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  1. I still stand behind my postulate that the tour was making the band bankrupt and negotiations to bring Coldplay to South America without also putting the band in the red went south (pun intended). Their tour schedule was honestly not that bad compared to U2 360 and I really think they wanted to play South America, but it was the finances that kept them from going.

    Either way, it leads to a really anti-climactic end to the tour.
  3. Originally posted by Genaro92U2:LOL at Muse's description! ahaha I don't know about Coldplay, I feel like the first three albums are much better than the "happy" music on Mylo... even though that's what they like about it according to the film. They're really in a joyful phase which is fine but I like my music to have conflict xD. But it's all good regardless I'll always love Coldplay and I don't expect another Parachutes or Rush of Blood ever again.


    Dug up this old post of mine that I was insanely proud of at the time when I saw this, Gen:

    Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3: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.
  4. saw it, so are they turning the album into a concept one with a single story? won't it feel a bit forced?
  5. The album was intended to be a concept album, and it never really landed to the extent that I think they wanted it to...so yes, this is a bit of a forcing.


  6. I agree completely Matt! Although I understand the live shows need to be more upbeat and "happy", the next time I see Coldplay I will probably enjoy the darker, earlier songs the most. Amsterdam, Rush of Blood, Spies, Us Against the World, A Message are some of my all time favorites by them, not Paradise or Teardrop or Viva...
  7. although not gonna lie, whenever I'm in a car with friends, Charlie Brown, Paradise and Teardrop BRING DOWN THE HOUSE
  8. Mylo Xyloto was the best thing that could happen to Coldplay. They will be mellow yellow Coldplay no longer!
  9. I disagree, I think Viva and Mylo are going to be the start of a decline in their musical output, imo. But not in their live performances. Their entrance into the mainstream has affected their music a bit imo, although I still love the last two albums.
  10. For me, X&Y and Viva La Vida were a slump in Coldplay's music production, Mylo Xyloto was a sign of getting back on the right track.
  11. I think Mylo has better songs than Viva, but the "forced" feel of a cohesive album with those empty transitions did not help it imo. X&Y had a lot of extra songs, if shaved off 3 tracks it could have been a classic. But I also think X&Y is underrated by the band and fans imo.
  12. Originally posted by Genaro92U2:I think Mylo has better songs than Viva, but the "forced" feel of a cohesive album with those empty transitions did not help it imo. X&Y had a lot of extra songs, if shaved off 3 tracks it could have been a classic. But I also think X&Y is underrated by the band and fans imo.

    +1.

    And I'm one of those who underrate X&Y, justo for the simple reason that it was a "poor" secquel to their best album. It's like R&H and Joshua... R&H is a superb album full of excellent songs, but it's underrated due to being between Joshua and Achtung, two masterpieces. X&Y is full of excellent songs (and quite a lot of fillers too, but anyway), but AROBTTH is such a great great great album that X&Y's efforts get drowned
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