ed harcourt rain on the pretty ones (stockholm nov 8, 2006)

[Tjweber88]

God I want to transcribe this for guitar... but I'd never do it justice

[zinnyzan]

also fascinated how this clip triggered a debate about the merits of coldplay, a band I do not care for.

[evildaveindustries]

That was an amazing performance. It gives me goosebumbs every time I hear it and I'm certainly proud to say I did the sound at that gig.

I will never forget it. If you were there, you know what I mean.

[zinnyzan]

wow. that's really cool. good job!

[ykmsp]

Greetings from Singapore : )

This is my fav song from"Beautiful Lie".

I really love Ed's vocals, its so rich with emotions. He is simply the best singer-songwriter I had come across.

I hope he will come to my country for a gig one day.

[drivel1]

Brilliant song, brilliant singer. Thanks for sharing.

[SirHuckenden]

Ed Harcourt is a genius. Chris Martin with his primary school lyrics and whiny voice isn't.

[funsizefolex]

i agree coldplays earlier album was much better than the tripe that was found in x and y! but i still like coldplay! amsterdam's piano music i love! and speaking of piano music if anybody has any info of piano music could you please contact me? please! this is an awesome track!

[funkyiceman]

Okay I agree- opposites are easy to do an I do like Coldplay's first album when they still had some humility and invention. I think I can make my case with the following excerpt from the multi-platinum album X & Y:

And the hardest part

Was letting go, not taking part

You really broke my heart

And I tried to sing

But I couldn't think of anything

And that was the hardest part

No shit you tried to sing and couldn't think of anything! I mean how does he get away with it?!!!

[stazetto]

So bealtiful!! I love his songs, I belive that one day he Will come to sing here in Brazil!!!

[TKspanne]

I realy love this song, thanks for posting!

-tk-

norway

[Yazzselena]

That's one of the best audio live recordings I have heard off this song, that was such a pleasure to watch! Oh and it's perfectly cool to dig Coldplay and Ed Harcourt in my books. They both have merit, but I have buckets of tlc for the utterly awesome Mr Harcourt ; ) x

[viennawaits]

Ed rules. If the world was just he would outselling Coldplay.

[pellevinken]

Can't one love them both? :).. if the world was truly just Coldplay and Ed would each outsell Britney or 50 Cent.

[funkyiceman]

Of course people CAN love them both. They just shouldn't. Chris Martin's lyrics are pretty laughable, Coldplay's arrangements are dull and Ed Harcourt has such a beautiful voice by comparison! Anyway...I should just sit back and enjoy this great video instead of getting bothered!

[funkyiceman]

Chris Martin would never write lyrics as good as: "I'm the Christian who cannot forgive, I'm the dreamer who jumps off the bridge" because he'd be two busy thinking of ridiculous names to call he children...

[funkyiceman]

I meant 'too busy', not 'two busy'

[pellevinken]

Please look up for example Things I Don't Understand, Politik, Spies, See You Soon, Kingdom Come, Everything's Not Lost.. Mind the lyrics and don't look out for just bashing them.

[pellevinken]

Btw, I saw Ed last weekend in Stockholm. He was great =).. but not better than neither Kent nor Muse.

[pellevinken]

By the way, if you think opposites is clever writing. Mind you, it's one of the easiest things to write and make people who hasn't read/heard anything better go "oooh". I like it thought, but it's not original nor clever to the point of excitement.

[interzonium]

so beautiful, thank you for posting.