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Any chance I could have access please? 🙏

There's a version of Lukas with Chris Martin singing it floating around I believe, as well as Famous Old Painters. I'd be quite interested to hear the full length version of the Viva La Vida demo (with that synth). Has anyone heard that in full?

I’ll try to reserve judgment until the full song comes out but I think (from the snippet I’ve heard) the production lacks the umph that it needs and it had live at Glastonbury. I felt exactly the same about People Of The Pride when I first heard that. It could have sounded massive (like Muse or something) but the drums were so low in the mix and lacked any real bite, the whole song just get a bit lacklustre. However, that song really hits when performed live.

I’m new to all this? Where is this folder people are referring to with all these demos in? 😱

Does anyone have the full version of that studio version of Idiot by any chance?

I've seen several interviews on You Tube (which I found in this forum somewhere) with their MIDI and keyboard technician. Chris's piano is a Yamaha GT20 and is called a 'silent piano', which a real upright piano but with MIDI in/outs built in. You can play it either like a piano or jut as a MIDI controller. In the case of the later, the hammers don't actually touch the strings but still send all the MIDI data to thir sound modules, which are all stores and controlled backstage. The MIDI piano sound Chris uses was actually sampled from his Kawai, which they used during the Parachutes era, becaus he really like the sounds and couldn't find anything similar in sound from a real piano. The organ on Fix You comes from a Korg Triton, which he plays via the 'piano'. There are other samples that are triggered live, such as Will's bell in Viva La Vida and some of the snare and Tom noises in Violet Hill. The bell is something they bought in Texas but sounded terrible. They took the bell out and place a MIDI trigger inside do every time Will hits the bell, it triggers the bell sample from the modules under the stage. As for backing tracks, most of the songs are done to a click and contain some element of baking, which is run from a 16 track Tascam hard disk recorder. This is stuff like the strings in Viva, a lot of Eno's synths and Chris's vocoda backing vocals in Hurts Like Heven. A lot of bands, such as U2 and Muse, use baking tracks nowadays as they couldn't reproduce some of the texture that their music has live without an extensive amount of musicians performing it. All the bread and butter, guitars, bass, drums and piano, are live. The BV's are all live too (except for the aforementioned).

NME are often full of it! When '(What's The Story) Morning Glory' originally came out, they gave it 6/10, then - for an anniversary special featuring Oasis - they rewrote the review and gave it 9/10!!!

I succumb and listened to 'Hurts Like Heaven' after I read a lot of negative posts about it (as it is my favourite new tune). After a few listens, its great!!! Can't wait to hear the whole album (and HLH in full quality) on Monday. Hope I can hold out until then!

I promised myself I wouldn't listen to the leak but after all the comments I found I HjAD to listen to this song because it is one of my favourite CP songs. Is it just me, or is it much faster than the live version? The clip I heard on YouTube sounds like its been run through a pitch shifter, kinda like when you change the playback speed on a record player? Don't want to listen to a high quality version until Monday but thought it was a tad quick and slightly enoxified! Hoping it will grow on me like ETIAW did.

I'm not going to listen until 24th as I am really excited about hearing it, though part of me now feels that the excitement is a little less diminished now I know it is available out there in some format... still not going to listen though.

I love it!!! I think it's one of their best songs to date!!!

Some people just can't take a joke :) In three weeks time, I'm sure many people will either be satsified or moaning that they don't like it as much as Viva La Vida. Get over it and be patient and stop downloading music illegally. It's still illegal, regardless of whether you intend to purchase it or not.

I remember the days when I was in school and Oasis were due to release 'D'You Know What I Mean' (1997). I had to pre-order the single so I would be sure that I would get a copy. Then, on the date of it's release, I went down to town with my mate and we walked into HMV, bought our copies and had to wait until we got home on the bus to listen to it. There was something magical about holding the CD, looking at the songs (all four of them) and waiting to hear what they sounded like. Unfortunately, with the advent of the internet, a lot of that magic is lost nowadays. I am looking forwards to reliving that by not listening to any leaks of MX. Only 3 weeks to go!

Couldn't resist! Hope you're all looking forwards to the 24th Octber (25th if you're in the US).

I liked X&Y but I thought A Rush Of Blood was better. Then, I think Viva has been their best so far. Having heard the songs they've performed live, I wonder whether MX will be to Viva what X&Y was to AROBTTH?! Having said that, X&Y is still one of the best records I own and is far superior to a lot of other albums, so even if MX isn't as good as Viva La Vida, I still reckon it's going to be a great album. I remember the first time I heard AROBTTH feeling very disappointed because I was expecting something else, yet it grew on me so much that I'm still not stick of it 9 years on. I love it. When I first heard the new stuff, I only liked Hurts Like Heaven. I couldn't stand Us Against The World or Charlie Brown. Now, I love those two tracks! Whatever it holds, I can't wait to hear MX.

I'm going to wait until the morning it comes out, walk to HMV with my laptop, buy it, head to Starbucks, order a grande vanilla latte and listen to it then.

Congratulations.

I wonder whether M.M.I.X is the short instrumental intro to 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' that you can hear when Coldplay perform it live (it's literally just one chord on a synth before the 'I Go To Rio' type synth kicks in.

Great review. Why anybody would lie about being at the listening party is beyond me, I believe her. I don't understand why people don't just WAIT for the album rather than speculate so much. It's only (just over) a month away!

I love it. Very beautiful.

Like.

According to EMI's website, the first radio play will also be on the 12th September.

That has been Photoshopped (quite well!). I recognize the tiles and graffiti in the background (as the base layer) as, when I was making some bootleg artwork for some of the Coldplay festival shows, I used that on one of them.

Tracklisting Rumour The Oracle replied on CPs website to someone asking whether the track list had been confirmed (because of some people posting it on Facebook) and I was wondering whether anyone had come across this?