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radiohead coldplay mew thom yorke (if his solo stuff counts as a separate) and my own band (we're doing some good stuff!! seriously haha)

coldplay/crystal method mix sounds incredible! but I guess this time they went coldplay/eno

yep I wanted to see them perform violet hill too. I had the idea of the 4 of them going strong with it. But vlv, seems to be mostly orchestra (which is prob why they chose to perform it), or just maybe, they'll rearrange the song so that only the 4 of them will b on stage (which would be interesting)... but I doubt it

hmmm, would have to hear the whole song to tell if i like it that much. sounds interesting that i can tell

i love white shadows chorus, and square one's too!!

damn i hope i win too. ive never won a contest in my life!, but the odds here of me wining seem a but higher than other contest, where there's only like 5 winners and stuff..

Im extremely impatient!!!!!! especially after listening to that lovers in japan tune a thousand times!! its fucking brilliant!

This is fucking genius song!. THIS IS what ive been waiting to hear! what a lovely and interesting song. this is how i thought all the songs would be like, with unexcted changes, weird time signatures. i love it! LOVE IT I really want the acoustic version of it now! and this just raised all my expectations again... now im more impatient than ever for the new album!

where can i hear this???

yeah i was wondering what the unlocking things has been for? hopefully something big happens when all things unlock! but who knows.. i first thought it was sort of a countdown till the release of viva, but at this rate all will prob b unlocked by friday.. so then what?

lets see.. heres mine 1. sit down stand up 2. bodysnatchers 3. 15 step 4. there there 6. airbag 6. scatterbrain 7. I might be wrong 8. weird fishes 9. All i need 10. backdrifts 11. let down 12. reckoner 13. optimistic 14. myxomatosis 15. go to sleep 16. where I end and you begin 17. nude 18. 2+2=5 19. national anthem 20. videotape encore 21. everything in its right place 22. paranoid android 23. house of cards 24. jigsaw falling into place 25. idioteque

well, i wish I didnt had that impression from the new album so far, really. but listening to viva la vida, a spell.. and lost (the full version from the interview), it seems that the 2 things that really stand out are eno and chris.. I miss will's real drums, I miss guy's incredible melodic bass lines, and I seriously intensely miss jonny's guitar melodies and power.. in my opinion they really stepped away from sounding like a band so far, which is what i dont get when they talk about just the 4 of them in their bakery and stuff..

i dont know, my expectations for all of the songs in this album were very high!. but after hearing the couple songs everyone's heard already, it's just not the direction i thought they were taking. When i thought of 42, i id think something radiohead-like.. but judging on the sound of all the new songs i've heard so far, it prob wont b anything like that :S radiohead is and has been in a complete other level than coldplay, if they say experimental, they really go experimental.. not like what ive heard of viva, experimental meant, very pop and a one man band sound-like, except for violet hill.. i mean i still like it, but it really is something completely off to what i had in mind after reading such things like "album to be rememberd by" "experimentalism"..

i dont see the similarity but thats a great song.. thats the time when i thought music has sounded its best (to me) its deff again not what i expected in the full version of the song. the piano version made me think "phew a song that catches me from the start! cant wait to hear jonnys guitar on it" but its full of organs, and it sounds african even tho its not the one they said would sound african.. idk.. hope the new songs i still to hear really grow on me..

so i guess now they are never changing their clothes? lol

yeah i got no clue what the video is about haha. i like bit where they are all around guy in the piano.. and when i saw chris coming towards the camera with a hammer i really thought something very interesting would happen, but they just completely randomly change to the magnifying glass thing :S

its hard to choose.. but here 1. 42 (cause they say its the most radiohead-like one) 2. yes! (cause ive dreamed about this song, wonder how close the one i heard in my dream was to the real one) 3. cemeteries of london (2nd song in album, and the artwork looks interesting, and it has hand claps)

i never got the email! :( i've already signed up like 3 times for the madison one... and not one single email... how fast did u receive the email?

i have found that songs come easier to me once I have an idea in my head of what I wanna achieve with the song. I also always like finding one phrase that will lead me into other good ones, a phrase that sparks a lot of thoughts in my head, lot of things to say and sometimes even how I wanna sing them: full of pain, slowly, fast, etc... then I also try to grasp on what to do with the whole thing: strong in the beginning, quiet beginning, buildup, monotone, some unexpected change in the bridge... things like that. then when I sit and try to write the song it feels as if i sort of already have heard it before, or as if I already had written it a while ago and now I just have to remember about it. but I am really sure there's no real structure to these things, there prob is one that will feel really easy and comfortable to you tho. and even then, it doesnt always just work.

well can someone upload the audio at least?

i remember tho, I really really loved square one as soon as i heard it, it was a good strange for coldplay! actually i thought they'd go in a similar direction to square one with these new songs.. unexpected changes, guitar noises, cool drum loops, incredible bass lines, intriguing melodies... but eh

!!!!! HA! the first thing my mom said when she heard the song was "is this a ripoff of alizee's song?" and i was like "what song?".. and then i saw the video. and yea very similar. I might even like hers a bit more. i mean after all she really is a pop star, not a band sounding like a pop star.

I understand where everyone is coming from.. I gotta get it out of my chest too.. they kept saying that this is the album they'd be remembered by. that they tried things they hadnt tried before and all. I was really looking forward to it, thinking wow, these guys must have cooked something impressive this time, pushing their sound even further. I thought they come up with something really new. be pioneers in the alt pop rock sound. but after listening to these 3 tracks, it sounds like they just tried something that was new to them (selling out), but not new to the world. viva la vida sounds like a chris eno song, i hear no jonny, no guy, and very little will. it sounds like it seriously was just chris martins project with some backing musicians. the song isnt bad, but it sounds more like a one republic song rather than a coldplay song. dont hate me, I'm still exited about tons of new music of theirs, but i really hope there's something like what i was expecting on the album.

a spell a rebel yell is my fav new song so far. i really hope someone can get a good mp3 version of it, i got no vinyl player :S :(

so the article comes out tomorrow? can someone please scan it!!!! I dont know if Ill ever get to see the real thing here.