Comments on: Viva la Vida

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Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:24:06 +0000

[...] 17, 2008 by estherbintliff So, much as I like the Coldplay album, especially played loud when driving long stretches of empty roads in the west of Scotland, I [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:27:29 +0000

nah, one of these type of things comes up everytime a big band releases a new album, and the little guys never win…haven’t they said that there’s a coldplay demo of that track from 7 months before the live footage of that other band? And apart from the first section of the first line, there’s not that much similarity anyway.

the worst case like this is the robbie williams angels one…

By: howstrangeitis

howstrangeitis — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:28:48 +0000

this album is pretty good actually… far better than the last one…

what do you think about this?

If the Rolling Stones took every penny from Bittersweet Symphony then Chris Martin will be living on the streets when this gets through the courts.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:36:01 +0000

and oh yes, thanks for the kind words. You get a mention in the victory/furious loser speech now :P

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:24:49 +0000

i think only idiots hate coldplay. For what they do, which is to all intents and purposes family friendly MOR, they do a damn sight better and with more genuine-if-rather-vague feeling than any other band I can think of. Ok, so it’s nothing new, and they do have a habit of unsubtly co-opting another band’s style for each album (radiohead/u2/arcade fire), but so what – not much is. And I also like Chris Martin, I think he beats himself up more than any journalist could and doesn’t need or deserve me jumping in too.

By: marie-aimee

marie-aimee — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:53:15 +0000

Actually, I might also “prefer” the first half of Lovers in Japan…

By: marie-aimee

marie-aimee — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:02 +0000

Maybe it isn’t so much that liking Coldplay is uncool, but more that hating them is supposed to be cool…

Here’s another surprisingly good review: http://www.slate.com/id/2193566

It’s funny (and kinda proves your point), Strawberry Swing and Lost! are actually probably my least favorite songs on the album, I think I prefer Viva la Vida, Death and all his friends and Life in Technicolor, which sounds uncharacteristically and unashamedly light and happy…

But I’m sure my preferences will change too!