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Nope, it's not Lovers in Japan, it's DAAHF. Which calls into question the credibility of the mongs that were insistent to the point of insult that they'd heard it and it was LIJ ^_^

The Q review also confirms that the song is Death And All His Friends.

I'm at the Sheffield gig, don't know what seats yet, but I'm so giddy! :D

(I voted We Never Change. Even though I love it. As in, adore it. ARGH!)

In a hazy, a stormy haze, I'll be round I'll be loving you always - always...

21 Politik 21 Amsterdam (+) 19 Clocks (-) 19 The Scientist 18 A Rush of Blood to the Head 11 In My Place

I really generally don't like their videos, I just can't explain why. I guess it would probably be Trouble, followed by The Scientist. I hope the Viva La Vida video is a classic.

Quite possibly.

The X&Y meaning, I reckon, is that the album tackles decoding the bigger mysteries, so they felt it fitting to write the title in a kind of code of its own. Don't know about AROBTTH though, except that the title of the album relates to impulse and the album art kind of illustrates that point nicely.

YOu are officially a legend XD Good stuff!

technicolour (dreamcoat) :P

I've hated to say it since I re-listened the album in its entirety, but I still think that X&Y was something Coldplay needed to get out of their system. Let's look at the facts. It sold. It had a massively appreciative audience. It has mostly epic songs. The problem I have with it is that, both musically and lyrically, it's too VAGUE. Vague, obscure, empty, call it what you want: that's how I classify the album. Lyrically, here's what I mean: "And the hardest part, was letting go, not taking part." There aren't the cutting lines anywhere in it, except for a few subtle gems. The endings of Square One and White Shadows, the chorus of Fix You and the end of Swallowed in the Sea are literally the only parts that make you sit up and think, "WOW". The rest is OK. Musically, it's really just formulaic. It's very simple, and again, nothing that makes you sit up in shock other than the bridge of Fix You, the ends of tracks 1 and 3, and some of the parts of Low. Apart from that, it just trots along. They needed to get it out of their system. It was, I think, what it took for them to realise that they were good enough to be making stuff that was more daring and had more substance to it. I'm glad it happened, even though I don't particularly think the album is a good one. For me, Square One, Fix You and Swallowed in the Sea are its only good tracks in any great scrutiny.

Just wondering if anybody had heard of these guys. They're from London, an up-and-coming band that I reckon will hit pretty hard in the next couple of years. They cite Coldplay and Feeder as influences, and you can definitely hear it in there. It's really good stuff. http://www.myspace.com/ivyrise

OK, I don't get this: I know we've had numerous debates about whether the Grey's Anatomy song was Lovers in Japan. I would NEVER class that song as 'stadium pop relief' in a million years, from what I've heard. If it's really LIJ, why does it not seem, in my head at least, to match ANY reviews posted by it so far? Not to mention that it doesn't contain the website artwork lyrics. I like the review though. Especially the last line :D

How can people actually rate X&Y over Parachutes with songs like Yellow, Trouble, We Never Change, Everything's Not Lost, Shiver, Don't Panic *lists rest of tracklisting* up against What If, Twisted Logic and The Hardest Part?!?! 1. AROBTTH 2. Parachutes 3. X&Y And I expect Viva La Vida to be somewhere over there somewhere -----------> totally incomparible.

This place is going to CHANGE when the album comes out. It's going to be more divided than I've ever seen it, certainly. 1. Lost? 2. Viva La Vida 3. Lovers in Japan 4. Violet Hill 5. A Spell A Rebel Yell 6. Life In Technicolour How people can rate Yes when you can hear it under an interview and under an interview alone is beyond me. You people are the people Chris is trying to get through to when he repeats endlessly that the album needs to be listened to from start to finish without breaks or replays.

Guy's just a bit of a tosser. I almost signed up and commented, but then realised just how much that would justify the author's existence. I'd prefer not to do that. Illogical. Why would you write an article about somebody you admit you will never like? What is the point? Where is anybody going to learn anything? Confused.

Fair enough, Zemy. I've heard JT, though, start-finish, and just wouldn't really think of comparing Coldplay to it in any shape or form if I were reviewing. I guess these things are subjective, though.

Shiver and Yellow always remind me of a certain girl. Amsterdam always sends me into a fit of wishing I were still in Spain with my family one year. Other bands' songs: Thunder by Boys Like Girls Adam's Song by Blink182

Price information, anybody?

The bold bit's the important bit. I think true rebellion doesn't try to be rebellious.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOM GOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOGMG *DIES* *GOES TO HEAVEN* *COLDPLAY ARE PLAYING* *FINDS PEOPLE TO CELEBRATE WITH*

The Hardest Part is quite possibly the worst thing Coldplay have ever done :( The video was also bad. I was so holding out for a storyline video for that song, it would have been such a good idea.

I don't remember said interview but I certainly wouldn't call anything on the new album that I've seen or heard pretentious. X&Y was pretentious and ridiculous, mostly overblown and a huge vacuum. It had too much of a swagger about it, addressing what it claimed to be the most core values in everybody's lives, X and Y, in an abstract, obscure and unspecific way. VLV, from everything that I have heard, has moved away from that in every sense possible. The songs so far, other than the title track, appear to me to be incredible in a very understated way. I don't think, from what we have heard, that Coldplay are in any way trying to 'fake' a rebellion. The new songs definitely show a departure from their old material - to argue against that is to show that you don't much follow the band - and at a time when EMI are potentially in some serious trouble there will be some guys in suits on the phone to agents and band members absolutely bricking themselves. They've certainly not played it safe. It's not so much a rebellion, and you're wrong to suggest so. The idea about this album is that they've abandoned all thought and care about what other people think of the music. They're not trying to produce something that demographic A will like and demographic B won't like, but just something different that they're satisfied with. Coldplay have always been, in a lot of little ways, very different to most of the mainstream pop music people listen to. That difference is about to become a little bit more obvious. Stop complaining.

All true. I would never claim to know enough about U2's back catalogue to be capable of structuring any sort of reasonable and fair critique. That's why I ask this question, really, because I want to know whether my gut instinct - that U2 are overrated and that all these articles listing U2 as a MAJOR and WORTHY influence are nonsensical - was anywhere close to popular opinion.