What are you listening to?

[PvtPyle]

Originally Posted by Davey_Pitch

30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie. Great album, well worth a listen if you're into rock/metal

Also listening to Bedlight for Blue Eyes, Blacktop Mourning, Alexisonfire, The Automatic and The Early November.

[MarcLister]

Coldplay - X&Y.

[PvtPyle]

Can I be controversial and say Coldplay's first album was the best, and by the 3rd they'd started to run out of ideas?

[MarcLister]

Originally Posted by Kitten

Fix You - the ultimate love song Was there when they made the video to that \o/ Was a-may-zing.

Swallowed by the Sea is fab too.

Yes it is. So Bolton was it? Must have been quite an experience. Whenever I go home on the train I always play this album first. As the train pulls out of Manchester, Square One seems such a beautiful song to me.

Think my fav has to be The Hardest Part but the last three songs are just wickedly good!

Originally Posted by PvtPyle

Can I be controversial and say Coldplay's first album was the best, and by the 3rd they'd started to run out of ideas?

Hmm no!

First album was probably their best in terms of being raw and non-commercialised. X&Y is probably my favourite but it is more commercialised.

[MarcLister]

Originally Posted by Kitten

not controversial, just wrong. It was more raw, more untouched, but experience and maturity bring something of a different class to Martin's voice and lyrics. I don't think anything on Parachutes can match Fix You, Clocks, The Scientist, etc etc etc.

Can't disagree with that. So favourite Coldplay song?

If I was pushed I'd say Clocks.

[MarcLister]

Hmm I know what you mean. The Scientist is good as is Fix You. Coldplay have so many good songs it is very hard to choose a favourite. Have you ever seen the video of the old guy singing Fix You? Was meant to be a duet with another guy, both of whom were suffering heart failure. Unfortunately one of them died before the video was filmed giving the video an extra emotional edge and some of the dead guy's family can be seen in the vid crying.

[MarcLister]

[PvtPyle]

Originally Posted by Kitten

not controversial, just wrong It was more raw, more untouched, but experience and maturity bring something of a different class to Martin's voice and lyrics. I don't think anything on Parachutes can match Fix You, Clocks, The Scientist, etc etc etc.

How a classic like Fix You can be classed as 'running out of ideas' just staggers me.

Ah, I didn't say they didn't still have moments of greatness. I'm not going to win this one, and I won't try to, but I do think Parachutes was more exploratory in terms of the way the songs are written and 'built'. X & Y, IMO, is a bit more like the Chris Martin show with a studio band.

And the best Coldplay track is clearly Yellow

[Pumpkinstew]

Originally Posted by Kitten

not controversial, just wrong It was more raw, more untouched, but experience and maturity bring something of a different class to Martin's voice and lyrics. I don't think anything on Parachutes can match Fix You, Clocks, The Scientist, etc etc etc.

How a classic like Fix You can be classed as 'running out of ideas' just staggers me.

Clocks and The Scientist were on Rush of Blood though weren't they?
I tend to agree with Pvt Pyle as in many ways Speed of Sound was Clocks the remix and given the coice I'd listen to Parachutes over X&Y.

Clocks is just about the perfect pop song though so I can understand trying to write another like it.

[MarcLister]

Originally Posted by Pumpkinstew

Clocks and The Scientist were on Rush of Blood though weren't they?.

I think Kitten was saying that Clocks and The Scientist were more mature songs and that Parachutes couldn't really match them in that respect.