This album is so severely underrated. It got me into music as an 8 year old kid and I instantly picked up on it having a concept/story. And they left a lot of great songs off the album! They have an EP with outtakes and B-sides, that Prospekt's March album, and even then there are rumoured to be at least a dozen unreleased tracks.
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar One of those tracks ended up on their most recent album as People of the Pride, and they gave Lukas to Natalie Imbruglia. There are also pretty good demoes of songs like Bloodless Revolution, Famous Old Painters and Spanish Rain. And the intro to Death and All of his Friends was originally the intro to Rainy Day, which was known as School. It's a rabbit hole to be sure!
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Coldplay were prolific for this album as they had to get it 'right' after x&y, and if successful (it was ofc) stadium gigs beckoned. But apart from PM there were (iirc - been a long time!) only four or five leaked studio demos recorded by Chris alone on piano in the US while on tour or a holiday (including the two I've named), the few original B-sides (Death Will Never Conquer, The Goldrush) and some rough live drafts Chris played at a small gig or two - one gig with Davide Rossi, who did the strings for them from Viva onwards. I think the latter might have been (?) after this album, though who knows when they were written. One though, Wedding Bells, was sort of rejigged into their Christmas single Christmas Lights. The promo video for that features the Thames (so good call there) and stagecraft ( a la Peppers).
What a video! I remember loving the album back in the day but haven't listened to it in a long time, definitely time to have a re listen with your story/thoughts in mind! Great content James 👍🤟
James, I love your deep-dive investigative stuff! This is really well put together. Lots of great ideas and theories, on top of the more known or obvious French stuff. The stuff about London and 42, clever rabbit hole. You’ve found the magic they’d hidden, or tried to hide. And in this statement ‘they’ is Coldplay! Well done matey 🎯
I think Parachutes is a perfect album - front to back. Head Full of Dreams and Blood are fighting for second. I've never listened to this so will give it a spin 👍
Just finished watching, thanks for this, brilliant interpretation of one of my favourite albums. I believe it's pretty accurate and confirms the genius of coldplay. Definitely inspired me to listen to the whole album again.
Great video James, Whilst we're on the topic of the 2000's a video on The Coral would be great as they were in my opinion the last great band from the UK. Also check out the crescent if you haven't. They also released an album in 2002 and we're tipped as the next Oasis.
James could you do a deep dive about “the man who” by Travis? As I always say it’s as good as what’s the story but one doesn’t have champagne supernova and the other doesn’t have driftwood…
@@JamesHargreavesGuitarFingers crossed for you mate 🤞 I think looking at some not so talked about albums might be a good thing for future videos too. The way you’ve researched it is great and the way you’ve backed up your findings is commendable. I’ve always loved this album since day of release but you’ve given me a new found respect for it. Top marks for this and I hope to see some similar output in the future 🍻
Regardless of the possible intended narrative of this album, you prove that there is great power released to connect dots when we observe something powerful worth analyzing to this fine level of detail.
Great video James, and great to see such a long Coldplay video. I had never really thought of the message behind many of those songs but definitely agree that your narrative fits very well, even with what Chris Martin and the rest of the band say in interview... I'd love to see you do a deep dive into some of Morrisey's or The Smith's songs - was listening to Panic! again the other day and as much as everyone has been told that it's about Steve Wright playing a Wham song after breaking news about Chernobyl or something, there are too many references in that song that can be linked to Jimmy Savile for it just to be a coincidence, given that they were on TOTP so many times and must've seen some goings on... Anyway, keep up the good work, loving the deep dives and the new album is great!
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Haha! Hope I haven't set you up with something that goes nowhere! If you Google Panic! and Jimmy Savile then you get a lot of conspiracy theorists saying it must be but mostly Morrissey and Marr stick to the story of Steve Write and Chernobyl and Wham's I'm Your Man... But if you look at Panic!'s Wikipedia page there is contradiction about the timing etc of the song and the disaster. Haven't read the book but it mentions Tony Fletcher's "A Light That Never Goes Out", his biography of the Smiths - might be something in there... Then I suppose the lyrics themselves... about jogging, etc and about locations, both of which Savile was known to do and frequent... haven't connected some of the places to anything specific though, even though I watched the Steve Coogan thing about Savile which i'd definitely say is worth a watch... Anyway, i'm rambling now and you know your craft better than me and always seem to find the most amazing sources so i'm sure if there is something out there then you will at least pull some of the conspiracies into a cohesive argument for the song perhaps starting off about Wright but then evolving to be about hanging Savile too for all his shenanigans... Humberside - data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2014-0919/15_De_La_Pole_-_Lib_Doc_-_Report.pdf Lots of things in this article that I didn't notice before either... cowanandthestupiddream.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/panic-jimmy-savile-the-smiths-synchronicity/
@@kimchi_b Yeah watching the Savile thing by Steve Coogan recently even felt bad and i'm sure a lot in that was probably even toned down for TV... he was certainly a beast and with his link to TOTP and The Smiths being on there so much and the whole Johnny Rotten stuff around him getting banned by the BBC in '78 for speaking up about Savile then there must have been some fear around what you could say, even in a song...
@@JamesHargreavesGuitarJames, I cannot even begin to do what you do. Only one suggestion. Do not rely on Google & Safari alone for your searching. In addition, always run the same search terms using minor browsers as well. I find people are almost always almost dumbstruck to see in front of their eyes evidence that “search is not a commodity”. We’re allowed to think that it is so we simply never use alternative browsers. But I have often found that the results of even simple searches using Google is starkly different than when using Mojeek, Yandex and the like. What this proves is that topics that senior people do not want you to easily find are demoted or even hidden in some searches. By contrast, some findings are promoted so that they become far better known than you’d expect from organic dissemination. Good luck!
I always pictured the album as a soldiers life through napoleons campaign, dreaming of and writing to his lover at home. He fantasizes of how his life would be different without war. Ending up with his death and acceptance with “Death and all his Friends”. His escape for this life into the next. I always interpreted that song as death, and then rebirth/heaven. This album was what got me into music and why I’m an album person. Ever since 7/8th grade I’ve been listening to this album at least once every few months. I remember listening to “death and all his friends” while on the 8th grade bus ride to Washington DC, realizing that I will die and everyone around me will some day. It helped me come to terms with that and put me at ease. It was like a before and after moment in my life.
Knowing what I now know about the role of rock and pop (among other cultural genres) in social engineering, orchestrated by the Tavistock Institute, it’s entirely possible that there are other composers in Coldplay’s canon. James rightly observed how different the album is. Unlike anything else they’ve done. Ask yourself honestly, how often does that happen, when you consider a series of albums by a band? It does happen, but it’s the exception, not the rule. The Beatles are a clear example, and you shouldn’t blithely accept “Well, their songwriters were geniuses”.
You should check out Everyday Life, their 8th album. It's the closest they have come to Viva La Vida in its sound and it has some brilliant tunes on it!
MX Mylo Xyloto is truly a concept album - quite openly it seems - and for my tastes the last great album I've heard. It defo to be heard in sitting and every song flows
Phrase "banks became cathedrals" came directly from U2's Playboy Mansion which is about American consumptionism in a crooked mirror. While the river theme might be a reference to One Tree Hill (You run like a river to the sea) and that means a homecoming.
Coldplay albums ranked, best to worst, in my own opinion (as a Coldplay fan since The Blue Room EP) 1 Parachutes 2 A Rush Of Blood To The Head 3 Ghost Stories 4 Headful Of Dreams 5 Viva La Vida or… 6 X&Y 7 Mylo Xyloto 8 Everyday Life 9 Music of the Spheres The top five are really brilliant. The last two are bloomin’ awfully difficult to enjoy, a couple of decent moments (the 10 minute long track ending Spheres is terrific, strangely the rest of the album is such sugary pop nonsense) And yes, I always thought it was known that Viva La Vida was concept album all about the French Revolution, as per the cover picture. It’s never been a secret. Good video though, as always James 👍
A very interesting take (even though I believe the witchfinder stuff is completely wrong it's a great narrative!) Here is my crack (long, sorry!) Tldr - it's all about illumination and duality, with a side serving of (possible - ?) mind control: There are indeed recurrent themes (and that's where I think fixing the running order came in) and there is much food for thought here, but it's all about duality. The named tracks are alternatively positive and negative, i.e. black/white, hence the 'or' in the album name (they explained in another interview you can take the album either way, as you wish - made clear in the line 'to see God in their own way'). This is echoed in the number of songs that had two versions or two videos - chiefly the 'heart' of the album Viva La Vida with two videos, one inspired by Corbijn's video for Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence. Cor = heart (again). It's all very masonic, Chris points it out in the interview played here that Lost is the 'cornerstone'. It's also made clear by the album launch interview in a magazine (Q - ?) where Chris Martin makes the same signal on the cover (and throughout the tour) that Delacroix (painting used on the album cover) is making on his Wikipedia page, Prince made on Lovesexy etc. This was a reinvention after the semi-disastrous (in terms of planned career path) x&y. Hence the Sgt Pepper-esque uniforms etc. The primary video for Viva La Vida was an ad for Apple. Apple Corp is again from The Beatles. Where is Violet Hill? Just off Abbey Road, a stone's throw from the studio. What was all the hype of this album about? How they were experimenting with instruments and recording techniques, buying curiosities from obscure shops (like John's Mr Kite poster) and using horns etc. Coldplay are known as Glastonbury's 'house band' as they made a record number of major appearances on the Pyramid Stage from very early on. Paul McCartney also loves pyramids like his album Egypt Station. I expect Coldplay will headline again next year, probably playing a 'Paul song'. Lovers in Japan - Coldplay have only ever played one Beatles' cover - Here Comes the Sun. Lots of songs about the sun though (Ladder to the Sun etc) - Sol or Mithras resonance. Lovers in Japan - indeed, the Land of the Rising Sun. The cover of Parachutes is a bright illuminated globe. A parachute brings a falling being to Earth from the heavens. Lovers in Japan sounds more like he is being tortured, having his mind explored. The band introduced butterfly confetti cannons at their gigs for this song. The butterfly is also on the cover of their free (only given away at gigs - i.e. only for 'initiates'?) live album LeftRightLeftRightLeft. The (monarch?) butterfly is revisted on their next album (also with two 'names', one of them the very occult MX) explicitly on the track Paradise. Technicolor = The Wizard of Oz. Poppyfields from Prospekt's March = the opium field in The Wizard of Oz which sends them to sleep = Chinese Sleep Chant. Perhaps the snow in Violet Hill is the 'snow' (cocaine) which wakes them up in the film (?).
42 = the 42 Negative Confessions at the Egyptian weighing of the heart after death that determine where you go (possibly the meaning of 'you didn't get to heaven but you made it close'). Just look at Maat etc.
I think you might be delving a bit too much into this one but I see the importance of track listings...If I listen to an album as a body of work I wanna be taken on a journey. Whether I agree or disagree I always find your vids thought-provoking, keep them up.
I got as far as Lost and it's indeed a stretch by that point (especially going with the witchfinder imo), an interesting interpretation though, and as James says just for fun!
I imagine you’re asking this question, tongue in cheek. If you’re not, the answer is that both Oasis and Coldplay are very important creations of Tavistock and played & continue to play important roles in social engineering. It’s not always simple to divine the narratives they’re respectively pushing. It’s awful when you finally realise that this is real and all well known artists and bands are similarly products of Tavistock. My lifelong favourite, Bowie, is now musically persona non grata in my household. Revolting man. Not even dead, by the way. Instead, unusually, he’s retired the character.
I love that album too, what surprises me is the band themselves really don't like it, in that documentary that came out about them recently they really seemed to not like it all but it's bloody brilliant.
@@danielwarren3138 I think it’s because they hated recording the album and became a slog to get through, and this caused tension. As a result they never play any songs from that album live apart from fix you. Such a shame
What do you think about U2 ? When I first felt I was getting into proper music, and discovering all this, U2 also became one of my favourite bands. Then I was surprised because the rock fan people gave them a bad rap and winced at them like you do with a cringe often pseudo rock n roll band. I thought they were one of the real deal, and I still think they got mislabeled as a naff band in a rock bands shell, which of course such bands exist. Also, my brother said, « It’s not so much the U2 music people hate that much, it’s the idea of them as a band, including being cheesy hipp political activists and too well known for simple average music. »
Saw them very early, at the Joiners in Southampton in 1999. Loved the first two albums, but once Eno arrived, they became soooooo dull. I heard a Bono quote is not a good sign. The fragility of the first album felt genuine. Since then, it feels more careerist and planned, and the endless, meaningless 'wo wo wo' choruses are an old U2 trick.
That's modern times for ya. I read this comment some time ago, somebody saying that N64 Goldeneye was such a cool game they should adapt it to a movie. 😂
I quite liked Ghost Stories; it honestly feels out of place in their discography because I agree, other than that everything they've released since Viva la Vida is garbage
Knowing what I now know about the role of rock and pop (among other cultural genres) in social engineering, orchestrated by the Tavistock Institute, it’s entirely possible that there are other composers in Coldplay’s canon. James rightly observed how different the album is. Unlike anything else they’ve done. Ask yourself honestly, how often does that happen, when you consider a series of albums by a band? It does happen, but it’s the exception, not the rule. The Beatles are a clear example, and you shouldn’t blithely accept “Well, their songwriters were geniuses”.
Nice pull James! As a Coldplay and Oasis fan, it was a treat seeing you talk about this album! Keep rocking!
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@JamesHargreavesGuitarIt was untill Viva La Vida that i like them.After that......euh.....NO!!!!!!I like Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall.
This album is so severely underrated. It got me into music as an 8 year old kid and I instantly picked up on it having a concept/story.
And they left a lot of great songs off the album! They have an EP with outtakes and B-sides, that Prospekt's March album, and even then there are rumoured to be at least a dozen unreleased tracks.
Fall of Man and Bloodless Revolution are two of several I think I have rough demos of.
Really? Didn't know about all the unreleased stuff. That's interesting that there was literally another albums-worth even after Prospekt
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar One of those tracks ended up on their most recent album as People of the Pride, and they gave Lukas to Natalie Imbruglia. There are also pretty good demoes of songs like Bloodless Revolution, Famous Old Painters and Spanish Rain. And the intro to Death and All of his Friends was originally the intro to Rainy Day, which was known as School. It's a rabbit hole to be sure!
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Coldplay were prolific for this album as they had to get it 'right' after x&y, and if successful (it was ofc) stadium gigs beckoned. But apart from PM there were (iirc - been a long time!) only four or five leaked studio demos recorded by Chris alone on piano in the US while on tour or a holiday (including the two I've named), the few original B-sides (Death Will Never Conquer, The Goldrush) and some rough live drafts Chris played at a small gig or two - one gig with Davide Rossi, who did the strings for them from Viva onwards. I think the latter might have been (?) after this album, though who knows when they were written. One though, Wedding Bells, was sort of rejigged into their Christmas single Christmas Lights. The promo video for that features the Thames (so good call there) and stagecraft ( a la Peppers).
What a video! I remember loving the album back in the day but haven't listened to it in a long time, definitely time to have a re listen with your story/thoughts in mind! Great content James 👍🤟
Wow! Didn't expect a video on Coldplay... I would love to see more!
James, I love your deep-dive investigative stuff! This is really well put together. Lots of great ideas and theories, on top of the more known or obvious French stuff. The stuff about London and 42, clever rabbit hole. You’ve found the magic they’d hidden, or tried to hide. And in this statement ‘they’ is Coldplay!
Well done matey 🎯
Great video and dissection! I’m now on a viva revisit!
I’m glad to see you cover Coldplay, love oasis and Coldplay ❤
Yeah, starting to branch out into covering other bands here and there :)
Briano Eno's production on this album. Helps elavate these songs. To another level.
I think Parachutes is a perfect album - front to back. Head Full of Dreams and Blood are fighting for second. I've never listened to this so will give it a spin 👍
Probably their best album overall imo :)
Yeah Parachutes is great - partially recorded at Rockfield studios too, which is awesome
Viva La Vida is my favourite by them though definitely.
Just finished watching, thanks for this, brilliant interpretation of one of my favourite albums. I believe it's pretty accurate and confirms the genius of coldplay. Definitely inspired me to listen to the whole album again.
Friday night and just opened up a bottle of wine. And here comes James...
Whoooop 🍻🍻
This is great. Nice deep dive James
You've drawn me in again James, I will revisit Viva La Vida. Have A Very, Very Mery Christmas
Cemeteries of London is my favorite song on this record.
Thank you for the vid!
Very welcome :)
Great video James, Whilst we're on the topic of the 2000's a video on The Coral would be great as they were in my opinion the last great band from the UK. Also check out the crescent if you haven't. They also released an album in 2002 and we're tipped as the next Oasis.
James could you do a deep dive about “the man who” by Travis?
As I always say it’s as good as what’s the story but one doesn’t have champagne supernova and the other doesn’t have driftwood…
Please of course
my favourite Coldplay album. It really spoke to me at the time
This is by far your best video. Well done James 🍻
Thanks! I’m hoping more Coldplay fans discover it over time 👍👍
@@JamesHargreavesGuitarFingers crossed for you mate 🤞
I think looking at some not so talked about albums might be a good thing for future videos too. The way you’ve researched it is great and the way you’ve backed up your findings is commendable.
I’ve always loved this album since day of release but you’ve given me a new found respect for it.
Top marks for this and I hope to see some similar output in the future 🍻
Regardless of the possible intended narrative of this album, you prove that there is great power released to connect dots when we observe something powerful worth analyzing to this fine level of detail.
Thanks for the great video 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video James, and great to see such a long Coldplay video. I had never really thought of the message behind many of those songs but definitely agree that your narrative fits very well, even with what Chris Martin and the rest of the band say in interview...
I'd love to see you do a deep dive into some of Morrisey's or The Smith's songs - was listening to Panic! again the other day and as much as everyone has been told that it's about Steve Wright playing a Wham song after breaking news about Chernobyl or something, there are too many references in that song that can be linked to Jimmy Savile for it just to be a coincidence, given that they were on TOTP so many times and must've seen some goings on...
Anyway, keep up the good work, loving the deep dives and the new album is great!
Hey Smitcher
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Ok I’m interested in the Panic! idea…
Anywhere you’d recommend for me to start re research?
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Haha! Hope I haven't set you up with something that goes nowhere!
If you Google Panic! and Jimmy Savile then you get a lot of conspiracy theorists saying it must be but mostly Morrissey and Marr stick to the story of Steve Write and Chernobyl and Wham's I'm Your Man...
But if you look at Panic!'s Wikipedia page there is contradiction about the timing etc of the song and the disaster. Haven't read the book but it mentions Tony Fletcher's "A Light That Never Goes Out", his biography of the Smiths - might be something in there...
Then I suppose the lyrics themselves... about jogging, etc and about locations, both of which Savile was known to do and frequent... haven't connected some of the places to anything specific though, even though I watched the Steve Coogan thing about Savile which i'd definitely say is worth a watch...
Anyway, i'm rambling now and you know your craft better than me and always seem to find the most amazing sources so i'm sure if there is something out there then you will at least pull some of the conspiracies into a cohesive argument for the song perhaps starting off about Wright but then evolving to be about hanging Savile too for all his shenanigans...
Humberside - data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2014-0919/15_De_La_Pole_-_Lib_Doc_-_Report.pdf
Lots of things in this article that I didn't notice before either... cowanandthestupiddream.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/panic-jimmy-savile-the-smiths-synchronicity/
It's a rabbit hole indeed but if you can treat it as 'entertainment' google 'the Diana Morrisey phenomenon', quite uncanny!
@@kimchi_b Yeah watching the Savile thing by Steve Coogan recently even felt bad and i'm sure a lot in that was probably even toned down for TV... he was certainly a beast and with his link to TOTP and The Smiths being on there so much and the whole Johnny Rotten stuff around him getting banned by the BBC in '78 for speaking up about Savile then there must have been some fear around what you could say, even in a song...
@@JamesHargreavesGuitarJames, I cannot even begin to do what you do. Only one suggestion. Do not rely on Google & Safari alone for your searching. In addition, always run the same search terms using minor browsers as well.
I find people are almost always almost dumbstruck to see in front of their eyes evidence that “search is not a commodity”.
We’re allowed to think that it is so we simply never use alternative browsers.
But I have often found that the results of even simple searches using Google is starkly different than when using Mojeek, Yandex and the like.
What this proves is that topics that senior people do not want you to easily find are demoted or even hidden in some searches. By contrast, some findings are promoted so that they become far better known than you’d expect from organic dissemination.
Good luck!
I always pictured the album as a soldiers life through napoleons campaign, dreaming of and writing to his lover at home. He fantasizes of how his life would be different without war. Ending up with his death and acceptance with “Death and all his Friends”. His escape for this life into the next. I always interpreted that song as death, and then rebirth/heaven.
This album was what got me into music and why I’m an album person. Ever since 7/8th grade I’ve been listening to this album at least once every few months.
I remember listening to “death and all his friends” while on the 8th grade bus ride to Washington DC, realizing that I will die and everyone around me will some day. It helped me come to terms with that and put me at ease. It was like a before and after moment in my life.
Knowing what I now know about the role of rock and pop (among other cultural genres) in social engineering, orchestrated by the Tavistock Institute, it’s entirely possible that there are other composers in Coldplay’s canon.
James rightly observed how different the album is. Unlike anything else they’ve done. Ask yourself honestly, how often does that happen, when you consider a series of albums by a band? It does happen, but it’s the exception, not the rule.
The Beatles are a clear example, and you shouldn’t blithely accept “Well, their songwriters were geniuses”.
You should check out Everyday Life, their 8th album. It's the closest they have come to Viva La Vida in its sound and it has some brilliant tunes on it!
Seeing Les Miserables being the inspiration for the album really makes sense.
Do you think you could make a video about Kula shaker, maybe about how they started or something.
MX Mylo Xyloto is truly a concept album - quite openly it seems - and for my tastes the last great album I've heard. It defo to be heard in sitting and every song flows
Jamie boy that's a wee gem of a cd.. Love those. 👍🏻
Only James can get me to sit down and watch a video essay on Coldplay.
Phrase "banks became cathedrals" came directly from U2's Playboy Mansion which is about American consumptionism in a crooked mirror.
While the river theme might be a reference to One Tree Hill (You run like a river to the sea) and that means a homecoming.
Couldn't click on this fast enough. Thought I was alone always thought this album was a masterpiece
A great album! Up to this album they were great. Especially A rush of blood to the head. Not keen on the latter albums.
I thought I was the only one who thought this was their best album. Glad I'm not alone.
Coldplay albums ranked, best to worst, in my own opinion (as a Coldplay fan since The Blue Room EP)
1 Parachutes
2 A Rush Of Blood To The Head
3 Ghost Stories
4 Headful Of Dreams
5 Viva La Vida or…
6 X&Y
7 Mylo Xyloto
8 Everyday Life
9 Music of the Spheres
The top five are really brilliant. The last two are bloomin’ awfully difficult to enjoy, a couple of decent moments (the 10 minute long track ending Spheres is terrific, strangely the rest of the album is such sugary pop nonsense)
And yes, I always thought it was known that Viva La Vida was concept album all about the French Revolution, as per the cover picture. It’s never been a secret.
Good video though, as always James 👍
A very interesting take (even though I believe the witchfinder stuff is completely wrong it's a great narrative!)
Here is my crack (long, sorry!) Tldr - it's all about illumination and duality, with a side serving of (possible - ?) mind control:
There are indeed recurrent themes (and that's where I think fixing the running order came in) and there is much food for thought here, but it's all about duality. The named tracks are alternatively positive and negative, i.e. black/white, hence the 'or' in the album name (they explained in another interview you can take the album either way, as you wish - made clear in the line 'to see God in their own way'). This is echoed in the number of songs that had two versions or two videos - chiefly the 'heart' of the album Viva La Vida with two videos, one inspired by Corbijn's video for Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence. Cor = heart (again).
It's all very masonic, Chris points it out in the interview played here that Lost is the 'cornerstone'. It's also made clear by the album launch interview in a magazine (Q - ?) where Chris Martin makes the same signal on the cover (and throughout the tour) that Delacroix (painting used on the album cover) is making on his Wikipedia page, Prince made on Lovesexy etc.
This was a reinvention after the semi-disastrous (in terms of planned career path) x&y. Hence the Sgt Pepper-esque uniforms etc. The primary video for Viva La Vida was an ad for Apple. Apple Corp is again from The Beatles. Where is Violet Hill? Just off Abbey Road, a stone's throw from the studio. What was all the hype of this album about? How they were experimenting with instruments and recording techniques, buying curiosities from obscure shops (like John's Mr Kite poster) and using horns etc.
Coldplay are known as Glastonbury's 'house band' as they made a record number of major appearances on the Pyramid Stage from very early on. Paul McCartney also loves pyramids like his album Egypt Station. I expect Coldplay will headline again next year, probably playing a 'Paul song'.
Lovers in Japan - Coldplay have only ever played one Beatles' cover - Here Comes the Sun. Lots of songs about the sun though (Ladder to the Sun etc) - Sol or Mithras resonance. Lovers in Japan - indeed, the Land of the Rising Sun. The cover of Parachutes is a bright illuminated globe. A parachute brings a falling being to Earth from the heavens.
Lovers in Japan sounds more like he is being tortured, having his mind explored. The band introduced butterfly confetti cannons at their gigs for this song. The butterfly is also on the cover of their free (only given away at gigs - i.e. only for 'initiates'?) live album LeftRightLeftRightLeft. The (monarch?) butterfly is revisted on their next album (also with two 'names', one of them the very occult MX) explicitly on the track Paradise.
Technicolor = The Wizard of Oz. Poppyfields from Prospekt's March = the opium field in The Wizard of Oz which sends them to sleep = Chinese Sleep Chant. Perhaps the snow in Violet Hill is the 'snow' (cocaine) which wakes them up in the film (?).
42 = the 42 Negative Confessions at the Egyptian weighing of the heart after death that determine where you go (possibly the meaning of 'you didn't get to heaven but you made it close'). Just look at Maat etc.
You are indeed an advanced scholar of the genre. I doubt you’ve missed a key theme.
Easily their best album. This is to them what Sgt Pepper was to The Beatles. The fact that they went on to collab with BTS after this is bogus.
Do you think Asphalt World by Suede is about Damon Albarn?
Parachutes is a hands down classic.
Bono's OVVNED.
Very occult band, looking forward to this.
I think you might be delving a bit too much into this one but I see the importance of track listings...If I listen to an album as a body of work I wanna be taken on a journey. Whether I agree or disagree I always find your vids thought-provoking, keep them up.
I got as far as Lost and it's indeed a stretch by that point (especially going with the witchfinder imo), an interesting interpretation though, and as James says just for fun!
Politiks is a belter
Classic album
Agreed 👍
Recent albums were a bit meh but their first four ones were either good or great
Whats this gotta do with oasis?🤷♀️
😂
I imagine you’re asking this question, tongue in cheek.
If you’re not, the answer is that both Oasis and Coldplay are very important creations of Tavistock and played & continue to play important roles in social engineering.
It’s not always simple to divine the narratives they’re respectively pushing.
It’s awful when you finally realise that this is real and all well known artists and bands are similarly products of Tavistock. My lifelong favourite, Bowie, is now musically persona non grata in my household. Revolting man. Not even dead, by the way. Instead, unusually, he’s retired the character.
@@GT380man wow! I cart top that statement! And yes i was just ribbing james, he knows the script?
X&Y is their greatest achievement, I absolutely love that album.
I love that album too, what surprises me is the band themselves really don't like it, in that documentary that came out about them recently they really seemed to not like it all but it's bloody brilliant.
@@danielwarren3138 I think it’s because they hated recording the album and became a slog to get through, and this caused tension. As a result they never play any songs from that album live apart from fix you. Such a shame
@@jonathanward7320 Funnily enough I love most of the songs except Fix You. Doesn't fit that album at all.
Apart from the awful Kraftwerk track, it's a stunning record. White Shadows and Swallowed in the Sea are just beautiful.
@@MaquiladoraIII what song on the album do you mean by saying it’s a kraftwerk track?!
What do you think about U2 ? When I first felt I was getting into proper music, and discovering all this, U2 also became one of my favourite bands. Then I was surprised because the rock fan people gave them a bad rap and winced at them like you do with a cringe often pseudo rock n roll band. I thought they were one of the real deal, and I still think they got mislabeled as a naff band in a rock bands shell, which of course such bands exist.
Also, my brother said, « It’s not so much the U2 music people hate that much, it’s the idea of them as a band, including being cheesy hipp political activists and too well known for simple average music. »
Saw them very early, at the Joiners in Southampton in 1999. Loved the first two albums, but once Eno arrived, they became soooooo dull.
I heard a Bono quote is not a good sign. The fragility of the first album felt genuine. Since then, it feels more careerist and planned, and the endless, meaningless 'wo wo wo' choruses are an old U2 trick.
Thanks to this vid tho, I'm off to listen to the newer stuff...
Definitely. Very careerist and all planned, but then they were 'looked after' from the beginning.
"The book version of Les miseables". Weird phrasing given that the novel was the only version for about 200 years.
That's modern times for ya. I read this comment some time ago, somebody saying that N64 Goldeneye was such a cool game they should adapt it to a movie. 😂
The last great Coldplay album. After this, Chris Martin kind of went up his own arse completely and dragged the band with him.
I quite liked Ghost Stories; it honestly feels out of place in their discography because I agree, other than that everything they've released since Viva la Vida is garbage
@@danielwarren3138 really enjoyed ghost stories.
Ghost stories is up there with their best. Pure raw Coldplay.
Knowing what I now know about the role of rock and pop (among other cultural genres) in social engineering, orchestrated by the Tavistock Institute, it’s entirely possible that there are other composers in Coldplay’s canon.
James rightly observed how different the album is. Unlike anything else they’ve done. Ask yourself honestly, how often does that happen, when you consider a series of albums by a band? It does happen, but it’s the exception, not the rule.
The Beatles are a clear example, and you shouldn’t blithely accept “Well, their songwriters were geniuses”.
@@GT380manYeah Viva was produced and ghost written by Brian Eno.
I wonder how many have read the novel Les Misérables. It's a masterpiece. But about 1300 pages.
Sorry dude. I'm out. See the Super Hans guide to Coldplay.
Not one bad moment on the album? What about the rip-off to Satriani. Shamelesnc*nts.
It may be a rip-off but it's still 20,000 times better than that Satriani track
No fucking way