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| Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends | 
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| Artist: Coldplay
Label: Parlophone/EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £5.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (196 reviews)
Sales Rank: 26
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099921211409
ASIN: B0017NCVWY
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Yes! November 1, 2008
Are Keane too hard-rocking and uncompromising for you?
Is James Blunt just too damn original and heartfelt?
Then try Coldplay! Perfection of mediocrity! (Baa baa! ...that's a trumpet)
I know... I'm mean. I don't hate this stuff. I think When I Ruled The World is OK. But that's the point... it's OK. Not life-changing! And so WET. When did people like this get to masquerade as rock musicians? It's bad for you. Your children will grow up thinking this is what a rock band sounds like. Zeppelin who? no, I wanna listen to the guys who go "waaa.. waa... I'm sad and feeble..." When there's the likes of Gutter Twins, Aquila, Rufus Wainwright and The Veils out there barely making a dent, you should not be spending your money and valuable time on this.
 Hated it...then liked it...now loving it! November 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ahead of Viva La Vida's release the NME gave away a free 7 inch vinyl of Violet Hill and on the B-side was a track called A Spell A Rebel Yell...it was an 80's synth rock revelation, with beautiful lyrics and a peculiar linear style with no real start or end or strong identifiable chorus. Quite simply it was different, fresh and quite brilliant.
The album that followed failed to match this on a first listen. The lyrics were painfully simple at times and musically songs had an odd tendancy to change completely half way, teasing you with the promise of half an amazing song shoehorned into another more mediocre effort.
I tried it a couple of times and then put it to one side.
Then the olympics happened and there was an incredible track they played over the days sporting highlights. A real uplifting acoustic driven burst of euphoria! I knew that I had heard it somewhere before and it nagged me for weeks, until it hit me...it was Life in Technicolour, the opening track to Viva La Vida. It was the seed that got me back into the album and I'm so glad that it did. The lyrics are still ropey and yes the songs still morph frustratingly, but the production and musicianship are first class and the album as a whole is easily their best and most consistent effort since parachutes.
If you take away the hype, the slightly grating renaissance styling and accept that Chris Martin may not be a lyrical virtuoso but he still has a way with words which convey broad emotional strokes that are understandable for eastern europeans making their first venture into the english language then this is a very good album indeed. Bury your prejudices and give this album a go, if you allow it to grow on you, you may just be surprised quite how much you end up liking it!
MASTERPIECE October 31, 2008
Before this album Coldplay was only one of the many bands. Previous albums were OK, XY was nice, but I didn't bought them. Then I noticed Viva la vida single on radio and the tune haunted me. I bought downloaded album and there was heaven. I consider this one a masterpiece. Recently I bought all Colplay alums and what gems they are. But this last one remains something special. In some songs there are guitar Cocteau Twins like moments. I'm big CT fan, maybe that is the reason for this unusual adoration. I want more like this. Hope that new EP will be magic again. Colplay thanks!!!
Superb October 30, 2008
A grower. Well thats three great and one good album out of four. And yes this is a great album, probably their second best after A rush of blood to the head.
And I cant stop playing it, great numbers keep popping up, most recently Lovers in Japan - sublime. Not often does a band do 4 in a row of such quality - I can only think of The Beatles, Bowie, Pink Floyd and (yes) George Michael to match that sustained level of consistent brilliance over a few albums. And maybe Supertramp.
Viva La Vida - Love it October 29, 2008
Viva La Vida: Love it, love it, love it.
I rushed out and bought this album once I'd heard the title track on my favourite FM station. Discovered I liked more than just this one - admittedly stand-out - track. I now rate this album as highly as Coldplay's X&Y, which I consider to be exceptional.
More power to Coldplay.
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