大家不都馬是忙理偷閒 ※ 引述《Mysia (Make Tea Not War)》之銘言： : 我真是上班太閒了 : http://metromix.com/top/1,1419,M-Metromix-Home-X!ArticleDetail-17754,00.html : Music review, Coldplay at the Vic : By Joshua Klein : Aside from Radiohead, which occupies a unique place in the pop scene as the : current international arbiter of cool, Brit-pop just isn't making much headway : in a U.S. market still saturated with teen pop and hip-hop. Any assessment of : so many other U.K. superstars reads like a qualitative retelling of the : Goldilocks fairy tale. Travis? Too nice. Oasis? They try too hard. Blur and : Pulp? They don't try hard enough. Starsailor? Just try to tell them apart from : everyone else. : But something about Coldplay seems to be just right. The band's debut album : "Parachutes" was a sleeper hit, even landing the band a top-40 hit with : "Yellow," much to the barely disguised envy of Coldplay's peers. Coldplay, : for its part, possessed just the right balance of ambition, talent and : accessibility. : Indeed, Coldplay's upcoming "A Rush of Blood to the Head" picks up right where : "Parachutes" left off. Recorded in the same studio with the same producer, : the album's indelible first single "In My Place" was apparently the only song : left over from the "Parachutes" sessions. Hoping lightning will strike twice, : the band is in the midst of a short preview tour to build anticipation for : album No. 2, and if the reaction at the sold-out Vic Friday night was any : indication, the band's set for a sophomore success. : The setting Friday admittedly skewed the sample. With a camera crew capturing : the set for a livetelevision special, the club's lights were left on and : Coldplay's impossibly charismatic singer Chris Martin was encouraged to play : not just to the Vic audience, but to the viewers at home, too. : No problem. Reminiscent of U2, Echo and the Bunnymen and, of course, Radiohead, : Coldplay's music sounds perfectly suited to catch the ears of millions. The : piano-led "The Scientist" and "Clocks" mingled with the psychedelic-tinged : "Daylight," "Don't Panic" and "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face," the latter : three songs playing up Martin's Bunnymen infatuation. Drummer Will Champion : chimed in with falsetto backing vocals as he pounded away incessantly, while : Jon Buckland brandished a new guitar for nearly every song. : Buckland's minimal leads were key to Coldplay's rousing performance. : Preferring subtle shadings to power-chords and simple rhythmic patterns to : full-blown solos, Buckland provided the counterpoint to Martin's heartfelt : and yearning vocals. When the two meshed, as on the hit "Yellow" and its : sound-alike sequel "In My Place," the melancholy emotional power was : undeniable. : Not everything was so serious. When a technical problem delayed the live : broadcast, Martin played a brief piano medley of Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and : Eminem's "Without Me," showing that he's been studying the mechanics of : hitmaking. He brought an enthusiastic fan up to introduce the propulsive : "Shiver," then later led the band through the giddy Bunnymen nugget "Lips : Like Sugar" (Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch appears on several songs on the : new album). : "This is less like a gig and more like an evening with your grandparents," : apologized Martin about the odd, casual pacing of the show. But if this show : was only Coldplay in low-key mode, then the band's forthcoming proper tour : should cement them as the stars they so clearly aspire to be. -- 我媽前陣子跟我說不要唸ㄌ叫我去大陸念書那時ㄉ我突然想到我還有一堆瘋狂ㄉ事還沒有 作我沒有去裸奔我還沒有科過搖頭我甚至還沒染過金我要花光我ㄉ積蓄我要刺青我要穿 鼻環肚環我要角我搬上最討厭ㄉ人我要一個月玩通宵我要到夜市賣盜版cd我想看看林昌衛 現在過ㄉ怎樣是不是還是那死女人小紅毛在一起一切ㄉ事情我正要計畫時.我突然覺ㄉ 我ㄉ人生充滿ㄌ希望.功課..一邊啦..教授..去死啦..睡到自然醒晚上不睡覺.但是. 上禮拜我媽打給我叫我不用去大陸ㄌ突然好像是被判ㄌ決症然後又告訴你其實是看錯ㄌ --

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