MosesTheMarshmallow

I for one welcome a second MX which includes: -Hurts Like Heaven, to date, Jonny's most complicated guitar solo and number of guitar solos jammed in 1 song -Charlie Brown, ETIAW, and DLIBYH all with fun tinkly riffs from Jonny. If you like that tiny bit of Orphans, then why not have LOTS of it? Also all these songs have high energy and great production + xylobands! -Acoustic masterpieces: UATW, UFO, and Up With the Birds -Massive singalongs, esp Paradise. If you don't like that song, at least it has a big guitar solo from Jonny! Even if you don't like POC, that has huge guitar and basslines too. -Major Minus!!!! -I actually quite like Up in Flames. It's got a simple electronic beat, piano, nice guitar lines, tragic vocals. What's so bad about all that??

Brothers and Sisters, and now, Daddy. *scratches chin*

^Champion of the World is great! It reminds me a lot of AROBTTH B-sides like One I Love or Moses. IMO Trouble in Town is a very heavy and angry track. Just delivered with a chiller vibe. :p

That's an acoustic version of SJLT. :O That's NOT the song winning the Youtube poll..so I wonder if we'll get a few of the hits, stripped down. Or maybe they're just cocking about. :lol:

Let us stoke some One Way Train rumours :p [MEDIA=twitter]1195067367694442498[/MEDIA] View: https://twitter.com/coldplay/status/1195067367694442498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1195067367694442498&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html%231195067367694442498

I quite like Trouble in Town's Malcolm X sample - it reminded me instantly of how that is used on the album Drones by Muse. It's not for everyone but it creates a lot of cool tension that gets broken by Jonny's amazing solo and adds to EL's status as a political album.

^My link may have been removed, but I'd Pick You Every Time is a B-side from the NGHFB (first album) era. Isn't it great?! IMHO Gem > Tim Smith. But I do appreciate that Tim Smith would sing backup vocals on a number of songs, which was really important to the no-ow part of If I Had a Gun: But otherwise Gem seems to be the better player...better feel, better tone, etc. Also holy wow, Chris Sharrock is so much better than Jeremy Stacey. He is just a perfect drummer. Speaking of IIHAG, can y'all believe this was all we had back then, a crappy recording from the 2000s...I couldn't be happier that they turned it into a real song that sounds so great.

I will listen to the leak this weekend because my birthday is on Monday and my partner is visiting me, so we'll listen together. :) But then I will promptly buy the CD from my local record store! :D I came here to post this...cool video! Did anyone notice that, and I hope this isn't too much of a spoiler, that on Arabesque Will is playing one of the main melodic guitar riffs while playing the kick drum. SO COOL. (I'm assuming Jonny will play all the atmospheric electric guitar parts)

Viva la Vuvuzela!

Ah - this must be on the rumoured 3rd EP! I love what NGHFB has done mostly. I find Holy Mountain a bit insufferable to listen to. But Ft Knox is very vaguely like Airbag by Radiohead in a cool way. The title track on TMWBTM is so kickass! Everything is more experimental and I'm certainly not in the business of being like those Oldplay-only fans. However, I do wish there were more guitar solos across NGHFB discography, since that's what makes me love Riverman and The Dying of the Light so much. Both Tim Smith and Gem are great guitarists.

I haven't listened to the most recent EP yet, but here are some opinions on Black Star Dancing: 1. The title track is pretty good, but feels like a rehash of other NGHFB disco-influenced songs such as What a Life, Ballad of the Mighty I, and in particular, it sounds like a huge ripoff of It's a Beautiful World. I do like that this has a serious guitar solo reminiscent of Riverman, one that shreds well and is up there with Ballad. 2. Rattling Rose is good. It reminds me of Lowrider or various bossa nova songs. Not a sound that NG is associated with usually. I'll have to listen to it a few more times to decide how much I like it / how forgettable it is. 3. Sail On is by a light year the best song on Black Star Dancing. I wish it had a guitar or piano solo or something, which makes me rate Dead in the Water higher (man, is there a more raw and amazing track?!). The music videos and thematic imagery (sail on, water) are even similar between the two. Imagine an album that was just If I Had a Gun, Dead in the Water, Sail On, and The Dying of the Light. Well I guess that would be boring and homogenous, but do it for the fans damnit! Sail On reminds me a lot of Noel's other folksy endeavour from a few years ago: NGHFB's ballads are the best. :)

Arabesque immediately reminded me of this - horns, and even both songs have a spoken word bit!

Jonny has a lot of other niche guitars that are fun but also somewhat unique to him within the context of the band, eg the orange Les Paul on Violet Hill, the Jaguar (or is it a Jazzmaster?) on the VLV tour GPASUYF/Talk mashup . There's also the Blue and Brown solidbody telecasters from the Parachutes era! Which speaking of effects are cool with the phaser effect on Don't Panic. YES and I feel like every tour it just gets dirtier sounding. xD

A Liam collaboration would be most interesting, though I feel that his voice has really gone south over the years whereas Noel's voice has only gotten better. Nonetheless, I feel like there hasn't really been a prominent male singer collaborator on any Coldplay song off the top of my head except for Arabesque with Stromae, though there was Jay-Z for Lost!+. Looking at the list of collaborators for this album that may change! Speaking of Oasis and the Gallaghers, I've always wondered if/whether this rumour from the MX era ever came to be about Noel Gallagher giving Chris a guitar pedal that would then end up in a song: "Noel stamps on a pedal and starts off a loop of glorious noise. Immediately Chris is on his feet and shouting, 'What the hell is that?' "Chris has his iPhone out to record it, excitedly proclaiming it the most amazing thing he's ever heard. Noel is laughing as the pedal loops away through the stack." He continued: "Fast forward to the dressing room on the show day and Chris is handing me the pedal responsible for all the fuss. "It turns out that Noel has come in today and motioned Chris over to his dressing room next door with the words, 'I've got a little present for yer…' "Chris is holding it with great reverence and excitement. 'Can you record what's in here immediately? And then give it Rik [simpson] (sound engineer)? We're going to take it back to the studio and run it through Jonny's (Buckland, guitarist) rig and mic it up'." The roadie added: "Where it'll end up, I've no idea, but if it finds its way into a song, Noel could easily be playing on the next record without ever having set foot in the studio."" https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a367647/noel-gallagher-could-feature-on-next-coldplay-album/

I'd love a Jonny signature guitar (once I have a ton of money....). A 72' sunburst Telecaster thinline would be sweet. It'd be cool to have Jonny effect pedals. And I know you can do this with existing gear but still...such as: -His particular reverb setting on Lovers in Japan -The pitched-up delay on Amazing Day -Backwards delay on Strawberry Swing -The atmospheric reverb/delay on the MX tour versions of GPASUYF and Yellow -The repetitive sampler/delay on Low, and on the 2003 tour version of Spies -The crazy sounding delay in live versions of Clocks Also, I'd love to have a Jonny MX tour Stratocaster (can you tell I like MX lol), since there's a lot that he does with the whammy bar that's pretty cool, esp on GPASUYF and Paradise live versions.

Interesting theories! Also is there some kind of unifying spoiler policy on discussion of EL the track? I am one of those people trying to not listen to it or know too much about it before the album comes out since it's the CLOSING track. Without having heard the title track, the album's name, theme, and sunrise/sunset motifs make me think a lot of the music video for Oasis's the Masterplan - I was reminded me of this with the comment about Everyday Life potentially representing just one day:

In all these years I still haven't seen Coldplay live, but here are my estimates of what are good songs live: -Everything's Not Lost for cathartic and repetitive singing -Up & Up for its guitar solo -VLV for obvious reasons -Clocks, Charlie Brown for its energy -UATW

Maybe it'll sound like... Unfortunate hypothesis - Life is Beautiful may be dead, because the lyrics look like they may have been recycled into Arabesque: "There's a new song coming on the radio Frutas florecen en todo el mundo Let the flowers all blossom The hummingbirds hum We're all born equal under the same sun Someone could be you and you could be someone So do to each other as you would be done"

The live performance is super cool on SNL! Without spoiling too much, I'll say the guitar is great if not even better live and Chris's voice sounds good!! And the bass is excellent! One odd detail other posters have picked up on is that Will is using a smaller drumkit with fewer drums, as was noticed in some of the artwork. Not sure what the story on that might be! It's been said these are emails between the band and Mat about what should go in the video! If you look closely there's some commentary about the panning, shots, etc. And the lyrics of course. Hadn't thought about that but that makes a lot of sense! It does sound quite a bit like air sirens/alarms.

In case anyone was wondering where the two peeps from the Press Conference hail from!

^Whelp, would've loved to have a double album^ Red Hot Chili Peppers' Stadium Aracdium, Pink Floyd's The Wall are a couple excellent ones. I agree that 45 min albums are the most concise and tightly done, but it would've been nice to get a gratuitous 90-120 minutes of Coldplay content all at once. Not to mention you can listen to VLV+PM, GS+AHFOD+Kaleidoscope and get really nice 1-hour-plus experiences. The vibe I get from Orphans and a little bit from Arabesque is early Arcade Fire - groovy and dancy (in the way that Birds is) but with a relatively acoustic drive, some jazz and world music / non-English-language influences and some political commentary. This is immediately what I thought of:

For the record I don't think 1:46 is a glitch. It's just an abrupt transition because Jonny's guitar comes in a beat or two before the next bar while everything else stops suddenly. I just perceived it as a cool beat drop.

Love the song! The lyrics are really interesting, and every single word of it, down to the apricot trees, bleeds of Middle East references in a clever way. I wonder how they'll go about performing the chorus bits without the kids always there. I hope it doesn't end up on a backing track. :( Guy and Jonny shine in a huge way! :) You can tell a song is good and has the right simplicity when you can hear the bass even on crappy laptop speakers. Also Jonny's quick little riffs and backwards guitar are so beautiful. Will's backing vocals in the second verse, unlike in many songs (see UATW) are mixed to just the right volume.

Brilliant video! The middle section is so pretty and LIJ like. The birds are breathtaking. The room upside down effect really captures the upbeat mood! The beach scenes are cool and I wonder if an alternate music video will be released with just that part. We got some really cool studio easter eggs in the first minute, with Will's backing vocals being really clear, Jonny playing a mandolin (?), in addition to Chris on the acoustic of course. BY THE WAY THIS MAY BE THE ONE COLDPLAY MUSIC VIDEO WHERE GUY AND JONNY SMILE!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay y'all were right. On Coldplay.com it says "Good evening. We are very excited to report that Coldplay’s eighth album, Everyday Life, will be released on Friday, November 22 on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats. The 53-minute double album is divided into two halves, Sunrise and Sunset. The album’s cover image is based around a 1919 photo of Jonny’s great-grandfather’s band."