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I've spent £50 on the pop-up version so feel I'm justified in not waiting :P

 

As much as I love the 'Paradise' video, the live version just ruins the whole effect for me :(

 

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Dammit, I just decided I wanted to cave in and listen to POC but they've gone and removed it from SoundCloud :( I listened to a version of it on YouTube but according to the comments it isn't the real version. Sigh.

Does anyone else hear Mylo and then Xyloto on the opening track? :o

 

Two hours until it comes out on US iTunes, I'll listen but I plan on buying the deluxe cd pack at Target tomorrow (it comes with a T-Shirt :D )

This album is pretty much fantastic the whole way through :wub: I would say 'U.F.O.' is quite weak in comparison with the rest though.

 

Rate based on first listen (I'll leave out Mylo Xyloto, M.M.I.X. and A Hopeful Transmission since they're not really 'songs'):

 

10.0 Hurts Like Heaven

11.0 Paradise

9.1 Charlie Brown

9.3 Us Against The World

10.0 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

10.0 Major Minus

8.0 U.F.O.

9.8 Princess Of China (feat. Rihanna)

9.0 Up In Flames

9.5 Don't Let It Break Your Heart

9.0 Up With The Birds

 

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'Moving To Mars' is a 7.0. Sounds like a leftover from VLVODAAHF.

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That makes my Born This Way rate seem rational :lol:
That makes my Born This Way rate seem rational :lol:

 

Link? :P

 

(I sort of wish my rates were loon-fuelled exaggerations but they really aren't! My rate for No More Idols by Chase & Status, arguably an act I loon for even more, was far less generous)

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Link? :P

 

(I sort of wish my rates were loon-fuelled exaggerations but they really aren't! My rate for No More Idols by Chase & Status, arguably an act I loon for even more, was far less generous)

It's something like:

 

10 Marry The Night

10 Born This Way

09.5 Government Hooker

11 Judas

09 Americano

09 Hair

10 Scheisse

10 Bloody Mary

08 Black Jesus † Amen Fashion

09.5 Bad Kids

08.5 Fashion Of His Love

08 Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)

10 Heavy Metal Lover

07.5 Electric Chapel

07 The Queen

09.5 You & I

10 The Edge Of Glory

 

:P Still very loony. I see what you mean though, I think I'm just over generous, it's not because I loon Lady Gaga (well it kind of is) :lol:

 

 

Just to stay mildly on topic, I still haven't had time to listen to the leak so I'll just wait until I pick up my copy tomorrow :P

It's something like:

 

10 Marry The Night

10 Born This Way

09.5 Government Hooker

11 Judas

09 Americano

09 Hair

10 Scheisse

10 Bloody Mary

08 Black Jesus † Amen Fashion

09.5 Bad Kids

08.5 Fashion Of His Love

08 Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)

10 Heavy Metal Lover

07.5 Electric Chapel

07 The Queen

09.5 You & I

10 The Edge Of Glory

 

:P Still very loony. I see what you mean though, I think I'm just over generous, it's not because I loon Lady Gaga (well it kind of is) :lol:

Just to stay mildly on topic, I still haven't had time to listen to the leak so I'll just wait until I pick up my copy tomorrow :P

 

So you gave an average rate of ~9.2 and I gave an average rate of ~9.52. Yours wasn't *that* much more rational (especially since BTW is a longer album so has more 'filler' space anyway) :lol:

 

And if you take out FOHL, TQ and BJ†AF (which are only on the deluxe edition) your average rate increases to exactly 9.5 which is pretty much on par with my Mylo Xyloto rate :P Scraping the barrel a bit to try and save my dignity here, I know :drama:

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Well we're both great loons, that much is clear :P

my copy came today :D ratings on first listen:

 

8/10 Hurts Like Heaven

10/10 Paradise

9/10 Charlie Brown

8/10 Us Against The World

10/10 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

9/10 Major Minus

7/10 U.F.O.

8/10 Princess Of China (feat. Rihanna)

8/10 Up In Flames

8/10 Don't Let It Break Your Heart

8/10 Up With The Birds

 

I seem to be a bit of a FLOP LOON compared to Bré :( this album is still fantastic, I found it largely consistent and it always kept me interested, certainly nothing here worthy of less than a 7

 

I'm still not entirely sold on Princess of China yet, but its definitely growing

 

and it didn't disappoint, fantastic album :wub:

-- Mylo Xyloto

08 Hurts Like Heaven

07 Paradise

07 Charlie Brown

06 Us Against The World

-- MMIX

09 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

06 Major Minus

05 UFO

05 Princess Of China

03 Up In Flames

-- A Hopeful Transmission

07 Don't Let It Break Your Heart

06 Up With The Birds

 

Tolerable.

 

I have to say upon first listens the two excellent singles have set me up for a big disappointment for this, I certainly can't see it ever growing on me to the length their previous album did and possibly not even their other three, and the song with Rihanna is incredibly overrated. It's as dull and run of the mill as anything they've ever made before, I really don't get it?

Me neither, the song with Rihanna is one of the worst on the album, both in tune and lyric.

 

I do think however that it will easily be my second favourite album of theirs.

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Yeah, pretty much agreed that "Princess of China" is a bit meh - heard it on the chart show on Sunday and was underwhelmed.

 

"Hurts Like Heaven" is the obvious single IMO - although Landon Austin has done a shite cover of it (up on iTunes now) which kinda ruins it. Landon Austin (for those that are thankfully ignorant of his existence) is rather like Birdy except even more shit/annoying.

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Huge letdown from Coldplay with this. Pretty much an average album with a few exceptions (Charlie Brown, Paradise and Hurts Like Heaven) and by far their worst album. I find it so hard to even remember most of the tracks. Probably they will release Princess of China next to sell the album to a wider audience, a good strategy nonetheless.

'Charlie Brown' is the next single

 

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it´s a good song, not their best, not my favourite in the album, but good, and better, in my opinion, than paradise.

I have a question about paradise and the MX album that I have already posted in other forum.When you preordered MX Paradise didn´t count as a single, in the UK:but in the US?

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