Famous Old Painter

*sigh* If only... :rolleyes:

Yup, synths are horrible in rock music which is why I love Coldplay. After all tracks like Square One White Shadows Talk Speed Of Sound A Message Low Clocks A Whisper Things I Dont Understand The World Turned Upside Down Animals Are totally synth free - right?

Still waiting for a nice version of A Spell to surface. I'll give it a few days unless anyone else has gotten the chance to rip?

Well I'm not a fan of A Spell A Rebel Yell either but some of my all time favourite Coldplay tracks are Square One, White Shadows and Clocks and those are drenched in synth. It'll all got to do with the song, not the instruments used!

Because they couldn't be bothered writing the long or death and all his friends part?

I guess so

low76 - the figures are against you now :laugh3:

I wonder how they're gonna get around this in the Saturday morning video chart countdown?

Just an update- looked through iTunes and I can now say Viva la Vida (song) has made the top 10 singles chart in EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD (bar New Zealand). And at #1 in a good number of countries as well. If Coldplay still needed to dominate the world, they've done it! :shocked2:

Viva la Vida (single) is now an Australian top 10 hit! That's pretty damn impressive considering the crap people buy over here nowadays. I'm thinking VLV will have to be a single now, it's done too well for it not to be.

Did you order the MP3 on Amazon or the CD? I'm betting that the acoustic LIJ and Lost? will be on the boards as soon as they're availble to download. But I'm gonna buy the gatefold CD anyway.

OK so we should be hearing some tracks pretty soon hopefully, but by this point we've gotten a lot of descriptions of tracks on the album. Minus Violet Hill and Viva la Vida as we've heard them, what songs are you most excited to hear? From day 1 I've had a good feeling about Cemeteries of London, it was my favourite title in the original list and by the sounds of it it'll be this albums "White Shadows", my favourite track on X&Y. Though Chinese Sleep Chant also sounds like it'll be great.

:rolleyes:

I hope you're right! I've got a strong feeling about Cemeteries of London - now watch it be the weakest song on the album :lol:

Other members could be playing different instruments than usual

Viva la Vida - No contest whatsoever

We'll you've only heard a sample and you can't judge by that. And dont forget this is Lost? - not Lost! Lost! will have organs and strings and all that. Lost? is merely an acoustic or in this case, piano version. And if I keep writing about Lost!/Lost? spell checker is gonna have a spasm

Well, the german Violet Hill single is being released tomorrow. We should have it by the weekend at least.

Dont worry, around tomorrow we should be able to hear the whole thing

What is thier definition of "big"? Because if Viva la Vida isn't "big" then I dont have a clue what is!

Thanks!

It vagely rings a bell... I think.

VLV instantly become my song of the year. Up until this point that is, the album is still yet to come out!

I think the album version wont fade out at the acapella bit at the end and we'll get to hear a few more voices.

Just another surprise from Coldplay HQ. Strange, we started the day expecting to hear A Spell A Rebel Yell, but got Viva la Vida instead! Doesnt seem like anyone's remembered that ASARY was supposed to be released today now!