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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on May 13, 2016 14:28:16 GMT -5
All For One is still better than every song on this album. Not really. Adventure of a lifetime, Up&Up and Birds are all better than it, imo. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on May 13, 2016 14:48:37 GMT -5
If Coldplay broke up would anyone really care?
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Post by The Escapist on May 13, 2016 14:54:22 GMT -5
All For One is still better than every song on this album. Let's not get carried away... |
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Post by mystoryisgory on May 13, 2016 14:55:03 GMT -5
If Coldplay broke up would anyone really care? The former Directioners. |
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Post by glider on May 13, 2016 15:10:07 GMT -5
Mani farting out his bassline has more substance than the material on A Head Full of Dreams.
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Post by World71R on May 13, 2016 22:26:34 GMT -5
If this album had a few good songs on first listen, it has no good songs now. It doesn't even age well. Utter garbage! The production of the songs is a BIG factor in that. Up&Up, Birds, and Adventure of a Lifetime are good songs, as well as Everglow, but they all do not come across very well with the Stargate production at all. Too many synthesizer layers and layers with other unnecessary sounds that just makes things way too loud and muddies up the soundscape, which keeps the songs from across clearly. Going back to the songs, I'd say that out of those four I mentioned, Up&Up suffers the worst. The song comes across the best in a live setting, as opposed to the muffled mess that it sounds like on the album. |
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Post by glider on May 14, 2016 19:21:51 GMT -5
Imagine if Nigel Godrich produced a Coldplay album...
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Post by batfink30 on May 15, 2016 13:33:45 GMT -5
If this album had a few good songs on first listen, it has no good songs now. It doesn't even age well. Utter garbage! The production of the songs is a BIG factor in that. Up&Up, Birds, and Adventure of a Lifetime are good songs, as well as Everglow, but they all do not come across very well with the Stargate production at all. Too many synthesizer layers and layers with other unnecessary sounds that just makes things way too loud and muddies up the soundscape, which keeps the songs from across clearly. Going back to the songs, I'd say that out of those four I mentioned, Up&Up suffers the worst. The song comes across the best in a live setting, as opposed to the muffled mess that it sounds like on the album. The good songs are still very "meh". What annoys is the trying to tart average songs up with sparkly (bad) production. It all smacks of trying to dress up a turd. I've no wish to hear any of AHFOD ever again. |
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Post by matt on May 15, 2016 14:04:54 GMT -5
Imagine if Nigel Godrich produced a Coldplay album... Would end up sounding like a Travis album.  Though Coldplay could learn a thing or two from Travis again. Particularly in understatement and more subtlety, which Godrich brought to Travis. |
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Post by The Invisible Sun on May 16, 2016 10:54:22 GMT -5
I was being facetious when I said Hymn for The Weekend remix was amazing.
But I must admit that the Up & Up video is actually amazing. What an oddly cool video.
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Post by carlober on May 16, 2016 11:28:55 GMT -5
I was being facetious when I said Hymn for The Weekend remix was amazing. But I must admit that the Up & Up video is actually amazing. What an oddly cool video. I agree. The video's brilliant. And I bet it was expensive too... It's a shame that they (predictably) butchered the guitar solo in this shorter edit... and the cheap shite drumbeats still bother me quite a lot. The song is still a massive missed opportunity in my opinion. It could have been Coldplay's Champagne Supernova, if done properly... |
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Post by batfink30 on May 16, 2016 11:41:16 GMT -5
The videos great, we'll done to the director, really nice vision.
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Post by carlober on May 16, 2016 11:58:58 GMT -5
Ah, be careful because if you have the Youtube autoplay feature on the Hymn for the Weekend video will start immediately after.
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Post by glider on May 16, 2016 12:18:15 GMT -5
The videos great, we'll done to the director, really nice vision. Yeah video is alright, but Chris Martin's presence made it unbearable at times. |
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Post by The Invisible Sun on May 16, 2016 12:28:09 GMT -5
I was being facetious when I said Hymn for The Weekend remix was amazing. But I must admit that the Up & Up video is actually amazing. What an oddly cool video. I agree. The video's brilliant. And I bet it was expensive too... It's a shame that they (predictably) butchered the guitar solo in this shorter edit... and the cheap shite drumbeats still bother me quite a lot. The song is still a massive missed opportunity in my opinion. It could have been Coldplay's Champagne Supernova, if done properly... I knew something was off about the solo. I figured I had just forgotten it. I am still disappointed by the album version of Up&Up. Live version is so much superior. |
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Post by Manualex on May 16, 2016 12:35:42 GMT -5
I was being facetious when I said Hymn for The Weekend remix was amazing. But I must admit that the Up & Up video is actually amazing. What an oddly cool video. I agree. The video's brilliant. And I bet it was expensive too... It's a shame that they (predictably) butchered the guitar solo in this shorter edit... and the cheap shite drumbeats still bother me quite a lot. The song is still a massive missed opportunity in my opinion. It could have been Coldplay's Champagne Supernova, if done properly... One of Coldplay's best. Only behind The Sciencist and Strawberry Swing In the creative department. The Only thing that bothers me is the noticeable edits here and there. If they want a radio edit at least re-record the song ffs. |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on May 16, 2016 15:50:27 GMT -5
Great video! One of the few songs on the album that deserved to be a single and to have a video, so I'm glad it got one.
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Post by mystoryisgory on May 16, 2016 23:49:21 GMT -5
Fuck me, that's an awesome video! Best Coldplay video since ETIAW. Thanks guys for pointing it out to me, otherwise I would have never seen it.
And this also reminds me how great a song Up & Up is.... If only Stargate hadn't given it the bland and flat production that they did.
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Post by matt on May 18, 2016 3:46:06 GMT -5
Great video - does the song some justice that the production failed with.
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Post by batfink30 on May 23, 2016 9:04:54 GMT -5
Singing shooop, shooop, dah, dah. Can't get much lower, really he looked ashamed and embarrassed doing it.
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Post by carlober on May 23, 2016 9:49:51 GMT -5
When Coldplay had balls...
The first half slightly reminds me of some Radiohead tune, while the second part (aka Chinese Sleep Chant) is pure early '90s shoegaze.
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on May 23, 2016 10:47:16 GMT -5
When Coldplay had balls... The first half slightly reminds me of some Radiohead tune, while the second part (aka Chinese Sleep Chant) is pure early '90s shoegaze. Once upon a time, Coldplay weren't embarrassing. They were actually making good music (Viva La Vida is probably my favourite Coldplay album) instead of the generic mainstream bubblegum shit featuring other generic mainstream shit singers. |
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Post by mystoryisgory on May 23, 2016 11:35:43 GMT -5
Heard Adventure of a Lifetime in a department store yesterday. It's much worse than I remembered. Fuck you, Chris Martin.  |
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Post by Mean Mrs. Mustard on May 23, 2016 13:53:39 GMT -5
Heard Adventure of a Lifetime in a department store yesterday. It's much worse than I remembered. Fuck you, Chris Martin. And now remember how that's one of the best songs, if not the best, on the album and weep quietly  |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 17:14:33 GMT -5
Heard Adventure of a Lifetime in a department store yesterday. It's much worse than I remembered. Fuck you, Chris Martin. Hear this song everywhere too. Fuck you, Coldplay. |
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