HowCouldIForget

It looks like the ghosts have "Under 1 roof" written in them in script. :thinking:

But mine are examples from The Voice, consider those.

But all the other tracks have drawings next to them? And it's right where the two lines separate the bonus tracks from the rest. I think the heart would've been more in-line with the numbers- it's probably just there like the ghosts. Twelve is a lot of songs as it is, I mean MX only had 10 or 11 full songs, U.F.O. being barely half the length of most. They seem wary of putting "too much" on, I mean we all know after X&Y they started limiting the albums to 45 min.

Ah alright, I got you :) And here's a list of past advisers on The Voice: Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic), Lionel Richie, Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20) and Joel Madden (Good Charlotte)- all respectable, genuine, talented artists who have NOT SOLD OUT. With this in mind I'd have to agree that people are overreacting :nod: Rob Thomas is nearly, if not as, respectable as Chris Martin and he's done it so.

Don't ever say that, I'd have to change my legal name and move somewhere no one I know lives. She Will Be Loved is so beautiful and amazing. To hear something like Moves Like Jagger or Lucky Strike is to witness the worst deterioration of an artist that I've ever heard. Don't even joke about something like this. This is a good point and I hope you're joking about the hacks bit, especially in regards to Queen and Manilow. According to what I just read about The Voice, "The winner receives $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group." Wow, what a surprise that he's "agreed" to do this. :rolleyes: For reference, the A&M/Octone label Maroon 5 and Levine are signed to is owned by Universal as well.

I'm not too upset by it being shown on People, I mean they could've revealed it on E! instead, I can't even imagine that. As we saw at the iTunes concert Chris is more kind-hearted and modest than ever and the music is still sincere and beautiful for the most part (coughexceptMagiccough). What more can you ask for? And I also have the feeling that it's a ploy by Universal and not the band, I mean nothing really can be done about that. Japan and the UK have gotten exclusive tracks in the past, it's not like they've never done that before. The Japanese Parachutes had Careful Where You Stand and For You for ex., both great songs imo that other countries never got to have. For once I'm thankful to be a Coldplay fan from the U.S.

I think it's hard to say for the second three, especially since Ghost Stories could still be unfinished for all we know and we haven't even heard half of the album. I was looking through the lyrics of Parachutes, ARoBttH and X&Y And I think "The Tides Trilogy" fits best personally. To start with, it's concise and simple yet beckoning and beautiful, "Tides" is a lot like many of the shorter titles of songs from Parachutes and A Rush, far removed from the more long-winded and expressive song titles of the Viva and MX eras. On top of that, many of the songs from these albums directly reference tides in one form or another. "Tides that I tried to swim against" in Clocks, "A sea of faces, tide of the human races" in White Shadows, "You and me are floating on a tide together" in X&Y are three examples, with "Clocks" entailing the struggle of adversity and "White Shadows" exhibiting an incredible amount of depth To some extent Coldplay has often evoked things water-esque during this period of their music "Bones sinking like stones" in Don't Panic, "Spies came out of the water" in Spies, "You are the sea upon which I float" in Green Eyes, "The parting of the sea" in Low, much of "Swallowed in the Sea" and "The river will run" in Twisted Logic. Even on b-sides during the era, "Poor me, floating out to sea" in "Pour Me" and "Calling out from beneath the waves, beaten down by this ocean rain" on Crests of Waves." Of course Coldplay's songs are hardly just about water, and that's what so great about the word "tides"- it can be taken in so many different directions. The tides of love and fortune both loom large during this era, often shifting from good to bad and vice versa almost at will. From "I wake to see that no one is free, we are all fugitives- look at the way we live" and "A spider's web is tangled up with me and I lost my head and thought of all the stupid things I said" to "we live in a beautiful world", "everybody here's got somebody to lean on" and "everything's not lost" Parachutes illustrates this well. On the first album alone the extremes of fortune are pretty well contrasted and just like in real life, the tides of luck influence much of our lives- often more than we realize. On A Rush of Blood to the Head, success with love sees a range from heartbroken lows of "nobody said it was easy, none one ever said it would be this hard" and "You came back to haunt me", "I should not have let you go" to comfort and satisfaction in "I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter since I met you" and "You're the one that I wanted to find." It's true that the tides of love for Coldplay lyrically are more often full of melancholy than joy but the ebbs and flows of both are endearing, compelling and touching throughout these three awesome albums. The tides of friendship within the band also loom large in my mind when considering the first three albums. They're one of the only bands I listen to to comprise of the same members for their entirety (at least thus far) but it wasn't always so easy. Like early on in the Parachutes era when Chris kicked Will in the band after he'd had alcohol the one night. What about the struggle to capitalize on such a great first album spending months in "a strange period of not knowing what they were doing" before "In My Place" came along? Perhaps the most concerning time of all was the band bending under the immense stress of the X&Y recording sessions, nearly breaking up, feeling miserable and recording "three albums" worth of material before the band was satisfied. My point is, the guys stood the test of a copious amount of stress on their relationships, both as friends and as bandmates but through it all they weathered the tides. From a band that once was on the verge of splitting pulled through, to make a whole three more albums after X&Y and who knows how many more to come! Let us not forget too the distinct sound each album brought with it, the tides of music or tides of atmosphere if you will. With Parachutes, Johnny's shimmering guitar and Will's energetic percussion stood out, juxtaposed with the somber and troubling lyrics of Chris. On A Rush of Blood to the Head, pianos and acoustic guitars stood out much more, oozing understated beauty and depth amid Chris's well-crafted and heartfelt tunes. X&Y didn't disappoint either, ushering in a new spacey, atmospheric sound flooded with 70's prog-rock synthesizers and a surge of the bass presence on songs like "Low" and "White Shadows", leaving us with another distinctly different era of music that was still undoubtedly Coldplay. Whether its the tides physically as well as metaphorically present in several songs throughout these lyrics as well as many water-related references, the tides of adversity and fortune weaved throughout each album, no less the tides of heartbreak and love, the tides of friendship weathered by four incredible guys pushed to the limits but too strong to be torn apart or the three tides of music that swept in with each new tide a new but no less thrilling and enjoyable sound, for each of these compelling reasons, the first trilogy of Coldplay albums deserves to be deemed "The Tides Trilogy." :)

When you've memorized the tracklist order of every album and the length of every song from the first four albums :) :S

There's not many Coldplay songs not to like but I'd have to say... We Never Change Daylight Twisted Logic Chinese Sleep Chant Princess of China Magic Already calling it for GS, I'm praying they can't make a song worse than that.

After searching through Target.com, I'm pretty convinced they're going to be completely new songs. Out of 25 or so albums with exclusive Target bonus tracks, 23 featured only new studio songs while only 2 of the albums had ANY live/remixed songs, and both STILL had brand new studio songs mixed in with the remixes. I mean Target has exclusive studio recordings from all these huge artists, I don't see why Coldplay would be immune to it. If I'm not mistaken artists included in this list of 25 like Taylor Swift are arguably more popular in the U.S. than Coldplay is, although clearly not better. :P And let's also keep in mind they're on Atlantic rather than Capitol here in the U.S., with a change of company might come new music policy- for better or worse.

Yeah, the more I listen to it the more I'm convinced that the girl dies during/after Midnight. I mean the word itself has a very dark connotation. And the lyrics from Another's Arms like "Where the world means nothing to me" suggests a kind of feeling usually a love's death brings about. "Put yourself right through me" makes me think he's clutching at the air, wishing she'd come back and all he finds is his memories of her slipping through him and out of his arms. And perhaps it's called Another's Arms because all he can think is 'how am I supposed to live without her warmth, her touch? All I have to console me is the arms of other women and they could never be as loving as hers but it's all I have. What other recourse is there to lessen the pain?' I think that's part of why Chris tries to emphasize the physicality of the loss with 'your body on my body' but it's awkwardly done because he's versed in emotion and feeling, not physical sensations.

Don't blame you at all, I think Magic is the worst song Coldplay has made and I'm glad Another's Arms is significantly better. I second that. But if you look at the lyrics from songs like Hurts Like Heaven and Us Against the World or the music of Charlie Brown and Major Minus, there's a stark contrast. Most of the songs from MX are thought-provoking and sound like they took awhile to make, whereas several of these- not so much. Maybe we're just spoiled by the complexities and deep thought that went into most of the last album, even if songs like Paradise and PoC were less incredible and critically dividing.

Completely agree with this. Midnight is the best new song I'd contend, with this being second. Also I'm prematurely guessing that the second half of the album with be the far better half. I concur, Oceans, A Sky Full of Stars, O and even Ink sound like much more compelling and fleshed out songs as opposed to titles like Magic, Always in My Head and even Another's Arms which just sound like generic love songs from the get-go. Maybe they chose the more simplistic, commercially-friendly songs to play for the festival because they'd be easier? But I suppose you can't gather too much from the titles. They're not Coldplay's best that's for sure. On the other hand, I find both the music and the lyrics though somewhat simplistic, distinctively brooding, striking and Coldplay in sound and several times better than Magic which everyone seems to like for some reason ???