In retrospect, is it good or not? Brian Eno produced it

In retrospect, is it good or not? Brian Eno produced it.

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It's good, the title track spam and overplaying is fucking annoying though, can't mention Coldplay without someone immediately spamming Viva La Vida.

>Brian Eno produced it
So what

Yes but Prospekt's March is better and LeftRightLeftRightLeft is even better
if they'd died in a plane crash in late 2009 they would be remembered as the 00s' pop-rock equivalent to the Smiths

>can't mention Coldplay without someone immediately spamming Viva La Vida.
It's because it's their only good song

It's an amazing album. Perhaps their last good one.

>if they'd died in a plane crash in late 2009
But they did... ???

>one of the most legendary producers in music history produced it
that must mean something

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XYZ is shit though.

Coldplay did two good albums before nosediving so hard I literally can't say Parachutes is a good album without someone born after 1994 giggling or rolling their eyes

strawberry swing adn that minecraft song are good

What was the problem with X&Y again? I didn't like it, too bland, but man that album gets an insane amount of hate.

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It was just as insufferably pretentious and self-important as U2 was 20 years earlier, but possibly even worse because Viva La Vida lacked the overarching concept that U2’s records did and was just shallow faux-artiness for its own sake.

At the time the complaint was that Speed Of Sound was too obviously a cash-in repetition of Clocks & the album overall too over-produced and bigger and more bombastic without being enough of an upgrade in quality from the first two albums to justify its arena-rock pretensions, which is all true, but it's only because of how shit the past decade has been that we've gained enough perspective to realise that actually it wasn't so bad compared to the drivel we've put up with since. In retrospect it's a bit overlong and half the songs could have a minute shaved off their runtime but it's really not as bad a follow-up to AROBTTH as it was made out to be at the time. Suffers badly from Johnny Cash dying before he could record his part for Til Kingdom Come though.

also direct theft of kraftwerk tune for one of the singles

yeah the production is nice, the songwriting isn't really

>theft
it's called sampling/interpolation, they're credited in the liners and everyone was talking about them using a Kraftwerk riff when the single came out, it wasn't a hush-hush thing

Nah Shiver is excellent

Violet Hill is absolute kino.

its only sampling when its bleep bloops, twing twang bands are supposed to come up with their own shit

It's a pop rock record with no hooks whatsoever. Nothing to even vaguely interest the listener.

Well, it does have one hook on it, but that was plundered from Computer Love so it holds no resonance whatsoever.

Easily one of the best pop records of the past 20 years, and the first major instance of indie rock influence on pop bands that worked well (violins arranged by the same guy who worked on the arrangements on Funeral). VLV is overplayed but fits well within the context of the album. Death and All His Friends is the best sing they ever made, bar none. Absolutely kino.