Comments on: Chris Martin – Honest Assesment or Ultimate Cock-End Move?

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:32:15 +0000

I think Eno enjoys working with the ‘prestige’ bands – you know the ones, money’s no object, spend ages recording, big release every 3 years, that sort of thing.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:45:07 +0000

No matter what he does, people are going to realize that the awfulness that was X&Y was no fluke and that they’re all being taken for a ride. Has anyone heard it yet? It’s embarrassing. I can’t believe Brian Eno, a mixed bag of beans himself, would even touch this project.

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:25:15 +0000

I like that last phrase Longman and shall be stealing it forthwith. That’s the way I roll, I’m afraid!

By: Longman Oz

Longman Oz — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:49:37 +0000

Why is it that every time that someone says that X or Y is the type of person or thing that you either love or hate, I find myself saying, “eh, neither, actually. In fact, I really don’t give a damn either way!”?

Curse you, my complete lack of passion. Curse you with slow passage right through the nine circles of Hell and back again!

The one thing that I always say in Coldplay’s defence is that Keane were going to call themselves that originally before giving the other boys the name! Imagine Keane had become as ubiquitous as Coldplay are today. Good greeking grief!

By: extremelisteningmode

extremelisteningmode — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:04:46 +0000

Yes, I think he’s chancing his arm….but i don’t think he is fooling anyone.

By: Chucky Lovepump

Chucky Lovepump — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:47:54 +0000

They know when to say no to marketing bombardment and bugger off to hardly be heard of for a few years. A lesson no label with a massive act and few other bands ever grasp. Milk it till it dies must be the motto. He is remarkably canny when it comes to understanding the reality of how his band are perceived as opposed to the usual believe the hype types.

As for the band themselves, I think Martin is the type of guy who you either take no notice of or hate. Depends on whether you like drinking your fair trade coffee with your tofu spread on mungbean bread in your hemp armchair I guess. His song writing is quite good IMO, lots of interesting ideas and compositions but there is little that really jumps out at you as deserving their status. After a while it being piped out through elevators.
Their new stodgy track is bringing up images of the band that can’t really top its last release so instead spends years in the studio overcomplicating something till it does sound like it was knocked up like a teenage chav behind the bike sheds during morning break from a leaky rubber.

Interesting question though, how exactly do you act/promote your new stuff when you know your band is hideously over-exposed and put on some sort of super band pedestal?
If I were him, I’d probably try the same tack.

By: Good god, man!

Good god, man! — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:28:30 +0000

Nah, that sounds too much like fun. The single sounds like they recorded whilst they waited for their macrobiotic lunch to be cooked by their chef.

By: Bertrand D'oyly Carte

Bertrand D'oyly Carte — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:08:19 +0000

The single was baffling: stodgy rock, yet they were away for three years promising ‘an amazing new album’. The single sounds like they wrapped it up in 5 minutes and went down the pub.