Coldplay

[sheepshead]

Dave Mathew's Band kicks ass and I enjoy listening to them even though hes a huge lefty. If anyone has seen the new Adam Sandler movie Zohan you will know what I'm talking about, even though it was pretty funny part he played.

Like Harv said if you can't just enjoy the music for what it is instead of what the misguided liberal musicians "stand for" than there is much in the entertainment industry that will piss you off.

That being said I would have to say the greatest rock band of all time would easily be Pink Floyd. Those guys are amazing and no other band can come close to replicating their sound, mainly because David Gilmour's talent and uniqueness just cannot be matched.

Matthews was good until they started playing stadiums, i lost interest then. As a conservative if all I listened to was "non-liberal" artists all i would be able to play is Debby Boone in which case I wouldnt writing this because I would have offed myself years ago. Guys like Springsteen that go out and play for candidates, loose my respect also. If Leno asks who youre going to vote for , fine say something. Otherwise-play music and keep politics out of it.

[The Leaper]

I know what you're referring to. Some unknown Brooklyn band is claiming they Chris Martin visited their set and stole the melody from them. However, the track was already cut in '07, six months before Martin even visited the unknown band from Brooklyn. It sounds like a loud of crap to me.

Well, the other band would've had the song written prior to the visit as well, I suppose. The question becomes who wrote and performed it first...and as far as performing it goes, it looks like the other band wins.

Then you have Martin's recent comments about being the world's worst plagarist...which may not have been what he meant word-for-word, but it does seem there is some truth in the notion that Coldplay builds heavily off the work of others...even if they don't copy it directly.

So, in my mind, that reduces the value of their work...I'm not saying it invalidates their work, but if you take an existing work and tweak it to make it your own sound, I'm not going to assign as much creative value to what you are producing.

[Harlan Huckleby]

First, coldplay neither sound nor aspire to be U2. At best you might have an argument like that regarding Radiohead. But, Coldplay has admitted that their biggest influence was Travis.

I don't know, I hear some U2 influence in Coldplay.

I have one Coldplay CD somewhere, but it is lost in a pile of confusion. Probably I haven't pursued it because it would just remind me of tank and I'd start crying again.

[FavreChild]

Guys like Springsteen that go out and play for candidates, loose my respect also. If Leno asks who youre going to vote for , fine say something. Otherwise-play music and keep politics out of it.

Well, Springsteen is probably still pissed that Reagan co-opted "Born In the U.S.A." for his campaign, when the song was meant to be a political critique.

Music is a primal form of expression. There's no reason to avoid politics in music unless the artist is only creating the music for the purpose of making money. Besides, almost every artist out there makes a political statement of some kind, even if it's just reinforcing the status quo (which is what most music does). For instance, even a sappy love ballad reinforces heterosexual normacy with male artists crooning about "her" beauty and female artists singing about "his" strength - or whatever.

We just don't perceive most music as being "politcal" - which is exactly what allows it to reinforce social norms (because we don't realize that it's happening!).

[Zool]

Besides, almost every artist out there makes a political statement of some kind, even if it's just reinforcing the status quo (which is what most music does). For instance, even a sappy love ballad reinforces heterosexual normacy with male artists crooning about "her" beauty and female artists singing about "his" strength - or whatever.

Good point. And like Frankie says:

Relax
don't do it
when you wanna go to it
Relax
don't do it.....when you wanna come

[PackFan#1]

Leaper, STFU and go listen to Coldplay. You don't know what you're talking about.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Well, Springsteen is probably still pissed that Reagan co-opted "Born In the U.S.A." for his campaign, when the song was meant to be a political critique.

To be fair, about 95% of the country didn't realize it was a political song. Apparently, the catchy chorus threw people off. Springsteen and many others were so friggin' wrong about Reagan that it soured me on their political views since.

[PackFan#1]

The only right-wing artist I listen to is Moby.

Country music is all right-wing and that's why its trash.

I like rap.

[PackFan#1]

Probably I haven't pursued it because it would just remind me of tank and I'd start crying again.

Tank is a guy who only post for the attention. The reason I didn't join this site sooner was because Tank was posting here. I was sick of his stuff at JSO. His Ted is Trapped in the Closet threads are lame, although the one he wrote for Mazzin was pretty funny.

I, for one, is glad Tank is banned. He hasn't been at JSO for awhile. He probably is banned there too.

[BallHawk]

We should of guessed it was you through the whole Roswell-UFO connection.

[PackFan#1]

We should of guessed it was you through the whole Roswell-UFO connection.

Dude, my avatar has nothing to do with Tank. I am a firm believer in the X-Files. I, like Mulder and the Lone Gunmen, seek to expose the truth behind the existence of extraterrestrials--a truth so great that conservatives are forever conspiring to destroy.

My avatar depicts an infant that is part human/part alien. The government started testing alien dna on humans after the UFO crush at Roswell; the Air Force was able to capture 4 aliens from an unidentified planet. At the height of the cold war, Ronald Regan signed off on 6 "Super Soliders"--solider that were cloned from alien genes--for Operation End Game.

Conservatives like Bobblehead will tell you that its all science fiction. Don't pay any attention to them.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I, for one, is glad Tank is banned.

it's really you!!!

[TheCheese]

Thats fucking funny right there, whoever you are thanks for the laugh haha.

[The Leaper]

First, coldplay neither sound nor aspire to be U2.

As U2 is the most successful international band at present, of course Coldplay eyeballs that success...which was more or less what I was referring to rather than saying they were trying to sound exactly like them. I'm talking about how Coldplay likes to market themself and how Martin tries to push his political ideology through his musical success.

Martin wishes he was Bono...wishes he had the political clout and international stage to push his wacko ideology. I'm not really saying Coldplay is trying to sound exactly like U2 musically, although you can certainly hear elements of a U2 influence in much of Coldplay's work (not copying...influence).

I knew bashing Coldplay would bring Tank out of hiding.

[FavreChild]

To be fair, about 95% of the country didn't realize it was a political song. Apparently, the catchy chorus threw people off.

Definitely. Many people still think it's a patriotic song. But that's the risk you run as an artist - music is interactive, so there's always the chance that the audience will interpret a song differently. Reagan didn't do anything wrong in using the song - but I'm sure Bruce didn't like it.

But anyway...back to your previously scheduled Tank-bashing.