FAMOUS OLD PAINTERS = Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground?

[MasoKnight]

The first review of the EP says this: "[Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground] begins in standard Coldplay ballad territory with delicate guitars and mysterious lyrics. Chris sings: 'Push my bones from the highest cliff to the seas below/Swoop down from the sky and catch me like a bird of prey.' Then Indian finger drums and a swelling array of trumpets and tubas arrive to take the track off into an extraordinary place. " http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1915267.ece

Sound familiar?

Wikicoldplay says this: "On December 11, 2007 a message [from Prospekt] on Coldplay.com stated the album was in mixing stage. It revealed the use of a colliery brass band (tubes, trumpets, french horns, etc.) for the song Famous Old Painters." http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/Famous_Old_Painters

Additionally, to my knowledge, the two songs have never been mentioned in the same preview/tracklist.

Prospekt did NOT list NMFWTTG in the lengthy, partially blacked-out tracklist. The blacked-out portions have since been uncovered, and none of those were NMFWTTG either. Also, this article http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003788558 mentions NMFWTTG (as well as many other non-album tracks) but NOT Famous Old Painters.

Thoughts?

Edit: There was one instance in which both tracks were listed. At the beginning of an interview with Triple M, a handwritten list of tracks appears. NMFWTTG and FOP are listed separately. :(

Interview: http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/.../coldplay.html

Legible transcription here: http://www.coldplayzone.it/articolo.asp?id=1482

Oh well, that just means more songs to hear in the future! :p

[cephaus]

That's a possibility =)

I'm wondering if it would be possible that the track NMFWTTG actually has 2 tracks (eg. Yes = Yes+Chinese Sleep Chant)?

[notlost92]

^^ I don't think so because "Prospekt's March/Poppyfields" is listed, so they're listing hidden tracks in the titles, just like they did in VLV.

[mykierulz]

^^ Yeah, but they never listed chinese sleep chant. If you get it off itunes or on the physical release it's plainly yes, without csc. THJis is also the case with daahf and the escapist. And lovers and japan did include reign of love in the title. Although I doubt its two, the fop theory could actually be true.

[Famous Old Painter]

I'd like you to be right, though I'm not holding my breath.

[yellowtalk]

I hope it is!!!

[Pseudonym]

:shocked2:

:D


...hope at last....

[notlost92]

^^ Yeah, but they never listed chinese sleep chant. If you get it off itunes or on the physical release it's plainly yes, without csc. THJis is also the case with daahf and the escapist. And lovers and japan did include reign of love in the title. Although I doubt its two, the fop theory could actually be true.

:confused: But I got mine off of iTunes and it listed all of them in the titles...

[dominic spez]

The first review of the EP says this: "[Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground] begins in standard Coldplay ballad territory with delicate guitars and mysterious lyrics. Chris sings: 'Push my bones from the highest cliff to the seas below/Swoop down from the sky and catch me like a bird of prey.' Then Indian finger drums and a swelling array of trumpets and tubas arrive to take the track off into an extraordinary place. " http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1915267.ece

Sound familiar?

Wikicoldplay says this: "On December 11, 2007 a message [from Prospekt] on Coldplay.com stated the album was in mixing stage. It revealed the use of a colliery brass band (tubes, trumpets, french horns, etc.) for the song Famous Old Painters." http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/Famous_Old_Painters

Additionally, to my knowledge, the two songs have never been mentioned in the same preview/tracklist.

Prospekt did NOT list NMFWTTG in the lengthy, partially blacked-out tracklist. The blacked-out portions have since been uncovered, and none of those were NMFWTTG either. Also, this article http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003788558 mentions NMFWTTG (as well as many other non-album tracks) but NOT Famous Old Painters.

Thoughts?

what were the blacked out tracks???

can you post the full original tracklisting (including the blacked out songs)... i'd love to know what the original order was.

[notlost92]

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[BostonSportsTD]

yea i definatelyyy think it is. like i said in the other thread i think its really unlikely that they uses a colliery brass band in multiple songs.

[MasoKnight]

what were the blacked out tracks???

can you post the full original tracklisting (including the blacked out songs)... i'd love to know what the original order was.

http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/gallery/data/1187/tracklistingLP4.jpg

I don't believe this was the original order, just a list of potential tracks.

The blacked-out songs are Glass of Water, Famous Old Painters, Viva La Vida, and Postcards from Far Away.

[johnnymax865]

it's not true that FoP and NMFWTTG never appeared in the same tracklist... in one of the tripleM interviews there's a screenshot with all recorded songs and both titles appear...
you can check the news on the italian site (where you can see the entire list of songs):
http://www.coldplayzone.it/articolo.asp?id=1482

[MasoKnight]

I pretty sure this is the image that appeared during that interview:

my coldplay .com/home/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/rehearse.jpg

The list on the Italian site is just a giant compilation. All of those songs definitely weren't mentioned in a single interview/article.

[johnnymax865]

it's not the rehearsal picture... check out the triple M inteview here: http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/music/featureartists/coldplay.html

at the beginning there's a list of songs, signed by coldplay and both titles appear. italian site reported this list

[MasoKnight]

Oh, yes. You're right! ... Dang, well, there goes that theory. :p

[prospektsoldier]

Im still going to hope. Famous Old Painters was one of the songs I was looking forward to and I was disappointed when it didn't appear on the EP. It would seem weird with them having brass on more than one song. If they are different them perhaps Famous Old Painters will appear on their next album coming out next fall. It seems like it would be a waste to hire a brass band and not use the song.

[Yellow Hill]

I hope so

[Outrune]

Im still going to hope. Famous Old Painters was one of the songs I was looking forward to and I was disappointed when it didn't appear on the EP. It would seem weird with them having brass on more than one song. If they are different them perhaps Famous Old Painters will appear on their next album coming out next fall. It seems like it would be a waste to hire a brass band and not use the song.

Why would you want to hope for less songs?
You don't even know anything about FOP other than a) the title and b) it has a brass band, just like NMFWTTG...

[JPB]

Famous Old Painters - I'd love to see it as the last track on the new EP but to me it seems unlikely. You gotta love the name! My hopes are that it, The Dubliners, Leftrightleftrightleft and whatever else is left will be on an EP in March or LP5.

Just my thoughts. Could be wrong.

[kmm1482]

i've heard Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground! sounds like an extension of Til Kingdom Come

[Famous Old Painter]

I'm pretty sure having heard the new previews that it's not. Ah well.

[Yellow Hill]

I Know :(

[Famous Old Painter]

I'm just happy it's it's own song and not another version of Strawberry Swing or LIT.

[JPB]

^ seconded. but where the hell is famous old painters?! it has one of cp's best titles to date n all!

[Mig-El]

maybe this is another question for the oracle

[dominic spez]

if you guys ask the oracle "is Famous Old Painters just a different version of Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground?" i will kill someone. it's pretty clear it isn't.

just ask "what will happen to songs like 'Famous Old Painters' and 'The Goldrush' etc?"

that will receive a better answer. if you ask the first question, the answer will be "no"

[Famous Old Painter]

Dont forget this is the Orcale we're talking about, and it's answers havent always been what I call useful...

[Recycled Revenge]

I think the band are saving famous old painters for something special, maybe the next album. Does anyone recall the leaked website, just prior to Album 4 being named Viva la Vida? It was covered in references to Famous Old Painters, over at the old coldplay forums we were pretty convinced it was going to be the title track, then it got namd Viva and it was never mentioned again.

and the Oracle (aka Debs) is never going to answer this question. She never answers anything about releases.

[Strawberry Swinger]

I think the band are saving famous old painters for something special, maybe the next album. Does anyone recall the leaked website, just prior to Album 4 being named Viva la Vida? It was covered in references to Famous Old Painters, over at the old coldplay forums we were pretty convinced it was going to be the title track, then it got namd Viva and it was never mentioned again.

and the Oracle (aka Debs) is never going to answer this question. She never answers anything about releases.

she never answers anything smart,for that matter.
just some silly "how should i name my pet" questions and stuff...