Famous Old Painter

This thread :facepalm: I just want to know what the album sounds like.

1. Charlie Brown 2. Hurts Like Heaven 3. Moving To Mars 4. Us Against The World 5. Major Minus 6. Paradise 7. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

No Distance Left To Run is one of the all time greatest breakup songs. Up In Flames is bland boyband style pop fodder. Not a great deal of similarity there.

I hate them both.

3. It's got to be my least favourite MX song so far. Perhaps the studio version will be an improvement but listening to that song at the moment is like fingernails down a blackboard. I can't stand it.

I've been trying to get into it but I find myself enjoying it less every time I give it a listen. :\ Of the 8 songs we've heard I've enjoyed 4 so MX could swing either way at this point.

I don't want to be the one to break the trend here but I'm not enjoying this track at all. For me it fits into the same category as Paradise, a boyband sounding song that would better suit an annoying female vocal. I can only imagine the album version having the life sucked out of it by overproduction. It's not an awful song but it hardly restores my faith in Mylo Xyloto. I have to say I prefer Paradise, honestly. :sick: Still, I'll give it a few more listens and reserve judgement for the final mix of the song.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLwFvcA8eS4&feature=player_embedded]Up In Flames - Coldplay ACL Live 9/15/11 - World Debut - YouTube[/ame] A lot of people seem to like it, still too generic pop for my liking.

The way I see it there are two ways they can go. 1. They continue to dumb down their music even further, making mainstream pop music in an attempt to win over the masses and stay relevant. Much like Weezer have done, for instance. I'd be surprised if it works. 2. They realize that going in a more mainstream direction isn't working for them and pull a Blur, following up their most commercial album with something much braver, darker and less radio friendly. This is what I'm hoping for, anyway.

WHOA WHOA WHOA lets not go nuts here! Sure Paradise is bad but I think there's such a thing as going too over the top. Paradise isn't that bad, really. This

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A stupid title.

For some reason I think this is going to turn out like Muse's NSC video. Except without the awful movie clips (hopefully)

Can't enjoy it anymore

I don't know or care what you just said but your signature is fucking awesome! Completely on the money. :laugh3:

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The reactions to ETIAW and Paradise are definitely the worst I've ever seen on here, and I've been around for quite a while (joined in 2005). From what I could remember, the only thing that caused any real upset from the Viva era was learning what the title was. A lot of people were upset about the title. Apart from that, there was generally a lot of excitement. I remember quite a few people being uncertain about Violet Hill at first but it certainly wasn't anywhere near the levels of hate we're experiencing now. As for Viva la Vida (the song), I remember there being quite a bit of praise around it. Particularly when it started climbing the charts so high, that was an exciting day in Coldplaying history.

That's not the worst of it http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88291

I love your username :laugh3:

My prediction is PoC is next, followed by Charlie Brown. Though who knows what all the other songs on the album sound like. There's probably another generic radio hit on there somewhere.

Chris Martin

I almost wish they had scrapped it now.

When I first saw this thread I thought the OP was being completely over-dramatic. But having heard Paradise and the news Rihanna is on PoC, I'm willing to re-evaluate my opinion on this. It's all rather depressing.

I'm worried it'll be PoC. That'll have to get a single release eventually.

I hope it is really long, because 3 of the songs suck so far and I want to just take those off the version I listen to. And hopefully it'll still feel the length of a proper album.