Jun 28
There’s no singles on this album!
I just got my paws on Viva La Vida by Coldplay. I’ve always been a huge Coldplay fan (my mum hates them, they are bout the only band I like that she doesn’t!) but this album, from my initial impressions at least, is different. Whereas previous albums had a lot of well defined ‘classics’ on them (think about Clocks, Yellow, Trouble, Speed of Sounds etc.) this one doesn’t have a lot of songs that leap out and grab you as good singles. Are Coldplay finally becoming album artists? Even Violet Hill, which has been out as a single for a month or so doesn’t even hit the mark as real Single material.
It doesn’t stop it being a good album, I’m sure it’ll ingrain itself into my head, like the others did.
Oh and, for the record, I was particularly pissed off that it came in a card sleeve! What’s with that? Did I miss something?
August 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I got the album as well and liked it.
Cardboard sleeve? Did you get the CD version? If so it could have been one of these Digipack things which I heard of (supposed to be ‘greener’ than a plastic case I think). I got the LP version and that came in a very big cardboard sleeve. In fact the LP came in a card sleeve rather than paper) which was then placed into the main card sleeve along with a few photographs.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
It never grabbed me as being that good. Somehow it feels like forced diversification on the bands part, almost like they thought they had to do something different.
I wouldn’t say the album was bad, it just lacks a certain something, definitely missing a bit IMHO compared to other more seminal works.