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Thursday, 19 June 2008

life, viva la vida or death and all his friends..a coldplay blog

i feel like writing a blog, but i have no clue what to write about! lol

okay...err

ohh okay. hows about this: i AM SO HAPPY :) lol...here's a list why

1. GOD (!)
2. the boy
3. america
4. coldplay
5. kidneys

i guess i should explain why i put kidneys down on the list lol. havent been feelin well for weeks now, but on friday night it really kicked off. i was soo scared about going to the docs, and scared that it wouldnt be a diagnosable thing, that i would just have to stick it out both here and in america :s but it is a kidney thing! and i got tablets! and its getting better :) yeoooo!

the coldplay album is out of this world. a friend told me last night that all coldplays stuff sounds the same. no flippin way! have you heard viva la vida?! its the most amazing thing ever lol. possibly my favourite one of their albums yet...well it and parachutes. i love parachutes. what an amazing first album like! okay heres the list right now. i guess this will have to be updated once ive listened to viva la vida for a while...

1. viva la vida or death and all his friends
2. parachutes
3. X+Y
4. a rush of blood to the head

my favourite track on the album is "death and all his friends". go check it out on youtube or something. that song makes me want to cry lol its such an emotional song. the piano bit with chris and the wee bit of electric guitar in the background creates a gorgeous atmosphere. the melody of that wee start section is beautiful. i could listen to it all day lol. and then when it leads into a wee rocky bit, with an awesome bass line, which just makes you want to dance! and then after that, there is a really beautiful coldplay-esque section, with that really clean sound that was so prevailent on X+Y. the track ends with an extract from the first track on the album - life in technicolor. i dont particularly like this bit in comparison with the rest of the track, but i feel that it creates a lovely ending to the album. playing the album as it is without skipping tracks or fast forwarding or anything, it reminds me of an oratorio. dont ask why, it just does lol. if it were to be performed in that way, as a big musical work, i think the ending part on death and all his friends would be perfect to round off the performance. the album itself is so varied, and is quite unlike any of coldplays previous songs. thats what i think anyways. for those of you who might have stumbled across this and have heard viva la vida, give me your opinion!

anyways, thats my wee musical rant over lol. i have more thoughts to process on the album, so ill probably be back with some sort of opinion on different songs.

goodbye!

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