Space Cadet

Nice picture. :nice: Yes, pity about Jonny, but it's a very dramatic shot. :smiley:

Hey look... it's a Marten...

Why so serious? :rolleyes:

Hooray for irony! :laugh3: I like this thread. Alas, I cannot join, as it would jeopardize my universal anti-committee-ness. Speaking of redundant (and random), has anyone else noticed that when spelled properly, "committee" has not one, not two, but three double letters in it? :mad:

For the record, I still say David Morrissey should be the next Doctor Who. :smug: Good ep. Much better for Christmas than last year. :nice: The Davids looked like they had fun together. Nice to see them not fighting with each other over a girl for a change... :wacko: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wnKu3WGeA]YouTube - Bits of Blackpool 1 - These Boots[/ame]

No, it's very much a Nova Scotia Power thing, in that it only exists in their heads, and seems to be a convenient excuse they use whenever something goes wrong and they don't know what. All the other provinces with salty ocean fog don't have problems. :dozey::dozey:

Merry Christmas! :D :dance:

I'd better get it said now in case the power goes out again. (NSP really needs to clean up it's act- Christmas Eve without power kinds sucks, and they're blaming it on salty fog. :dozey:) Anyway, Merry Christmas, everyone! :santa2: :D

It's probably the Thin White Duke remix (same guy who did that awesome remix of Talk). It hasn't been formally released and last I heard there weren't any plans to. It has been played on the radio, so you could always check multimedia if you want to hear it again... I really hope they put it up on itunes sometime, it's so awesome. :cool:

Goodness no. :vanish:

They were killed off completely in North America in the mid-90s, and no one even realized. Of course it's also what made illegal downloading worse to begin with- after that point pop records had increasing amounts of filler and we had to buy the whole thing to get that one song, which led to revolt. But hardly anyone even remembered there used to be a different option. At least if they do die, there's always online now. And I predict EPs will become much bigger as bands look for a new outlet for non-album songs.

^I've tried, dude. They trigger my ADD switch or something because I can't sit still through a whole song. Sorry. *shrugs* You can call me Mo if you want, it's a lot shorter to type. ;) Yes, Nik (Ondes Martenot) started the album countdown for 2006 and established the point system I use, then after he disappeared I took over last year. If you go to the voting thread you'll see links to all of the threads from past years. http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49796

I hate committees in general as a matter of principal. :tongue: As soon as you have a formal committee, you have a group of people talking about stuff and never quite doing it, and personalities get in the way, and other people feel left out or shut out... and on and on... It's like opening a big barn door for human nature to take over. Add to that a board where people are coming and going all the time and could leave any assigned project in the lurch at any moment... I've been around here for a few years, and all sorts of amazing things have been happening spontaneously on a regular basis, from the CCC to the Postcards, to various concert sign campaigns. People who want to pitch in find their niche and do it. I've also been around long enough to know that almost everyone, no matter how into it they are will eventually disappear for a period of time, if not leave completely. Hey, if you want to give your idea a go, that's great, and good on you for trying. I just ask that it not be so formal that everything has to go through you guys, and that people don't have to ask for permission to do something. Come next year should it still be feasible for me to do it, I'm just going to post the albums of the year thread, and tell people afterwards. And that's the way a lot of people around here work.

Thank-you again for that. No problem about the not working ones, if one was blocked they all were from that artist- it's the labels that do it, and just having the video picked out made a big difference for finding one that did work. My name is Mo (although some people around here still remember me as Erin... long story) I like Space Cadet though- it has a great double meaning for me in that I both have a very short attention span and love scifi. :nice: :laugh3: I love how everyone's tastes can be so different. I quite like the Kooks, but I can't stand Razorlight for reasons I have yet to figure out. :confused: And the main reason I like the Kooks is because of his voice, it's so unique and interesting- it's what kept me listening to them even though I didn't 'get' them at first like everyone else did. I'll agree though, Konk was an ok album with just a few great songs on it. It's not one I'd listen to all the way through very often if I owned it. But "Sway" is such an amazing song- one of my favorites of the year. It kills me every time I hear it. :dead:

Yay! Powers back on (for now) :dance: If I suddenly disappear again for a long stretch of time, it's because of the storm. Anyway, Short anwer? Yes. It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that it would win on this board, and there was talk of making it ineligible to begin with. Besides, the point of the list is really to illuminate other music and the runners up deserved the glory. On the other hand, many people wouldn't make a list that didn't have VLV on it- they would feel like they were lying. So it was agreed that if VLV won, it would get it's own special category to leave room in the top 5 for other deserving albums. :cool:

It's not... VLV is popular enough at the moment so lots of videos point to it, and once you find one Coldplay video you're home free- they all link together.

Mine's about the same if you substitute guitar/bass for german/italian and add make a short film and write a proper finished song. If I manage a quarter of it I'll be quite happy this year.

Here's the deal. Pretend your keyboard is broken. You can click your mouse, but cannot enter any text or keyboard functions. Using only related video links and your browser's back button if you think you've hit a complete dead end, go to the front page of youtube, http://www.youtube.com/ click on one of the "Videos being watched right now...", and navigate your way to a live version of "Lovers In Japan" to watch the butterflies falling. Then post that video along with how many steps it took to get there. On my first try it took me about 20 videos (forgot to count), through Scrubs episodes, to eventually Nelly Furtado and finally Viva la Vida. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYT3HL8jI6Q]YouTube - Coldplay in Barcelona 17/06/08 - Lovers In Japan[/ame] So can anyone do better than 20 videos? :dance:

Every time I see this thread I get that Franz Ferdinand song stuck in my head... "As I took step number four Into the close of your tenement You cast your darkened eyes so low Said we're cold as the step cement But I just don't know oh, what you meant what you meant what you meant..."

:smart: So in that case, it's a very refreshing half empty. :smiley: But seriously though, my first answer still stands. I'm a romantic realist- in the philisophical sense in this universe both the good and the bad, the heartbreakingly wonderful and the epically horrible coexist in equal measure and to focus on one is to ignore the other at your peril, says I. That's life, a big jumble of stuff.

Uh... that's not anything like the friday night project is it? :uhoh: Because I've seen that one before :worried2:

Yay, a random poll. :dance: Half of the glass's capacity is currently in use, and half is not. See? Simple. Actually, if you want to use relative terms like 'full' or 'empty', you need to know the glass's previous state. If it was full, and then half of the contents were removed, then it's half empty. If is was empty and contents were added to it, then it's half full. :wacko:

Dude. :cool: That is all.

^:nice: The best quote I've ever heard about Sigur Ros is that it's music that wriggles into your mind, curls up next to your subconscious, and purrs. You don't hear it so much as you feel it very strongly, and what you feel is actually sort of what you bring with you. It's kind of a mirror in a way. Or a soundtrack- you let it drift along in the background and then suddenly it changes and feels like going over the top of a hill in a car really fast so that your stomach bottoms out. I haven't heard the new album yet (bad Mo :tongue:) but they're one of my favorites. If you want to try to 'get' them, you should probably start with Agaetis Byrjun or Takk. (Saeglopur is the song that got me into them when I fell asleep to it and had the wackiest most beautiful heartbreaking dream ever) Try listening several times to a song or two letting it drift along rather than actively listening. Every note is dripping with meaning with them, but you have to kind of let it come to you. Oh, here's a good one. The first time I heard this version of this song, I wound up in a little ball on the floor sobbing, and to this day I still don't quite know why. It is so beautiful, but a bit strange- it will be perfectly happy and content one day, and drenched with sorrow the next. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hme5jf2Z_ow]YouTube - Sigur Rós - Von (Heima)[/ame]

^^Oh wow, congratz. Yeah, I don't go around there as often now that the only thing to supposedly happen in Radiohead land is Eraser remixes. :mad: Thank goodness for google news... And Ian who hasn't abandoned us. :nice: