Posts Tagged: Coldplay

Feature / Music — 10 Comments
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Sep 09

Best Album of the 2000s: 2002

It’s not easy to pick the best album of a particular year. Music is the soundtrack to our lives, and it means different things to individuals depending on where they’re at when an album is released. Over the next few months I’m gonna tell you what albums we liked each year over the past ten years and I’ll also talk about your collective choice for best album each year. Anytime you narrow down entire years music down to 10 choices, you’re gonna miss some great music, and I know some of you think these types of articles are a waste of time. To you I say this:

  • Get over it. It’s my time I’m wasting. If you don’t wanna waste your time, don’t read. :)
  • PMA will still cover the latest music as it comes out, so you’re not missing anything there.
  • We see value in remembering great music from the past. Some of our readers may have missed these albums the first time around, so it’s still exposure to new music, even if it’s from 10 years ago.

I hope you enjoy this segment while it lasts, and get into the dialogue. We’ll probably nail some of your favorites and dreadfully miss others. Let us know what you think of the choices in the comments, and tell us what changes you’d make.

In the meantime, here are the winners for The Best Album of 2002. Enjoy! Continue reading →

Feature / Music — 21 Comments
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Aug 09

Best Album of 2002 Poll

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Continuing in our quest to find the best albums of the 2000s, we look at the greatest albums released in 2002. A very fine year in music. As always, we depend on your votes to help us come closer to our verdict of the best album of the last 10 years, in the mean time, we will outline your favorite and our favorite albums of each year.

For 2002’s list, I turned to the Village Voice and their righteous Pazz & Jop Poll, surveying nearly 700 critics. I also went through a few Year-end lists presented by The Onion’s AV Club.

Please vote for the album you think was the best in 2002. If your choice isn’t on here, we’d love to see it in the comments section (though, we’d appreciate if you’d vote for your favorite on the list anyway). Here are 2002’s finalists:

A. The Streets: Original Pirate Material
B. Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
C. Missy Elliott: Under Construction
D. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
E. Beck: Sea Change
F. Sigur Rós: ()
G. The Roots: Phrenology
H. Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
I. Spoon: Kill The Moonlight
J. Iron & Wine: The Creek Drank The Cradle

Feature / MP3 / Music — 53 Comments
25
Jun 09

The Best Pop Songs of the 2000s

I was thinking about this a lot the other night, and I think its time to being the great debate of the Best Pop Song of the 00s over to PMA. Before everyone starts mouthing off some obscure Scandinavian pop songs, here are a few rules.

1. The song had to have achieved notoriety from 2000-present.
2. It pains me to say this, but the song has to have been a nationwide (or worldwide) hit. The bigger, the better, in most cases.

Why? Because pop music is supposed to be universal. Everyone is supposed to enjoy it and love it and everyone can’t love something if they’ve never heard it before. Simple as that.

3. Only one song per artist. Pick their best single, if that helps.

I have a few submissions in mind. Read on to find out Continue reading →

Listen / Live Music / MP3 / Music — 19 Comments
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May 09

Coldplay – Left Right Left Right Left (Free EP), Review & Giveaway

No, we’re not giving away the already free EP! We’ll be giving away a copy of Viva La Vida/Prospekt’s March [Deluxe Editon]

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Coldplay are still touring hard all around the world in support of their massive fourth album, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends / Prospekt’s March, all the while preparing for ANOTHER album that is supposed to hit shelves later this year.

I guess Chris Martin is really trying to squeeze as much as he can from his band, because wasn’t it the blue-eyed Coldplay frontman who said, “I’m 31 now and I don’t think that bands should keep going past 33.” Either way, I’m excited at the chance to catch Coldplay live again — they’re truly fantastic. I’m equally excited to hear another album from the band in the upcoming months.

I guess a good middle-ground for the two is this new, free live EP that Coldplay has begun to hand out at their shows. For those not lucky enough to catch them live, the band is now giving the EP for free online. Coldplay are a bunch of stand-up guys, aren’t they? Continue reading →

Covers / MP3 / Music — 12 Comments
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Apr 09

Lady GaGa – Viva La Vida (Coldplay Cover)

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If you’re a GaGa fan (more specifically, her acoustic Cherrytree sessions), check out her latest simple offering. This cover is brought to us by the ever-giving Live Lounge at the BBC’s Radio 1. Lady GaGa may have screwed up the words in the beginning, but she makes up for it by going off script for a bit – “Be my Chris, and I’ll be your Gweneth.”

The cover is all piano GaGa, so it’s sort of bland. GaGa is more interested in making sure you know she can flex the golden pipes than making this cover interesting. But hey — maybe Kid Cudi and Kanye can jump on the track and come up with some witty play on words and make this more fun!

Catch the mp3 after the jump! Continue reading →

MP3 / Music / Podcasts — 14 Comments
14
Feb 09

pmaCAST #7: The “Valentine’s Day 2009″ Episode

pmaCAST #7: The Valentines Day 2009 Episode mp3

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! You know I had to join in on the cheese and pull this week’s pmaCAST early with a Valentine’s Day-themed episode!  Hopefully some of you enjoy it enough to listen to it with someone special tonight. Just maybe.

Because I assume that 99.9% of the movie-going population will be watching some sort of chick flick (I’m not ashamed to admit that I liked He’s Just No That Into You, and will probably watch Confessions of a Shopoholic tonight), I wanted to structure this playlist like 99.9% of the chick flicks out there. So I’ve come up with a story that I hope would play out well in songs. Or maybe you want to see this as a hopeful soundtrack to some V-Day movie coming out in 2010. Either way, here it is…

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Feature / Live Performances / MP3 / Music / Videos — 19 Comments
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Feb 09

5 Best GRAMMY Performances 2009

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the GRAMMYs were last night. It was a great show, one of the best GRAMMY Ceremonies in years. This year we enjoyed great performances from Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, U2, M.I.A., Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, T.I., Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder… the list goes on and on. The performances were so good that I just had to list my 5 favorite performances of the night! Don’t forget to tell me about your favorite performances of the night in the comments.

HM: Adele & Sugarland – What I’d Give / Chasing Pavements

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I may not be the biggest country fan around, but I think Jennifer Nettles’ vocal delivery was fantastic, and you know what, the song isn’t so bad either. It’s great to hear beautifully sung music, regardless of genre. And Adele’s followup performance was amazing too. Highlight: Sugarland joining Adele on stage towards the end of “Chasing Pavements.”

5 Best GRAMMY Performances 2009

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Covers / Listen / MP3 / Music — 12 Comments
6
Feb 09

Jem – Yellow (Coldplay cover)

Jem Yellow (Coldplay cover) covers

Soul songbird Jem covered one of Coldplay’s most beautiful tracks for this year’s Sweethearts compilation, just in time for Valentine’s Day.  It’s wonderful — and I’m not just saying that because “Yellow” is my favorite Coldplay songs, or just one of my favorite songs of all time.

Was talking to Mr. Newborn Rodeo on AIM and I noticed how nostalgic I am. I’ll dig thoroughly through the internets to find covers of my favorite new artists covering my favorite songs of the early 2000s. And I love that. Sometimes keeping up with the hottest new indie rock single is devastatingly exhausting, but at the same time, it’s lots of fun.

Anyway, enough rambling, that’s what Twitter’s for. Listen to Jem sing Coldplay’s “Yellow” below: Continue reading →

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Feb 09

Coldplay – The Goldrush

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“The Goldrush” is probably the 136th song to pop up from the Viva La Vida well, in a little less than8 months. Coldplay are really milking this baby for all it’s worth. This new B-Side belongs to the new “Life in Technicolor II” single they’re releasing via Parlophone.

Alright, so let’s go through the singles that have come from this Viva La Vida/Prospekt’s March thing — “Violet Hill” (Coldplay’s greatest rawk!! song), “Viva La Vida” (on the best pop singles of 2008), “Lost” (ft. Jay-Z – it was already my favorite track off Viva, Jay-Z was a great bonus), and “Lovers In Japan” was a nice little radio single to hum along to while driving to school/work. My vote for fifth single went to, and still goes to, “Yes” — just because LiT2 reminds me of “Lovers In Japan” too much, and let’s face it, “Lovers In Japan” hardly impacted pop at all.

But I do like “The Goldrush.” I like that Chris Martin steps down from the mic and lets drummer Will Champion sing for us. I also like how active Coldplay are. I like how they are still saying we will listen to another new album this year.

Give “The Goldrush” a good listen or two below: Continue reading →

MP3 / Music / Podcasts / Remixes — 37 Comments
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Feb 09

pmaCAST #5: The “God Gave Me Style” Episode

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Happy Super Bowl Sunday. Ready for the fifth episode of the pmaCAST? Grrreat! Continue reading →

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