Viva la Vida

Those aren't apples!!

The fourthcoming fourth gospel AKA “album” from Coldplay is coming and I cant wait!! £¬}

What we know so far -

1. Brian Eno and Timbaland producing

 

(Brian Eno = good choice, he did the Joshua Tree after all. Plus Bowie. Timbaland = bad choice. Are they crazy?! Chris isnt Madonna or Kelly Furtado, or some pop act and I dont’ want him to be!)

2. Spanish influence (!)

3. Best song ever

 

The possible tracklisting is as follows -

 

  1. “Poppy Fields” - War is wrong
  2. “Lost“ - about Chris’s fave TV show
  3. ‘42‘ - This is “The Meaning of Life” in Douglas Adams “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”, which Chris already named “Don’t Panic” after. But it’s also one of the numbers from “Lost”!
  4. ‘Yes‘ - Chris’s positive message again. “We all live in a beautiful world”, In My Place, etc.
  5. ‘Death And All His Friends‘ - a tribute to CM’s fave writer, Terry Pratchett, who tragically has been diagnosed with Spina Bifida
  6. ‘Cemeteries Of London‘ - The Blitz (eg War is Wrong)
  7. ‘Chinese Sleep Chant‘ - Communism is wrong
  8. “Leftrightleftrightleft” - War is wrong
  9. ‘Rainy Day‘ - Just classic Coldplay stuff.

 

The claim is that this album will be very different. In the Bible, John, the fourth Gospel, is very different, both in style and content, from the synoptics that preceed it (Mathhew, Mark and Luke). Is this Coldplays Gospel of John, the “Gnostic Gospel”?

 

Or do the four albums correspond to the elements - earth, air, fire and water?The four evangelists and their traditional correspondances are -

 

 

  • Matthew (Man, Water)

  • Mark (Lion, Fire)

  • Luke (Bull, Earth)

  • John (Eagle, Air)

So,

 

  • Parachutes (Luke/Earth - Trouble, “I wanna live in a wooden house”, etc. All very earthy.)
  • AROBTTH (Matthew/Water = blood?!)
  • X & Y (John/Air - “birds go flying at the speed of light…”)
  • SO VIVA LA VIDA must be Lion/Fire - and they did record it in Spain!!!

 

All will be revealed on June 16th!

April 09 2008 12:44 am | news

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