Mark

I've heard a lot of stuff. If you imagine the crowd naked apparently it helps. Personally I just try to lose myself and play as if I'm in my room, no one watching. The key though, is to enjoy playing your music. If you do, people will respect you. Be confident in your music too, but mostly just look like you're having a decent time and that's all any crowd asks for really, isn't it?

If you're looking for a brand or make, it's almost impossible. Someone may have the exact same setting as one, but Coldplay, Eno, Dravs et al have probably changed the setting slightly whether with cut-off, reverb or what have you. From what I've got and heard, I reckon you can get some similar-sounding things on any keyboard/synth. I'd recommend a Microkorg XL if you're thinking of buying one. There are many good leads on that that sound very ETIAW.

Thought you'd like to see a guitar I bought for my sister and then decorated, a la Viva La Vida, and a keyboard that I painted after watching Coldplay at Glasto. The keyboard however features lyrics and images from my own band. Hope you like :) http://mrkjhnwht.webs.com/280938_10150275974378281_774053280_7361188_4562611_o.jpg

Love In A Lethal Dose. Please be on the album? :(

YES -.-

Does anyone know what inspired the organ on Fix You? Was it Megalomania or Grace Under Pressure?

Clearly haven't heard Charlie Brown then.

Charlie Brown at Glasto. One of those moments when you can almost hear the click of everyone in the crowd as they think "This is gonna be huge, and I'm watching it before most of the world".

Really? I don't hear this... ...As far as I'm concerned, it won't be a disappointment. Every Coldplay album has tracks on it that I love, including this one, so what's not to enjoy? Oh, and James Murphy probably cba to sue a current band for nicking something off his old band.

Do you know, I haven't heard this yet. I'm saving myself from it 'til the album comes out, because I've heard it's special, and I want to have a moment like I had when I first played 42 after getting Viva. But now I can't wait even more, given how much I adore Kanye. Princess of China+ are we thinking? ;)

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you, I just really didn't believe in your theory. I totally respect your right to theorise however, and hey, there were plenty of people on that thread that thought I was an idiot for disputing your effort. We're all on this site because we have something amazing in common; I really don't want to upset anyone.

This is the interpretation I most want to be true. Better than that cobbled-together rubbish of it being "people making music with weird instruments" or whatever it was.

Personally, I think it's a really silly idea to take one of the greatest songs you've ever written, and leave it off the album that the fans are dying to hear. Chris Martin's not that mean. I surely can't be the only one that would rather have had Viva start with Life In Technicolor II and not Life In Technicolor....?

Either way, cool outros rock. United States of Eurasia, Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart, Runaway, Processed Beats, Subterranean Homesick Alien, Nude... That's without touching upon anything on Viva.

1. The way she says Mylo Xyloto is cringy. 2. Does the artwork REALLY remind you of ETIAW? Really? Really? Well it was the first single from the album. Silly cow. 3. Viva la Vida was 45 minutes long, X&Y 62 and Rush of Blood 54. If there is a rule, they're terrible to sticking at it. That is all.

Can I be picky and say that sounds like a glockenspiel? Xylophones are wooden, and that was making a metallic noise.

I'm no way saying it's the best, I just think it's some achievement for a rock band to make a song that's inspired by chart music, an actually quite brilliant tune.

That can only be a good thing. I'm sick to death of people calling Coldplay boring. -.-

YES! First thing I said when I saw it on tele at Glasto was Arcade Fire. It's no secret they're admirers. As for the KtCR Vs HlH... They're entirely different songs. I'd say Keep the Car Running meets Ready to Start is a perhaps a sharper comparison.

I quite clearly stated why I thought it was so good, and my reasoning came down to more than just "I like it". Have they used another melody or just some chords? I've heard some people say it's a fantastic melody, but I don't think it is about the melody as much as the rhythm. Just trying to offer a new perspective here. Radiohead lost a lot of fans when they went from melody to rhythm with Kid A, and I'd hate to see the same happen to Coldplay. And similarly to Radiohead's identity, who decides Coldplay aren't a band for dancing or whatever? I can safely say I danced when I saw them live, and so did everyone around me. As for the effort thing, I personally think the ambient intro, multi-layering of sounds towards the end of the track, drum explosion and exquisite harmonies all took more effort than say, Swallowed In The Sea. You can't compare a Coldplay song to David Guetta's big-name R&B star, autotuned mess.

I don't think MM is that dark, but Chris seems to think it's the "villain" of the album. How many stories start with the villain?

Lyrically it's not the best but this is a band that wrote "And it was all yellow". I'm not sure I agree that a song labelled as the dark one should signal the start of the era - it's shaping up as an upbeat album, so maybe Charlie Brown should've been the first? The last minute is fantastic though. Chris's performance reminds me of Thom Yorke on Idioteque in that its very rhythm-based.

Good on you. I like it more than In My Place too. :)

Just because you can't admire one thing about it, doesn't mean you can't admire another.

I really need an answer to this because I think it's one of their greatest efforts as a band. There's a reason why they released it in time for festivals; it's tailor-made for live shows. It's four minutes worth of euphoria condensed into soaring melody and pounding rhythm. It's not written for fans to look at and admire the songcraft, it's simply to get you dancing when you see it live. I understand that that's not what Coldplay have done in the past, and that for a lot of fans, they'll prefer the old stuff, but can we just accept that this is a brilliant live moment, even if it isn't a great recorded one?