tampacoldplayer

ranks below X and Y IMO

first impression: 6 out of 10. album stalls in the second half other than DLIBYH

Best: Charlie Brown Worst POC and Major Minus...barf still don't know why moving to mars wasn't included. It is better than any song on the album

dislike: princess of china and us against the world....

it has an interesting feel. I am on my second time through and still haven't really figured it out yet. one thing is you can't listen to it on shuffle

read this review from NME...pretty much sums up my feelings There’s the dropped drum beat, the vaguely dubstep-like bassline and the "Para-para-paradise" hook of the chorus. This is all played over a New Age-ish sounding backing; strings, the familiar simple piano riff and, eventually, a choir who intone a "Woah-oh-oh-oh" line. It’s hard to say what the band is aiming for with the song. To replicate he epic football stadium “moment” of ‘Yellow’? The energy of a ‘Viva La Vida’? If so it doesn’t quite work on either count. ‘Paradise’ feels both slightly listless and muddled. The “hip” new sonic treatments sound out of date (there's a mid-noughties vibe about the whole thing) and the chorus comes off as a weak facsimile of what Coldplay have done effortlessly in the past; specifically that people-uniting aspect. Whilst Coldplay’s pop makeover may be - for them at least- quite revelatory, it feels like Chris Martin’s populist songwriting tendencies have been clipped. Ultimately it feels like a few steps back rather than forward.

very well said. VLV was progression..this is not..this feels like a rushed album thrown together to serve the label and masses..i don't mind hearing coldplay in the mainstream..heck viva la vida was one of the biggest songs they have had...but i liked the sound and direction of it...this new stuff...not so much

they didn't sell out to the mainstream on Vida..and they progressed...didn't remain stagnant....i just see this effort as a step back from that

that makes two of us

i am an older fan..but loved Viva La Vida more than my daughter...who was what you call a new coldplay fan...has nothing to do with old and new fans...has everything to do with quality...i just don't hear it so far on this album

that is because they both went in directions that they hadn't been and that nobody else was going...this album is a typical top 40 pop money maker for the label. it is regression for this band

neither...both suck

you are mainstream when you bring in rhianna to sing a hook in a song

Death and All his Friends is one of the strongest songs they have ever done...right up there with anything on AROBTTH....viva the album was surprisingly good...i had high hopes for this album and never expected them to go so pop

i thought brian eno was pushing these guys to be better...this is a big step back for this bad...much like x and y...viva la vida was a nice comeback...but so far this album is shaping up to be top 40...bass heavy hip hop dance club BS...come on..doing a song with rhianna? what a joke. the take away martin's vocals in this paradise and just replace them with keysha or timbaland...you would NEVER know it was a coldplay song. unoriginal, boring, commercial...