tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349731272975860763.post2607023503015557033..comments2012-11-12T11:28:01.609-08:00Comments on Orchid Music : Music Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow!: ColdplayORCHiDMUSiChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12655356859917740530noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349731272975860763.post-86714555348867031572008-06-26T10:35:00.000-07:002008-06-26T10:35:00.000-07:00Coldplay-Viva_La_Vida-2008-DV8Artist: ColdplayTi...<B>Coldplay-Viva_La_Vida-2008-DV8</B><BR/>Artist: Coldplay<BR/>Title: Viva La Vida<BR/>Label: Parlophone<BR/>Genre: Alternative<BR/>Bitrate: 192kbit av.<BR/>Time: 00:45:50<BR/>Size: 66.49 mb<BR/>Rip Date: 2008-06-12<BR/>Str Date: 2008-06-12<BR/><BR/>1. Life In Technicolor 2:30<BR/>2. Cemeteries Of London 3:21<BR/>3. Lost! 3:55<BR/>4. 42 3:57<BR/>5. Lovers In Japan / Reign Of Love 6:51<BR/>6. Yes 7:06<BR/>7. Viva La Vida 4:01<BR/>8. Violet Hill 3:42<BR/>9. Strawberry Swing 4:09<BR/>10. Death And All His Friends 6:18<BR/><BR/>Release Notes:<BR/><BR/>It's not often that the release of a CD is expected to have an<BR/>impact on the economic fortunes of a global corporation.<BR/><BR/>But Coldplay are now a global brand, as well as a band, and as<BR/>such the performance of their new album is crucial to the<BR/>fortunes of their record company, EMI, which was bought a year<BR/>ago by the private equity firm Terra Firma.<BR/><BR/>No doubt the bean-counters at EMI have now heard Viva La Vida<BR/>(Spanish for "long live life"), and if they have any musical<BR/>sensibilities at all they should be breathing a huge sigh of<BR/>relief, because Coldplay have just got bigger. Thanks in part<BR/>to the band's apparently inexhaustible supply of fat, juicy,<BR/>epic tunes, and thanks also to the production skills of Brian<BR/>Eno, the man who broadened U2's horizons in the Eighties, they<BR/>have surpassed even the widescreen glory of its predecessors.<BR/><BR/>Opening with a spine-tinglingly beautiful near-instrumental<BR/>thing called Life in Technicolor, and using a newly expanded<BR/>musical palette - strings, timpani, thrumming bass grooves -<BR/>singer Chris Martin and his bandmates unleash a masterfully<BR/>constructed sequence of emotion-drenched songs. There's a new<BR/>sense of adventure in the songwriting, too, as tracks such as<BR/>42 and Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love suddenly veer off in<BR/>unexpected directions. Rather less noticeable are the Latin<BR/>American influences that are meant to have infused the band's<BR/>songwriting after their travels to that continent: frankly,<BR/>this is about as Latin American as Prokofiev.<BR/><BR/>The album's onslaught of instantly affecting and emotionally<BR/>uncomplicated music will, of course, also be music to the ears<BR/>of Coldplay cynics, the substantial wedge of doubters who,<BR/>like the New York Times critic John Pareles writing in 2005,<BR/>are dismayed by their "calculated self-pity" and meticulously<BR/>honed bombast.<BR/><BR/>But for those who are prepared to take Coldplay at face value,<BR/>to presume unless there is evidence to the contrary that this<BR/>an honest collection of songs from a band doing what they know<BR/>best, Viva La Vida is a bright, warm, rich and strikingly<BR/>memorable album.ORCHiDMUSiChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12655356859917740530noreply@blogger.com