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Ok, I've seen anough of this junk. Time to give him some of his own medicine. Not that he'll read this, but that way I can be even more nasty. "Coldplay really are one of the very worst things to have happened to popular music in at least a decade." Really? What exactly can you back up that claim with, and how many other bands have you said the same thing about? And anyway, popular music is a wasteland of horribleness; if something bad happens to it, that's a good thing. "...it has about as much to do with the testosterone-fuelled spirit of rock 'n' roll rebellion as a bowl of organic tofu." This, you idiot, is exactly why I like Coldplay and not most other rock bands. The same is most likely true of most of their other fans. "The most obvious similarity is with Radiohead." No. This is just wrong, and I'm not going to explain why, again. "As to what his English teachers at his old public school, Sherborne, make of lines like 'You and me are floating on a tidal wave together/ You and me are drifting into outer space', I can only speculate." Yeah, thanks for choosing the poorest metaphor in all of Coldplay's music and exaggerating how bad it is while not using any metaphors at all that I can see in your review. Though I can hardly expect you to bother, since you don't care. "You can play it in your car, you can play it as background music at dinner parties, you could play it at a wedding or a funeral and nobody would much mind." Is that supposed to be a complaint? "They'd be more like the common cold - absolutely everywhere and annoying when you catch it, but not quite so life threatening that you feel too ill or too embarrassed to stop spreading it round the rest of the office." Oh wait, here's a metaphor. But it's a stupid one, because nobody likes getting a cold, but lots of people like Coldplay. You fail again. "In other words, Coldplay aren't a threat to the very fabric of civilisation - just a ubiquitous pain with which we shall, I fear, have to learn to live for many years to come." Well, some of us learned to live with them instantly, and later wondered how we lived without them. And they're not "ubiquitous;" stop throwing around absolutes.

Yes, we did. And we already bashed it back...coherently. :dozey: Really, typing like that just makes you sound like an "eejit" yourself. Take the time to use proper grammar, this isn't text-messaging.

No idea what you're talking about. Their other albums are certainly great, too, but that doesn't mean this one can't be great just because it's different. I liked every song on this album before finishing the first listen and like all Coldplay songs I expect most of them to get even better over time. I'm really good at finding stuff to unfairly hate in songs, but no songs on this album have anything like that (unlike their previous albums). Forced myself to listen to it? I couldn't force myself to stop. In short: you don't have to like the album, but I think you're completely wrong. ;)

Well, the version I have is reasonably high-quality and my speakers are pretty terrible, so it may not make much difference for me. But I'll have to see when I finally get the CD...sometime next month. Stupid vacations. :P

This is one heck of a weird song. I didn't much like it the first time I heard it, but...after a few listens it's now my second favorite song. (I'm not quite sure yet if it beats White Shadows. ;) ) I think maybe they've actually earned the right to call it "42." :P

The first and third "parts," and especially the ending, are the best bits; the middle is a bit too much like Radiohead for me, but it works, and since it's only for part of the song I don't mind it. Also, tauiwi...intentional or not, your avatar is hilarious. :P

Not satisfied with just taking over the world, Coldplay's decided to take over outer space, too. :P

Very accurate, and more well-written than I could have managed. I'm very tired of the Coldplay = Radiohead thing, too...partly because I hate Radiohead, but mostly because, looking at it objectively, the two bands sound completely different. I could never mistake a new Radiohead song for a new Coldplay song or vice versa, even without the vocals. They have totally different styles, and really I have no clue where that comparison comes from. Coldplay has some strong similarities to Keane, U2, and Travis; but Radiohead? No way. I've managed to avoid letting any males I know that I like Coldplay, because of the painfully predictable reaction. I wish they could just get over themselves and stop drowning their emotions in testosterone, but that's probably never going to happen. Hating things because they're "gay" (since when does music have sexual preferences?) is just too much fun, I guess.

...Yikes. Reminds me of the time "Low" got stuck in my head for a couple hours--which was odd, because I never get songs stuck in my head--and then I went here and it was the first one to pop up. But that doesn't really compare to this...wow.

I don't want to read that because it sounds like just an enormous mess or bad sarcasm. But I gotta say, if this guy hates them so much, why did he bother writing such a long article about them? Just yell "Boo, they suck, bleeeah" and get on with your life. And anyway the bits of this I skimmed over are, not surprisingly, idiotic. "They're sort of the anti-Sex Pistols, an act that repulses not through outrage, bad manners and poor grooming, but through their inoffensive niceness and emollient personableness." Wow, they're not a$$holes! How horrible and repulsive! :thinking:

That would explain the allergies. :P

I don't know what they think they're doing, but all stinging insects fly after me incessantly. They follow me around like they're trying to find a place to land. It's really annoying, but somehow I've only been stung once and I didn't even see it coming.

Ta-da :P

Most of mine are far too weird to describe...but the most unsettling kind are the ones where you dream you just woke up, and then actually wake up. First you think you're awake but you're actually dreaming, then you think you're dreaming but you're awake...probably. That happened to me a couple of months ago. It was especially weird because some of the things from the previous dream were still happening in the dream-awakening, making me unsure what, if anything, had just happened...

...What? But, it'd still be completely visible unless you're standing right in front of it, have only one eye open so you have no sense of perspective, and can't tell the difference between a faded photograph and a real brick wall. Otherwise it'd look like some really bizarre warp in the wall, probably a lot more noticeable than a satellite dish. Ok, pointless rant over.

Well, like I said, most people are just choosing between those two, and I think some other poll showed an overwhelming majority picking VLV over VH. And if there are even better songs than those on the rest of the album, that means hardly anyone would vote for VH. There's still hope for popular sanity. :P

Well, the only other one on the album I've heard is Violet Hill, which beats Viva La Vida by a mile in my opinion. But that may be the issue right there. A lot of people liked VLV more than VH, and if they haven't given in and listened to the rest of the album early...well, it's pretty obvious what they'll pick. Only the real superfans (and not even all of them) have heard anything besides VH and VLV at this point. I'd say, wait until they do another poll a week or so after the album comes out. The results may be very different. (I voted for 42 even though I haven't heard it yet, but I'm a weirdo. :P) Or, it may turn out to be this album's Fix You or Yellow...

That's only going to happen if there are a lot of people with musical talent who can't play instruments for some reason. I kinda doubt it. Still, the rest sounds pretty believeabl--wait. "Guy buys a small island off the coast of Spain and gets really into TM?" :laugh3:

Anyone else seen this yet? (Maybe some spoilers for one of the older episodes...)

Haven't heard LIT, so for now I'll pretend it doesn't exist. :P I never liked Square One that much, but Politik vs. Don't Panic is a tough choice...apparently I went with Don't Panic.

For me it was the well-aimed randomness of Pandora, and only a few months ago. It popped up Clocks one day, and it was so good that I almost immediately made a Coldplay station. (I had had so little interest in recently-made music before then that I had actually managed to have never heard it before.) Incredibly it chose White Shadows--the only one of their songs I like more than Clocks--as the first song to play. I can't think of a way I could have been more effectively hooked. :D I think mainly what made me like them is that their music isn't just plain horrible (like most "pop" music) or intentionally disharmonious (like, well, almost all other modern music). How could I not like one of the very, very few bands making music with actual beauty?

I never thought Clocks could be funny, but then Chris started trying to mime out parts of the lyrics...:laugh3:

Parachutes: Parachutes (no, really) AROBTTH: Clocks (yeah, yeah, I'm boring) X&Y: White Shadows (100% Awesome) VLV: I'm still resisting listening to it at least until it comes out in the UK (where I don't live), but I fully expect 42 to be my new favorite once I hear it...you can't call a song 42 and have it end up bad, that would disobey the laws of physics or something. :D

Compared to most of their other songs, that one practically massacres itself. But amazingly, 99% of popular music is still much worse. More on topic...this isn't that surprising. (Besides the part about Chris thinking this means Coldplay is a failure. "It surely has to be the ultimate measure of success?!" :confused:) It's just a side effect of the way everyone either likes Coldplay, or hates them and thinks everyone who likes them is a moron. There's still hope that VLV(ODAAHF?) will change that, though...

Coldplay, for sure, without the slightest doubt. But I'd rather not say why, because it would become a rant, then a flamewar.