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From | "Matt Whitby" <matt.whitby@gmail.com> |
Subject | Re: Coldplay |
Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:46:18 +0100 |
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I find Chris Martin by turns annoying and dull. I've said I don't
like Coldplay for so long now that I started to wonder whetherI was
saying it for the saking of it and so I watched 'Coldplay at the BBC'
which was on a few weeks back. Awful. Just awful.
I stand by it. Coldplay aren't as good as they're cracked up to be.
2008/6/30 <rob@splitsville.com>:
> Remain at your desk, Mr. Savitz.
> It's pedestrian, with all the crunch of a roll of soggy toilet paper. Exactly what you'd expect. (I found the tune "Violet Hill" pretty good, however.)
>
> The wife bought it recently, so yes, I have heard it.
>
> Me'h.
>
> Get the new Supergrass instead. In a word, fantastic.
> "Rebel In You" is the best tune out of them in years.
>
> There's a couple of live clips of this tune on YouTube.
>
>
>
>
>
>>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>>From: "Joseph Savitz" <jsavitz3@gmail.com>
>>To: audities@smoe.org
>>Sent: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:19:22
>>
>>I'm the kind of jerk that thinks that if a band is
>>hugely popular, it's got
>>to suck, well, hugely. (I don't remember feeling
>>that way before the
>>mid-Seventies.) Still, having said that, these
>>postings have me on the verge
>>of leaving my office right now to buy the new
>>Coldplay, even though I
>>haven't heard a single note. So, I ask you, what's
>>the counter argument?
>>
>>On 6/30/08, Gene Good <javagene@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After that ad on tv where they are doing the tile
>>song[I think it is],
>>> which ends with Chris singing "That was when I
>>ruled the World" knocked me
>>> out. For days I had that tune in my head. Still
>>do. So based on that alone I
>>> think I must get the album. Also caught their
>>last song on the Today show
>>> and I have to say they were great. Chris was
>>acting like the star is
>>> supposed to be working the entire crowd.
>>> Thanks for the Sam Phillips tip. I was waiting to
>>hear about that one.
>>> I have to get back to you on mid year best of's.
>>>
>>> Gene
>>>
>>> > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:25:15 -0700
>>> > From: ccosmos_64@yahoo.com
>>> > Subject: Coldplay
>>> > To: audities@smoe.org
>>> >
>>> > I'll tell what I'll admit - the new Coldplay is
>>a
>>> > pretty damn good record from start to finish
>>and I'm a
>>> > few years beyond the thirtysomething
>>classification,
>>> > so I don't see how that would apply to me
>>liking it. I
>>> > know a few other people (also beyond that
>>grouping)
>>> > that're responding well enough to 'Viva La
>>Vida' that
>>> > have not been followers before.
>>> >
>>> > Do yourself a favor, get over the music
>>segregationist
>>> > mentality, enjoy the music out there for what
>>it is
>>> > and support it if you like it.
>>> >
>>> > And if your eyebrows need that kind of
>>attention, wax
>>> > 'em before you get curbfeelers that would make
>>Leonid
>>> > Brezhnev proud to know ya.
>>> >
>>> > Can't say anything about the Foxboro Hottubs
>>record,
>>> > but I'll agree with the Weezer comments. I made
>>a
>>> > Weezer mix of stuff from their catalog and
>>that'll get
>>> > more attention from me than the Red Album. I'm
>>not
>>> > buying another Weezer full-length out of the
>>box.
>>> >
>>> > Not so with Sam Phillips and her new one,
>>'Don't Say
>>> > Anything'. Wasn't sure what to expect without
>>T-Bone
>>> > at the helm but the album carries forth her
>>> > established songwriting style with smartly
>>inventive
>>> > production that would make Sam's ex-hubby
>>proud. This
>>> > album and the Coldplay will easily make my Top
>>10 this
>>> > year.
>>> >
>>> > Anybody want to chime in on early favorites at
>>this
>>> > (hard to believe already) midpoint of 2008?
>>C'mon,
>>> > let's talk about music!
>>> >
>>> > Bill
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>--
>>Joseph Savitz
>
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