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Post by batfink30 on Jan 11, 2020 17:13:52 GMT -5
I've lost all interest in this now, ridiculous release schedule.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 15, 2019 15:17:09 GMT -5
Brutal.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 13, 2019 15:57:25 GMT -5
The most bizarre thing about all this is the working-class people you get replying to anyone left-of-centre online with all that "cry more, liberal", or "I love drinking your tears" shite. I don't even really know how I'd explain it. It's just weird. It's bonkers, they're literally voting to impoverish themselves and cut services they rely on. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 13, 2019 7:52:44 GMT -5
It's a small crumb of comfort living in Scotland and thoroughly rejecting the Tories and Brexit but we'll go down with the UK Brexit Titanic. Get ready for austerity like never before and the poor and ill to be absolutely destroyed. 😦😦
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 12, 2019 18:19:11 GMT -5
Jesus. What a catastrophe. RIP UK.
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Post by batfink30 on Dec 1, 2019 16:13:23 GMT -5
Black Star Dancing was also played. This is the full setlist: 1. Fort Knox 2. Holy Mountain 3. Keep on Reaching 4. It‘s a beautiful world 5. She taught me how to fly 6. Black star dancing 7. Rattling Rose 8. This is the place 9. Wandering Star 10. Dead in the water 11. Importance of being idle 12. Little By Little 13. Whatever 14. The Masterplan 15. Half the world away 16. Wonderwall 17. Stop Crying your heart out 18. What a life 19. Don‘t look a back in anger 20. All you need is love Besides What A Life, he really seems to abandoned his solo work from the first two LPs? Sad, there are some incredible tracks. Was also hoping he would throw in one other song for the last gig in 2020, but no...when he announced Black Star Dancing, he did the same Oasis joke ("This one is for Oasis fans"). Otherwise, he was very quiet on stage. At one point, YSEE had some kind of problem, looked technical with her in-ear or monitor and Noel paused and went over to his sound guys seemingly being quite angry at them. After 2 minutes, the show continued. Got one nice pic of Noel and two others to illustrate how small the concert was in the end, they really had big troubles with the ticket prices to sell. A few crowds like that would knock Noel down a peg or two and maybe force him to change his set list. AYNIL really is a dire closer.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 23, 2019 11:52:23 GMT -5
This is the result of a couple of issues.......... When the band was initially promoting MX, they made a point of telling everyone they started making two albums, acoustic and experimental. That started to shade opinions and expectations, fair or unfair. Besides the obvious acoustic songs like Us Against The World and UFO, we know Charlie Brown was reworked from the acoustic album along with a few others the band mentioned over time. I'm assuming songs like Up In Flames and Up With The Birds had piano/acoustic beginnings. So what would be 5 songs right there. God only knows how many other songs were abandoned and sent to the basement. I feel like this band has 100 fully formed released songs in their vaults. Mylo Xyloto era was first gonna be acoustic, then electronic, then combined, then an animated film was going to support the overall theme of the album and then abandoned (although comics now exist apparently) until we are just left with Mylo Xyloto. That is some wild ride of directions. If you think about it, Viva is the only album since A Rush Of Blood that has stayed true to its course since its inception and it’s quite telling how it is the outstanding album post-X&Y. You have the Mylo Xyloto episode above, and Ghost Stories/Head Full Of Dreams which both sound lightweight where the band would have benefited from focusing on just one album since MX. I think this one will be my favourite of theirs since VLV though (it’s a solid 8/10 for me), and I think much of that has to do with the core production team of Rik Simpson and co (aka The Dream Team) who have been with them for years and know their true quality, eschewing any fad sounds. But it still suffers from the same criticism in saying that it is arguably undercooked in some places and could be more focused, but these things look so much better in hindsight if the next album is a belter. Their next album will infuriatingly be AHFOD Pt2.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 22, 2019 15:24:50 GMT -5
Listening to "When I Need a Friend" from Jordan, I can't help wonder whether this would have been a real classic if it was fleshed out. It reminds me live of an almost unfinished "Everything's Not Lost". The melody is incredibly good but it's almost an idea of a song. Tbh, a lot of EL is like this.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 22, 2019 8:57:19 GMT -5
Live stream was cool. They def played Church's studio version to start. Didn't sound live at all. Everything else did. His voice is fu**** apparently and they didn't know whether it'd be OK or not so they had backing tracks on the first one but it turned out fine so they dropped them for the rest.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 22, 2019 7:40:55 GMT -5
The live thing is great. So nice to have Coldplay with a bit of soul back.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 16, 2019 6:34:24 GMT -5
For me the best songs are: Arabesque Orphans Champion of the World Daddy Also, Bani Adam packs a wallop. The second half reminds me of vintage 90s U2. I'm excitedly curious as to what you mean by that... The first half is a simple piano tune, then it goes into (Arabic?) spoken word with a tune behind it that sounds exactly like early U2. From the guitars to the bass line its pure early U2 sound, like something straight off of War. Must say I'm liking Church more and more. First few listens it sounds avarage but the more I listen, the more I get it. Like a cross between Speed of Sound and Birds, it would've been destroyed on AHFOD, but its not, its subtle and airy.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 14, 2019 16:50:06 GMT -5
By my count there are only about 6 real full band “band” type songs. A lot of stuff is obviously instrumentals of instruments the fellas don’t actually perform with, others are just Chris and a choir or Chris with an acoustic guitar. I will say this, the full band stuff all sounds terrific. Capped off by Arabesque. I'm not liking Daddy, sounds too forced for me. I'd put Old Friends over it, pure Coldplay old bside. Yeah, the 2nd half of Bani Adem is early U2 and unashamedly so.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 14, 2019 15:56:05 GMT -5
So, more confusion: he made a proper music video for Wandering Star, but Blue Moon Rising title and the lead track from the EP? Huh? I guess he does whatever he wants at this point. Or he's been advised that Wandering Star would be a bigger "hit" and to release it around Christmas.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 14, 2019 6:50:49 GMT -5
Pretty underwhelmed considering the hype around the track. I thought it would hit me like Dead In The Water but it hasn't. I can't see this growing to more than a weak 8. Both DITW and this are a 5-6.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 14, 2019 3:44:34 GMT -5
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 14, 2019 3:00:06 GMT -5
Come On Outside is on the EP. Finally. Back to the future.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 13, 2019 10:03:35 GMT -5
Just listened to the whole thing. I'll write a long track by track review tomorrow when I listen the entire record to formulate a solid opinnion. But my first impressions would be that is a really good album. With those singles there's no way I could see coming an album with such depth, quality music. I must say that everything isn't perfect but overall I feel really glad. This is the Coldplay album that I've been waiting for. Its not Viva La Vida 2 or AROBTTH 2 or Parachutes 2. Its Everyday Life. It has its own sound. And its fucking brilliant. Part 1 Sunrise was excelent. Really really well produced. If you liked Arabesque (not for its energy, for its deep sound and progression) you will be in love. Its really intimate but huge at the same time. It can go from a cinematic intro (made me shiver) to a church funeral-scene type choir. Honestly, in Sunrise there are true gems that will stay inside your soul for a long time. Part 2 Sunset was more inconsistent. I mean, it can be really good at times. Orphans, Champion of the world and Title track are absolutely unnecesary in a record like this. Okay, Orphans is really fucking catchy and that but after listening to part 1 and getting my mouth opened you just can't go back to A Head Full Of Dreams again. These 3 songs are better produced, for sure. But ruins a bit of the atmosphere that got built in the first place. But as I said, there are really great moments in this half. Eko is the first one that comes to my mind. But well, tomorrow I'll get deeper into the record to feel safe giving it a rating and because I could change my mind. Interesting, I like Champions of the World, its Echo and the Bunnymen, isn't it? Orphans is a really good track if stripped down, see the Official vid. Overall the album is a breath of fresh air after GS, MX and AHFOD. Lots of interesting stuff going on but I still hear heavy earlier Coldplay influence like U2 and as I said EaTBM much more so than their last few albums.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 15:50:40 GMT -5
Church reminds me of "Birds" but ten times more refined and atmospheric.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 15:32:29 GMT -5
How you would describe Trouble in Town? Reminds me of "English man In New York" for some reason at the start, then goes into a cop like film excerpt then goes full band heavy type crescendo. Moody and vibey.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 15:25:09 GMT -5
Cry cry cry is another unusual tune but I quite like it The music sounds a bit like an ipad commercial There's a film score vibe to a lot of it I think. No wonder they're not touring it lol.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 15:14:52 GMT -5
It's nowhere near them in sound,in fact you'd never think Martin wrote most of these. Interesting. Which album of theirs would you say it most resembles in sound? None. Seriously.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 15:11:32 GMT -5
If it's anywhere near as good as Viva or Mylo, I'll be very happy. I'm liking what I'm hearing about it. It's nowhere near them in sound,in fact you'd never think Martin wrote most of these.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 15:07:37 GMT -5
Broken is one of my favourites on a first listen. It's very simple, a piano, Chris' voice and a gospel choir but it works really well. I can't decide if this album is really, really, really good or just good because it's totally different to their last awful few.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 14:55:08 GMT -5
Careful Where You Stand, is the closest sounding like it. OK Everyday Life is easily the worst song on this. This will alienate a lot of their fans BTW. They'll hate it.
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Post by batfink30 on Nov 12, 2019 14:49:07 GMT -5
My God, Old Friends. 😱😱 It's an Old Coldplay b-side, Martin solo guitar 😱😱 In shock.
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