Viva la Vida

Okay, so the new Coldplay cd.
Here are my initial thoughts.
Sweet artistic goodness batman!
It also brings to mind my often practiced tenses...
'Coldplay was awesome, Coldplay is awesome and Coldplay will be awesome.'
The cd plays more like a play or a story of some sort.
There are only a couple songs on the cd that I feel could be just turned on and listened to, without missing something in the order and transition.
'Life in Technicolor' is an instrumental entry into the story...sort of like the part where they show credits and you can get a little more antsy in anticipation to see what you came to see.
So I found myself waiting to hear the opening lines.
Then when you finally do, after it transitions to the second song, the tone has already changed grabbing your attention even MORE with it's haunted beginning.
Cemeteries..London...oooooo.
'Lost!' has some interesting lyrics and it continues the kind of odd beat that carries through the cd. It all just goes down so smoothly...that seems to be one of the main things I noticed at first.
Now '42' got my ears attention, it begins as a ballad and....it's just beautiful. Chris Martin's voice....man, seriously. Then it speeds up and, begins what turns out to be very common in the cd, what seems almost like another song but...it's not.
As I said, it feels alot like a story of some sort, so smooth and intentionally approaching each subject with a couple different takes.
I found my attention grabbed by an unusual un-Coldplay sound in 'Yes'.
Chris Martin is definitely taking a departure from his famous falsetto with a couple of songs on here, including this one. The sound and lyrics are intriguing to me...Another favorite.
'Viva la vida'....come on, seriously. I don't even need to talk about that one cause it's just incredible. Your ears will think they have been enchanted by some magical....um...singing...leprechaun. But, no seriously, it's awesome.
'Violet Hill' is another unusual un-Coldplayish song but...again, it's successful in achieving awesomeness. But basically any song that has the line 'It was a long and dark December...' has me at Hello, so I guess I'm biased.
'Strawberry Hill' also unusual, but insanely sweet. It's like the best purest romance with an out of focus lens at twilight... mixed with Coldplay and baked at awesome for 47 minues.
'Death And All His Friends' is an awesome ending...like Coldplay concentrate for a few minutes.
Then something awesome happens. The instrumental entry is repeated at the end of the song....almost like exit music or something.
Awesome.