What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



First time hearing this entire album. An end of year purchase that I just got to. Had to fill my Coldplay gap. Now I
have a new gap of the most recent one, which I wasn't impressed with on the online listen. But that's another
review. This one almost lives up to their first two, just missing that love mark, with nothing I don't like and five
love tracks. The album went #1 everywhere, not quite equaling sales of A Rush Of Blood. Useless insert booklet here,
with nothing but some faded band pics and more of the crap like the cover. No lyrics, 10 pages and no lyrics. I miss
my lyrics. Can you tell? Doesn't detract from the music though. And I even get a hidden bonus track, Til Kingdom
Come, which was written by Martin and to be recorded with Johnny Cash, who died before that could happen. That would
have been interesting. The song was also featured in The Amazing Spider Man film. I like songs that start out slow
and build up. Coldplay is one of the best at that and there are plenty of them here. The album got the band a Brit
Award and a Juno Award, just missing a Grammy for album of the year, losing out to U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic
Bomb. I would have voted for this over that.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - X & Y

Best Track - Fix You

1) Square One ** - Austin City Limits
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBMulc0LDJg
2) What If ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdD6RMICpfg
3) White Shadows ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUacvnQ-gMs
4) Fix You ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-o25K6B-E
5) Talk **
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0uqLM1uj_k
6) X&Y **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjBAQ3QSN4Q
7) Speed Of Sound ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TahH7B_aUZc
8) A Message **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZUKppndaE
9) Low **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT6iCiul3D4
10) The Hardest Part *** - a wtf video
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tp0r9197uo
11) Swallowed In The Sea **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbBdfX1moY
12) Twisted Logic **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7K32bm9x74
13) Til Kingdom Come **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Z-0kn28ss

3's - 5
2's - 8
1's - 0

Grade - 2.3
allmusic - 2.4