all this time
Everyone has a bootleg of X&Y. Of the many, many iTunes shared libraries I have access to daily, not one of them had a full-quality rip of the CD; with the file-sharing community having an overwhelming amount of low bitrate versions of the album, I can only assume all of these people got theirs from the public pool. Shame. Shame really. And I now know why.
So I got myself a copy. A legitimate copy. It’s amazing. This album is fantastic. I rarely listen to albums straight through, but I tried shuffling the songs and it wasn’t working for me. Shuffling X&Y is like reading the Bill of Rights in no particular order. There is a clear continuity that makes the album far more than the sum of the parts.
I love “Fix You”. I got the live version from the iTMS from a short-release EP that sent all profits to Katrina relief. For some reason I can’t find that EP anymore, at all; it has totally disappeared from the music store. Which is a shame too.
But all I had to say was that I can’t stop listening to this album. Right now, it is so lyrically relevant.
October 14th, 2005 at 6:07 pm
There are certainly songs I like on that album, including “Fix You.” I have attempted to listen to that album straight through several times, but I always manage to find myself asleep before the end of it. Perhaps this speaks poorly of my attention span…but maybe not.