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hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« on: July 27, 2009, 07:32:39 PM »
Okay, I really have nothing (well not much) against Coldplay, but I finally tracked down
that nagging sense of "I've heard this song before" that I always get when I hear their
new "hit single" Life In Technicolor II...

Yes, we all know by now that they plagiarized a large bit of Viva La Vida from someone
(who had, it turns out, stolen it from someone else, and him from someone else before that...)
...but this isn't even subtle:

First, enjoy a few moments of Punch & Judy, then listen to the Coldplay intro:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/fXSovfzyx28" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/fXSovfzyx28</a>

....then a few seconds of Fairground Attraction's Find My Love (©1988)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/InNMprncrTs" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/InNMprncrTs</a>


Then, after you've agreed with me, you may venture forth on whatever tangents you wish.
Thank you.
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 08:30:42 PM »
saw them back in June. way better than I'd thought they'd be. well worth the $35.  :glasses9:

#@!
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 09:01:36 PM »
Quote from: hurricane hugo on July 27, 2009, 08:30:42 PM
saw them back in June. way better than I'd thought they'd be. well worth the $35.  :glasses9:

#@!
No no no... 
First you agree with me...  Something like "wow, they really did just totally steal that bit..."


THEN you can tell us how they're not so bad in a fast-food-music sort of way...

Sheesh, you ask people to do one simple thing.... :angry7:
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 09:14:15 PM »
i saw them back in june, too. that was the second time i had seen them. the tickets were $97 ($125 after fees) and it was well worth it.
although, yes, some of their music gets overplayed sometimes... fuck, they put on a REALLY good show!!
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 09:19:18 PM »
You're falling fast, Cee.  Better pick up the pace.
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 10:09:27 PM »
They fucking suck, one of the worst bands I have listened to ... I shall quote that Coldplay joke again.

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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2009, 11:10:55 PM »
Quote from: yosmark on July 27, 2009, 10:09:27 PM
They fucking suck, one of the worst bands I have listened to ... I shall quote that Coldplay joke again.

Quote from: SomewhatDamaged on May 30, 2008, 05:11:18 PM
Elizabeth Fritzl's Diary

Monday Stayed in the basement, got fucked by Dad

Tuesday Stayed in the basement, got fucked by Dad

Wednesday Stayed in the basement, got fucked by Dad

Thursday Went to see Coldplay in concert, should of stayed at home!

And again...
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2009, 12:23:47 AM »
Quote from: caddy on July 27, 2009, 09:19:18 PM
You're falling fast, Cee.  Better pick up the pace.
Not really...  I just wanted to make the one observation about yet another stolen song, but
it didn't fit in an existing thread, nor did it really warrant its own thread...

...so I made a more general thread, said my bit, and left the rest to people with strong feelings
about bands with a pleasant sound, lyrics that seem like they ought to be really meaningful, and
really catchy plagiarized hooks...
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #8 on: July 28, 2009, 12:49:26 AM »
I for one can totally get on board with this thread Cee! At best, I consider Coldplay to be generic, bland, whiny and utterly unoriginal. At worst, I think the band could be viewed as a cynical exercise in commercialism, creating a product so blandly inoffensive with pseudo-meaningful lyrics so prosaic that mass audiences are convinced that they "relate" to them. But I don't think Chris Martin is actually that smart.

*bashes*
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #9 on: July 28, 2009, 02:15:24 AM »
Coldplay are twice as good as radiohead!

That isn't saying much!
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #10 on: July 28, 2009, 02:29:38 AM »
Quote from: PunkRocker1989 on July 28, 2009, 02:15:24 AM
Coldplay are twice as good as radiohead!

That isn't saying much!

Considering Radiohead is good at sucking well yeah coldplay is twice as good as Radiohead.
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #11 on: July 28, 2009, 02:31:20 AM »
Quote from: PunkRocker1989 on July 28, 2009, 02:15:24 AM
Coldplay are twice as good as radiohead!

That isn't saying much!

is that a joke?
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2009, 05:05:36 AM »
Argh, Coldplay does nothing for me at all. I saw them live at Splendour In The Grass a few years back. It was all just white noise to me..
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2009, 09:07:27 AM »
Quote from: multiplydivide on July 28, 2009, 02:31:20 AM
Quote from: PunkRocker1989 on July 28, 2009, 02:15:24 AM
Coldplay are twice as good as radiohead!

That isn't saying much!

is that a joke?

No, I happen to think that radiohead are the worst headlining band in the world. It's all bland crappy mope-rock. The only difference between the two bands is that coldplay has a higher hit-rate from album to album and doesn't have shitty pretentious instrumentation on every song. Oh and coldplay know how to make a song finish, so they've got that going for them aswell. Almost all radiohead songs overstay there welcome
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Re: hey, let's bash on Coldplay!
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2009, 09:11:17 AM »
I like Coldplay, and am completly un-ashamed of it. Maybe they are not the most original band (and no, I'm not talking about their alleged direct rip-offs), just that they sort of took U2 and early Radiohead and made it their sound. Since I like both those bands, and they don't sound that way anymore, I'm glad someone is out there just making good pop-rock songs.

Meanwhile, I get to enjoy Radiohead go off on tangents, and see Bono tear apart U-2's legacy one song at a time. It is win-win for me.
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