Coldplay - Speed Of Sound

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― elgolfo (elgolfo), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Gone, apparently.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay - Speed Of Sound

Here's the Rapidshare link.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Lovely. Reminds me of ... Simple Minds?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Horrible. This is exactly what I thought Coldplay would do if they went "electronic". Electronic being using sounds that sound like a rompler piano patch with strings. The drum sound like shit and the boring three note U2 piano hook is wack as hell.

The sad thing is that they are going to sell a million of these. It is a rotten record, but it is going to be huge.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Horrible? Nah. It does sort of sound like "Clocks" at half-speed, but what about this sounds "electronic?" It sounds about as "electronic" as either of their other albums. Or, for that matter, "The Joshua Tree."

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

This is boring.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

this confirms EVERYTHING i was suspecting about this record.

they have the instincts of Oasis and the ambition of Radiohead, which just strikes me as the most repulsive combination ever.

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

OTFFFFFFFM, JD

― I DESIRE...MACARONI NECKLACES AND SOAP SCULPTURES (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty bad.
and that's coming from a guy who really liked their last 2 albums.

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Agreed.

Thought the 1st album was average, 2nd was excellent, but this is bobbins.

Sounds like really weedy 80's rock, like a bad 2000's version of Then Jericho

― actionjackson, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was pretty good for Coldplay, actually. The Clocks road is definitely the one that suits them best. The lyrics are meaningless, the melody doens't really do anything, but I thought the sound was lovely - that MASSIVE delicacy that they hinted at on the last record. Nice that there's a bit more guitar on this. I think this next album will cement them as the biggest bad in the world, for better or for worse.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

Damnit I want to hear this - no luck so far!! What the hell am I doing wrong?!

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

This sounds exactly like...Coldplay. It's not going to convert any haters, and those who like are going to lap it up.

On first listen, I like it. And OTM Sick Mouthy, "MASSIVE delicacy" nails it pretty much square on.

― Bill A (Bill A), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

The funny thing is that whether you like it or not you'll be hearing it in the grocery store twenty years from now. Better learn to love it.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

That's totally not funny though.

The thing is that Coldplay never demand attention - it's almost like ambient music only you can hum along absent-mindedly rather than let it totally lapse into the background. I still don't get what the devoted see in them, but the hate for them seems OTT to me these days.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I rather doubt we'll be hearing it in any shop twenty years from now. You don't hear Tears For Fears being played much over the PA system in Sainsburys these days, do you?

The 10-CDs-per-year audience don't want to sit down and focus on music; they only want the absent-minded ambience to ease their car journeys to work or to the shops, or to soundtrack coffee, or polite sex. Thus Coldplay works in that context - never moving, but never threatening either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

I still don't get what the devoted see in them

In the minds of the masses there aren't many rock groups that bring that safe, warm touch to guitar music anymore. Special interest groups (in this case music fanatics like many of us) have a low cost of knowledge and by nature can pool it all together for quicker and more informed opinions on music. When you know as much about music as many people on this board you probably think that Coldplay isn't as good as a lot of similar bands. Most people don't know about these bands and think Coldplay is a gift from God.

The reason the best music is many times unpopular is because people don't pay the costs to aquire the knowledge about it. If we all didn't spend so much time and money on music we all might love this song as well.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

The crass response to that would be that Coldplay are liked by people who have, um, lives...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like typically Coldplay, in other words, great stuff.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

But is it MELODIC????

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

quite a lot of the coldplay-admirers i know have large record collections.

me? i think coldplay are quite good. i liked the first album more than the second. i didn't bother to listen to this track because i'm listening to bushwick bill at the moment.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

what i mean is - cosiness, warmth, non-threatening music - these things are desired (at times) by regular record buyers as well as casual ones, no?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

most regular record buyers I know who have it bought it and now would deny owning it/liking them

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

er, no.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

the first record, ronan?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

never, marcello? don't you ever get a hankering to play "the man who" or "parachutes" to have something easy on the ears?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

They are useful as reserve coasters for outsized whisky decanters.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

NOT AS GOOD AS "TALK"!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

quite a lot of the coldplay-admirers i know have large record collections.

Has to be said though, that in a lot of those cases, they have also had quite some time to build up their record collection, considering most of us who like Coldplay have been into pop music at least since the 80s. The kids don't seem to "get" them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

You don't hear Tears For Fears being played much over the PA system in Sainsburys these days, do you?

au contraire! 80s music is sodding everywhere and you know it. whether it'll be coldplay or someone else that is retro-chic in the two-five, well i don't know.

In the minds of the masses there aren't many rock groups that bring that safe, warm touch to guitar music anymore.

presumably some "committed" music fans like ver play? not just geir, i mean, but "kids"?

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

geir, lots of young people like coldplay. go into any coldplay gig and there will be lots of kiks there.

my point was that coldplay are not just for casual buyers - as some of the posts here suggested - but also people with big collections. i was also suggesting that the qualities sought by the casual buyer are also sought buy the music obsessive: some of the time, at least.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

As a music obsessive that has no life I'd say OTM, Kilian.

I know this is an an obvious statement that has been made before, but I still feel some of us disappear far too far up our own arses when (what I'll describe as) 'Popular' indie is released. It's almost as though we resent the success. By all means, if you don't like it say so but the vicious slaggings that Coldplay (and, to a lesser extent, Radiohead) get from some of us nerds is totally unwarranted.

I've enjoyed both Coldplay albums so far and will undoubtedly buy the third album (and I know the alternatives, but still think Coldplay are pretty good at what they do. And yes I did buy the early EPs before they were popular...music nerd credentials intact!)

Per normal its all down to personal, subjective taste.

― Guilty Boksen (Bro_Danielson), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Music without cancer is worthless.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000095JXB.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Well, exactly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

I mean, c'mon, that song's not *that* bad. It's pretty and I wouldn't change the station if it came on. And it sounds just like the last two records, so I don't know where "ambition" fits into this. Cynicism, maybe, but not ambition. I predict a rapturous reception at Coachella.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

It doens't sound like the last two records. It's much more layered and denser than the first, much less sparse than parts of the second, and takes that MASSIVE delicacy even further than bits of the second. They've definitely developed. Not stylistically or melodically, but aurally they've got bigger. They put together beautiful sounding records, but I don't rate their actual songs or music much. Play this after Trouble or something and it dwarves it.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I don't know. This track came 'out' the same day the White Stripes new one. I know which I want to hear again...

clue: Not "Clocks part two"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

From my perspective: neither.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

sorry, marcello, but the two poles of the pop universe are the white stripes and coldplay. you *have* to choose.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

incorrect. neither the white stripes nor coldplay are pop, so the "choice" is invalid.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay could be called pop to some extent, even though they are musically more "rock" than Travis and Keane.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

It's a Coldplay song - it sounds like one and doesn't pretend to be anything else. I really have no opinion on it. It's not terrible but it's not anything to shout about either.

― Roz, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I predict a rapturous reception at Coachella.

No wonder I'm not going.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay, Music for Douchebags

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

the link doesn't seem to work. i'm curious about it.

― breezy, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

How many people had the genre for this come up as "unclassifiable" in their itunes? Sneaky little marketing trick if you ask me.

― jmeister (jmeister), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Coldplay need someone who can fuckin rip shit up with an axe so they properly imitate U2. I'd love it! As it is all their songs give me a nasty case of blue balls. Build Build Build.........meh Figuratively of course.

― jmeister (jmeister), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

You guys have ruined me. I used to love Coldplay (and part of me still does). But after months of reading how everyone thinks they're bland, I can't help but hear it now in some of their songs. But it's so pretty....

Isn't it ok to like pretty music?

― Wookie Rookie, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Is Coldplay the Supertramp of the '00s?

― Mike M, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Nothing wrong about being "bland" as long as the songs are good.

(And, yes, that goes for Supertramp as well)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

My feelings for Coldplay are fairly uncomplicated. I think they're great. I could rationalise that fact, but it seems a little pointless - intellect doesn't really come into it.

In other news, you can buy the damn thing already (if you live in lovely Australia). It's here

― Mourinho (lee ward), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

one of those bands where i don't know what is more rubbish: their name or their music?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

or their lyrics?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Supertramp are good - next to Coldplay, they're fucking godhead.

The name Coldplay still reminds me of some non-existent slang term for a sexually transmitted disease. In an ideal universe, people would use the term "the coldplay" instead of "the clap". Spot the grumpy Radiohead fan.

― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Next to Godhead, Supertramp are fucking Coldplay.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

god, you're a fucking super-cold tramp

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind this song. I also don't remember a single note of it after having listened to it three or four times already. I do like "Talk" better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

This song isn't really that bad or that good, but it has the least appropriate song title ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

"In the minds of the masses there aren't many rock groups that bring that safe, warm touch to guitar music anymore. Special interest groups (in this case music fanatics like many of us) have a low cost of knowledge and by nature can pool it all together for quicker and more informed opinions on music. When you know as much about music as many people on this board you probably think that Coldplay isn't as good as a lot of similar bands. Most people don't know about these bands and think Coldplay is a gift from God.

Yuk.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

hey Mourinho - thanks for the tip!

happen to live in lovely sydney, so headed over and smacked some cents down to purchase.

Now I can find out what you're all rabbiting on about... (will contribute with my thumbs up / thumbs down later)

― sarafina, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

come now haters. this is a really fucking catchy song. i think they write great pop songs. i'm not prone to like stuff like this, yet somehow I like it. even it does sound exactly like all their other songs.

― breezy, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

"The 10-CDs-per-year audience don't want to sit down and focus on music"

wow, Marcello! the difference between the British and Italian music market concentrated in one phrase: here it would be "the 1-cd-per-year audience"...

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Music without cancer is worthless.
-- Marcello Carlin (marcello...), April 19th, 2005.

Does this make Kylie worthy now?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I just caught Coldplay on VH1 Storytellers, and Chris Martin said that "Speed of Sound" came about when the band was attempting to cover Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" in the studio.

Ugh. Please stop namechecking bands after successfully distilling their sounds into saccharine mush. I don't wish you any harm, because you seem like a nice bloke. But just take your millions and go the fuck away from me. You can leave "Clocks" -- I rather like that one. But then take your wife and stubble and get out of here.

― PB, Thursday, 9 June 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

He's using the stuff he likes or listens to as signifiers the same way he uses signifiers of BIG IMPORTANT THINGS in lyrics, to affect some importance or relevance that just isn't there. I really don't know what Eno albums the guy's been listening to, to say nothing of the way they used that Kraftwerk riff.

― Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

I quite like the way they used the "Computer Love" riff - makes a bit of a change from the "we're-all-machines-aren't-we-cool" pose of the Fischerspooners and Ladytrons of this world.

The new Eno album sounds a bit like Coldplay, actually.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

Waaaaay off topic, but a question for you, Marcello - are you ever going to write that great piece on Todd Rundgren's Holy Trinity?

― Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

Mr Lester put me on standby some while back to do the piece for Uncut if and when they ever get around to doing a Todd special. I still haven't heard anything more about this.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

I would have thought Mr Lester would be in a rush to do such a thing!I look forward to it anyway.

― Deluxe (Damian), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Is this the one one their itunes commercial? I actually really like it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

"one on"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

I like this song

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

was it nick southall who said 'a rush of blood...' sounded almost like public service announcements or kind of bbc all-in-together news broadcast music. whatever it was, and whoever said it, they were otm.

this track is clearly one of the best, it 'goes somewhere'.

― N_RQ, Friday, 10 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I said it was like 12 bits of BBC incidental between programme music with someone accidentally singing over it, aye.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

thassit. well otm.

― N_Rq, Friday, 10 June 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

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