My Coldplay Response
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I originally posted the Thread about Coldplay possibly being at MSG tonite,
well the thread was clsoed because to many people on this board are narrow minded and are too quick to down someone else's taste in music.
while coldplay is no where near one of my favorite bands, i still think theyre pretty good, and yes it would be cool to see another band show support to the band we love.
there are a ton of musical groups i dont like but i would never thrash someone for liking them or suggesting it wouldnt be cool to see them at a PJ concert, I dont like Bruce's music particularily, but if he showed up tonite, and sang a few songs, i would still think it was awesome, Ben Harper is okay for me, but i thought it was beyond awesome that he performed with PJ at the last garden shows. So some think Coldplay suck, thats fine, but dont make fun of them for liking them. and some people should really think about what they are going to say before they write it, because alot of what people wrote in that thread was very offensive.
well the thread was clsoed because to many people on this board are narrow minded and are too quick to down someone else's taste in music.
while coldplay is no where near one of my favorite bands, i still think theyre pretty good, and yes it would be cool to see another band show support to the band we love.
there are a ton of musical groups i dont like but i would never thrash someone for liking them or suggesting it wouldnt be cool to see them at a PJ concert, I dont like Bruce's music particularily, but if he showed up tonite, and sang a few songs, i would still think it was awesome, Ben Harper is okay for me, but i thought it was beyond awesome that he performed with PJ at the last garden shows. So some think Coldplay suck, thats fine, but dont make fun of them for liking them. and some people should really think about what they are going to say before they write it, because alot of what people wrote in that thread was very offensive.
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the gay thing was a joke of the movie 40 year old virgin. It was funny but it wasnt thrashing you. It was just a joke that someone made, but yes, I agree with you that one thing is a joke and another thing is thrashing someone, dont take it personal, I like NSYNC, Beyonce, Shakira and I loved the NKOTB which is obsolutly worse, dont take it personal dude!!! have a nice day
Published: June 25, 2008
Here’s an adjective not commonly associated with the British whine-rock specialists Coldplay: bruising. Here’s another: swaggering. And finally a third: surprising.
And yet, on the best parts of their new album “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” (Capitol), these are just the things Coldplay has become. Produced by Brian Eno (responsible for much of U2’s greatest work), Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire) and Rik Simpson, the album rumbles like nothing else the band has done. There is thrust in the rhythms, obfuscation in the arrangements and abstraction in the lyrics, all where there were previously few or none.
Might Coldplay, that most staid of rock bands, be capable of growth?
In flashes, maybe, yes. But over the course of its performance Monday night at Madison Square Garden — a free show, tickets for which were distributed through a promotion on the band’s Web site — the band steadily regressed to the mean.
The night began with uncommon verve. The guitarist Jonny Buckland pierced through “Violet Hill” with forceful jabs. On “Viva La Vida,” one of the new album’s most invigorating tracks, the band, outfitted in a look that suggested 19th-century military chic, clustered intimately at the front of the stage. But the drummer Will Champion loomed large, hammering ferociously at his floor tom as if it was a particularly stubborn railroad spike. Mr. Champion shined throughout: on other, less successful numbers (“Clocks,” “42”) he was intense and brawny, giving the band an appealing, hypnotic density.
On its early records, Coldplay was exquisite verging on precious, largely because of the plain falsetto of the lead singer Chris Martin. Its songs sounded fragile, which is perhaps why the band incurred so much bilious response — even when troubled, rock stars are supposed to stomp and preen, while Coldplay only moped.
“Viva La Vida,” currently the No. 1 album in the country, still centers on doubt, but of the sort that follows a fall from hubris rather than the kind that comes before it. Still, for all the anguish of Coldplay on record, it can be self-assured on stage.
For “Yellow” — its 2000 breakthrough single, and still its most durable song — the band marched through the crowd and set up across the arena from the stage, back by Gate 60 in the mezzanine. After one false start and a bout of profanity by Mr. Martin, the band found the groove, and Mr. Martin took some impressive liberties with the song’s sturdy melody.
But even when the band was at its strongest on Monday, as on “In My Place” and “Lovers in Japan,” it was dull to watch (Not much has changed since it released a pretty, stultifying live DVD in 2003). Toward the end of the night, a decidedly U2-ish version of “Fix You” had the expectant air of an empty pub at last call: things are happening, somewhat, but the room feels stagnant.
But then Mr. Martin flubbed a line, spitting yet another curse into the microphone. As if to explain, or compensate, for the gaffe, a couple of moments later he altered the words of the song, perfectly in rhythm and in key: “Lyrics to old songs that you don’t know/And you embarrass yourself at M.S.G./But it doesn’t matter one bit, everyone got in for free.”
On first blush it was a clever save. But one couldn’t help the creeping sensation that even this seemingly spontaneous trick was little more than a neatly executed, contrived stab at humility in a show measured to the last second. And even when it was done, the band didn’t drop its veneer: the crowd stuck around and cheered well after the house lights went on, hoping for an encore, but Coldplay was long gone.
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IMO Coldplay > MMJ but to be honest I've seen MMJ and not Coldplay so who knows how I'd feel if it was the other way around. People just have different tastes. Having a common interest in one band doesn't mean everyone will like all the same bands. I for one LOVE Muse but I see them getting bashed all the time (here and on other music boards). I honestly couldn't tell you one band who I hate so much that I feel compelled to post it on a message board though. To each his/her own I guess
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Uhhhhhh...has this guy followed Coldplay at all? "Clocks" is possibly their biggest hits ever.
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He means least succesful in terms of the live show. But that does seem like a song that should be good live.
I hope the mods delete this one too.
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It's a stupid message board. Who cares if some asshole from Seattle bashes you. You're just adding fuel to the fire by whining about it.
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Just ignore the haters. Too many people here who seem to only like PJ, or think no good music has came out in history other than stuff out of Seattle in the mid 90s!
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i feel like beavis and butthead everytime i hear that name. that guy coldplay.....isnt this coldplay dude married to some hot model chick or something?
isnt he supposed to be at the VH1 Rock Honors? If he is, I might just have to go explore or sit in the bathroom and have a smoke for a bit....
oh wait - they are a band? I thought it was the one guy and his piano
oops!
what really gets me (and this is with alot of "popular" bands right now) is this tailored, pseudo-indie look everyones going for... if you wanna look dirty, grungy, homeless, unkept, etc then just really go for it... like jeff tweedy style
and martin was such a tool even in the briefest interview that just took place
and these cheesy whiteboy hiphop dancing hes doing right now are unbearable
(i realize alot of my "review" had little to do with the music itself... but that was already pretty well established... so i got down to the rest of my problems with them)
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