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X & Y: One of the Biggest Hits from Coldplay
December 1st, 2009 | 
Author: This was the third album which was released by Coldplay in 2005. Now the band spent a lot of time when it came to composing this album. They wanted this album to be “the best thing anyone has ever heard”. Now eighteen months went into making this album. They wrote 60 songs and discarded 52 of them.
Now the lead single of this album has to be “Speed of Sound” which is a lot like “Clocks” but is more of a more mature and well tuned version. Now the next song called “Square one” is also like a bold step for the band. Now you can see bits and parts of musicality coming from U2 in this album. This song, the main rhythm sounds a lot like Unforgettable Fire, by U2.
Now this album is a notch higher than the rest. The song of this album has actually turned out really beautiful. But then although this was the case, the band also received a lot of criticism. They were criticized since the “Speed of Sound” sounded a lot like clocks and due to a lot of U2’s essence in the album, some people said it wasn’t original enough.
Some magazines even called it “something less exciting” when compared to its previous album, “A Rush of Blood to the Head”. Also some also said that the songs didn’t “Take flight”. But then at the end of the day, the album is filled with the Coldplayish ballads.
Never the less, this album still got the band quite a few awards. They won the Best British Album in 2006 at the BRIT award ceremony. It even landed them up with a JUNO award for the Best Album of the year. It had even gotten nominated for a Mercury Award. The bigger nomination was for the Best Rock Album which was at the Grammys but then ironically it lost to How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb which was by U2.
But overall, if you’re a hardcore fan of this band then you’re bound to love this album. You see a lot of different styles used in this album and a bit more experimentation. Songs like “Fix you”, “A message” and “The hardest part” will keep you glued to this album forever. The band didn’t also deviate a lot from its usual genre and style so this is just like any other brilliant Coldplay album.
U2 – An Irish Rock Band
U2, an Irish rock band came into existence in the year 1972 when the band members Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, and Larry Mullen Jr. were just teens and had a very limited musical competency and skills. Despite of that, the band released several hit albums by mid of 1980’s and they became an international sensation. In 1987, U2 released The Joshua Tree album which helped them to elevate their status from just heroes to superstars of rock music.
From the year 1990, the band persuaded an alternative rock and dance revolution in their work and under this revolution, they launched Achtung Baby album accompanied with Zoo TV Tour.
Later from the year 2000, they started to respond to more conventional rock music approach which certainly helps to retain the charm and tempt of their previous contributions to the music world.
Till now, U2 has successfully released twelve albums which include:
Albums Years
1. Boy 1980
2. October 1981
3. War 1983
4. The Unforgettable Fire 1984
5. The Joshua Tree 1987
6. Rattle and Hum 1988
7. Achtung Baby 1991
8. Zooropa 1993
9. Pop 1997
10. All That You Can’t Leave Behind 2000
11. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb 2004
12. No Line on the Horizon 2009
All these twelve albums have sold around 145 million copies worldwide, marking a great success in the band’s career. U2 have been listed at twenty second position on the list of ‘100 greatest artist of all time’ by Rolling stone magazine. Not only this, the band also has won twenty two Grammy Awards, which is quite more as compared to any other international artist or band.
U2 fans can expect another album of the band under the name ‘Songs of Ascent’ most probably by the end of this year. The theme as confirmed by the lead singer Bono, will be of pilgrimage and meditation.
Michael Jackson’s New Movie
Michael Jackson has a new movie. Yes. You read it right. Michael Jackson will be launching his new movie this 30th of October 2009. The movie is all about the latest footage of the practices that Michael Jackson attended with during the rehearsals for his “This Is It” concert. MJ died a tragic and unexpected death a few months ago. His death has put people into a shock because the legendary King of Pop is already gone—too soon.
Well, in reality, this so-called movie is not really a movie per se. It is not the same as with the movie being produced in Hollywood where there is a storyline, plot, characters, conflict and resolution. This is just a behind-the-scenes compilation of the preparation of the “This Is It” concert where MJ was last seen alive. Nevertheless, regardless of whether or not this movie will look like the one produced by Steven Spielberg or not, this will surely make millions: collector’s item indeed. Fans should expect as well a limited airing time for the movie in preparation for DVDs or VCD or whatever can be added to MJ’s fans’ collections. Let us all wait in great excitement.
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