ColdplayingfromKansas

Huh. Those all do sound very similar--you can really tell with the first "oh" and the way he says "apple." Hopefully his voice hasn't gotten strained to the point where this becomes a standard thing!

Ah, cool--I didn't realize the floor layout was different for arenas vs. stadiums. I'll be looking for floor seats then, thank you! Although I do admit I was looking forward to putting my storm-the-field abilities to the test :charming:

Concert noob here Would you guys recommend the floor (assuming I can get there early enough to get close), or a lower level as far as the best view? I'll be going in for the presale on Monday (for their Tulsa show), and I was wondering what tickets I should try to snatch.

^ Yes. I got an email this morning

Hyyypppee Never seen Coldplay live. Glad I may get to finally check it off my bucket list!

Holy hell they're coming to Tulsa I may actually cry

W H Y I've always hated that the guys ignore X&Y in their live sets, but this just makes me sad. And only one song from Viva :(

I don't know how others feel, but to me none of their "big" post-Viva hits transfer well to a live performance (and even Viva la Vida the song never quite sat well with me live, although the chant is awesome). Maybe it's that there's too much going on at once and they're trying to hard to get a big, stadium-filling sound whereas before it just sort of happened naturally? I think Chris's singing may be a part of it as well--those big, poppy songs tend to lend themselves to a certain type of singing, and with Chris getting older I'm not sure he can carry those songs as well (unfortunately :( ). I don't know if it's just my Oldplay bias coming to the surface or there's really something there, but the newer big hits (ASFoS, ETiaW, HFtW, Adventure, Paradise, Charlie Brown, PoC) don't ever seem as clean as the older ones. Strangely enough, all the "non-hits" off the newer albums (HLH, Oceans, Midnight, Up&Up, AHFoD) sound perfectly fine to me :shrug: Does anyone else feel this way, or am I just crazy? :P

That's one long album :lol: Aiko is so beautiful. I always pair it with the end of Moving to Mars and it's just heavenly

This is something that just popped into my head, but--if you all had the power to completely erase the last three albums and replace it with one "good" album using only songs from MX, GS, and AHFoD, could you do it? Or are there too few songs that you really like enough to keep? For instance, I'd have an album (in no particular order) of MX/HLH Major Minus AHT/DLIBYH Up With the Birds Moving to Mars Midnight Another's Arms Oceans Ghost Story All Your Friends Birds Up&Up Not too shabby I suppose, considering how little I listen to those albums

"Disturbia" was one of two songs I played on repeat back in middle school just before discovering Coldplay. I'd completely forgotten that it existed until now . . . After giving it a new listen, I actually kind of like it still lol. I wish PoC could have taken more of a darker route like this lyric-wise rather than what it turned out to be :shrug:

yes. At this point, the only songs off AHFoD that I ever listen to are the title track, Birds, and Up&Up. The live version of Everglow from Belasco Theater is pretty good too. If/When the guys make another album, they just need to record it live or something. There's none of that old magic in the new songs.

I'm a bit late to the party, but I loved the show! As with everyone else, I could have done without so much Beyoncé and Bruno taking up Coldplay's time, but the ending with all of them together was just fantastic. I got goosebumps at the transition from Clocks to Fix You. And who could have expected Up&Up to top it all off? Haters gonna hate, as always, but even if I weren't a Coldplay fan, I'd call the show a definite success! They did seem to be having trouble with the audio at the beginning though. The guys seemed very quiet compared to the other two. I can only assume that was because Coldplay was "live" (for the most part) and the other two were (I assume) pre-recorded?

Okay but that Clocks --> Fix You transition though in that Superbowl video :wacky: Also the more I listen to AHFoD the less it sounds like a Coldplay album???

I thought the video was "pretty," for lack of a better word, but it doesn't really fit the song. I'm ready for some more simple/serious videos like the ones for Violet Hill, In My Place, The Scientist, Fix You, etc.

Don't do this to me Now I'm gonna be disappointed :lol:

Great distinction. I think this nicely bridges the gap between the people who voice that Stargate is 100% to blame and the people who voice that the blame is split 50-50. In the eyes of a lot of fans, both the producers and the band messed up. I'm not sure the reasoning would be that the band didn't want to do "extra work," as they've always been pretty hard-working guys :thinking:

Some eras are more difficult than others :lol: When someone asks me what the best song is from the Viva era I literally cannot list any less than five

^ They did a Talk/GPASUYF mashup during the Viva tour! ---- One does not simply pick only five Coldplay riffs but . . . Clocks Adventure of a Lifetime Life in Technicolor ii Strawberry Swing White Shadows Talk Trouble Sleeping Sun

Hnnngg yes to both of those. Moving to Mars always seems to get the credit as the best song to come out of the MX era, but honestly UWtB gives it a run for its money through the sheer gorgeousness of its arrangement.

Others have touched on their reasoning for why/why not these last three albums will be regarded as classics, so I'll just say something brief about their live performances. I have yet to go to a Coldplay concert (unfortunately), but it seems to me that if the guys come out with a 100% loud, bright, and booming performance, it's not going to be as good of an effort as one that's mixed in with a few slower moments. Chris seems to be hinting at the former of these (saying they finally have a setlist with no duds), and I worry that such performances will be nothing more than gigantic 90-minute walls of light and sound. That works great if done correctly, but you can't go doing that all the time. Some songs you just need the guys and some spotlights (think See You Soon on the Live 2003 DVD, very simple, very elegant, and very emotional). Hopefully these new stage additions will address that and let the guys keep some of their slower moments intact while maintaining the pacing and energy given by the "big" songs. MARK! :awesome:

I happened to be scrolling through channels and landed on that new Shannara fantasy show thing right as they started playing Midnight in the background. Of course, I stopped so I could listen to it and dang, they played almost the whole song. It was rather odd, because I don't think that scene had anything to do with what Midnight is about (they were at a party of some sort? Also all the characters are elves?), but Coldplay, so yolo I guess?

FTFY :P

I've said it before and I'll say it again, but the whole Ghost Stories album could have been just FANTASTIC if the lyrics were better. It's supposed to be this deep blue, cool, melancholic thing that portrays the bleakness of heartbreak (which the instrumentals pull of very well for the most part), but without good lyrics to spark that emotional connection, the whole thing just kinda floats dead in the water.

Hmm. The whole Parachutes album has always given me a cool-and-silent-misty-morning type of feel. As for individual songs, I'd go with Midnight, I Bloom Blaum (maybe not so much winter as just this really stark, bleak, cold night), or Prospekt's March.