Coldplay – Talk (2005)

On one level, an obvious post to accompany Kraftwerk’s peerless “Computer Love”.

The genius of “Talk” is that it copies an old melody note for note and adds just enough to be worthwhile.

My judgement on this is clouded though. A nightmare drive to Cumbria in the very early hours of a very early January morning of 2006 ended just too late to grab a word with my dad before he slipped from consciousness.

I had driven in silence and flipped the radio on to catch the news, this was the song that was playing. Seemed right somehow.