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I wish Coldplay was still making music that didn't spark Justin Beiber discussions.

Colour Spectrum will be a 2-minute slide guitar, Pink Floyd-esque instrumental.

Don't get why people are complaining; this is the best song U2 have done in years.

I honestly just don't think he puts enough effort in. I imagine he expresses his usually-broad sentiment in the first simple way that comes to mind and fits the melody and calls it a job well done. I really wish they would just hire a proof reader to simply read the lyrics, cross out the cliches, and hand it back to Chris to rewrite until we get a decent enough song. It would force Chris to express himself more creatively, and make listening to Coldplay a much more rewarding experience. Chris is capable of good lyrics, even now. Moving to Mars, mentioned above, is a great example. Rather than just offer cliches about being forced apart, its presented through the metaphor of being taken to another planet. That's really cool and creative, and it's combined with great imagery and writing - particularly the very first line. Maybe we'd see more stuff like that if Chris wasn't allowed to rest on hearts beating, birds flying, stars shining and general happy/sad emotions.

Although that did show a BMW being involved in a murderous car crash, probably not the kind of PP they were looking for...

I have it on good authority the Dalai Lama spits some harsh phrases on Amazing Day.

Apple music says it is 4:42 long...

Am I the only one who thinks this is a great idea?

What are you talking about? Chris is right there...;)

I think they should have just played Parachutes acoustic entirely. Would have been perfect and the We Never Change / Everything's Not Lost ending would have fit perfectly too.

I'm pretty sure we will, on the cover they had a sticker saying "Featuring Adventure of a Lifetime and Hymn For the Weekend". They wouldn't promote an album with a song no one has heard.

Exactly what I was going to say :)

Coldplays lyrics are their most consistent weakpoint. Far too many general sentiments expressed with little imagination - there are of course many notable examples, mainly from the Viva era.

Noel rehearsing the solo for Up&Up.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]32856[/ATTACH] Radiohead say hi :) It's great that Coldplay change their sound every album, but they're far from the first to do so - and they've never really moved that far away from pop structures etc. Brilliant? Yes. Revolutionary? Not really. I have yet to hear the performance of Amazing Day - do you, or any anyone else, know where I can find it? I find it hard to believe you could perform that song in such a way for it to be anywhere near good, but I hope to be proved wrong :)

Just a couple of my posts from a page ago are useless, one saying wrong thread and the one you quoted.

Coldplay's Best Of would be mighty.

Isn't he the singer of the Wonderwall band? ;) Do you think there's any significance in the fact that Noel has recently been delving into dance music more (What a Life, In the Heat of the Moment, Ballad of the Mighty I) and the dance direction Coldplay are taking? Or is he still a rock influence? I certainly hope it's the latter.

Two Beyoncé songs?! Damn you Coldplay, you better use Noel Gallagher very wisely to make up for this...

Don't Look Back in Anger is basically a hymn now. It would be great to see Coldplay have a song which affects culture in the way that song and Noel/Oasis did in the mid nineties, but that's extremely unlikely for hundreds of reasons.

Where is Chris' vocal style on this? To me, it sounds like a great deal of pop singers could have sang it and it would have been much the same. Let's not overstate the "Indian influence", the vocal loop is vaguely Indian and that's it. Almost all pop, never mind dance, tries to have an "anthemic" choral bit, not in the slightest bit unique. The song isn't a rip off or anything, but it's most certainly generic. The structure, lyrics, instrumentation, and production are all derived from staples of dance music. But that's not that bad, it still provides a fresh twist in them in certain parts.

Your mum sounds cool lol :)

And Oasis. It won't be easy, what with the behemoth of bland that it Adele releasing her album.

The song has one big ace up its sleeve...fun. If you forget that this is a band who once made music like "Warning Sign" and "Trouble" for a while, it's an enjoyable 4 minutes. But an enjoyable 4 minutes is the realm of generic pop stars, something Coldplay should be above. It's easily the weakest of their lead singles to me, and I think that's what worries me -that this is the lead single. It'd be a great album track for a dance-y record, but as the lead single? Underwhelming to say the least. It's growing on me ever so slightly but still a 6/10 at this point.

They've just been drifting steadily from one side of the pop-rock spectrum to the other - to the point where they're now becoming just a pop band pure and simple. Anyway, here's my prediction for all the tracks: A Head Full of Dreams - AOAL's big brother, big dance track with a pounding beat when it gets going. Birds - Piano ballad with an electronic twist. Perhaps the Beyoncé track. Hymn For the Weekend - MX style glowing electro-pop. Big chorus. Everglow - I'm excited for this one, I think it'll be a minimalist melancholy song, like something off The XX's debut. Adventure of a Lifetime - Hell to the meh! Fun - Maybe a curveball, and is actually the darkest track on the album. Kaleidescope - My heart says 6 minute shoegaze epic, my head says a good but not great pop-rock track, think Low. Army of One - Title brings Violet Hill to mind, but I think it'll be an acoustic song with a dance chorus, similar in structure to The Do's "Anita No!" Amazing Day - Skiiiiiiip Colour Spectrum - I think this is the Noel Gallagher song, I see it being something heavier to balance the saccharin shite of Amazing Day. Up&Up - An epic, but short closer - like Up With the Birds. X Marks the Spot - a fun throwaway like The Goldrush, with the band all singing and laughing. Similar in place to "Her Majesty" at the end of Abbey Road.