This could be pair of dice

i must be a Coldplay whore.. I don't own any albums, not even a real fan, but find this song infectious. I can see a football stadium full of fans chanting out the chorous. yes, it has that sing-a-long grove to it. formulaic? maybe, but i'm drinking the koolade... i guess it's good i never expected this band to come through for me. do what you do and i may listen. radiohead they are not.

of course, those medieval thoughts you are holding on too tight .. never cease to amaze me !, they keep you far away from opening mentally to the modern era, 

sadly regret your inability to progress, :(

the fact that you can't understand not mean you should criticize and silence those who do want to try to express themselves (Coldplay)

this album is to open .. and go further, not to get stuck in YOUR past

btw. i dont really get what people want Coldplay to be?, how can they be the same band that made Yellow, they were young men living in Devon then just out of Uni, they now are one of the biggest selling bands in the world its 11 years later, they mix in different circles one of them has a oscar winning wife, they have to evolve and change as artists...this does not mean that they have SOLD OUT...they are just moving on and trying new sounds, dammed if they do and dammed if they dont! if this album was by a new band it would raved about!! Remember also the duet with Jay Z a couple of years ago. 
Everyone who says this album sucks because Rihanna is in it, without even listening to it: I don't even listen to you, this album rocks!
 

 DrLex wrote: 

 asfixia wrote: 
You know, I once did an interesting experiment. I mutilated existing compositions beyond recognition in a software program by wildly turning pitch and tempo knobs as randomly as I could. Then I routed the whole result through an equalizer, again treating the knobs as if I was playing Tekken on a game controller. I then listened to these atrocities repeatedly, multiple times a day for a few weeks. After a while I actually started to like certain aspects of those ‘songs’. When playing them back-to-back with some real music however it became immediately obvious that it was just horrible noise.
I'm not saying that this new CP album is awful noise but the mere fact that you've been listening to it continuously for a whole day makes me seriously doubt your judgment.

 malvey254 wrote: 
To me it seems that the chorus its the only good part of the song.
As for the album, it might be the weakest one but there still are some good songs. (I wonder why Pitchfork rated it 7.0/10, and called it their best one though.)

 asfixia wrote: 

This, people, is what happens when you listen to Coldplay for 30 hours.

The chorus to this song murders it.  It's no coincidence that they sing "Para-Para-Paradise" on the same album where they have a collaboration with someone famous for singing about her "Umbrella-brella-brella". 

Heard the whole album, and it's a let down beginning to end.  I think Eno (who I generally love as a producer) has scrambled their brains.

Cool intro, goes a little downhill after that, but pretty good overall.

No.

One, Coldplay is more and more devolving from a hot new sound to an overplayed same-old-trick band.
Two, this refrain is just ... lame.

No. Not this song.

 bailey_comus wrote: 

You should have said; "So, do you go through the rest of your life ten years behind as well?"

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This is really growing on me...eager to hear the whole CD.

Please...

No more. 

I think there's an I-phone 'write a lyric' app that produced something this profound.

 Relayer wrote: 

A few months ago I was in a local coffee bar and I overheard the two barista boys talking about this awesome group.  I asked politely - "Hey, that group you're talking about sounds interesting.  May I ask who they are?"  

The response was "Oh, you probably haven't heard of them - they're called Coldplay."  

The tone was kind of snotty, so I had to respond "Oh, those sellouts?"    However based on this CD, I think I have to say that I wasn't harsh enough on the group of the snotty barista boys.  Can't decide if I should have said "Oh those no talent boring sellouts?" or "Oh, that loser group?  Aren't you all ashamed to listen to that corporate rock."

 malvey254 wrote: 

Gwyneth signing country is actually better than this.

Wow.  I don't care much for Coldplay anymore, but this is particularly bad.  What happened to them?

Coldplay's Creative Inspirations By Year:

2001 - Radiohead
2005 - U2
2011 - Maroon 5

Not a good trend

 

What happened to the band I used to love??
It must be Gwyneths uninspired triangle play, I guess.
Too sad!
Holy Spongebob!

Holy Spongebob! This is unbelievably bad. It sounds like a failed boy-band. How on earth did this make it on here??

 kwebb wrote: 
I envy you. I would much rather have had the silence.

Is that Gwyneth playing the triangle ?

Didn't much care for waterfall which had me worried about the upcoming album but love this song.

My god, I loved this from the opening cord!!!

Heard nothing but silence for a couple of minutes, then Bill talking about it being new from Coldplay.  Just me, or did everybody else get nothing too...?

All I heard was silence — something wrong with the file?