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this just cracked me up

^and djokovic

I think a lot of the critics are being conservative this time around. They dont want a repeat of X&Y where at first listen it was incredible but after repeats one started to notice the overproduction and crap lyrics more and more.

I love the instrumentals the lyrics are alright. I will say even though there are parts where he could have chosen better words. But there is so much more feeling in chris' singing than in anything in X&Y. I'll give it an 8/10.

Its a Blue Merle song. lol

it could be a different version of the same song. like radiohead and morning bell.

prob A and B

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/extendedplay/2008/06/mtv-movie-award.html

wouldnt it be hilarious if this was another rick roll?

what about faraday's boat? it could be close by

^ here is a link to that http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1588438/story.jhtml

noooo! save sparks!!!

i think i might be more intrigued about magic balls than i am about the album. jk

oh nvm, i think this might have already been posted

NYT article havent read it yet. hopefully it will be better than the last article they did on coldplay lol. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/arts/music/01ligh.html?ref=music

^ wow, two horrible puns in a row. I'm impressed lol.

and what did sawyer whisper to kate before he jumped? i think it has somethign to do with his kid.

for some reason this whole thread reminds me of this http://youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc&feature=related

my religion says that if you try to convert other people to your religion (which ever that happens to be) then you will go to hell and burn for eternity!!!!! I'm sorry dude.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080530.coldplay31gta/BNStory/Entertainment/home i used the search but couldnt find anything. sorry if it has already been posted Blowing minds, not woofers A record-label man doubles as an usher, herding a small, lightly shuffling group of music journalists into a listening room. “Sit anywhere,” he says, motioning to nicely stuffed chairs. “You can sit in the back too,” he says, “because we blew out the rear speakers at the last session.” Coldplay, the band whose colourful hit rhymes with mellow, is now rupturing woofers? While I picture straws breaking camels' backs, the lights go down and the album – with the two-minded title Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – arrives with the rising swirl of Life in Technicolor, which mixes a strumming acoustic guitar and arpeggiated Baba O'Riley synthesizers. The effect is similar to the instrumental start to U2's Joshua Tree, co-produced by same Brian Eno who co-produced this album. Eno's influence on the new Coldplay is profound. And by “new Coldplay,” I mean “different Coldplay.” The elegant ballads, airy crooning and life-affirming choruses of the past are not abandoned as much underplayed. Viva La Vida (Long Live Life) is structured with meticulous concern, and is more adventurous and atmospheric than its high-selling predecessors Parachutes (8 million copies worldwide), A Rush of Blood to the Head (11 million) and 2005's X&Y (10 million). An epiphany came to singer Chris Martin after listening to a droning, off-kilter song by Blur, Sing ( To Me). “I remember hearing it and thinking ‘OK, we need to get better as a band,' ” Martin recently recalled. Group vocals were recorded in an ancient Barcelona monastery; the title track employs strings, kettle drums and church bells; Strawberry Swings bears the influence of Malian blues; a piano is actually jaunty on Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love. “When a band gets to its fourth album there's little surprise left in the singer's voice,” Martin told a television interviewer. “We wanted to make sure we didn't sound the same as we did four years ago.” Mission accomplished. This sonically grand fourth album makes the first three look like a light-rock trilogy in retrospect. Lyrically, there is a preoccupation with ghosts and existentialism. “Time is so short,” Martin ponders on the elaborate 42, “I'm sure there must be something more.” The album closes as it began. The Escapist, one of two “hidden” tracks, samples from the disc's rippling, synthesized introduction. “And in the end,” Martin sings, “we lie awake and we dream of making our escape.” An idea on life's meaning also applies to a band's run for higher artistic credibility. Coldplay doesn't wish to wreck speakers and cash registers, but to blow minds.

both?

sir, i've done my research and religion, any religion, and logic do not mix. I understand and respect people's rights to believe in higher powers but that is an Spiritual matter. I would just appreciate some respect of other religions if you are to discuss these topics.

I'll admit that in Wright's speeches he does link things that have nothing to do with race with accusations of racism, like the conspiracy regarding the AIDS virus. But the United States does have a very racists history. And there continues to be a large amount of social inequality in the US. Exactly which of Wright's comments did you find racists and offensive?

wow, i cant believe you are defending the intolerance of other religions in Hagee and Parsley's speeches. What makes Christianity more valid of a religion than islam? And please dont say ":because the bible says so" since that is a logically circular argument.

are you implying that Hagee and Parsley are not as bad as Wright?... "It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day... Their own rebellion had birthed the seed of antisemitism that would arise and bring destruction to them for centuries to come.... it rises from the judgment of God upon his rebellious chosen people." - Hagee Hagee also implied that Katrina was caused my homosexuals in New Orleans. or Parsley saying that the US should destroy Islam, or his comparison of Planned Parenthood to Nazis. Wright's comments sure are inflamatory, but comments by Hagee and Parsley are as bad if not worse than those by Wright.