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 I have the whole CD on repeat and can't get enough Aug 12, 2010
I absolutely love this CD. Coldplay is easily turning out to be one of my favorites. My first Coldplay CD was Viva la Vida, and I love every song on that CD - I even used Strawberry Swing in my wedding. I've been working my way back through their CDs since. I've always loved their singles on the radio, so I decided to pick up their most recent CD when I couldn't get enough of that song "Viva la Vida". Anyway.... I can listen to their entire CD all the way through without wanting to change any of the songs. Perfect music to write to or work to or chill to, well, you get the idea. Lets just say they're a big deal for a reason. Those Brits know a thing or two about music.
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cd review May 24, 2010
good sound and good band. love coldplay and i am not gay. so stop making assumptions that coldplay fans are gay.
More Sideways Than Forward But Still Pretty Darn Good Apr 03, 2010
Musically, X&Y fails to break any new ground for the band but I would be hard pressed to call that a bad thing. However, the band has definitely come into their own in the realm of layering and production and the sonic maturity is evident throughout the album. Everything is bigger on X&Y. Coldplay knew they would be playing stadiums this time around and they wrote the album accordingly. You can almost hear the screams when the guitar lick from "Talk" kicks in - it's the tried and true Coldplay formula, now with bigger and better hooks.
On the lyrical side of things Martin sticks to a theme of love and commitment along the album's journey. It's obvious that Martin is very much in love, specifically with wife Gwyneth Paltrow and his daughter Apple (must...resist...sarcasm), and he wears it on his sleeve on X&Y. Songs like "Fix You" and "A Message" read more like pages from a diary when you realize that these were written by a husband to his wife while she struggled to come to terms with the death of her father. It's voyeuristic almost to the point of being uncomfortable.
Coldplay also one-ups themselves by writing another "perfect" song. On A Rush Of Blood To The Head they gave us "Clocks" which, in my opinion, was perfect in every way from music to hook to lyric. On X&Y, "White Shadows" has this honor. It's a rare thing when a song comes together in this way - even more rare for lightning to strike twice. But they aren't all winners. The band stumbles hard on the album's official closer, the meandering "Twisted Logic." Thankfully it's redeemed with the hidden track "Til Kingdom Come," a hymn-like acoustic gem that was originally written for Johnny Cash before he passed.
Coldplay had their work cut out for them in creating a follow-up to perhaps one of the strongest sophomore efforts ever, the much-lauded Rush. While I truly believe that no band could have lived up to the hype set before them, I was a disappointed to see that Coldplay moved not forward with X&Y but sideways. As I said before, X&Y is a great album but for a band to truly be world-class they need to move forward - Coldplay took the safe route. (Until Viva La Vida, that is!)
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Good listen Mar 29, 2010
This cd was good. I didn't like it as much as Parachutes. But it is still a good listen.
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 Not the best vinyl pressing Feb 16, 2010
I bought this in vinyl as it is a recording that I enjoyed as a CD and I've been repurchasing some things in vinyl. While promoted as an audiophile vinyl product, it's a crappy Capitol pressing, punched off center, with poorly finished edges and label. Bad handling and packaging of vinyl by Amazon makes it all worse. FAIL.
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