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Post by matt on Oct 18, 2019 19:51:20 GMT -5
I think the elephant in the room here is this is Coldplay’s first album as middle aged men. It’s surprising for a guy whose always seemed permanently contemporary and young, but Chris Martin is now older than Noel was when he split up Oasis, and about the same age as Bono when U2’s last big seller was released with that Atomic Bomb album. They either accept where they are in their careers now and knuckle down and experiment, or double down on the mainstream tactic and latch onto all the fads like U2 have tried to do with failing returns. A bunch of 40 plus year olds doing music on their own? Nah, it won’t wash with the kids and Radio 1 won’t touch them with a barge pole. So, introducing Iggy Azaela... Since 2008 Coldplay has always leaned going more and more commercial. I don’t see it changing. I HOPE I’m wrong. I don’t think they’re any more mainstream than when they started out, their older stuff certainly isn’t more ‘left field’. It’s just that they’ve moved with trends. I mean, Yellow is about as big a tune you can get and that was their second single. But I refuse to believe that you have to be as insipid and boring to be mainstream as they have been in the last few years. |
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Post by Manualex on Oct 18, 2019 20:45:25 GMT -5
I think the elephant in the room here is this is Coldplay’s first album as middle aged men. It’s surprising for a guy whose always seemed permanently contemporary and young, but Chris Martin is now older than Noel was when he split up Oasis, and about the same age as Bono when U2’s last big seller was released with that Atomic Bomb album. They either accept where they are in their careers now and knuckle down and experiment, or double down on the mainstream tactic and latch onto all the fads like U2 have tried to do with failing returns. A bunch of 40 plus year olds doing music on their own? Nah, it won’t wash with the kids and Radio 1 won’t touch them with a barge pole. So, introducing Iggy Azaela... Since 2008 Coldplay has always leaned going more and more commercial. I don’t see it changing. I HOPE I’m wrong. Post Malone in the new Coldplay smash single Middle Age Crisis |
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 18, 2019 21:42:56 GMT -5
I'm fine with it being mainstream. I'm fine with pop. I'm fine with Post Malone being on it - Sunflower is one of the best pop tunes of the last few years, after all. I just hope that the musical chemistry of the band is on show. Mylo Xyloto is a mainstream pop album, and it's also a brilliant Coldplay record because Jonny is still spraying the sound in colourful guitar riffs, Will is still pounding the drums like they owe him money, and Guy is still bringing much-needed bass to the maximalist sound. Ghost Stories and A Head Full of Dreams are too Chris-centric. Too many tracks sound like Martin solo songs. When the band are allowed to join in properly, on songs like Adventure of a Lifetime, Magic, or Up&Up, the quality soars. Let's hope LP8 lets them share the spotlight too.
Let Jonny fly!
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Post by mystoryisgory on Oct 19, 2019 1:23:24 GMT -5
Where are these song titles coming from? Did a tracklist leak already??
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 19, 2019 1:27:55 GMT -5
Where are these song titles coming from? Did a tracklist leak already?? HTML coding found in one of their sites. |
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Post by mystoryisgory on Oct 19, 2019 1:30:39 GMT -5
Where are these song titles coming from? Did a tracklist leak already?? HTML coding found in one of their sites. Interesting, do you happen to have a list of all of them? Haven't been on Coldplaying in years and I'm sure that the hype thread would be a mess to search through haha.
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Post by violethill on Oct 29, 2019 5:42:39 GMT -5
I actually re listened to the Mylo album yesterday because of the posts above. I remember really hating it when it came out and probably haven’t listened to it since 2012/2013 (I was about 17 then and remember passionately hating it because Coldplay didn’t sound like a softer version of Oasis anymore)
It’s actually not as bad as I originally thought. It’s definitely an album of its time and has a very early 10’s vibe to it. The ambient sounds are bang on and despite being very obviously overproduced, Us against the world and UFO are very nice. Even Princess of China would be ok if it didn’t have Rihanna on it. Still has it’s fair share of duds though, that Up in Flames tune is awful.
At the time it was male or break for a lot of fans because it seemed as if Coldplay had “gone pop” and that was a dealbreaker for a lot of fans, myself included.
But compared with the utter shite show that came next, it’d actually ok, the rockiness is still there, sound to be completely abandoned by them.
The TL:DR is it’s still a shite album but had aspects of the once talented band that are were non-existent in the following two efforts.
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Post by World71R on Sept 14, 2020 15:24:35 GMT -5
Bumping this thread since it got mentioned in the Everyday Life thread. Also it's a great read for anyone who has the time.
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