lennyrott1

I wish the boys were more keen on releasing material like they were up until Viva. Coldplay in the 2000's had SO many B-sides and live performances of songs that didn't make the albums. We technically have only had three B-sides since MX (Moving To Mars, All Your Friends, Ghost Story.) which is pretty sad. It feels like the age of B-sides has been replaced with remixes. Either way, it is impossible to tell if some of these songs will ever be released, or if they have been and we just don't know it. Who is to say if The Race was just a working title for Always In My Head? My dream is that they one day release a huge career spanning B-side album with Car Kids, Don Quixote, Famous Old Painters, etc, but it is unlikely.

^Agreed. I have said it before, but Coldplay are just too nice. They are not prancing, stylish pop stars, nor are they guitar soloing "American Football worthy rock." They don't fit the ticket for me, I wouldn't want them to pay to play for a corporation that literally has grossed 25 Billion dollars annually..too commerical, man. So A BIG NO!

I don't know why I never made this connection before, but O is also the title of an amazing album by Damien Rice. I knew the title of the song was familiar but for some reason I couldn't' remember until today when the song "Delicate" came on my shuffle! Moral of the story: if you want more O, check out this album. Absolutely beautiful.

Other than the kind of cheesy Chris flying part which looked kind of awkward, I think this music video is far more fitting to the music and is really quite lovely all the same. The street march is fun, but would have been far more charming for another song, maybe one in which they were ACTUALLY PLAYING the instruments that they are toting around instead of fake strumming while heavy synths are the only thing really distinguishable.

Well, since we presumably have a while to wait, we might as well speculate and imagine something!! How do you want the LP7 era to look visually? (Album cover, stage themes, outfits etc??) It seems we have already got it all: plain, soft indie nature of Parachutes, vivid Blacks and Whites of AROBTTH, the dark codified, yet vibrancy of X&Y, the classic grandiose splattered anew with modern art of Viva, MX's euphoric explosion of dystopic spray paint, and finally GS's etched in hazy blue symbolism and simple conceptual beauty. Of course, this isn't to mention the many singles that have ranged from paintings (Christmas Lights) to photography (shiver, yellow) What could be next?

Anybody think we will be getting something new during one of the upcoming shows?

nah looks like some other fella

Tryna find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful!! Oh wait.... I am incapable, I am an incredibly shallow, misogynistic scumbag. Damn youze a sexy ******. Wow great music.

Intriguing! I think this company has really taken off thanks to Coldplay during the MX Tour. These bands could be for some other tour, however. I think they are being more widely used with different artists. But the fact that the video showed a band playing with Magic might be hinting at something...

Just finished Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov...amazing book if you are able to get through how disturbing it is.

I hope this is true! When listening to each album it definitely feels this way!!

I feel like LP7 will most certainly be electronic like GS. A lot of people on these forums have talked about Coldplay albums in pairs or in trilogies. If I was to look at their discography this way, it would make sense to me that Parachutes, AROBTTH, and X&Y are a trilogy, VLV is the creative stepping stone and oddball, and MX, GS and LP7 will form another trilogy. Follow me here: There is no doubting that every album has a distinct flavour, but for the most part, their first three were strong alternative rock/pop albums. Almost all the songs followed Chris' piano or acoustic guitar, Jonny's electric, Guy's Bass and Will's drumming. Very rarely did they step outside this box. Sonically, some of these albums might be louder or flashier then the last, but overall they have a progression of a trilogy. Viva La Vida doesn't fit into the mix. The sounds are more worldy, diverse, non-traditional. A lot of songs on this record broke from the formula that domintated the previous albums. I personally think this was Coldplay's most experimental and creative album, a stepping stone into more electronic ventures, another three albums. And now we are reaching the end of that trilogy. MX and GS are very different, but GS almost feels like the quieter, moodier sister album. Both are extremely poppy, electronic, and heavily produced. Listening to them back to back I really felt some similarities, like I was listening to AROBTTH and Parachutes back to back. The sounds are sometimes very different, but lyrically, thematically, atmospherically, they share a lot. If I am right, then LP7 should be another electronic infused album somewhere in the vein of the latter two, similar to X&Y in that it pushes the sound further but still isn't all that different.

^ Could very well be, but I sure hope not. It would be a Pink Floyd rip off and a the most boring, sappy title for an album released since....ever.

Anybody have any thoughts on the end of the True Love video? Someone in that thread (I am sorry I forgot who) commented on how the images at the beginning and end of the video don't quite fit in, and therefore might be teasing the next era. More specifically I am talking about the extremely "Dark Side Of The Moon" reminiscent triangle with the intersecting line and flash of colours. Possible hint? It looked like something out of the MX era if you ask me. I think the video itself is not very good at all by Coldplay standards, but that little cheesy "Anything Is Possible," bit at the end has me intrigued.

I believe this sums it up for many of us Coldplayers. As hardcore fans I definitely sense a lot of us yearn for a more rockier, instrumental, and and acoustic record that hearkens back to the distinct and acclaimed (critically and commercially) eras of Viva and AROBTTH. If an album was going to do that, it would have been Ghost Stories, but Coldplay took a distinct route towards pop-electronic music, and therefore we must accept that we are never going to quite get those old sounds back, unless they release a ton of old B-sides some day (PLEASE!) We may get little kernels here and there, however. Oceans was Parachutes. Atlas was (almost) as haunting as A Rush Of Blood Through The Head. I would even argue Ghost Story, though not nearly as quality, sounds much like a Viva era song. In short, Coldplay DOES try to please a lot of people. No matter what Chris Martin says, Coldplay makes music for a huge audience: Top 40 loving teens, indie-pop loving young adults, rock loving, radiohead revering twenty/thirty somethings, and contemporary adult listeners. Every era is able to fill this tall order, and LP7 will too. The only question is which audience will it lean towards? MX (for me) seemed aimed at a new generation (Indie-pop, all out pop-rock) while Ghost Stories was more for old fans/appeasing the new, so throwback sounds mixed with Top 40 pop.. Of course, each album comes with sounds that are completely unexpected, and that keeps Coldplay fresh and exciting. I am with you guys on this: LP7 will be most like an MX 2.0, but still will maintain a unique sound quite different from its predecessors. It will be a record that teenage girls can fall in love with and that radios can anxiously sample from. Mass pop hits, a few avant-garde pleasers, I am betting more rock oriented, but mostly electronic, if not EDM occasionally, and it pains me to say that.

Meh....

As an American who is a guilty follower of the NFL ( a lifelong fan Coldplay and of the Denver Broncos, yes, the team that was obliterated last winter in the Super Bowl,) I don't want to see Coldplay do this. The NFL is about as corporate as you can get, and I don't usually support their ethics pertaining to player safety, drug use, sexual assault, sponsorship etc. Coldplay is certainly big enough and put out the hits, and they have the spectacle to boot, but they are just too nice. Superbowl performances recently have been brash, cocky, flashy and in in the last few years, incredibly pop oriented. I miss the years of The Who, Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Prince, but to me Coldplay doesn't fit into that category, and I don't want them to fall into the newer pop oriented shows of Black Eyed Peas, Bruno Mars, Beyonce etc (groups that hardly even write their own music.) Coldplay just isn't a Superbowl band for me. On one end, they are not your typical rockers, but not quite your typical pop stars either. I despise Katy Perry as an artist, but she would be a better fit in my opinion. Like American Football, she revels in overly stereotyping her gender, being only business driven, and being extremely flashy and over the top.

After 3 months: 1. Midnight (10/10) 2. Magic (9/10) 3. Ink (9/10) 4. Another's Arms (8/10) 5. O (Fly On) (8/10) 6. Oceans (8/10) 7. Always In My Head (7.5/10) 8. All Your Friends (7/10) 9: Ghost Story (7/10) 10: True Love (6/10) 11: ASFOS (5/10) 12: O Reprise (5/10)

^Which reminds me, I ought to revoke some of my criticisms. I had really high expectations for Ghost Stories after Midnight and Magic were dropped because they are just stellar tracks. When I first heard the iTunes release though I was super disappointed. I thought ASFOS was going to be the best thing ever but, well, you know what happened. Ink was just meh to me and True Love epitomized the sound I didn't want Coldplay to follow. After listening about ten times I decided it was my least favourite Coldplay record. But now, with the benefit of hindsight, I have to say I really like Ghost Stories as much as I liked MX. Ink is probably the most infectious and instantly happy song to me and I even have softened up a little to True Love. ASFOS is on the radio every two seconds where I am from, and I have to say, compared to the rest of Top 40 pop, it isn't half bad to hear Chris Martin and a piano :) I guess my only final complaint now that I have made up my mind on the album is that the production is too perfect. Songs that I otherwise would have loved until the end of time were just too clean for me. Oceans hardly feels raw like Parachutes, and Fly On barely feels as atmospheric and sincere as AROBTTH. But that is pretty much it for me, the tracks are all pretty catchy, beautiful and well produced. I just think more live instrumentation and better recording would have made it better for me.

Guardians of the Galaxy---7/10 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes---9/10 Noah---7/10 Grand Budapest Hotel--9/10

It scares me too, but maybe he was just joking to try to slip in the Harry Potter joke? I don't know, he sounded serious. It just seems that every other comment of his is how he loves being in a band and recording music and is blessed with his job, doesn't sound like a man who has plans to quit to me.

^ Try, on a sunny summers afternoon, blasting MX/Hurts Like Heaven with the windows down. No finer a feeling.

^It is going to be big, bigger than Ghost Stories, which still is a pretty big sounding album when you think about it. You are right, and here are some reasons. We know this: -Madeon has been working with Coldplay, who is renowned for his electronic music (mostly EDM.) -A world tour in the works definitely means bigger sounds for their new album and Chris keeps talking about Ghost Stories in this weird past tense fashion saying (and I am paraphrasing,) "it was just something personal and small we wanted to do, and now we want to do something else." -We know the album is going to be featuring someone now, most likely through direct participation in a song rather than through production, potentially Rihanna again. -Interviews with Chris and the band seem to show them being productive and whipping out a lot of material now and in the past during the Ghost Stories sessions. Like in every era, a bunch didn't make the cut. -Chris is seemingly in a more positive time in his life where he likes to listen to pop music with his kids. (on the exterior at least) He has also been doing nothing in his recent interviews more than giving love to big pop names like Ariana Grande, One Direction, Avicii, etc whom in many regards he has always fancied and wanted to be buddies with. -When talking about live shows, Chris has discussed making music that everyone can jump and be together for, which Coldplay has always done and likely will again soon, aka, big singles, positive, happy. LP7 I think is going to be a more loud sister to GS. All these interviews have done for me is shown the fact that Coldplay is being really productive right now and that they are longing for a bigger, more tourable album. That said, even if it comes out in a years time, I don't see them progressing that far from GS sounds...(electronics, poppy sing-a-longs, squeaky clean production.)

Timeless is definitely in order, but where does that come from? They definitely put a ton of work and though into AROBTTH and Viva, both of which I consider timeless. I dunno if time has anything to do with it though. They put too much time into X&Y and the band seems to feel negative towards that era somewhat, and it shows since the album itself is disjointed. MX too they scrapped a lot of ideas on and maybe overworked? Originally, like someone mentioned above, the album was supposed to be a slinky acoustic post-viva sort of thing. They had Charlie Brown on an accordion for God's sake, which would have been awesome to hear! Prefacing this by stating, for me, every Coldplay record is timeless, I have to agree that MX didn't quite reach the status of Viva or A Rush, and Ghost Stories was only further from this. So what will it take?

I completely agree with you here.