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Bono Bombast Syndrome
4Jul2008 Filed in: Music
I’ve just been listening to Coldplay’s latest album “Viva la Vida” and reading some mixed reviews, most of which I can’t help but agree with. One of the funniest has to be from Mark Beaumont from NME:
Why is it that all major league UK rock bands end up turning into U2? Has Bono personally impregnated every arena dressing room with his juices so anyone within 20 feet catches Big Music like scabies?
Classic. Read the full review here.
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SJS
November 20th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Your full review link was broken & could not open the page.Please check, i would like to review it.
Grant
November 21st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Hmm, the link seems to work for me. The review was on the NME site so you could try searching for it there or copy/paste this link into your browser: http://www.nme.com/reviews/coldplay/9713
Jane Veeder
December 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I was trying to run Montage-a-google, hoping to use it in a class exercise assignment, but I just get a new, black window offering a link to the latest Flash player. I have version 9 player installed, so I don’t get what the problem is. Please illuminate me.
Thanks – Jane
SF State University
Grant
December 1st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hi Jane, I’m looking in to this to try and fix the issue. Will post again when it’s fixed.
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April 6th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends…
The album has, as for now, been the number-one-selling coldplay album around the world. In the USA, it sold 316,000 copies in its first day, and 720,000 in its first week. In the UK, the album sold 302,074 albums in three days, debuting at #1….