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