I think the sound guy was stoned.

That one might beat Up With People as the most incomprehensible halftime show ever.

I thought I'd need to send over EMS for Gregg, because he was really worked up in hatred for Coldplay.

I can take a coupla songs, but they're a bit to sugary for me to take in large doses.

Martin & Zuckerberg are far from separated-at-birth but I can see the resemblance you see.

I like Coldplay. Back around 2000, I posted for a while on a message board associated with a British radio station (I'd discovered it because a few of the Brits from the board had found, and posted on, the Seattle-based board I was on and invited people over.) One of the most-talked-about bands on their board was Coldplay; I'd never heard of them. They came to Seattle about a year later and played a smallish club downtown called The Showbox (I saw Dire Straits there in 1980, on their Tunnel of Love tour...one of my 10 favorite shows.) I went to the show with a woman I'd met through the Seattle board. It was sold out but we managed to score tickets on the street. We had a great time, although I don't remember that much about the band or the music. We were in that can't-keep-our-hands-off-each-other phase -- and this woman was so fucking sexy -- that we spent most of the evening paying way more attention to each other than to Coldplay. She ended up buying Parachutes and, once we finally started sleeping together, we spent many a candlelit evening in her bedroom fucking our brains out to that album.

"Viva la Vida" (their first song at the Super Bowl) is probably my favorite song of theirs. I like the melody, the pacing and the punchy strings. I also liked that they used one of my favorite paintings as the cover for that album.

Your Punjabi Halftime Show link doesn't work for me; I had to delete a couple of the first parts of the URL. Funny though!

Here's classic Bollywood from the movie Devdas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70nNB-mxMZo

Kinda toe-tapping, no?