Speed Of Sound

Following up a brilliant album can be one of the most challenging things a band faces in a career, and if "Speed of Sound" is any indication, everyone is in for a real treat. This song sounds like a natural progression from the sound of AROBTTH songs. The piano work, and song styling is "classic" Coldplay, and is a beautiful song to listen to. I just heard it for the first time today, and I'm already finding myself with it stuck in my head. This is a really great song, from a band, who's created their own big shoes to fill. I can't wait to hear the rest of X & Y !! Already hugely popular here stateside, it wouldn't surprise me if Coldplay is selling out bigger venues and stadiums here this summer and beyond. This is one great band!

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Coldplay do it again ! Can't fault them , love their music , great addition to my vinyl collection.

I challenge anyone to be disappointed with this. 'Speed Of Sound' features the same soaring choruses as we have become accustomed to with Coldplay, with fantastic harmonies and a brilliant driven bassline. I was practically obsessed with this band when 'A Rush...' was released, but I was expecting to be more critical of this album's contents. Not so far! Those hoping that Coldplay have undergone any kind of radical transformation in terms of their style, a la Radiohead or U2, shall not find that, on the strength of this single anyway. I can't wait for X & Y's release. Great work.

Yet again Coldplay come back with a vengeance with this the first new taster from new album X & Y. Follwing on from AROBTTH Speed Of Sound is a beautifully crafted piece of work, Chris Martin's Vocal as good as ever and Johnny Bucklands husky delivery on the chorus really cementing Coldplay's status as one of the worlds greatest bands, even after the first listen I was drawn to the song and immediately started putting on the previous two albums, Coldplay really are a special band. This song is a great introduction for what will hopefully be a superb album on June 6th.

This is the first track from the new album and it even suprised me. Excellent I cant wait until the album comes out, the single does sound a little like clocks but who cares? The song is fantastic Coldplay have done it again!

Coldplay's new album is sure to be a huge hit, and quite possibly one of the greatest albums of the decade. Speed of sound is the likeliest choice for a new single off their highly anticipated album because of the easily accessed lyrics and melody. It sounds like 'Clocks', as most people have stated, but the reason it has been chosen for the first single is because its the song most people can recognize as being Coldplay's, since it replicates similar sounds off AROBTTH. As a previous person has mentioned, Coldplay uses the same three chord progressions in a few of their songs, but this is not to take in to consideration that out of the three songs mentioned, 'Speed of Sound' was the only one to be included in an album, so coming to the conclusion that Coldplay is lazy is in fact a bit premature. If you liked 'Clocks' and are a huge fan of Coldplay, then buying this album would be in your best interest, if not for the single, then for the two b-side tracks which sound much different from the Coldplay most people would recognize.

Can't help liking this even if it is only a poor man's 'Clocks'; similar chords in the verse and a near-identical 3+3+2 drumbeat. Compared to 'In My Place' - the frickin' BRILLIANT first single from the previous album - this is a fairly weak offering to kick-start their 3rd. Luckily they followed this single up with the amazing 'Fix You' - probably 'X&Y's best track - which is both poignant and epic. Buy that instead! They've just released 'Talk', which is pretty good...but if they don't choose either 'What If' or 'Swallowed in the Sea' as their 4th single, I'll be somewhat upset. Then again...does anyone actually BUY CD SINGLES anymore?

Great songs

Short but nice!

Love it!

Singolo contenente l'introvabile Things I Don't Understand oltre alle più note Proof e Speed of Sound (che da nome al cd stesso). Il cd è una "chicca" per gli amanti del Coldplay.

Great addition to your Coldplay collection.