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yea what the hell. i've been excited for this for so long. august is so far away!

BUMP. every summer i become re-obsessed with wilco. i think yankee hotel foxtrot is one of the best albums ever. jesus etc. is such a chill SUMMERTIME song... ahhh i love everything by them. someone join me in discussion.

"your the most beautiful thing in existence" (i was talking to my dog :lol:)

i dont think i could rank radiohead albums because they are all so different that they can all be my favorites at certain times. lately it's been in rainbows for me but it really all depends on mood.

Wilco - Jesus Etc. you were right about the stars... each one is a setting sun.

my birthday is the day before chris's birthday...

soo a ticketmaster auction has been going on for the past week and it flew WAYYYY under the radar so hardly anyone bid on it and it just ended and i upgraded my seats to section 13 row 6 (for only $130, which is only $15 more than the tickets i originally bought). I'M SO FUCKING PUMPED!!!!!! :D

to me... nothing on this album sounds like radiohead whatsoever. i'm an avid radiohead and coldplay fan but really... i hardly see their similarites at all. the comparisons between the two always confuse me. but i think out of all 4 albums viva la vida sounds the LEAST like radiohead. cemeteries of london is one of my favorites and that part where chris sings 'god is in the houses...' reminds me nothing of thom. i think its just a piece of classic chris martin. and the percussion in 15 Step is so crazy and unique i don't think anyone couls make anything sound like it.... especially nothing on this album. just my opinion though...

greattttt article :D

crazy to think that if this hadn't been frigging postponed... we would have seen a coldplay concert 2 days ago....

bump. this is still my favorite version of lovers in japan.

28 Strawberry Swing - 26 Cemeteries of London 20 Lovers in Japan 22 Death and All His Friends 18 Viva la Vida + 10 42

i am hoping for glass of water too!! were you joking about lovers (acoustic)???

i don't smoke butts but i OCCASIONALLY smoke weed... only on like... special occasions though.

Week Ending June 29, 2008: Viva La Download Or Death And All His CDs Posted Wed Jul 2, 2008 2:05pm PDT by Paul Grein in Chart Watch [/url]Coldplay holds at #1 on Billboard's album chart for the second week with Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. But the big news is that, in just two weeks, Viva La Vida has sold more downloads than any album in digital history. The old record was held by John Mayer's Continuum. Viva La Vida sold 66,000 downloads this week, bringing its two-week total to 354,000. Continuum has sold 353,000 downloads since its release in September 2006. The rest of the all-time top five albums with the most paid digital downloads consists of Amy Winehouse's Back To Black (329,000), Daughtry's Daughtry (323,000) and Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds (301,000). In other download news, "Low" by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain this week becomes the first song to top the 4 million mark in paid downloads. The paid digital download medium scarcely existed five years ago and now it's the biggest growth area in the music business. (It may be the only growth area in the music business.) Billboard reports that album sales in the first half of 2008 totaled 204.6 million, down slightly from 229.8 million in the first half of 2007. Digital track sales for the same period totaled 542.7 million, up substantially from 417.3 million. This next item makes the point even more dramatically. Just three albums topped 1 million copies in sales (CDs and digital downloads combined) in the first six months of 2008, the lowest total since Nielsen/SoundScan set up shop in 1991. Six albums sold 1 million copies in the first six months of 2007. Fully 16 albums hit the million mark in the first half of 2006. (The business hit its peak in 2001 when a whopping 37 albums reached the 1 million mark in the first 26 weeks of the year.) The three million-selling albums of the first half of 2008 are Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter III (1,526,000), Jack Johnson's Sleep Through The Static (1,248,000) and Mariah Carey's E=MC2 (1,063,000). Two other albums are close to striking the 1 million mark: Alicia Keys' As I Am (986,000 in 2008 sales) and Viva La Vida (971,000). This isn't the first time that Coldplay has been able to boast of having the album with the most paid downloads in history. The band's previous album, X&Y, held that title when Nielsen/SoundScan started running an all-time list (they call it a "run-to-date" list) in January 2006. The Fray's How To Save A Life bumped Coldplay down to second place in December 2006. Continuum took over in March 2007. The field of individual song downloads is also showing rapid growth. The Black Eyed Peas' "Let's Get It Started" was the first song to top the 500,000 mark in paid digital downloads. It reached the milestone in February 2005. Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" was the first song to top the 1 million mark (in October 2005). Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" was the first to top 2 million (in December 2006). "Crank That Soulja Boy" by Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em was the first to top 3 million (in January of this year). And this week "Low" becomes the first to reach 4 million. Some future researcher, pouring through Yahoo!'s old files, may be very amused that I made a big deal about a digital album reaching a measly 354,000 copies or an individual song hitting a mere 4 million downloads. I hope so. It would mean that albums and songs will one day reach download sales marks that make today's record-setting numbers seem puny. Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" holds at #1 on Hot Digital Songs with 206,000 paid downloads. This brings its eight-week total to 1,193,000. Jonas Brothers' "Burnin' Up," the first single from their forthcoming studio album, opens at #2, pushing "This Is Me," Joe Jonas' Camp Rock duet with Demi Lovato, down to #3. The brothers' third album, A Little Bit Longer, is due Aug. 12. If it doesn't debut at #1, I will eat my hat. Incidentally, this week marks the first time that the top three albums hold still for two weeks running since December, when Josh Groban's Noel, Alicia Keys' As I Am and Eagles' Long Road Out Of Eden repeated in the top three spots. Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums. 1. Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, 249,000. This is Coldplay's second album in a row to log two or more weeks at #1. X&Y held the top spot for three weeks in 2005. Who was the last artist to have back-to-back #1 albums that both had multiple weeks on top? Mariah Carey. Three songs from Coldplay's album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Viva La Vida," which dips from #3 to #4 http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/9716/week-ending-june-29-2008-viva-la-download-or-death-and-all-his-cds

1. LiT - when the acoustic guitar first comes in 2. CoL - when it dies down to just guitar and handclaps and then chris bursts in with GOD IS IN THE HOUSES AND GOD IS IN MY HEADDD 3. Lost! - guitar solo. 4. 42 - You didn't get to heaven but you made it close... and the very last 'those who are dead are not dead theyre just living in my head ooOOO' 5. Lovers In Japan - second and last refrain... one day the sun'll come out. 6. Reign of Love - i guess the count in by chris... no real changes throughout the song so its hard to pick out a favorite part... 7. Yes - IF THERE'S ANY SCREAMIN LET THE WIN-DOW DOWWNNNNN 8. Chinese Sleep Chant - when it's over... and then it's time for viva la vida. 9. Viva la Vida - the entire song... in particular: the very first verse, the second set of verses especially the strings in the backround and 'people couldn't believe WHAT I'D BECOME'.... and then of course the ohhhhhohohhhs and the last refrain coming in over them. 10. Violet Hill - IF YOU LOVE ME WON'T YOU LET ME KNOW, the end with just chris and piano 11. Strawberry Swing - 'people moving all the time inside a perfectly straight line... don't you wanna just CURVE AWAY.... when it's such, it's such a perfect day' 12. Death And All His Friends - the guitar/piano buildup and then the male choir finishing off the album in the best way possible 13. The Escapist - just when chris sings that one line the first time... i just love how the album ends the same way it begins and then makes you want to start listening all over again.

so any word on date they will ACTUALLY be on letterman?? because it's my favorite late night show!!!

well when i was in the ambulance with my friend being taken from the today show... the guy in the ambulance said he had never heard of them! haha... but i dont think that's a reflection of the whole country. mostly everyone can at least associate them with clocks or something and they are one of the only decent bands that make it onto mainstream stations.

yea zsub is right. it appeals to non REAL coldplay fans who just listen to mainstream music. it has a catchy beat and its not too complicated. idk how to explain it but it doesnt surpise me at ALL that its popular. although it is also one of my least favorites on the new album.

she is ok now. i guess she was just really dehydrated. thanks everyone for being so nice. at least we got to see the sound check so everything wasn't lost. (no pun intended :P) i'm going to bed now though. i'm absolutely DEAD. talk to you all tomorrow...

okkk... so... the girl who fainted that a few of you have mentioned... that was my guest. we woke up this morning around 430, both showered, dressed, got out of her cousins apartment by 515. took the subway all the way to 49th street in good time, got off, got to the today show by 545. i guess everything went a little TOO well. so neither of us ate or drank anything because we were planning on getting breakfast after the show. we ended up getting really good position in the pit like maybe 3 or 4 people deep. we saw the entire soundcheck which was amazing in itself. she snapped a ton of good pictures which i will put up whenever she puts them on her computer. then after the soundcheck she was telling me how tired she was and i was just like yeaa me too... because we had both only slept about 4 hours. THEN she turned to me and said... 'i'm gunna pass out' and so i took it as a joke and just kinda laughed it off and then before you know it... she was on the ground. she got back up pretty quickly and said she was fine and then we went to get food/drink and on the way out she fainted again and didnt get back up this time so she had to be carried into the building where she sat unconscious in a chair for about 15 minutes. then the ambulence finally came and as she was being giving fluids etc. we could hear in my place in the distance. then we went to the hospital and missed the rest of the show. it REALLY sucked and i felt absolutely sick about it. she's fine now and i guess it was just from dehydration. the only kind of good thing that came out of it was that a woman asked me for her name/address and she said the band felt bad and wants to send her something (they should send ME something too.... but she didnt want my address). so yeah that was my today show experience.

ok i'm officially OUT! gotta go catch my bus! see you all tomorrow! :D

my mom said that she saw on the show this morning that they will be playing from 830-9... idk if shes right though!

ok! night! i think i'm about to head off too. i probably won't be on here tomorrow since im leaving for NY around noon. sooo... talk to you all again FRIDAY!

that is the most recent picture of me (i'm on the left of course). it's from prom so that's why i'm so darn dressed up!! my name is Tim and i'm not sure what i'll be wearing yet because the only coldplay shirt i own is XXL (i couldnt afford any others when i saw them on twisted logic).