quoted 19 lines Just heard that the rumors are true:
>Just heard that the rumors are true:
>Coldplay's "Talk" (their new single)
>nicks the riff from Kraftwerk's "Computer
>Love" (apparently done legally):
>
>I hadn't heard the Coldplay track that uses the Kraftwerk riff till
>this thread
>came up on the 313 list (had only heard rumors).
>If anyone wants to compare:
>http://www.last.fm/music/Coldplay/_/Talk
>(click on the green triangle to the left of "Talk")
>and if you don't have your copy of Kraftwerk's
>Computer Love handy:
>http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,116410,00.html
>(but listen to the Windows Media clip cos the RealPlayer clip uses a
>different part of the song).
>My wife (knows Kraftwerk, not Coldplay) just heard me play the
>comparison and she said "Kraftwerk should sue". I hope Kraftwerk
>get tons of royalties from this.
ugh. coldplay is just horrid. at best they are passably generic, at
worst they are a watered-down, hyper-commercialized version of the
most populist tendencies of decade-old radiohead.
when that band got into a rut, they listened to electronic music,
were rejuvenated by it, and namechecked their faves in dozens of
interviews, helping the careers of lali puna, fourtet, and anyone on
warp records. when they did actually sample something, it was from
relatively obscure modern electronic composer paul lansky, not the
same fucking band everyone else has been sampling since 1982 and
which is the hippest electronic name to drop right now.
i'd suggest a net project illegally sampling coldplay songs and
fucking them up with electronics but it's not worth anyone's time.
besides, you can get more useful samples from the dead air space
between radio broadcasts than from a coldplay song. yeah, that's
been done too, though i can't recall the name of the project.
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