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!!!!!

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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.