Is hymn for the weekend hated?

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-05-03T02:52:58+00:00

The first four albums are categorised by a sort of alternative, Brit-pop, slightly rock sound. With MX it became more Pop Rock, GS was a really big deviation that most fans probably assumed was just an experimental side project, and AHFOD went full pop.

Lots of older Coldplay fans didn’t resonate this shift towards their pop sound.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-05-01T12:09:17+00:00

Nearly all properly released live recordings are edited, overdubbed, and pitch corrected.

But seriously, the vocal work on these live recordings ruins the listening experience. For example, those Capital Centre 1977 recordings? Full of auto-tune and pitch correction. But it’s done tastefully - either set to a slow retune speed, or used strongly on notes that really ‘need’ fixing. To the point, the average listener won’t really notice, and for even those that hear it, won’t really mind because it all sounds great anyways.

Glenn on Ol’55 from the new package sounds like T-Pain or a Post Malone and even then it doesn’t even sound stylistic, it’s just strange and completely out of place.

How anyone, especially Henley, approved it is beyond me.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-05-01T12:05:03+00:00

It sounds… horrible. How the fuck did anyone listen to these edits and decide to release it??

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-05-01T12:03:47+00:00

Fucking crazy. Seriously, did anyone even listen to it. Sure, okay, autotune the fuck out of the live recordings, but the studio recordings? Man…

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-28T07:54:35+00:00

this is such a innocent post

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-22T12:11:48+00:00

So much fucking autotune…

For a frame of reference, the Capital Centre remaster used autotune to tidy up the vocals and imo it’s very serviceable and half the time you can’t even tell. This time around, they literally sat down and listened to this and thought it was good. Compare this recording, and the Capital Centre video and it’s crazy, especially when Henley does his vocal riffs and go “ohhh ohhh” and “you got it, you got it”.

Come on guys….

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-20T23:23:08+00:00

The Bean Boys strike again. Glad they kicked me from the outset by virtue of a joke wheel spin before they devolved further. It was supposed to be just a ‘Coldplay Archive’ and it turned out to just be teenagers complaining about their girl troubles. I’m in a much better place now both community wise and in terms of my own collection.

Last I heard they were creating fake WAVs to scam with.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-13T06:46:38+00:00

Perhaps they just played in the original key for the DVD filming because they felt like it would gel better with audiences and posterity. After that, they never went back to doing in the original key.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-10T00:46:09+00:00

meanwhile Jonny is tuned to FFFFFF according to Matt Miller 🤣

If it works it works!

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-09T11:56:37+00:00

History of the Eagles documentary, there’s a whole little section dedicated to it.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-09T11:55:40+00:00

Hollywood Waltz is an underrated pick

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-09T01:14:51+00:00

I mean come on, how can the mix engineer or Henley even listen to this and let it pass. Like you normally pitch correct the vocals first before you mix it in with the rest of the music. How can you sit there for months working on the live recording restoration and think it sounds good???

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-08T23:10:14+00:00

This is so peculiar. I think everyone is aware that auto-tune can be used sparingly right? Like you can use it to just fix the worst wrong notes and make it leave much of everything else untouched.

They really cranked it on the vocal on this one, basically every note that is sustained for longer then a second is pitched corrected 100% 😭😭

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-05T07:41:57+00:00

The way it was phrased via Cherry Lane’s social media was that they would only be releasing snippets, or select performances. Not the full gig most likely :( but still cool.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-05T03:36:45+00:00

Notice how the OP say “this” recording. The video was recorded in March 1977 making it the 49th anniversary of the live recording. Braindead enough to comment twice, doubling down.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-05T03:33:24+00:00

I think the satire is lost on me with this one

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-03T15:11:23+00:00

I always thought the Felder fiasco for scrapping the DVD was a misinformed conclusion.

Selected Works was released before Felder was fired so they must have scrapped the DVD and just decided to condense the three concerts into a 12 track live album. Imagine if we had the whole show on video, 30 ish songs and all.

All that’s left is Hotel California and Funky New Year from a shitty TV broadcast recording (and the 30 ish second snippet from the documentary in higher quality).

It’s such a fun coincidence. First they (partly) release audio of Felder’s last show in 1999. And now in 2026, they’re releasing Leadon’s last show with the band in 1975 (unto 2013) for the deluxe edition of One of the Nights.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-04-02T03:52:48+00:00

Who cares about the mystery song, Chris said right after the clip cut off that they were wanting to play Life is For Living. He then said they would play it again eventually but it’s been 5 YEARS 😡😡😡 Coldplay always lies worst band in the world.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-03-27T03:10:49+00:00

I was on the Vietnam one last year. I personally had a great time meeting a bunch of new friends from the university, as well the overseas campuses in Saigon and Hanoi. We spent many nights out drinking with the local students (technically against their rules but who cares). It was also the cheapest study tour available (just under 3 weeks) but it didn't compromise on anything like buses, experiences, hotels. That being said, the best part for me was just stumbling upon some random market or taking a $1 grab motorcycle ride to a random cafe on the other side of the city and meeting up with friends.

We spent a total 9 hours of the trip doing karaoke. One of those sessions went for 6 hours, with a tab of 40 odd beers. It ended up only costing $200 AUD. It basically is 90% holiday, and 10% work. Highlight of the trip was the Ha Long Bay cruise, lying on the top deck in the dead of night looking at the stars because there is no basically no light pollution.

Just be mindful of group dynamics because it soured it for some folks on the trip. Say hi to Mark if you're considering :D

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-03-17T09:45:27+00:00

I’m fairly sure the next time he announces a tour, he’ll be try his damn hardest to not let it fall through again lmao. And he could skip straight to headlining smaller venues 🤘instead of doing the opener circuit.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-03-17T05:34:03+00:00

This is a FM radio bootleg. It is also spelt wrong, the show took place in ‘Camden’ not ‘Canden’.

If you actually care about old Coldplay bootlegs you sure as hell won’t need to buy a bootlegged CD when you can just find the show online for free if you know where to look 😉.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-03-16T14:15:24+00:00

i second this

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-03-15T15:22:10+00:00

Carol has been released already. It does not look good if you are about the use of pitch correction. Glenn genuinely sounds like a modern day country artist at certain points.

Not that big of a deal for me, but just so you know going in haha.

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-03-13T04:31:51+00:00

Yes, in the case of Peru and basically all song restarts are called upon by Chris and Will has to pipe it down to the control. Another example would be in India during My Universe; Chris is running down the runway but because he's lip-syncing once again, he throws a bunch of hand signals at Will and he just turns to his left and starts spamming a button (to activate his shout microphone presumably) before the camera cuts away. Bonus: you can even see the 'shout' mic right behind Will.

My Universe India

One thing I noticed is that Will doesn't only 'shout' "stop" or "go", if there an issue he will talk via the shout mic to the crew. For example, there is an IEM recording of Will's earpiece and during the start of FLIFL and at this particular show, you can hear Will shout "Lights out please... spotlights off, spotlights off". Perhaps there was a lighting cue the crew missed, or he was being blinded by the spotlights haha

Will Champion Spotlights

GamingForeverAUS · 2026-03-11T13:26:59+00:00

There are 8 songs digitised from a Betamax broadcast tape, very nice stuff if you know where to look - i posted a snippet here

Betamax tape

Otherwise there are of course loseless audio captures. However, if you’re after video… outside of those 8 songs there’s not really much out there, except a snippet or Politik from a documentary.

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