mandy

Yeah, I love how he so easily lifts the verse melody straight off "Pump It Up"...I thought Coldplay took their cues from U2...not the other way around.

on New U2 - "Get On Your Boots" at January 19, 2009 1:23 PM
Score = 7

Does no one else hear them trying REALLY hard to be The Cars...but failing?

on Premature Evaluation: The Killers - Day & Age at November 22, 2008 7:44 AM
Score = -4

Silent Alarm - perfection
A Weekend in The City - emo-laiden, overly dramatic whinefest
Intimacy - experimental confusion

I do think Intimacy will grow on me with each listen. I'm on listen #4 and pretty sold on Ares (even if pale version of Chem Bros "Setting Sun"), Halo, Better Than Heaven and Ion Square.

WHY DO THEY CHANGE PITCH IN ONE MONTH OFF??? I mean, granted, the song is so repetitive by that point in the song I'm ready to switch it off, but boooooooooooo!

I do feel all the changes in melody that made Silent Alarm so brilliant are severly lacking on this latest effort. If changes come at all they appear as hurried, last minute thoughts tacked onto the very last moments of a song.

Again, I hope this improves with repeated listens. Although that didn't happen with AWITC.

on Bloc Party's Intimacy Is Out Now at August 22, 2008 2:08 PM
Score = -3

Fran is gray?!?! I feel so old :(

Oh I remember buying Good Feeling back in the day and being completely thrilled...I enjoyed album #2 also...and then just...b-o-r-i-n-g. It was like they were TRYING to write the most generic Travis songs ever over and over again.

I hope this album offers some change-ups.

on New Travis Video - "Something Anything" at August 14, 2008 4:10 PM
Score = 0

I agree with you chr and pffft...but when it's a blatant rip (as in the petula example above) it's just pretty sad.

on Chris Martin Is A Thief, Or Maybe He Isn't at June 16, 2008 3:53 PM
Score = -5

Then they are both thiefs...

...the first time I heard Coldplay's single "Viva La Vida" I IMMEDIATELY started singing different lyrics when it got to the chorus.

I kept thinking and thinking and FINALLY I recalled the whole song...it's TOTALLY Petula Clark's "My Love" No seriously!

Go here and listen to the Coldplay chorus (starts around 0:16)...go on...do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3mYc1m3lsM

And then go here and listen to Petula:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-1_d6bbM1I

Yeah Coldplay's version slower and slightly altered, but c'mon...you can hear that melody!

I thought it was bad back when A Rush Of Blood came out and heard "Politik"...yes I love that song...but could it really have borrowed ANY more from Blur's "Sing"???

I'm just sayin'

on Chris Martin Is A Thief, Or Maybe He Isn't at June 16, 2008 3:17 PM
Score = -1

So...the first time I heard Coldplay's single "Viva La Vida" I IMMEDIATELY started singing different lyrics when it got to the chorus. I was like, "Ryan, this song is ripping off SOMEthing I just know it!"

I kept thinking and thinking and FINALLY I recalled the whole song...it's TOTALLY Petula Clark's "My Love" No seriously!

Go here and listen to the Coldplay chorus (starts around 0:16)...go on...do it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3mYc1m3lsM

And then go here and listen to Petula:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-1_d6bbM1I

Yeah Coldplay's version slower and slightly altered, but c'mon...you can hear that melody!

I thought it was bad back when A Rush Of Blood came out and heard "Politik"...yes I love that song...but could it really have borrowed ANY more from Blur's "Sing"???

I understand INFLUENCES happen...but they are doing quite a bit more.

on Premature Evaluation: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends at June 9, 2008 9:51 AM
Score = -2

Oh man...Blur back in the day...makes me grin from ear to ear.

on OldStand: Q, January 2000 at May 27, 2008 4:59 PM
Score = 0

I am so gonna have to go to this!

on Damon Albarn Will Folk You, Chinese Style at May 1, 2008 12:33 PM
Score = 0

I am so gonna have to go to this!

on Damon Albarn Will Folk You, Chinese Style at May 1, 2008 12:33 PM
Score = 0