Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay

Been listening to the new albums of both these bands and here are my 2 cents worth:

1. Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business
They pick up right where they left at Elephunk. There's been more experiments in this album (following their trend of collaborating with other singers) with the tracks featuring James Brown, Sting, Justin Timberlake, Jack Johnson etc. This album is all phunky and R&B...they keep shifting from one to the other.

'Pump it' will remind of the Pulp Fiction theme which has been blended into this track damn well.
'Don't Phunk' with my heart starts with astrain of an old 60's hindi song and then Fergie just takes it away...a sure hot-stepper for the summer!
'Union' is my fave in the album mixed with Sting's 'An englishman in New York' with him lending the vocals to it...pretty neat!

2. Coldplay - X&Y
Really can't peg this one. More than once I feel they are getting into the zone where all their songs sound pretty similar...i like them a lot and but they can so put you to sleep if you cue all theirs tracks one after the other.

The only two tracks that I like are 'Speed of Sound' and 'Talk'. Maybe you might like more...I guess their music/albums grow on you.

Not really sure if this would be as big as 'Rush of blood...'