2005-05-20 - Coldplay - Speed of Sound (Live @ TOTP)

Coldplay performing 'Speed of Sound' live at Top of the Pops, broadcast on May 20, 2005.

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• Coldplay
• Speed
• of
• Sound
• Live
• Top
• Pops
• TOTP
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[ibvegetable135]

Great...probably one of the best performace of this song.

[5Esau2]

yeaHHH!!!!!

guy berryman playin the cool piano!!!

that`s great!!

he is a great!!!

[kingofkeyboards]

@KKOPPI well the piano parts arent live, he's using an old Moog monophonic synth from the seventies that can't produce that piano sound whatsoever :P

[Benjani7]

@KKOPPI So you're just another one of those pathetic individuals who insults from behind their computer. "Faggot"? Are you homophobic aswell then or is that the best insult you can offer? If you had any basic listening skills you'd know that this is not live, not only because it is IDENTICAL to the album version, but also from the performance of it. Look how out of sync the playing of the piano is from 0.50 in relation to the chords we hear. Martin is occasionally singing live, but that's it.

[KKOPPI]

@Benjani7

this is fucking live faggot

[Missingartistname]

i thought will is the uhm .. ' lead-backgroundsinger '

maby not here.. but in most of the other songs !

[PizzicatoArco]

fuck the cameramen seriously. i am giddy and headache while and after watching this video.

[gonaners16]

I suppose I should have looked up info on the show first. I'm from the US so I didn't know that TOTP was rarely live. Sorry for that lol.

[Benjani7]

because it's Top of The Pops!! You hardly ever heard live music on that programme, what with the way the programme is made, organised etc. If anything was live, it was often the vocals. I give up with this discussion. We're getting nowhere here.

[gonaners16]

I've head it live from many videos on here. Every one is a little different, based on the venue and who is recording it. Why would they just play over the recorded version, with or without vocals? There is no point to it, as the timing has to be perfect if they did. Which of course leaves more room for error than just playing it fully live. And another question for you: why would they choose to do that for this particular song, and not the others?

[Benjani7]

erm, doofus, i know it sounds unbelievable, but there is a technology where you can play the original recording (without vocals), and sing over it when performing live. For example, Dizzee Rascal does this. And you want my proof? Type in 'Speed of Sound Glastonbury 2005', and just listen to how this song sounds live. That's my proof. You can't come back from that I'm afriad.