John Lydon, who was once in a band that called the Queen a wanker, or something, hit the nail on the head recently when he said that Coldplay’s music was nothing special, but “it does have a few nice tones here and there”.With that in mind, we trawled through the band’s new album (second half much better than the first) in search of said nice tones. Here is what we found.
Song: ‘Lost!’
Nice tone: The solo that sounds a bit like Guitar Hero on ketamine is quite nice.
Song: ‘42’
Nice tone: This is nice in general but the bit that goes “woah-oh-woah-oh” is great.
Song: ‘Yes’
Nice tone: The Middle Eastern string solo (2.52) and the bit at the end of the intro where it goes all wonky are pretty good.
Song: ‘Viva La Vida’
Nice tone: “Roman cavalry choirs are singing…”
Song: ‘Violet Hill’
Nice tone: The guitar bit that goes “de-ner-NER-NEEUURGH“.
Very nice.
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