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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Gryff on 09 Nov 2005, 15:51
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I am not that keen on starting an "I hate Coldplay" thread, but seriously, most annoying way to announce a tour EVER.
Seriously.
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Coldplay annoy
Sun is hot
seriously though that is pretty gay
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Fuck em. Fuck em all with a big spintered stick. I blame coldplay for killing britrock. Before coldplay, you could turn on the radio and hear a listenable rock song. After coldplay, there was nothing but idiotic wimpy passionless worthless moaning gits strumming away halfheartedly at guitars and whining about how difficult life is, despite a big fat record contract.
You could set a fucking tax form to music, and it would be more inspiring and meaningful than goddamn coldplay.
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Wow...I actually don't hate Coldplay entirely, and I think this is easily the worst idea in the history of thinking. What happened, did they decide that giving out a tour date everytime a fan fellated Chris Martin was too easy?
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Fuck em. Fuck em all with a big spintered stick. I blame coldplay for killing britrock. Before coldplay, you could turn on the radio and hear a listenable rock song. After coldplay, there was nothing but idiotic wimpy passionless worthless moaning gits strumming away halfheartedly at guitars and whining about how difficult life is, despite a big fat record contract.
I'm going to start a piano rock band. We're only going to have one tinkly piano riff, and all our songs will be ridiculous, metaphoric drivel about just how hard it is to be a middle class art student nowadays. We're going to be very, very, very rich.
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wow, what asshats. seriously, couldn't they just come out and tell us they're trying to kill all legitimate musical endevors?
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Right now, somewhere, sp2's Coldplay-sense is tingling.
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Not all of their stuff is bad, but damn is that just a stupid ass way to announce tour dates. The fans are already paying cash for tickets, isn't that enough?
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... Wow.
I mean, wow. That really is pretentious. And by pretentious, I mean gratuitously masturbatory. And I don't even particularly dislike Coldplay (although I certainly wouldn't go to one of their shows).
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I just realized...
Where the hell is SP2?
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i think sp2 has been so overwhelmed with hatred he is now mute
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I think Coldplay did something daring to get their fans to rally behind them and say "OMG LETS GET HITS ON THEIR SITE".
Too bad it pissed off a lot of other people.
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Cold Play has a sound I like there for I listen to them. Its not like they don't have any musical tallent at all!
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What would be amusing is if not enough people visited the site, and no-one turned up for their last dates.
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What's so awful about this? They're obviously going to announce them all before tickets go on sale, and if they don't Ticketmaster will. Until then, they're just encouraging people to tell their friends about their band and go to their site. I mean, sure, it's a little annoying, but considering how many have already flocked to the site, it's not like it'ds going to take that long, so it's not that obnoxious. It's a way for Coldplay's name to spread around the internet one more time, even if sometimes negatively. I mean, it got them a pitchfork news post, and it'll either get another, or an updated one, when all the dates are out. That's more than the usual press, no?
Or maybe I just don't care because I don't care about seeing Coldplay live. Come to think of it, from such seeming Coldplay-haters, you all sure do want to know when these tour dates are.
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Yeah, Coldplay totally needs more free internet publicity. I mean, no one has ever heard of them.
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Yeah, Coldplay totally needs more free internet publicity. I mean, no one has ever heard of them.
So really this is just anger at major labels' marketing methods. Not at Coldplay. Let's get our targets straight.
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if i was as popular as coldplay, i would probably be just as pretentious, if not more so.
"for every 33,000 women that send us naked pictures of themselves, we will announce another tour date."
"for every 33,000 people that kill themselves wearing a coldplay tshirt, we will announce another tour date"
i'm not condoning them, because i like them. it's been the "cool" thing to hate coldplay for a long time now. the backlash against the backlash has sorta, um, arrived.
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But lo, the backlash against the backlash against the backlash is nigh!
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About sp2, check his last post, he said he would be gone for a few weeks.
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What would be amusing is if not enough people visited the site, and no-one turned up for their last dates.
I was just thinking that! I could just imagine Chris Martin checking the site every couple of hours, wondering why no one wants to find out if they are playing Louisville or not.
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I went to their site. I gave them another hit. I wasn't considering going to any of their shows and I'm still not. Just helping get them announced for people who do want to see them.
Important thing:
So really this is just anger at major labels' marketing methods. Not at Coldplay. Let's get our targets straight.
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I despise them - always have, always will. Nuff said
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Coldplay? More like Coldpretentious! If you thought those guys were annoying, just wait until you hear this:
Pot, kettle, you are black.
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haha!
Then again, your 'Pot Kettle' thingy is also a bit pretentious.
Good call though.
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haha!
Then again, your 'Pot Kettle' thingy is also a bit pretentious.
Good call though.
Duh, I'm a pretentious fuck. At least I admit it.
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It's aaaaaal good.
Coldplay annoy me quite a bit. Though i do like the drums at the end of "Fix You"
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some stuffs
i think it annoys this crowd becasue shameless self-promoting, when concerned with successful bands, is looked down upon. at least i look down on it. they're huge. they have a massive fan base. they really don't need to pull this kind of self-gratifying stunt to get people to know them or take notice of a tour. they're doing something so obvously commercial with something that's not supposed to act this way. they're not promoting a fast food joint, this is fucking music. music isn't supposed to operate the same way as all other coporate endevors. this particular action happens to be so blatently commercial that it opens it's self as a target and symbol for what is wrong with the music industry. it makes me want to shove credit cards through thier eyes. fuck coldplay.
also, their music sucks big floppy donkey dick.
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Okay, I like Coldpay, but that's going a bit too far.
Seriously, guys, so you're popular. Don't let it go to your heads, yeah? Cheers.
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I got the e-mail from the site announcing their new website. I checked out the site. I checked the date for the nearest performance, noted the date, and moved on.
I didn't give any of this a second thought.
Seriously, guys, what the hell is the problem?
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It is pretentious, but seriously guys... you think they're in charge of every marketing move that is made on their behalf? You don't know much about record labels and general promotion, if you honestly believe that.
"Hating" them for their music is strong, and downright immature, you bandwagon-jumpers. Disliking their music is fine. Disliking comments they may have made from time-to-time, and thinking them asshats for saying these things, is fine too. Hate is too strong, and hating for reasons of marketing/public relations... it's downright ignorant.
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i don't hate the members of the band personally. i hate the public entity that the band is. that consists of the music, the member's public image, thier marketing strategies/moves and everything else that comes from that band. i don't care if it was thier idea or not, it's their band i hate because it is their band's crew what's doing it.
i don't think hate is too strong becasue this serves as a very poignant symbol for everything i hate about the music industry.
hating them for thier music is not immature and i think that's a pretty inflammatory thing to say. i don't think nayone here would honestly put fist to one of thier faces were we to meet them in person, but to the entity that we call coldplay, i would like so sodomize it with a rusty spoon. not that i'd do this to any of the guys in it, but saying it sounds wierd and it is comprised of people so we say "they" or "them."
Hate is too strong, and hating for reasons of marketing/public relations... it's downright ignorant.
hate is a personal thing. it's not your place to say what's aappropriate for others to feel, or how they may use the word hate.
in what way is that ignorant? what makes you think that this hate is uninformed? there's no way you could know how much any of us know about coldplay or thier mareting strategies. you assume that becasue we hate thier marketing practices or thier music that we are uninformed? That, sir, is ignorant.
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I know this is a thread derailment, but I'm siding with Sideways here. This really does smack more of the whole "OMGWTFLOLBBQ Coldplay did something pretentious, let's all say how much they suxx0r!" bandwagon. Only without the 12-year-old AOL-er speak.
So they're now connected to a marketing strategy and attention-getting technique that you find distasteful. Okay, even I'm mildly surprised and irritated that they seem to think they have to stand further above the parapets, or would actually put something that selve-serving into action, but the sheer extent of the reaction I'm witnessing here seems out of proportion to the incident itself.
So you don't like what they've done? Feel they're a bit too big for themselves? Like to shoot them down every chance you get? Well, who said you had to give a fuck in the first place? Nobody's forcing you to listen to them, nobody's tying you down and playing "Trouble" at you 24/7 for a month, please don't subject those of us who actually like them to the constant stream of vitriol. In short, if you don't like them, why not stop talking about them and discuss somebody else?
And, so as to heed my own advice, I am now getting out of the kitchen. It's too hot for me in here.
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About sp2, check his last post, he said he would be gone for a few weeks.
... phew.
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Am I the only person who actually likes sp2?
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i don't hate the members of the band personally. i hate the public entity that the band is. that consists of the music, the member's public image, thier marketing strategies/moves and everything else that comes from that band. i don't care if it was thier idea or not, it's their band i hate because it is their band's crew what's doing it.
i don't think hate is too strong becasue this serves as a very poignant symbol for everything i hate about the music industry.
Damned right. To me, coldplay represent the death of british pop music. They are the walking stereotype of everything that was wrong with radio rock in the early 00s. They are like U2, but with even less talent and even less variation.
Luckily, things are looking up. The killers were a ray of fucking sunshine compared with coldplay and their low fat sugar free decaff "rock", and i have high hopes for the artic monkeys.
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Am I the only person who actually likes sp2?
No, although you might be the only one who always likes him. ;)
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I like sp2 most of the time.
La Creme and Khar are my favorite people on this board, though.
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Luckily, things are looking up. The killers were a ray of fucking sunshine compared with coldplay and their low fat sugar free decaff "rock", and i have high hopes for the artic monkeys.
The Killers make me want to literally, kill myself. It takes quite a song to actualyl make me want to shoot myself in the head. Pretty much anything by Dahv (http://www.dahv.com) does this.
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The Killers are fucking terrible.
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Well, if you cant apreciate some simple, well produced and fairly tuneful rock music for what it is, then perhaps its for the best.
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No, that's not it. The Killers are just trash. They don't have good tunes, and it's not all too well produced. They make Coldplay look good.
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Oh, bullshit you guys. I call bullshit. You guys just don't like The Killers because they are popular. Come on now.
I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.
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COLDPLAY: U2 FOR PEOPLE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER WHEN U2 WERE SOMEWHAT WELL-REGARDED
(U2 are also completely terrible)
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I'm not that enamoured of U2, and I'm not particularly hating of Coldplay, but . . . I will shit myself if Coldplay ever do anything even half as good as "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
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i liked Coldplay better when they were called "basically just some of the songs off Sunny Day Real Estate's last album being played over and over again".
amirite?
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Oh, bullshit you guys. I call bullshit. You guys just don't like The Killers because they are popular. Come on now.
I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.
Man, Im sorry to pick on you, but your post is an exaple of what I'm seeing here. The description of this thing says "no hipster snobs", but do some of you people have to be so pretentious as to drill people for merely expressing their hatred or dislike for a band or what have you? Come on, no one but the force fed idiot teens of the western world 'like' the Killers, thet're a new fad to make some money off and then ditch like heaps of other train wreck bands. Some of you, by the sheer luck that the wave lengths of the bands tunes have an affirmative match with your brain patternts may like them, fair enought. I still hate them, and bands like them, for turning my little sister and her generation into a premature skank and fashion whore. Very same situation as bands like Good Charlotte and Simple Plan. I stand by my opinion that you can learn a lot from SOME bands by looking at their label and popularity, and if any of you want to start an argument on that, be my guest, but please...
JUST BE HONEST! Its all good, and less pretentious.
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I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.
Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.
Also, I don't know why people get so worked up over Coldplay. They're probably one of the most meaningless bands to ever exist.
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JUST BE HONEST! Its all good, and less pretentious.
Honest and pretentious are one and the same when you're DK.
I find the Killers average, but inoffensive. They have about four good tunes - ditto Kaiser Chiefs.
I wouldn't buy the albums, but they have some nice songs. Why hate?
As for Coldplay - the last album was dire, but I still love it.
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Uhm... I like coldplay, and I dont think that whas such a stupid idea? Kinda funny, actually ^^
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Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.
oh come on, are you serious?
this whole thing is stupid now, it's just a indie-dick show. decided by backing further and further away from what is percieved as a "poser" (yeah that word is still usable) indie/scene kid.
i guess i win huh?
oh wait, irony's dead...
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Am I the only person who actually likes sp2?
I like him!
These guys just fear him ;)
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Indeed. You can take your badly recorded lo-fi with awful vocals fetish, and stick it somewhere cramped and smelly. I dont give a toss if the killers have had some popular sucesss, infact, thats part of why i like them! They are improving the standard of popular music, and bringing rock back to the radio! I think that is a far better thing for a band to do than to deliberatly hide in obscurity, surrounded by a clique of indie snobs desperately trying to keep the band an indie secret, and even more desperate to hide the fact that their beloved band is actaully pretty crap.
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Nah, The Killers are just bad music to me.
Give me some Boombox recorded Mountain Goats any day of the week!
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I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.
Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.
No I wasn't, but I probably was making a joke at your expense.
Man, Im sorry to pick on you
You're hardly picking on me. I don't claim to have indie cred, and don't want any. I'm saying that you guys are trying to claim your own. You say the Killers are trash and have only buzzwords of stuff you probably picked up on some review for music somewhere "They are overly produced" what do you mean? Explain it. I wasn't talking about me at all, I'm talking about you guys that all of a sudden jumped on some bandwagon because you thought there would be some fraternity in bagging on a band.
Example:
Come on, no one but the force fed idiot teens of the western world 'like' the Killers
OMG guys, AMIRITE?
I'm with Heretic on this though.
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Copying all "your" opinions from pitchfork is only marginally better than copying them all from MTV.
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The Killers are not 'rock' by any sense of the word. The Killers do not 'rock out', with their private areas exposed or otherwise. They're just boring.
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And coldplay do?
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*high fives kid modernist*
not a fan of the killers, think they're largely pretty bad, but you like em so have at it.
same with coldplay, i hate coldplay, but if you like em good for you, enjoy. if their marketing stunts don't bug you, fine! go to their shows or whatever it is you want to do.
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Is liking a band just because they 'rock' the same as liking Coldplay just because they're 'nice/emotional/safe'?
Mmm, nice comfy fence.
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The Killers are not 'rock' by any sense of the word. The Killers do not 'rock out', with their private areas exposed or otherwise. They're just boring.
They're pop-rock. i.e. they are rock.
Rock need constitute rocking out.
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Nah, The Killers are just bad music to me.
Give me some Boombox recorded Mountain Goats any day of the week!
As long as he's got places for "Going To" and writing songs about, I'm happy. *grin*
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I devoured a child for Coldplay once.
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it makes me want to shove credit cards through thier eyes.
Heretic, did I ever tell you that I love you? This made me burst out laughing so loud my neighbor ran in to see if anything was wrong.
Also, WHAT THE FUCK. I don't care what you say, this entire scheme basically translates to "you are only allowed to see us if you can prove HOW MUCH YOU WUV US BY GENERATING HITS." It shouldn't even care if someone hates their guts or not, you buy a goddamn ticket to their show, they play for you. When you make music for profit that is how it works.
GEEZ.
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Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.
oh come on, are you serious?
No I wasn't, but I probably was making a joke at your expense.
Wow, as if you guys even thought I was being serious. Also, how would you be making a joke at my expense? I don't understand.
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I've noticed in the past how easy it is to refer to something stupid or uncredible that you said earlier, and say "oh I was kidding" or "I was being sarcastic." If you're kidding, you certainly could've made an effort to indicate such, since people do often get pissed off at others around here for no good reason.
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NO WE DON'T
GEEZ
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WHO THE HELL ASKED YOU
WHY DON'T YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH FOR ONCE
GEEZ
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I've noticed in the past how easy it is to refer to something stupid or uncredible that you said earlier, and say "oh I was kidding" or "I was being sarcastic." If you're kidding, you certainly could've made an effort to indicate such, since people do often get pissed off at others around here for no good reason.
You mean you didn't find what he was saying to be a blatant joke? I certainly saw through it as a fellow member of the visually impaired...
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LOUD NOISES
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OH CRAP IT DIDN'T WORK
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P.S: Man, you would not believe how politically incorrect searching "owned" on google can be.
I decided to go for a safe-for-children image.
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Jeez, so many new ones have been made since I was a member of the type of forum where people think they are the height of witty discourse.
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Brutal.
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I wonder why nobody linked Coldplay's site on Slashdot.
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SO HOW ABOUT COLDPLAY YOU GUYS ARE THEY JERKS OR WHAT
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Coldplay are good but this idea does suck a fair bit tho.
But sheesh. What a flamefest this thread is
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LET'S GET IN ON THE ACT AND GET THIS THREAD LOCKED!
AGAIN
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Okay, seriously, I am now in favour of a blanket lockdown on all Coldplay-related threads on this board from now on, because some people here are complete ASSHOLES when it comes to them. So you don't like them. Fine. Nothing anybody can say or do is going to change your opinion, but PLEASE stop reaffirming said opinion every five seconds so that those of us who do enjoy their music can get on with our lives without having to live with the irritating desire to argue the point.
This is one sticking point on an otherwise pretty cool board, and it's obviously not going to go away, so how about we raise the endorphin levels on both sides of the issue by just avoiding it altogether?
You don't have to like them, I don't have to agree with you, and vice versa. Let's leave well enough alone. Please/
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Seriously, there was nothing wrong with this thread until some tards started with that "owned" bollocks. It wasnt funny even when it was new.
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YEAH BECAUSE POINTING THE BLAME AND HATING EACH OTHER FOR PETTY REASONS IS COOL NOW.
Switchblade, the point of this thread wasn't even to bash Coldplay or their msuic. It was to draw attention to how bloody pretentious their new marketing scheme is. Their music doesn't even have anything to do with it, hell I enjoy a few Coldplay songs, but I still agree that with that much fame and money and millions of adoring fans, saying that they have to generate a certain amount of hits before they will tell their fans where they are even going to play is still a really jerkish thing to do. The quality of the music doesn't have anything to do with it.
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I agree. They're already famous and rich, why the hell do they need to do something like this?
Others, however, seem to feel that we can't HAVE a thread on Coldplay in any form without it's degenerating into an almost-war between the "Likes Coldplay" and "Really Hates Coldplay" camps.
I like a lot of the people around here, and I'd really rather avoid a whole issue entirely than have to wrestle with the impulse to think of them badly over a difference of opinion.
Besides, you can't deny that pretty much ever Coldplay thread we've ever had got pretty retarded at some point or another. Maybe a blanket lock policy's a bit extreme, but we should probably tone down the whole "OMG CODPALY SUXX0RZ!!!!1" - "STFU N00Bz0R!1!!" thing and try to keep it civil.
EDIT: and since when were Coldplay supposed to be rockers?
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Okay, I do agree with you on that. This thread started out with the intention of "hey you guys, this is kind of a jerk thing for them to do right" and too many people saw it as an opportunity to just mindlessly bash Coldplay whil actually ignoring what the thread was supposed to be about. That part I agree is disrespectful, and.. doesn't really.. make sense. You would think after like 536724513 million threads on the subject of how much coldplay apparantly suck, everyone's hate would just die down on its own, but I guess not...? The fact that someone can hate them THAT much actually kind of scares me. Yeah okay they're pretentious, yeah okay maybe to some people their music really sucks, but that's about it. It is not like they ever murdered anyone or something. The Coldplay-hating is seriously getting ridiculous.
Also, the owned thing WAS funny, or else no one else would have joined in. Trying to derail the argument and point the blame at completely random other people for no reason is a lame way to resolve things.
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If there wasn't a Coldplay, there'd just be another band occupying exactly the same position in the music world as they do. They would be completely interchangeable with Coldplay, and everyone here would hate them exactly as much.
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and i have high hopes for the artic monkeys.
yeah, good luck with that...
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If there wasn't a Coldplay, there'd just be another band occupying exactly the same position in the music world as they do. They would be completely interchangeable with Coldplay, and everyone here would hate them exactly as much.
This is precisely my point: Some of us DON'T hate them and are sick and tired of people opining how much they suck! Go talk about somebody else if you don't like them! PLEASE!
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If there wasn't a Coldplay, there'd just be another band occupying exactly the same position in the music world as they do. They would be completely interchangeable with Coldplay, and everyone here would hate them exactly as much.
I gotcha. You cut off one head and two will rise in its place and all that jazz.
This advertising tactic is either pure label handling, ego massaging on the part of the band or something in between. But, that's pretty much the fate of any band that's on a major.
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You could set a fucking tax form to music, and it would be more inspiring and meaningful than goddamn coldplay.
Dude thanks for the album idea. I am SO going to do that.
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For some reason I've been having desperate urges to set pi and e to music. Less meaningful than a tax form!
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Jeez, so many new ones have been made since I was a member of the type of forum where people think they are the height of witty discourse.
(http://norcal3.com/owned/diver-owned.jpg)
Brutal.
How does that kind of accident happen?
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I'd hit that.
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Wow, y'all are overanalyzing this thread.
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Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.
Black hornrimmed glasses are a staple of the emo scene. It has nothing to do with vision problems. I am optically impaired and I've made the same joke.
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I'd hit that.
She already did, going on that picture.
I'll get my coat.