Review thread (please post your findings!)

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Hi everyone, there will be hundreds of reviews for ETIAW after today floating around the internet, newspapers etc. If you see any please post them here, or scans or whatever you get. Please include the source link and any article titles, marks out of 10 etc.

Thankyou and enjoy the new single! :D

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http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/6365/Coldplay_-_coldplay-2011-pic-_1307101975_crop_550x366.jpg

One day, we hope that Coldplay will release a track of quite staggering magnificence just so we can stop being called predictable for telling them off. Unfortunately, this isn't it. There's something about Chris Martin's vocal in the first bit over the dodgy ravey piano (see below for more on that) that feels very familiar; someone in our office said "what are all those Scottish guitars?" and, perhaps most strangely for Coldplay the thing that even their detractors will give them credit for, that ability to write a gaseous everyman sentiment over a daytime radio melody, is submerged in the strangely lumpen production. There's something about this track that sounds like a boy band whose star is on its wane, which is probably the weirdest thing about it. "I'd rather be a comma than a full stop," Martin sings. And that, essentially, is the problem with Coldplay. They're a group so massive they have their own momentum now, operating in a bizarre celebrity stratosphere that, in a way, is even odder than the one Bono flies through now and then. Coldplay are a corporation, monolithic and unstoppable, and this is what it sounds like.

Oh, and that piano bit at the beginning? As our Twitter followers pointed out, check this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CV87-38W5R0

http://thequietus.com/articles/06365-listen-new-coldplay

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YouTube - ‪Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Official)‬‏

Chris Martin and co reveal their festival side with a new single

Lest we forget, Coldplay headline Glastonbury later this month. It certainly can't have been a thought far from the band's mind, if their new single is anything to go by.

Ebullient chords and melodic uplift are never far from the kind of non-specific portent that has become Coldplay's trademark. But this one seems to have something of the festival about it; from the ravey intro to the euphoric lyrics ("I turn the music up, I got my records on"), it seems to be an attempt to get as many hands in the air as possible.

We were rather intrigued by the twiddly guitar riff that sounds like bagpipes. But what do you think?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jun/03/coldplay-every-teardrop-is-a-waterfall

[iPsy]

http://static.gigwise.com/artists/Image/coldplay-artwork.jpg

Coldplay, 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall': Review

It’s taken a while, but it finally seems like Coldplay’s formula on how to become one of the world’s biggest bands is finally revealing itself: apparently it’s all down to how you dress.

Back when they first arrived in 2000, Chris Martin and co looked all rather dark and sombre - a mood that was reflected in the brooding anthems of ‘Shiver’ and ‘Trouble’. Then, in 2008, as they teamed up with Brian Eno and Markus Dravs for the military marching songs of 2008’s ‘Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends’, the band returned looking like a gang of army generals.

Three years on and Coldplay are back again with new, apparently graffiti-inspired regalia - and this time it would seem their music is as colourful and explosive as their outfits.

New single ‘Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall’, which debuted today (June 3), is a blossoming stadium-sized dance anthem, propelled in part by the strength of Martin’s lyrics, which spray paint themselves into your conscience.

“I turn the music up, I got my records on, I shut the world outside until the lights come on,” he sings while bashing away on a synth-enhanced piano, which shoots out a simple, yet rave-like hook.

As Martin continues to sing like he’s residing in the happiest place on earth (“Catherdrals in my heart”), the colourful musical symphony is driven by Will Champion’s stomping drums and a highland Fling-esque guitar riff, which sounds not too dissimilar to ‘Life In Technicolour’, from ‘Viva La Vida…’. They all come to a head as the song reaches its evocative conclusion, when everything explodes and Martin lets out “Aaahoooos” amid a storm of uplifting guitars and synths.

As Coldplay prepare to headline this month’s Glastonbury festival, ‘Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall’ is an emphatic litmus test with which to judge people’s readiness for their return.But more poignantly, for a band who already reside in stadiums, their latest incarnation is a splash of colour that sounds like it’s aiming for something a lot bigger - or as Martin puts it: "You can hurt, hurt me bad, But I'll still raise the flag."

http://www.gigwise.com/blog/63637/Coldplay-Every-Teardrop-Is-Waterfall-Review

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It’s pretty simple, actually—if you like Coldplay, you’ll like this song. (And if not, what are you doing jumping to listen to a Coldplay song the day it gets released, anyway?) It’s got that big, stadium filling drum-and-guitar sound, a fantastically evocative synth intro (which reminds of Alice Deejay’s “Better Off Alone” to our ears, but then again, so does everything) and a crowd-pleasing, hands-in-the-air lyric about the almighty power of music (“I turn the music up / I got my records on / I shut the world outside / Until the music’s gone”). It gets bigger and more anthemic as it goes for its four-minute running time, and then suddenly it’s over. It’s thrills are far from unpredictable, but after the band’s two-year absence, you might be surprised as to how welcome they are nonetheless.

Truth told, the compact swell of “Every Teardrop” doesn’t even sound so much like a comeback single as it does a concert opener, something to announce the band’s presence before delving into the real hits. But if so, we can’t wait for the rest of the gig—over a decade after their mainstream breakthrough, and with endless imitators in their wake, it’s as true now as ever that nobody does Coldplay as well as Coldplay themselves.

POPDUST SAYS: 3.5/5

http://popdust.com/2011/06/03/coldplay-every-teardrop-is-a-waterfall-review-new/

[Maj2004]

That first review doesn't even know that both those songs were sampled legally.

-_-

[oldmuckers]

from popcrush.com

Coldplay‘s brand new single ‘Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall’ is as big as its title suggests. It is not a ballad, but an uplifting, room-filling Brit pop song laced with the band’s rock ‘n’ roll edge.

While Coldplay have endured plenty of Radiohead comparisons throughout their career, they’ve turned the corner here, going for stadium-sized hooks a la U2 with this bold, bright, guitar-driven new song that is steered by Martin’s inimitable voice. Thanks to its massive size and scope, the four-minute monster more than makes up for all the time fans had to wait for new music from the band.

At about the three-minute mark, ‘Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall’ balloons with layered harmonies and faster guitar work. It’s as though vocalist (and Gwyneth Paltrow baby daddy) Chris Martin wrote the song with the express intent of performing in a stadium or at the Olympics. (Ahem — the 2012 Olympics will be held in London, so…)

When Martin sings, “I turn the music / I got my records on / I shut the world outside until the lights come on / Maybe the streets alright / Maybe the trees are gone / I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song,” he pulls us into his world, where everything around you fades into the background while you focus on what you hear in your headphones. Speaking of which, you will pick up all the nuances of sound via a pair of earbuds.

The song doesn’t fade out, either. It ends on a percussive note. You’ll want to listen to it over and over again. It’s a gorgeous mix of Coldplay’s knack for pretty melodies mixed with some escalating guitar work, despite not being nearly as polished as the band’s previous pop songs.

The song comes in like a lion and goes out like one, too!

4/5 stars

[oldmuckers]

from Rolling Stone

By Jon Dolan
June 3, 2011

Chris Martin says Coldplay's upcoming album is influenced by old-school New York graffiti, and in a recent photo the bandmates are dressed in neon chillwear like they just walked off the set of Breakin' 3: A Brit-Pop Odyssey. But the first single doesn't go for the sound of early hip-hop so much as its sense of year-zero possibility. Over a rave-tinged keyboard melody, leavened by producer Brian Eno's rainforest-of-the-soul ambience, Martin sings of kids dancing until morning and heaven inside his headphones. When the drums kick in fully, it moves like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by way of the Velvets' "Sunday Morning," a flag-waving ode to change-as-inspiration: "I'd rather be a comma than a full stop," Martin sings. Coming from a guy whose critics take him for a human exclamation point, it's a welcome sentiment.

3.5/5

[Coldplaying@Hogwarts]

from MTV.com:

"You probably didn't need that second cup of coffee Friday (June 3) morning if you heard Coldplay's caffeinated new single, "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall." It premiered while most of us here in the States were just waking up and is certainly the kind of tune that can jump-start a day.

Vaguely trance-y, slightly meditative and most definitely sunny, "Teardrop" is basically four minutes of pure, unadulterated uplift. Beginning with shimmering synth stokes, building steam on guitars both strummed and bent skyward and kicking into high gear on a thumping, four-on-the-floor house beat, it is a song in a state of constant build, growing more massive with each passing second. It's a single more eye-opening than a snoot-full of arabica.

Frontman Chris Martin matches the wide-screen sonics with his lilting vocals, hitting the (many) "woah-oh-ohs" with aplomb and delivering refrains ("I turn the music up/ I got my records on") with a wiry persistence. The latter only adds to the song's dreamlike feel; the lines almost seem like a contemplative prayer, their repetition like layers in an ever-growing mantra that eventually leads to some sort of higher consciousness. The funny thing is, those lyrics -- which are all about finding solace in music and strength in self -- are also incredibly insular, and when paired with the unapologetically over-the-top music, they create a rather interesting dichotomy: This is, one can assume, a deeply personal song that Martin wrote for ... everybody in the entire world.

Then again, that's seemingly the only way Coldplay do things, and "Teardrop" is certainly a worthy addition to their inspirational songbook. It also seems to fit the theme of their still-untitled new album, which Martin described as being "about life, the good stuff, the bad stuff, everything." And really, how can you sum up their brand-new single any better than that? So if I'm being a tad too professorial in my assessment of "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," you'll have to forgive me ... I guess I really miss that second cup of coffee."

[Coldplaying@Hogwarts]

from the Riverfront Times:

"There's a strange interview lurking somewhere in the unpopulated regions of the Internet in which Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher calls Coldplay singer Chris Martin a "plant pot." It's a weird thing to say for more than one obvious reason: What actually is a plant pot? Should Chris be offended? Would he even care? How many people actually listen to Liam's insults? Does any of this make sense?

The answers, after considerable deliberation, are as follows: I'm guessing just a pot for a plant, probably not, probably not, few and no. The last answer is the most important because it also applies to pretty much the entirety of the pot plant's band's new song, the tongue-out-of-cheek "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall." Fortune cookie title aside, the song is the current zenith of two years of fans and skeptics waiting to hear what comes after Viva La Vida, which was produced by Brian Eno and significantly altered the band's aesthetic and its crossover success.

The aggressively low-pressure jam was released to Americans -- the band's fellow Brits have to wait another day -- early this morning and, let's be real, it's groundbreaking. The early rise was worth it for the moments of stunning lyrical clarity, found in pure, Shakespearean lines such as, "I'd rather be a comma than a full stop" (Who wouldn't?) and, "Maybe I'm the gap between the two trapezes" (Woah).The best part of that last one is that it functions as a rhyme with "knees."

The single clocks in at exactly four minutes, which means you can listen to it fifteen times per hour, depending upon your speed at clicking "Play" and your knowledge of the Repeat option. At the very least, you have a minimum of fourteen chances an hour, and you probably should be doing that for at least three hours today in order to truly plumb the plant pot's depth. As you listen to the song, we recommend making predictions for the full album, debating Chris Martin's expression in the new press photos and considering the literal and figurative implications of every teardrop actually being a freakin' waterfall. Shit gets deep."

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YouTube - ‪Peter Allen - I go to Rio‬‏ YouTube - ‪Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Official)‬‏

Coldplay sample Peter Allen's 1976 single 'I Go To Rio' on new single - video

Coldplay take inspiration from Australian songwriter on comeback track

Coldplay's long awaited comeback single 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall', which you can hear by scrolling down and clicking at the bottom of the page, takes a sample from Australian 1970s songwriter Peter Allen's single 'I Go To Rio', the band have confirmed.

The track, which you can hear below, was released in 1976 on Allen's fourth album 'Taught By Experts' and has since been covered by a number of high profile artists, including Peggy Lee.

Allen, who died in 1992, enjoyed a successful music career in the 1970s and 1980s, releasing over ten solo albums. He has also seen his songs covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield and Olivia Newton-John.

Coldplay have credited Allen as a songwriter on the list of writers for 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' on their official website Coldplay.com, possibly as an extra precaution after they were sued by Joe Satriani in December 2008 over claims they plagiarized his 2004 track 'If I Could Fly' for their 2008 single 'Viva La Vida'. The case was settled out of court.

http://www.nme.com/news/coldplay/57066

[Mimixxx]

Ian...you've kept very quiet. What's YOUR review of the song?

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Not had time to post a proper review but I did put this (http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4808240#post4808240) earlier :)

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http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/culture_test/assets_c/2011/06/coldplay%20credit%20sarah%20lee-thumb-600x399-53060.jpg

The New Coldplay Song is Awesome, if You Ignore the Lyrics

"Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" is as sappy as its name suggests, and that's great

Chris Martin has a cold. Just listen to the guy. His vowels are long and thickly exhaled. His consonants are swallowed. That soft, nasal chest voice breaks every few words into an apologetic, crackling falsetto. There is a kind of permanent head cold in Martin's voice and outlook, which might explain why he writes so much about feeling sorry for himself and finding cures. I was lost, I was lost oh yeah, but everything's not lost, and I will try to fix you and also, stars. That is every Coldplay song in a sentence.

Or, it used to be. Four years ago, the band teamed up with superproducer Brian Eno to make a record, Viva La Vida, that forced Martin and his bandmates to shrug off their mopiness. Sighing syths were replaced by rougher reverb, and symbol-crashing choruses gave way to primal thumps. The critics had a point: You can smear mud on sentimentalist sap, but you're still dealing with sentimental sap. Even so, Eno convinced the group to drop the in-the-gutter-looking-at-the-stars motif and act like a rock band.

And today, the gang is back. Coldplay's latest single, the dreadfully named "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall," begins undreadfully. An angelic synth swell lays the foundation for a jangly electric piano riff that sounds like what you would get if Animal Collective remixed Peter Allen's 1976 song "I Go to Rio" (thanks to Village Voice for the sharp eyes on the song credit, which lists Allen as a co-writer).

Then everything gets very Coldplay. Martin's voice, throaty and self-assured, kicks off a talk-sing verse. A guitar line takes the bluegrassy twiddle-diddle from the band's "Strawberry Swing" and adds a few extra diddles. The monosyllabic thump of the kickdrum that dominated Viva La Vida comes back with clubby untz. There is a battle-hymn quality to the melody, a marching insistence that gamely sets up a chorus written to be sung and heard in a rock hall.

Must we talk about the lyrics? It will not surprise you to learn that a song titled "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" does not hold up well to textual analysis. As darkness is to Conrad, light is to Martin: He is pathologically incapable of writing two stanzas without multiple references to lights, stars, skies, or other bright shiny things guiding him, always, "home." In the first two verses of "Every Teardrop," we get two lights, one heaven, and one morning (Coldplay bingo!). There are "cathedrals in my heart," and "every siren is a symphony," and it's all pretty horrible if you stop and think about it. But the point is, don't stop and think about it. Martin's words are more like percussion than prose, marking time, filling space, distinguishing verses and choruses.

Listening to Coldplay for the lyrics is like reading a book for the page numbers. Insist on doing so and you're missing the real work. Everything that Coldplay does is big. Even the "small" songs are stadium anthems. But the crux of Coldplay's talent--yes, talent--is subtler than the music sounds. It is, very simply, melody. Or better yet, finding the balance between predictability and surprise that characterizes most successful melodies. Hundreds of bands play wistful choruses over the same four chords and don't get much further than the garage or local bar. Most of them fail because their melodies are crap.

Chris Martin might be a soggy trunk of sap, but he is genetically incapable of writing abstruse melodies. They draw clear lines. They take a shape. They pose a question, and they give a satisfying answer. They open the chord and resolve the fleeting dissonance, and it's all done deftly enough that the hook comes into focus just as it's ending.

Is this song any good? It's a Coldplay song--a carefully orchestrated, melodically solid, hands-to-the-sky, all-around rousing rock anthem about, literally, crying. Does that make any sense? Of course not. Is that description abhorrent to you? Me, too. Which is why I'm carefully monitoring the volume on my earphones to make sure nobody hears me hitting the repeat button again, and again, and again.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/the-new-coldplay-song-is-awesome-if-you-ignore-the-lyrics/239902/

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Holy Moly: Coldplay in 'not actually rubbish new song shocker'

It’s all gone a bit rave-tastic. Well, a bit.

It’s been a day for musical surprises, first Kaiser Chiefs released an album that you have to build yourself. Then we found out that Christina Aguilera and Adam Lambert were recording a duet* and then Coldplay released a new single, just like that. And we didn’t hate it.

It’s not going to change the world, but once you’ve cleared the vomit from your mouth that arose when you read the title: Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, you have to admit, this is a pomposity free, pleasantly spangly tune. Could do without the bits where he goes “ooh!” though. There’s no need for the bits where he goes “ooh!”.

It’s crying out for a banging Tony Lamezma remix, isn’t it?

http://www.holymoly.com/hm15/video/coldplay-not-actually-rubbish-new-song-shocker56811

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http://www.thelmagazine.com/images/blogimages/2011/06/03/1307113772-chris_martin_855_18573288_0_0_6000990_300.jpg

Coldplay's New Single is Streaming, And So Are Chris Martin's Tears

Sometimes things with stupid names are not as bad as they seem. Sometimes things with stupid names are great, despite their stupid names. And one should never judge a book, a song or a person by its stupid name because that would be narrow-minded and callous, right? Wrong. Well, wrong for today. Coldplay's new single, "Every Tear is a Waterfall" is streaming from their website, and it is precisely as shmaltzy and terrible as it sounds.

The lyrics speak for themselves. From them, and what we can gather, this is how it came about: Chris Martin was sitting in his darkened apartment, listening to his records and crying. Then he decided to write a song about the experience. And that is how "Every Tear is a Waterfall" happened.

How did this happen? How can this have passed through the hands of the band, the record label, the industry execs without someone going, "Uh, what?" And who decided this was good? Because if it was wifey and (apparently) now-country-singer Gwyneth Paltrow, that would be cause for real tears.

Coldplay has had some good songs with artistic integrity. They have. And great, transformative, era-making music has come out of musicians' "blue" periods (i.e. Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, the list goes on). This is not one of those. Words fail. Listen for yourself.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/06/03/coldplays-new-single-is-streaming-and-so-are-chris-martins-tears

[MasoKnight]

There should really be a bingo card for coldplay articles. Mention crying? Check. Mention Gwyneth? Check. Ignore the music? Check.

I mean, really. I'm not exactly thrilled with this song, but "Words fail" is pretty much music journalism at its worst.

[Raaj]

The new Coldplay song is making the rounds, as you’ve no doubt seen by the frantically excited post on your mom’s Facebook or deafmute music blogs everywhere. And while everyone’s welcome to enjoy their own favorite flavor of color-by-numbers GoopRock, we’d feel that we’re neglecting you if we didn’t address the new depths of seminal gargling Coldplay has achieved this time.

Coldplay are frequent targets of copyright claims, with song-theft accusations brought against them from Joe Satriani, Cat Stevens, Creaky Boards, and then once again with unknown songwriter Sammie Lee Smith. Hell, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that those motherfuckers might have even stolen from me.

The band have set themselves up for another round of out-of-court settlements with their latest single, My Teardrops Shimmer Like Jelly or whatever the hell it’s called. The simplistic nature of the song’s main chords suggest that they aren’t exactly difficult to stumble upon, but that doesn’t mean these crumpet gobblers should be excused for sounding like U2 on shitty ecstasy at a 1994 rave. The riff is pulled directly from a decade-old track by Mystic, entitled Ritmo De La Noche.

[Ziggy]

The New Coldplay Song is Awesome, if You Ignore the Lyrics
By Derek Thompson Jun 3 2011, 2:20 PM ET 2
"Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" is as sappy as its name suggests, and that's great



Sarah Lee / Coldplay


Chris Martin has a cold. Just listen to the guy. His vowels are long and thickly exhaled. His consonants are swallowed. That soft, nasal chest voice breaks every few words into an apologetic, crackling falsetto. There is a kind of permanent head cold in Martin's voice and outlook, which might explain why he writes so much about feeling sorry for himself and finding cures. I was lost, I was lost oh yeah, but everything's not lost, and I will try to fix you and also, stars. That is every Coldplay song in a sentence.

Or, it used to be. Four years ago, the band teamed up with superproducer Brian Eno to make a record, Viva La Vida, that forced Martin and his bandmates to shrug off their mopiness. Sighing syths were replaced by rougher reverb, and symbol-crashing choruses gave way to primal thumps. The critics had a point: You can smear mud on sentimentalist sap, but you're still dealing with sentimental sap. Even so, Eno convinced the group to drop the in-the-gutter-looking-at-the-stars motif and act like a rock band.

And today, the gang is back. Coldplay's latest single, the dreadfully named "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall," begins undreadfully. An angelic synth swell lays the foundation for a jangly electric piano riff that sounds like what you would get if Animal Collective remixed Peter Allen's 1976 song "I Go to Rio" (thanks to Village Voice for the sharp eyes on the song credit, which lists Allen as a co-writer).



Then everything gets very Coldplay. Martin's voice, throaty and self-assured, kicks off a talk-sing verse. A guitar line takes the bluegrassy twiddle-diddle from the band's "Strawberry Swing" and adds a few extra diddles. The monosyllabic thump of the kickdrum that dominated Viva La Vida comes back with clubby untz. There is a battle-hymn quality to the melody, a marching insistence that gamely sets up a chorus written to be sung and heard in a rock hall.

Must we talk about the lyrics? It will not surprise you to learn that a song titled "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" does not hold up well to textual analysis. As darkness is to Conrad, light is to Martin: He is pathologically incapable of writing two stanzas without multiple references to lights, stars, skies, or other bright shiny things guiding him, always, "home." In the first two verses of "Every Teardrop," we get two lights, one heaven, and one morning (Coldplay bingo!). There are "cathedrals in my heart," and "every siren is a symphony," and it's all pretty horrible if you stop and think about it. But the point is, don't stop and think about it. Martin's words are more like percussion than prose, marking time, filling space, distinguishing verses and choruses.

Listening to Coldplay for the lyrics is like reading a book for the page numbers. Insist on doing so and you're missing the real work. Everything that Coldplay does is big. Even the "small" songs are stadium anthems. But the crux of Coldplay's talent--yes, talent--is subtler than the music sounds. It is, very simply, melody. Or better yet, finding the balance between predictability and surprise that characterizes most successful melodies. Hundreds of bands play wistful choruses over the same four chords and don't get much further than the garage or local bar. Most of them fail because their melodies are crap.

Chris Martin might be a soggy trunk of sap, but he is genetically incapable of writing abstruse melodies. They draw clear lines. They take a shape. They pose a question, and they give a satisfying answer. They open the chord and resolve the fleeting dissonance, and it's all done deftly enough that the hook comes into focus just as it's ending.

Is this song any good? It's a Coldplay song--a carefully orchestrated, melodically solid, hands-to-the-sky, all-around rousing rock anthem about, literally, crying. Does that make any sense? Of course not. Is that description abhorrent to you? Me, too. Which is why I'm carefully monitoring the volume on my earphones to make sure nobody hears me hitting the repeat button again, and again, and again.

The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/the-new-coldplay-song-is-awesome-if-you-ignore-the-lyrics/239902/

[Ziggy]

This Sara Lee is writing for both MTV.com and The Atlantic

New Song: Coldplay, 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall'
Posted 1 hr ago by Jamie Peck in Celebrity, Music




Credit: Sara Lee

Modern rock behemoths Coldplay just previewed the first single off their upcoming Brian Eno-produced fifth studio album, and it's every bit as soaring as we've come to expect from the band. It begins with an airy riff taken from the 1976 song "I Go To Rio" by Australian singer-songwriter Peter Allen, and spins it into something uniquely inspirational.

Eno's influence shows, as do echoes of U2 and solo-era Sting. The lyrics are intimate, describing the singer's inner state as he listens to music and contemplates life: "I turn the music up, I've got my records on, I shut the world outside until the lights come on," Chris Martin sings, meditatively. But as the song picks up, with grand orchestration and a recurring, triumphant guitar lick, you get the sense you're being let in on something much more universal as he croons "every tear is a waterfall."

We're not totally sure what Martin could have to cry about (with multiple accolades, beautiful children and a movie star wife, his life seems pretty good), but I guess we all feel bummed sometimes. In any case, "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" has major summer smash potential, so teary waterfalls, be gone, Coldplay!

http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2011/06/03/coldplay-every-teardrop-is-a-waterfall/

[Coldplaying@Hogwarts]

That review from the L Magazine makes me puke with anger.

[yeahhright]

Well...Perez liked it...source (http://perezhilton.com/category/coldplay?from=starseeker_side)

"Wow. Wow. Wow.

Chris and the boys really hit it out of the park! Not just a homerun but a grand slam!

After a bit of a break in between albums, their brand new single is such a powerful, instant, undeniable, huge, global hit.

It feels sooooo good on the ears!

Check out Coldplay's Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (above).

We can't stop listening!!!!

Coldplay at its best!!!"

[deborahbr]

YouTube - ‪Peter Allen - I go to Rio‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgq1g-2cQ54) YouTube - ‪Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Official)‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kf_6BWcOOg)

Coldplay sample Peter Allen's 1976 single 'I Go To Rio' on new single - video

Coldplay take inspiration from Australian songwriter on comeback track

Coldplay's long awaited comeback single 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall', which you can hear by scrolling down and clicking at the bottom of the page, takes a sample from Australian 1970s songwriter Peter Allen's single 'I Go To Rio', the band have confirmed.

The track, which you can hear below, was released in 1976 on Allen's fourth album 'Taught By Experts' and has since been covered by a number of high profile artists, including Peggy Lee.

Allen, who died in 1992, enjoyed a successful music career in the 1970s and 1980s, releasing over ten solo albums. He has also seen his songs covered by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dusty Springfield and Olivia Newton-John.

Coldplay have credited Allen as a songwriter on the list of writers for 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' on their official website Coldplay.com, possibly as an extra precaution after they were sued by Joe Satriani in December 2008 over claims they plagiarized his 2004 track 'If I Could Fly' for their 2008 single 'Viva La Vida'. The case was settled out of court.

http://www.nme.com/news/coldplay/57066


Rio de Janeiro!!!!! WOW! I love it!!!!
Can't wait to see them at Rock in Rio:sunny:

[howyousawtheworld]

The New Coldplay Song is Awesome, if You Ignore the Lyrics
By Derek Thompson Jun 3 2011, 2:20 PM ET 2
"Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" is as sappy as its name suggests, and that's great



Sarah Lee / Coldplay


Chris Martin has a cold. Just listen to the guy. His vowels are long and thickly exhaled. His consonants are swallowed. That soft, nasal chest voice breaks every few words into an apologetic, crackling falsetto. There is a kind of permanent head cold in Martin's voice and outlook, which might explain why he writes so much about feeling sorry for himself and finding cures. I was lost, I was lost oh yeah, but everything's not lost, and I will try to fix you and also, stars. That is every Coldplay song in a sentence.

Or, it used to be. Four years ago, the band teamed up with superproducer Brian Eno to make a record, Viva La Vida, that forced Martin and his bandmates to shrug off their mopiness. Sighing syths were replaced by rougher reverb, and symbol-crashing choruses gave way to primal thumps. The critics had a point: You can smear mud on sentimentalist sap, but you're still dealing with sentimental sap. Even so, Eno convinced the group to drop the in-the-gutter-looking-at-the-stars motif and act like a rock band.

And today, the gang is back. Coldplay's latest single, the dreadfully named "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall," begins undreadfully. An angelic synth swell lays the foundation for a jangly electric piano riff that sounds like what you would get if Animal Collective remixed Peter Allen's 1976 song "I Go to Rio" (thanks to Village Voice for the sharp eyes on the song credit, which lists Allen as a co-writer).



Then everything gets very Coldplay. Martin's voice, throaty and self-assured, kicks off a talk-sing verse. A guitar line takes the bluegrassy twiddle-diddle from the band's "Strawberry Swing" and adds a few extra diddles. The monosyllabic thump of the kickdrum that dominated Viva La Vida comes back with clubby untz. There is a battle-hymn quality to the melody, a marching insistence that gamely sets up a chorus written to be sung and heard in a rock hall.

Must we talk about the lyrics? It will not surprise you to learn that a song titled "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" does not hold up well to textual analysis. As darkness is to Conrad, light is to Martin: He is pathologically incapable of writing two stanzas without multiple references to lights, stars, skies, or other bright shiny things guiding him, always, "home." In the first two verses of "Every Teardrop," we get two lights, one heaven, and one morning (Coldplay bingo!). There are "cathedrals in my heart," and "every siren is a symphony," and it's all pretty horrible if you stop and think about it. But the point is, don't stop and think about it. Martin's words are more like percussion than prose, marking time, filling space, distinguishing verses and choruses.

Listening to Coldplay for the lyrics is like reading a book for the page numbers. Insist on doing so and you're missing the real work. Everything that Coldplay does is big. Even the "small" songs are stadium anthems. But the crux of Coldplay's talent--yes, talent--is subtler than the music sounds. It is, very simply, melody. Or better yet, finding the balance between predictability and surprise that characterizes most successful melodies. Hundreds of bands play wistful choruses over the same four chords and don't get much further than the garage or local bar. Most of them fail because their melodies are crap.

Chris Martin might be a soggy trunk of sap, but he is genetically incapable of writing abstruse melodies. They draw clear lines. They take a shape. They pose a question, and they give a satisfying answer. They open the chord and resolve the fleeting dissonance, and it's all done deftly enough that the hook comes into focus just as it's ending.

Is this song any good? It's a Coldplay song--a carefully orchestrated, melodically solid, hands-to-the-sky, all-around rousing rock anthem about, literally, crying. Does that make any sense? Of course not. Is that description abhorrent to you? Me, too. Which is why I'm carefully monitoring the volume on my earphones to make sure nobody hears me hitting the repeat button again, and again, and again.

The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/the-new-coldplay-song-is-awesome-if-you-ignore-the-lyrics/239902/

I wouldn't say it's awesome like her but this is an awesome review.

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“Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall”: B+

Chris Martin does it again. He gives force to wimp music, beauty to base pop and the world another Coldplay anthem. The first bit of new music from Coldplay’s as-yet-untitled fifth album, an expected fall release, continues the band’s journey away from its dark, mopey Radiohead roots and toward the bright, modern universalism of U2. It also, oddly (and apparently intentionally) lifts the hook from Peter Allen’s “I Go to Rio.” Basically, the boys are joyous. And so is this stadium-rock track. “I turn the music up, I got my records on, I shut the world outside until the lights come on,” Martin sings over buoyant synths, ringing guitar and big drums. You can feel the love and hear the band’s next chart-topper all at once.

http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1342819&srvc=home&position=also

[Phoebeo]

From a Danish Website: http://www.headliners.dk/nyheder/coldplays-nye-single-mangler-fornyelse.aspx

Coldplay's new single lacks innovation

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''Coldplay are soon ready with their fifth album to follow up the massive success of 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends' from 2008. Now is the first single finally landed, and it is Coldplay boys just as we know them.

'Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall' presents a chanting guitar melody that slowly becomes more and more massive. The catchy poplyd, melancholia and large barn need is there - as in almost all of Coldplay's hit. There is not much new under the sun.

Yes, we are perhaps disappointed. For this number might as well have been from the 2008-album. We can not quite decipher what would be 'the innovative', and Coldplay wont otherwise impress with a new breathtaking universe of sound from album to album.''

I used Google Translate, so I hope that it is translated okay. :p

[MartinFan]

Contactmusic.com 6/3

A spokesperson for Coldplay has defended the British rockers after they were accused of copying their latest single from a 1990s dance track, insisting the similarities are intentional.

The band's new track Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall debuted on Friday (03Jun11), but many fans were quick to point out that it sounds a lot like a song called Ritmo De La Noche, which has been recorded by acts including Mystic, the Sacados and Chocolate.

A representative for the band has now confirmed Coldplay collaborated with songwriters Peter Allen and Adrienne Anderson, whose original tune I Go To Rio was used in Ritmo De La Noche.

The rep also reveals frontman Chris Martin wrote Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall after hearing Allen and Anderson's work featured in Javier Bardem's recent film Biutiful, telling Scotland's Daily Record, "Chris was inspired to write the song after watching the film Biutiful by Alejandro Gonzalez. In the film, there is a nightclub scene - during which a track is playing in the background, based on I Go To Rio by Peter Allen and Adrienne Anderson. As a result, Allen and Anderson are also credited as writers on Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall."

Coldplay were sued by guitar great Joe Satriani in 2008 after he accused them of plagiarising his 2004 song If I Could Fly in their hit single Viva La Vida. The case was settled out of court.

[Lovisa]

I found this review in Aftonbladet, but I can't seem to find it on their website, only in the newspaper, so I can't give a link to the review.

The new single is like soft ice in july
What song that's going to be this year's summer plague is always a hot topic. The contest is already decided. Eric Amarillo's "Om sanningen ska fram" is going to be the winner. But it should've been Coldplay's new single. "Every teardrop is a waterfall" is as good as soft ice cream in July. And about as easy to digest.
Arena Rock music remains. In the backround a familiar guitar is heard - it sounds like The Edge from U2 jamming with a bumble bee - and the melody will get huge audiences to come together in a rhythmic singsong. Coldplay resample Peter Allen "I Go to Rio": a solo more commercial than four semi finals of ESC. And Chris Martin is singing a text about how he shut out the rest of the world through music, how the power of a song makes him feel like he has a cathedral in the heart. And that: to numb their problems with a song or in a pulsating dance floor that closes after dawn, is disco music's central theme. Barry White's "Let the music play" and Madonna's" Into the Groove "are two other examples. Coldplay is one of the world's biggest rock bands. And by being just as accessible as the task requires the group becomes even more unique.
4/5

I used google translate, so I know that the translation isn't perfect.

[Lu'kaa]

A french review, sorry if my translation isn't 100% correct :P

Coldplay: il est bien ce nouveau single non?

http://static.blog.leparisien.fr/media/12/1359495489.jpgColdplay est devenu très gros. Il faut s'y faire. Ce groupe ne jouera plus que dans des stades ou presque, dans des grandes salles, à la manière de U2. Alors le nouveau single de Coldplay est à sa hauteur. Grand, gros, XXL et...plutôt réussi. A la première écoute, pourtant, les ficelles sont trop grosses: l'introduction synthétique, puis le couplet taillé pour être repris par 80 000 personnes - au moins - en concert. Ce serait donc juste un single, fait pour passer en boucle à la radio, pour être fredonné sous la douche.

A la deuxième écoute, "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" se revèle plus subtil que ça, avec sa montée en puissance assez enivrante, sa guitare biniou (appelez cela comme vous voulez, moi ça me rappelle le biniou) assez entêtante, qui revient en boucle et son introduction qui serait donc pompée sur... "Je vais à Rio" de Claude François ou plutôt la version originale de Peter Allen "I Go To Rio". Coldplay l'assume sur son site, sans doute pour éviter toute accusation de plagiat.

Une drôle d'idée, alors, pour un groupe que beaucoup imagine désormais trop formaté pour être honnête, face auquel il faut se déchausser pour ne pas salir en interview (je sais, j'ai testé).

Mais rien que pour cet emprunt inattendu et ce qu'il en fait, le nouveau Coldplay est réussi. Sans parler de l'essentiel: "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" est une excellente chanson.

Coldplay : nice new single, eh?

Coldplay has become really big. You have to get used to it. This band is only going to play in stadiums or huge halls, like U2. So the new Coldplay single is huge too. Huge, big, XXL, and... rather good. When you hear it for the first time though, it's a bit obvious : the synthetic introduction, then the chorus made to be sung by 80,000 persons -at least- in concerts. So it would just be a single, made to be played repeatedly on radio, to be sung under the shower.

When you hear it for the second time, "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall" is more subtle than this, with a rather intoxicating rise, a rather heady bagpipe guitar loop -call it whatever you want, it reminds me of a bagpipe- and the introduction taken from... "Je vais à Rio", by Claude François, or the original "I Go To Rio" version by Peter Allen. Coldplay assumes it on the official website, surely to avoid any plagiarism accusation.

Strange idea, then, from a band that many imagine too formatted to be honest, a band in front of which you have to take your shoes off not to smear during an interview -I know it, I had to-.

Just for that unexpected loaning and what the band makes of it, the new Coldplay is successful. Not to mention the essential, "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall' is an excellent song.

http://zik-zag.blog.leparisien.fr/archive/2011/06/05/coldplay-il-est-bien-ce-nouveau-singlen-non.html?c

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thanks! :)

[maria_shiver]

^^You're welcome,
more....
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Ritmo/noche/marcha/militar/elpepucul/20110603elpepucul_9/Tes

El País - Madrid - 03/06/2011
"Entre el 'Ritmo de la noche' y la marcha militar. Coldplay lanza su nuevo single tras 'Viva la vida'.- Su primera entrega en tres años sin contar su polémico 'single' de Navidad".

Nothing new, and doesn't interesting, I only post it by an eagerness compilation:D

This is interesting 2.733.442 visiting in three days!!!!!!

YouTube - ‪Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Official)‬‏

[busybeeburns]

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Stereoboard: Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Single Review)

The extent to which you appreciate the vibrant new Coldplay single can perhaps be gauged by objectivity. The band’s latest tunes, showcased at Rock AM Ring this week, have been received in ‘rapturous’ fashion according to one of their roadies. Meanwhile, you won’t have to search too hard on social networks to find the naysayers: “this one is ripping off so-and-so...”; “they want to be U2...” so on, so forth.

Somewhat predictably then, the truth is that the ironically named ‘Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall’ is somewhere in the middle. Coldplay are far from bland, and whether you loved or hated Viva la Vida (and it’s needlessly long title), you had to admire their willingness to progress as a group. However, whichever way you look at it, this latest single is further proof that although Martin and co certainly don’t lack fear in regards to experimentation, their song writing can leave something to be desired.

Lyrically, there’s some very clumsy stuff here, “Don’t want to see another generation drop/I’d rather be a comma than a full stop” being a particular culprit. The main melodic idea, mainly synth-based, is also a little uninteresting (even grating), but it does give Jonny Buckland a chance to shine with his underrated skills on the guitar. Once Chris Martin’s repetitive vocals disappear into the mix around halfway through, the track begins to pick up momentum, before its frustratingly abrupt finish.

Some bands are well suited to this proclaimed role of ‘stadium kings’; just look at where Muse are. Coldplay are arguably even bigger, having played arenas across the world themselves for a good part of a decade, and there is no doubt that the anthemic nature of this track is very deliberate. ‘Every Teardrop...’ is far too linear to be considered alongside pop classics ‘Yellow’ and the Buckley-esque ‘Shiver’ (I still consider the latter to be their best song). Maybe it would be unfair to say that Coldplay have regressed, especially as this is the poorest of the new songs. But hey, let’s be objective: Coldplay are not the new U2, and they’re certainly not the new Radiohead, but they can definitely do better than this.

http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/165979/9

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Coldplay's Chris Martin likes to listen to other people's music. On this new track, he even sings about it.

Song of the Week: 'Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall,' Coldplay

For a group that squats in the middle of the road, Coldplay sure is polarizing.

The politeness of the London quartet’s music irritates those who worry that all the teeth have been pulled out of the mainstream rock enterprise. Detractors claim that all of Coldplay’s ideas have been pinched from Radiohead, Arcade Fire, U2 and Travis, and then bleached to radio-friendly inoffensiveness.

That has not stopped fans from turning all four Coldplay albums platinum, several times over. Then there’s Kanye West, who recently suggested that Coldplay would eventually be deemed superior to the Beatles, and compared frontman and bandleader Chris Martin favorably to John Lennon.

West says a lot of crazy stuff. But as a musical curator, he usually knows what he’s talking about, and he picks his collaborators shrewdly. So outraged was West when Jay-Z scooped him on Coldplay that he took to the studio and rapped about it on "Big Brother." There’s something about Martin’s approach and his clothespin-on-the-nose delivery that speaks powerfully to West. He’s hardly alone.

Maybe it’s just a case of like recognizing like. Martin may sometimes sing like Thom Yorke, but in his restless, omnivorous appetite for pop, he’s far closer to West than he is to Radiohead. Hook recognition is one of his best assets — and the first thing he recognizes about pop hooks is that they often fit best secondhand.

He is a skilled borrower, and an even better appraiser of commercial value. "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall," the first single from the upcoming fifth Coldplay album, turns on a clever bit of reappropriation: the opening groove is lifted from "Ritmo de la Noche," a flimsy disco record by Argentine dance-pop group the Sacados. That record was, in turn, built around a sample from Peter Allen’s lite radio standard, "I Go to Rio." This time around, Martin isn’t even bothering to hide what he’s filched: he gives Allen a writing credit, and he’s mentioned in interviews that he was inspired to write the song after hearing the Sacados playing in the background of a movie.

So let’s rewind and take a look at how far we’ve travelled, around the globe and through time, with Chris Martin. A Londoner, he pulled a lick from a South American dance hit from 1990 that was first recorded by an Australian television personality a decade earlier, and he got the idea while enjoying an entirely different form of entertainment from the one that made him famous.

To cut through all that historical and temporal specificity and identify a riff that he can use to construct an international hit record ("Waterfall" is already on the U.S. charts) … well, that requires a special talent. It might be rightly said that if Coldplay wasn’t as rootless as it is, the band would not be able to shop around the global beat market as effortlessly as it does. Martin’s magpie nest is a jumble of decontextualized signifiers that he can mix and match as he pleases until he strikes gold.

It’s not visionary, and it might not even be particularly artistic. But it has been an effective business model.

But what about the song; how good is it?

Well, if you loathe Coldplay, this one isn’t going to change your mind. Brian Eno is back behind the boards, so the record sounds great: atmospheric, glossy, immersive. The lyrics, however, are again self-important and humorless when they aren’t maddeningly vague. The title, too, reads like a parody of Coldplay’s unfortunate taste for the morose. When Martin sings about rebel music, it’s almost as if he’s baiting the punk rockers who have always run him down.

This will be another exhibit in their case against Martin and his band, playing, as it surely will, alongside "Clocks," "Yellow" and "Viva la Vida" in perpetuity in supermarkets, laundromats, airports and diners. That’s a guarantee of immortality for Coldplay; a weird kind of immortality, cobbled together from pop scraps.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2011/06/song_of_the_week_every_teardro.html

[Zman]

You can watch my personal review of the EP here at:

YouTube - ‪EP Review: Coldplay's Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall‬‏

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