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  1. Originally posted by yeah:Lukewarm I'd say, which is understandable. It's a festival crowd, no one had heard a single note of the new stuff before, so everybody just listened or slightly clapped along.
    Some of the new stuff is quite good (Hurts like heaven, Charlie Brown) others are soso (Major Minus) or crap (Us against the world).
    Every teardrop could become Coldplay's Elevation - crap studio version but a live hit. I don't really remember Princess of China.

    We have the U2 precedent at the 2010 when they played Stingray Guitar, North Star, Every Breaking Wave, Glastonbury and Mercy (new to most of the audience), and the new songs were lukewarmly received too. I just wondered because of the festival crowd... I would have expected boredom faces and the stuff. Good to know

    I don't think the studio version of Teardrop is that bad... but I agree that it's a true killer live.

  3. emiel, you should download the other recording posted a few posts ago instead:
    Originally posted by yeah:Coldplay
    Rock am Ring -06/04/2011
    Main Stage

    01. Hurts like heaven
    02. Yellow
    03. In my place
    04. Chris trying to speak german
    05. Major Minus
    06. Lost!/ Singing in the rain (snippet)
    07. Cemetaries of London
    08. Got put a smile upon your face
    09. Violet Hill
    10. The scientist
    11. Chris talks about rich people
    12. Us against the world*
    13. Politik
    14. Viva la vida
    15. Charlie Brown
    16. Life is for living
    17. Audience noise (encore break)
    18. Clocks
    19. Fix you
    20. Every teardrop is a waterfall

    http://www.mediafire.com/?iehrvidvad7mxzc

  4. thanx sergio i all ready did....
  6. Charlie Brown is the best of the new bunch.

    That's a hell of a song.


  7. Hurts Like Heaven takes the award in my opinion, but yep, Charlie Brown is very good too.


  8. probably for the same reason U2 sampled other people's music after 12 albums.
  9. I can't see anything wrong in borrowing a riff or an idea for a song - as long as you make sure that the original artist is aware of it, and conveniently thanked or whatever. Everyone has influences, everyone likes other people's music... I can't see why should anybody deny that and try to make 10000% original music - that doesn't exist.
  10. I hope every new album to be HTDAAB part II but unfortunately it never is and will be. I have to rest it.

    Charlie Brown sounds pretty good. More a fan of the other new tunes than Teardrop, which sounds more like a new Fix You. Will download some more shows after this, resuming my Coldplay fanship a little, so many great tunes to choose from.

    Any nice b-sides lately? I'm very into Coldplay's b-sides like I Ran Away, Boom Blaum, For You
  11. As I've said before, i think this is gonna be Coldplay's best.
  12. Having listened a few more times to Waterfall, I still think it's good but not sure it will have legs. Popular on radio this year but not in years to come. I still don't think this band has written their Streets or One. They've written their Beautiful Day / Vertigo / Pride (Yellow, Clocks, The Scientist). But not a balls out top of the range classic best-ever tune.
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