Ah, well, saw that one coming.

[hackthis_archive]

For those of you who have been around a while, you know that when the last Coldplay LP dropped (August '02), I was championing it before it even hit shelves. Like the ODB once said '[we] go back like babies and pacifiers' -- and so it was with a lot of excitement that I looked forward to hearing X & Y....

And then I heard it.

And I'm saying it now, publicly, I think it's shit.

The five stars that Blender gave it and the brown-nosing that EW did? Bullshit. I'm talking about arse to the wall, and stains everywhere like Miguel Alvarez in Oz shit. Some albums are fifty-fifty, you love and you hate, some you love most and hate some -- this is just crap.

I feel like I should be disappointed, but I'm not surprised.



In better news: OMG I SO LESS THAN THREE HURLEY!!!!!

Comments

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard anything off it yet, and I'm so excited.

How awful to hear you don't like it :(

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

HI CIRCE!!

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. Hallo, sweet thang!

::knots protection spells in your hair::

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Good morning, sunshine!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Well aren't you chipper and what have you this morning. Did you get my text about the tapes?

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

text about tapes? Uh...*checks phone*

yeah, no signal this morning. So no, I didn't. What did it say?

I don't know why I'm so chipper. I'm sick, and I've only had one cup of coffee thus far. I think it's the cold meds. Either that, or I'm reacting perversely to your morose summation of the new Coldplay album. yeah, I dunno either.

[rozza.livejournal.com]

Hey, wasn't I the one who supplied you with AROBTTH before it dropped? Carrie and I did GOOD. I think we snagged it a good three weeks before it came out.

And you know, I keep calling X&Y Be Here Now and I'm not even being sarcastic, I keep getting them mixed up... and also, I'm feeling really pissed at them lately. Like you, I feel I should be surprised in my disappointment but I'm not. Et tu, Coldplay?

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yes, baby girl, you and Caz done good with the AROBTTH. As for X&Y = BHN, you know, I actually liked some of BHN! This is just, meh. I know what you mean about feeling pissy lately as well, I had a rather heated discussion last week about Chris pissing all over Capitol and thinking he's god. His egotism is second to none, except maybe Mad Richard. No, even Richard never said his band was bigger than Mozart (?!@)

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

I had a rather heated discussion last week about Chris pissing all over Capitol and thinking he's god. His egotism is second to none

Dude, there was a thing on NPR the other day about that, and the band basically came off sounding like Class A whiners. I was going to email you about it and then, uh, forgot, I think.

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Is it worse to think you're bigger than Mozart or Jesus? Discuss.

[rozza.livejournal.com]

True, BHN is not a bad album, although it was a step down from Morning Glory and we won't even attempt to compare it to Definitely Maybe. But you know what came next--Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and then... I don't even remember what their last album was called. The hype around X&Y reminds me of how everyone began to wank all over BHN before it came out. Meanwhile, I was standing there going "...."

I feel very bitter about Coldplay. You know, last week or so Caz and I were talking about how earnest Chris was in the beginning. He still talked before speaking but it was funny. How else would we have learned about Alice Hill? Nowadays its like he's still trying to pretend he's earnest but he's not. He pretends he's modest and self-deprecating, but he's NOT. He's just obnoxious. Anyone who followed the band in the early days can spot the difference a mile away. I'm so sick of hearing how he's in the greatest band in the world, and I have to say I love Thom Yorke even more so for referring to Coldplay as "lifestyle music."

The sad thing is that I still love Jonny and Will very much. They're fantastic guys, and even though I'll make fun of Guy til the end of time I like him too. Without them Coldplay would be a lost cause. I just wish they could keep their tard of a lead singer under check.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Shit.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Darling, you should judge for yourself. Don't listen to me. Everybody has differing tastes and opinions, this is just mine.

[penguinparity.livejournal.com]

Which is kind of amusing, since last night I read something about how the lead singer of Coldplay thought they were literally the best band in the world and would be suprassing even people like Mozart in time.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

O.O

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

Damnit. *takes it off the To Buy list*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

No, you should totally listen for yourself. This is just my two pence.

[shireeen.livejournal.com]

wahey, is that roz up there? loooong time. And of course it's CP talk that brings me back into the fold...
well, the albums just get worse and worse, I daresay. AROBTTH wore thin after only a few listens and I don't expect X&Y to sway me either. (Although Speed of Sound, strangely, has grown on me, though I can't say I particularly enjoy it or think it's much different from Clocks.) The biggest indicator of their suckage for me is that I'm totally out of the loop on them and I don't even give a shit. They're playing where? Their new song's called what? I don't care.

Long live Parachutes.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

See, I like them both. I love bits of Parachutes, actually I love 90%, except for 'Yellow' which has always made me physically ill, but I really do think AROBTTH has some really good bits. I love 'Clocks' and was horrified when it was made a single, but I really love 'Amsterdam' and the title track. If they eighty-sixed 'Daylight' and 'Green Eyes', it'd be a quality LP. This album though, it was just so fucking bland, like plain, fat-free yoghurt.

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

I haven't read all the comments so I don't know if someone else has already posted this theory but: Chris Martin is just the kind of guy (and I like him, I do) to make an album he knows is bad and then be all "see, you music critics and music labels and etc are totally full of shit" when they fall all over it.

Or it could just not be that great. I have to say I wasn't blown away by "Speed of Sound" or whatever the first single is.

[poopins.livejournal.com]

Haha oh dear, is it really that awful? I want to hear it before I form an opinion but I've a feeling it's going to be a little negatory. Hook a girl up if you have the ways and means, you know my email. It makes me all nostalgic for how !!!!! we were about AROBTTH. See, then I was willing to travel to go to their little club shows, now I'm like eh, playing another stadium, well I don't think I can stomach seeing you with 50,000 other people. Fuck you X, and your little Guye too!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You know if I had a hard copy, 3B would be the first to benefit from it, and I totally feel you on the stadium thing. So not a stadium band. U2 is anthemic ampitheatres, Coldplay is the Fillmore. The sound just doesn't translate at all.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

"Speed of Sound" did not impress me, nor did "Talk."

I think X&Y will have to sit on the shelves for a while. No rushing to get this one.

*plays 'Warning Sign'*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yis. I like Warning Sign :)

[wickedcherub.livejournal.com]

O_O

*wipes this post from memory*

I haven't heard it yet, but are you sure it doesn't take a few listens?