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MTM = Moving to Mars (Implies Xenophobia) = MMIX You're welcome.

Gah, doubled up again. Board is laggin'! Sorry.

Semi-O/T: This is further proof that Coldplay is doing a reverse-Oasis. Oasis --> Early b-sides = awesome, later b-sides = meh Coldplay --> Early b-sides = meh, later b-sides = awesome.

Ehh, double-post somehow. Feel free to clean this up.

Not happy at all. Would have been more bearable if it had seen any kind of physical release at all, but to relegate this to some lousy iTunes mp3's is hugely undervaluing the tune.

I'd be much obliged if I could be added to the I Can Haz Spare list. I'm in the US (Indiana).

I don't really care to read all 29 pages, but for anyone who is having trouble with the Yahoo widget form of the glass, you're not alone.

Alright, got the numbers! Vinyl: 509992-16965-10 CD: 509992-16965-27 The CD is harder to read; for some reason, there are larger spaces around the 2's than anywhere else, so it may actually read 50999-2-16965-2-7. But judging from the vinyl's serial format, I'm guessing my first interpretation is correct.

I'm currently in the middle of a move, so it's packed away somewhere. But I can get it to you in a couple days.

FWIW, I've been listening to it on laptop speakers for a couple weeks with no problem. Maybe your media player's equalizer is out of whack? And as for iPod headphones, that could easily be explained by the quality at which you ripped the files. Can't explain your car speakers though, unless you're drawing this conclusion while driving. Gotta remember that albums are mixed in a soundproof studio, not a running/driving vehicle. Try tweaking your bass/midrange/treble settings. Hope you get it figured out - it's worth it.

The idea that the two titles comprise two different albums is already dead. But the idea of a b-side album almost makes more sense than an album comprised entirely of VLV leftovers (although if I could, I'd like to hear them all). But, to play devil's advocate with myself, I'm not sure that we really know the names of all of the tracks that were worked on during the VLV sessions. We thought we knew everything when "ASARY" was announced, didn't we? So maybe there ARE enough tracks for a VLV b-sides disc. Listen to me, the old greedy bastard.

Help! I asked my wife to go out and grab that cd/vinyl copy at Best Buy when the store opened this morning (I had to be at work). She went and grabbed separate copies of the vinyl and the CD. Apparently this vinyl was the only vinyl in the store. Is there any way to tell if the CD is inside without opening the shrinkwrap? Did ALL vinyls come with a CD at Best Buy?

Ah, so it's another instance of the confusion as to how we're looking at the division of tracks. That makes sense. Thanks. But damn. I admit that a little part of me was excited at the possibility of another hidden track that we hadn't heard of.

Er, wait, what? Two hidden tracks? Have I been out of the loop too long? I thought the album ended as "Death and All His Friends" leading into one hidden track ("The Escapist"). Am I just reading something incorrectly?

This is growing too fast for me to read it all, but this is EXACTLY what I thought when I listened. So you're not crazy. (not for that particular reason, anyway)

Listened to it twice and I'm already utterly bored with it. It's the polar opposite of VH - warm, soft, and almost cheerful. Sorry, but give me dark and brooding any day. My stylistic interpretation: VH owes more to AROBTTH; ASARY owes more to X&Y.

If Violet Hill and Poppy Fields are actually two separate songs on the same album, I will lose all hope.

Green Eyes, sometimes.

Too many synth-sounds, not enough band-sounds. I think that's the one thing that makes X&Y most different. In my opinion, that's not a bad thing (I phrased it that way in the first sentence to paraphrase the thoughts of others, not my own). They would have taken a lot of shit for making AROBTTH II: Electric Boogaloo, so they changed things up a little bit. Maybe they'll go back to their roots on LP4, who knows?