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sophinisba) wrote2008-08-11 11:10 pm
sophinisba) wrote2008-08-11 11:10 pm
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Happiness day 11: Coldplay
I really like Coldplay's new album, Viva la Vida. I think I like it as a whole album better than A Rush of Blood and X and Y even though those have some songs that I like better than any of the new songs. Most of the new songs don't really stick out to me but I like the way they fit together. I think Parachutes is still my favorite but I've only had the new one for a week so it's hard to say.
Sometimes I'm embarrassed by how much I love Coldplay (and U2), like if I were really cool I'd be into some indie bands nobody else had ever heard of. I remember when X and Y came out and there was some interview where Elijah said it sucked. I was all, Damn it, Elijah, you're the reason I started listening to this band in the first place, and now you abandon me? But so it is. I am hopelessly mainstream.
It probably helps that I don't really get sick of music from hearing it a lot, unless it's something that I wouldn't have liked anyway. So I haven't really listened to anything but this album for the last week. (Except today I listened to Zooropa twice and it was still awesome.) You know how people say that "Clocks" got played way too much? I agree, but only because that meant that everybody else got sick of it, so now they don't want to hear it anymore. I can still listen to it over and over. I love the songs on more recent albums that are similar to it, with their funny little piano ostenato phrases.
I think I read something a few years ago that said that "Clocks" was the "Where the Streets Have No Name" (or maybe it was one of those other Joshua Tree songs, or I could totally be making this up, I don't remember) of its generation, that it makes everyone who listens to it feel like they're the star of their own movie. I love that. This is how their music makes me feel in general. I am the star of my own movie!
Sometimes I'm embarrassed by how much I love Coldplay (and U2), like if I were really cool I'd be into some indie bands nobody else had ever heard of. I remember when X and Y came out and there was some interview where Elijah said it sucked. I was all, Damn it, Elijah, you're the reason I started listening to this band in the first place, and now you abandon me? But so it is. I am hopelessly mainstream.
It probably helps that I don't really get sick of music from hearing it a lot, unless it's something that I wouldn't have liked anyway. So I haven't really listened to anything but this album for the last week. (Except today I listened to Zooropa twice and it was still awesome.) You know how people say that "Clocks" got played way too much? I agree, but only because that meant that everybody else got sick of it, so now they don't want to hear it anymore. I can still listen to it over and over. I love the songs on more recent albums that are similar to it, with their funny little piano ostenato phrases.
I think I read something a few years ago that said that "Clocks" was the "Where the Streets Have No Name" (or maybe it was one of those other Joshua Tree songs, or I could totally be making this up, I don't remember) of its generation, that it makes everyone who listens to it feel like they're the star of their own movie. I love that. This is how their music makes me feel in general. I am the star of my own movie!
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They sound sort of like U2 (especially the guitar part, not so much the singing). Here are some links to some videos in case you're interested/can watch them where you are:
Viva la Vida from the new album (boring video but cool song)
Fix You from the previous album (definitely has that dramatic feeling I was talking about and also my sing-along kink at the end)
The Scientist from the album before that (the coolest of their videos that I've seen)
Yellow from the first album (♥ ♥ ♥)
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