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Fix You ETIAW Death And All His Friends Strawberry Swing Speed of Sound

Looking forward to this!

Right on point.

I think this is one of the best reviews I have read so far. Brief and right on point. After many many many listens - I am starting to think that Mylo Xyloto is not the best work by the boys.

Very interesting review by PlatformOnline Album: Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay (Track by Track) Posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 in Music, Music Review. Following an ethereal performance at Glastonbury earlier this year and a recent release of tour dates for the final few months of 2011, the next stop on the Coldplay comeback train is Mylo Xyloto; the long awaited fifth album comprised of all things atmospheric (you know, what you’d expect from Coldplay after 15 years of impelling tracks). Expressing the concept of love, Mylo Xyloto heads in a different direction to their previous releases. An inclusion of Techno and synth sends the album into a whirlwind of chart-pop crossover. Mylo Xyloto – The first and titular track on the record, Mylo Xyloto lulls you into the atmospheric dystopia that the record conveys. The tender chimes and subtle acoustics build delicate momentum before you’re thrown into an album of chart-pop crossover. Hurts Like Heaven – Despite the occasional falsetto, the track leaves you chasing Chris Martin’s vocals. Toe tapping guitar laced with atmospheric synth gives evidence to the 4-piece’s reach for a new direction. Paradise – Although the track features a quaint orchestral intro and filmic riffs, the creativity of the lyrics left me apprehensive. As Chris Martin coo’s “para, para, paradise” I am left questioning the lack of lyrical innovation. Charlie Brown – Preserving the atmospheric spark that Coldplay are notorious for, Charlie Brown leaves me reminiscent of tracks such as ‘Shiver’ and ‘Lovers in Japan’. The sheer simplicity of the melody amplifies their ability to work without techno gimmicks. Leaving you basking in the purity of the piano keys, Charlie Brown stands out as a true Coldplay track. Us Against the World – Providing what sounds like an intro from a Manic’s track, the song heavily relies on soft acoustics and Martin’s voice. As he breathe’s “it’s us against the world” upon the delicate strings, the song strays off on a different path to those that have gone before on the record. M.M.I.X. – Taking a break from the record, M.M.I.X is 49 seconds of atmospheric build up featuring what sounds like the undertones of panpipes. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall – “I turn the music up, I’ve got my records on”. Not your typical Coldplay lyrics. Lyrics that leave me awaiting the drop of a poorly constructed rap from Example. The song is said to relate to a new generation’s take on rock n’ roll. Funny, since the majority of our generation’s take on music depends on who David Guetta will collaborate with next. Major Minus – A Collision of edgy acoustics and raw electric riffs, Major Minus brings yet another attribute to Mylo Xyloto. Despite the lyrics being repetitive and less demiurgic than I had hoped, the guitar solo salvages any dignity that was lost during the previous track. U.F.O. – For the second time, we witness a truely stripped-down acoustic track. Providing an ambient backdrop behind the strings, the simplicity of the track acts as a reminder of ‘see you soon’. Princess of China – A questionable concoction of techno, “la la la’s” and a Rihanna collaboration, Princess of China doesn’t shy away from appealing to the wider demographic. The inclusion of one of the biggest female artists in pop may sell records, but does nothing for the album. Up in Flames – 11 tracks in and it’s the first time we’ve heard Mr. Martin’s voice go hand in hand with a piano alone. Despite providing a factor that fans relish within during tracks such as ‘Fix You’, Up in Flames fails to captivate in the same fashion. A Hopeful Transmission – 33 seconds of orchestral beats subtly implying a demure take on the album. A light introduction to the following track. Don’t Let it Break Your Heart – Being one of the few anthems featured on the album, the penultimate track has you running alongside the melody. Although slightly forgettable, it distils a fraction of classic Coldplay. Up With the Birds – Featuring a Leonard Cohen sample, the final track has you hanging alongside Chris’ voice off the piano keys. Despite a session of upbeat acoustics and a few final notes of ambience, I am left questioning Mylo Xyloto’s preservation of what stands to be signature Coldplay. Despite the reach for new Heights, the albums consistency fails in comparison to the likes of ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’. Mylo Xyloto features a few moments of Classic Coldplay, however focuses too heavily on appealing to the current demographic rather than their fans, who indulge in the epic instrumentals that they are renowned for. 5/10 Platform Rating (http://platform-online.net/2011/11/album-mylo-xyloto-by-coldplay-track-by-track/)

Interestingly, CB is currently my least fav song of MX. Probably I heard it too much before the studio version was released.

anybody here can PM a link with the 320 kbps version of the bonus tracks? Thanks!!!!

not gonna be able to watch it, my internet is toooo slow today! enjoy! and provide a setlist at the end!

the stream is very slow and keeps stalling... can someone provide me with a solution?

anyone can send me a PM with a link of the bonus tracks in 320 kbps?

awesome. then there is no problem with my version.

I just want to know if there is a mistake in my iTunes. Which is the time of Mylo Xyloto (song) in your iTunes?

COLDPLAY. the best band in the world. period.

How much time does you version of Mylo Xyloto (the song) lasts??? Mine lasts 43 seconds although according to Amazon, it has 42 seconds... HELP PLEASE! (I have the version that was sent to me since I bought the Pop-Up version)

have fun, all the best and don't forget to visit The Bakery and The Beehive!

Did the 320 kbps version leaked yet?

GREAT GREAT REVIEW FROM ALL THE LUCKY GIRLS. THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME AND POSTING THEM SO WE CAN RELIVE THAT MOMENT. (CAPS ON PURPOSE)

guys, I guess that if he plays it, it will be available on Radio 1's webpage for some time. So if you have to sleep, go to sleep.

hold on guys, that recording is worth gold!!!

I know I don’t like Coldplay, but I can’t seem to remember why. When “Yellow”, the band’s first big hit, came out in 2000, it quickly became my favorite song to ridicule. It was too sweet, too comforting. It felt like the soundtrack to a car commercial — the kind that features slumbering children and plays up the quality of the vehicle’s airbags. Subsequent Coldplay releases, full of lush melodies and Chris Martin’s relentless need to sing his feelings, only added fuel to my derisive fire. So I’ve spent the past decade purposefully avoiding them. I don’t listen to their albums. If their songs come on the radio, I change the station. At this point, I can’t remember if I actually dislike Coldplay or if I just think I do. And so, I decided to try them again. Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay’s fifth album, came out this week. But before experiencing it I wanted to revisit the band’s previous albums to see if I still found them as cloying as I recalled. I listened to Parachutes, A Rush of Blood to the Head, X&Y and Viva la Vida in chronological order. To give them the benefit of the doubt, I tried to experience them in Coldplay-friendly situations: alone in my room (feeling lonely), on the subway (feeling lonely in a crowd), even on an early-morning run through empty city streets (feeling lonely in the world). Then I talked to people who truly love their music. And finally, I tried Mylo Xyloto. Were my Coldplay complaints valid? This is what I discovered: Coldplay Complaint No. 1: Chris Martin appears to have written every lyric while weeping hysterically. Martin is a tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed British man married to a movie star, but he spends a lot of time expressing the emotions of a pimple-faced loner. Don’t believe me? Check out the following lines and see if you can guess which are Coldplay lyrics and which are from my high school diary: “I want to live in a wooden house where making more friends would be easy” “Do you feel like a puzzle, [like] you can’t find your missing piece?” “I want to love you but I don’t know if I can” “I know I’m dead on the surface but I am screaming underneath” “Is there anybody out there who is lost and hurt and lonely too?” Trick question! They’re all Coldplay. Lyrically, most of the band’s songs rehash the same subject matter over and over again: loneliness; heartache; the overwhelming hugeness of the world. Two different songs off Mylo Xyloto liken things to heaven (“Hurts Like Heaven” and “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall”— three if you count “Paradise” as a type of heaven). None of these topics are unique to Coldplay; in fact, most popular music can be broken down into two categories: songs about being in love and songs about being out of love. But there are interesting, poetic ways to explore human emotion, and then there are lyrics like “ stood on the edge, tied a noose / You came along and cut me loose.” “I wonder, how can you be so serious all the time when you’re married to Gwyneth Paltrow?” asks Phil Kinzler, a 36-year old marketing manager from Atlanta. Kinzler is actually a big fan of Coldplay; so much so that he responded when I put a call out on Twitter for people to defend the band and says he’d willingly give up his “man card” in order to listen to their sensitive songs. “I can see why people are dismissive of them,” he said. “I just find simple beauty in their lyrics.” Valid or invalid complaint: Valid. These lyrics are weepy as hell. Coldplay Complaint No. 2: Their songs are designed to be sung in unison by thousands of people holding lighters. This is a little less easy to dissect because it has to do with the band’s overall sound. Coldplay will start with an elegant melody, then add a soaring guitar part and compound it with momentous percussion at the song’s crescendo followed by any combination of “ohs” and “ooos.” It then repeats that pattern several times until it has created the musical equivalent of a club sandwich that’s too tall to actually eat. This is also known as the U2 effect. Valid or invalid complaint: Valid for me; invalid for U2 fans Coldplay Complaint No. 3: I’ve heard this all before. Every time I listen to a new Coldplay song, I experience a strange case of déjà vu. I’m almost positive that I already know the tune—or at least part of it. Parachutes-era Coldplay sounded a lot like Travis. Viva La Vida racked up a number of “U2-lite” remarks when it came out (for good reason). And on Mylo Xyloto, the opening of “Charlie Brown” keeps reminding me of Yeasayer while the lyric, “Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet” might as well be plucked directly from Arcade Fire. (Coincidentally, Markus Dravs, who co-produced Viva la Vida and Mylo Xyloto, also worked on Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible and The Suburbs.) I don’t mean that Coldplay steals from other groups (though they have been accused of that before too, but so have lots of bands). What I mean is that their sound is very similar to music that’s already out there. So why should I bother to listen to them? Valid or invalid complaint: It’s a toss up. This might just be a personal problem. Complaint No. 4: I just don’t understand why people like them Coldplay is so big that when the band delayed the release of 2005 album X&Y, its record label’s stock actually dropped. They’re so big that they’ve just released a concept album jokingly named after the idea of musical toes (Martin says the word ‘Xyloto’ was originally xylo-toes) and nobody seems to find that ridiculous. Have fans always been that taken in? I spoke with music producer and Gang of Four member Andy Gill (husband of TIME London Bureau Chief Catherine Mayer, by the way), who saw the band play in a London club before they’d even released an album. “There were a lot of fans there who were clearly into it, more so than you’d expect from an unsigned band,” he said. “Chris Martin was a great singer and he had a rapport with the audience. It was very obvious that they were going to do well.” “They’re highly made fun of cause they’re cheesy, but they seem so genuine,” says Joana Oritz, a 22-year-old student in Austin, Texas. Oritz is a self-described “music snob” and when people ask what her favorite band is, “I really hesitate to say Coldplay, because then people are like, ‘You know all this stuff about music and then you’re going to pick them?’” But she does pick them. Oritz says she loves Coldplay so much that in high school, she used to neglect her homework in favor of watching a live concert DVD of their A Rush of Blood to the Head tour. Maybe Coldplay is so beloved because the band is genuinely nice. Their songs are sweet, their melodies tugs at your heartstrings (or play your xylo toes, whatever) and Chris Martin seems like someone who, if you met him on the street, might actually care to remember your name. Coldplay may be the current butt of adult-contemporary jokes, but even the most scathing review will wind up complementing its members on their politeness, affability and seeming ignorance of their superstar status. That’s pretty rare for rock ‘n’ roll. Valid or invalid complaint: Invalid. I think I’m just being a jerk So maybe I don’t really hate Coldplay. They’re a charming band with pleasant songs and a surprising amount of staying power. “I listened to them in high school for the same reasons that I listen to them now,” says Chris Chu, frontman for indie band The Morning Benders. “There aren’t that many bands I can say that about; most either dwindled into obscurity or stopped making music that I liked.” Chu has a point; Coldplay have been Coldplay-ing for more than a decade and their popularity shows no signs of slowing down. They’re often called the last big arena rock band, probably because they really are the last big arena rock band—a group through which millions of people can have a shared cultural experience. Officials sales figures won’t be out until next week, but the assumption is that Mylo Xyloto will be one of the year’s top selling albums, right up there with Adele’s 21 and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. Coldplay doesn’t push rock boundaries—it doesn’t even gently nudge them. But if this is the status quo, I think I can bear it. (http://entertainment.time.com/2011/10/27/do-i-hate-coldplay-or-just-think-i-do/?iid=ent-main-lede)

Lore must be very happy. They left us without ETIAW!

Actually he said, WHEREVER he is.

IMO, Fix You is their BEST song.

Lucky falls short...

He dedicated Fix You to Jordan. Who's that?