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

[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]

Good morning, sunshine!

[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?

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Shit.

[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.

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

Damnit. *takes it off the To Buy list*

[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.

[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!

[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'*

[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?