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Danny Williams hates Harper so much there's a little bit of me that wonders if he pulled this just to embarrass him. And that's politician single. As in not routine, merely one Danny Williams, wealthy rabble rouser with a notoriously big mouth. Seriously, you should look up the guy. He certainly keeps local politics interesting. (Though to be fair, Newfoundland's population is such that Toronto-style healthcare is a little out of reach even with equalization...which they don't have any more. Of course under the American system the whole island would probably be so astronomically unprofitable that no private hospital would dare set up shop and then Mr. Williams would HAVE to leave to get treatment...)

I wouldn't read too much into this. Look at the wording. Chris says sort of casually in an interview that they're hoping to finish the album in time to release it before Christmas. In other words that's their personal deadline, and nothing has been formally scheduled at EMI yet. Chris was saying Christmas 2009 over a year ago and that didn't work out for them. They always need more time than they say at first. It's just how they work. The quote gets spread around, and of course like a giant game of telephone, it gets warped. Headlines proclaiming the certainty of a December release date abound: "Chris Martin Confirms New Coldplay By Christmas" "Coldplay to release new album this year" (NME) "Coldplay Return Before Christmas" (Also in a case of definitely not paying attention - Chris said they AREN'T worried about a leak: "Coldplay worried about album leak" :dozey:) So the BBC, being what seems like the last occasionally responsible journalists on the planet do the responsible thing: The call EMI to see if the release date is definite. Of course it isn't officially on the books yet, because Chris himself only said that date was a hopeful one, so EMI says no, it isn't coming out then. The article quashed, the BBC relegates the EMI response to a tweet. It doesn't mean there's necessarily any friction between band and label, or even a misunderstanding. It may come out in December, and it might not. It depends on when the boys actually finish the album, and how much time EMI wants for marketing after that.

Heh... sometimes when I'm like that, I put on "For You" and try breathing with the music- deep and very, very slow. Out like a light in no time, and with beautiful dreams to boot. :nice:

Yep, the Americans Davis and White got the (very deserved) silver. I don't think I've ever seen such a huggy pair of rivals on a podium. :lol: (They train together)

2007 was the second year of Coldplaying's album countdown. Here's what we voted into the top 50: 1. Radiohead - In Rainbows 12165 2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 8880 3. Travis - The Boy With No Name 6465 4. Editors - An End Has A Start 5775 5. Interpol - Our Love To Admire 5410 6. Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare 5200 7. Bloc Party - A Weekend In the City 4920 8. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future 3565 9. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away 3485 10. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace 3385 11. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone 2980 12. The White Stripes - Icky Thump 2565 13. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup 2270 14. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob 2270 15. Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures 2120 16. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 2015 17. Feist - The Reminder 1935 18. Elliott Smith - New Moon 1915 19. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 1635 20. Athlete - Beyond the Neighbourhood 1550 21. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin 1460 22. Bjork - Volta 1430 23. The Good, The Bad, and The Queen 1385 24. Okkervil River - The Stage Names 1305 25. Justice - † 1280 26. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog 1275 27. KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic 1275 28. The Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet 1245 29. The National - Boxer 1225 30. Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight 1205 31. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times 1115 32. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers 1040 33. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 1040 34. Eluvium - Copia 1010 35. Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion 945 36. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War 940 37. Young Galaxy - Young Galaxy 940 38. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer 930 39. Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky 875 40. Wir Sind Helden - Soundso 875 41. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero 860 42. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga 855 43. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle 825 44. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters 815 45. José González - In Our Nature 805 46. Expatriate - In the Midst of This 775 47. James Blunt - All the Lost Souls 775 48. Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist 770 49. Maps - We Can Create 750 50. Air Traffic - Fractured Life 740

2006 being the first year of Coldplaying's annual countdown, here's what we originally voted for the top 50: 01 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations 13835 02 Snow Patrol - Eyes Open 12700 03 Thom Yorke - The Eraser 9790 04 Keane - Under the Iron Sea 8525 05 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 8475 06 The Killers - Sam's Town 8300 07 The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out 6260 08 Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium 6225 09 The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth 5980 10 Razorlight - Razorlight 4900 11 Damien Rice - 9 3620 12 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit 3150 13 Dirty Pretty Things - From Waterloo to Anywhere 2980 14 Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World 2880 15 Placebo - Meds 2595 16 The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers 2480 17 Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche 2205 18 David Gilmour - On An Island 2150 19 Guillemots - Through The Windowpane 2105 20 The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics 1930 21 Beck - The Information 1810 22 Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere 1750 23 The Zutons - Tired of Hangin' Around 1705 24 Kasabian - Empire 1610 25 John Mayer - Continuum 1600 26 The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1585 27 TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain 1525 28 Mando Diao - Ode to Ochrasy 1500 29 Bob Dylan - Modern Times 1475 30 Justin Timberlake- Future Sex/ Love Sounds 1465 31 Wolfmother - Wolfmother 1435 32 Hot Chip - The Warning 1245 33 Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah 1200 34 Jet - Shine On 1100 35 Nelly Furtado - Loose 1055 36 Beirut - Gulag Orkestar 1000 37 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade 925 38 The Fray - How To Save A Life 900 39 Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam 880 40 Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That 875 41 Joanna Newsom - Ys 875 42 Take That - Beautiful World 860 43 James Morrison - Undiscovered 850 44 Liars - Drum's Not Dead 850 45 Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope 835 46 Paolo Nutini - These Streets 795 47 The Veils- Nux Vomica 730 48 Scott Walker - The Drift 655 49 Graham Coxon - Love Travels at Illegal Speeds 650 50 The Fratellis - Costello Music 640

Duuuude :o :cool: THAT was beautiful. And golden. :dance:

:evil: Them's fightin words, buddy. :P

Butterfly effect. At the moment the bomb went off in the past, things started changing. Things more closely related to things first changed by the bomb would change the most. Other things would be nudged out of place gradually. But then people's personalities come into it too. Someone who was prone to make certain choices might make the same choice in different circumstances. For instance with Kate there's a rumor And then there's genetics. For instance Rose probably would have gotten cancer no matter what happened.

I'M the one who just said it's pretty much my favorite album now. :P

Welcome to our national inferiority complex. :P We get noticed so rarely that when we do criticism hurts a little bit extra. But yeah we outshot you guys 2 to 1. The problem is that 2 of the first 4 shots on our goal went in. :sick: Whether by luck or negligence is something that will be debated for a long time to come. I caught the end of that. It was a good game. If they hadn't wrecked the last stone, who knows what might have happened. But that's curling. For all the big talk before the game, they were really good about it. Appreciated.

:huh: Uh, it's an album and it's awesome. It's so awesome that the people who think it's awesome drive the people who don't quite think it's that awesome a little bit crazy. Oh, you mean in the rules? :laugh3: You can vote for In Rainbows. Should speak for itself, shouldn't it? We have an album of the year poll every year. When In Rainbows was released digitally, it won the poll by a landslide. Because it was released physically on Jan 1st of the next year, some people though it should be eligible for that year too. (Which was silly because it had already won.) The year after that, there were still people trying to vote for it. They weren't allowed. This is a decade poll. You can vote for it now. You can't vote for it in 2020. :cool:

Depends on your definition of fangirl... :uhoh: If you mean girl who goes around obsessively drooling over Guy or Jonas, then no, I'm not. :smug: If you mean girl who's a fan, who fangirls them over their music and coolness and such, then I think you might be out of luck. :\

But if they have one, it means someone's already made at least one and then it won't be entirely mine anymore even when I make it completely different. :disappointed: Do they have a name for it?

:shocked2::stunned::stunned::stunned:Holy Crap!!! That guy has a one of whatever it is I've been trying to make! :o Always been meaning to check them out...:thinking:

:blush: ...and yet I still managed to miss Broken Social Scene. D'oh. We call it the same here. :thinking: Heh...20. That's the frustrating thing with long lists. I look at Mando Diao's Bring 'Em In way down in 26th and think, wait a minute, that practically ought to be top 5! Few other albums have blown me away like it did. Yet there's 25 thoroughly deserving albums taking up place in front of it. :confused: :shrug: I sometimes think that if my 17-year-old self from 10 years ago was here, we would have so much to argue about and frankly I don't think I'd like her either. But knowing the thought process that brought me to where I am, I have the advantage: I know exactly what would convince her. Yet if I handed her the list and said here's 100 awesome things you'll love and did bring her around to my way of thinking, the whole last 10 years of discovery and realization and appreciation would be wiped out. My old self might suddenly like some great music, but she would never appreciate it like I do. I guess being a teenage loser is worth it in the end if it gives you so much to build on and learn from.

Ok, here's my final ordered list. 1. Arcade Fire - Funeral 2. Radiohead - Kid A 3. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 4. Radiohead - In Rainbows 5. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun 6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not 7. The Killers - Hot Fuss 8. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 9. The White Stripes - Elephant 10. Daft Punk - Discovery 11. Burial - Untrue 12. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver 13. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois 14. Coldplay - Parachutes 15. Radiohead - Amnesiac 16. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire 17. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain 18. Sigur Ros - Takk 19. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 20. Muse - Origin of Symmetry 21. Coldplay - Viva la Vida 22. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights 23. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future 24. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 25. Gorillaz - Demon Days 26. Mando Diao - Bring 'Em In 27. Editors - The Back Room 28. Doves - The Last Broadcast 29. Feist- The Reminder 30. Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites 31. MIA - Kala 32. Sons and Daughters - The Repulsion Box 33. Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! 34. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone 35. Thom Yorke - The Eraser 36. Snow Patrol - Final Straw 37. Travis - The Boy With No Name 38. Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid 39. Guillemots - Through The Window Pane 40. Sam Roberts - We Were Born in a Flame 41. Muse - Absolution 42. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away 43. Stars - Heart 44. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 45. Sigur Ros - () 46. Justice - † 47. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene 48. Blonde Redhead - 23 49. Santogold - Santogold 50. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 51. The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of the Understatement 52. Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs 53. Oasis- Don't Believe The Truth 54. Jack Johnson - On and On 55. Modeselektor - Hello Mom! 56. Maps - We Can Create 57. Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War 58. Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere 59. MGMT- Oracular Spectacular 60. The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious 61. Burial - Burial 62. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! 63. Muse- Black Holes and Revelations 64. TV on the Radio - Dear Science 65. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open 66. Imogen Heap - Ellipse 67. Wolfmother - Wolfmother 68. Kaiser Chiefs - Employment 69. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place 70. The Knife - Silent Shout 71. Howling Bells - Howling Bells 72. Beck - Modern Guilt 73. Metric - Fantasies 74. The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers 75. Oasis - Dig out Yor Soul 76. Editors- An End has a start 77. Travis - The Invisible Band 78. Sons and Daughters - This Gift 79. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell 80. Transatlanticism-Death Cab for Cutie 81. The Kooks- Inside In Inside Out 82. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams 83. Florence and the Machine - Lungs 84. Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky 85. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones 86. Sufjan Stevens - Michigan 87. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand 88. KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope 89. Lykke Li - Youth Novels 90. For Emma, forever ago - Bon Iver 91. Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare 92. Feist - Let It Die 93. Hot Hot Heat - Elevator 94. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 95. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better 96. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me 97. Lily Allen- Alright, Still 98. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen 99. Kasabian - Empire 100. Duffy - Rockferry If you had told me 10 years ago that at the end of the decade I would make a list of 100 albums from that decade alone that I liked, and that I would have been upset because of the large number of albums I had to leave off of it, I would have told you that there weren't that many great albums in the world. :stunned: I'm not even sure my younger self would have liked my current self. :confused: :cool:

Ok, a refresher then. -They started out insanely wound up (at least by local standards) -The US scored the first goal. That shut the crowd up. -Canada finally scores their first goal. The crowd goes nuts. Red is waving everywhere. -Something like 10 seconds later the US scores goal #2. That shuts them up in a hurry. -They tie it. The crowd is happy and noisy, but nervous. It's not like at the start. They're beginning to realize we might not win this one. -The US scores goal #3. It all went downhill from there. Congratz to the US on good crowd control, by the way. They really knew how to time things.

Man, this is tough... #40 deserves to be in #5 or 10 just as much as anything above it. :stunned: I'm putting things in order relatively, and then I look down at the finished section of list and wonder how this that and that other album all ended up so low. :confused:

Wait, are you seriously saying you expected them to make noise after a game they just lost? Or when the US scored? If they felt anything like me, that 3rd goal was like a punch in the gut and I've been a bit queasy ever since. It's called shock. The way it's been hyped we had the ultimate dream team and couldn't possibly even come close to losing anything (or else). Which is silly. But it will still shut a crowd up pretty quick when the tide turns.

*muffled voice hiding under a pillow* Yeah it was. Too bad no one told our goalie. :bomb:

When were we booing our own team? :thinking: Booing calls, booing the US, but not booing Canada that I remember...

#1 This is Canada. As our American cousins will tell you, that should speak for itself. #2 Football/Soccer fans are an entirely different breed. People don't usually sing and stuff in North American sports. #3 They were clearly showing a different set of fans than the CBC was. Everyone was going insane there from what I saw.

:facepalm: Shut up leave me alone. :disappointed:

No beyond the broad groups, the only order that shows is the moment things came to mind. Well, Funeral is my #1 because I don't think any other album came close to capturing the zeitgeist of the decade better. But very sorry, I may disappoint yet though I haven't decided- In Rainbows has been inching its way toward my personal favorite album in the universe for a while now... :uhoh2: