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Certainly I’ve done this before, but here’s Coldplay: 1. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends 2. A Rush Of Blood To The Head 3. Mylo Xyloto 4. Parachutes 5. Ghost Stories 6. Everyday Life 7. X&Y 8. A Head Full Of Dreams 9. Moon Music 10. Music Of The Spheres

Yesterday: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Husker Du - Zen Arcade Today: Sonic Youth - Goo Fugazi - Red Medicine Coldplay - Moon Music (special premier at a movie theater) SY are really cool. Kim’s the best vocalist tho and I don’t think it’s close. Gotta spend more time with Zen Arcade, but initial thought that was a bold final few seconds and I liked it. Fugazi might have had the single greatest rhythm section of any “punk” band of the 20th century. Minutemen would probably be their main competition. Oh Coldplay. I love Coldplay. They’re near and dear to my heart. But this new album. Look I like it, but we have officially reached final form Coldplay. The most repeated lyric is either “love” or “la,” as in “la la la la la la la lay.” No joke. Are there any electric guitars in here? Probably, but they’re bound so tightly to the orchestral arrangement and synths and piano that they’re pretty much invisible. Live drums? Eh, probably more often than you think, but you’ll remember the programmed beats moreso. The production is worthy of being played in a movie theater yes, but that’s because half of this thing already sounds like Chris Martin should just move into scoring films and step back from writing pop songs. Honestly a good chunk of it isn’t really pop songs. It’s affirmations set to a mood board of strings and sound effects. And lyrics that aren’t just “love” or “la?” Jupiter is probably the only song really worth much analysis on that front. It’s not poetry, but it’s a nice sentiment that’s pretty obviously about queer pride. Good on you Coldplay. Doesn’t hurt that it’s about the most old school Coldplay sounding song here either, in that I think I can actually hear the band playing in the mix. I could go on, but I should repeat what I said earlier. I do like this. It’s just not really the same band anymore, if it’s a band at all. And I do have to admit I liked the old band better, but I’m not dying for Viva La Vida part II or anything. There’s plenty of old Coldplay out there to be enjoyed, and I don’t mind them chasing some new psych electro radio pop hippie fever dream vision in their waning years, at least as long as they still play the songs I actually care about live (they do, btw). Interesting side note, Chris Martin recently said there will only be two more Coldplay albums after this one, then they’re stopping. He claims this is to keep the quality control as high as possible and not add anything to the discography that doesn’t deserve to be there. If you ask me, they kinda already passed that mark with 2022’s Music Of The Spheres (really it’s probably 2015’s A Head Full Of Dreams, but I give that a pass cuz it had at least a handful of songs I do still care about, and 2019’s Everyday Life was a really fantastic menagerie of sounds I didn’t think they could still make). But sure, two more albums after this one. By then it will probably be 2030 and Coldplay will officially be a legacy act anyway, so that’s as fine a place to stop as any. I just hope whatever those last two albums are, that they feel more vital than the past few.

Trying to figure out if Segue didn’t like me listening to Battle Born because he didn’t see it or because I also listened to Chappell Roan.

The Killers - Battle Born The Tragically Hip - The Tragically Hip (EP) Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk Chappell Roan - The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

The Cure - Disintegration Depeche Mode - Violator Zedd - Telos Toro Y Moi - Hole Erth The Jesus Lizard - Rack

Paramore - All We Know Jimmy Eat World - Futures Death Cab For Cutie - Plans Copeland - Under Medicine Tree I liked the Copeland album! Very sweet and earnest, and the songs felt easy to sink into. A few interesting arrangements as well. I wouldn’t say they struck me as hard as Jimmy or Death Cab tend to though. The lyrics weren’t quite so poetic as that (that more as in Death Cab but Jimmy also when they want to be). What I definitely did notice is there are a ton of melodic similarities between this Copeland record and coincidentally that exact Paramore album. Idk if Paramore was listening to Copeland while they wrote their first record, but it wouldn’t shock me to find out they were. It’s not plagiarism, but it’s like they’re speaking the same language.

Well yeah you’re the only one I’ve ever heard mention Copeland. I’ll get to them this week.

I think over here Death Cab are a good deal bigger than Jimmy. Most people just know The Middle, which is honestly tragic, cuz I love that song to death but Sweetness and A Praise Chorus are easily just as radio ready and awesome, and people don’t know them! Meanwhile just mentioning Death Cab around alt/indie/emo fans is sorta like mentioning Led Zeppelin around classic rockers.

Me too!!! I’ve seen them do shorter sets twice now, and I love them, but I’d really love to see them have the space to pull out something like 23 or Just Watch The Fireworks.

Last week it was Death Cab, Jimmy Eat World, and Liz Phair, in prep for HFStival where I saw them all on Saturday. Fantastic show, except Jimmy had technical issues and I think they must have cut a couple songs because of them since they didn’t play anything from Clarity. But! They were still great.

Most albums are worth turning off for this.

Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Jimmy Eat World - Futures

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi

Bruno’s not the one doing the suing. I think he’s gone on record as being a fan of Miley’s songs actually. It’s one of the other songwriters on his song that sold their rights to it to some investment company that’s trying to make a profit.