"That's always been Coldplay's problem, right? Boring in the most boring way possible?"
no. It's a criticism that only applies to some of their stuff & otherwise ppl are reaching. There is definitely much more boring-on-boring music out there
I honestly don't see how this could be considered more boring than Parachutes (which I don't personally like but seems to be one of the ones it's officially OK to) or X&Y
― nova, Thursday, 22 May 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Because his lyrics, never strong, have taken such a loud, sharp, hard turn toward the utterly insipid? Because the melodies and structures, once merely mundane, are not resolutely MOR with an even more pronounced commercial bent (see: nu-U2)? I love boring music, personally, but there's a certain type of boring music designed to be so totally broad (ie a band like Train) that just totally drives me nuts. Coldplay c. now is all shortcuts and shorthand, just the broadest of broad strokes. Did you read the backhanded Nico Muhly review?
http://thetalkhouse.com/talks/nico-muhly-talks-coldplays-ghost-stories/#livefyreanchor
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
if I was going to single out Coldplay for Bad Lyrics (which honestly is not an issue I generally have with them) something like "Fix You" would be a more prime candidate than this, I think it captures the feeling it aims for pretty well
I can kinda see the MOR argument with "Ink" and "True Love," not so much the rest of the album. I just think this is a weird choice for Worst Coldplay Album Ever when again you have something as bloated/empty as X&Y and Rush of Blood/Viva la Vida are both hit-and-miss.
― nova, Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Who says this is the worst ever? Last one was the stinker.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
lol I dug the last one, thought it was their most consistent in quality up to that point. although "Paradise" sucked.
Contrarianplay
― nova, Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I hated the last one, and I like X&Y quite a bit.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
One issue I do have with this band is that I haven't enjoyed one of their iconic singles (tm) since "Clocks," unless "Clocks" rewrite "Speed of Sound" counts but I don't think that's what people associate with that album these days, it's more fix youuuuuu
the fact that the Avicii track here could become the biggest hit is depressing
― nova, Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Rush of Blood> Viva La Vida> Parachutes> X&Y> Ghost Stories> Mylo
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
There is a string arrangement that is disappointingly on the nose: it moves at exactly the same time as the chords, so why is it there? It’s like having a giant picture of your body printed on your body instead of wearing clothes.
Love this Muhly line
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:08 (nine years ago) link
Viva la Vida was cool that they expanded on their sound & is nice if taken with the EP after but to be real only 5 songs are good, and one is a short instrumental
X&Y is so bad dudes
― nova, Sunday, 25 May 2014 09:41 (nine years ago) link
everything after vlv has been a boring blur to me except for the song that ripped off kraftwerk which was ok
― akm, Sunday, 25 May 2014 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Kraftwerk one was before, wasn't it?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 May 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's X&Y "Talk"
it stops a couple steps short of being not-dull but yeah one of the better songs on there relatively speaking
― nova, Sunday, 25 May 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
listened to the new one and don't remember anything about it. but nothing offended me.
― akm, Monday, 26 May 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
It's very purdy and y'all're heartless
― nova, Monday, 26 May 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
I'd like a Pitbull verse in the middle of "A Sky Full of Stars."
― That's So (Eazy), Monday, 26 May 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
do the words fly at the speed of light or sound on this one?
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 26 May 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
speed of slow
― nova, Monday, 26 May 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
that's an innovation then
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
Coldplay's latest album, "Ghost Stories", has arrived at No. 1 on Billboard 200. Nielsen SoundScan reports that the record, which marks the British act's fourth No. 1 LP on the chart, takes the top slot after selling 383,000 copies in its first week.
That's the biggest sales week for this year, easily surpassing Eric Church's "The Outsiders" that opened with 288,000 back in early February.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 29 May 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
I don't think the desperate, craven, career-low shittiness of Sky Full of Stars has been fully acknowledged itt.
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 16 June 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
the clicky drum programming can be a little distracting on certain songs that's the real one issue here
Part of why I dig "Midnight" cuz it's all vibe
― nova, Saturday, 21 June 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
http://images.smh.com.au/2014/06/19/5524858/1403141091085.jpg-620x349.jpg
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Saturday, 21 June 2014 23:21 (nine years ago) link
I guess it's cool that the video for this begins right outside the shitty joint where I get my hair cut but uh yeah this album = no.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, 22 June 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
SHE LEFT YOU COS YOU DRESS LIKE THAT
― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 22 June 2014 05:21 (nine years ago) link
SHE LEFT CONSCIOUSLY DECOUPLED YOU COS YOU DRESS LIKE THAT
― Bus Sex Teen Busted After Queef Beef (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 23 June 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
If you buy the album at Target for the 3 additional songs, the track "Ghost Story" easily improves the album half a grade.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
So,D-?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
That isn’t where you get your hair cut.
It’s truly stunning what a bad job they did of shooting a video on King St – not only does it manage to be worse than the embarrassing Sticky Fingers clip that it’s biting, but it’s just so dull and poorly-schemed on so many levels. How the flying shit did they not tell the 250 volunteers NOT TO STAND THERE POINTING THEIR PHONES at Martin? Point out that they’ll be able to see him in the actual video just TWO DAYS LATER? Why walk only two blocks, and not even two of the more interesting blocks? Is the point of using King St not to get some of the character of the neighbourhood in? Why are those people crossing the road away from the procession carrying balloons or whatever – were they going somewhere interesting? Were they meant to be filmed but it didn’t happen? Lol at him meeting the band under the I Have A Dream mural and blokey tip-tapping at his marching snare while EDM-by-numbers bursts out. Loool at the cameraman starting to pan up to try and get MLK and the globe in but being told not to go away from the band and quickly stopping. Ugh at when they get round by the Hall and cop shop, cutting for the first time to a completely ineffectual overhead shot of the confetti cannon, instead of having the confetti appear from nowhere and shower over the band and crowd (who are finally engaged for the first time by it. Says a lot for the inherent appeal of the band, eh?). Etc!
In summation: I watched this once last week and have opinions.
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah the phones in this video were infuriating.
i actually think this song is easily the best thing on the album which is, for the most part, soporifically lustreless
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
Didn't need those Coldplay cunts after all.
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
I bought the album at Target for the extra material. Definitely enhances things. It's certainly not the best anything, but it's a very pretty album. Definitely worthy of few late night listens this summer. They've made worse albums, they've made better albums.
**shrug**
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 28 June 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
geez at that pace you'd think he could have stopped for a beer and a gelato
― Boston Bun is also an electronic music artist (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
congrats at not getting stopped by socialist alternative volunteers handing out flyers/deranged old punks however
― Boston Bun is also an electronic music artist (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:46 (nine years ago) link
"but it's a very pretty album"
I'm saying
― nova, Saturday, 2 August 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
they are on this I Heart Radio thingy (Live right now:
https://screen.yahoo.com/live/event/iheartradio-festival-2014
― Bee OK, Saturday, 20 September 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
I still like this album even though I'm not in the mood for it lately (cuz game with the ladies is back up) but I seriously wanna murder "Sky Full of Stars"
― nova, Saturday, 20 September 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
haha, it is now on live.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 20 September 2014 03:37 (nine years ago) link
that was fun, i saw four songs. they do sound nice but would not actually put them on.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 20 September 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
it's a good album man. Mad feels
"Another Arms" and "Oceans" are devastating
― nova, Saturday, 20 September 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
Holy shit it came out in 204 tho, Coldplay ahead of the game
― nova, Saturday, 20 September 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
lol, i actually really liked the songs that they played.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 20 September 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
can never let them live "words flying at the speed of sound" down
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 06:10 (nine years ago) link
"Midnight" through "Oceans" really lives up to the heartbreak theme, like damn Mr. Martin I'm really sorry dude
^"Speed of Sound" is awesome tho! even though it's a "Clocks" update and not as good as that. IDK though it also was big when I started college & when I'd met the first girl I really liked there but was still awkward as hell so it made me feel some type of way
― nova, Saturday, 20 September 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Also it's "birds go flying..."
― Iain Mew (if), Saturday, 20 September 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
Ghost Stories got that Yeezus swag where the second half is better/more emotionally resonant than the first
I seem to be one of the few who thinks that about Yeezus tho
― nova, Saturday, 20 September 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
birds! I thought he was basically singing 'cars go driving at the speed of cars' this whole time!
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
it`s simply great that there are still people out there like chis martins who are willing to take a risk and just write great songs. we need more music like this, and i strongly predict that this will be an album that rewards the watchful ear. speaking of awards, i also predict this will be nominated for at least a brit award, if not a grammy. as for the pitchfork boys, i`m calling a solid 8/10. but let's not "speak to soon", but let's bath in the greatness of this great classic album
― cool music buff (missingNO), Saturday, 20 September 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
why aren't we speaking to soon?
― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 20 September 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
He's a jerk is why.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 September 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link