Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends (Gatefold Digipack): Amazon.co.uk: CDs & Vinyl

no other words for it ! this cd/album is just the best .. ive only had just under 1 hour of listening to it and i love it .. not sure if its there best because i love all of there music ..great album and i love it ..thankyou coldplay ..

I'm not a big Coldplay fan and basically got this because of the hit singles on it. But surprise, surprise the rest are good as well. Well done Coldplay - I will be sampling more of their work on the back of this. The only slight downside (slight enough not to loose a star) is the packaging. I would have preferred a sturdy plastic case but as for the songs themselves, fantastic.

I was a bit worried about this new album. I have the other three, and adore them totally. I've been a huge fan of Coldplay for years. I didn't think they could top the first three albums...How wrong I was. This is easily the best of the four - it's magnificent in every sense of the word, with "Lost" being my favourite today. It will be another one tomorrow!I don't know how they do it, but they manage to make the world a truly better place to be in. Thanks Coldplay - that's no mean feat.

No nonsense, X&Y is one of my favourite alblums of all time. To follow it with anything in the same class would be unbelieveable.Is Viva as good? No. Close? Hmmm, debatable. Is it worthy of the 5 Stars? Absolutely. If this were a band trying to break bigtime pushing out they're first album all the reviews on Amazon would be close to 5 stars. Instead, we have people willing to judge an album by the artist's previous work. That's he way it goes I guess. Oasis get judge'd against DM all the time despite putting out some awesome material.How Snow Patrol are going to stand a chance next year, I have no idea??? Competing against the perfection of Eyes Open....As an edit, I now think Viva is the equal of X&Y but it's longer lived because it takes longer to get into. Been listening for quite some time now and I'm still back for more.I more than reinforce my original 5 star.Snow patrol followed by moving their direction a little. Brilliant too!

The thing I've always loved about Coldplay is how they consistently write albums in such a way that you just want to sit down and listen to them as a whole. Viva la Vida is full of great songs woven together through clever musical interludes - some with lyrics, some without - all working together to tell a larger story. The number of tracks on the CD is ten, but three of these double up into two songs. Only with "Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love" is this credited on the CD sleeve, but the other two are shown on Wikipedia as being "Chinese Sleep Chant" at the end of "Yes", and "Life in Technicolor" reprise "The Escapist" at the end of the album.By now everyone will have heard the fantastic "Viva la Vida" and "Violet Hill", but the best track on the album surely has to be "Cemeteries of London", which has "Ivor Novello Award" written all over it. When this song finishes, the excellent "Lost!" comes on, and it just fits perfectly, and the same can be said of "42". You can see that a lot of thought has gone into the track placements.Thanks for not selling out, Coldplay - only a British band could have come up with something as good as this, and I'm glad to see success in America has not gone to your heads or influenced your direction!