Coldplay X&Y

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

I've listened to "Talk" from X&Y.  What song should I listen to next?

[b.dfzo]

Personally, I'd say 'What If', a beautiful tune.  Sure, he's not the world's greatest lyricist, but the heartfelt delivery lends personal conviction to it.  And I hear it as an inverted 'Imagine':

What if there was no light
Nothing wrong, nothing right
What if there was no time
And no reason, or rhyme
What if you should decide
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in your life

What if I got it wrong
And no poem or song
Could put right what I got wrong
Or make you feel I belong
What if you should decide
That you don't want me there by your side
That you don't want me there in you life

Oooooooh that's right
Let's take a breath, try to put it aside
Oooooooh that's right
How can you know it if you don't even try
Oooooooh that's right

Every step that you take
Could be your biggest mistake
It could bend or it could break
But that's the risk that you take

What if you should decide
That you don't want me there in your life
That you don't want me there by your side

Oooooooh thats right
Let's take a breath, try to put it aside
Oooooooh that's right
How can you know it when you don't even try
Oooooooh that's right

When I first got the CD, I just kept playing this track over and over...before I'd even heard the rest of the CD.  That is how good it is.

[Jason Penick]

I've listened to "Talk" from X&Y.  What song should I listen to next?

"1969" by the Stooges.

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[Jonas]

Only song I Liked off that album was 'Fixed You'

what a great song. though I do prefer their first two albums....

[b.dfzo]

The organ played on the beginning of "Fix You" belongs to Chris Martin's wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, and was a gift from her late father Bruce Paltrow.

[Jonas]

Cool, I learned how to play that part by ear...its great. I love playing it.

[b.dfzo]

This might sound contrived, but the beginning of "Fix You" could have been played and sung by Brian circa late 60's.  Am I wrong in that perception?

[Cabana Boy]

I've listened to "Talk" from X&Y.  What song should I listen to next?

No more songs. Just wash your ears clean.

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

This might sound contrived, but the beginning of "Fix You" could have been played and sung by Brian circa late 60's.  Am I wrong in that perception?

Reminds me of the little snippet of something Brian plays on the tracking session for "That's Not Me". Just organ and Brian wailing.

[b.dfzo]

This might sound contrived, but the beginning of "Fix You" could have been played and sung by Brian circa late 60's.  Am I wrong in that perception?

Reminds me of the little snippet of something Brian plays on the tracking session for "That's Not Me". Just organ and Brian wailing.

I love the piano that slides in on the beginning of that track - a great 'feel' - did that ever become anything?

[Jonas]

This might sound contrived, but the beginning of "Fix You" could have been played and sung by Brian circa late 60's.  Am I wrong in that perception?

It's funny you say this, I'm listening to the Cocaine Sessions someone posted in another thread and the song 'Oh Lord' is hauntingly familiar...

I just wished there was a better quality recording of this...

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

Yeah I noticed that too.

[b.dfzo]

X&Y, apparently, is the biggest selling album of 2005.

[Leo K]

X&Y, apparently, is the biggest selling album of 2005.

I have to admit this album is growing on me, and I wasn't much of a Coldplay fan to begin with.

[Cabana Boy]

It's funny you say this, I'm listening to the Cocaine Sessions and the song 'Oh Lord' is hauntingly familiar...

Don't even. Just don't.

[b.dfzo]

I like the title track.  But, then, anything with electric slide guitar and a solid 4/4 beat is a winner with me.

Sure, Coldplay/Chris Martin are pretentious, but they are good musically, in spite of it all.  I'd rather listen to them than most bands of their stature, meaning record sales, popularity, etc.

[Howdy Doody]

 Another so-so band in a biz desperate for but petrified of TALENT.

[b.dfzo]

Any band who gets to be as popular as Coldplay will be derided, no matter how good they might be. 

[Fire Wind]

Doesn't mean that all derision is unwarranted.  I've changed the channel a few times when they've been performing, including what I caught of the Brit awards.  That's genuine repulsion.

But sure, some of the derision will be because of the size of their fanbase.  Probably there's a view that this music is bought by people who's taste doesn't stretch any further.  City workers driving around Clapham with their music blaring out, their Coldplay album replacing the previous year's Dido or David Gray.  James Blunt can probably be added to this bed of wet socks.  Yeah, that's a broad stereotype of music-buyers, and not one I care about, but it's probably a reason for the contempt.

[Cabana Boy]

Doesn't mean that all derision is unwarranted.

Right, it's totally warranted. And then some.

[b.dfzo]

Yeah, but I didn't buy the CD because I am part of a legion.  (BTW, I've never dug on Dido, David Gray, James Blunt, etc.)  I bought the CD because it has mostly well written and performed music on it.  It's different from their previous album, but, still, I like it.

[Cabana Boy]

...it has mostly well written and performed music on it.

No it doesn't.

[b.dfzo]

I won't fight you on this one.  We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

[Cabana Boy]

I won't fight you on this one.  We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Christ, STFU - I couldn't give a glittery $hite about arguing with the likes of you, I only thought of half-inching the last word. Seeing how *you* care so much, I'll elaborate a little further.

That album is $hit. Along with everything else they've done. And "$hit" is being really, really philanthropic and generous. It literally, physically *hurts* - FU%£ING ***CANES***, ACHES - to see even the vaguest parallels being drawn between their spew and Brian Wilson's heavenspun sounds. Even his hissiest, most tape-decayed offcuts stand an imperious billion-storeys-high over Coldplay's U2/FlamingLipsIfTheFlamingLipsWerePureGarbage/StingWithoutTheHummableTunes hybrid.
They are vile beyond articulation. 200billion times more contrived and soulless than ANY bunch of happy "manufactured" kids who ever brought people fun and caught Hell for it.

p/s: Don't make like you know me, or what my reasons for posting anything are. Keep that withering schoolteacher crap away from my door. Ta.

[b.dfzo]

You are ill funny.

I won't fight you on this one.  We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Christ, STFU - I couldn't give a glittery $hite about arguing with the likes of you, I only thought of half-inching the last word. Seeing how *you* care so much, I'll elaborate a little further.

That album is $hit. Along with everything else they've done. And "$hit" is being really, really philanthropic and generous. It literally, physically *hurts* - FU%£ING ***CANES***, ACHES - to see even the vaguest parallels being drawn between their spew and Brian Wilson's heavenspun sounds. Even his hissiest, most tape-decayed offcuts stand an imperious billion-storeys-high over Coldplay's U2/FlamingLipsIfTheFlamingLipsWerePureGarbage/StingWithoutTheHummableTunes hybrid.
They are vile beyond articulation. 200billion times more contrived and soulless than ANY bunch of happy "manufactured" kids who ever brought people fun and caught Hell for it.

p/s: Don't make like you know me, or what my reasons for posting anything are. Keep that withering schoolteacher crap away from my door. Ta.