Showing posts with label Coldplay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coldplay. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Quotes of the Month: March 2014

Pretentious quote of the month: "We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner."


-Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

Stupid Quote of the Month: "Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not."

-Sheila Jackson Lee
 And the rest...

"Putin's playing chess, we're playing marbles."

-Congressman Mike Rogers
"When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her, she had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African Americans, and women, and then everyone who felt marginalized because of what they looked like or who they loved."
-Barack Obama


"Anytime you play your profession and you end up hung — not by the neck, but by the rafters — it’s a great honor."

-Ted Lindsay



"I don’t want to be lectured by a traitor who speaks from a land that doesn’t have a constitution, or had one and it was entirely eviscerated by a thug who has just invaded another land."

Charles Krauthammer



"All right, good night."


-Last words from the missing Malaysian airliner


"Our Western partners headed by the United States prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in their exceptionalism and their sense of being the chosen ones. That they can decide the destinies of the world, that it is only them who can be right."


-Vladimir Putin
"It's as though they've raped college basketball in my opinion."
-Bob Knight on one and dones

Sunday, November 2, 2008

#89: Coldplay

Coldplay is the most popular band in the world. Their albums are extremely successful in an age where albums are not successful. They have a unique sound that harkens back to “soft” rock, but also incorporate influences such as U2, Kraftwerk, and Pink Floyd. When they hit the scene, they made such an impression they were asked to open for U2. They declined and it has not hurt. In 2008, they scored their biggest hit to date when fewer and fewer people are listening to rock n roll.

Rock n Roll Moment: They turned down an offer to open for U2 believing they were good enough to make it without the exposure a monster tour would bring.

Essential Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), Viva La Vida (2008)

Coldplay’s Top 10:
Yellow
The Scientist
Speed of Sound
Clocks
Vida la Vida
Violet Hill
Talk
In My Place
Trouble
Lost