AmbroseCadwell

I think they should go in the direction of Lukas, Famous Old Painters, Up With The Birds, that We Found Love cover from Radio 1, next. That semi-acoustic stripped-back style really suits them and is still sunny and pop-sounding while being technical and clever like Viva era. The Prospekt's March EP was masterstroke, IMO.

I'd love it if they go all minimalist next, like Bowie did with 'Low'. Remember that 'Famous Old Painters' instrumental? I loved that. Also Up With The Birds, when you think about it, is an amazing experimental song for them to end MX (Rihanna, hip-hop drums) on. I hope they take these things as their next port of call :/

Urgh edited down too much, it was already only 3 minutes long. We'd better get at least a b-side with this.

Live 2012 CD Where are the different tracks on the CD from? On the DVD they are clearly labelled, but is it the same locations on the CD? ETIAW especially sounds like it's a different crowd in the background to the few before it... Also general Live 2012 discussion thread, I guess. Haven't seen one of those around.

I like the song, and the video. Reminds me of 80s-90s alternative pop; R.E.M., The Cure, etc.

I reckon DLIBYH was shelved from the DVD due to the lyrics fail in the last chorus. No idea why The Scientist got cut, though...

Exactly, see the opening of the promo for 'Babies' by Pulp for more information. :L I personally wish they had fully animated it, but I can see why they did this semi-animated style. They had the technical ability, as shown by the gloopy bits during the solos and the marching shot. It's meant to be a series of kinetic, bullet-time sequences. I'm psyched for the comics, again, wish it had been fully animated, but I'm alright with this as the finished product. As said, can't wait for the comics though. Like Speed Racer. Very divisive. ;) Let's hope we get a b-side with this one now...

Thanks! :D I appreciate the complexity of this song even more now than I did before...

Me too!

Wowzers. I remember hearing it for the first time on Radio 1, and the cast of the Chris Moyles Show being completely thrown off by the piano part at the end. :L

Agreed, it's a classic!

Absolutely. All 3 are part of the post-britpop movement, along with bands like Travis and Radiohead (hence why the latter are the bane of Coldplay and Muse fans reading reviews full of comparisons). And many bands recently seem to be picking up on the trend of dance music in the charts; Coldplay with their new hip-hop drum elements and big bass, etc.; Muse with this new pop influence and dubstep, Radiohead with The King Of Limbs... heck, even Scissor Sisters' new album is almost entirely synthy pop music. tbh, I don't care much for this amount of saturation of one genre in the charts and I'm getting increasingly more interested in the old indie bands who are resurfacing now, everyone from Maximo Park to Franz Ferdinand who are all starting to stage comebacks. A hipster-friend of mine said several years ago that EDM would be the next big thing in the 2010s, he goes to underground clubs and the like. I paid no attention, but now...

This is true. These 1-track digital download singles are really starting to get on my pip. One or two an album, fair enough, but all but one?! :P Incidentally, I've noticed that the only ones keeping the art of the B-Side going recently have been the non-electronic indie bands, groups such as Maximo Park and the like.

Amsterdam is one of my favourite songs of all time, and A Whisper is incredibly hypnotic in the right environment. AROBTTH is one of the best albums ever recorded. :D

Totally going to wait and buy it, obviously. But I just wish it was coming sooner than Feb next year. I would have thought that the marketing people at least would have wanted Issue 1 out before Christmas... :P Ah well, at least we're getting it at some point rather than never. Wonder when the HLH video's coming, though?

Viva era definitely felt more classy and original, Prospekt's March (EP and the song itself) was a masterstroke. However MX definitely has better guitar work for the most part, especially HLH, and the songs are better constructed in some places. Production I'd say overall Viva La Vida wins over MX. Live- definitely MX. Artwork, equal. Clothes, equal. Videos, MX seems more polished and professional, mostly just like LiTii and Strawberry Swing from Viva era, and they were closer to MX. However, Viva La Vida had more B-Sides, and all of them were awesome. Moving To Mars is a firm favourite of mine, but... just sayin'...

It's bizarre now looking back to even think of Parachutes as a Coldplay album, I mean, the albums are all different but that one is SO different, being mainly acoustic apart from High Speed anyway... gawd, High Speed is a COLDPLAY song... sure doesn't seem like it now... anyway, my point is that they already did an experimental-acoustic album in the form of their debut. LP6 I think will be smaller scale, but I'd like to see more of this unusual side of Coldplay; stuff like Lukas, the (possibly fake) Famous Old Painters instrumental, Rainy Day, Up With The Birds, actually, too.

The chorus sounds SO much like Chris, I'm shocked :L

Loving the Richard Hawley reference on the single cover, bottom right "Tonight... the streets are ours"

Another possible reason could be that they've tied the lyrics and sound so closely together into a story this time round that the 'almost released' songs dropped right near the end would contradict the comics or what we know about the characters...

Actually, I still think it COULD be real. Not saying it is, but given that the guys wrote like 600 songs or whatever it was, and even with the 60 minutes piano markings and the notebook and all that we still only have about 50, there's plenty of scope for others in various states of completion. This could have just been something that dropped off very early in the development of the album but late in the development of the song itself... most likely dropped BECAUSE it's mostly electronic and only Chris features. If it is actually real, that is.

I agree that there is not enough bass guitar on MX, for example ETIAW, where it's all keyboards. But I do think that live Guy rocks out equally as much as any of the others, especially on the Rush of Blood-era tracks. ;)

The part where Mylo uses the hypnofeed helmet reminds me of Sam Lowry's dreams of escapism in 'Brazil', mentioned in the Comic-Con videos. (fantastic, epic film btw, Terry Gilliam's finest) Not so much what he sees, more just that he's becoming addicted to his personal fantasy-land over his work life.

Agreed, also noticing parallels with politics post-9/11... something really bad happens, then people use that fear and the promise of safety to oppress others, gain things and stay in power once they get it...

I repeat, AWESOME.