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Stream???? Thanks for the news!

Interesting observation, though it sounds like Guy's bass part was used exactly as is in both album and live versions. Jonny's guitar line is maintained but I think it's the guitar tone that's different - it's cleaner and less gritty as it is in this recording. What IS very interesting is Jonny's sound at 2:10 - I believe that's the basis of the synth build before each chorus. It's a very creative take on it and I wonder if that was what Avicii used, or if he used his own synth sound to get that build...

Great video!! Very powerful message/powerful song. Judging purely on quality I find it to be a slightly-worse little sibling of the Violet Hill dancing politicians video but this is still a great, appropriately serious piece of deeply political work.

I like that it WON'T have Clocks/Viva/Paradise. GS was meant to be enjoyed as a unit, not with the hits interspersed. Music videos sound great too for the bonus tracks!!!! Though at the end of the day, I agree Live 2012 was a bigger surprise and value for money.

Glad to hear a new album is coming. The new single sounds a bit Beady Eye though. :p But really the nah-nah-nah thing is a bit overbearing,,.like something off Different Gear Still Speedig I like the bells though.

We haven't seen anything that's "technology" or "digital". Something like the green symbols in The Matrix and Daft Punk combined. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Well nonetheless it'll be something we haven't before and something we won't have guessed. Even Ghost Stories where as a whole I like a little less than the other albums we got: a heavily bass driven R&B inspired song (Magic), Midnight which needs no explanation, Another's Arms which has percussion/synth that I think is a mix of 80s music and contemporary trap and hiphop, an EDM song, and electronic drums on most of the songs. For better or worse, Ghost Stories is something new sonically, at least for Coldplay, which is evidence that the next one will also be something new.

= Atlas and Moving to Mars. ;)

Agree with all the aforementioned. One thing that I don't see anyone talking about..but I think is really cool about this song is that the time signature changes quite a bit. The first two verses have alternating bars of 3/4 and 2/4, the interludes are in 4/4, and the loud part is in 4/4. It doesn't come off as one of those songs where you can distinctly feel the time signature being off or have trouble clapping to it. It just flows perfectly - I think that shows really high level craftsmanship in this song.

This is nothing new...Chris has an open love of One Direction and plenty of other "bad" music. I think he and Coldplay have a strong idea of what Coldplay music is. Worry not. :)

Hey 6 days after my birthday, I'll take it. :p

I think All Your Friends is magnificent. It's way more innovative and enjoyable a listen for me since I think it captures perfectly Ghost Story's implicit musical mission statement - use electronics to create an intimate sound, electronic drums, a big focus on bass. However, what it does better is having deep lyrics that are still emotional and well-delivered (some of Chris's best vocals in my opinion - the "open fiiiiire" is so cool). The guitar-piano tradeoff solo is very interesting, which is a technique that's sort of used in Atlas but in a different execution. Indeed - a return to rock would be quiet innovative because the way Coldplay does "rock" has always been very interesting and not predictable. That's how we get songs like Moving to Mars, Atlas, 42, Cemeteries of London, HLH...

Now I may be wrong about this, but when I looked at the competition rules for the Chris solo show, it said you have to be 21; but the link gai posted says you have to be 18. Discrepancy? This lends weight to the two-shows hypothesis I think - two venues with different age requirements.

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Well specifically Coldplay and Coldplay fans are bound to attract hate for many reasons...so it's difficult for people to put up with, no? In addition to the personal injury, it hampers the ability to carry out a civilized and intellectual conversation about something that person loves.

Indeed - great songs, great lyrics, great artistry, great live. I think the VLV era had the most charming live era - with the in-the-audience covers and reworks of old songs (though MX still has some of that spirit). This was the last era to really have B-sides and unreleased songs still being performed. The GS era has been painfully rehearsed and repetitive in the live scene.

Thanks for posting this. Is anyone able to explain the rules of the competition? It honestly makes no sense to me.

Maybe this means LP7 is coming?!?!?!??!!!?!??!?!?!?!! [Chris played Wedding Bells at the with-Simon Pegg show pre-MX]

Is this a musical or a marketing choice that they seem to have made though? Even though Coldplay is big and attempts to be mass-appealing, they've said repeatedly in genuine interviews that they're trying to do what they want to do. It's not about trying to please an audience or all the audiences. I think GS is a record that they wanted to make. It might coincide with some contemporary mainstream styles, ASFOS in particular...but it also has a lot of well made tracks that clearly aren't designed to please. The response to Midnight was extremely mixed, Oceans and Fly On are very acoustic-minded....this is to say, if they really wanted to be a brand or to cater...I feel like they'd be making more songs like the Scientist, Clocks, Paradise, and Yellow. Not this slightly experimental slightly electronic stuff. Though I'll agree that the older stuff had more "edge." I think an interesting way to measure a band is how different the recording and live version are. While on one hand, it's good to try to capture what you recorded, there's another sense of, "wow this shit is really springing to life." I really get that sense with songs like Everything's Not Lost, Clocks, Amsterdam, DAAHF, Fix You, Hurts Like Heaven...because the way they're played live are subtly different in ways that really "add" to the experience. I think that's less so the case with GS - the only songs where they undergo this "holy crap that was 1000x better live and I didn't think it could be" transformation would be maybe ASFOS because it has more real drums/guitar mixed to the forefront and Oceans due to Jonny's guitar part. But songs like AIMH, Magic, True Love are almost a carbon copy between live and album, partly because of backing track.

I used to think the drums at the beginning were too loud compared to everything else in the album, that the "doo doo doo's" were a bit obnoxious, that Jonny's presence was kind of ambiguous. The lyrics are bad, but not worse than other songs on the album. All this changed upon hearing the live version I think - then it became evident that Jonny was adding some really cool atmospherics in the intro, a very interesting flute-like riff during the choruses, and a really cool shiny string-like sound at the bridge. Though there's no mega Jonny solo or even a particularly amazing riff like Strawberry Swing...but he's certainly getting some very interesting sounds from his guitar. Will's vocals on this song are AMAZING. It makes me lament the album version of UATW, where Will's vocals are simply not that loud/clear compared to its live version. The acoustic guitar riff is pretty catchy and memorable. The arpeggiated synths are also pretty interesting (which Guy is playing when he's not doing bass) - a very unexpected sound. Together with Another's Arms, I'd say this track does the best at bridging an older Coldplay sound and some interesting electronic elements.

Good show. On the "was this an average setlist" question......may I remind us that MX era tours had... [and I do concede that MX had more shows so perhaps the frequency of variation may be lower than the following list suggests] -Stripped down version of Warning Sign -Everything's Not Lost >1 time -Shiver -What If -Daylight -Green Eyes -Stripped down Amsterdam -The introduction of the version of GPASUYF that we like so much now -Cemeteries of London -Trouble -Lovers in Japan -42 for the Paralympics concert -TKC a few times -Don't Panic

This absolute radio "Virgin" stream is absolutely slow and not loading.....hopefully it makes a connection within an hour lol. Have fun to everybody at the show!!! It looks brill. :)

I hope, to coincide with the EP release, that they play ALL the bonus tracks. :) :) :) And AROBTTH and Crests of Waves. I don't even care about Green Eyes or TKC anymore. :p I'd also like them to play Atlas. And then a 10 minute jam to O parts 1 and 2. :p You cynic. :p

Good version but I think what made it on the album was much more concise and polished. Only thing from the Avicii version that I would've kept were the altered lyrics since they're more varied than in the final song.