2. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends 12" Vinyl + CD
5) Lovers In Japan / Reign Of Love
6) Yes (+ Chinese Sleep Chant)
10) Death And All His Friends
The band's 4th studio album was highly anticipated and eventually came out on June 11th, 2008. For ther very first time, they asked Brian Eno to produce it and he definately had influence in the whole sound of this album, but I'll let you be the judge of that. As of today the album sold over 8 million copies, which isn't enough to do better than A Rush of Blood To The Head ( 12 million copies)
The cover art is of course La Liberté Guidant Le Peuple by Eugène Delecroix, but Tappin Gofton, who also did the X&Y covers, added the painted letters. He also designed the cover art of all the singles (except Strawberry Swing). The title was inspired by Frida Kahlo (painter who has known a lot of misery in her life, and Justin Timberlake (singer/actor who has had a lot of celebrities in his bed in his life). the painting 'Viva La Vida' inspired the title, while Timberlake inspired the band to have a title consiting out of 2 seperate titles like his album 'FutreSex/LoveSounds.
This version of the album is the US Capitol 12" vinyl version including a CD copy of the album. Like that isn't enough, the bookelt that is included in every CD release is also in there it's just 5 times bigger, which makes the artwork and pictures in there even nicer.
Ok I'm going to use this argument a lot but you should buy it because it's vinyl! Every album gains a little bit more magic when played on vinyl. Even just looking at it is magical. The advantage of this release is that it comes with a CD version as well, so you can drool all over the vinyl whilst listening to the CD version. That CD (picture below) by the way is often sold as a promo version of the album, which it isn't.
Another great reason is to witness the prudishness of the US of A. In continental Europe, the black sticker on the cover is always nicely on the side, whilst in America tactically place it in the area of the woman's breasts. Yee-haw
There aren't a lot of reasons to buy this actually, even if you haven't got a vinyl record player, you can still listen to it, but I guess useless to buy the vinyl when you're only planning to listen to the CD. There's no excuse to not have this album as a physical copy though!