Coldplay, Vida la Vida, Progiest Album of the Year

I can't stand Coldplay. They come off as wannabes and write sh*tty repetitive songs with lyrics that could apply to friggin anything.

That being said, their new album is certainly a change of pace, however that is all due in part to MR. Eno. The man that told them their old material sucked (in more precise words), and that "prog is making a come back and they should try it out".

If you read the new interview in Rolling Stone with Chris Martin you can find out all about how Martin is kind of dumb and washed up and Eno outshines his band by 3094823049238403 light years with one production job and one line of lyric.

Apparently, Martin believes that the whole word should vote on who the next U.S. president should be too since "it effects everyone". Ugh. I can't wait until that band goes away.

They were on The Daily Show last night, didn't seem too bad, but that's really all I know of them.

Coldplay are excellent. I've been a fan since A Rush, and I have all their albums. X&Y is very uneven and inconsistent, but it's still pretty good (much better than 99% of what else is out there.)

The new album is also amazing. It's quite possibly my favorite release of the year (I'll have to wait and see what else comes out this year before I give a definite answer.)

Alt. rock! 

Coldplay was the band that lifted me out of my dreary days of being surROUNDed by idotic girls listening to generic-music in my teenage years. And I know that they're wannabes, and I know that they plagarise, and I know that Chris Martin is rather pretentious....

I kinda like their songs from their new album. Alt. rock is cool! 

Definitelly, Coldplay is such a good band, the material (not the singles, they're not bad, but they have such better material) are all great, a mellon collie (hehe) is in all tracks most

Your post is too long and I only read half of it ;)
but anyway, I think Viva la vida is a pretty good album, one of my favourite last year. I wasn't a big fan of Coldplay. I liked their first album, and I was very much into britpop back then (I'm still are actually) so it's no surprise. The 2nd was ok but I got bored of it very quickly, and then I hated the X&Gay album, maybe in part because they were completely overrated and completely overplayed by the media, but I also thought thir music wasn't that interesting really. Then, I downloaded Viva la vida last year with very low expectations, even knowing that Eno produced but I liked it a lot. I can't tell exactly why, probably the production helps a lot to make the song more interesting, but also the melodies and arrangements are better in my opinion. I also think Chris Martin don't overuse his annoying falsetto that much on this one, wich is probably what makes it more listenable for me.