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Can I Just Say...
Posted by Mr Drayton on 22 June 2008 - 11:18am.
...there's been no complaining about Coldplay posts since 19th June at 10.21?
Is everyone OK out there?
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Fine
Just listening to Joe Satriani. He's not that terrible, actually.
I agree
Which album?
Strange Beautiful Music
He occasionally veers dangerously close to becoming the Kenny G of the electric guitar (i.e. Mark Knopfler II, ouch!) - Pretty Conventional Nothing To Write Home About Music might have been a more honest title - but it's perfectly listenable. There's a certain amount of noodling, yes, but it's not by any means the ridiculous Yngwiefest I'd been expecting.
And at least his tone is reasonable, unlike that of his fellow G3 johnnies.
Indeed
and he does have a passing acquaintance with the concept of melody which is nice. Used to be Steve Vai's guitar teacher you know.
I was in the 2nd row at Wembley
some years ago for a Joe Satriani gig. He's really very good on the guitar.
so last week
Coldplay are so last week I'm back to bitching about moonfaced Keane.......
Good work
Congratulations on getting up a head of steam about a band who haven't even got any new product out at the moment.
anger
is an energy.....
..when it's directed at Keane?
really?
I still can't stand
Radiohead.
I
second that emotion.
Have to say, though, pleasantly surprised by the new Coldplay platter after the disappointment of their third. This one's actually perfectly listenable and has several moments of genuine delight.
There; said it. Feel better. Getting a little tired of easy targets being used as cannon fodder. Unless it's Celine Dion, in which case I would be happy to help stuff her music collection in with the nails and assorted shot:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7468837.stm
Going back in time
I'm listening to the late Jim Croce. Coldplay aren't due to arrive for about another 30 years.
Jim Croce - luxury!
Following an earlier post I'm still singing Last Train to San Fernando (in a Glasgow accent).
You're lucky!
I've been knocking on Amii Stewart's wood since Friday.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but...
I did actually diss them as a reply to a thread about deluxe editions the other day.
Am I to guess you like Mr Martin et al?
Well Done, Keep up the good work.
Whilst I can see how they'd be getting up peoples noses, I have a soft spot for some of their output. The first side of the second album is a particular favourite. There's a great mash up of Talk /Computer Love doing the rounds. It's not as though a gang of old blokes bitchin' about them on a blog is going to make one iota of difference to their being is it? When Chris Martin is on form, I think he's a pretty good songwriter.
hmmm - not sure
While I find some of their songs quite uplifting the fact that one of their albums begins with the following:
Look at earth from outer space
Everyone must find the place
Give me time and give me space
Give me real, don't give me fake
is absolute proof that he is not a good songwriter, in my book - first 3 lines and he uses the same word as a rhyme is just crap.
EJ Thribb
Quite agree, badartdog. Chap needs to take a leaf out of Steve Miller's book;
"Abra, abracadabra
I wanna reach out and grab ya"
That's a rhyme.
Download a Steve Miller Best Of and stop listening to these over-publicised Brit milquetoasts. (I can't stop using that word now).
Best driving music ever and he's in the mag this month.
Pedantic
I know, but that could be argued as '..bad lyricist', not bad songwriter.
Is not the song the sum of the whole? In which case, yes, he's apt to cliche, but their melodies are far from awful. Listen twice to 'Trouble' and then tell me they write bad 'songs'.
The melodies are far from awful, true. . .
but whose melodies are they? [/twilightzonemusic]
If I'm going to be honest,
it's simply Chris Martin that riles me. Wants to be a normal person, then calls his daughter Apple. Sings in a throaty whine that could only be worse if he were a Brummie (I am one, so I know what the damn accent is like). Sounds miserable even one the apparently 'happy' tunes ("Yellow")
When I heard the new single on the radio, I was astonished to find out who was behind it - until the last few seconds. Even their new producer couldn't stop Chris Martin from whinging for an entire song.