Famous Old Painter

Great find! :D Perhaps the album version is Lost! whilst the scrapped version turned into Lost?

The promo CD and the commericial CD are different, the promo cd will have 1 track (Violet Hill) and should be internationally availible though only on eBay and record collecting sites like that. The other CD is German and is more or less a normal CD single with a preview of Lost as the b-side. It wouldn't be fair to exclude certain regions from gaining certain b-sides hence no new ones with this release. Though I'm confident the next single (42?) will have a proper international CD release with proper b-sides.

My mistake Here's another source

According to amazon.de there will be a continental europen single of Violet Hill on CD - http://www.amazon.de/Violet-Hill-Coldplay/dp/B0018DCGLY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1209537226&sr=8-1 It says it's gonna be released May 9 and the b-side is Lost (though that may not be true). Still it's interesting enough for speculation! And just so you know, it is very rare for Amazon to stock promo CDs so this might be the real deal! (just not released in the UK)

Dont worry I just found out - that's a link to the Uk and rest of the world store. There are seperate Australian and American Coldplay stores. And no, they dont have Viva La Vida yet, at least last time I checked.

I found that post rather confusing but I think I agree with you

I'm so sick of people rubbishing X&Y, it's like the perfect album!

Yeah it looks like a promo CD, usually only 1 track and given to radio stations. All singles released to radio have promo CDs. Sometimes it's just a white card or something but sometimes they do it like here and make it look extra nice. Also, I think there'll be a Dutch CD release of Violet Hill too. http://www.amazon.de/Violet-Hill-Coldplay/dp/B0018DCGLY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1209537226&sr=8-1 It says the b-side will be "Lost?" though Amazon is not the source of reliability. However it wont be a UK release, though you can import it from overseas. It's not uncommon for bands to release different singles in different regions.

But since we know about the NME 7" already, can we discuss the VLV LP? I've seen pre-order links for Gatefold CD and Standard CD but no LP as of yet.

What I thought of Coldplay albums Parachutes - meh AROBTTH - Great X&Y - Amazing! And hopefully judging by Violet Hill VLVODAAHF - Even better!

So he was telling the truth after all! No-one else seems to have spotted the Green Eyes connection yet?

My guess is it's currently processing hundreds of emails, mine took about 5 minutes to reach me.

At first I was unsure but after about 10,000 listens I FUCKING LOVE IT now! The bit that makes the song for me is how rediculously catchy the "if you love me wont you let me know" bit is. BRING ON THE ALBUM!!!

Yes! NOW! NOW! NOW!

The site is crashing - it's going really slowly... Thank Christ I'm listening to XFM right now!

Just 20 minutes now! In front of a computer, Adelaide, South Australia, listening to XFM!

I've never even heard of Coldplay!

Only an hour and a half!

I just made an observation. If you remove the black sleeve from the Violet Hill artwork then it wont look too different to the Viva la Vida art. I think that will be the theme, white words scribbled over a painting.

Hang on I just saw. It will ship to Afganistan, Azerbaijan and even Antarctica - but not Australia. What the hell...?

They're clearly trying to find loopholes around this "only 10 tracks" thing. I think it's a bit stupid myself, what if we love Chinese Sleep Chant and hate Yes? Still, the more songs we have, I'm not complaining. Apparently it's an "enoesque" thing to do, combining 2 tracks. But confirmation of the digipack! Yay! :dance:

:laugh3: I'm listening to NIN. I should put on some Coldplay now though, will help me get into the mood.

An ad? Did you hear a part of the song?

I believe so! :D Yeah, I like Youth Group as well

I agree. I pretty much get most of my music from overseas nowadays anyway. There and of course the Australian indie scene. Edit - whoa... so many posts so little time! What I'm saying seems irrelevant now!