Coldplay album pushed back

[Josh]

Well, I hope none of you were to anxious for a new Coldplay album, because the release date has been pushed back three months. Story here.

[murlough23]

Hey, it beats never, which is when Chris Martin originally claimed the next Coldplay album would be out after finishing A Rush of Blood to the Head.

I like Coldplay, but I can wait.

[dgp11776]

This is probably the album I'm most looking forward to in 2005.

[Josh]

Murlough, I appreciate your restraint... I was expecting some cheesy pun about ticking clocks...

[murlough23]

Murlough, I appreciate your restraint... I was expecting some cheesy pun about ticking clocks...

The article beat me to it.

Besides, making Coldplay puns is an exact science, one which I will leave to the scientists.

[dgp11776]

The article beat me to it.

Besides, making Coldplay puns is an exact science, one which I will leave to the scientists.

That put a smile upon my face.

[murlough23]

The article beat me to it.

Besides, making Coldplay puns is an exact science, one which I will leave to the scientists.

That put a smile upon my face.

Which allows me to observe that your teeth are yellow.

NP: "City of Blinding Lights", U2

[dgp11776]

The article beat me to it.

Besides, making Coldplay puns is an exact science, one which I will leave to the scientists.

That put a smile upon my face.

Which allows me to observe that your teeth are yellow.

NP: "City of Blinding Lights", U2

Blech...probably sent a shiver up your spine.

[dgp11776]

But, actually, my green eyes compensate for my yellow teeth.  More often than not, though, they get me into trouble.

 

[murlough23]

But, actually, my green eyes compensate for my yellow teeth.  More often than not, though, they get me into trouble.

Don't panic. I've got a high speed jet and some parachutes.

NP: "St. Jimmy", Green Day

[Escuchame]

You guys never change.

Please stop.

[murlough23]

Sorry. I don't know if I can stop, but I'll at least try to keep it down to a whisper.

[dgp11776]

You guys never change.

Please stop.

How can we stop?  Nothing else compares to this!

Okay, I'm done.

[murlough23]

OK, these jokes are getting as old as Moses.

[dgp11776]

[Wildcatblue7]

Easily the most album anticipated release of 2005QUOTE]

Says who?  

Just giving the writer grief, because I hate stupid generalizations like that.  Anyhow, continue with your thread.    

[dgp11776]

Says who?  

Just giving the writer grief, because I hate stupid generalizations like that.  Anyhow, continue with your thread.  

Not to mention the fact that the quote is one jacked-up sentence.

Anyway, this is probably my most anticipated release to come this year.  Jars of Clay, Switchfoot, Mute Math, and Deepspace5 are up there with it.

[Josh]

This just in... the new album has a title, a definite release date, a first single, and an extensive tour! Rolling Stone has the story.

[dgp11776]

Here's the album cover:

[murlough23]

The hell? That looks like an Atari game or something.

[Josh]

I'd give it an A in creativity but a D in prettiness.

[bloop]

I can't even see what's so creative about the cover.  It's just ugly if you ask me.

[murlough23]

I don't think it's ugly, but it's definitely more like the type of cover I'd expect from Joy Electric, not Coldplay.

Word on the street is that there's a secret code in this colo(u)r pattern. It looks like something I'd have plotted for an assignment using a very old computer program in grade school. Combine this puzzle and the Lost lotto numbers, and that's going to equal a lot of sleepless nights.

[bloop]

Just by way of reminder, I can still love the album even if I consider its cover to be ugly.  In any event, if it is coded somehow, I guess I can see the creativity of that NES-age eyesore.

[cbluejays]

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1500276/2...?headlines=true

[murlough23]

The first single, "Speed of Sound," follows, and it's about the strangest track the band could've selected to serve as its grand return to the spotlight. Martin's voice is cocooned by the pulses of an electric piano and synth chords that give way to a driving piano line and circling guitars, making the whole thing sound strangely like a minor version of "Clocks."

(insert rabid drooling here)

[KnightOfDayJC12]

You can now hear "Speed Of Sound" on the new Coldplayer.  I like it, but it seems a little too similar to "Clocks" for me to really enjoy it.  Maybe the similarities won't stand out on repeated listens.

[murlough23]

You can now hear "Speed Of Sound" on the new Coldplayer.  I like it, but it seems a little too similar to "Clocks" for me to really enjoy it.  Maybe the similarities won't stand out on repeated listens.

It just gave me a 404.

[DvChWi]

It appears to be a members only thing.

[murlough23]

That's OK. If it's the single, then I'm sure I'll hear it soon enough.

[KnightOfDayJC12]

I think you just have to be a member of their mailing list.

[Tom]

the Itunes store has the "Speed Of Sound" single now.

honestly, i do like it. but it doesn't sound all that different from any song off AROBTTH.

Coldplay is great, but Chris' bravado about how they were making "the best album you've ever heard" was quite a bit over the top.

they're cool and all, but gee, keep your ego in check. gosh.

[murlough23]

Coldplay is great, but Chris' bravado about how they were making "the best album you've ever heard" was quite a bit over the top.

they're cool and all, but gee, keep your ego in check. gosh.

Well, it's gotten U2 through an entire career.

[Josh]

Coldplay is great, but Chris' bravado about how they were making "the best album you've ever heard" was quite a bit over the top.

they're cool and all, but gee, keep your ego in check. gosh.

Well, it's gotten U2 through an entire career.

You're allowed to have an ego if you've got the musical goods to back it up. Which U2 does. Coldplay, so far, doesn't.

[Josh]

The lyrics to the new songs have been posted.

[murlough23]

You're allowed to have an ego if you've got the musical goods to back it up. Which U2 does. Coldplay, so far, doesn't.

That was mostly a joke. And I don't think there's anything wrong with believing in the quality of your work, or aspiring to do the best work you've ever done.

But when you continually state that the latest thing you've done is the best thing you've ever done (or that it should have been the first thing you ever did, in U2's case), after a while, I'm kind of like, whatever dude, your old stuff was better.

And I would say that a good third of the tracks on How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb don't have as many "musical goods" as the better tracks on A Rush of Blood to the Head or Parachutes. But when both bands are at their best, U2 does in fact blow Coldplay out of the water. So I won't argue with you there - or at least, not too much.

Anyway, the bottom line is that it's great to be happy with what you've done. But let's tone down the hubris a bit. I don't care if you're Bono or Chris Martin or whoever else. It's not necessary and it only undermines an otherwise good image.

NP: "Under My Skin", Skillet

[danny316]

I've decided to counter all this crazy stuff about egotism and being too well-known by simply never releasing an album. After all, if something is cooler because i think less of it, and it's cooler because it's more "indie", then something so underground and so terrible that i won't even record it must be the greatest album ever!

Yeah....so the greatest album of all time doesn't exist, because if someone had heard of it, it would be less "indie", and thus less great. Or maybe i'm crazy and it's getting late here, pick one.

[murlough23]

I've decided to counter all this crazy stuff about egotism and being too well-known by simply never releasing an album. After all, if something is cooler because i think less of it, and it's cooler because it's more "indie", then something so underground and so terrible that i won't even record it must be the greatest album ever!

Yeah....so the greatest album of all time doesn't exist, because if someone had heard of it, it would be less "indie", and thus less great. Or maybe i'm crazy and it's getting late here, pick one.

You're starting to sound like a Wilco song, Danny. One that's buried after about ten minutes of noise at the back of an album that few people will listen long enough to ever get to.

[RedcoatJones]

I've decided to counter all this crazy stuff about egotism and being too well-known by simply never releasing an album. After all, if something is cooler because i think less of it, and it's cooler because it's more "indie", then something so underground and so terrible that i won't even record it must be the greatest album ever!

Yeah....so the greatest album of all time doesn't exist, because if someone had heard of it, it would be less "indie", and thus less great. Or maybe i'm crazy and it's getting late here, pick one.

You're starting to sound like a Wilco song, Danny. One that's buried after about ten minutes of noise at the back of an album that few people will listen long enough to ever get to.

Wilco - The Late Greats

The greatest lost track of all time:
The Late Greats' "Turpentine"
You can't hear it on the radio
You can't hear it anywhere you go

The best band will never get signed
K-Settes starring Butcher's Blind
Are so good, you won't ever know
They never even played a show
You can't hear 'em on the radio

The greatest singer in rock and roll
Would have to be Romeo
His vocal chords are made of gold
He just looks a little too old

The greatest lost track of all time:
The Late Greats' "Turpentine"
I can't hear it on the radio
I don't hear it anywhere I go

The best song will never get sung
The best life never leaves your lungs
So good, you won't ever know
I never hear it on the radio
Can't hear it on the radio

np: Lucinda Williams - Concrete and Barbed Wire

[oneafroboy]

A friend of mine who had dled Speed of Sound let me hear it yesterday. After that we listened to Clocks. Then, we preceded to go upstairs to the piano. We figured out the notes on the piano and I played it. The piano line in SoS is pretty much the same as it is in Clocks. It's the same progression, same intervals of notes, just slowed down a bit. And Clocks is better.

Also, note the arrangement of the two songs. "Haunting" piano line, synths, and a repetitive drum beat, with Martin's soft falsetto-trying-to-sound-like-U2-but-without-the-power voice. Yeah. Martin sounds like Bono on SoS. In fact SoS could be a B-side for HTDAAB. Except Bono's a better singer (despite his tattered voice). And U2 is a better band (despite the fact that they are not at their peak).  

Coldplay. Or rather Chris Martin. Get over yourself. You are not going to save pop music. You are not the Einsteins of music. You make mediocre, uncreative pop slough. Get over it.