MosesTheMarshmallow

My university was selling this but I didn't buy it only because I didn't really want a black and white poster (this is me being really picky). They had a B+W CP one that I didn't really want either. :\ DO WE GO TO THE SAME UNI?! :lol:

THIS. Not to mention the X&Y and VLV acoustic sets in the middle of gigs. They definitely add a unique amount of intimacy.

Agreed on all points, although I think all the MX tracks are very big growers and I'd defend the album to the death. Indeed, the album version of Fallen Empires didn't really do anything for me, but watching it live, the BBC1 version, really showed me what a beautiful and clever song it is. I used to think mandolins were a cheap trick Coldplay used for their B/C-Stage acoustic sections [no offense to Guy] but Nathan REALLY rocked out on it, which really surprised me. The Gary-Nathan-restofband vocals are also as brilliant as the Chris-Jonny vocals on Don't Panic and Politik. This Isn't Everything You Are is a safe song, but I still think there's a reasonable change in sound. It's more exciting than Chasing Cars, and is about the same as Run for me. In any case, I like the line that has "fuck" in it...that was a well placed one, I think. :lol: The piano is also nice. COITD is also cool...I noticed the dance-pop beat too. VERY disco. But I loved it on first listen. Gary's falsetto is a little offputting for me though. I guess I'm used to, and prefer, Chris's and Noel Gallagher's.

Damnit I voted for all of them. D: Amsterdam, Strawberry Swing, Moses, Moving to Mars, Swallowed in the Sea, Lovers in Japan.

I miss LIJ too. :[ Jonny's guitar work on AROBTTH in that recording is amazing^^. Great find. :smug: This would be really neat, but probably would be unsatisfying for a lot of fans...especially people who might argue, "want to hear the album? Listen to the album." Actually, wouldn't it even be possible to play two albums in one go? Parachutes and VLV (and probably MX) are a little bit on the shorter side....it'd make for around 2 hours to play any two albums. :sneaky: I've heard a few other posters suggest this, but it would be really nice if the band had a few slots to rotate a couple songs from old albums: -Parachutes: Shiver, Trouble, ENL, Don't Panic, Spies -AROBTTH: Amsterdam, AROBTTH, Daylight, Warning Sign, Green Eyes (acoustic-ish) -X&Y: Talk, Swallowed in the Sea, Square One -VLV: 42, DAOOHF, Lovers in Japan, Strawberry Swing (especially in the place of Lost and/or Violet Hill)

Probably the bass drum. :shrug: Maybe the album version is very different? I'd hope it is.

[With the exception of the first line, Chris often leaves out the "I's which I have left] I stole a key, Took a car downtown where the lost boys meet, I took a car downtown and took what they offered me, To set me free, I saw the lights go down at the end of the scene, I saw the lights go down, They're standing in front of me. [the following verse has inverted sentence structure] In my scarecrow dreams, When they smashed my heart into smithreens, I'll be a bright red rose combusting the concrete. Be a cartoon heart.. Light a fire, up by the spark, Light a fire, a flame in my heart, We'll run wild, We'll be glowing in the dark... [sometimes he repeats the glowing in the dark line here] All the boys, all the girls, All the mess in the world, All the boys, all the girls, All the things that occurs, All the highs, all the lows, As the room is spinning, goes (?) We'll run wild, We'll start glowing in the dark... So we saw....an innocent riot, We'll be glowing in the dark.

^Yep, the intro to ETIAW is NOT Fix You fading out because Fix You is in a different key to begin with. It wouldn't make sense musically. Anyways, I think it will be an instrumental with an additional twist - it will probably include the funny looping repeating guitar at the end of UATW (live). The little bit at the very end where Chris plays the last chord and bends a string, and then it echoes a bunch of times before they jump into Politik. I think MMIX will have that.

Is there any way to get both CD and MP3 (like Noel Gallagher's HFB)?

^As nice as the TITP one is, it's not technically mistake free because Chris is cheering for Guy at the end and thusly neglects to sing half of the outro. It's definitely 2nd or 3rd most enjoyable though, after Letterman and Glastonbury. A good live version JUST for listening and not so much for the cool factor of the aforementioned would probably be ACL, Where the Action Is + Rock Werchter + Pinkpop (a tad harder to find).

Somehow the tone of the band's remarks struck me the wrong way in this interview. Wanting to go higher than Chris is cool, but sometimes I feel like the band would just accept their limitations a little more - they're 4 men. Such a check on themselves might prevent them from overloading their sound with synth among other stuff and trying to search for a "bigger" sound. The optimistic flipside - experimentation, fuller sound, kickassness....I have high hopes for POC nonetheless.

Oooh nice find! I love all the xylophone in this song and Paradise.

I agree with every part of your post, but I do think UIF and MTM are almost interchangeable because both deal with being bad things and being torn apart and such. But yeah, the posters who have said that we need to hear it in context of the album are very much right.

I agree with you OP, MTM > UIF. It should have been UIF on the EP, MTM on the album.

I love it, but having thought about it, I wish MTM and UIF had switched places. MTM is definitely the better song, but UIF is still haunting in a similar way.

I'm almost happy with how ETIAW and MM are as is. Synth intro/outros or just general space would be okay. The only thing I'd like is for MM to have more of the guitar of the live version - harmonics after the 1st chorus, and more general Jonny beastliness.

The more I listen to this song, the more I realize how intricately cohesive the whole song is. It just feels like it's REALLY well put-together; at first I thought the one-member-walk-on thing was kind of silly, it just makes so much sense now...it's really the boys against the world when they play it. I secretly hope they release as a single. If the band can get away with releasing Don't Panic as a single, then they can with UATW. That's because I personally think Don't Panic isn't very radio-friendly...it's a rather "boring" acoustic song. It's beautiful and it's wonderful and catchy. But it's nowhere near Yellow or Clocks or VLV or ETIAW/Paradise as a radio song.

Jajajaja :lol: I was going to say the exact same thing. I wish the studio version had the live version's mix. :(:(:( Which has a lot more piano and guitar. Just like Major Minus, Paradise live >>> studio. But the studio version of MM has grown on me. So will Paradise, luckily.

This! Even on the studio version, I think a lot of stuff like the opening riff is actually Jonny but it just doesn't sound immediately like him.

Yeah I dislike the slight unfinished feel to the song, but maybe that's on purpose in context of the album. If something has gone up in flames, then it disappears before you want it to right? I like the drums, and the vocal-guitar interaction at the end although the sound is not good quality on the recordings. The chorus is repetitive, yes, but I think both studio and future performances will at least have Chris singing on the mark better. I just wish the guitar was more prominent, especially in the choruses. I feel like Jonny could definitely do something like the live versions of Fix You where he does that echoey da-na-na in the choruses. This song reminds me a lot of Proof, actually. And I LOVE the ending. I listened to it just now and it was just chilling the way the guitar and piano do that little fade-out thing. It's kind of like the end of Trouble actually. All that said, I gave it a 10 because Coldplay songs without synth are far and few now, and I feel like once everything sinks in, this could be one of the most haunting songs of the album.

The slow-ow-ow-ow-ow it down in UATW, that is. Or how about I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i in Fix You. Food for thought. :lol:

The chorus is too much like Paradise's. :(

I was pleasantly surprised at how little the song relied on synth/strings the way VLV does too. :)

-Chris's singing wasn't the best the whole concert, but I know it can be better. The whole performance he sang a little "lazier" than he should have. Not really his fault since there are so many factors to this. I strongly believe things will sound better in future concerts. -Jonny on the guitar right away...beautiful. Will and Guy sound brilliant too. Way better than studio. Now I wish the live version WAS the studio version.

No it really is Em-Db-Ab. Listen to the bass if you're not sure. Although I can see why you'd think it's the same because it sounds pretty good on Paradise's progression (which, fun fact, is the same as Wonderwall and the slew of songs that uses that progression).