It wasn't the repeated references on ?Best of 2008? lists and it wasn't Chris Martin saying that he felt that, with this album, they had reached their music making abilities. It was the fact that, at the Grammy's, Coldplay had the courage to dress in alternating colored jackets as a shout-out to The Beatles. Now, I felt like I had reason to check out Viva La Vida.
In doing so, not only did I find a phenomenal album, I think I cracked the Coldplay formula. I've been a big fan of A Rush of Blood to the Head and Parachutes for years but I hadn't quite heard the sound I heard on Viva La Vida. So here it is? if 50% of The Beatles, 40% of U2 and 10% of Radiohead (the 10% that doesn't use computer generated sounds) had a musically gifted child, that child would be Coldplay.
The best examples here are ?Cemeteries of London? which feels and sounds like a U2 song, maybe two albums ago, and ?42? which could have fit seamlessly on Sgt. Pepper's. Radiohead can be heard in many of the song transitions and quieter moments on the album, which are too many to mention.
Now, I'm not saying that Coldplay is unoriginal or borrowed anything from these bands but the influence is definitely there. In fact, I have to agree that Viva La Vida is one of the best albums to be released in recent years and ?Death and All His Friends? is one of the best songs recorded. All around, Viva La Vida is definitely a spotlight on using influences to create your own amazing sound and be truly original. What's more, I also think it's brilliant that the album ends with the same music as it started with, which has caused me to listen to the album over and over, not realizing that it had even started over yet. Those brilliant Coldplayers!
Never ceases to amaze me how duplicitous that almost all politicians can be If you will recall, the first stop on the fixed race for the presidential election was Iowa. Iowa is a place where they grow a lot of corn! And the words coming out of the mouths of the presidential candidates were definitely corny! It would make a healthy man ill to see so many of the political contenders for President, Democrat and Republican, that came out with statements that would make you think they had been staunch supporters of Ethanol as alternative fuel forever at the time when they were trying to win the Iowa caucus. The issue of corn and Ethanol,specifically, in Iowa is not just another issue it is HUGE. Well sorry folks, but I say f*ck Iowa! But the politicians were not quite so honest. As a prime example, John McCain did a flip flop that would have made an Olympic gymnast or an Oriental magician proud of their agility. Prior to Iowa, McCain was known for his antipathy towards ethanol and for saying that ethanol's effect was to actually raise gas prices. McCain had been quoted as saying that ethanol made America more energy dependent. McCain has even, correctly, questioned the validity of corn as a fuel source because ethanol consumes more energy from fossil fuel than it produces. "Ethanol is a product that would not exist if Congress didn't create an artificial market for it. No one would be willing to buy it," McCain said in November 2003. Yet in August of 07 just prior to the Iowa Caucus, McCain said, "I support ethanol and I think it is a vital alternative energy source not only because of our dependency on foreign oil but its greenhouse gas reduction effects," My point? People live and die, a planet could become a thriving, abundant, bountiful paradise or a desolate wasteland, the global economy can boom or bust largely based on the decisions that politicians make about fossil fuels and alternative energy sources. And one of the worst options would be Ethanol. What I have researched on ethanol tells me that the result of a widespread use of it as a primary fuel source could very possibly include MORE toxic emissions and climate change, widespread hunger much worse than we have it now, skyrocketing prices of other crops and food in general and other environmental impacts that can be quite ghastly. Yet McCain and his fellow clowns running for the office of head clown think that alternative energy is something to use as a token with which to get elected to office.
The potential disaster facing us is not actually global warming but human stupidity and shortsightedness in implementing false and destructive solutions of which there are many.
But since that is the scene and the people in charge are not going to do anything sensible about it, that makes it more urgent for you and me to take responsibility. After all, it is OUR planet and it is OUR lives and there IS something that can be done about it!
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