you only live twice
<<2001-12-30 - 4:25 a.m.>>

i am on THE biggest coldplay kick right now. i found this gorgeous article about them, describing their songs. think it's from melody maker or some british mag.

"The songs are set in this bed of unrest like gems. Oh, the songs. The slender power of 'Spies', Jonny Bucklands guitar pulling out impossibly long notes and then retrating into its gift of fabulous delicacy. The subdued swagger of 'Bigger Stronger', a dream shouted down an alleyway; the sensuous night-music of 'High Speed', a dream that keeps your day full of stars. Chris' voice is an effortless falsetto, melted at the edges, never strained with anguish nor slipping on dispassion. New single, 'Yellow' seems a bit stiff at first, a bit too happy, but by the time it's got round to the bridge you're swung high on its lazy melody. This band are from an unthinkable alternative dimension in which the chorus was never put on a giant plush pedestal and worshipped above all else. Most bands have verses that are only there to shine the chorus' shoes - Coldplay's verses, choruses and all exisist side-by-side in glorious equality, all helping each other. No tyrannical middle-eights or bossy-booted bridges here. Tha's what you call perfect harmony and no other bugger seems to have got it yet. The last part falls away, a new chord coming from nowhere...and a bit of your heart creaks where it hasn't been moved for a long time."

gotta love that. sorry about the length, but i had to show the really good parts. has anyone noticed how difficult it is to put a song into words? i mean, seriously. how the fuck do you describe a sound so beautiful as coldplay's music? words like "haunting, echoing, sensuous..." they're all true, right, but they only make sense to you if you've actually HEARD the music. reading these "we are not worthy" articles about coldplay really turns me off, because everyone has a different take on the music. to some, it's pop. to others, it's pure unadulterated genius. to even others, it's flowing and beautiful and uplifting. and to still others, it's absolute and total rubbish. (oh my god, i'm turning british.) so it's a tricky thing. if you've never heard coldplay's music, the words "sensuous" or "slender power" and soppy crap like that probably isn't gonna make you wanna go out and spend 15 bucks on it. even words like "it fucking rocks your socks off and makes you high" might not make you wanna fork over fifteen either. it just depends.

i can't remember what the point of this entry was. i think it was because i want to marry chris martin.