Suspended Thoughts

I was looking through the top ten songs on iTunes.  Here are the artists.

1. David Cook

2. David Cook

3. David Cook

4. David Cook

5. Coldplay

6. Rihanna

7. David Archuleta

8. Natasha Bedingfield

9. Leona Lewis

10. David Archuleta

Six of the top ten songs on iTunes are from American Idol.  I just thought I’d mention that.

I’m also wondering if Coldplay will have more than that when Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends comes out.

Well, Coldplay has released two of the twelve songs off of their new album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.  Here’s what I think of them.

Violet Hill:  I like the beginning (It was a long and dark December / From the rooftops I remember / There was snow / White snow).  After that, I think it goes downhill while there is that crazy background beat.  I like it again near the end (I took my love down to Violet Hill).  Overall, I think it is a pretty good song, but not up to Coldplay standards.

Viva la Vida:  I like this song a lot.  I wouldn’t probably put it in the top five Coldplay songs, but it could be in the top ten.  It has a background beat like Violet Hill, but I think it fits in with the song a lot better.  I also love the lyrics.

From what I hear, this “white noise” is a theme of the album.  I don’t know what to think about that.  I might miss the old Coldplay, but this could be something different and refreshing.

Sorry about the long streak of non-update.  My trials on MarsEdit and ecto ran out, and it was a bit hard to log back in to WordPress.  Anyway…

You Look Nice Today is one of my favorite new podcasts.  It’s kind of interesting, because Merlin Mann, Scott Simpson, and Adam Lisagor manage to talk about nothing for 45 minutes to an hour a week.

Sorry for the short post, but I should have a follow up post to Bad Grammar after I was informed that I shouldn’t be critiquing grammar.