Famous Old Painter

My first thought after seeing this "Hm... the Charlie Brown vid wasn't really that bad, was it?"

It's unexpected news, but I don't doubt they'll make a smashing trio.

I needed a Panadol after clicking those links

I wouldn't hold your breath for a physical retail release or a b-side. Physical singles and b-sides are outdated concepts now, unfortunately. That's just the way it works nowadays. ETIAW was released as an EP, but I can't see that happening with PoC. Why would they give the fourth single a proper release and not the second or third singles? It wouldn't make sense.

I kinda felt like they went in a really interesting direction with Under The Iron Sea and Perfect Symmetry. The new single kind of undoes all that and reverts back to same old, same old, except less interesting. I'll give the new album a listen but I don't hold out much hope

Agreed

If I recall correctly Clocks wasn't that successful at the time of it's release, at least not in Australia anyway. But as we all should know by now, that meant nothing in the long run.

:nod: Pretty much this. I'm just thankful the live version exists, so at least there's ONE great video for this song. The Hardest Part? Really? I'm not a fan of the new Charlie Brown but I still haven't found enough Brain Bleach to erase The Hardest Part vid from my memory.

It's... ok. The live version is much better. It's probably Mat's worst video for a Coldplay song though.

:nod: High Violet may goddamn well be my favourite album of all time. And I listen to a lot of music.

I combined all the mini-tracks with their parent tracks the second I got the album so I don't even think of AHT as it's own song anymore, it's just the intro to DLIBYH. MTM works perfectly between Charlie Brown and MMIX I think. Beautiful transitions, much smoother than sticking UATW in there. Although I like that song too, and I agree if any song should've been dropped it's definitely PoC.

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I've got a rather unpopular opinion as I think X&Y is by far their best. I'm not a huge Parachutes fan either but I still think MX is their worst to date.

Charlie Brown was the first thought that immediately popped into my head.

Knowing Pitchfork, AROBTTH will probably get a 10.0 once they bring out the Anniversary Edition in 2017.

The various industry pressures have finally gotten to them. :\

Colbert even asked Chris if he was high on The Colbert Report. He didn't deny that he was. Gotta say Chris has been acting a little more muted as of late. Whether or not that has anything to do with drugs, I don't know.

That's fair point. But it takes a strong man to get through all that. At the moment I'm putting myself in Chris Martin's shoes. This would mark the second major lawsuit in as little as three years (on top of several other plagiarism allegations). Put that on top of the not-so-positive reception of Mylo Xyloto and all the bullshit that's been going on behind the scenes at EMI... walking away from the whole thing could end up being quite tempting. They gone through things like this before and survived and hopefully if they're really passionate, they'll do so again. One does wonder though, if there'll ever be a straw that'll break the camel's back.

Amen. Seriously though, this could be trouble. I still don't think Satch had a fair case and he made too much of the whole thing, but the PoC thing is fairly blatant - even to my Coldplay fanboy ears. The Coldplay boys had best have loads of fun and party as hard as they can now, because shit's about to hit the fan really soon. It could potentially be the death of them.

Ditto :nod:

:nod: I'll just stick with a top 10 this year. I've left out the more obscure albums (my actual favourites) which were never going to chart high anyway. This list is subject to change, of course. 1. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs 2. Kaiser Chiefs - The Future Is Medieval 3. Wild Beasts - Smother 4. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now 5. The Antlers - Burst Apart 6. Snowman - Absence 7. The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still 8. Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! 9. dEUS - Keep You Close 10. Wilco - The Whole Love

Like the vid for ETIAW, the Paradise vid made the song almost bearable. I didn't like the end but I loved the rest of it. And for those who don't like it, bear this in mind. It could've been a girly vid directed by Hype Williams. I'll take a silly elephant video over that any day. I'm not gonna lie, there's a part of me that hopes they will ditch EMI after this release, go independent, and record a much darker, less gimmicky and less radio friendly album. However, I doubt this'll happen. There's a part of me which feels Coldplay have hit the point of no return now.

No there won't be. Chris confirmed in an interview they scrapped the first video because it was too depressing.

I edited the tracks before I even listened to the album for the first time and re-tagged it all to be an 11 track album. It works for me. I can't imagine listening to HLH or DLIBYH without their intros. I do wonder though, what the hell is wrong with doing an album entirely made up of normal length songs? VLV had all that double-track business and now MX has a bunch of intros with their own track numbers, when they would've made fine 13 and 11 track albums respectively.

I would be surprised if Charlie Brown and PoC weren't singles. If there are any after that, I don't know what they would be.