The Shining Wizard

Imagine Chris Martin singing, "And I STIIIIIIIILLLLLLL haven't found what I'm looking foooorr... "

I think Viva La Vida is their best album yet. The only problem that Eno brought along with him on this album was the U2 sound... which isn't to say that Coldplay weren't beginning to sound like U2 already, Johnny Buckland did emulate The Edge on X&Y in quite a few places, but this was the album that should have just gotten rid of the Radiohead and Travis comparisons, which it did somewhat successfully, but it brought along with it the U2 comparisons.. Their next album is gonna HAVE to be a groundbreaking album. It's gonna have to break new ground, kinda like how Radiohead broke new ground with OK Computer. Coldplay needs to prove the critics wrong and turn into an influential and important band that is vital to the music industry. If they manage to do that, that "best band in the world today" moniker should easily be bestowed upon them by the masses, including the critics.

WTH? How come I never knew about this? lol This is great!

Thanks, guys, already liking this place a lot.

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My interpretation: It was a long and dark December From the rooftops I remember There was snow, white snow Here, he is a soldier, probably in some war, probably on the border, during December, the snow covering the roads and buildings... Clearly I remember From the windows they were watching While we froze down below The "higher ups," so to speak, the captains or whatever, they were watching the soldiers freezing "down below." The soldiers assigned to keep watch on the surroundings, he is one of them. When the future's architectured By a carnival of idiots on show You'd better lie low He's talking about how he's been forced into this war (an Iraq reference, maybe?), because if your future is controlled by idiots, what can you do? That's the question he asks, when he says "you'd better lie low." If you love me, won't you let me know? Away from his love, in the freezing December snow, forced into the middle of a war by idiots who run the country, and yet, his love doesn't express her feelings for him. Why? Why won't you let him know how much you love him? What are you waiting for? Was a long and dark December When the banks became cathedrals And a fox became God It was a long and dark December... staying there in that enemy territory, freezing in the cold, away from their faiths, away from their Churches and Temples.. riverbanks became the soldiers' cathedrals, and instead of idols of Jesus or whichever God they worship, foxes became their God as they would worship it. (Just a metaphor, doesn't mean they literally resorted to the prehistoric times when Man would worship trees and stones and animals). Priests clutched onto bibles Hollowed out to fit their rifles And a cross held aloft "Priests," in essence, the soldiers now resorting to performing prayers, prayers for their safe return home when their duty is over, when whatever dangerous situation they're in is solved. Bibles "hollowed out to fit their rifles," and crosses held aloft. I don't think these lines need any explanation, they're pretty self-explanatory. Bury me in armour When I'm dead and hit the ground My nerves are poles that unfroze He talks about how, if and when he dies during battle, he should be buried in armour, with his pride. He talks about how, when he's dead, his nerves finally unfreeze. (Remember the first line, talking about freezing in the battlegrounds, in the "long and dark December.") And if you love me, won't you let me know? So, again, he's asking his love, all this could or has happened, and you still won't let him know that you love him? I don't want to be a soldier Who the captain of some sinking ship Would stow, far below. He's already a soldier on such a "ship," (not an actual ship, of course, just a metaphor for his "battalion" or whatever), and he doesn't want to be there. (Refer to the "you'd better lie low" verse.) So if you love me, why d'you let me go? You can interpret this line in two ways: Number one, he has already died in battle, the ship he was stowed on sank "far below," and he's asking his love now, if you loved him, why did you let him go without ever letting him know how much you loved him? Or did you ever love him AT ALL? Or, he hasn't died, but he's pretty sure now he's about to (look at what he's talking about in the previous verse), and hence he's changed his question, from wanting to know why his love didn't tell him she loves him, to why she let him go. I took my love down to violet hill There we sat in snow All that time she was silent still Said if you love me, won't you let me know? If you love me, won't you let me know? This verse, from what I can deduce, is about what he did before going to war. He took his love down to "violet hill," where they sat in the snow. She was silent all the time, didn't tell him a word. So he said, "If you love me, won't you let me know?" Of course, she didn't let him know, and he went on into the battle without ever finding out. Overall, this is a tragic song, filled with loneliness. It's about the soldier, who is in battle, he may or may not make it out, and he's wondering two things: If he makes it out alive, and can go back home safely, will his love be there, waiting to welcome him with open arms? Or if he dies, will his love be there to cry for him?

BTW, just thought I should post this here.. These are the official lyrics from Coldplay.com:

I'm probably one of the few people who loves the books and has, yet, immensely enjoyed all of the movies so far. Really excited for Half-Blood Prince, just a month away!

Never read the books, and after watching the movie, never will. Twilight was just boring and a mediocre movie. Felt like some bunch of amateurs wrote and directed it. The screenplay was just terrible, with laughably ridiculous and cliched lines scattered throughout. The thing is that since this was a fantasy series of books by a female author, the media - as is usual for them - began saying that Meyer is the "next JK Rowling." All I can do is roll my eyes at that statement. And what's funny is that, the only reason why Twilight and the other novels in the series became popular is because of these JK Rowling comparisons.

Atm: 1. Coldplay 2. Radiohead 3. Muse 4. Linkin Park 5. Breaking Benjamin

Yeah, never got into The Beatles... don't care about their music whatsoever. U2 as well, never cared about them.

Lol, it meant, "Hello, my friends." Probably the only other Spanish sentence I know is, "Yo no hablas Español," which translates to, "I do not speak Spanish." :D And thank you, yes, I do believe I'm gonna enjoy this place very much.

X&Y wasn't a bad album, it just wasn't as good as a couple of the other Coldplay albums (still better than Parachutes IMO). What hurt the album weren't specific songs, it was just that the entire album felt... same. The songs weren't too dissimilar from each other. Most of the songs were piano-driven ballads, and I think letting go of Martin's piano recitals and letting the strings dominate on a few songs wouldn't have hurt the album at all. It may have actually helped it. Also, some of the lyrics were pretty questionable as well ("My song is love"). And the fact that it's about an hour long doesn't help matters either, since the material doesn't justify the length of this album. One of the reasons why Viva La Vida is, according to me, their best album yet, is that they show variation, they find versatility within their limited abilities, and that's the mark of a great artist. That's what X&Y lacked, IMO. Versatility. Yes, it's still a very enjoyable album, but the more you listen to it, the more you will get bored by it.

Must say Viva La Vida. Great "role playing" by Chris Martin, who very believably dons the role of a fallen King. Second best will have to be The Scientist. That entire song is just great.

I'm tired of this Joe Satriani sh...stuff. Going by his logic, you could find similarities between just about ANY two songs in the world. Not to mention, there are only so many notes/chords/whatever in music. There's bound to be some song whose chord progression is very similar to some other song recorded long before it. Another thing, whenever Coldplay sampled another song or whatever, they themselves admitted it. Like, they said The Hardest Part was their tribute to R.E.M. Heck, they actually requested permission from Kraftwerk to sample one of their songs for "Talk." If they needed his tune, they'd have asked him for it, or credited him for it. And this isn't just the Coldplay fan in me saying this, I'm trying to look at this from a competely impartial POV. And btw, Viva La Vida (the single) was released in May 2008, was #1 in June... and Joe Satriani sues them in December. What took him so long? Had he not heard the song earlier, even when it was #1 on the US Charts (a first for Coldplay), or did he actually listen to the song earlier itself, but was waiting to see how well it would do?