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[hackthis_archive]

On behalf of all those who are not getting an permanent account today, whether it's because you're broke, or you wanted those new shoes more, or your fairygodperson was like 'yeah, no', or you were just like '$150! Are you taking the piss?' -- I'd like to offer my heart-felt solidarity. I feel you! I think we all deserve some porn or something.

Someone should get on that.

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[rozza.livejournal.com]

If I'm spending $150 I'd better be getting something a lot better than a permanent account. Try a perm account, free porn, vodka and uhhh a time travel machine so I can go back, convince Chris Martin to tour and perform the new songs before recording them (my argument: Radiohead does it!) so X&Y can be a billion times better than it actually is. I totally believe that if they had played the new ones live first they would have given us something better--more inspired for sure. Almost half of AROBTTH was performed during the first and second NA tours and look how good that album turned out to be.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I have thought about this, since this has been a hot topic for us for like the last two months, and I think that the issue with this album is that Chris is trying to make arena rock. Coldplay are not arena rock. They are club lifestyle music. Okay, I'll take away the lifestyle thing, cos that was just cruel, but they are at their best in small venues, playing their pianos and doing their thing. That is their sound, that is their thing. They don't do arena, and trying to pretend otherwise is just bad.

[rozza.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it. This album is full of songs that are wannabe rock anthems. And you and I, having seen them a billion times between us, know that they thrive in small clubs. Coachella was the most boring Coldplay set I've ever attended, and that was the sixth time I've seen them. First time I wasn't in the front row, too. I felt completely disconnected from the band, the music and the fans. The live DVD is the same way--I can't even watch it all the way through. The beauty that is their music just doesn't translate to the larger arena/amphitheatre setting. I feel sorry for people who didn't see Coldplay two or more years ago, because they are truly missing out. You know, I read in some article that Coldplay "isn't known for great live performances" or something to that effect, and that surprised the shit out of me. Cos all the shows I've been to have been fantastic. But then I thought about Coachella and agreed.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You totally have it in a nutshell, the wannabe rock anthems, the incredibly craptacular nature of Coachella (Jesus fuck that was such a bad performance), and the fact that they don't necessarily play lifestyle music, but their music is quieter and less brassy. It's more subtle. You need to be indoors, with proper acoustics, and not in the back of the ampitheatre. *That* is a bad experience. That will make you think they're bad live, even though they're not bad live, *we* know that.