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Just bought new Coldplay...

bigbadbillbigbadbill Posts: 1,758
edited June 2008 in Other Music
I bought it off itunes at around 11:30 pm (I'm sure it was released on the east coast at midnight EST) and I'm in the middle of listening to it for the first time right now. I'm on track 3: "Lost!" Apparently, the last track of the new album is "Lost?"

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The first track, "Life In Technicolor" is an instrumental.
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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    bigbadbill wrote:
    I bought it off itunes at around 11:30 pm (I'm sure it was released on the east coast at midnight EST) and I'm in the middle of listening to it for the first time right now. I'm on track 3: "Lost!" Apparently, the last track of the new album is "Lost?"

    SPOILER












    The first track, "Life In Technicolor" is an instrumental.
    I've now listened the album 6 or 7 times and I have to say it's pretty good.
    Logical evolution after X&Y.
    Some great tracks, good production...
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Not a big fan of this new one. But I don't have the official release. ;)
    I liked Parachutes and A Rush of Blood... were pretty good.
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    Go Back To Parachutes

    Thats The Shit!
  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    i'm actually listening to Parachutes right now....still my favorite

    but this new one is damn good, way better than X & Y

    some very interesting diverse moments...Yes/Chinese Sleep Chant comes to mind immediately
    im also loving 42, lovers in japan, strawberry swing.....its awesome, definitely lived up to my expectations
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  • bigbadbillbigbadbill Posts: 1,758
    LedZepFan wrote:
    i'm actually listening to Parachutes right now....still my favorite

    but this new one is damn good, way better than X & Y

    some very interesting diverse moments...Yes/Chinese Sleep Chant comes to mind immediately
    im also loving 42, lovers in japan, strawberry swing.....its awesome, definitely lived up to my expectations

    But I still like X and Y's opening track "Square One." I'm not thrilled with an instrumental track as an opener to an album as is "Life In Technicolor."
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  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    bigbadbill wrote:
    But I still like X and Y's opening track "Square One." I'm not thrilled with an instrumental track as an opener to an album as is "Life In Technicolor."

    don't get me wrong, i think X & Y is still quite a good album and certainly better than a lot of what was coming out that year...there are definitely some great songs, like "square one", the title track, "white shadows","low", "twisted logic"...and ill admit i still love "speed of sound"

    overall though i liked the change of pace here; continuing in X & Y's sort of overblown manner would have been a bad move, i appreciate the return to the murkier mood of parachutes and the introduction of diverse world elements. i dont mind the instrumental opener, its very cool, but i can see what you mean...i kept waiting for chris to at least come in with a catchy refrain or something
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,495
    I am very dissapointed with this record.
    Lose the overproduction and go back to writing good songs.
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