Although there wasn't much complaining coming out of Chris Martin's mouth Friday night (instead, he replaced it with gratuitous "ad-libbed" lyrics indicating his familiarity and excitement for a city which I reckon he only heard about the night before), you can pretty much replace "Radiohead" with "Coldplay" in the above quote. I've seen more energetic crouds at Lawrence Welk reunion shows. Martin's flamboiant stage-prancing was almost insulting to watch -- akin to Jet's lead singer's vain efforts to get the crowd "into it" before the Oasis show. If anyone in this crowd was "into it," they could have fooled me. Everyone around us was just standing there, sometimes doing that retarded little sway, arms folded, and clapping, not even really cheering at the end of songs. Granted, it was difficult to tell where the songs began and ended, because they all pretty much sounded the same to me.

Why did I put this here? Because after my experience seeing them live, I'm thoroughly convinced that Coldplay has NOTHING on Oasis. Coldplay's got some good tunes, only problem is, they all sound exactly like their album filler songs. "Fix You" is a beautiful song (the only one worth shit on X&Y IMHO), but ending your concert with a song like that makes me want to go take a nap, not go back out and pound a few more beers. Hardly anyone was singing, screaming, jumping, or doing anything that could remotely be described as being mad fer it. Oasis songs, and their live show, are perfect for you and your friends to shout along to in a drunken stupor, and that, my friends, is the kind of feeling that Rock N Roll is all about. Not standing there in a daze listening to some piano-playing falsetto prance around pretending he's Baryshnikov and droning on about white shadows and some shit.

Of course, this is all my very biased yet very solid opinion, and I realize the crowd's reaction may be rather different across the pond.