Coldplay

[Sygy]

err i hate the singer. his mouth is always open

[Mikes_Shadow]

err i hate the singer. his mouth is always open

 

That's why they call him the singer

[Sygy]

no. when he is not singing his mouth is open

[shadowfax1007]

Coldplay rule, I dont see how you guys can bad mouth them.

You also have to take into account, they arent a teenage band lol, they are like Adult Contempory, so alot of us younger ones wont like them much.

 

Although they style doesnt differ, their songs are original, and their lyrics, are weird and wonderful, not just a bunch of crap a 2 year old could write.

 

And the mouth open thing, so what lol, lots of musicians are weird, and do weird things, I mean, look at our own Brad lol, he is always pulling weird faces on stage, and mouthing songs and being an idiot, and wears a set of headphones at all the live gigs, he doesnt just play guitar the whole time.

 

Although, I do agree X&Y wasnt as good as their other albums, but it wasnt bad either. Parachutes was defiently their best album.

 

And this crap about "safe" music, thats bullshit. I mean, take your example "1) Wants to be as least offensive as possible to pickup a higher fan base and make more money (for the major label snobs). " Thats crap, I think its good of Coldplay are able to create good music without the need to swear and be offensive. So many bands these days dont make good music, and are only selling albums because of the insane amount of swearing and obscene themes portraited in their songs. And futher more, your paying out LP by saying that, LP swore never to swear on their commercial material.

 

Not only is Coldplay's music, clean and brillant, but they as a band support many great causes, such as Make Trade Fair.

 

I reckon Coldplay are brillant and make great music, which is why im going to see them live twice this year.

[Mikes_Shadow]

no. when he is not singing his mouth is open

Maybe he doesn't know how to breathe through his nose

[Sygy]

^hehehe. he voice is too high for my liking

[twilightcrimson7]

It tells me that most women and especially middle aged women find Coldplay enjoyable and in-offensive.

 

Safe Music Characteristics:

 

1) Wants to be as least offensive as possible to pickup a higher fan base and make more money (for the major label snobs).

 

2) Shows hardly any creativity (or balls) and sticks to certain formulas to replicate success. (Speed of Sound=Clocks in minor key)

 

3) Lyrics are so decipherable that a 2nd grader could have wrote them (Especially X & Y).

 

 

 

Coldplay are anything but brilliant. Just an ordinary band that makes "safe" and "marketable" music for the masses that listen to modern rock and watch mtv. It's music even your mother may like.

 

 

Yeah, that pretty much covers them.

[shadowfax1007]

im goin coldplay concert in july :D

YAY!!

 

awesome, Is that the one in Melbourne or Brisbane?

Either way, Ill be at both lol, cause there was a screw up with my tickets and I also found out about a suprise present after lol, so instead of 3 tickets, i got like 8 lol.

 

Im hoping to record the shows in Audio, and 1 or two songs in video, provided i can get the proper equipment by then.

 

 

And everyone, if your just gonna bad mouth Coldplay, go somewhere else, leave this thread for the fans of Coldplay to discuss Coldplay, not to offend or upset Coldplay fans.

[Toxic1]

Coldplay rule, I dont see how you guys can bad mouth them.

You also have to take into account, they arent a teenage band lol, they are like Adult Contempory, so alot of us younger ones wont like them much.

 

Although they style doesnt differ, their songs are original, and their lyrics, are weird and wonderful, not just a bunch of crap a 2 year old could write.

 

And the mouth open thing, so what lol, lots of musicians are weird, and do weird things, I mean, look at our own Brad lol, he is always pulling weird faces on stage, and mouthing songs and being an idiot, and wears a set of headphones at all the live gigs, he doesnt just play guitar the whole time.

 

Although, I do agree X&Y wasnt as good as their other albums, but it wasnt bad either. Parachutes was defiently their best album.

 

And this crap about "safe" music, thats bullshit. I mean, take your example "1) Wants to be as least offensive as possible to pickup a higher fan base and make more money (for the major label snobs). " Thats crap, I think its good of Coldplay are able to create good music without the need to swear and be offensive. So many bands these days dont make good music, and are only selling albums because of the insane amount of swearing and obscene themes portraited in their songs. And futher more, your paying out LP by saying that, LP swore never to swear on their commercial material.

 

Not only is Coldplay's music, clean and brillant, but they as a band support many great causes, such as Make Trade Fair.

 

I reckon Coldplay are brillant and make great music, which is why im going to see them live twice this year.

 

You don't get it man (it flies way over your head). It's not about swearing. I can care less either way. It's the music. Anyhow, here are a few points from various writers about Coldplay (and X & Y):

 

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From tinymixtapes.com:

 

I was unloading a shipment at work a few days ago. I work at Starbucks (hey, if you can't beat the devil, you can at least get a sweet health benefit plan for only working part time from him), so you know, coffee, cups, milk -- it's not rocket science. Slice open the next box and what else should I find but the lovably tender and jovial mug of Chris Martin staring back at me, in a carefully practiced expression of wide eyed befuddlement at the crazy and imperceptible gears of this modern world. Further scrounging and slicing reveals a full Coldplay display and many many many copies of their new record. X&Y is now an impulse buy right next to the vanilla almond biscotti, and all jokes about corporate rock aside, if this can't be seen as a signifier of a band that has become much more a phenomenon than a music making entity, I'm not sure what more it takes. Maybe some promotion at the DMV or something like that.

 

"Hmm, what is this Coldplay band like?" asks an older woman after ordering a decaf iced latte and a slice of lemon-raspberry loaf. This wasn't in my job description; I think to myself, I wish they would have sent along a card of a preordained little recitation I'm supposed to give, as they did with the Yukon Blend. "Well, they are pretty much the quintessential band of a large group of decidedly British bands capitalizing off trying to sound like Bends-era Radiohead though falling flat due to trite and pithy lyricism, lack of musical inventiveness that hides behind washes of reverbed soundscapes and ornately orchestrated string sections as a means to connote deep existential journeying and hopefully portray an unassuming genius from a heavyhearted and (supposedly) lovelorn mind that is making his way in this universe despite its maddening incomprehensibility."

 

[blank stare.]

 

Onto Plan B. "Eh, they're pretty good. So are the chocolate covered graham crackers."

 

"Oh wow, those do look good."

 

"Heh, yeah."

 

I don't hate Coldplay, they're harmless enough (Keane on the other hand...). I think they make terribly harmless music, and I'm sure their intents are terribly heartfelt as they appear. Coldplay is not just a band these days, they are a divisive issue. My theory on the anti-Coldplay sentiments is that it is upsetting for some to see how easy music can be. Take "Trouble" from their first record... what, like 20 words total? A simple catchy piano line revolving around three chords? Shit, I could have written that song, would have taken me like five minutes. BUT YOU DIDN'T! And for all those that don't get the worldwide popularity and adulation for such simple sounding and highly scripted music, you have to admit, if not Coldplay, someone else. It's a market niche. Coldplay is simply good business. They don't rock the boat from album to album, you know what you are going to get. Not great, a few catchy moments, certainly not god-awful, but just bland enough that after three listens, all life is drained from it, there is nothing new to find. I'd mention some songs, but they are really inconsequential. It's the new Coldplay record for fuck's sake; if you need a better description go to Sam Goody, I just make coffee.

 

 

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/c/coldplay.htm

 

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From lostatsea.net:

 

 

In a world of honest music consumers, it is at times mind-boggling to figure out why the masses have fallen head over heels for Chris Martin and company. As far as overrated bands go, only the Dave Matthews Band surpasses Coldplay in this regard - only instead of clinging to Birkenstock-clad frat boys like white on rice, fans confident in their faux-sophisticated musical appreciation flock towards the languid, British darlings in droves.

 

Touted everywhere as the next U2 - complete with globally-minded frontman - the band and their new record are wholly deserving of such a distinction… especially considering that once laudable group’s recently trite offerings.

 

Martin claimed prior to the release of 2002’s A Rush of Blood to the Head that it would be the band’s crowning achievement. Although it, too, suffered from various moments of utter insipidness (leaving Parachutes out entirely), X & Y proves him right.

 

X & Y is uninspired adult pop that drops jaws only in its capacity to elicit yawns. Martin has never been known to go off like a firecracker, but, unlike his performance on Parachutes, Martin can’t even compete with an ash snake.

 

“Fix You” and lead single “Speed of Sound” liven up the doldrums started at “Square One”; “Talk” is also worth a listen, but points out why X & Y ultimately fails. Martin croons about “something that’s never been done,” but by the last notes of “Twisted Logic,” X & Y feels like having “Clocks” on repeat for an hour.

 

The group, despite their obsession with fair trade, manages to play it lyrically safe. Nearly every track rehashes the prototypical love-song agonies - I love you, you broke my heart, you don’t realize who loves you etc. - with Martin’s cryptic, often nebulous fragments.

 

The worst lyrics of all belong to “Swallowed in the Sea”; The AAAB rhyme scheme gives the song the childish feel of a high-school poetry class composition: “You cut me down a tree/And brought it back to me/And that’s what made me see/Where I was going wrong.” With incredulousness, I must smack my own forehead - If only I would’ve known sooner! The right path can be found if I only find somebody to cut down the national forests! It’s hard to stifle eye rolls, giggles or sighs in the face of such insipid “wisdom”; if only it weren’t so prevalently accepted.

 

All cynicism aside, if listening only to the pleasing surface sounds, repeat spins find X & Y almost enjoyable - but only almost.

 

Reviewed by Natalie B. David

 

http://www.lostatsea.net/review.phtml?id=133521025242cfdd1f30e12

[Toxic1]

From pitchforkmedia.com:

 

 

X&Y is sequenced fast-song/slow-song through almost its entire running order, which means those of you uninterested in wading through doe-eyed love songs based on lazy rhyming couplets and trite resolutions have already lost half a disc's worth of music. You'll "go backwards and then/ You'll go forwards again." You'll "get lost and then get found." You'll notice that the first verse of "Swallowed in the Sea" ("You cut me down a tree/ And brought it back to me/ And that's what made me see/ Where I was coming from") is somehow meaningless, yet also cliched. Had Coldplay accompanied these lyrics with remotely interesting or memorable music, this could be somewhat overlooked; sadly, "Swallowed in the Sea" is one of several aggressively banal ballads that sink this album into a sort of neo-Carpenters abyss.

 

The more uptempo tracks here tend to be light years better than their leaden counterparts, if only because the louder accompaniment manages to drown out more of Chris Martin's lyrics and bring the focus to his pleasant if unspectacular vocals. Guitarist John Buckland does his part to bring life to the proceedings: He's an encyclopedia of Will Sergeant and Johnny Marr-isms, and even if most of his window dressings are little more than a distillation of tricks learned from better bands, he does a nice job of providing the illusion of a grand gesture for songs like "Square One" and "White Shadows". Martin's vocals, meanwhile, rarely command attention, content to melt into the string synthesizer and guitar reverb as if he hopes he's not imposing on you. Listening back to an earlier track like "Shiver" proves he's capable of more.

 

Lending to the uninspired nature is lead single "Speed of Sound"'s uncanny resemblance to "Clocks". Certainly, it rarely hurts to stick with what works, but this is not just a near-exact replica of its successful predecessor; it's also a less memorable song riding a piano hook that has so deeply infiltrated the pop-culture landscape that I've become numb to it. In fairness, the track's vocal melody outperforms the one from "Clocks" by a hair, but without a strong hook, the song fails in the one category it needs to succeed in: replay value. It's symptomatic of the rest of the album, and indeed, much of the band's catalog to date: Like Coldplay's two previous albums, only more so, X&Y is bland but never offensive, listenable but not memorable. It may be pointless to hate them, but with this album, they've almost certainly become the easiest band on the planet to be completely indifferent to.

 

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/coldplay/x-and-y.shtml

[Friðbjörn]

The edit button...

 

Anyway I totally agree on the lyrics thing. Those Swallowed in the sea lyrics suck...and I'm saying that as pretty much of a Coldplay fan. My six year old brother can almost write something better than this.

Chris Martin is often a great lyricist IMO, but sometimes he just writes gibberish

[diva__007]

Jenna still gives coldplay thumbs up :thumbsup: