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The new Coldplay album does a whole lot more for me than their nice but bland first effort. It's a BIG album and thus reminds me of The Waterboys in their more productive era. It's their 'This is the Sea'. There's a drive behind it. Hope, passion... Are we quite sure Coldplay are not Celtic? God, I hope Chris Martin doesn't end up in a jesus freak cult like Mike Scott. "Green Eyes" even sounds like one of the later, less interesting, Waterboys tunes. When they settled down in Dublin and did a lot of dope. Anyway, god bless any band that calls a song 'Amsterdam'. Even if there's no other reference to the city in the song.