ColdplayingfromKansas

Right? The Muhammad Ali clip at the end is even more relevant now. This version is fantastic. It almost sounds like an Oldplay song, even! Gonna be listening to this a lot over the next few days.

Aw yeah Kansas City hype :dance: Going with my best friend again--hopefully this time we won't get lost :awesome:

Same! Other than Parachutes, Viva is the only era we don't have a live DVD/documentary for! All the same--very excited for this!

^ I will defend the AoaL riff until my dying day :nod:

I see your point about not having that big anthem-like song with an ambient album, but to be fair GS is almost exclusively a quiet, mellow, acoustic/ambient-y album . . . except for ASFoS :P You could potentially even have a song like Life in Technicolor or Fix You, with a really sparse ambient intro that turns into something closer to a rock song. The more we talk about GS/MX/AHFoD, the more I realize how close they could have been to the Oldplay albums. Polish up some lyrics, don't collaborate with certain pop artists, bring in some real drums, maybe straight-out cut a song or two . . . That compilation GS/AHFoD album people were posting about a few pages back would have been killer See: Clocks :P

^ I know what you mean by everything feels more subdued. I'm not a big fan of MX, but I will agree that 1) it does a good job, for the most part, of giving you that "big" ending and 2) It does a good job of straddling the line between pop and rock. Really, get rid of PoC, swap out UiF with MtM, and brush up the lyrics on some of the other songs and it could have been a more-worthy successor to Viva. (GLaDoS is my fave, btw. So sassy, so evil. I love her) I've always been of the opinion that some of Coldplay's best songs were the ones that were never released on an album. I love me some Violet Hill, ARoBttH, Don't Panic, and White Shadows, but then for those same eras you also have Bloodless Revolution (:dazzled:), Animals, HiRtC, and HYStW. Like, just let each of the guys pick their favorite song that didn't make it on that era's album and release them as a b-side compilation, or something :P This is the first era where we've gotten exactly zero b-sides/extra songs and it makes me sad. Moving to Mars, Ghost Story, and All Your Friends are proof to me that Chris hasn't lost his lyrical touch--give us one of those for this era! I'm pulling for LP8 to be an ambient album :nod: We're all fed up with pop, and apparently the guys are done with rock--time to move on to something else. #bringbackenoandhopkins

Ah, my mistake. I think I was combining your comment with the one you replied to and wound up with some strange hybrid of the two :P I'm one of those people who doesn't like those chopped-up vocal bits. I remember when we got the first teaser, right where the song cut off it sounded like it was going to explode into this massive jam session like Glass of Water. Hearing what it actually turned out to be was a little disappointing :laugh3: I do like the song otherwise though! Unrelated: The Goldrush came up on my playlist earlier. I listened to it three or four times through because it's just so lovely. Can we please have happy-sounding songs like that again instead of ones like HftW?

^ If nothing else, it has a killer bassline :P And I would actually disagree that AoaL sounds like "other pop acts." I mean, sure, it definitely leans more toward the pop side of the spectrum than the rock side, but to me AoaL is one of the more older era Coldplay-ish sounding songs on the whole album. You've got Jonny's riff for one, and there are a few good lyrics scattered here and there. Personally, I would rank HftW, Fun, Amazing Day, and Everglow as more likely to be put out by a Top 40 artist than I would AoaL :shrug:

^ IMO, that's one of the reasons Up&Up sounds so much better live. It sounds much more natural with just Chris and the piano. Plus the tone of the drums on the album is kind of weird? I know we go around in circles in this thread talking about how songs need more organic drums, but honestly Up&Up is one of the songs I think would benefit the most from that. Also Lukas is gorgeous and if the guys had recorded it themselves it would be one of my faves <3 The instrumental alone is sublime

I need this version of Up&Up And Birds A+ as usual guys. Even though I'm an Oldplayer at heart, your live performances always blow me away. Come back to America soon <3

lololol Chris you dork

For some reason I'm just in a constant state of forgetting that song exists :P EDIT: holy mother jonny that guitar

lol at the "one more song" chants EDIT: Other than Up&Up, is there anything left? Assuming no Don't Panic, TKC, etc. :thinking: Double edit: Oh duh, ASFoS

The Midnight pulse backing for Fix You is actually the greatest <3

Man, even if Chris is lip-syncing I just love that Midnight transition :wacky:

Was literally just thinking that :lol:

That Paradise remix is always on point :wacky: Also Birds was killer

It is an actual crime that this was never formally released. I like it more than some of the songs on the actual album/Prospekt's March :lol:

*emerges from the depths of college* It's very odd to me why they've decided to lipsync Clocks, while there are several songs that seem more difficult that are being played entirely live. Like, why that song? Chris can't jump around and get out of breath since he's sitting at the piano, and there aren't any particularly high notes or long strings where he can't take a quick breath between words. Maybe they chose it precisely because it's easy to "fake," but again, why just that song? I listened for it at the Tulsa show, and it was definitely the lipsynced version. It's still a powerhouse live, but I was just a little sad since Clocks is one of my favorites :(

Thank you! I've been wanting to go to a Coldplay concert since I was in middle school. Glad I could finally make it happen in college--even if it means I have a new expensive addiction :lol:

Wow those are actually fantastic seats. I was probably watching them take that video :lol:

Excuse the terrible camera job--I was trying not to freak out at the fact that they were actually playing my favorite song about 100 feet away from me. Only the very beginning isn't there--again, because I freaked out so much that I couldn't pull out my phone :lol: EDIT: Also, I know, I'm actually a terrible person for shooting the video vertically

Thank you! Good to be back! :hug: I was too excited to not post something, haha

Violet Hill was amazing! In no world did I ever dream they would actually play it. Simply perfection :wacky: They also did Don't Panic! I'm about to head to class, but I managed to get a video of most of it--I'll post it here later Perfect night, I'm still amped 12 hours later :omgomg:

Hey, that's the section my friend and I are going to be in :awesome: