The show would benefit of a longer encore, or a proper encore at all (the Speed of Sound transition into Clocks isn't what I'd call an encore). While their keys appropiately fit (Eb), Clocks seguing into Kix You isn't their best option I feel . Something like Clocks / Talk / Everything's Not Lost / Fix You / Teardrop seems spot-on to my eyes, and that simple change would bump more than 10 minutes the show.
Then, add a few more songs to the main set (Shiver between Lovers In Japan and The Scientist; Up With The Birds -which many people lack in their sets- after Paradise and before the C-stange thingie ; Death And All His Friends or The Hardest Part as rotating slots elsewhere, maybe after Yellow)... And you're done. 2 hours and loads more of greatness.
Heres what I think is possible (in Bold) for them to add:
MX
Hurts Like Heaven
In My Place
Major Minus
Lovers in Japan
The Scientist
Yellow Talk - due to the synth intro, I think it'd go well here with Violet Hill and GPASUYF
Violet Hill
GPASUYF
B Stage
Princess of China
Up in Flames
Warning Sign
----Heres where I scramble everything up-----
Viva (with Piano intro)
Charlie Brown
Paradise
A Hopeful Transmission/ DLIBYH Up with the Birds
C-Stage
Us Against The World
Speed Of Sound UFO (Chris Solo Acoustic)
Main Encore Square One (mainly due to the long intro that will give Chris enough time to run back onto the stage)
Clocks
Fix You
MMIX/Teardrop
that brings the total set to 24, and roughly 2 hours of playing time.
From a lyrical standpoint...
"Maybe the streets alight, maybe the trees are gone"
"From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song"
"Maybe I'm in the black, maybe I'm on my knees"
"So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I'll raise the flag"
If these lyrics don't speak of a conflict of some sort, I don't know what is.
Also, from a musical standpoint it literally flows like Sunday Bloody Sunday. It's got a similar drum beat and I'm pretty sure that was Brian Eno's intention when he was helping Coldplay with the song.
But the reason I see MX as Coldplay's AB is because it's a radical change in their direction. Even if that direction says to be more mainstream, that's not what Coldplay was before. As I said before, I really do believe this album will be a transcendent for them. Right now, the fact that their current tour pretty much features every single song from the new album, I think it looks pretty good for them.
Originally posted by LikeASong:Doing a deep and argumented comparation between Sunday Bloody Sunday and Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall is really, really, really bold.
Bold, yes.
But relevant, also a yes.
To be honest, I was not surprised at all to see many articles out there comparing Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall to Sunday Bloody Sunday, especially after I had read that Brian Eno played a major role in the song's creation.
Obviously, both songs are not equivalent, but they share many characteristics, including the fact that they not what they appear to be. Sunday Bloody Sunday seems like it's a rebel song, but, as Bono constantly said, it's not a rebel song. The lyrics further that claim as they send a clear message of disdain and disgust regarding the presence of conflict, "We eat and drink while tomorrow they die."
The same goes with Every Teardrop. It doesn't sound like your typical rebel song, including the fact that so many people listen to it, like it, and don't even know what it's actually saying. With lyrics like "from underneath the rubble sing a rebel song," "every siren is a symphony," and
"So you can hurt, hurt me bad But still I'll raise the flag," it's clear that this is a rebel song. However, Every Teardrop carries a tone of hope from a musical and lyrical perspective, which is probably why people like it so much. I, for one, find it a pleasant shift away from Coldplay's typical mellow tone.
I know this is going to frustrate some people, but I've got to give credit where it's due.
