Coldplay - "Green Eyes"

"Leadbull" (leadbull911) 02/09/2016 at 14:37 • Filed to: dj oppo, traffic jams

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duurtlang > Leadbull 02/09/2016 at 14:45

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If only they called it quits after this album. They’d have a far different legacy with far less money and far more credibility. Everything after this one was sub par and usually utterly forgettable radio fluff. Parachutes was their best, A Rush Of Blood To The Head was great, the rest is shit.

/Get off my lawn.

CALUSA > Leadbull 02/09/2016 at 14:57

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Underrated song.

Leadbull > duurtlang 02/09/2016 at 15:01

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I think Parachutes and Bloody Head were their only great comprehensive albums.

They made a handful of songs that I enjoy, but their later albums were not nearly as good on the whole.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > duurtlang 02/09/2016 at 15:14

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You’re completely right, I mean they made a few good songs afterwards but nothing that really compared to their first albums. I was listening to Coldplay on shuffle on Spotify last week, and I noticed how much of the new songs were so different(read bad) I needed to skip them.

Ash78, voting early and often > duurtlang 02/09/2016 at 15:48

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I’ll go against the grain and call X&Y better than the two before it, and Viva La Vida their pinnacle before jumping off a cliff with Mylo Xyzasasdfasdasg.

The first two albums were still great, but too much like early Radiohead, Travis, Oasis and the rest of the acoustic Brit-rock of the era.

/get off my porch

Ash78, voting early and often > Leadbull 02/09/2016 at 15:49

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This song was a nice break from their other stuff. I could almost imagine it charting on the Hot Country 100 in the US. Because we’ll call just about anything Country now...

Leadbull > Ash78, voting early and often 02/09/2016 at 15:52

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Their guitarist plays a Telecaster, so they’re obviously country.

duurtlang > Ash78, voting early and often 02/09/2016 at 15:54

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I’ll have to very strongly disagree with you there. With the exception of the cliff jumping part. Starting with X&Y, Coldplay has been making elevator music. Imho, obviously.

Ash78, voting early and often > Leadbull 02/09/2016 at 15:55

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Of course. Just look at Kurt Cobain. He even looks like a modern country star!

Ash78, voting early and often > duurtlang 02/09/2016 at 15:58

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It took me a long time to come around to Viva la Vida, but it was just so much more diverse and interesting than anything before it (in terms of instrument selection, recording locations — like old cathedrals, and so on). I would urge you to listen to it a few more times while pretending the prior work didn’t exist, which takes away your expectations.

Also, it helps to listen to it on CD or vinyl to capture all the song transitions.

Also IMHO, of course.

I completely gave up after Sky Full of Stars, which was just flat and depressing.

Leadbull > Ash78, voting early and often 02/09/2016 at 16:04

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This country band has been on the radio a lot recently.

duurtlang > Leadbull 02/09/2016 at 16:14

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I’ve been born a few decades too late...

Having said that, I strongly prefer this country song of theirs, from the same ‘69 session. Shitty audio quality, but I could still listen to it all day long.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Ash78, voting early and often 02/09/2016 at 16:23

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After viva la vida they jumped the shark big time for worse. Viva was a pinnacle like you said with such gems as Lost and Violet Hill, lovers in japan. Their previous albums are good. The local college station played a new song from them last night, I hated it. Couldn’t take it. It was a big difference from radiohead’s fake plastic trees that was playing previously. It belonged in the teenie bopper music collection.

Leadbull > duurtlang 02/09/2016 at 16:32

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His voice was much better in the early days.

duurtlang > Leadbull 02/09/2016 at 16:44

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Here’s the same song, performed 45 years later. With Plant, without Jones/Page(and Bonham obviously). The power, the emotion, the intensity, the feeling of barely maintaining control, everything that makes the old recording so compelling is simply gone. It’s been a long time so it’s understandable, but it’s still sad.

(I do like the madman on the acoustic guitar though)

Leadbull > duurtlang 02/09/2016 at 16:50

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Even on their later albums in the ‘70s, he didn’t have that same kind of power.

I guess wailing like that night after night takes its toll real quick.