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Not too happy about this βΉοΈ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamingForeverAUS Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 1 hour ago, IcebatofvalikinRRBZ8 said: Not too happy about this βΉοΈ what is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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