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Oh, you know: waa waa waa, waa waa, waa waa waa waa. With a video in space. And a torch. And some guys that have, quite improbably, become global superstars; it's all a million light years from the first time these eyes focused upon their figures, swaying slowly in time with their perfectly accomplished but ultimately dull indie rock, back at the Manchester Roadhouse. They weren't even headlining.
What's changed, exactly? It's tough to call: 'Talk' is anthemic in all the traditional ways. It's tailor-made for the easily pleased to begin their lighter waving, and the way the guitar mimics the vocals - waa waa waa, et cetera - is pop songwriting at its best, albeit as original as a boyband key change. Chris Martin's vocals are certainly less impassioned than they have been, but they fit the fairly unambitious but pleasant enough music about them perfectly. 'Talk' is Coldplay in their safety zone, with no need to pull an ace from their sleeve. It's big-sounding, lavish in its production, and has a hook that'll infuriate Christmas shoppers from department store to department store. They know it'll sell, you know it'll sell: this review is entirely irrelevent.
Coldplay do have some fantastic songs to their name, songs that will always serve as solid evidence when their rise to the stars is investigated. This, though, is not one of them. "Tell me how you feel," _requests Martin. Quite bored, really. _"Let's talk," he suggests. Nah.
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Yeah, I love this song on the album, it sounds like a centrepiece in the first half. But as a single, it just seems a bit detatched and out of context, and a bit lifeless. Maybe it's because the Coldplay album's less lively than, err, life, so it's just good sequencing on the album. Odd, 'cause I never thought it'd sound so tepid as a single. but it does.
Love(D)
this song. Just like I loved Clocks.
The lyrics are absolutely terrible, but you don't need lyrics when you've got a tune like this.
I am beyond saving
I've only heard this a couple of times (not sure how that's happened) but I absolutely love it. Oh dear, I'm such a fan of bedwetter indie...
this band
promised so much...
All that for that !
So SO...
...disappointed by 'X&Y'. It's Coldplay's 'Be Here Now'.
Still loving those first two albums, like.
Progressively worse albums = progressively bigger sales
I don't understand this. I think Parachutes is actually a pretty special album, but they get worse and worse with every release. Parachutes sounded personal and honest, the following two albums sound like a band too concerned with status - whether they admit it or not
I love this
Im not really a fan of Codplay but this song is awesome.
wow
good to see them getting some praise on here in the comments for once. i agree with brusma. it sounds really good on the album, but as a single it sounds pretty catchy, but a bit forgetable.
Boo!
This really makes me sad/mad - basing a song on someone else's (Kraftwerk in this case) is fine and dandy if you're going to do something with it and perhaps add something to it.
On this song, Coldplay have basically recorded a cover version of Computer Love played by a live guitar band with Chris Martin singing something over the top - and the thing is, he can't even be bothered to write his own melody for the chorus... it's such a lazy effort.
It really is very poor when a band can't think of their own melodies and have to steal other peoples, without even trying to hide it - there's homage and there's silage: this is the latter.
No
Kraftwerk's "Computer Love" is awesome - this is not.
Coldplay are...
so bloody good. Love this song, love the album, love the band. Best band in the world today bar none. And really nice guys with it.
In my opinion (and it is just my opinion, not trying to force it upon anyone) but they really can do nothing wrong.
Hmm...
Boring old rubbish with quite a good hook. Terrible lyrics.
Where did it all go wrong?
Nice hook, shame about the whiny prick
Wonderful songwriting to echo the melody? Mate, I can sing "Chris Martin, you are a whiny prick" exactly to the same tune. Genius, me.
Yes...
... and the hook was written by Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider!
why oh why
so yes, it´s obviously kraftwerk. and yes, lyrics can be a bit daft (isn´t that always with coldplay?). still, it´s a great pop song. why should it be so original, then? why being so serious?
I love Coldplay
but 'X&Y' is just really really really fucking dull, and his lyrics are such absolute bollocks I can barely listen to most of the songs. It's a real shame, 'cause when they started they had a certain SOMETHING that only a few bands have, and songs like 'High Speed' hinted at skyscraping sonic adventures yet to come. But tellingly, that song faded out at the moment it should have exploded, early-Verve-style, into something huge and amazing. And they've carried on fading ever since.
completely agree
on that...
Absolute
Trash. Completely dull, they just want to be the next U2, the next dull, college rock/ballad band, and looking at the casual music listeners response to their new album, it could -shockingly- happen.
It's...
Gash.
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