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I live away from the place I love. My home. Canada.
I have been here in Japan for a few months short of 3 years now. Don't get me wrong, Japan is a beautiful country with some beautiful people and my wife is amazing and beautiful.
But whenever I hear a reference to Canada I just feel a little warm inside and I say to myself- Go Canada! I remember a couple of years back my buddy Steve back home played for us Feist after hearing her at the Folk festival and we were stunned. We bought the CD on the way home and Steve had built his cred as finder of music. I will get back to Feist on a future date (finally found a CD store I can buy the new one here).
Last November when I went back Steve handed me a few CD's including this one Closer to Paradise. I heard the CD over a few drinks that night and was impressed with the Jeff Buckley sounding Lucious Life. Well I have never listened to the other 2 since then being completely brow-beaten by this cd.
This is one of my favorites to drive to. Pumping up the volume while driving home, I always like the little ear candy that sounds a little like Modem squeal that kind of draws the song into a tale of an internet romance- though I am sure it has nothing to do with the words. I am funny- I love music immensely but sometimes I pay more attention to the sounds coming out than the actual words. Usually the worthy songs will get analysed later on, and this will be one of them.
I guess being a die-hard Radiohead fan, I shouldn't, but I actually like Coldplay. I have since I saw the video for "Yellow" and I looked past my roommate's snarky prediction that I would like them and accepted them all the same. They aren't amazing musicians by any means, and whenever I see Chris Martin in an interview I want to shake him violently- BUT I think musically they just get it. They are able to make pretty songs gel, package them to mass market as pop and write music how they want to. Even listening to some of Chris Martin's more recent lyrics I want to forgive him for being such a dunderhead because he shows some depth of thought and, more importantly, feeling. To me that is the big thing about music.
Some of my favorite Coldplay songs actually turn out to be B-sides off their last two albums. "I Bloom Blaum" (which I think is simplistic yet stunning though too short) "Animals" (trippy) and "Proof" (moody and binding- yet a little suspicious it was the same name as his wife's movie) and more recently this song, "Gravity", have all captured me. Gravity is much like the other songs, played at a slower tempo- which is why I think these songs don't make the albums. The poppy songs must be on the album as they will help sell them. But this tendency is a shame-it's time to just put the best, most beautiful songs on the albums, so that the average fan can enjoy it for what it is. Good Music. Grab a coffee, relax- enjoy!
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Listen Dude, don't apologize! There are others who like coldplay. I read about one dude in saskatoon, but that hasn't been confirmed. There are probably some (one or two) in philly, that city has all kinds. Oh yes, one confirmed report of a fan in lapland. (or maybe lapdanceland, I'll have to look it up)
This is a cover, I'm not sure who wrote the original, but it wasn't Coldplay. The original is better.
I googled around a bit. The song is originally written by Chris Martin, but they gave the song to Embrace...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(Embrace_song)
So not a cover, but there is an older version of the song by another band. I still like this version..
This one takes me back a few years. Yes- I am one of those guys that bought into the grunge movement in a big way back in the 90's. I was realizing the other day, that I sometimes listen to old Nirvana or Soundgarden and I still like Pearl Jam after all these years- but I haven't really gone back and listened to a lot of Alice in Chains in a while.
So I waded through my collection a bit and pulled out this gem. It is such a plain and simplistic song but it always gripped me for one reason or another. So enjoy!
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ah yes, discovering feist, that was a great day for me!