Ah, well, saw that one coming.

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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

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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.

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the band basically came off sounding like Class A whiners

See, the problem here is two-fold. One, like you said 'the band' come off as whiners, but it's not everybody else whinging, it's just Chris, but everybody is tarred with the same brush. Two, Chris seems to have lost the ability to think before he speaks. He always been very earnest, once upon a time it was endearing, now it's just grating.

If you really are the greatest band ever, shouldn't your work speak for you? I'm not saying Radiohead are the greatest band ever, but they're certainly very good at what they do -- do you ever hear Thom having a wank in the press about the genius of The Bends? My point exactly.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

See, the problem here is two-fold. One, like you said 'the band' come off as whiners, but it's not everybody else whinging, it's just Chris, but everybody is tarred with the same brush. Two, Chris seems to have lost the ability to think before he speaks. He always been very earnest, once upon a time it was endearing, now it's just grating.

Exactly. The other problem I had was that they (or Chris, or maybe it was Chris and one of the other guys, I don't remember) were complaining about being corporatized and being stuck in the corporate music machine and having to do all this *publicity* and whatnot and basically have to put some of the creative stuff on hold for a while and how tough it is to be the ones making so much money for their label. And while on the one hand, yeah, I can see how that can be frustrating, on the other hand I'm thinking, you're smart boys, anybody who pays any attention to the music industry whatsoever knows exactly what happens when you sign on to a major label, so isn't it just wee bit disingenuous to be complaining about that now? You knew what you were getting into! Deal!

um. [/rant]

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That's *exactly* what I said.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Of *course* it is! BRAIN.

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Word.