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Post by Jordan on Aug 12, 2011 12:25:46 GMT 1
  Paradise
Due for release 12th September 20111. Mylo Xyloto 2. Hurts Like Heaven 3. Paradise 4. Charlie Brown 5. Us Against The World 6. M.M.I.X. 7. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall 8. Major Minus 9. U.F.O. 10. Princess Of China (Feat. Rihanna) 11. Up In Flames 12. A Hopeful Transmission 13. Don't let It Break You Heart 14. Up With The Birds |
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Post by Smurfie on Aug 12, 2011 19:24:03 GMT 1
Awful album name. But then I didn't expect anything less from Coldplay. I am sure it will be good in a 7 to 9 out of ten standard.
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Post by Ramz on Aug 12, 2011 21:12:17 GMT 1
WTF were they on when they thought that title up?
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Post by S1m on Aug 21, 2011 17:52:28 GMT 1
WTF were they on when they thought that title up? A mountain in South America, maybe?  |
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Post by Paddy on Aug 21, 2011 20:42:47 GMT 1
Cannot wait
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Post by borneoman on Sept 12, 2011 9:17:19 GMT 1
OMG, One track is a duet with Rihanna!!!! Total sell out, yes, very mucho!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Jordan on Sept 12, 2011 11:20:54 GMT 1
I've got mixed feelings about the Rihanna thing. It's hardly unexpected, Rihanna seems to be trying to collaborate with every single Top 40 artist out there, so it was only a matter of time before it was Coldplay's turn.
They will lose a lot of credibility though. It seems like a bizarre move.
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Post by Maximo Mark on Sept 12, 2011 11:33:32 GMT 1
It's not really surprising and they're certainly not going to lose any credibility for it. They've already worked with Kanye and Jay-Z who are more far removed from Coldplay's fanbase than Rihanna is so it's not like they'll lose anything from it.
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Post by borneoman on Sept 12, 2011 12:11:59 GMT 1
^really? lost it totally at least for me... I guess they chose Rihanna cos Gaga was not available  |
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Post by -Big Dan- on Sept 12, 2011 13:59:54 GMT 1
OMG, One track is a duet with Rihanna!!!! Total sell out, yes, very mucho!!!!!!!!! 'Sell out'!?? Don't you think they were popular enough in the first place? Sorry, I just hate that phrase. |
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Post by Jordan on Sept 12, 2011 18:03:54 GMT 1
It's not really surprising and they're certainly not going to lose any credibility for it. They've already worked with Kanye and Jay-Z who are more far removed from Coldplay's fanbase than Rihanna is so it's not like they'll lose anything from it. Hmmm, we'll see. |
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Post by borneoman on Sept 13, 2011 6:53:19 GMT 1
^^ yes, sell out, as in when you go cheap cheap cheap low low low in order to achieve something  |
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Post by yeahyeahtron on Sept 16, 2011 8:00:13 GMT 1
Yuckkkkkk i can't believe Rihanna's nasal voice which demonstrates everything that is bad about pop music at the moment is going to make it on a Coldplay album... Problem is that Rihanna's voice sounds awful on a plastic pop song, let alone on a Coldplay song... now I'm not against collaborations with pop artists... if they were to collaborate with Katy B, Lady Gaga or Jessie J, I would have been excited but not Rihanna... Now I'm not speaking of credibility... anyway I don't think that Coldplay are credible as such... They lost theirs with X&Y... Then they regained some with VLVOD&AOHF... Rihanna's voice is the problem...
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Post by evansabove on Sept 16, 2011 17:18:58 GMT 1
Can't wait to hear the Rihanna track-it's the only one i will bother to listen to. Hopefully she will bring some much needed contrast into their rather dull songs
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Post by -Big Dan- on Sept 16, 2011 18:43:31 GMT 1
Hopefully they won't go any further in that direction and let Katy Perry or Kesha 'sing' on any of their songs.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Sept 23, 2011 0:54:27 GMT 1
From Music Week:
POP APPROACH: THE ALBUM'S UNUSUAL SETUP
Against a backdrop of declining sales for rock bands, Coldplay manager Dave Holmes risked a “pop approach” to release two singles – Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (June 3) and Paradise (September 12) – ahead of their new album on October 24 in an unusual setup.
He explains: “When I know we have enough songs for the album, I start thinking about the ideal time for release and in this case I had a non-traditional approach which I thought about, taking a really long setup. We decided on a single out in June – no talking about the album during an “around the world buzz gig tour” if you will – as they test-drive the new material. I said, ‘Let’s just let the music do the talking.’”
"I wanted to be grass roots. I said to them, ‘You have to be out there wearing two hats as you tour and finish the record.’ But people these days have such a short attention span – I see rock acts put out one single and then one album and then it disappears and then in pop they take two singles... I suppose they have to persuade people to buy the album. But by taking that couple of songs approach you feel engaged, and there’s not a lot of that going on with rock records at the moment.”
While Holmes – now entering his 11th year of managing the band – agrees that his sense of excitement around Mylo Xyloto is reminiscent of that prior to A Rush Of Blood To The Head, his ambition with the record is not just to sell more albums. “I do think this will do better than the last, I would like it to do better, but it’s not just about sales. It’s about having more songs which stand the test of time. It would be great to walk away from this campaign with more songs in their repertoire.”
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MYLO XYLOTO: Exclusive track-by-track rundown with Chris Martin
01 MYLO XYLOTO
It means whatever you want it to mean. [To me] it means a freedom of expression and you can think up new words if you want to. There’s still things that you can invent and words beginning with X are few and far between so we thought we might try and add one.
02 HURTS LIKE HEAVEN
That’s the opening track, really. That’s kind of our call to arms to each other. I think it’s calisthenics musically for us. It warms you up.
03 PARADISE
If we ever won The X Factor, that’s the song we might sing. We never will, of course, but that’s what we would do. I think, if truth be told, we’re not really handsome enough to go on it.
04 CHARLIE BROWN
This is the only song we ever wrote in a doll’s house. I was staying in a place with a Wendy House and I turned it into a studio ‘cos my daughter didn’t like it. And I came back from a Bruce Springsteen show in LA and I was like, ‘Okay, let’s see if anything came out of that day.’
05 US AGAINST THE WORLD
The whole thing is supposed to be a kind of story so they all fit together and that is the two characters from the previous two songs when they meet each other. It’s about meeting someone you love and feeling powerful, when you meet someone and suddenly everything feels alright again.
06 M.M.I.X.
It doesn’t stand for 2009. It came from (long-serving guitar tech) “Mat McGinn is awesome” so I don’t know why the f*** it got called that. It has nothing to do with anything… it stands for nothing; it’s just a collection of letters.
07 EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL
So the central theme of the record – Paradise is kind of about this as well – is trying to turn bad things into good things somehow. We as a band have been through some funny incidents in terms of people being aggressive towards us or whatever. And a lot of the record is fuelled by a kind of fire which comes from turning that negativity into positivity. And I think everyone in their life has something like that.
08 MAJOR MINUS
That’s like a Bond villain of a song. A bad cousin of the album. It’s the nasty one.
09 UFO
That’s the acoustic… that was the first song written for the album actually and the chord sequence in it pops up a few times. And that’s a kind of prayer “times” kind of song. There’s a lot of feeling lost on the album but also being found as well and that’s very much a bit of both.
10 PRINCESS OF CHINA (FEAT. RIHANNA)
I actually sort of wrote it for Rihanna and then I liked it too much. And then it became clear it was like a sort of back and forth between a couple. It took about a year to pluck up the courage but eventually I asked her and she was not unwilling. I played it for her on piano in Los Angeles. That was quite nerve-wracking, I’ve got to say. And so she said, ‘Oh okay, yeah!’
11 UP IN FLAMES
We wrote that about four weeks ago and then we recorded it in five countries in seven days. That was fun. That was when we knew we could finish the record because Will – who’s the hardest to please of the band – when he heard that he said, ‘Okay, we can finish now’ because I think he liked the space on it.
12 A HOPEFUL TRANSMISSION/DON’T LET IT BREAK YOUR HEART
Well, I think we wanted to do an album this time with a happy ending and I think we’ve actually done it, which we never thought we’d do. For whatever reason it is, it’s happened and that was very late in the day and it’s nice that song ‘cos you just hit everything as hard as possible – which for a band like Coldplay is a very pleasurable thing.
13 UP WITH THE BIRDS
That was when we were sort of thinking about a story that seemed like the end of a movie type thing
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Post by greendemon on Sept 23, 2011 17:07:16 GMT 1
Awful album name. But then I didn't expect anything less from Coldplay. I am sure it will be good in a 7 to 9 out of ten standard. ^this, tbh. i couldn't STAND the load of pretentious **** that was 'every teardrop...' and am in no hurry to hear anything else from them. i remember when they used to write songs like 'shiver' |
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Post by Smurfie on Oct 17, 2011 8:59:06 GMT 1
Coldplay ft Rihanna - Princess Of China
One first listen - I love it. I must say I am actually really enjoying this Coldplay evolution for this album era, I am now really looking forward to Mylo Xyloto (despite the awful album name).
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Post by Toy Toy's Boy on Oct 17, 2011 14:23:51 GMT 1
I'm undecided on the Rihanna duet. I love the production on it, and Rihanna's appearance definitely fits with the track. I'm not sure how memorable it is though.
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Post by Jordan on Oct 17, 2011 15:04:46 GMT 1
The album's leaked!  But I'm going to try and hold off listening until I get my own copy. |
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