Coldplay - A Spell A Rebel Yell
So, I bought a ticket to see Coldplay. Cue my semi-annual love/hate relationship with the band and the fact that I love them so much. I think it’s mostly because, when I think about their live shows, all I can see is me being in a football stadium (note: this will be the first time I’ve ever been to a concert at a stadium) with around 50,000 other people, and me there in my seat (I wasn’t going to go GA on a rugby pitch), hoping that they’ll play my very favourite songs which they likely won’t because they don’t include things like “Yellow” or “Fix You” or “In My Place” but are instead things like this gem of a vinyl-only b-side, off a single that came glued to the front of a magazine, and I will kind of hate that a band I like who are actually quite talented go for the crowd pleasing bits rather than anything often genuinely interesting, but when you’re playing for 50,000 people, who can blame them, especially when a fair swathe of the crowd pleasing bits are actually genuinely good.
While I’ve made my peace with “Yellow”, nothing will ever, ever make me like “Fix You” or “In My Place”.
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- # but not because it's got fix you on it but because of the AMAZING b-side called 'the world turned upside down' which alternates as my fav...
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Coldplay - Moving To Mars
For a band who, for their prsevious two albums, their b-side were as good as (Viva) is not better than (X&Y) the tracks on the albums, I’m disappointed that (so far, at least) MX has only one non-album track (I can’t call them b-sides because the only two phyiscal singles released so-far have had album tracks on the flipside) and this is it. Yesterday, while driving to and from several places, I pretty much just listened to this on repeat. I’m not sure why. For a band pretty much popular through their ballads, this is a sweet, quiet track that i much more interesting than its counterparts on the LP.
Day 2 - Your favourite single
Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II
From the ‘Prospekt’s March’ EP, following the ‘Viva La Vida’ LP. The biggest disappointment (and excitement) on the album version was that it was just a tiny, perfect instrumental. But it didn’t feel quite enough. Then they had a full version too suddenly, opening this selection of other tracks that didn’t make the final album. I was captivated. A lot of it is fairly, well, standard Coldplay, but as a fan that of course doesn’t bother me. Something about this track lifted it above their normal single material, which is either over the top power pop/rock or over the top pop/rock ballad. Here I think they’ve succeeded because the vibrancy and excited dynamic of the arrangement manages to justify the over the top execution of their work from X&Y onwards.
It’s the second most played track in my iTunes.
