Coldplay - Viva La Vida
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Artist: ColdplayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Life In Technicolor
- Cemeteries Of London
- Lost!
- 42
- Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love
- Yes
- Viva La Vida
- Violet Hill
- Strawberry Swing
- Death And All His Friends
Music reviews of Viva La Vida
Music Review: Surprise of the Year (2009 i.e.)
Rating: 5 Stars
I heard Coldplay the first time a decade or so ago when a local radio station played Yello, suggesting the band could be big. I immediately rushed out to buy the album, Parachutes, and was mildly disappointed. Although the album in itself is fine, Yello is a definite high mark on it. I was, therefore, a bit surprised when Coldplay had become big a few months later.
A couple of years elapsed and In My Room was released as the lead off single to their follow up album. Again, great track and the first half of the album was great. As an album as a whole I still felt something was missing in making it worthwhile, like some sort of Radiohead/US lite version (which they were actually commonly accused of being).
When I heard the Speed of Sound of their X&Y album I decided to give Coldplay a rest. It is a decent song but devoid of any progression in sound.
When Viva was released it was hyped as being a different Coldplay with Brian Eno steering them to new territories. Violet Hill, the lead off single, gave, however, few signs of any improvement. Although the title track and Lovers in Japan became hits and more importantly, songs that I did like, my interest based on past experience in listening to the album was limited.
A friend of mine owned the album and urged me to borrow it, stating it really was much better than Coldplay's previous records. Since his musical taste aligns often to mine, I decided to give it a decent try. From the very first notes until the ending, I was stunned during the first listen. It is as if the group have transformed into a different entity. Eno's influence is all over the record, with the aural landscape blending with simple melodies. There is barely a weak track on the record, except maybe the previously mentioned Violet Hill. Samples of great tracks can be found on YouTube of Strawberry Swing (fantastic video) and Lovers in Japan; both actually expressing the experimentation abundant on the album.
The main gripe is maybe the non inclusion of Life in Technicolor, which starts the album but while the version is superb, only instrumental, it would have been better also getting the long version with lyrics. That version is available on the mini album released a few months later, Prospect March, but apart from that one track little value is in that record.
Having listened constantly to this record this year (2009), I decided buying X&Y when I saw it on sale. It is, however, like their previous ones, OK (Fix You is great) but not anything to get excited about. Viva la Vida is the one Coldplay album to get, save the rest for their compilation some time later.
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To say there has been a lot of anticipation for Coldplay's fourth album, Viva La Vida, is an understatement. Having enlisted legendary leftfield producer Brian Eno, borrowed their album title from a painting by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and made tantalising remarks about sonic reinvention, the world has been curious (to say the least) to hear what the 'new' Coldplay might sound like. Viva La Vida definitely makes some departures from the band's usual formula, which happens to be one of the most commercially successful rock-pop blueprints of recent years. The plangent chords, emotive melodies, stadium-rock rhythms and universal lyrical concerns remain, but Martin and co. have gone out on several limbs here, incorporating instrumental tracks ("Life In Technicolour"), using subtle North African and Latin elements ("Yes", "Strawberry Swing"), and overhauling previously strict verse-chorus-verse structures in favour of slightly more avant arrangements. The old Coldplay still shine through (see tracks like "Violet Hill" and the title song) but even their classic sound feels more muscular and confident. The band's new flourishes, cosmetic and self-conscious as they may be, are enough to make Viva La Vida a welcome break from the old routine --Danny McKenna People en Espa?ol
Cuando Coldplay anunci? con bombo y platillo que su cuarto disco, bajo el ambicioso t?tulo de Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, vendr?a acompa?ado de la producci?n de Brian Eno, dos escenarios se convert?an en posibilidad: o se trataba de su peor ?lbum o la obra maestra de su carrera. Afortunadamente, la producci?n de Eno no lleva a la banda brit?nica a imitar a U2 por ning?n momento, y en cambio, el grupo liderado por Chris Martin presenta el mejor disco en su trayectoria, ofreciendo un sonido distinto, en el que por fin se alejan del pianito hartante de sus primeros tres ?lbumes y suenan como lo que siempre prometieron ser: una de las mejores bandas del mundo. "Life In Technicolor," "Viva la Vida," y sobre todo el tema "Lost!," representan a Coldplay en su momento cumbre. --Ernesto S?nchez (People en Espa?ol
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