pseudofake

Quick question - was it all just performances or was there an actual interview?

To point out the bleedin' obvious, fans of the band are generally going to leap to his defence as they're, well, fans of the band. This does mean they'll hold a slightly unbiased view of the interviewer. So I'm with you on the fact people may be a little too eager to blame the interviewer. In all fairness, I haven't heard the full interview. However, I did listen to Will and Chris on Jo Whiley and even then Chris was very nervous and over-apologising for a comment he made about chocolate being like crack to him.

The worst ever thing to happen to rock? Oh come on - what about mullets?

I've had a couple of problems with iTunes and I'm in the UK. First it wouldn't let me pre-order, then when I sorted this out and checked to see if it was in to download yesterday and it first of all told me my pre-order didn't exist. 2 hours later, the pre-order did exist and I could get it...on Monday. I gave up and bought the CD.

This will probably blow over quickly - he has already left an interview recently (with The Observer, I think), when the reporter started asking about his personal life, and that's had a short lifespan as gossip news. The only differences are that this happened on the day of release and that, because it was radio, the awkwardness was captured in all that soundwave glory. It's a bit more dramatic than reading a transcript in the paper, after all. I can't imagine this will have any major effect. They're doing so many promos, interviews and such that this will soon be brushed away as an unfortunate one-off.

I'm clearing out my stuff and have found a few things I don't really need anymore, primarily two (I think) NME issues about Coldplay/feat. Coldplay from 2005. There's some more, but I might hold onto some yet. Anyway, if anyone wants the NME issues (think it was a cover story about X&Y and another with an article about them at Glasto) then pm me. They're free but postage would be nice as I'd have to send them in a poster cylinder.

ooh, that'd be most cool indeed :)

heh, analysing lyrics is a tricky thing though: you can only think about what it means to you as you'll never completely get inside the head of the writer unless they graphically outline the meaning of every single line :)

that's super ^...er...care to mention anything about amsterdam, then...:P

kind of lost as to what you're trying to say...i don't think i ever said AROBTTH didn't have emotional songs, i was just merely pointing out in reply to a comment by pai that parachutes was also an emotional album...if you want to get indepth, all music is about some moment or feeling, so it's impossible to say any music made lacks this...however, i do agree with your point to an extent about parachutes having a more raw feel, but AROBTTH didn't lack this either...

how could they not be emotional songs? they're about emotions...life is for living, for example, uplifting but slightly regretful? "cause my head just aches when I think of the things that i shouldn't have done, but life is for living, we all know and i don't want to live it alone." inspires a kind of regretful feeling, doesn't it?

generally, you have to admit, music nowadays is run as business and i'm trying to think of a time you could be thinking of when record companies did not see music as a means of financial gain. in the same vein, though, it seems odd steppenwolf disapproves of coldplay making money because as said user just pointed out, it is a business. should we feel more annoyed that these pesky bands don't give away their cds free? i'm never sure if it's just chris or jonny, guy and will as well who support these charitable causes, but at least it's something. plus, their secret rehearsal gig was meant to be secret, until they decided they wanted more people (some of those lucky fans chosen by debs on coldplay.com)...they knock themselves out for fans, it would appear, by being such perfectionists and that in turn helps them, but frankly, i can't complain with the end result... we live in a capitalist society, it is a business....

i suppose you could take it to mean two things. "stuck on the edge, tied to a noose" and being cut loose could either mean freeing him/saving him from something or it could mean that he's barely holding on, he's trapped in something but he's not over the edge yet and by cutting him loose, the person he's talking about has been the last straw or let him fall. if you look at it in the positive way, "you can say what you mean, but it won't change a thing, i'm sick of the secrets" doesn't entirely sound very positive about the person in question...