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I think it sounds a lot like a sped-up version of MX - and so does A Hopeful Transmission.

I'll be listening to the tracks as they're streamed; life's too short to go on waiting!

This. :laugh3:

Sorry double post ! :embarrassed:

I'd go with: 1. Politik 2. The Scientist 3. Yellow 4. Charlie Brown 5. In My Place 6. Viva la Vida 7. Swallowed in the Sea 8. Clocks 9. Lovers in Japan 10. Strawberry Swing 11. Fix You 12. Amsterdam 13. Everything's Not Lost / Life is for Living (extended version)

I'd go with: 1. Politik 2. The Scientist 3. Yellow 4. Charlie Brown 5. In My Place 6. Viva la Vida 7. Swallowed in the Sea 8. Clocks 9. Lovers in Japan 10. Strawberry Swing 11. Fix You 12. Amsterdam 13. Everything's Not Lost / Life is for Living (extended version)

It's a good song, not the best that we've heard from MX, but definitely not the worst.

So it's over This time I know it's gone Salt water You tasted it too long I'm comin' home, I know A wasted start (?) Best I could do for the first verse.

Just to get away from all the debate surrounding Paradise, thought I'd have a go and trying to work out what 'story' MX is telling. Sorry if this has already been done, just don't read it rather than tell me that if it has. Chris has said it's a love story surrounding boy and girl protagonists. Clearly it is a love story against a backdrop of struggle and oppression, a beautifully powerful idea, although not a new one ('Nineteen Eighty-Four', 'Les Miserables', hell even 'Harry Potter'). Chris has also said the album draws inspiration from the White Rose Movement in Nazi Germany, the darkest of times epitomized by struggle and oppression. This makes the link with 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' perhaps the most important - I interpret the struggle as being against some tyrant or oppressive regime, a conclusion mainly based on Major Minus. The White Rose Movement of course used graffiti to oppose the regime, clearly explaining the album art and HLH lyrics etc. So on to individual songs. HLH sets the scene. This will be followed by Paradise which introduces the female character and Charlie Brown which introduces the male character. The boy in the story appears to join the resistance movement in CB. Us Against the World then clearly introduces the theme of love between the two for the first time. Having not heard many of the songs that follow, the rest is purely speculation. But it appears by Major Minus the lovers are wanted by the 'bad guys' (couldn't think of a better description). I like to think the story will have a happy ending. But if I know Coldplay they'll leave that ending open to interpretation. Up With the Birds to me suggests the characters die, but it's a happy escape from their struggle, which would be typically dark. I'm not entirely sure on the 'space' theme, but I'm going to assume it's a metaphor. But hey, I could be wrong on everything here!

Completely agree!

Dear pretentious 'old' Coldplay fan I may not have been a massive fan since 2000 mainly because I was just a kid back then. I already said my favourite album is AROBTTH. And as it happens I've seen that breathtaking performance in Toronto, but that doesn't stop me from liking their new material. Thanks.

Ok, I've never written on here but today I've read some ridiculous responses to the release of Paradise. To say that Coldplay are taking a 'new direction' (pop) based on 2 songs is a bit wide of the mark. Yes, ETIAW and Paradise are a new, different sound, but people have been quick to forget all the great songs played at the festivals; CB, HLH and to a lesser extent MM are great songs, and a development from the Viva era. I think they'll make CB the lead single of the album, and in my view it represents what MX is about, along with HLH. UATW sounds more like classic Coldplay, and I'm sure other songs on the album will be similar. I know it's become a bit cliche, but I think it's good they're trying something different, it's testament to their talent that they can produce songs from a variety of genres. I just think it's a huge overreaction to say they've 'sold out'. I admit Paradise was a bit of a disappointment, but I think the rest of the album will make up for it. Even AROBTTH, my favourite album, and by the rhetoric of today's posts the embodiment of 'real Coldplay music', had its bad songs. In my view, every song on that album is a classic apart from Daylight and A Whisper, ironically my least favourite Coldplay songs. I probably wouldn't even have them downloaded if they weren't written by Coldplay. So before condemning them, listen to the album. I bet come October you'll all be raving about how good it is anyway.