I heard today that Chris Martin said that Coldplay was more popular than they were good. (or something like that I'll try to find the real quote) So, they wanted to make an album that was good on a music level.
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I heard "Violet Hill" and "Viva la Vida" and I love them both. It's amazing the success that Coldplay is achieving with this album. 1,400,000 copies sold in the first 10 days is the prediction. Wow!
Also "Viva la Vida" is their first #1 single in the U.S. and it's likely to reach the top spot also in the UK tomorrow. All very impressive.
They deserve it. They are probably the best artist from the last 10 years.
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Which is the best band in the world? Chris Martin reckons Coldplay are 'the seventh best band in the world'. But is it even possible to measure who is number one? June 9, 2008 10:00 AM
It's one thing to announce you're "the fourth best band in Hull", as the Housemartins did with a nod and a wink more than 20 years ago. It's another to claim, as Chris Martin has done without any apparent irony, that "Coldplay is only the seventh best band in the world". It's all false modesty, one suspects, for underneath that self-effacing exterior lurks a man with an almost psychotic belief in his own talents - remember his insistence that Coldplay's X&Y was going to be "bonkersly brilliant"? So the statement that Coldplay are "only" the seventh best band really means this: there are only a handful of groups who can compete with us; the rest are no-hopers.
It's all nonsense, of course. Martin says Arcade Fire and Sigur Rós are the best bands in the world, which suggests he has a very limited view of what defines great rock music. Like Coldplay, both bands deal in melancholy that serves, paradoxically, to provide uplift. Put it another way: like Coldplay, they're epic and bombastic. So if you're playing dirty blues rock, you won't be in the Chris Martin Musical Premier League; ditto if you play pastoral folk, brash pop or cool dance-punk. Even Noel Gallagher might be more open-minded than that.
There's simply no way to assess the best group in the world. Record sales? No, not unless you're willing to accept that the soundtrack to The Bodyguard - the seventh bestselling album ever - is the seventh best album of all time. Awards? Come on, no one takes the Brits and Grammys as gospel. Influence? How do you calculate that?
But if you're still seeking the truth, there's one question that offers it. Ask yourself this: what's your favourite band? There you go. That's the best band in the world, and don't let Chris Martin tell you otherwise.
I like a couple of their singles,I think they are one of the best bands in the last couple years. Not to many bands stick around long in the music industry now a days.
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just saw a few of there singles from new album theyre not great but much better than the tripe they put off of the last album i liked some of there first album and thought the second album was good aswell, but hated there third album.
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"Bonkersly brilliant," eh? Not bad, and I can imagine a few occasions on which I'd use such a line myself, but probably not in the way Chris Martin intended, or thinks he intended: irony and piss taking are tricky if you've got the level of self regard Mr Martin apparently has. He brings to mind Terence Trent D'Arby, who twenty years ago said his first album was better than Sgt Pepper. A few trend jumpers went along with him in 1987, but history (and record sales) show who won out over time.
He brings to mind Terence Trent D'Arby, who twenty years ago said his first album was better than Sgt Pepper. A few trend jumpers went along with him in 1987, but history (and record sales) show who won out over time.
Boy, and people got mad when Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.
"Bonkersly brilliant," eh? Not bad, and I can imagine a few occasions on which I'd use such a line myself, but probably not in the way Chris Martin intended, or thinks he intended: irony and piss taking are tricky if you've got the level of self regard Mr Martin apparently has. He brings to mind Terence Trent D'Arby, who twenty years ago said his first album was better than Sgt Pepper. A few trend jumpers went along with him in 1987, but history (and record sales) show who won out over time.
Such a 1st album talent who got it wrong. Communication with other musicians is vital. Great vocal range.
Such a 1st album talent who got it wrong. Communication with other musicians is vital. Great vocal range.
Actually, D'Arby's first album was pretty good and I remember playing it quite a few times in the shop when it came out; I think it was called The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby or something like that. The next-great-thing hype that came along with the album (the "trend jumpers" I took a shot at above) was discouraging, though, and probably hurt D'Arby's career in the long run: one overreaction provoked another. The same thing happened to Big Country a few years earlier.
Each of Coldplays three previous albums have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and are still selling very well , they have five albums on the Uk top 75 albums chart this week . So interms of global sales Coldplay are one of the biggest selling bands in the world at the moment . Only a few bands have been as successful as they have been from the begining of their career . They are premier league in that sense . The problem for them is that they are also a very divisive band you either love or hate them or are just indifferent to them . Artistically what they have released thus far as been patchy to good in my opinion . "Viva La Vida" is a good solid album and a vast improvement on X&Y which apart from the first hit single Speed Of Sound was shite . In terms of group personality i don't think they have much of one , apart from Chris Martin i don't think i've heard the other three speak . And from what i've heard come out of Chris Martin's mouth it's obvious he's an awkward uncharismatic frontman . All i know is i like the album the songs are strong and it's very well produced and it's good to see a British band doing well .
Each of Coldplays three previous albums have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and are still selling very well , they have five albums on the Uk top 75 albums chart this week . So interms of global sales Coldplay are one of the biggest selling bands in the world at the moment . Only a few bands have been as successful as they have been from the begining of their career . They are premier league in that sense . The problem for them is that they are also a very divisive band you either love or hate them or are just indifferent to them . Artistically what they have released thus far as been patchy to good in my opinion . "Viva La Vida" is a good solid album and a vast improvement on X&Y which apart from the first hit single Speed Of Sound was shite . In terms of group personality i don't think they have much of one , apart from Chris Martin i don't think i've heard the other three speak . And from what i've heard come out of Chris Martin's mouth it's obvious he's an awkward uncharismatic frontman . All i know is i like the album the songs are strong and it's very well produced and it's good to see a British band doing well .
i put them in in with a group of bands that i class as boring music, Travis, Embrace, Snow Patrol and Keane are a few others, but i think they are the best of the bad bunch
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