joiedevivre
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Post by joiedevivre on Nov 1, 2014 17:19:15 GMT
^ Yes not my favorite either but I still like it and Charlie Brown is excellent IMHO
I love the line, "as the room it spinning goes"
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Post by LdySpace on Nov 1, 2014 17:46:58 GMT
The MX shows live were a sight to behold. Indescribable really. The energy, feeling, color and life was unbelievable.
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Post by comicforce on Nov 2, 2014 10:08:33 GMT
I agree, it's always always a surprise and a very lovely one when you hear a Coldplay song that you didn't put on. I heard Hurts Like Heaven as I was passing a shoe shop the other day, and I wasn't even buying shoes. But I had to go in anyway!  |
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Post by joiedevivre on Nov 2, 2014 14:26:35 GMT
The MX shows live were a sight to behold. Indescribable really. The energy, feeling, color and life was unbelievable. I can tell just watching it, it looks electric |
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Post by coolplay on Nov 2, 2014 15:40:40 GMT
More like a blown up children's birthday party |
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Post by LdySpace on Nov 2, 2014 15:49:15 GMT
Were you able to go to a MX show Dustin?
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Post by coolplay on Nov 2, 2014 16:07:07 GMT
Were you able to go to a MX show Dustin? Nope. But I have Coldplay Live 2012 on Blu-Ray ^^ |
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Post by comicforce on Nov 2, 2014 18:03:31 GMT
The MX shows were incredible. Yes Live 2012 is good, but IMHO it doesn't go even part the way to describe the incredible feeling, the pure adrenaline rush of the MX gigs. Being part of that pure energy, the connection to the band, I cannot describe it well enough it was amazing. The first time I saw those xylobands light up, wow. It can never be shown on film, you had to experience it first hand. Being a part of 60,000 - 80,000 people! ALL of them jumping, screaming, feeling! After a day from dawn lined up.. standing, waiting, the stress, the worry the FEAR of not making front row, the pure exhileration of being there! Then the pumping of 99 problems.. everyone KNOWING the band will be on in a minute, then the Back to the Future theme song, and suddenly they are there! Real, in front of you! And then MX starts.. the fireworks go off the whirling of the screens showing the running man! MY god it's freaking amazing! Your heart is running 150 miles an hour! And you spend the next 90 minutes singing your heart out, being jostled, rained on, standing under a SEA a AMAZING crazy rainbow of confetti.. watching Chris jump and turn and freefall, make eye contact with people! I can't explain it.. it takes you out of yourself.. you're in heaven for 90 minutes of pure adrenaline.. NOTHING beats it.. nothing. I've seen the Ghost Stories tour, and I have been to the Little Noises gig and the Under1Roof gig. They were all fabulous. But the MX gigs were magical, crazy. People who weren't fans before hand went to these gigs and became fans! People who never even listened to Coldplay were converted. Believe me Dustin, it was not an inflated kids party.. Unless you took some SERIOUS drugs at the kids parties you went to  If so then maybe you have SOME crazy idea of what it was like. I am only telling it how I see it. How I saw it. I wish I could go back and do it all again, it was pure addiction. |
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Post by joiedevivre on Nov 2, 2014 19:22:14 GMT
Oooh I wish I could have been there!  |
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Post by LdySpace on Nov 2, 2014 19:57:32 GMT
To be there would explain it all. Incredible.
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Post by kittybitty on Nov 2, 2014 20:10:32 GMT
I also missed the MX tour, I try not to think of what would have been. I went to Vida and it stands out in my mind as one of the most fun evenings of my life. It's nice to have the MX DVD and soon I'll have the GS DVD.
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Post by LdySpace on Nov 2, 2014 21:16:55 GMT
I so wish I would have gone to a Viva show!!
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Post by comicforce on Nov 2, 2014 21:24:05 GMT
I wish I had seen the Viva tour too.. so much..
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Post by coolplay on Nov 2, 2014 21:55:45 GMT
The Viva tour was their best tour musically. It's hard to top a setlist from that time. It must have felt like Coldplay Live - Greatest Hits. What they played was absolutely amazing. The concerts marked the peak of their career and I would have loved to see them back then. They were full of energy, they were creative and they were brilliant musicians. The energy level seems to have increased for the MX tour and they were putting up a big show which was what they focused on. The other aspects were worse on that tour. For Ghost Stories, I'm afraid there wasn't anything of that. They were energetic on a couple of songs (Charlie Brown, VLV, etc.) but the majority was very slow and quiet. The setlists were disasters. From a creative point of view, their music was far below Viva standards. They relied on their backing tracks more than ever. I mean.. I don't go to a concert to hear the sounds from the CD. I want it live and raw and hear what they are able to reproduce. I want to hear the musicians. I can press play on my stereo and listen to a CD myself, my dears  Less faking for the next tour, please. Sincerely, Dustin - future Coldplay adviser  |
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Post by gai on Nov 2, 2014 22:44:47 GMT
i do agree viva seemed like the height of their live concerts. i have only gone to an MX show which i loved! but, if i could go to one other show, i would choose viva in an instant. those had the best combination of artistry, musicality, energy and performance all the while catering to a very large demographic. they looked like a group that was hungry and there to prove a point. and it showed. how i wish for another era like that..
maybe chris was right about artists putting their best material before they are 34. at a certain point in your life, no matter how career driven you maybe, you become family men and mellow down a bit. but let's hope for an amazing lp7 shall we? hope they do embrace more organic musical atmospheres (like viva and before). i want to see will rocking the full drum kit for the most part, not being contain behind a drum pad with very simple beats. anyway, GS concerts were very pulled back and restrained just as the album. no wonder they didn't want to tour that. but we probably will get a mega tour next year. hoping for an organic and rocking sound to go with it.
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If so then maybe you have SOME crazy idea of what it was like. 
Less faking for the next tour, please.