vrijdag 9 oktober 2009

Desert Island Song (1) : Fix You, Coldplay

Hey Everybody!
Sorry for the long time between the posts (to you too Mr. Weisser). The reason for my postA new assignment for my music class: Choose five songs which you would like to take to a desert island. This is a very though assignment for me, becasue I cannot really choose betweent the many songs I like, and could not miss. The first one of my hard choices is the song Fix You, by the British band Coldplay (if you don't know the song or the band, SHAME ON YOU!).
The song Fix You is one of the greatest songs on earth, because of the emotion Coldplay has put into the composition. In basis, the song is very simple (although the transition to the bridge is a little more difficult). Still, Coldplay managed with these chords, the fabulous voice of leadsinger Chris Martin and the instruments used makes the song magnificent.
Take for example the intro, in which solely two different organs are used. This completely sucks you into the song, and you want to keep listening to it, over and over again, because when you listen to it it blows your mind; it takes you and your thoughts away from your body, flying to wherever you want to on the moment the bridge start and accelerating more and more untill you reach rocket speed and see all the things you want to see, just because you can.
This feeling of happiness is something that you barely ever feel, only when you do something you like so much that nothing can stop you doing it; when you realise that you are lucky to have that thing, that person, that moment in your life this is the feeling you get. This is what I felt when I was at the Coldplay concert in Nijmegen (about which I will write soon). When Chris Martin started this song I felt great because of the great concert. But as the song proceeded, I felt this feeling again, and I thought of all the things I had done in my life, and what was ahead of me, and that I was going to make in the future in whatever way I liked, because I wanted to, because I could. At the end of this song I had watery eyes, and was on the blink of crying because of all the emotion that got loose due to this song. And I have this feeling everytime I listen to this song.