[MP3] Coldplay - Bráðskemmtilegur dómur um Viva la Vida

Það er voðalega hipp og kúl að dissa Coldplay þessa dagana. Mér hefur alltaf fundist þeir fínir, en hinsvegar hefur mér alveg láðst að tékka á nýjustu afurð þeirra, Viva la Vida. Eftirfarandi plötudómur segir líklegast allt sem þarf, fenginn að láni frá rateyourmusic.com:

"I have to say, I wasn't expecting a new U2 album any time soon.  They've got their two albums in for this decade, I figured.  Imagine my surprise, then, when I heard a new U2 album playing at the record store last week.  

"What's this new U2 album you're playing called?" I asked the kid at the counter.

"Coldplay?" he said.  Dope must've had wax in his ears.  I clearly had to avoid confusing him with things like band names and multi-syllabel words.

"This one, this cd that you're playing this very second, the notes of which I can hear ringing in my ears.  What's it called?!"  I spoke loudly and slowly so the young genius would understand.

He pointed to a rack of new releases.  "Viva la Vida," he said with a smirk.  The little shit.  At least I knew what the release was called now.

"You have that in vinyl?"

He pointed to a rack of records next to the new release cds.  "Comes with a cd," he said.  "Fuck cds," I thought, but I kept that to myself.  I was getting the new U2 album on vinyl and just from the snippet I was hearing at the store it sounded better than anything I'd heard them record in years.

I didn't wait to put the record on when I got home.  I went straight to my turntable, and after revelling on that unmatched feeling of removing the shrink wrap on a new record, I tossed it onto the turntable.  I have to admit, at first I was a little disappointed.  We've heard them do this intro before on the opener of The Joshua Tree.  It's the exact same keyboard part, just played a little faster.  Well, it didn't take long for the song to open up a bit, and then I understood what was going on--U2 was paying homage to themselves with this track.  Soon The Edge's trademark digital delay sound was filling the room along with Bono's nasally vocals and I was in heaven.  They haven't sounded this good in years.  Bono's voice is a little thinner than normal.  I suppose it's age.

There are a lot of keyboards on Viva la Vida, more than one would expect from the Irish lads.  I suppose it could have something to do with the theme of this record.  They've done albums about God, death, adolescence, America and Berlin, what better way to tie the music into this record's theme--the French Revolution--than with lots of piano.  The revolutionaries played piano a lot, right?

Side one is full of soon-to-be-classic U2 songs, including "42", "Lovers in Japan", "Cemeteries of London" and "Reign of Love".  Didn't they already record a song called "Reign of Love"?  Is that just my imagination?  Could be, I suppose.  It's got some great Rattle and Hum-era guitar tones on it, like stuff from "Heartland".  That Edge, he's a freakin' genius.  "42" is one of the better songs on Viva la Vida, a fine match to its predecessor "40" from War.  What happened to "41", though?  I haven't been following the band closely enough, I guess.

Side two is pretty good, too.  Bono gives us some of his falsetto vocals on the title track.  Good stuff.  The funny thing is, occasionally, and especially on side two, it does sound a little like Coldplay.  I can see why that little record store twit would be confused.  

Viva la Vida is easily the best U2 album I've heard in a long, long time."

Meðan ég var að græja þennan póst, þá hlustaði ég á titillagið, og get nú ekki sagt annað en að það sökkar massívt, svona við fyrstu hlustun allavegana. Það er einhver let-them-know-it's-christmas fílingur í þessu. Ég á svo eftir að éta það ofan í mig þegar þetta er orðið uppáhaldslagið mitt eftir nokkra daga.

Við skulum því leggja vel við hlustir og spila það hérna, sem og nokkur remix af laginu, og einhver önnur lög af plötunni líka, og kíkjum svo á vídeó við titillagið. Engin ábyrgð er tekin á endingu þessara linka.

Hvernig finnst ykkur annars nýja platan?

[MP3] Coldplay - Viva la Vida
[MP3] Coldplay - Viva la Vida (Chark Mu Electric Remix)
[MP3] Coldplay - Viva la Vida (Telemitry Remix)
[MP3] Coldplay - Viva la Vida (Starters Remix)
[MP3] Coldplay - Viva la Vida (We Plants are Happy Plants Remix)
[MP3] Coldplay - Lost
[MP3] Coldplay - Yes
[MP3] Coldplay - Violet Hill

Myndband við lagið. Voðalega pirrar það mig þegar fólk er að hamast á gítar í myndbandi en svo heyrist ekkert í honum í laginu. Nema auðvitað ef bandið er frá Spáni og heitir La Casa Azul. Meira um þá vitleysinga bráðum.

 

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[Heiða (IP-tala skráð) 17.8.2008 kl. 19:46]

Ég er að dýrka þessa Coldplay-plötu alla, og hef aldrei fílað neitt með þeim áður. Sérstaklega hrifin af téðu "42"-lagi, og datt ekkert u2 í hug. En dómurinn er fyndinn. Datt hins vegar My bloody Valentine í hug út af sumum gítarsándum. Ástæðan fyrir gæðunum: Brian Eno pródúsar plötuna. Hún er vægast sagt æði! Hlusta mikið á hana uppí skífu, leifsstöð, þar sem ég er að vinna.

[Ragga (IP-tala skráð) 17.8.2008 kl. 22:08]

Er það hipp og kúl? Nú jæja, þá hef ég alltaf verið hipp og kúl