Space Cadet

So long, Briggins. You'll have a blast for sure. :cool: It'll be weird around here without you... always is. ...So who's going to properly indoctrinate the noobs who show up over the summer about Radiohead now? :P:laugh3:

You speak the truth. :disappointed: Katy Perry and Usher are stalking me, even though I don't even listen to radio anymore. I've known girls who have kissed other girls before. They don't go around writing songs about it. :freak: And the record companies wonders why no one pays attention to all their disposable music anymore. :thinking::(:angry:

I'm sure the Beatles have done it. From what I read the last time it happened to a brit 30-odd years ago it sounded like it was both the singles and album charts. Not sure how often it happens to American acts.

Aren't the dates that have been changed returnable for a refund? It's worth a try. Sorry you can't go, though. That's not fun.

What I said in the other poll. Except I forgot Newfie. They have the greatest accents. It sounds a little like americanized Irish, but totally different at the same time. According to some linguists it's rooted in what an Irish accent would have sounded like about 400 years ago- the island has been so isolated for so much of it's history it worked as a sort of time capsule.

The unsung hero here being Ken Nelson, the reason they pulled off three amazing albums. :P

:stunned: Oh my word... Therese! I was just reading an old thread a few minutes ago that you had posted in and wondered what had become of you. Nice to see you back. :nice: (I used to be Erin, if you remember me at all)

:laugh3: That's what I said last time round, but it was still the only place we could get good tickets (the Boston pre-sale having sold out much faster, apparently) so off to Hartford we went. One of the best weeks of my life. :D Wonder if they're playing the same venue?:thinking:

Coldplay for sure. I have a lot of respect for U2, and I don't think Coldplay is better than them, but I do connect to Coldplay in a way I've never been able to connect to U2. And I prefer Chris's voice.

^Yeah, I don't talk about it a lot, but I have mentioned it occasionally. Heh, it's been a long time since I've read that Juno thread. I forgot I even wrote this bit: :lol: And Chris seemed to remember us from outside, because he kept coming right back to where we were during their song and singing right at us: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27342&page=20

That sounds like quite the trip! :nice: Have a great summer.

I have. :D http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27342&page=14

Thanks for the article. I've really got to try marmite one of these days... :thinking: (Spell check doesn't even recognize it! :lol:)

:laugh3: Exactly. Fair enough. ;) Do you think I should put the part about being Erin back in my sig? :confused: (Even though my name is Mo...)

I adore Glasgow accents. They're my favorite. I may not always be able to pick up every word, but they sound so good I don't care. Lots of other favorites too- New Zeland, a lot of Northern English accents are so musical, Belfast has a special place in my heart for a couple of reasons, Oxford and Devon- those really gentle southern English accents are so nice on the ears (I specifically took the Math class in college I did because of the prof's I think it was Oxford accent- it was so much easier to pay attention.) It's all good. :cool:

Mr. Cadet?! :stunned:

Must have been a crazy photoshoot...

^It's been translated twice. I'm sure it didn't sound quite like it does now when he first said it.

:thinking: Didn't they move part of Stonehenge FROM Wales? ...or is that your point?

Good grief that always creeps me out.

Meaning you don't get punk. :P

There was a woman on here a couple of years ago who was wondering the same thing. I think she used one of the instrumental versions of one of the songs in her ceremony. They're around if you know where to look.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to agree with Eno on this one, Coldplay are a little obsessive about protooling their music to death, and good songs suffer in the final mix because of it. He's not criticizing the songs on X&Y, so much as he's criticizing the way the songs were put together. My first reaction when I heard it was that it was over produced, and that impression still stands. When you throw everything and the kitchen sink at a song that sounds best played on just an acoustic guitar, you end up with sonic goo. (There's plenty of people who like X&Y because of that, and I'm fine with that, but it's not how I like Coldplay to sound.) Eno's the one who finally talked them into recording their songs live which has led to some of the best sounds on the new album. (Though he still whined to David Byrne last winter that they spent too long messing with little layers this time around too. http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all) It used to take bands just a few months at most to record an album. The Beatles from what I understand never took more than about 12 hours to record a single song. Now bands seem to need a year AFTER all the songs are written just to twiddle with the bits no one will ever hear. From what I've read of interviews with the guy who produced Parachutes and AROBTTH, Ken Nelson, he had something like the same task- getting the guys to let go of their ideas of how it should be and let the music happen. He's the reason those albums are so stripped down compared to how they could have sounded. It's kind of a universal problem, from what I understand. Bands like the Arctic Monkeys get that raw energy in their music by recording the songs live and leaving them alone. Even Radiohead could have had that problem- from what I've read Nigel Godrich talked them into always recording analogue specifically so that they couldn't fiddle with the little details like they wanted to. Let's hear it for getting back to organic music. ^.^

EMI is re-releasing it's top albums on vinyl, and that includes all of Coldplay's albums. Don't know if that's what the site is advertising, though.

That's because they only export the cute little ones. But the big ones are extremely common if you pick them yourself, and they taste way sweeter even if they are butt ugly. :wacko: *drools*