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Another observation about the bell in VLV - when Will tries the bell in the Amsterdam performance above, the sound abruptly stops even though he is NOT using a hand to stabilize/stop the vibrating. I think this is pretty strong evidence that the bell is a sample rather than the sound of the bell through a microphone, though it is also possible that it IS a mic'ed bell and they just set the output volume to the audience to be 0 once the bell is quieter than a certain level. I think others have observed that the bell is a triggered sample but just thought I'd point it out. (triggered as in, a vibration sensor feels when you've hit a drum, bell, or other item, then plays a digital sample of a sound - which is also how Will gets the big fat snare sound he has on Violet Hill, most likely). whaaaaat where is this from

WOW THIS IS SO INTERESTING AND NEW TO ME! (I'm almost as surprised as I was when I first heard all the guitar parts to Army of One in the first half) The little thing around 2:00 is in the studio version for sure but I don't think he exactly plays it that way live, but he plays something similar in texture with that cool chimy effect - which I believe is delay (echo) but it's so pitch shifted that it just sounds like chimes. I love the howly bending guitar part and I too wonder if it's in the studio mix. I feel like I hear it both on the studio and live versions - on the 3rd line of the chorus when the strings rise in volume! Listen with headphones and you'll hear it in the right ear! Jonny doesn't play that live of course though. The thing at 2:43 is 100% in the studio version at 2:56, and I always assumed it was a funny violin line but it must be Jonny! Also note at 21:00 of the 2008 Amsterdam video above, Guy plays his bass for a second, and it sounds really high! That's because he is using an effect that duplicates the signal of his bass and shifts the pitch of his bass up (Rage Against the Machine uses this a lot; White Stripes uses the same but in the reverse direction to get the bassline in Seven Nation Army). And he uses that to duplicate the violin line after the first chunklet of singing!! If you listen closely You can also see in the Glastonbury video and many others he plays this in nearly all live version of the song. Also you can hear Guy NOT using the pitch shift effect for whatever reason in this video and you can hear just bass and no sounds-like-guitar-bass: Edit - another interesting discovery after listening to 2008 versions of the song is that you can hear Guy PLAYING SOME OF THE STRING PARTS just before the 1st chorus (+hear the tack pianos in action, since both Chris and Jonny play simultaneously at the beginning)

Sad the youtube Fix You in Sao Palo is missing the strings in the intro, but it's nice otherwise! Yay new stuff!! Re natural-ness: these two videos have a bit of the same as what they did in Live 2012, which is a lot of slow motion cuts in between normal-cuts. Less of that in this, but still some. I don't mind it, since if I want a "natural" concert video I can go watch people's (outrageously high quality) phone recordings or other televised concerts. In fact it's more artistic and feels unique, so I like it! But it is less natural. :p

*bump* does anyone have a recording of the UWTB soundcheck? :(

I heard they had written the verses but took 10 years to write the chorus of Violet Hill. I wonder if the title track of Parachutes is an unfinished track; the guitar tuning I believe is the same as Shiver and Yellow, so perhaps Chris was writing a 3rd song that sounded like the other 2. Chris used to play a piano line at the end of LIJ in the second half of the MX tour that's thought to be a precursor to Fly On at least in terms of rhythm and overall feel.

Wow never noticed this. That is VERY clearly A L I E N S (and I think it's even in 5/4 like the finished song) with that high acoustic guitar line and everything. Thanks for sharing! A couple more examples: -There's an interview somewhere that Chris says Ink is like See You Soon where they had the acoustic guitar in the same tuning and just sort of discovered the new melody for that. Not quite an unfinished then finished situation, but certainly the song lived on in a different way! -If you listen to the guitar lines in the chorus of Things I Don't Understand, it sounds very recycled into the chorus of What If. -Christmas Lights is what Wedding Bells became pretty clearly.

This makes sense for HFTW and ASFOS. However, doesn't really make sense for Clocks. The supposed pre-recorded Chris vocals are NOT the studio version, and the instrumentation is relatively different/clearly live, with Chris doing interesting bits on the piano esp during the bridge and Jonny doing some pretty big effects not present on the studio version.

The band has said they'd never do a self titled album right? I could see Coldplay doing an album in the style of Drake....it would be interesting but not my favourite. :lol: But imagine Hotline Bling with more piano. Oh wait...

I looked on that Twitter and it doesn't seem to have any details. Can you link to a specific post maybe?

What's Wings for Coldplay?

You'll be pleasantly surprised to know Coldplay re-covered it with Kylie herself during the GS tour while they were in Australia! (listen for a mega addition to the drums before the last chorus by Will... :D)

Hymn for the Weekend: bird noises at the beginning, references to wings and being lifted up though this is also mostly a reference to angels. Up in Flames: "So it's over, this time you're flying on..."

Listen for Guy's acoustic guitar line! Great cover! This one is less well known even though it was so recent.

I quite like their cover of the Beastie Boys when their member MCA passed away:

At the end!

I fancied having a discussion about the music that inspires Coldplay B-sides. In a totally self-interested way, I want to find more music that sounds like Sleeping Sun. Because i cannot place the inspiration for that song. For me, it makes me think of a bunch of antelopes running through the Australian plains??? But are there other bands that sound like this? Other examples of things we can talk about: -Moving to Mars is a little bit like Life on Mars? by David Bowie, with a lot of melancholy piano and then a huge guitar solo. The guitar solo is VERY Pink Floyd-esque though. -One I Love is clearly a product of Echo and the Bunnymen, and the band covering Lips Like Sugar during the AROBTTH era. -Not a B-side, but Another's Arms reminds me a lot of 80s music. For instance the spoons part sounds a little like the keyboard part in Africa by Toto.

Finally listened to the whole album. I need to listen to it more, but I generally like it less than the other two albums. But holy pants the artwork is pretty!!!!! Dead in the Water is the best track on the album hands down...too bad it's just a B-side. Imagine a full band version of that too. The Man Who Built the Moon kicks ass, yet has never been played live. For the rest of the songs, I feel like there are 0 good guitar solos even though Gem is now touring with the band...which is really sad given how great songs like Riverman and I Wanna Live in a Dream / Stop the Clocks, etc. The atmospherics and production of this album are good though, esp on headphones. It's a Beautiful World is cool too. Most of the songs don't really do what I want them to do in some way? Who knows, maybe the album will grow on me. I guess I'm an oldNoel-er and just wanted 10 songs like Dead in the Water. xD

I guess another counterargument to my earlier point is that the shows have relatively similar setlists across the whole tour. Why make 4 of a very similar thing? However, maybe there will be CD mixes of songs off 1 leg, and DVD mixes off another - that would get us 48?

Given that their shows have about 24 songs including interludes, perhaps there will be 4 different versions of the AHFOD concert, as in 4 times 24 songs equals 96 things to produce? Maybe 4 shows or locations perhaps. More optimistically I’d love to see a full album of soundchecks this tour so we can hear things like HYPNOTISED (full band), AROBTTH (2003 to 2007 versión), Spies, Oceans, just to name a few songs that I know were soundchecked based on YouTube videos.

I might be able to see him next weekend for MoogFest and was wondering if his live set is worth catching? I'd probably have to pay like $100 for a daypass to the festival. I love Midnight and Life in Technicolor!! Thanks!

The verses seem to mostly hover on an F Choruses Dm-Bb-F Hope that gets you started! I've never learned the song myself but will have a crack at it...by November 2018. ;)

Great finds - I've never heard that acoustic Chris/Jonny version of Swallowed in the Sea...very pretty. :) I'll also add 42 and Christmas Lights are excellent piano songs. :) Especially this version at the Paralympics: Another great version of X&Y and though this is a piano thread I'll point out Jonny does some really neat guitar in the intro and outros! Note also the super cool piano in the middle interlude! LIJ is great and has such a smart piano part but I wish Chris would play it instead of having it on the backing track. :( Let me know if there's one particular song or moment in a song y'all want to learn, and I can work on a tutorial!

Great cover! I too wish it had more of Guy/Jonny/Will but still good. :)

While Americana/folk and/or psychadelic/dreampop is a cool and likely possibility, here's another idea to entertain while we have nothing to talk about: Another possibility that came to mind as I was listening to various music - what if Coldplay did a triphop/jazzy album? AICTAIY has been compared to Massive Attack because the first half of the song centers around a very hypnotic drumbeat and bassline, and the drumbeat is almost identical to Teardrop by Massive Attack. Other music that I think of from the 1990s that has this style is Zero-7 and Moby. Coldplay has in one interview said one of the albums they always listened to during their beginnings was Moon Safari by Air. Which has one of the most amazing songs of all time, Under the Milky Way (featured on Donnie Darko) complete with acoustic guitar and a guitar/"bagpipe" solo made with electric guitar + ebow + running the guitar through a synthesizer. There's a VERY moving fanmade video that because of copyright reasons doesn't have the studio audio anymore, but I promise you your mind will be blown if you listen to THIS AUDIO over the SECOND VIDEO: over THIS VIDEO (but MUTE THE AUDIO HERE):