Decker

They're back, and worse than ever.


I really dislike this song and their cynical "borrowing" of the catchy "Take On Me" soundbite.

Daytripper

What happened to the band!??? UGH. Truly horrible. People are truly gushing over it though in the comments section of the clip. No thank you. I'll stick with their first two albums.

JZ1276

Man, do any bands actually play drums in pop music anymore? The drummer is mimicking playing when a drum machine is obviously used.

JeffTheAlpaca

Their new song is not perfect but not that bad after a couple of listens

Maybe they will promote this more than Everyday Life.

JeffTheAlpaca

A new album Music of the Spheres produced by Max Martin is coming on Oct 15. This is the limited edition Coldplay store exclusive.

Songs with no titles but emoji's as names?


01 🪐 [Ringed Planet Emoji]
02 Higher Power
03 Humankind
04 ✨
05 Let Somebody Go
06 ❤️
07 People of the Pride
08 Biutyful
09 🌎
10 My Universe
11 ♾
12 Coloratura




https://pitchfork.com/news/coldplay-...f-the-spheres/

Jaymole

My God that is bad

EddieMoney

This band has become something else entirely over the years and my God, is it bad.

milo bloom

Wow. Just tried to listen to Higher Power, the buildup was interesting but then once it broke open it just fell into crap.

I've come to realize they don't make good music on their own, but they make great music for covers/remixes.

This one lives in my iPhone:

Decker

I like the original Clocks about 100x more than that remix.

I used to really love this band but they really lost their way after Viva La Vida (which I will go to grave swearing is a phenomenal song, plagiarism or not). I kind of liked some of their next album, Milo Xyloto. Since that release however, I think the only song by them that I have liked is, going to your point, Something Just Like This, with The Chainsmokers — I kind of hate myself for liking that track but I indeed do.

JeffTheAlpaca

I like this from the Magic album though the video is goofy and not what I imagined when I listen to the song

Superman07

I find most people become attracted to a band for “their sound.” Typically you come back as you expect to hear refrain on what makes them them. Eventually though - do you tire of that and move on?

For Coldplay, I read or saw an interview where Chris said they actively try to do something different so they aren’t doing the same thing over and over again. That’s there perspective on their art, and I appreciate it. Doesn’t mean I necessarily like all of their new content out of the gate though. What I do tend to find though, is at least 1-2 of their songs from newer albums sound catchy years later. Maybe the newer stuff takes some time to age?

story

Bootleg footage of two best friends at the Music of the Spheres concert:

JeffTheAlpaca

The duet we have been waiting for.

I admit this is better than Viva La Vida which they play a million times in concert.

dex14

No... not it is not...

Daytripper

How on earth could you say this is better than "Viva La Vida"!?

dex14

It’s well known that Jeff has the most exquisite taste of anyone on the forum.

Decker

That may be the worst take ever from The King of Bad Takes.

Coral

Coldplay seems to get wimpier with each new album.

Sonic

In my opinion and the sake for my ears; Cold Play died after X&Y. 🪦

JeffTheAlpaca

Viva La Vida is a boring song

Paradise is better than that song

dex14

No... no it is not...

JeffTheAlpaca

You could never say they were like Pantera

cdollaz

Complete shit.

morriscroy

In hindsight, I would agree.


(On a rambling tangent).

The only reason I ever listened to X&Y numerous times, was that my cd copy was encoded with the "cactus data shield" extreme basketcase drm. The "cactus data shield" drm on purpose inserted erroneous bad data which deliberately triggered the cd player's error correction mechanism every two seconds. On a standalone audio cd player this wouldn't be obviously audible, while on a computer cd/dvd drive it would trip up the ripping program where it would be constantly doing re-reads.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6425098B1/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus_Data_Shield

At the time, there was no easy way to get an error-free rip of "cactus data shield" encoded audio cd discs. I wrote my own computer cd ripper code in an attempt to get the most error-free rips of these drm infested "cactus data shield" audio cd discs. It turned out X&Y had a particularly nasty strain of "cactus data shield", which even today no current recently manufactured computer cd/dvd drive is able to read properly.

Through this tedious process, I must have listened to the entire X&Y album over a few hundred times. In those days if I had purchased a drm-free cd copy of X&Y from a different jurisdiction, most likely I would have only listened to it once or twice.

In the end, I stopped buying new factory sealed Coldplay cds after Viva La Vida. I thought the "Viva la Vida" album was largely crap, that I didn't even bother buying the subsequent Prospekt's March cd.


Eventually a few years later I found and purchased a used cd copy of X&Y for $1 at a nearby goodwill, which was drm-free with no disc reading problems on the computer. EMI / Parlophone must have manufactured drm-free cd versions when they abandoned "cactus data shield" after the 2005 Sony/BMG cd rootkit scandal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_B...ootkit_scandal

JeffTheAlpaca

In the minority here but I think they got better with the Viva La Vida, Magic, and Mylo Xyloto and they had faster more uptempo songs.