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Your avatar reminds me! I drew Kjartan not long ago. Here's the link: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38915133/

Elephant Gun Georgeous song. This guy's voice makes me melt. :D

Here's the alternate recording of 'Scenic World'. Much better than the original in my opinion. :)

She should be! She's seeing him! :angry:

It was a personal favor. I don't think I'm supposed to be sharing it because if was on his own server and everything. I'll upload a few songs from the second disc for you though. They're excellent.

Oh right! I keep forgetting it's not actually a band. I do know about it only being one guy behind most of it though. I managed to download a 2 disc special edition of the album from Cirus, right here on the boards a few days ago. I am planning to buy the album though. You know, support the band and all. ;)

This wonderful band does not have a thread yet! If you have not heard them yet, check them out on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/beruit Discuss their music/shows/whatever here.

Elephant Gun - Beirut

^ I say 'brackets' alot. Sometimes I say 'the cheesy poofs album' referring to the fat parentheses on the cover that look like cheesy poofs to me. :laugh3: I used to call Ágætis Byjrun the 'alien baby album' until I learned how to pronounce it right (Ow-geye-tis Bur-un).

Danger Mouse's Grey Album is better. :) But I like this one. The instrumentation is fantastic and the bass isn't too heavy. And rap isn't done. Basically anything Danger Mouse does is gold.

About 25 million more or less.

Upper Pennisula, The - Sufjan Stevens

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The Cure Arcade Fire or Broken Social Scene?

The export costs ARE more you ass. They actually pay the farmers good money for their products so they have to up the price for profit. The reason why countries like the US and other big nations get it so good is because the government pays them to not plant a certain crop for a certain amount of time to keep prices competitive and then they dump the surplus on poor countries so they can sell if for dirt bottom prices. The surplus adds up, and pretty soon local farmers can't even sell their products in their own country. And it's not only in poor countries either. American farmers are being bought out by huge farming conglomerates and being run out so the US can dominate the world agicultural industry. Our government also LOVES to put massive tarriffs on Fair Trade products so people don't buy them because of the high price. Look it up and learn something before you start discussing something you don't know anything about (You might want to learn English a bit better as well). You can either save yourself 50 cents and screw over some poor coffee farmer in Argentina or just milk yourself dry and get the more expensive shit. That's a hell of an excuse. AND THE JET THING. This is my final beat to this effing dead horse. The only evidence you have that Chris flew back and forth to see his wife and kids during touring is some quote from an unreliable music rag printed months ago. Chris Martin does not own a jet. EMI leased them a jet for touring. That fact leads me to beleive that Chris didn't have the authority to saunter onto a plane that wasn't his and order them to wisk him to London. Not only would he not have the power and authority to do that, but there's the whole fact that... well... THE REST OF THE BAND NEEDS THAT PLANE TO GET TO THEIR NEXT GIG. Put it together people. They play a show almost every night. Do you think that he could do that? Or have the time? ESPECIALLY when he would probably have to cross many timezones to get to his destination? Let's not forget the fact that Gwyn and Apple both were on tour with him the MAJORITY of the time during the entire tour, so there would be no need to fly such a distance almost every night (There's another thing.... I think Chris would have enough of travel just to stay where ever he was at the time). And let's not forget! If they had bussed this tour, they would have to take over 5 buses across continents and I think that would be slightly less fule economic, don't you think? I'm sorry... but it just REALLY doesn't add up with me. ...Sorry... I love debating.

Yes. I admit that the only reason I know of FairTrade or Oxfam or other such organizations is because of Coldplay... but, you know, the last time I checked... that was a GOOD thing? I'm buying Fair Trade products and (red) products and spreading awareness about Darfur and biomass energy because of socially aware bands like Coldplay. Saying it should just be the music is bullshit. Music is life. Just like any form of art. You can't just filter the outside world out of music. That's crap. Utter crap. And it makes me cringe whenever I hear people talk like that. All of art is a refelction of the artist's feelings and thoughts about what is happening to them or around them. Sometimes it's a breakup, other times it's a societal thing. These bands are using their immense fame for very good causes. Chris has always said that he doesn't think that they can save the world, that their "just a bunch of guys" and that their songs are "just a bunch of songs" (Seriously, it's in their 2002 Koolhous interveiw), but they can either promote hairgel or something like that, or something like Fair Trade that doesn't get promoted. Can you imagine where Fair Trade would be right now if it weren't for Coldplay? They aalone have gotten millions of signatures for the petition. So many people know about it. In the time of their Twisted Logic tour, I started seeing more Fair Trade products in stores than ever. I'm not saying that the tour had EVERYTHING to do with the increase in Fair Trade products, but I do think it had a bit of an influence. And it's not like all I've ever done was sign the petition. I'm active in Oxfam with writing letters to my senators about funding for foriegn aid and fair trade talks. And yeah, it was all because of Coldplay. You can't just seperate things in life and put them neatly into their own little box. Without people like Coldplay, U2, Pearl Jam, and Radiohead, how would the issues that need to be addressed get addressed? No one (especially young people) listen to politicians or simply random people. They listen to their bands and actors. It's when they start getting EXTREMELY political (a la Greenday and Rage Against the Machine) that things tend to fall apart.

YAY! Thanks Nadia! :D :wacky: :kiss: ETA: MY GOD THAT MAN IS TOO FUCKING CUTE. HOW CAN YOU BE FUCKING CUTE? I ASK YOU!

Yeah... I find it funny because he's talking about kites being better and cocaine. And I'm thinkin' "Wow, Chris... I think there's some people out ther eright now that think you're full of shit on that matter." He's so funny though. :) I like the one where he's talking about being a foldable chair that converts into a hatchback so he can go picnicking and he's starting to say more before he just says, "I don't know what I'm talking about." Silly Chris.

Yay! Remember though... Never take anything Chris says too seriously, whether it's in a silly interview or a serious one. He tends to not hear what comes out of his mouth sometimes, and when he does, he often says "I don't know what I'm talking about". And he doesn't much of the time.

Aw... I used to have an animation in my sig when he does that. Now I can't find it. :(

What a waste of sperm. How could HE like COLDPLAY? HE DOESN'T DESERVE THEM. "even some people who aren't around anymore like Jimi Hendrix" <-- I like how he said that like it was supposed to impress people. A) That he likes Hendrix and B) Knows that he's not around anymore. I wonder if he even knows that he's dead, and just thinks he got deported or something. Idiot.

'Cocksuckers'. Everytime I hear that I piss myself laughing.

Is this petition EVERYWHERE though? Like the Official boards and LJ and lastfm and MySpace? do we have permission to post it in other such places? It would get LOADS more signatures if we do that.

Ehhh... I'm not wild about Embrace or Danny's voice. He sounds like a counrty-Western singer. I can appreciate their friendship and what they did for Coldplay's career, but I'm not very found of their music (Plus, their version of 'Gravity' was, in my opinion, terrible).