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September 11, 2012 – 1:42 am

Every Tuesday you can find a great post like this one and below you can find some links to past posts.

From Wikipedia:

McEnroe won a total of 148 ATP titles (a record for a male professional) during his career — 77 in singles, 71 in men’s doubles, and 1 in mixed doubles (not counted as ATP title).He won seven Grand Slam singles titles. He also won a record eight year end championship titles overall, the Masters championships three times, and the WCT Finals,a record five times.His career singles match record was 875–198 (81.55%_. He posted the best single season match record (for a male player) in the Open Era with win-loss record: 82–3 (96.5%) set in 1984 and has the best Carpet Court career match winning percentage: 84.18% (411–346) of any player.

According to the ATP website, McEnroe had the edge in career matches on Jimmy Connors (20–14), Stefan Edberg (7–6), Mats Wilander (7–6), Michael Chang (4–1), Ilie Năstase (4–2), and Pat Cash (3–1). McEnroe was even with Björn Borg (7–7), Andre Agassi (2–2), and Michael Stich (1–1). He trailed against Pete Sampras (0–3), Goran Ivanišević (2–4), Boris Becker (2–8), Guillermo Vilas (5–6), Jim Courier (1–2), and Ivan Lendl (15–21). McEnroe won 12 of the last 14 matches with Connors, beginning with the 1983 Cincinnati tournament. Edberg won the last 5 matches with McEnroe, beginning with the 1989 tournament in Tokyo. McEnroe won 4 of the last 5 matches with Vilas, beginning with the 1981 tournament in Boca Raton, Florida. And Lendl won 11 of the last 12 matches with McEnroe, beginning with the 1985 US Open.

McEnroe, however, played in numerous events, including invitational tournaments, that are not covered by the ATP website. McEnroe won eight of those events and had wins and losses against the players listed in the preceding paragraph that are not reflected on the ATP website.

Grand Slam finals (11)

[edit] Singles: (7–4)

Wins (7)
Year Championship Surface Opponent in final Score in final
1979 US Open Hard United States Vitas Gerulaitis 7–5, 6–3, 6–3
1980 US Open (2) Hard Sweden Björn Borg 7–6(7–4), 6–1, 6–7(5–7), 5–7, 6–4
1981 Wimbledon Grass Sweden Björn Borg 4–6, 7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–4), 6–4
1981 US Open (3) Hard Sweden Björn Borg 4–6, 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
1983 Wimbledon (2) Grass New Zealand Chris Lewis 6–2, 6–2, 6–2
1984 Wimbledon (3) Grass United States Jimmy Connors 6–1, 6–1, 6–2
1984 US Open (4) Hard Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 6–3, 6–4, 6–1
Runner-up (4)
Year Championship Surface Opponent in final Score in final
1980 Wimbledon Grass Sweden Björn Borg 6–1, 5–7, 3–6, 7–6(18–16), 6–8
1982 Wimbledon (2) Grass United States Jimmy Connors 6–3, 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), 4–6
1984 French Open Clay Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 6–3, 6–2, 4–6, 5–7, 5–7
1985 US Open Hard Czechoslovakia Ivan Lendl 6–7(1–7), 3–6, 4–6

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September 11, 2012 – 12:02 am

Crimes and Misdemeanors: A Discussion: Part 1

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Matt Jones speaks at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 1

September 10, 2012 – 3:45 pm

My son Hunter and I got to hear Matt Jones speak on 9-10-12 at the Little Rock Touchdown Club. When asked about what to do when you are up against a wall like this team is, he responded that he remembers how it felt to lose in the 6 overtime game in Knoxville and to drop to 1-3 in the SEC. However, they regrouped and put together an amazing run to win the SEC West that year with a great comeback against top 10 LSU and Nick Sabin. Here is the story from Arkansas Sports 360.

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Matt Jones may be the most enigmatic Arkansas Razorback football player of modern times and he made some of the biggest plays in Hog history. And he obviously still captures the fans’ imagination. The Embassy Suites ballroom wasn’t ready to handle all of the overflow crowd on hand to catch Jones’ visit with the Little Rock Touchdown Club on Monday.

No doubt, though, many of the club’s membership also wanted to hear what Jones and club president David Bazzel had to say about previously No. 8-ranked Arkansas’ stunning loss Saturday to Sun Belt Conference member Louisiana-Monroe 34-31 in overtime.

Jones told the crowd the closest he could relate to a heart-wrenching loss and having to immediately regroup was the 2002 six-overtime loss at Tennessee. That loss dropped Arkansas to 1-3 in the SEC, but the Razorbacks came back the very next week for a surprising upset at Auburn, finished the year on a roll and won their way into the SEC Championship Game with the “Miracle on Markham” 21-20 win over LSU.

Of course, this 1-1 Razorback team, now out of the national polls, must take on No. 1 Alabama in Fayetteville on Saturday.

“I know Louisiana-Monroe isn’t Tennessee, but what I would tell the players is, don’t give up, don’t lose hope. Put up a fight. Don’t forget the off-season and all you put into it, the blood, sweat and tears. Keep giving it all you’ve got,” Jones said.

MADE FOR QUARTERBACK: Jones said the transition from college quarterback to NFL receiver was his most difficult task as an athlete, but he finished on a good note at Jacksonville with the Jaguars, catching 67 passes in 2009 before being released the next year.

He said he had hoped to catch on with another NFL team and, at the end, had to choose between tryouts with Cincinnati and Tennessee. “Did I want to catch passes from Carson Palmer in Cincinnati or Vince Young in Tennessee,” he said. The choice was the Titans, but Jones did not catch on there. “I guess I made the wrong decision.”

But who knows what Jones could have done as a professional quarterback, if given the chance, had he not suffered a torn labrum in college that cut his passing distance, he said, from 75 yards as a freshman to 55 yards by the time he finished. He recorded an electronically timed 4.37 in the 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine. Everyone can still recall how, as a freshman, he outdueled Ole Miss’ Eli Manning in 2001 in what was then the longest overtime game in NCAA history.

“I’m a quarterback at heart,” he said.

Jones, surely one of the best athletes this state has produced in the past century, also imagined at one time playing basketball professionally. “I think I could have had a pretty good career playing in Europe. In the NBA, I don’t know. I’m 6-6 and I played a “four” [power forward position] in college. But had I played a full season after I had finished playing college football, who knows?”

Now, Jones said, he’s working on his golf game and has gotten his handicap down to about a 6.

TV AND RADIO: Jones and his wife, Carolyn, have settled in Central Arkansas, where Jones has landed a couple of gigs talking football.

He’s on every Tuesday night with former Razorback quarterback Clint Stoener and Bazzel, who was a Razorback linebacker in the 1980s, on the Arkansas Sports Nation (KARZ, Channel 42, carried on Channels 9 and 436 via Comcast) at 10:30.

On Wednesdays, he rejoins Bazzel with Tommy Smith and Roger Scott on KABZ-FM 103.7 The Buzz’s “The Show With No Name,” which runs 6 a.m. to 10 a.m.

No doubt both shows should be animated with insider talk about the Hogs’ upset loss and their chances for their own upset of ‘Bama this week.

DOWN MEMORY LANE: Bazzel arranged for several clips to be aired Monday featuring late Voice of the Razorbacks Paul Eells calling plays that highlighted Jones, including the “Miracle on Markham” pass to Decori Birmingham on 2002.

“That day, I was playing one of my worst games,” Jones said. “I had only completed one or two passes and two times the ball had slipped out of my hands. It was my worst game with the best ending.”

Jones completed 2 of 3 passes on an 80-yard drive in the final 40 seconds to win the game. LSU had kicked a field goal moments earlier to take a 20-14 lead. The Hogs had trailed 17-7 halfway through the fourth quarter.

“Two plays nobody ever talks about,” Jones said about that game, “On one, Fred Talley’s touchdown run of about 60 yards. He broke about 13 tackles on that play, and I didn’t think you could play with more than 11 on defense. It’s one of my favorite runs of all time. The other, LSU had a third-and-3 and Tony Bua blltzed. He wasn’t supposed to blitz but he did and he stopped them for no gain and they had to kick a field goal, and that gave us a chance to get the ball back and win.”

Of course, Jones was incredible in a 2003 upset at Texas, a 38-28 Hog win, as well as a big comeback that same season at Alabama that resulted in a 34-31 double overtime win.

“That was a great team,” he said of the 2003 Razorbacks. “We just had a couple of untimely deals that cost us two games,” referring to a helmet-to-helmet penalty call on Tony Bua in the waning minutes when Arkansas was in a furious rally to overtake Florida, as well as what Jones called a “phantom” holding call a week earlier against Auburn that wiped out his 80-yard touchdown that would have tied that game in the fourth quarter.

Those 2003 Hogs finished 9-4 with an Independence Bowl win over Missouri, 27-13.

Jones wrapped up his career with a Senior Day spectacular, a 70-yard run around end against Ole Miss that he capped by dunking the football over the crossbar.

Email: jharris@abpg.com. Also follow Jim on Twitter @jimharris360

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Little Rock’s Kevin Kelly influences ULM’s play-calling in victory over Arkansas

September 10, 2012 – 3:26 pm

I have seen Kevin Kelly coach the Pulaski Academy football team for years and he is always doing some amazing things.  I ran across the article from ESPN that shows that he influenced the Univ of Lousiana at Monroe’s play calling against Arkansas on 9-8-12. Of course, Kelly is a Razorback fan but his philosophy rubbed off on the ULM coaches.

By Mark Schlabach
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Kevin Kelley, the football coach at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Ark., wants to make one thing clear: He’s an Arkansas Razorbacks fan.

 

But Kelley, who has never seen a punt he likes and almost always goes for broke on fourth down, might have been the inspiration behind Louisiana-Monroe’s epic 34-31 overtime upset of the then-No. 8 Razorbacks at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock on Saturday night.

 

Louisiana-Monroe, which hasn’t had a winning season since 1993 (its last year as an FCS program) and has never played in a bowl game, erased a 21-point deficit by scoring a tying touchdown on fourth down in regulation and then the winning touchdown in overtime on fourth-and-1 from the Hogs’ 16-yard line.

 

 

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Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesKolton Browning passed for 412 yards and rushed for the game-winning touchdown in the Warhawks’ 34-31 win over Arkansas.

 

In a season in which Arkansas hoped to finally close the gap on Alabama and LSU in the SEC West, the stunning loss to the Warhawks derailed its once-promising season. The Hogs fell from No. 8 to unranked in the Associated Press Top 25 poll Sunday, the second-largest drop in the poll’s history. No. 5 Michigan fell out of the poll after losing to FCS opponent Appalachian State 34-32 in its 2007 opener.

 

It was the biggest fall in Arkansas since former Hogs coach Bobby Petrino ditched his Harley-Davidson this summer.

 

Worse for the Razorbacks: They play the No. 1 Crimson Tide at home Saturday and quarterback Tyler Wilson might not be available after he was knocked out with a head injury in the first half against Louisiana-Monroe.

 

While Arkansas is picking up the pieces from one of the worst losses in school history, Louisiana-Monroe’s improbable upset is further evidence that Kelley might not be as crazy as he seems.

 

“Don’t get me wrong; I’m a Razorbacks fan and wanted them to win,” Kelley said. “But in this fraternity of coaches, a loss for somebody is a win for somebody else, and they’re good guys. It’s a big win for them.”

 

Kelley has gained national attention for his unorthodox coaching methods at Pulaski Academy. He has turned the Bruins into a football powerhouse by eschewing punts and going for it on fourth down more than 99 percent of the time. Since the start of the 2008 season, the Bruins have punted only three times, while converting on fourth down more than 50 percent of the time.

 

Pulaski Academy is 105-20 over the past 10 seasons and has won three state championships, including an undefeated record in 2011 while, of course, punting only once.

 

“We don’t do things like everybody else,” Kelley said. “I came across studies and they said people should go for it a lot more than they do — but maybe not as much as we do.”

 

A couple of years ago, Kelley befriended Louisiana-Monroe offensive coordinator Steve Farmer, who recruits the Little Rock area. Warhawks coach Todd Berry also made a couple of recruiting visits to Pulaski Academy, most recently in January, and was intrigued by Kelley’s unconventional philosophy.

 

“Everybody knows what we do,” Kelley said. “When you come recruiting, you don’t ever get to see the kids [because of NCAA rules]. You sit and talk to the coach and we talk about our philosophy.”

 

Kelley also shared his statistical data with Berry. As difficult as it might be to believe, if a college team faces fourth down at its 5-yard line, according to Kelley’s research, there actually isn’t much more risk in passing up a punt for another offensive play.

 

According to Kelley’s data, college teams are likely to net 30-35 yards on a punt from the end zone, and teams have a 77 percent chance of scoring a touchdown from inside an opponent’s 40-yard line. The odds of giving up a touchdown from the 5-yard line are about 92 percent, so Kelley figures there isn’t much more risk in going for a first down.

 

“Even if there’s only a 33 percent chance you’ll make it, the numbers still say you should go for it,” Kelley said. “If you get to the point where you know you’re going to go for it no matter what, you don’t even get in that situation because it changes the dynamics of the play-calling. We don’t have to throw on third-and-6 because we know we still have fourth down.”

 

 

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Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesLouisiana-Monroe head coach Todd Berry has infused some of the fourth-down philosophy of Little Rock high school coach Kevin Kelley.

 

While Berry hasn’t bought into Kelley’s philosophy completely — the Warhawks punted several times on fourth-and-short against the Razorbacks — his teams have been among the most aggressive in the country in fourth-down attempts.

 

“I’ve studied a lot of the statistical data,” Berry said. “I went and talked to [Kelley]. Ever since I’ve been a head coach, we’ve gone for it on fourth down quite a bit. I think there’s a lot of risk and reward to it. It’s not a big deal for our players because they’re used to it and expect it.”

 

The Warhawks certainly wouldn’t have erased a 28-7 deficit in the second half against Arkansas if they hadn’t bucked conventional wisdom. The Warhawks went 6-for-7 on fourth down and converted a fourth down on each of their five touchdown drives. In fact, three of their touchdowns came on fourth down and the only time they failed to convert was on fourth-and-1 at the Arkansas 2.

 

“Whether you’re giving them the ball at the 20 or the 40, they’re capable of throwing an 80-yard touchdown pass,” Berry said. “Arkansas is a great team and has exceptional athletes. I didn’t think field position was as critical in this game.”

 

Berry’s decision to go for it on fourth-and-10 from the Hogs’ 23 near the end of regulation was really a no-brainer. The Warhawks had to score a touchdown or the game was over. Quarterback Kolton Browning threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Brent Leonard, and the PAT tied the score at 28 with 47 seconds to play.

 

After Arkansas kicked a field goal to take a 31-28 lead in overtime, the Warhawks faced fourth-and-1 at the Hogs’ 16. Berry went for it and put the ball in Browning’s hands. Browning scrambled to his left and then back to the right before running into the end zone for the game-winner.

 

“He had several options on the play,” Berry said. “We trust our quarterback. He’s pretty fast and most of the time the quarterback is the guy that’s not accounted for.”

 

Browning, a junior from Mabank, Texas, threw for 412 yards and three touchdowns on 42-of-67 passing and also ran for 69 yards.

 

Of course, Berry put him in position to score the biggest touchdown in school history at the end.

 

“I’m a percentages guy, but a lot of it has to do with guts,” Berry said. “We’ve been doing it for a while, but that one just happened to be on national TV and we won.”

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ESPN Gameday stolen from Arkansas by the Vols

September 10, 2012 – 6:48 am
Photos by ADAM BRIMER/NEWS SENTINEL Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray throws a pass to wide receiver Justin Hunter, good for a touchdown in the second quarter against Georgia State at Neyland Stadium on Saturday.

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Photos by ADAM BRIMER/NEWS SENTINEL Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray throws a pass to wide receiver Justin Hunter, good for a touchdown in the second quarter against Georgia State at Neyland Stadium on Saturday.

In July of 2012 I read online from NW Arkansas online:

The early season football matchup between Arkansas and Alabama was enough to bump Florida-Tennessee from CBS for the first time in nearly two decades.

Now it appears the Sept. 15 game is appealing enough to bring college football’s premiere pregame show back to Fayetteville.

Kirk Herbstreit, a regular for ESPN’s “College Gameday”, told local radio host Bo Mattingly on Friday he expects the show to originate from the University of Arkansas campus that weekend.

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Tennessee-Florida game hype amplified by GameDay appearance, Top 25 ranking

  • By Evan Woodbery
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  • Posted September 9, 2012 at 1:41 p.m., updated September 9, 2012 at 5:52 p.m

In fact, a good friend of our family came to my house on Friday and said that there were several reports on the radio that ESPN had already made the decision to bring ESPN Gameday to Fayetteville. Then came the 34-31 overtime upset in Little Rock to Louisiana Monroe.

Now this morning I read this article from Knoxnews.com:

After a lengthy absence, the national collegefootball spotlight is once again shining on Knoxville.

A day after beating Georgia State 51-13 to open the season 2-0, Tennessee climbed back into The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time since 2008. A few moments later, ESPN confirmed that it is taking its popular college football roadshow to the UT campus for Saturday’s game against Florida (TV: ESPN, 6 p.m.). College GameDay hasn’t been to Knoxville since 2004.

If fans were geared up before for Saturday’s meeting against the 18th-ranked Gators (2-0), Sunday’s news only amplified the hype.

“We’ve been talking about (the Florida game) since January,” said Tennessee linebacker Jordan Williams. “That’s the one everyone wants. It’s the one fans want, too.”

The Vols are ranked No. 23 in the AP poll, but did not crack the Top 25 in the coaches’ poll, which tends to be more conservative about booting teams out of the rankings after a loss. Florida moved up to No. 18 after coming back to beat Texas A&M 20-17 in College Station.

The Vols started the 2008 season ranked No. 18, but quickly fell out of the polls after a season-opening loss to UCLA. Tennessee replaced coach Phillip Fulmer after that season’s 5-7 finish. In the three years since, Tennessee has never won more than seven games and has never been ranked — until today.

The Florida-Tennessee game opened as a pick’em — that is, an even line — in some of the early odds posted by offshore sports books Sunday. After a sluggish opening win against Bowling Green and a listless first half at Texas A&M, the Gators bounced back to post the first come-from-behind second half win in coach Will Muschamp’s tenure. Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel was sacked eight times, but still managed to complete 13 of 16 passes for 162 yards.

Tennessee quarterbackTyler Bray was sharp against Georgia State, completing 18 of 20 for 310 yards. His quarterback efficiency rating is now fifth-best in the nation.

Bray will likely get plenty of airtime on ESPN, which has three hours to fill in GameDay’s new format. The show begins Saturday at 9 a.m. on ESPNU before switching to ESPN at 10 a.m.

The location of the set on campus has not yet been announced, but it should be a place able to accommodate plenty of fans. Backdrops of cheering fans and creative signs are a halllmark of the show.

The show has visited Knoxville seven times, most recently on Oct. 2, 2004, when Auburn beat the Vols 34-10. Overall, the Vols are 2-5 when GameDay is on campus.

Chris Fowler is the show’s straight man and ringleader. He’s joined by analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack.

Fowler said in his Twitter feed that the show had planned to go to Fayetteville for the Arkansas-Alabama game, but the Razorbacks’ upset loss to Louisiana-Monroe caused the change in plans.

“Hey Rocky Top, I’ll see you this weekend baby!” Howard wrote in a tweet on Sunday. “We haven’t been there in a minute and we missed ya!”

Evan Woodbery covers Tennessee football. Follow him at www.Twitter.com/TennesseeBeat.

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Howard Schnellenberger speaks at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 4

September 10, 2012 – 6:33 am

I got to hear Howard Schnellenberger speak on Sept 4, 2012 at the Little Rock Touchdown Club. I did not know that he played football for the University of Kentucky. In fact, just last year Kentucky ended a long losing streak to Tennessee by winning in Lexington. Schnellenberger was responsible for catching the winning touchdown pass in 1954 in Knoxville that broke a 30 year losing span in Knoxville against the Vols dating back to the 1924 game in Knoxville. The final score of that game was 14-13 in front of 32,000 fans at Neyland stadium.

Here are some highlights from his career:

Howard Schnellenberger

Coaching Career Highlights
• Four national collegiate football championships (Alabama ’61, ’64, 65: Miami ’83)
• Seven NFL playoff teams (Miami Dolphins ’70, ’71, ’72, ’76, ’79; Los Angeles Rams ’67, ’69)
• Best record in NFL history as the Miami Dolphins’ Offensive Coordinator (17-0 in ’72)
• 1983 National Champions defeating Nebraska 31-30 in the 50th Anniversary Orange Bowl Game
• 1983 National Coach of the Year

Special Honors, Awards • 2008 Inducted into Palm Beach County Hall of Fame
• 2008-2009 Head Coach of the Nation in Texas vs. Nation Game
• 2007 Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year
• 2007 Recognized for being in the University of Kentucky’s Hall of Fame
• 2005 Inducted into the University of Louisville Hall of Fame
• 2003 Palm Beach County Amateur Athlete Coach of the Year
• 2003 Sports Network South Coach of the Year
• 1991 Head Coach, Japan Bowl All-Star Game
• 1988 Head Coach, Blue/Gray All-Star Game
• 1983 Coach of the Year, U.S. Football Writers Association of America
• 1983 Coach of the East Squad, East-West Shrine Game
• 1982 Coach of the East Squad, East-West Shrine Game
• 1981, Coach of the Year, The Football News
• 1981, UPI Coach of the Week in 17-14 win over No. 1 Penn State
• 1980 Southern Independent Coach of the year, Associated Press
• 1980 Florida Sports Hall of Fame

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Music Monday:Religion and Chris Martin part 2

September 10, 2012 – 6:26 am

Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto/Hurts Like Heaven (Live) @ American Airlines Center

Coldplay brought confetti, lights and thousands of fans to the American Airlines Center; see photos from their colorful show
 

 

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Coldplay Performing Mylo Xyloto/Hurts Like Heaven @ AAC Dallas June 22, 2012

Chris Martin was brought up as an evangelical Christian but he left the faith once he left his childhood home. However, there are been some actions in his life in the last few years that demonstrate that he still is grappling with his childhood Chistian beliefs. This is the second part of a series I am starting on this subject. Today we look at Coldplay’s songs that deal with death and the search for meaning and purpose of life.

On June 23, 2012 my son Wilson and I got to attend a Coldplay Concert in Dallas. It was great.

Coldplay performing “Glass of Water.”

Back in 2008 I wrote a paper on the spiritual themes of Coldplay’s album Viva La Vida and I predicted this spiritual search would continue in the future. Below is the first part of the paper, “Coldplay’s latest musical lyrics indicate a Spiritual Search for the Afterlife.”

Coldplay’s latest musical lyrics indicate a Spiritual Search for the Afterlife

In Coldplay’s latest songs you can see that something has changed about the focus of the band’s song writing. What is going on? The internet has been full of speculation concerning the radical lyrical change in the latest Coldplay work compared to the previous 3 albums.

Russ Briemeier of Christianity Today: “What does it all mean? With so many questions posed, a single interpretation of this album is virtually impossible…

Yet taken collectively, there is no ignoring the fact that spiritual themes are prevalent throughout the album. Viva La Vida seems to be about coping with death in a world corrupted by sin, temptation, and war. Though it never goes deeper than mentioning God or referencing a specific theology, the lyrics often yearn with hope and love for a better world—utopia or heaven, it’s up to your interpretation… Viva La Vida is often provocative, spiritual, and seemingly on the verge of identifying a greater Truth, asking and inspiring many questions without providing the answers.”

The Spiritual Search for the Afterlife

Many of Coldplay’s latest songs mention God and other Biblical themes such as dealing with death, and the afterlife and the shortness of life.  It seems to me that Coldplay has focused on spiritual issues in their lyrics but they are still in the process of working out all the answers and still formulating their religious belief systems. Here is a sample of their latest works:

In the song “Glass of Water”:

Oh he said you could see a future,
inside a glass of water,
With riddles and the rhymes
He asked ‘Will I see heaven in mine’
Ooooh, oooh, ooooh …

Possibly searching for the path to Heaven or hoping after death heaven is the destination. It reminds me also of the song “42” that says, “You thought you might be a ghost, You didn’t get to heaven but you made it close.”

(Coldplay performs “42”)

In the song “Now my feet  won’t touch the ground”:

Now my head won’t stop
You wait a lifetime to be found

Here someone maybe searching for you instead of you searching for someone else? Could it be a way of saying that God is searching for you in a sense? In the context of the rest of the album that may not be such a bad interpretation.

The song “42” states,

Those who are dead are not dead
They’re just living my head
And since I fell for that spell
I am living there as well
Oh…

Time is so short and I’m sure
There must be something more

This is the same question that Solomon asked 3000 years ago in the Book of Ecclesiastes.  He knew there was something more. The Christian Philosopher Francis Schaeffer noted that Solomon took a look at the meaning of life on the basis of human life standing alone between birth and death “under the sun.” This phrase UNDER THE SUN appears over and over in Ecclesiastes. The Christian Scholar Ravi Zacharias noted, “The key to understanding the Book of Ecclesiastes is the term UNDER THE SUN — What that literally means is you lock God out of a closed system and you are left with only this world of Time plus Chance plus matter.”

Solomon had all the resources in the world and he found himself searching for meaning in life and trying to come up with answers concerning the afterlife. However, it seems every door he tries to open is locked. Solomon found no lasting satisfaction in riches (Ecclesiastes 2:8-11), pleasure (2:1), education (2:3) and his work (2:4). None of those were able to “fill the God-sized vacuum in his heart” (quote from famous mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal). That reminds of the Coldplay’s words in the song “Lost”: “Every river that I tried to cross, Every door I ever tried was locked.”

Moreover, what looms over Solomon’s search for meaningful answers is his upcoming death. In the song, “The Escapist,” which shares tract 10 with the song  “Death and all his Friends,” Coldplay notes:

And in the end
We lie awake
And we dream
We’ll make an escape

Is this an escape from Death? Since this song follows the song “Death and all his Friends,” it seems that would be the case.

Death and all his friends

This is a tribute to Queen…

Coldplay – Death and all his friends from the album Viva la Vida

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Beach Boys today!!!

September 10, 2012 – 6:21 am

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50th anniversary of both the Beach Boys and Dodgers Stadium! What an open g ceremony when these icons sing one of their very first hits at the third oldest ball park in the United States!

Much like Mike Love and Brian Wilson were both members of the Beach Boys, Kentucky and Arkansas both play football in the Southeastern Conference.
Mike Love and Brian Wilson were both members of the Beach Boys.
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“Music Mondays” here on the www.thedailyhatch.org

September 10, 2012 – 4:20 am

Would you like to know the spirtual meaning of these words above by Coldplay or find a christian response to the song “The Last Resort” by Papa Roach? You could if you checked out “Music Monday” here every week and see all the videos and articles. Take a look at the links before that refer to these songs:

 

“Music Monday” The Monkees (Part 3)

BradyBunchClip 05 – Marcia meets Davy Jones   Uploaded by BradyBunchClips on May 12, 2009 After multiple attempts, Marcia gets to meet Davy Jones! ___________________ From Wikipedia: Davy Jones Jones performing in Geneva, Illinois, in 2006 Born David Thomas Jones 30 December 1945(1945-12-30) Openshaw, Manchester, England Died February 29, 2012(2012-02-29) (aged 66) Indiantown, Florida, United States […]

Otis Redding and Memphis “Music Monday”

(Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay Uploaded by taylorgdaniel on Jun 9, 2010 Downtown Memphis, July 9, 2010, solo by Taylor G. Daniel of Germantown. This song was actually sung just a few miles away from where Redding originally recorded it in downtown Memphis at Stax Records. ______________________ Over the years Otis Redding’s influence […]

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A Christian response to Papa Roach’s song “The Last Resort” (Part 2)

Papa Roach – Last Resort (Censored Version) This series of posts concerns the song “The Last Resort.” Amy Winehouse died today and it was a tragic loss. That really troubled me that she did not seek spiritual help instead of turning to drugs and alcohol. This post today will give hope to those we feel like […]

“Music Monday” Countdown of Coldplay’s best albums (part 2)

I think that Viva La Vida is their 4th best CD. It is balanced better than all of their albums. This CD had many songs that were very similar. Although this album has their only number one hit in the US, Viva La Vida. I loved “VIVA LA VIDA” “VIOLET HILL” “LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR” “YES” […]

“Music Monday”:Coldplay’s best songs of all time (Part 18)

  This is “Music Monday” and I always look at a band with some of their best music. I am currently looking at Coldplay’s best songs. Here are a few followed by another person’s preference: My son Hunter Hatcher’s 3rd favorite Coldplay song is ”Every Tear Drop is a WaterFall” Hunter noted, “Recent favorite of mine. I […]

Insight into what Coldplay meant by “St. Peter won’t call my name” (Series on Coldplay’s spiritual search, Part 3)jh61

Coldplay seeks to corner the market on earnest and expressive rock music that currently appeals to wide audiences Here is an article I wrote a couple of years ago about Chris Martin’s view of hell. He says he does not believe in it but for some reason he writes a song that teaches that it […]

 

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“Music Mondays” here on the www.thedailyhatch.org

September 10, 2012 – 4:18 am

Would you like to know the spirtual meaning of these words above by Coldplay or find a christian response to the song “The Last Resort” by Papa Roach? You could if you checked out “Music Monday” here every week and see all the videos and articles. Take a look at the links before that refer to these songs:

 

“Music Monday” The Monkees (Part 3)

BradyBunchClip 05 – Marcia meets Davy Jones   Uploaded by BradyBunchClips on May 12, 2009 After multiple attempts, Marcia gets to meet Davy Jones! ___________________ From Wikipedia: Davy Jones Jones performing in Geneva, Illinois, in 2006 Born David Thomas Jones 30 December 1945(1945-12-30) Openshaw, Manchester, England Died February 29, 2012(2012-02-29) (aged 66) Indiantown, Florida, United States […]

Otis Redding and Memphis “Music Monday”

(Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay Uploaded by taylorgdaniel on Jun 9, 2010 Downtown Memphis, July 9, 2010, solo by Taylor G. Daniel of Germantown. This song was actually sung just a few miles away from where Redding originally recorded it in downtown Memphis at Stax Records. ______________________ Over the years Otis Redding’s influence […]

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A Christian response to Papa Roach’s song “The Last Resort” (Part 2)

Papa Roach – Last Resort (Censored Version) This series of posts concerns the song “The Last Resort.” Amy Winehouse died today and it was a tragic loss. That really troubled me that she did not seek spiritual help instead of turning to drugs and alcohol. This post today will give hope to those we feel like […]

“Music Monday” Countdown of Coldplay’s best albums (part 2)

I think that Viva La Vida is their 4th best CD. It is balanced better than all of their albums. This CD had many songs that were very similar. Although this album has their only number one hit in the US, Viva La Vida. I loved “VIVA LA VIDA” “VIOLET HILL” “LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR” “YES” […]

“Music Monday”:Coldplay’s best songs of all time (Part 18)

  This is “Music Monday” and I always look at a band with some of their best music. I am currently looking at Coldplay’s best songs. Here are a few followed by another person’s preference: My son Hunter Hatcher’s 3rd favorite Coldplay song is ”Every Tear Drop is a WaterFall” Hunter noted, “Recent favorite of mine. I […]

Insight into what Coldplay meant by “St. Peter won’t call my name” (Series on Coldplay’s spiritual search, Part 3)jh61

Coldplay seeks to corner the market on earnest and expressive rock music that currently appeals to wide audiences Here is an article I wrote a couple of years ago about Chris Martin’s view of hell. He says he does not believe in it but for some reason he writes a song that teaches that it […]

 

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