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I think the only bad thing with Coldplay's collaborations so far is that they were pretty safe choices, something that some of their fans (not me) don't associate Coldplay with. They associate them with more experimental and less safe choices, which if you give it a second thought, the music that they consider experimental and less commercial may not be as experimental and as non commercial as they may think it is since it was the sound they kind of abused for years of their success and it worked pretty good for them until they felt that they needed to do something new. I'm gonna fall into my own category. I don't give a remote d*mn what choices Coldplay does, as long as it's good music, I'm fine with it. One of my biggest issues as an artist is when I am being constraint to what I can do with my music only because I have to please demographics. Why would you want Coldplay to be constraint too? Let them do whatever they want. So far it worked pretty well for them and they seem to try always to find the golden cut to all demographics. There can't be a better case scenario than that. You won't find any other artist or band that is doing what they do so well throughout their long year career and the music choices they make. They haven't done a single flop, not even half. How many artists/bands can you name that have released 7 albums and all of them were critical and commercial successes?

Mine was a copy-paste captcha error believe it or not and I'd like to change it sometime. I feel stupid being stuck with a name that I accidentally pasted over.

Με βρήκανε! *τρέχει* Χαχαχαχαχα

@onlylove Give it a shot and add these on your workout list: Adventure Of A Lifetime (Audien Remix) Adventure Of A Lifetime (Yotto Remix) Charlie Brown (Jacques Lu Cont Remix) Midnight (Tiësto's Experimental Tech House Mix) Talk (Thin White Duke Mix) Viva La Vida (Thin White Duke Mix) White Shadows (Gabriel & Dresden Mix) White Shadows (Morgan Page Remix)

Also for some reason, on Up&Up on 3:20 where the guitar solo starts I picture fast changing shots of couples (straight, gay and of any kind) kissing passionately.

Τι γλυκό! Έπρεπε όμως να βάλουν και το κομμάτι στο τέλος που λέει "believe in love".

Also the accordion in the outro of Viva La Vida Instrumental always makes me teary. I feel like a child in Christmas being loved by my parents. :)

Talk reminds me of my period of being on antidepressants because I was suicidal. Especially those first seconds of the ambient synth and the feedback of the guitar Kraftwerk sample. It was such a dark and scary momemnt of my life. Since then I live with the fear of relapsing. Kaleidoscope is a continuation of Talk. I remember being on a bus traveling while it was raining and I was crying feeling alone and like nobody understands me and hoping this song would put sense into my mind. Midnight reminds me of those nights that we had power outages over here in the spring-summer and I would get on the top of the building and watch the silent sleeping city. Don't Panic actually kinda traverses me into the video in a way that when I close my eyes I see myself like I'm being submerged to a flooded city or a drowned world with no happiness and I go deeper and deeper while my body is being dragged by streams of water. Charlie Brown, It's like I'm watching my life in a backwards manner, from my death to my birth and in the end where the piano section plays I see a video that my father took of me when I was a kid and I'm playing and jumping around in slow motion while I fade into black.

I compared Up & Up too and it didn't seem to be lipsynced.

Well I will never know. I took holidays and traveled to Germany to watch them in Munich and the sound was stellar, I could make out every single word he said, it wasn't even near to the mess I was expecting it to be, actually it was exactly the opposite, which left me impressed with what technology and know-how was involved in that venue.

That's what I meant that the audio gets replaced without the band's knowledge in a stage between the actual performance and the released product. I knew that something like this was happening. My suspicion was proven right!

The label can release a greatest hits without their consent. This is not how music industry and label contracts work.

I am very confident to say that the next release of Coldplay will be a Greatest Hits album that might include a couple of new songs. I mean it would make perfect sense seeing where they are right now and seeing what their record label do with other artists, it would be an obvious move.

I would just let the whole track go without any vocals.

LB stands for Live Feed Back. OK now it gets reductive.

What era was that from? It doesn't sound like it uses the backing track from AHFODT. I wish I had a full visual of that.

I have to admit some of their live tracks sound a bit too good to be true, like the performance of Adventure Of A Lifetime Spotify exclusive sounds a bit too near to the album vocals or atleast it sounds like it was tinkered/tuned post production, same with Ink live performances.

I believe the sole reason he did it was only so he could take a "breath break" between tracks and the best he could do was to pre-record a vocal track for it. There is one thing though that I have in my mind. I know for a fact that there are a couple of artists that actually sing live and they think they do at the moment but without them knowing, the audio staff replaces their vocals with pre-recorded audio on post. Most of the times they sidechain their vocals so when they go weak the pre-recorded vocals kick in or they replace the vocals as a whole. I don't say it's likely, but I don't know I want to give them the benefit of the doubt that we may not see the whole picture here.

Yep, it's a lipsync. They seem to have pre-recorded the vocals during rehearsals and they just use the vocals from the rehearsal. I've perfectly lined up the rehearsal audio with the live audio from Philadelphia and they match perfectly, you can even extract the vocals with a center channel extraction program. Here's the audio, (right channel is the rehearsal without crowd, and the left channel is the live audio from Philadelphia: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dys6qfihh18ds4i/Clocks.m4a

Some of the tour's official Screen Projections actually contain the rehearsal audio without crowd which I guess was recorded indoors and not on stage. I guess I could compare those with the live audio. If their phase matches and the vocals are canceled out then most possibly Chris pre-recorded some vocals for the tour as a worst case scenario. It's pretty common these days.

Well for the sake of this thread and people discovering now these remixes, here's a full list of officially commissioned remixes: Thin White Duke Remix Radio Edit Thin White Duke Remix Dave Aude Club Mix Dave Aude Dub Dave Aude Radio Edit Dave Aude Radio Edit (Short) Dave Aude Remix Edit Junkie XL Radio Edit Junkie XL Vox Junkie XL Dub Ulrich Schnauss Remix François Kevorkian Dub

I can definitely tell you that this is not the true. It is confirmed by the fact that the commissioned remixers got the tools of the song prior to the release of the track/album. Obviously the tools sent to them contained earlier vocal takes of the track as evidenced in all mixes more specifically: Ulrich Schnauss - Contains vocals from the very early version of the song with the completely different verses, plus the final vocals and some alternate takes of the used lyrics. Dave Aude/Junkie XL - Uses the exact vocal takes as the one on the version I posted, mostly the same thing as the original but some lyrics are changed/switched place. Most possibly indicates the most close version to the final at the point the promoter/manager sent the tools to them. François Kevorkian - Uses the alternate takes that got cut, some shared with other mixes of the bunch. Stuart Price/Thin White Duke - That's a clever one, uses mostly the used vocal takes, except from the bridge which is identical to Dave Aude/Junkie XL ones, plus it uses an alternate take with different notation on "be" from "in the future where will I be" indicating that they played with that lyric before they got it into what we got on the final version, and also there's a vocoder saying "talk to me" which indicates another unused lyric somewhere in the bunch of the vocal takes. I am very sure that Stuart Price actually did his job and heard closely the actual lyrics of the X&Y released version and he tried to get as many as possible in from what was given to him (compared to Junkie XL/Dave Aude that most possibly copy-pasted a whole take as is) but I guess the bridge was absent at that point. I have a feeling that remixers got just a bunch of vocal takes, older and newer, that had little information to what got used and what not and they did a guesswork, some of them went the safe road (Junkie XL/Dave Aude/Stuart Price) and used based on (I guess) filename criteria to what are the actual vocals that got used and some went with the more creative, more open road and used whatever they felt like using (François Kevorkian/Ulrich Schnauss).

Hey everyone. We all know that Talk early on supposed to have completely different lyrics by the demo that floats around the internet. We all also know that some remixes (Junkie XL and Dave Aude) of the actual track contain some slightly different lyrics to the track. What we don't know is that those lyrics ALMOST made it to the final release of X&Y Album and they were replaced -literally- last minute. How do I know that? Well while I was trying to recreate that version over here ( https://coldplaying.com/forum/index.php?threads/talk-pre-relase-lyrics-version.110810/ ) I noticed something very odd on the spectral analysis of the song. The parts where the new lyrics are ("In the future where would I be" instead of "or swim a river out to the sea" and the new re-arranged bridge with the "when you worry about the future and the 3rd world war") their upper high end of frequencies cut on a different place than the rest of the song. This translates into a very bad rough cut and paste job done on the studio, most possibly even after that actual album was mastered. So what I'm saying here is what you hear on the album is badly cut and paste job that was done the last minute. Once you actually track where the cut parts are you can actually even hear that it's slightly off. (Sorry if I ruined anybody's experience of listening the song!) Here's a graphical explanation of what I mean: