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

[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.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is telling everyone not to have children and not get married. Destroys brain cells. I sure as hell am living proof.