Coldplay's 'new' direction...

HA HA HAHAH AHA!

-former Radiohead fan

Seriously though, I do think a book should be written entitled The Fallacy of Radiohead.

To be fair though, I suppose he should use headphones regardless of what he's playing :)

Fabulous.

"Must we expose the youth of Britain to this shit?", said Peter Tatchell of gay rights movement Outrage! "Sorry, new album? What new album?"

Does anyone on ILM actually like Coldplay? I'm growing more and more sick of them.

"More recently, Coldplay began dropping a series of fascinating reference points - electronica, Brian Eno and Kraftwerk - none of which seemed to fit in with their reputation as purveyors of elegiac, mid-tempo, stadium-friendly ballads. At the very least, an intriguing listen was on the cards."

that blinding light you can see on the horizon is 1978.

"The Fir Trees" is also the least fascinating pseudonym you could get in 2005.

are they anything like DMB fans?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/uk_t_in_the_park/img/7.jpg

Chris said: “We shouldn’t restrict our options. To me, the most bizarre things at the moment are the most exciting. I’d even be up for making a didgeridoo album in Alice Springs.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005470078,00.html

LOL @ "Viva la Vida" being used as a pro-life anthem (get it?) at rally in Spain.

(watch video)

oh god

The lyrics to their new single are just... wow.

"make sweet love to me gwynnie, let your golden locks caress my taint."

Of all the bands that should not be teasing a new single by releasing the lyrics first, it's this one.

I WORK 4 U

I TURN THE MUSIC UP, I GOT MY RECORDS ON
I SHUT THE WORLD OUTSIDE UNTIL THE LIGHTS COME ON
MAYBE THE STREETS ALIGHT, MAYBE THE TREES ARE GONE
I FEEL MY HEART START BEATING TO MY FAVOURITE SONG

AND ALL THE KIDS THEY DANCE, ALL THE KIDS ALL NIGHT
UNTIL MONDAY MORNING FEELS ANOTHER LIFE
I TURN THE MUSIC UP
I'M ON A ROLL THIS TIME
AND HEAVEN IS IN SIGHT

I TURN THE MUSIC UP, I GOT MY RECORDS ON
FROM UNDERNEATH THE RUBBLE SING A REBEL SONG
DON'T WANT TO SEE ANOTHER GENERATION DROP
I'D RATHER BE A COMMA THAN A FULL STOP

MAYBE I'M IN THE BLACK, MAYBE I'M ON MY KNEES
MAYBE I'M IN THE GAP BETWEEN THE TWO TRAPEZES
BUT MY HEART IS BEATING AND MY PULSES START
CATHEDRALS IN MY HEART

AND WE SAW OH THIS LIGHT I SWEAR YOU, EMERGE BLINKING INTO
TO TELL ME IT'S ALRIGHT
AS WE SOAR WALLS, EVERY SIREN IS A SYMPHONY
AND EVERY TEAR'S A WATERFALL
IS A WATERFALL
OH
IS A WATERFALL
OH OH OH
IS A IS A WATERFALL
EVERY TEAR
IS A WATERFALL
OH OH OH

SO YOU CAN HURT, HURT ME BAD
BUT STILL I'LL RAISE THE FLAG

OH
IT WAS A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL
A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL

EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL

EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEAR
EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL

jesus

http://i55.tinypic.com/afjx9h.jpg

Love how each "wa" syllable of "waterfall" is spelled out. These lyrics are BA-BA-BA-BA-BAD.

"In a variation on Radiohead's 'pay what you want' scheme, Coldplay has set up a 'donate' button for those interested in paying them not release this single now."

(I kid, I like Coldplay fine, lyrics aside.)

MAYBE THE STREETS ALIGHT

Really clunky to my ear

Jesus, those lyrics are real?????

I like Coldplay fine, but hooo leeeeee fuck.

Guys, newsflash, you probably have never seen any of the other lyrics printed out like this, but this is in no way worse than their other terrible lyrics.

It's an amazing imitation of Richard Ashcroft.

I thought I'd never want a tattoo, but now I'm not so certain anymore:

IT WAS A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL
A WA WA WA WA WA-ATERFALL

IT WAS A WATERFALL
IT WAS A WATERFALL
IT WAS A GODDAM MUTHAFUCKIN'
WATERFALL

It reads like the first search-engine optimised stadium rock lyric. Kids dancing? Check. Waterfall? Check. Music turned up? Check. Flag-waving (for the festival audience)? Check. Symphony. Yep. Cathedral? You bet.

They have to be made up.

I'd rather be a semi-colon.

The "rebel song" reference makes me queasy.

Maybe this is their "political" album.

I FEEL MY HEART START BEATING TO "CLOCKS"

Sleeve art is a graffitoed wall so who knows? I'm a protest-song guy, obviously, but Chris Martin isn't the lyricist for the job.

I don't hate Coldplay! I think you'll find me upthread saying I like their first four albums, to degrees. But I really, really don't like the last three, because they are so shameless in their triangulation. They're the Clintons of Rock.

They're so inoffensive it becomes an easy target. I don't hate them but their fans are very strange, at least the one I've met. I don't know if they don't listen to that much music or everything they listen falls in the same line but they honestly believe they're such a cool, innovative band. Come on, they're pretty much playing dadrock.

I like dadrock! There's nothing wrong with dadrock. It's the unctuous inoffensiveness that gets under my skin. They're like Maroon 5 with a delay pedal.

I never said there was anything wrong with dadrock. But dadrock is not innovative, cool music. It takes once innovative cool music, digests it and makes it acceptable for everyone to enjoy in the background.

If there concerts are anything similar to what they did on the superbowl, though. The venue owner would do better selling lattes than beers.

Their*

The venue owners would do better selling balloon animals.

New album's cack. Where's the fuckin' PIANO?

they did a surprisingly great Radiohead impersonation on recent single All I Can Think About Is You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLNG0WnGsI