Famous Old Painter

I just read that part you quoted. I meant to say I'm not saying it's not the same thing, I'm just saying that that the possibility shouldn't be totally ruled out. You seem to be forgetting Coldplay tend to do these things :laugh3:

Umm... yes, they would. The World Turned Upside Down - "X&Y, the land, sea, rivers, trees, the stars, the sky" Talk - "You can climb a ladder up to the sun" So why not Strawberry Swing - "Cold cold water, bring me round, now my feet wont touch the ground"

You obviously wern't around when we first heard the song title, this was AFTER the tracklisting was announced.

Bloc Party vocalist Kele Okereke was subjected to a racist attack at the weekend, by former Sex Pistols screamer John 'Johnny Rotten' Lydon and members of the one-time punk hero's entourage. Okereke was attacked at the Summercase Festival in Barcelona on Saturday night; he was left shaken and with bruising to his face, cuts on his face and body, and a burst lip. The attack, according to reports, was unprovoked. A witness commented that Lydon and company were at the festival "acting like a gang of racist thugs". Trouble flared when Okereke asked Lydon backstage at the festival if he'd ever consider reforming Public Image Ltd, as the Bloc Party singer is a big fan of the seminal post-punk outfit fronted by Lydon. The former I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here contestant grew aggressive, suggesting that Okereke had a "black attitude", and that was a problem in some way. The story goes that then Okereke was punched and kicked by Lydon's crew, albeit not Lydon himself, while Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs and Yannis Philippakis of Foals attempted to fend off the attackers. Security broke up the fight and Spanish police were duly informed. Okereke made a statement to UK police once home. Over 50 people witnessed the Barcelona attack - alongside members of Foals and Kaiser Chiefs were Mystery Jets, Neon Neon and Har Mar Superstar, all of whom saw what unfolded. Of the attack, Okereke has stated: "It's not an issue of the physical assault, even though it was an unprovoked attack. It is the fact that race was brought into the matter so readily. Someone as respected and as intelligent as Lydon should know better than to bring race into the equation, or socialise with and encourage those who hold such narrow-minded attitudes. I am disappointed that someone I held with such high regard turns out to be such a bigot."

Sorreeeeeeeeeee. :\ Adele - '19' British Sea Power - 'Do You Like Rock Music?' Burial - 'Untrue' Elbow - 'The Seldom Seen Kid' Estelle - 'Shine' The Last Shadow Puppets - 'The Age Of The Understatement' Laura Marling - 'Alas I Cannot Swim' Neon Neon - 'Stainless Style' Portico Quartet - 'Knee-Deep In The North Sea' Robert Plant And Alison Krauss – 'Raising Sand' Radiohead - 'In Rainbows' Rachel Unthank And The Winterset – 'The Bairns' http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/38334 "Some of this year's biggest selling British albums were notable by their absence, with no place for either Duffy or Coldplay on the shortlist, as the panel gave nods to the likes of Laura Marling, Neon Neon and British Sea Power. " No Coldplay (or any other great British albums released this year). Slim pickings it seems for me, I guess my vote would be for Radiohead then. Well, I know 1 award ceremony I wont bother with this year.

I entered a bunch of paradoxes then asked whether it's even sure of it's own existance.

It's very rare for a commercial CD single to only contain the radio edit and album version, isn't there a chart rule saying there must be at least 1 different track? Not that they need the VLV CD single to chart now anyway. And with the Lovers In Japan thing, isn't Lost! supposed to be a single? And Lost? was a b-side to Violet Hill so... The other thing with the LIJ acoustic is that it was iTunes pre-order only, so unless theres some other store which stocks it atm it'll be impossible for fans to get the track legitimately (EMI still hope people buy music nowadays). Though I would MUCH prefer a new track, LIJ acoustic wouldn't surprise me. But yeah, here's hoping Coldplay dish out a new or leftover track for us!

That'd just be the radio promo though, Amazon don't stock promos. I recon there's new music to be had in future, at least I hope there is! The pessimist in me however thinks it might be just Lovers In Japan (acoustic) or something, but that still wouldn't be bad.

LiT - The "wooooah" bit, the only singing CoL - The solo, if you can call it that. And the la la la laa laay bit Lost! - The end when the "wooooah" comes in with the guitar, and the solo organs at the end 42 - Part 2! All of it LiJ - It's hard to know RoL - The second instrumental bit Yes - When Chris's voice changes from low to high in the third verse CSC - When Chris makes those whale noises VLV - The buildup to the final chorus. VH - The "If you love me won't you let me know bit" followed by the duh, duh, duh, duhs SS - When Chris's voice and the organ come in DAAHF - The first verse with the piano Escapist - The violin bit

Whenever the la la la bit comes on I just have to sing it, wherever I am. People stare at me as if I'm strange.

Wow that is similar now you mention it! But they're hardly gonna get a stadium jumping or Paddy whathisname in the video to this song are they?

I remember in the NME article in the Bakery they noted one of the new songs was called "Death Will Never Conquer" but I just assumed they'd since changed it to Death and All His Friends. Maybe not... Is this a cover? Yes or no?

Serious? I really wanna hear Rainy Day now. The 1st part of DAAHF is amazing but the second part is really weak in my opinion.

+1 Really, if you look into it enough you'll find that EVERY SONG IN THE HISTORY OF EXISTANCE would sound very similar to another song before it. You cant deny that, it's just how art is made.

Front row - You were in a position where you just sold 10,000,000 records Chris (Typical Chris jokes) - No just 10! :laugh3: Front row (ignoring) - No, 10,000,000 copies of X&Y. :thinking: Tosser :angry:

Cemeteries of London - 20 (+1) Lost! - 7 (-1) 42 - 16 Lovers in Japan - 7 Yes - 14 Viva la Vida - 14 Strawberry Swing - 23 Death and All His Friends - 24

I remember hearing Chris say that 'Viva la Vida' (song) was one of the best things they've ever done. Perhaps it's that.

Funny thing is it's called Cemeteries of LONDON, but it doesn't really sound that british at all!

Violet Hill +1 Lost! -1 Cemeteries of London - 19 Lost! - 8 42 - 15 Lovers in Japan - 11 Yes - 19 Viva la Vida - 13 Violet Hill - 7 Strawberry Swing - 17 Death and All His Friends - 16

You should've made it multiple choice (vote for more than 1). I voted Cemeteries but it could've been Strawberry Swing or Violet Hill just as easy.

Lovers will be 3rd I'm betting. They'd have filmed the video early so they dont have to squeeze in time whilst touring etc... It's not uncommon. I'm scared too, I've seen a lot of Antons work and I dont like any of it, I think he's a bad director. But let's wait and see...

The album version has the choir at the end, and the other version was ripped off Grey Anatomy about a month ago.

Cemeteries Of London 19 Lost! 9 42 17 Lovers In Japan 9 Yes 16 Chinese Sleep Chant 3 Viva La Vida 12 Violet Hill 7 Strawberry Swing 17 Death And All His Friends 16 The Escapist 3 -The Escapist +Chinese Sleep Chant

That's exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking that the LIJ video should be kinda like The Killers Read My Mind vid or Gerling's Turning The Screws or something along those lines. Edit - The Lovers In Japan video is being directed by Mat Whitecross wasn't it? So this cant be the vid for LIJ.

Politik works best as on opener, by Square One is a better song overall.