Famous Old Painter

Expanding on this, I've always felt like the first four Coldplay albums work because the songs sound like they could've been written at any point during the last 40 years. MX and GS on the other hand sound very of-the-moment, it's hard to imagine them being written or recorded at any other point in history. That's fine in the short term but it also means they won't age well. For me it still feels like Coldplay released Viva yesterday, yet MX feels like forever ago now. I don't buy into the whole Chris being happy = bad music thing either. Viva was ludicrously happy at points and most love that, whilst GS is sad and downbeat for the most part and people here don't seem to get into it at all. I actually think one of the reasons why MX failed was because it seemed like Chris was pretending to be happy through his songs, which could be why a lot of it feels so hollow. Not so much the emotion itself, but the sincerity of it. He seems genuinely happy now though, which gives me some hope for AHFOD.

We don't know for sure yet that they didn't!

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At the moment, AHFOD is looking like an utter circus with too many wtf surprise guests to keep track of. So I've started this thread for that purpose. So far we've got AVICII Coleman Barks Khatia Buniatishvili Blue Ivy Carter Merry Clayton Brian Eno Noel Gallagher Beyonce Knowles Tove Lo Moses & Apple Martin Barack Obama Gwentyth Paltrow Stargate Annabelle Wallis I'll keep this thread updated when/if more are revealed.

Karma Police vs No Surprises

Yeah, Ghost Stories leaked just a few days before retail. It leaked because someone grabbed a physical copy from a shop which had started stocking it. Honestly, I'm expecting the same this time around. About a decade ago albums would leak months in advance, because album leaks were relatively new phenomenon and labels weren't sure how to combat it. Nowadays labels, particularly big ones like Warner, are very strict and careful to make sure albums don't leak. They probably have entire divisions devoted to it. So I wouldn't get your hopes up this time around, guys.

Something that never even occured to me until you guys brought it up; I remember back in the AROBTTH days the band were really giving it their all to raise awareness for Make Trade Fair. It got its own page in the linear notes, there was a large chunk of the Live 2003 doco devoted to it, Chris texta'd the logo onto his hand and X&Y even had the logo on the cover! Since then they seem to have really eased up on the whole social awareness thing. They still do it, but to a much less in-your-face extent than they used to. To be honest I don't really mind that, but it's a defining difference between Oldplay and Newplay.

Why is Christmas Lights considered the last Oldplay song? When it was released there was an entire separate thread in the music section about the song for those who didn't approve of where Coldplay was going.

I predict in 10 years time, Chris will be 48

That video :laugh3:

I think the assumption of Oldplayers disliking the song because it's happy doesn't stack up. VLV is an incredibly happy album and Ghost Stories is a very sad one, yet Oldplayers dislike GS and love VLV. Strawberry Swing is my favourite song by this band, and that song is as positive and upbeat as anything.

I have faith Coldplay could turn it around again one day, even if they never match the quality of their 2000s output. Weezer recently put out a decent album with Everything Will Be Alright In The End so you never know. The 2010s will probably become known for Coldplay what the 1980s are for David Bowie. Something to look back and cringe upon.

I prefer ETIAW. Might prefer ASFOS too. Eep :worried:

I second most of what's been said in this thread. The song itself is OK, not the worst thing ever and hardly the worst song this band have put out, but Coldplay are capable of so much better than this. I only hope that Coldplay can get this dance obsession out of their system with AHFOD and refresh with something interesting on LP8.

The tracklist is different on the official Coldplay store ??? http://coldplay.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Store.woa/wa/product?sourceCode=COLWEBUKWUSD&sku=COLBN017

Go to iTunes. Artwork and tracklist confirmed

Everything Everything! I approve. Don't approve of the talking over the outro though :(

I'm loving this thread. I think of Prospekt's March as the last Oldplay release. It's a neat EP and I'm aware it's mostly leftovers from the Viva sessions, but in retrospect it felt like the beginning of the end. I remember hearing Glass of Water for the first time and thinking it was a little too poppy and upbeat in an over-the-top bombastic way for my tastes. Still a good song, but slightly concerning. Then of course there was Lost+ with Jay Z, need I say more? I kind of hoped these would be one offs as it was something of a b-sides collection but lo and behold, three years later MX went further in that direction. For what it's worth I thought that GS was a huge improvement, and I'm approaching AHFOD with an open mind. MX was a terrible album though, and there's no way around that for me. Such an enormous downwards leap from a band with so much promise.

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I'm not sure it's worth ever going to a concert again after seeing Sigur Ros. They reached such a level of perfection that night that it'd be foolish to think any other band could possibly come close.

I'm in Adelaide and I second this

Radiohead never released Mylo Xyloto Radiohead wins

:nod: I logged in to post something along the lines of this. Coldplay might not give a shit about the charts, but EMI almost certainly do. There is no way they're going to squander one of their biggest acts, especially seeing as this might be their last album for a while.

I would be amazed if the album was released before 2016. But we should at least get a single or two before then.