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  2. I noticed that the official Charlie Brown video was posted. I personally do not like that video and would much rather prefer to think that this video is the "official" Charlie Brown music video.

  3. Listening to X&Y now, for the first time it's actually making a connection.
  4. ^ my favourite album of theirs for sure.
  5. Originally posted by iTimListening to X&Y now, for the first time it's actually making a connection.


    In my opinion, X&Y is the album that represents the change in their sound. Before it, Coldplays sound was much more clear and you could cleary listen the drums, piano, bass and guitar.

    Guess X&Y is the first step of MX.
  6. I like a band playing with soundscapes and electronics. You always find argument with ‘purists’ when you do, but I think it makes the music much more involving and interesting.
  7. P.S. Saw them live for free in Hollywood last night
  8. Originally posted by MacphistflyI like a band playing with soundscapes and electronics. You always find argument with ‘purists’ when you do, but I think it makes the music much more involving and interesting.


    I agree with you friend. Their first albums sound sweet and lovely, but the last two are the ones I really enjoy listening to.

    And how was the concert? Hope you had a great time

  9. ^ curious. I appreciate Viva La Vida more when listened as individual songs instead of as whole album. VLV and MX excesive production makes me a little sick of them after 20 or 30 minutes. On the other hand, I could listen to Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood for hours without growing tired of their exquisite simplicity.
  10. Originally posted by LikeASong^ curious. I appreciate Viva La Vida more when listened as individual songs instead of as whole album. VLV and MX excesive production makes me a little sick of them after 20 or 30 minutes. On the other hand, I could listen to Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood for hours without growing tired of their exquisite simplicity.


    agree completely. I've already stopped listening to MX and made my way back to Rush of Blood and Parachutes
  11. MX is a very nice collection of some FANTASTIC tunes (Hurts Like Heaven, Charlie Brown, Us Against TW all are among CP's best songs), but aahh it lacks something.
  12. It lacks enough mellow.

    There's a brooding to Coldplay's music that has made it great since day 1. They've made plenty of happy songs, but never a happy album. Viva la Vida was the closest to "happy", beginning with Life in Technicolor, including songs like Viva la Vida and Strawberry Swing...but it still had a very overall dark approach. Songs like Death and All His Friends, Cemeteries of London, and 42 dominating a deep, bellowing darkness (note: dark does not always equal SAD- just a "color" of the sound) that encompassed the whole album.

    Rush of Blood was almost entirely about self-conflict, struggle within. Sure, In My Place is a great happy sound, but the lyrics are still longing. Same with Warning Sign (one of my personal favorite Coldplay songs)

    X&Y and Parachutes are very clearly darker albums, full of swooning ballads and deep swirling sounds, oceans of noise and amazing lyrics. But again- nothing encompassingly happy about them.

    Mylo Xyloto is precisely a happy, joyous,, exuberant album.......and while I like that SONG-WISE from Coldplay, they are the masters of tragedy. Tragic heroes redeemed even works for them if they want to uplift- but its too weird for me to hear a whole album full of songs like Hurts Like Heaven, Charlie Brown, Teardrop, Up with the Birds, and even the optimistic Us Against the World- a ballad that says "we can do this" against Coldplay ballads that traditionally deal with loss, regaining love, or mending broken hearts.

    Mylo Xyloto simply doesn't fit. And it's a mood thing. They know how to weave a bunch of darker tunes throughout random moments of joy to create a true brilliant listening experience. They apparently don't know how to play with a bunch of songs of joy. As songs alone, they hold up incredibly well- on par with the great Coldplay songs before them. But as a whole, where Coldplay has succeeded so admirably before, here they fail.
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