I ran away

Oh no, so expensive !!! :dizzy2: And no FOS...seems the closest places to the band are for the $$$$ people again. I thought in Europe the pricing was much better than in the US, last year it was ! And yes, where did you find those prices ? I didn't find any information on TM. Thanks @Nie for pointing me here

Oh cool, an official documentary that would be ! I'm sure it will be interesting !

Murder ?

....round ! :D

#SaveShiver ! It looks different from the others but I think it has beauty in a different way !

Spies ?

This is gonna be a very difficult round ! Don't Panic

Yes, you can use the associations in a healing way too if you are in distress or in a place you don't know and everything is unfamiliar, and then you can turn those albums on and they take your mind to a safe place, a kind of home away from home. I have one question though: You probably listen to AROBTTH and the other Oldplay albums a lot. I personally find that the more you listen to songs in different settings, the more they dissociate from this original "image" for me. In a way, they get emotionally more neutral, if you know what I mean. That's why the associations work best in songs I rarely listen to. This doesn't happen to you, as you listen to AROBTTH again and again in different places and circumstances, that the connection gets a little bit weaker ?

I have to admit I like one song by him...Marry You. It has such a wonderful melody and I love that bell sound ! People help the people - Birdy

Go to this thread: http://coldplaying.com/forum/index.php?threads/secret-santa-2016-a-sleigh-full-of-gifts.107873/

Hahaha, yes, especially the one checking out the member profile LOL You know what, I think this screenshot would be a fair entry for #GhostStoryDay !

So I just finished reading it all and while I mostly agree with many of your points as well, I picked out some for responding specifically (for discussion sakes obviously mostly stuff which i don't entirely agree with, so don't let this bias you - I liked your post ! :)) Oh yes, you are ! Appreciate the time you took. I have to be honest, I think most songs on MX sound "bombastic". By that I mean that they have a heavy, celebratory, larger-than-life sound. This sound started to shape itself during the Viva Era, where songs like VLV and LiTii or GOW already have it, but it is much much much bigger in the MX Era (maybe a bit less even in AHFOD, to be honest). Funnily enough, this sound was exactly what initially grabbed my attention. At a time when I had never heard the word Coldplay in my life (can you believe it ? But as I have explained before, I have been raised in a mostly classical music environment), and I was subjected to mainstream radio at my "workplace" around 2011/2012, the songs Paradise, VLV and Princess Of China stood out for me because of their melodies and their solemn, almost majestic sound. That's what I mean with bombast. And don't get me wrong, I liked it because it sounded so different from everything else at the time, and I still like it, but earlier Coldplay was so good at creating stadium hymns with subtlety, and I slightly prefer those. (In My Place, White Shadows and Speed Of Sound come to mind, for example). Sure. Quite honestly, I was listening in along with other Coldplayers at the world premiere of AOAL on BBC Radio. And while waiting for Chris to appear on radio I heard a lot of other songs by artists popular today, and as you know mainstream has gone rather dancepop/EDM in the last couple years (it was much better a few years ago, imho, around 2011). And as I listened to AOAL for the first time I genuinely thought that if I didn't know it was Chris's voice I would had thought it is by one of those dancepop artists and not by Coldplay. Cause it uses all the tricks everyone else uses - beat drops, vocal loops, disco beat, heavy bass, you name it... Will do ! I think Brian Eno is quite a big name, to be honest. As for Hopkins, you're right, I am not so sure. Exactly ! If AHFOD was the only album like that, I wouldn't mind. But to me, I can see a decline since MX (I know you like MX a lot, I know...I don't mean to make you unhappy there or to offend you, but to me personally it just doesn't hold up with the previous albums...). From MX it went on to decline to GS and then to AHFOD, that's how I view it. And that means out of seven albums they have made three that were not up to standard and the excuses are running out. Especially since we know they are talented and we expect the very best of them, not an average output. :) Well, to me there is plenty of highs also in Oldplay discography :) I think songs like Yellow, WS, COW, Talk, SOS, TIDU, LiTii, VLV, GOW are very uplifting too ! Many people think Oldplay = misery and melancholy and sadness. (I know you don't think that, I know that you know the entire discography well :)) But it is a common stereotype against Oldplay that it is all sadness, which is simply not true. (By the way, I know Newplay (minus GS, which obviously isn't, but I mean MX and AHFOD) is not all happiness either and this is good.) Hmm, I see what you mean. Fair point, but.. In my opinion you can also care about artistic quality just for yourself. Because you have an ambition inside you not to put out music that is not good or sounds like everybody else's music... Funny, I had exactly the opposite impression ! Have you seen some AHFOD shows on Youtube ? Chris has never been jumping around as much as in this tour. He is even running around during the verses of Fix You these days (which I find particularly annoying, he should be playing the piano instead of having this new string backing track from the Superbowl). He runs around rather pointlessly to a backing track in the Paradise remix as well, and acts like a holiday resort entertainer when he asks people to get low and jump in AOAL. And the way he "plunges" into that whirl to some remixed "world...world" vocals at the end of VLV...sorry, no offence to anyone here, but sometimes it is more of a circus show to me. All this activity has been shown time and time again to reduce his vocals' quality, but I think they care more about the showmanship rather than the purity of the music itself... Aw, that answer got longer than I intended to. Oops :D

Oh wow, I appreciate that you took the time to give such a detailed response, and on mobile, so that I wanted to say that I already appreciate your post before I read it ! I will read it now...see you in about a month ;)

Maybe we should tweet about a certain project again, lol

Cool ! OK, now where is a riddle idea when you need one ? *has to think of a new one, will be back soon*

Interesting ! You know what's interesting as well ? That Waiting In Line is not Shiver...it must be an early title for the song Parachutes then. Also, no Yellow yet !

It's interesting how certain songs can get the "flavour" of whatever was happening in your life at the time that you were first exposed to them. Just listened to Birds, Fun, Army of One and XMTS and they all take me back to the winter of 2015 at the American East Coast, to lonely days when it went dark much too early and that were much colder than anything I had experienced before, and a bleak winter that seemed to stretch out forever. :( Everytime I hear these songs it is as if I am walking again in the biting cold and in an icy and terribly windy street that is dark even though it is only late afternoon. I have certain "images" or moments associated with each song, and since I only listen to them rarely they "conserve" their associations quite well. (I also know a cure, by the way. If you listen to a song often enough, the association will eventually fade (not disappear, but get weaker). Successfully did that with Paradise which I also attach to a certain time in my life, because I didn't want to think about it every time I hear the song...)

Same here, I requested AROBTTH and I Ran Away...to no avail of course. @The Adversary - I don't know how closely you have followed the AHFOD tour, but In My Place is no longer a given, although it is chosen quite frequently as a request or C-Stage song. Also, unfortunately Fix You sees Chris mostly walking around now instead of actually playing something on the piano,and has a changed beginning. If they decide to mix up the AHFOD song choice at least (I don't dare to ask for more old songs, although they should bring back Politik at least), I would love to hear Fun. And hope they stop the Clockssync thing...

In what way ?

You know, since you weren't active around the time I came to this forum my brain always mistakenly thinks you are a newbie. Then I see that you have more than 25K posts and a join date during the X&Y Era and I think, oops, NOPE ! :D

Good luck you all ! :thumbsup: Not gonna participate here this time (don't need any more Coldplay luck this year) but looking forward to the entries : ) Ghost Story is such a great song !

I'm in ! :D Was great fun last year and I got to know @iamsue that way ! By the way, the links before last year aren't working...

Clocks ?

Prospekt's March ?

And I will try to fix you