Coldplay's 'new' direction...

It's like they WANT me to come around and beat them up as well as whatever idiot wrote this phrase.

"it sounded really nice. it was done in a good spirit. it is giving us energy feedback (sic)like DJs from japan or detroit people from the underground scene"

will champion said the band have been driven "to the point of nervous breakdown."

well i'm excited so sod yers.

i can't recall who else on here actually really liked them since the start (The Blue Room E.P.) was it just me?

Yoko alert. Doomed for disaster.

What is the fallacy of Radiohead?

and all of this (70s eno/bowie, kraftwerk, and wu-tang stylings) are only making me SALIVATE in anticipation of this thing's release.

I don't think I want to hear Chris Martin doing his version of Joe The Lion.

yeah, but think about it Eisbar, this is COLDPLAY emulating berlin-era bowie, and the Wu.

i KNOW! that's exactly WHY i wanna hear it ... and NOT in a snarky way.

post of the year

NO KRAFTWERK FOR ANY NEW COLDPLAY DAMNIT!!!!! I CAN'T BEAR IT. OUCH.

HA HA HAHAH AHA!

-former Radiohead fan

Seriously though, I do think a book should be written entitled The Fallacy of Radiohead.

Regardless of whether "5 zillion people" bought the album, the album and its songs have been incredibly easy too ignore. Inescapable? I beg to differ. Seriously, I must have heard 'A Sky Full Of Stars' unintentionally less than a handful of times. As for 'Magic', I couldn't even tell you how it goes. How does it go again? This is almost 7 months after the album came out, too, and I ain't exactly living some kind of sheltered existence. Compare this with previous albums where it wasn't hard to become familiar with a few of the album's tracks whether one liked it or not, and it's glaringly obvious that, in spite of its sales, the album has become a bit of a damp squib and it's easy to forget that it even came out. And it's not hard to reach the conclusion that nobody has much to say about it, either; this album has probably generated the least amount of discussion of all of their albums.

"Paradise" was the big one off Mylo Xyloto

― some dude, Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:33 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah yeah, I'd completely forgotten about that one. So no, not as memorable as a 'Yellow', a 'Clocks' or a 'Viva La Vida', then.

i like "magic" a lot, sort of a shame the new album turned out to be half-written garbage

but i sort of earnestly love viva la vida

I think what happened, maybe, at least in vibe, was that the band went from early U2 to '00 U2, but skipped the "Achtung Baby" stage. Like, "Viva La Vida" was their "Unforgettable Fire" (just in terms of chronology and general gist) but then Mylo Goes to College was their "All That You Can't Leave Behind." And "Ghost Stories" is their whatever the newest U2 album is called. Because I really have no problem with the first four Coldplay albums. I don't listen to them, but it has nothing to do with the band or its music. However, the last ones feel safe and triangulated even for a band that never seemed edgy and kinda aimed for the middle from the beginning. It's like they anxiously got preemptively even more middle before they needed to.

New U2 album >>>>>>>>> Ghost Stories. Even the songs that sound like Coldplay are much better Coldplay songs than Coldplay are coming up with right now.

but i sort of earnestly love viva la vida

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:47 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

meanwhile i listened to the prospekt's march ep for the first time today and jeez the b-sides for this record are incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACifFO8Rxvw

Shuffle spat me "Viva la Vida" this morning, and not only was I reminded that it's a pretty good record but that I don't mind the first few Coldplay albums either. If I'm being honest. So looking backwards, it's been this really concerted effort at pop ubiquity that's really brought them down, like they bypassed U2's creative wanderlust and skipped straight to the triangulated nu model. Which does them no favors. Either that or Eno really did do the band a lot of favors.

I don't mind the first few Coldplay albums either. If I'm being honest.

And if I'm being honest, I love those records. Especially X+Y.

x&y sucks a lot

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsrpTrQ1x5Y

not bad!

it's like a dance mix of "Strawberry Swing"

not bad at all, probably the first thing I've heard of their tat I've not been repulsed by in a little while

The album, recorded in Malibu, Los Angeles and London, was produced by Norwegian duo Stargate together with the band's long-time collaborator Rik Simpson. It features more guests than any previous Coldplay album, with Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo and Merry Clayton among those appearing across its 11 tracks (12 in total when the hidden track "X Marks The Spot" is included).

are there other members of Coldplay

tracklisting is kinda saccharine

A Head Full Of Dreams
Birds
Hymn For The Weekend
Everglow
Adventure Of A Lifetime
Fun
Kaleidoscope
Army Of One
Amazing Day
Colour Spectrum
Up&Up

Ha, those song titles. Wasn't their last album a Skyful of Stars or something? And this one is A Head Full of Dreams? Which makes me think of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HufrsUMIBA

gah, why spoil this thread w/greatness

Maybe Chris Martin is lurking and will learn something.

I'm excited for this. New song sounds awesome.

**shamelessly wears Coldplay fan badge**

Coldplay is doing a bit of Daft Punk, never thought i would see the day.

Obvious stadium move. Inevitable.

Coldplay going stadium?

That reminds me of this review:

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Psonic Psunspot [Geffen, 1987]
If this is XTC's real psychedelic album, what the hell was Skylarking? So call it their real psychedelic parody--a concept album about acid damage, which I guess they read about somewhere. I was going to complain that the word "precious" isn't in their vocabulary and ought to be when I noticed that the last song is called "Pale and Precious." Then I realized that for all its kaleidoscopic byplay the parody is a little pale as well. But with every other hook intact, "Pale and Precious" is the only track you might miss without the credits. B+

Coldplay is doing a bit of Daft Punk, never thought i would see the day.

please explain.
heard the new track today on the radio and really do not get the connection.
as for the track :
it's ok.
nothing more, nothing less.
summary : mumford and sons vs a drum track.
and for the record, i am not a hater.

I'd be interested to know if the song is knowingly pseudo-tropical house or if that's just a happy coincidence.

After a few more listens, song is okay. Hopes for the new album are enh.

I'll still buy it though.

So, it would seem that, in spite of them playing at the Superbowl (which I've only really heard about because of the negative publicity) that Coldplay's new album is as easy to ignore as the last one. A quick internet search shows that the album has been out for two months and yet again I have managed to not hear a single cut from the record, unintentionally or otherwise. I also notice that the record got an incredibly mixed reception, and performed absolutely woefully on the album chart pretty much everywhere aside from Norway, so even though it would seem like Mr. Hongro is still buying their records in bulk, it looks like the writing is on the wall, chaps.

It's a pure pop record. Ghost Stories had some substance, but I file the new one next to Mylo Xyloto because it's just going for the stadiums with nothing really substantial in terms of songs. It's nice while it's playing, but nothing memorable whatsoever happens. I'd rate it probably their worst album.

And I say all that as a fan who has found something to be liked on all of their albums.

The problem with the new one is it doesn't have the sad/release dynamic of their best stuff.

I did know they had a new one out as I was sick at the weekend, which resulted in me watching bits of the Coldplay documentary on Sky Arts on a diet of Uniflu and hot whiskeys.

The Guns n Roses documentary (The Most Dangerous Band In The World) was on right before it on BBC Four, which made the Coldplay one seem incredibly low-stakes in comparison - I kept waiting for a riot to happen, or Chris Martin to admonish his colleagues onstage for being a bit too fond of 'Mr Brownstone'.

More like Mylo Zzziloto

just going for the stadiums

"Sky Full Of Stars" was a big top 10 hit only a year ago and this album's promo cycle isn't over yet, i wouldn't count them out as far as commercial relevance yet. but i do get the impression that what they're planning to do next is, like, a Greatest Hits album and a breakup/hiatus for a Chris solo album or something.

That's my impression too. A Greatest Hits might be the best Coldplay album.

It's a cracking album, the new one. It's not as easy as it looks, touching people's hearts at the same time as making tunes that are ballsy enough to fill a big venue. I think Coldplay are just about the best proper pop band going right now.

that lead single really sounds like foals.

xpost Bah. It's really easy to do that. It just takes a certain kind of robotic soullessness to aim for that all the time (see: KLF, "The Manual," plenty of arena country)

Idea of Coldplay being any sort of go-to stadium band makes me pine for the worst of late 80s Kerr and Bono

Yeah, it's like chain fast food. Do people really go because it tastes good, or just because it's fast, easy and a good value for a ton of calories?

Hating somebody because they're popular always sounds a bit bitter to me ;-)

I don't hate Coldplay! I think you'll find me upthread saying I like their first four albums, to degrees. But I really, really don't like the last three, because they are so shameless in their triangulation. They're the Clintons of Rock.

They're so inoffensive it becomes an easy target. I don't hate them but their fans are very strange, at least the one I've met. I don't know if they don't listen to that much music or everything they listen falls in the same line but they honestly believe they're such a cool, innovative band. Come on, they're pretty much playing dadrock.

I like dadrock! There's nothing wrong with dadrock. It's the unctuous inoffensiveness that gets under my skin. They're like Maroon 5 with a delay pedal.

I never said there was anything wrong with dadrock. But dadrock is not innovative, cool music. It takes once innovative cool music, digests it and makes it acceptable for everyone to enjoy in the background.

If there concerts are anything similar to what they did on the superbowl, though. The venue owner would do better selling lattes than beers.

Their*

The venue owners would do better selling balloon animals.

New album's cack. Where's the fuckin' PIANO?

they did a surprisingly great Radiohead impersonation on recent single All I Can Think About Is You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLNG0WnGsI