A Rush Of Blood To The Head

better than i expected

5 out of 10 clocks and The scientist best songs on the album but not too shabby

The instrumentals are good, the voice is good but the two mix together to a very limited degree, somehow. Well-polished overall but doesn't excel in anything particular, which is always what I am looking for, primarily.

I have given a 3 because I did enjoyed the album but probably won’t revisit it. I enjoyed songs such as: In my place, The scientist, Clocks, Daylight and Green Eyes. However I think that the majority of the other songs were pretty average so sort of brought the album down.

They didn’t live up to their potential, but their early stuff was quite good. Not revolutionary or ground-breaking, but I’ll take their early 2000s stuff over some of the pop-radio-friendly rock that came just before and just after them.

A few standout songs, but generally underwhelmed.

Peni bb

Excellent both musically and lyrically

Love the group

The album isn't bad, but I don't think its anything particularly special or unique.

Ah, Coldplay y sus temas antiguos, nuevos descubrimientos y elementos placenteros; por el otro lado, canciones que flojean al extremo.

Good background chill music

Coldplay fits the role of the non-offensive band o the 2000s. Mom can put it on while you travel to soccer practice. It rarely comes across as authentic because it is just too polished. Some songs can be catchy though. The Scientist is my favorite song from the album and I can say I like it. Clocks is tolerable. The rest are forgettable. 5/10 - positives are that it makes good background music and okay driving music.

Enjoyed this after some initial trepidation. The songs can't be questioned.

I know it's cool to hate on Coldplay but you can't deny there are some anthems in here. It just peters out a bit in the second half. Best track: The Scientist

Don't really like Coldplay and I don't know why. Mum and dad music innit 🤷‍♂️. This surprised me though, some nice tunes. Feeling generous, 3/5

Decent but not a classic.

Not a bad album, but everything Coldplay sounds the same.

3/5 nothing really stuck...

This one's just not for me really. Hard to explain why. There were some really catchy bits, and it's nice music, and is like, modern, well produced rock. I think it's something about the individual instrument parts not standing out much, and just sounds like a wall of gentle pop rock that's there to give movement and energy to the singer but not trying to do anything else. I'd compare this to the album by Travis, but the guitar parts and everything stand out more in Travis. The singer of Coldplay is pretty good to be fair, but just not that excited by what he does with his voice, mostly good but the vocals can be quite dreary.

I was originally upset that I had to listen to this, but it's really not as bad as I thought it was. Half sorry Coldplay haha

Very listenable but I have some irrational bias against them

antes de escuchar: coldplay wea mala xd. despues: mish, no son tan malos como pensé. tenía 0 expectativas y el disco me agradó. peca de ser un poco pajero pero es un buen disco en general

I went ahead and listened to parachutes yesterday already. I really enjoyed those first two coldplay albums and I listened to them often while I was in the Navy and on those long drives between Ohio and Virginia. They were great albums for getting lost in and singing along with unintelligible falsetto. Their third album didn't strike a chord with me and so I stopped following them. Their lyrics always seemed like they were trying to be deeper than they actually were. I think that's often the way with popular music. Coming back to them twenty years later I have to say I much prefer the sound of parachutes over a rush of blood to the head. Though, I was carrying a torch for a green eyed lover at the time.

The singles are actually decent but the rest leaves me cold

5.5

Pop rock. Suave, melódico. Un poco aburrido.

Ah, this takes me back to when coldplay debuted the album. I had this and "Bleed American" shuffled for like 6 months straight. While a great album at the time, it doesn't hold up much, imo. The lyrics are basic, kinda repetitive, but the thing that still kills are the instrumentals. Best song on the album is "Warning Sign", the rest, while musically great, are meh.

Escuché mucho este disco hace ya casi 20 años, concierto incluido. Me pasaba que el inicio es muy bueno pero después de Clocks me perdía. Pese a lo quemado de varias canciones fue bueno reencontrar esa primera mitad. De la segunda mitad se salva A Rush... porque me gusta la letra. Siento que es sí es un disco característico de su época aunque no sé realmente que tan influyente sea en la música de los años posteriores. Las demás canciones no son malas, sólo no figuran mucho. Songs: The Scientist, In My Place, A Rush of Blood to the Head

Nope!!!

Alright actual has some good songs on it

It’s probably a 4 star album, but has a few songs that are/were very overplayed. Still has others that I forgot about that were really good as well like “In My Place”

I don't think I've ever listened to a full Coldplay album before. Not exactly my cup of tea, though I didn't find it unpleasant. A little monotonous in tone?

No me encanta Coldplay y siento que este no es su mejor disco, pero sí el más representativo de lo que hicieron al principio del siglo. Los sencillos están tan quemados que con Clocks ya instintivamente espero que entre la versión de son cubano; en cambio las que no fueron sencillos son tan aburridas que obviamento no eran material para hacer algo más con ellas.

Starts off great but fades away...

3.5 stars

i mean the classics are good but didnt discover anything more

That piano

ne

I enjoy melancholy music as much as the next guy. But something about Martin’s vocals just puts me off.

I thought maybe we were hard on Coldplay back in the day. This always struck me as a sophomore slump type album, though it produced one of their most iconic singles and a couple of notable but less iconic ones. But listening to this as an adult with more refined tastes reveals just how empty its calories are. The range here is truly, harrowingly narrow and one-note; the production and arrangements flat and uninteresting. Anyone who gives What’s the Story Morning Glory one star on this site should be forced to listen to this over and over again until they change their mind.

I thought id be more nostalgic for it but tbh its meh

Booooooooooooring.

mediocre in a really frustrating way where a lot of these songs have the potential to be good but don't quite make it there. undercooked and sauceless. i have always had a soft spot for clocks though. maybe just listen to clocks. highlights: clocks

Say what you will Chris Martin knows how to write a fucking melody. That being said it’s still a Coldplay album so it kind of sucks. Liked Green Eyes.

No thanks

Not really my thing

I gave it a chance (first four songs) and it confirmed my belief that Coldplay are quite dull. It's not badly written or recorded but the whole product seems like a collection of advert songs. Or New Year's Eve montages. It feels like music listening on super easy mode. Which is fine because most people don't want challenging music - they want to pick one out 5 CD options in Tesco and put the case in their glovebox next to The Best Driving Anthems and go back to thinking about their mortgage or their new lawnmower.

I just don't like Coldplay. I know, it is popular to bash on them but I just don't like it.

As I was listening, I felt like I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it. Eventually, that lack of reaction kind of made me hate it, though.

I enjoyed this more than I would expect. Favorite songs are "A Whisper" and tracks 2 and 3.

Just feels so generic. Dunno

I kinda get why this is here, and it's not really a bad album I guess but this just isn't for me. I find a lot of the lyrics repetitive and boring and most of the harmonies and melodies derivative and uninspired. Also I can't stand the drum sound. Clocks is fine, Idk it's just aggressively mediocre.

If you ask me, there is one good Coldplay song per album. It draws you in, and then you think, hey, maybe I could like Coldplay, but then the rest of the boring catalog just doesn't do it for you. On this album that song is "The Scientist". On the first album "Yellow". Coldplay could go on tour with U2 and honestly give the crowd a good nap.

Very boring

Kinda boring yacht rock

Not my thing. Some decent tracks, but I found most of them to be either forgettable or grating

The Scientist and Clocks are solid enough. The rest is unobjectionable but not anything I’d want to listen to again.

I don't care for Politik, I truly dislike most of this album but Warning sign is one that I really like

Si la totalité des albums que je possède n'avaient jamais existé, j'écouterais cet album de façon occasionnelle.

Martin seems like a nice enough fellow and there's really little value in rehearsing again why people might not like Coldplay, so certainly none of that venom from me here. That said, listening to this now has, if nothing else, reminded me that those perspectives are mostly merited on the basis of the music itself, rather than just affect or posturing. This album is perfectly competent stuff that unquestionably succeeds in meeting its ambitions, so your view will likely be a subjective one contingent on whether you think those ambitions are worthwhile. These are simple songs, constructed for the broadest appeal, with lyrics that gesture vaguely in the direction of big but nonspecific meaning and emotion, all within a familiar structure that conforms to inherited notions of what an 'album' should look like. I'm left pretty cold and indifferent by the whole thing and won't be willingly listening again, so it's a two.

My god what have I done? Halfway through this record I was thinking “this isn’t bad it’s just boring AF maybe 3 stars. Not my cuppa.” Then I got to Green Eyes which is awful and the whole rest of the album is an unmitigated disaster. Yuck our pablum.

Coldplay WERE the sound of successfully romantic young white kids in 2002. They won. The girls loved them, and we loved the melodrama of their style. And then they kept going. Personally, I'd gotten burned out on their music, and had switched my smart-ironic-white-guy points to Beck, who was at least much more varied in his musical tastes. And then the singer guy married Gwyneth Paltrow. And then he got famouser. And famouser. And at this point, I think the whole planet was asking, what the fuck is happening? Why is his celebrity now like a perpetual motion machine, bobbing up and down yes-man to whatever the fuck capitalism is up to post-Matrix? Why am I even looking at Us magazine for even a microsecond? I still think those were good questions. And I still love the straightforward melodrama they conjure with the simplest, truly the most rudimentary, of musical toys. So cheerio to these boys back in 2002! Thanks for surfacing for a moment.

I don't understand the phenomena.. I guess this is good to play in department stores and nail salons. It just doesn't make sense to me that so many people seek this music out and but very expensive tickets to their shows. It's their right to like this stuff though.

this certainly is music by definition

Normalito, nada de otro mundo. Todas las canciones son iguales para mi

I don't like this style of music so take this with a grain of salt. BUT, Coldplay is just milquetoast and boring. There is so much out there that sounds like them and your life won't miss anything if you don't listen to this album.

I’ll start by saying that Clocks and The Scientist are pretty good songs. They’re moving piece of music that earn their place in serious discussion. The rest of the album is trite garbage. The guitar and piano playing are amateur hour. The vocals are good-not-great. I did not need to hear an hour of pounding out repetitive chords over empty lyrics. If you take those two good songs off of this album it’s an easy 1-er.

I think we all knew the song "Clocks," but I only recognized a couple other songs. Chris Martin has a great voice and a talent for writing melodies. In fact, If it wasn't for the well written melodies and his singing, I'd have to rate this lower, because the instrumentals sound pretty generic. I don't love how thin the drums sound. There's usually much interesting going on, if but a couple interesting rhythms. Clocks is a pretty good song, and I think Coldplay can reach decent heights, but the average is pretty low, and I don't think I can give this a 3 in good faith.

its very simple music, which is good for appealing to masses. Simplicity is not necessarily a bad thing. It's also conducive for creating an emotional response. I don't find it very fun or interesting

У меня отторжение на физическом уровне от этой группы. Я ничего не могу с собой поделать. Люблю clocks, но это не спасает ситуацию. Поняла, что даже она мне больше не нравится.

Good. Not so thrilling. I like the first record. I think between the two records they found a little bit more of that Coldplay identity. That's good for them and seemingly great for a lot of people, but I'm not crazy for that identity. In my place and the scientist are great though.

I know we have another ~900 albums to go, but this may end up in the top 5 of the most boring albums included. Coldplay are the masters of making a 3:30 song feel like 6 minutes. this is music for people who have reached adulthood and have never tried an olive because “olives are gross.” either they took the prior two decades of British rock and decided to make the most bland, palatable shlock for the masses, or this is simply what they’re capable of. friends have told me that Coldplay is the greatest live act alive, and I’m convinced that’s because they primarily have musical theatre as a reference point and haven’t actually gone to many concerts. post-9/11 standards were low I guess. people wanted rallying songs to sweep them off their feet, and this is what they were fed. I hope they at least took all the money they made from this nonsense and paid Brian Eno well for his work with them later on.

People often compare Coldplay to Radiohead, and while I get it for sure, I think the closer comp would be The National. Both are fairly straightforward rock acts, build to big, crowd-pleasing crescendos, and it seems like their singers could probably sit down for an entire show. The National just happen to be more interesting and good in every way possible. I think if Chris Martin didn’t have so much money he’d be jealous of Matt Berninger, not Thom Yorke.

If someone played Coldplay I wouldn't complain but I wouldn't be happy either 2.5 ⭐

4/10 Sound like bland water with a dash of salt

As far as I can remember, Coldplay's first three albums were the 'good' ones, before they veered further and further towards commercialism, ultimately sinking into pop trash. Back then, Coldplay were regarded as 'cheerful Radiohead' or 'Radiohead without the depression'. After all these years, I’m listening to their second album, "A Rush of Blood to the Head", again, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it. The comparison with Radiohead is certainly flattering, as Radiohead didn't make music this simple on their debut. On the one hand, Coldplay's signature "wall of post-rock sounds" certainly has its charms; on the other hand, it's all rather monotonous and bland. Perhaps it isn’t even the best of their first three albums? Overall, it's just average. Or maybe I’ve simply moved on from this sort of music.

I think their biggest offense is also their reason for success: they're supremely inoffensive. Nothing new. Nothing different. Safe.

Hate when it makes me listen to Coldplay but this probably their best album. It's just alright and plays it safe. Nothing really special though is it.

- Not only does every song sound the same, but each is as emotionally exciting as a styrofoam cup. - I would have left "Green Eyes" on. All others I would have skipped. - Coldplay is inoffensive. But they are so inoffensive that I find myself starting to be offended. And then "Clocks" came on and gave me a PTSD flashback and what would have been a "fine" 3 stars became a "meh" 2 stars.

Is a bit simplistic and boring, Especially the 2nd half. but these 2 albums are still decent. Think I prefer Parachutes of the 2. Its the album aftwr this they went squarely up their own arse. Actually thought Clocks was on that Douchebaggy album. Maybe they didnt make it to 3rd album then... God Put a Smile Upon Your Face is good. Sorta. 2.5

Maybe after this there aren’t any more Coldplay albums on this list

It's like if Oasis was worse.

Some hints of good songwriting here, especially ‘The Scientist’, but the album gets mired down by repetitive rhythmic choices that are typical of writers who compose on piano but don’t have actual facility with the instrument. Lyrically, it’s unbelievably lazy- this is a man with absolutely nothing to say. Sonically it can be powerful (in headphones) but Coldplay was in desperate need of a producer who could push them harder and further in terms of both arrangements and songwriting.

It was Coldplay. Unsure on how this made the list. This was fine but it not an amazing album

I like the more well known songs but the record is very bland.

Yawn.

Some of the songs were big hits for good reason, but I personally find most of this album a bit boring. Not many interesting musical ideas, and the melodies are mostly in one ear and out the other. Not a bad album per se, but a bit too middle-of-the-road for my tastes.

Bit dull

bit boring

Meh

I’m not a big Coldplay fan, and this one was pretty dross, tunes are ok, but nothing here for me.

Sorry, but this guy sings out of tune right? It sounds like it. Don't understand that this band is so popular. Yes, the music is kind of nice. But I really can't listen to this

I never got Coldplay. Boring and with a whiny voice.

When it’s good it’s too cloying, when it’s bad I find my finger subconsciously drifting towards the skip button when the song starts to fade out.

Very boring early 2000s rock. 2.0/5.0: Disappointing

We were really listening to this shit, huh? The throughline from the 90s radio rock experience filtered through a polyester Radiohead with twinkly guitars, snappy drums, and dumb vocals scratches an obvious part of the brain. Feels good out of the box, but the digger you deep the more you get the feeling that you've been cheated. It ages poorly and the things that you enjoyed just don't seem to be there anymore, but it's still something you liked so you keep giving it a chance. Boring and shallow, but somewhat hooky and inoffensive. Definitely dated. I'd give it a 3 for its middle-of-the-road, paint-by-numbers sound, but some of the more dirge-like (God Put a Smile upon Your Face, Daylight, A Whisper) songs really grated on me.

Très jolie outro qui m'a attrapée. Le reste est soit trop plat soit trop long, ou les deux.

Would rather just listen to Doves.

Bad

i wish i knew how to yap about albums to help effectively describe this album as something other than the soundtrack to two dental hygenists getting married. clocks and scientist are the most tolerable as cultural phenomena, yet through the lens of my own listen through, i couldn't fully get into this radiohead copy. As if thom yorke gave every throwaway from the bends to chris martin and yassified it

It was like a paint by numbers inspirational movie soundtrack

This was fine, I guess but I just really do not like Coldplay. Chris Martin’s voice was always a bit whiny to me and the music full. 2.5/5

I just don’t really like Coldplay, however this has some of its stronger songs.

baaaaa

I cant stand coldplay ~ a good deep dive into this album confirmed that

1,5

I’ll be honest, i didnt give this close scrutiny and didn’t finish. Usual problem of not enough time and littlw interest in the band. Never heard a full album of theirs before and still havent but heard enough to think, meh. They’re not terrible. Britpop light? The drummer is in time amd consistent, but boring and i dont feel a good connection between him and the bass, both playing on the beat a lot of the time, little interplay. Its all wistful ballady pop, start quiet, creswndo, go quiet again, rinse repeat.

seemed to get worse after the first song

A couple of ok songs but the album as a whole is very forgettable

A glamour is a sort of magical working that alters perception, allowing the practitioner to control how they are seen, heard, and felt. Often glamours are used to produce a veneer of charisma, beauty, or confidence. But they are unstable: hard for the practitioner to maintain and easy for a strong-minded psychic warrior to penetrate. What lies beneath the glamour? Whatever the practitioner is trying to cover up. Their ugliness. Their cupidity. Their cravenness. Or their insecurity. Their self-doubt. Their emptiness. If I believed in such things, I'd be easily convinced that Chris Martin has managed to produce and uphold a glamour for the best part of three decades. A Rush of Blood to the Head weaves an amiable spell, but I just know that, if I listened to the lyrics more closely or gave the music greater consideration, it would all come apart. But, for some reason, I don't go there. When I think of paying attention to the lyrics, they become a blur. When I attempt to grapple with music, the song mysteriously ends. And that may be part of the glamour, not just the ungraspable quality of the recording itself, but the actual reluctance to listen to it intently. The veneer that Martin produces is not exactly one of charisma, beauty, or confidence, but of a sort of gentle amiability. There is the feeling that it would so easy to pull down the façade and find nothing behind it that it would be beneath all of us to do it. Chris Martin has been called a bedwetter by Alan McGee and got on with it, so what worse could you or I possibly do. What would the point even be in finding the empty centre of the Coldplay project? Isn't the amiable, vague something better than more absolute nothing? There will be plenty of that when we're dead. 2 Coldplay seemed like such nice kids when they first appeared. They dressed stylelessly, they had good manners, and they were always putting themselves down in the form ‘[x] are so much better than us, we’re not worthy, we can hardly play’. And it was truth they spoke, ‘X’ were certainly better than them - even where X = Travis; Coldplay could barely play their instruments. They were so humble at the same time as being eager to please. “Excuse me, I know it’s a terrible imposition because we’re rather rubbish, but if you wouldn’t mind listening to our song for a minute that would be so amazing…etc”. It was very easy to root for them. Yellow, apart from being a charming little song, had a charming little video - Chris Martin, looking like he had just wandered down to the beach after his night shift at Boots, having a slow motion dander and a sing while the sun came up. Chris Martin’s falsetto-centred singing invoked exactly the same sort of fragility that Thom Yorke’s did and seemed a slightly pathetic tribute, and yet even there how could the listener muster anything like contempt? Wee Chris wasn’t singing about societal disintegration and alienation; just about a girl he liked. When had Thom last done that? It was somehow Thom who came out worse from the comparison. Although I didn’t bother with Parachutes (they were obviously a bit shit at the end of the day and money was tight) I was still rooting for Coldplay in 2002. I found In My Place, like Yellow, charmingly four-square. The main riff was nursery-rhyme idiotic - like something Ringo would come up with if he had taken a couple of guitar lessons. Charming. The chorus started with Chris going ‘Yeeeeeaaaaahhh’ in falsetto. Charming. I still didn’t bother with their album when it arrived, although I bought that single. Then a turn came. I had just started working in Debenhams when The Scientist was released. I remember clearly the first time I heard it - Radio 1 breakfast was on in the mornings before the store opened and the song came loud and clear over the tannoy speakers. I recall thinking “wow, this is going to be bigger than Wonderwall” when I heard the lovely chorus come round a second time. I am not sure why my mind singled out Oasis’ signature tune for the comparison - it’s possible that I made some connection between those two songs’ blending of the directly sentimental and the obscure (‘wonderwalls’/‘science’). Perhaps I merely imagined legions of idiots hacking out guitar versions at house parties forever. In any case I was wrong; The Scientist wasn’t anything like that big, although it certainly continued Coldplay’s momentum towards superstardom. A second thought, however, came when the song had concluded. I felt that the game had been given up rather easily. The bridge, turned out to be not a bridge but an outro that went round and round like a broken toy; a nothing piece of guitar-chugging bolstered by a nothing bit of wordless cooing by young Chris. This was beyond songwriting naivety - it seemed to me that something like cynicism had reared its head. With the release of third single ‘Clocks’ much of my goodwill towards Coldplay vanished. It was a song I disliked immediately, and time has taught me to despise it. Coldplay batter the listener with that rotten, obnoxiously mundane piano riff. The song was just more procedural sticking together of Coldplay Blox (including the now mandatory falsetto chorus). Although we were spoiled with an actual bridge, it was a musical non sequitur - lumped in there clumsily; like a leftover from a different song. But how horrifying it was, over years, to watch THAT song take on a life that resembled Wonderwall’s omnipresence. Every time I saw a young person sit down at a piano, whether in a school practice room, at a house party, an airport or some other public space that had been so equipped, I learned to brace myself for the inevitable kicking. As with the widespread popular fascination with the dismal riff from the White Stripe’s ‘Seven Nation Army’, I was left not only baffled but profoundly alienated. It was like when so much of the rest of society dedicated the beginning of 2007 to watching YouTube footage of Saddam Hussein being hanged to death. Why was everyone watching that? Why on earth would they want to? Participating in this cultural moment was impossible for me; I wouldn’t demean myself by watching snuff videos even if I found, to my dismay, that I had some urge to. Clocks’ popularity is just like that - supposedly civilised people leering at the twitching corpse of rock music. Of course, there is probably worse on the album than Clocks. ‘A Whisper’ has a whiff of The Verve about it. That last full minute of one stupid bar going round and round may represent the absolute pits of this record. It’s the musical equivalent of a 16 year old carrying a tray of drinks for the first time in their life - the fearful concentration that goes into the completion of a simple task; the slow stiffness with which that task is completed. Coldplay really are poor players, even on their second album. This weekend I mulled over a more precise comparison between Coldplay and Radiohead; perhaps the empirical formula for Coldplay’s musical DNA was ‘Planet Telex and High and Dry’ but even that analytical commonplace rang false. The drums and bass alone in the first minute of Planet Telex refute any comparison between the two bands. I must concede in the end that Coldplay are, to their credit and their shame, their own thing and they always were - even back when fools like me imagined them, pompously, to be a sort of benign child’s tribute act to a musical tradition in which they could only faintly aspire to significant participation. Whether indulging early Coldplay by infantilising them was an honest mistake, the wheel turned and Coldplay got even when, over the course of the next quarter of a century, they revealed all of us to be the true infants; always hungry for maudlin lullabies, incapable of demanding better from ‘rock music’ than the same procedural, square sentimentality with slightly different musical packaging as they went along. Coldplay still seem like nice chaps, as they should, for they put more effort into seeming like nice chaps than they do into any of their music. But far from rooting for them I can’t listen to their music without discomfort - pain even. Every track, even Yellow and In My Place, now seems to me a signifier less of anything gained by our culture than of precious things irrevocably lost. And it’s all shit as well. 1/5

zzzzzzz

Insipid, lily livered dirges. I don't like Chris Martin. He sounds like he gargles his ex wife's fanny perfume.

I don't really like Coldplay. Listening to this album did not change my opinion.

No podcast

No. I really didn’t need to hear this, and probably never will again.

Gwüssi Tracks sind sogar mid gsi. Ha wück wehniger erwarted.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the album. It's just that this one, like all of Coldplay's music in my opinion, is safe, mainstream music for people who just want background noise.

One of those times when I say, “Oh. So that’s who does that song.” Pretty bland overall. These songs kinda sound like shoegaze without the gaze. So just ‘shoe.’ Exciting eh?

he is dramatic

I enjoyed when spotify started playing muse when this album finished

Det är inte världsomvälvande, men jag har inget emot det. I inledningen av sin karriär hade Coldplay lite mer edge, vilket senare slipats ner till perfektionistisk listrock. Inledande Politik, Green eyes och A whisper är inte så tokiga. Tvåa i det högre registret.

I just don't get Coldplay, they bore me to tears.

Tbh skipped through it didn’t have the attention span today

Boring. Could not be saved by Clocks.

Boring. The vocals are lethargic, and the instrumentals don't stand out at all.

a nice album a copset every now and then gets lost very simple production that didn't make me angry boring and repetitive lyrics

Some classics, for sure, but overall just kind of … sub-par? … as a flowing record.

It's not bad, just not my style.

meh

This is the kind of saccharine crap that plays over some dramatic montage on Grey’s Anatomy or something. There is zero reason these songs should have hundreds of millions of listens (2.5 BILLION for ‘The Scientist’ for some reason). Standard fare airy soft Britpop rock. Did not enjoy it. 2/5

favs: the scientist clocks amsterdam rating 1.5/5

i will finally admit that "clocks" is a good pop song. after one listening, i can't recall anything else from this shlock. songs like "daylight" and "a whisper" are why coldplay are sometimes called radiohead-lite (okay, i always call them that)

I don’t have a whole lot to say about this one… it was as underwhelming as I feared it would be. Maybe I shouldn’t have come in with so much pessimism, but I am who I am. It’s like a very boring version of Radiohead, but I guess that recipe made Coldplay superstars. I swear I previously reviewed the first Coldplay album, but I guess this is my first one. Apparently I've only mentioned my feeling about Coldplay in Radiohead & Muse reviews so far.

This is extremely boring

Real MOR sounds. Inoffensive but not particularly noteworthy. Majority rules means this is popular but not with me.

Is this a bad time to reveal that I was VERY into Coldplay for the first half and change of high school. This CD was in heavy rotation when I first started driving, so it brings back a lot of memories. Of all kinds. But these seasoned ears don't find much besides nostalgia in this record, which mostly asks, "What if Radiohead, but boring?" I dislike the moments where they try to take themselves seriously but the moments when they lean into big, broad, sentimental feelings are hard to deny. The Scientist is a good song! Clocks, less so. I'm glad I had Coldplay at that time in my life but like most things from early teenhood, I have moved on.

It’s not like it’s bad. In fact, I’d say it’s a pretty meticulously “crafted” sound. It’s a relatively inoffensive, 00s nostalgia, dad rock sound. It’s just that I kind of think Coldplay is boring and lacking true emotion.

Not sure if i finished this album but don’t care, not gonna keep putting myself through this unnecessary torture

Bob Dylans voice has never bothered me, but Chris Martins sticks in my crawl.

Some ok somgs, but incredibly shallow and cringe. If I remember correctly, the whiny and over-dramatic vocals were not as much in the foreground on other albums as on this one which makes it an especially unpleasant listening experience.

A reviewer back in 2023 said, "If Coldplay were a spice they'd be flour." I'm not sure I can improve on that.

Despite my Coldplay hatred, I found myself enjoying moments of this.

Clocks isn't bad but I don't vibe with the album that much

Cookie-cutter poprock album. One hour of melancholic, boring music without any energy and with crying vocals in almost each song. I cant say its a badly produced album, but definitely not something i like.

Not my vibe, no me gusta el estilo de musica de coldplay That being said, the scientist himno triste y clock tmb bn conocida

Coldplay just doesn't do it for me.

Cool, Coldplay. Cooldplay, if you will. I primarily know about these guys for how relentlessly they've been mocked over being a lite version of Radiohead, but they've done some good stuff. I like Yellow. I like Viva La Vida, and I like that song of theirs from 2016 with the cool guitar hooks and woo-hoos. I'm expecting an album that is sentimental, yet radio-friendly, which is something I don't have much of an issue with. Here goes. This is more or less what I was expecting. There's a soft, warm feeling to much of this music despite the looming, foreboding opening track and occasional heavy guitar riffs. It's alright, though there is an air of impersonality coming from this pick - especially during the second half, where the songs drag and blend together. Fortunately, while this album does have a lengthy runtime, I never felt particularly bored by what I was listening to. Chris Martin carries this music pretty nicely with his voice, and the instrumentation is generally within my sphere of interest. I just can't overlook that dull second half, sadly, which was enough to drag this album from a 3 to a 2. Overall, this was a competent, if uninspired pick. I've heard "Clocks" before. It's my kind of song. The leading piano chords are pretty great. Very atmospheric, engrossing and pleasant despite having such a simplistic sound. The songwriting is well-matched, too. It has a twisted feel to it (literally, not figuratively), which pairs nicely with how the song spirals, unfurls and flows during the latter half. The song is a healing and rejuvenating listen as a result. Good tune. Book time. Created as a reaction to the 9/11 aftermath. Debuted at No. 1 on the UK charts. The rest of this entry is a whole lotta wank and empty platitudes. Wikipedia says this album is more guitar and piano-driven than their previous album, is the eighth best-selling album of the 21st century in the UK and sold over 20 million copies worldwide. It also had four big singles, won three Grammys and has received enduring critical acclaim. You can't fault this album's rap sheet - these are some pretty solid qualifiers. I cosign this inclusion.

Underwhelming honestly. I didn't like it as I thought I would based on the general cult following Coldplay gets.

“The Scientist” is a beautiful song. But my God, Coldplay are so dreary in this era - I’m depressed enough, I don’t need to listen to this to make it worse.

An item of the purest beige.

Pretty sure this was a U2 album.

I kept absent mindlessly trying to skip some of these songs. When I was in year 6 we had to do class presentations about natural disasters and I think every group except one in my class chose a song off this album to accompany our shitty PowerPoints of the devastation caused by the Boxing Day tsunami. Looking back I think someone might have done Swallowed By The Sea from one of their other albums which feels a bit on the nose. I thought I would like this and defend the very uncool Coldplay from all the haters but honestly this dragged.

Man, I'm not trying to be a hater, but I think I hate these guys. If this was a rush of blood to the head, it was the languid, final beats of a failing heart, pumped without enthusiasm- to match their playing- until it mercifully comes to an end and we can finally put to rest this feeble album.

This is what happens when NPCs make music.

If you took all the songs in this album and smashed them together you'd probably get a very good song. As it stands the interesting aspects of each song don't really hold themselves up on their own. Mixed with a painfully generic vocalist who doesn't really inspire that much and you've got an album that can be added to the pile of generic pop.

There's some incredible songs on here. But the majority is just blah. Sorry Chris, you're just a shit Radiohead.

How fitting I got this album on Valentine's Day. Because who better to represent the day of love than a band that is associated with a cheating couple caught on camera at their concert. Happy Valentine's Day indeed.

Yeah, no, I mean--I like Coldplay. They're nice. When I hear a Coldplay song on the radio I'm like "Yep! That's Coldplay!" Idk, though, they don't scratch any particular itch for me. They're just kind of there. I enjoyed Politik a lot--esp. the opening despite some egregious slant rhymes. And OBVIOUSLY Clocks is great though I do prefer the cumbia version. Though most things are better as a cumbia. Green eyes was nice (gonna make a playlist of song where we focus on eye color. Right now I've got Green eyes and brown-eyed girl. Maybe ocean eyes can go on there too?) A Whisper was probably my favorite song on the album.

The album is roughly half filled with nice enough ballads, with “The Scientist” being the best of those. The other half consists of the band desperately trying to be Radiohead and failing miserably, with “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face” being the worst of those. Individually the songs are pleasant enough. Like if the songs were playing in the background of a dinner party, I wouldn’t be heading for the exit. But I’m also not clamoring to go listen again either. It just kind of exists; fine but not terribly interesting or exciting.

Det började rätt bra men blev tyvärr tråkigare och tråkigare.. Egentligen vill jag inte ge en 2a men en 3a går inte heller

Meh

-bland + boring personally -The Scientist and Clocks are classics but nothing special

Yoooooooooouuuuuuuuoooouuu awwwwwwwweeeeeaaaaaawwwww.

I do not know what the big crush on Coldplay is. They are ok, harmless rock. unless this is just not one of their bests, I find them "meh"

Boring, dull, whinging, take your pick, that's what this album is. It's not terrible, I was able to listen to it, but its just so bland and forgettable that I'll never return to it as an album. There are only two songs I'll remember: God Put a Smile upon Your Face, which I quite liked, and The Scientist, which sounds like if a less talented Morrisey tried to bring U2s sound to one of Bono's more annoying tirades. Other than that, forgettable. Not bad, mind you, just forgettable. Which may be even worse than bad.

yep that's a coldplay album. it's a good canvas for drum n bass remixes and that's about it. lead vocalist is not inspiring confidence with the falsetto here if i'm being completely honest.

Really didn't like it. It's like U2 but worse. The lyrics were kind of songwriting 101.

I've never been a fan of Coldplay, but I thought I should give this album a fair chance. His voice and the music are beautiful. It's just too melancholic for my taste.

A little bit meh but a a huge amount better than most of the dross they've released since.

This album, like most Coldplay albums, was inoffensive, but not especially interesting.

Not the one where they ripped off Kraftwerk

With a couple of exceptions I've always found Coldplay uninspiring - bland is the popular clichéd view, and it's difficult to argue against this, along with CM's whiny vocals. This album does nothing to change that. I've never understood their massive global appeal, I must be missing something.

Divorce music

I listened to this album as objectively as possible and I just can't help but remember this era in the early-to-mid 2000's - where bland pop/rock artists with similar sounds dominated the charts and MTV/radio play. It was virtually unavoidable. A similar band (similar at the time anyway) that really rose to prominence at the same time was Snow Patrol; and it seemed like every busker in busy streets around every corner would be singing 'Chasing Cars' and nothing else. It drove me borderline insane. Like... fundamentally there is nothing wrong with this kind of stuff, but ultimately I get no sense of "essential listening" from it. It’s made-for-radio, it’s too safe and pedestrian, and ultimately it’s boring. The narrative around Coldplay is always along the lines of this album being one of the “good” ones before the band “sold out”. I just always question that narrative - how exactly did they “sell out” when they were always constructing the safest songs possible? The only difference nowadays is that they lay into it more. Either way - it’s pretty obvious I didn’t like this album. Coldplay are a competent unit but their entire catalogue is just bland fluff wrapped around with some eye catching iconography so the masses think they’re deeper than they are. They’re not musically adventurous enough to hide their hallow lyrics, and their lyrics are too hallow to have the artistic credibility label they seem to have attached to them. 2/5

I do not, in fact, like Coldplay.

Meh

I always thought this album cover was an abstract picture of a goat. It's not. The Scientist is a big piece of cheese and I love it. Not really fussed by the rest.

snooze, clocks remixes are better than clocks

BOOOOOORING

👎

bleh

I’ve never liked Coldplay, but listened to the entire ablum for the sake of this endeavor. It’s fine, but I’m so bored with it and my mind has not changed.

Tedious with synthesisers.

I should like Coldplay more than I do. Musically they're pretty strong but vocally Chris Martin can sing at a pitch bordering on something only dogs can hear

straight people music?

at the start of listening: "eh this is not so bad" after the fifth identical song: "oh. i get it"

Even with one or two songs I enjoy on here (The Scientist etc) I still can’t quite get up enough enthusiasm for Coldplay. They’re good at what they do, but it’s not for me

All I really know about him is from when I saw him play Clocks on endless award shows. He sounds like he downs Valium by the fistful.

Achievement: I no longer think Coldplay is probably boring because other people say Coldplay is boring - I now think Coldplay is boring because I've finally listened to a Coldplay record, and it was boring. It's like they took a bunch of songs and ran them through a filter to make them 50% less interesting. Maybe they don't want to upset anyone, which is nice? I prefer upsetting music. 2/5 since I'm saving 1 for something absolutely excruciating.

Really can’t get myself to like them

What an overrated piece of garbage album. I enjoyed “The Scientist”, “Clocks” is such a mindless song that I just don’t jive with. I deleted this album promptly lol

I don’t appreciate him howling at me in the Scientist, not very good scientific method. Overall review is some dickhead with an acoustic guitar part 2 electric boogaloo. This album is like the second holocaust if you ignore the ones happening/happened in Bosnia, Cambodia, Iraq, Sudan, Burma, China, Israel etc.. The only reason this isn’t a 1 is because there is at least drums which provide some sort of solicitation from this ear splitting album. This may also be in part due to trauma from the Christmas Concert

Initally quite a nice sense of familiarity, as if I've heard it all before. Hope it continues this way. Nevermind. The further I got through this the worse it got. The War On Drugs came on after the album was over and I instantly picked it up and was like "Oh wow, something interesting?!" The appeal of this album came from the (justifiably) incredibly popular songs that I've heard countless times before. That, and a sense of nostalgia i suppose i could say I was even looking forward to this listen. Regrettably. The lesser known parts of this album was *yawn*, going especially downhill in the second half. Boring and inconsequential. Why listen to Coldplay to be sad when you can listen to Radiohead to be sad?

Certainly not bad. Just slow ballady indi stuff I like better

Listening to Coldplay is like listening to some very human-like robots or aliens or something. They were like "U2 is the biggest band in the world. Let's emulate that sound!" And then they proceeded to watch people's emotions that they themselves could not feel nor could they understand and then wrote songs to try to show that they both feel and understand the human emotions. Well, I don't believe them. I don't think any of the Coldplay bots have felt a single emotion, only read about or observed them. I don't think there's a single track on this album that I can point to as good or bad. It's primarily objectionable in that it's so milquetoast. It certainly represents a moment culturally though so 2 stars.

2 stars ugh it’s fine i guess i just find coldplay so incessantly bland boring and annoying i don’t get why they’re so popular it’s all the same piano and guitar chords with nonsense lyrics it’s so inoffensive i have nothing else to say

Couple of good tracks but other that doesn't really grab me.

Yeah, this is OK - certainly better than what they've done since. They really are terrifically boring though, like the worst elements of latter day U2 filtered further for the masses.

¿Por qué no me gusta Coldplay? ¿Es porque soy un niño indie? ¿Es porque son conocidos? ¿Es por el tipo de pop rock genérico que hacen que suena a “música” y ya está? ¿A música de anuncio? ¿A música de momento emotivo de peli mala de Hollywood? ¿Es por el mixing tan limpito? ¿Por lo melodramático que suena? ¿Es porque mi cabeza decide establecer una conexión inevitable con Radiohead por algún motivo y eso me los hace inescuchables (los mejores temas del disco tienen momentos que suenan a Radiohead pero de repente se jode a puro melodrama, no sé como llamarlo de otra manera)? No es un mal disco, simplemente es genérico, y eso es peor aun. No tengo nada contra la gente rollito Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, etc. Que lo disfruten y tal. Not me tho.

I don’t get the mass appeal of Coldplay to me. They’re overrated and just like any other pop band.

Honestly I tried to give this a fair shot, and it was pretty God awful up until Clocks. The back half of the album raised it to a 2 for me. The singing is good but not great. A lot of the chords and arrangements are pretty boring on most songs. It's just easy listening pop "rock" for the masses I guess. I can say this is the first time I've probably listened to a Coldplay album from start to finish. Maybe this is an absolutely insane take, but a lot of this just sounds like Radiohead if they were dull.

Every song feels like it's trying to achieve some big emotional payoff while just following the same repetitive structure. The only saving grace is that a couple songs execute that structure a little better. Mostly a dull album. Standout Tracks: God Put a Smile upon Your Face, Clocks.

I'm not tough but this album needs to toughen up. It's the hateable main character sad about a situation they put their self in. Like they're sitting in the mud in the rain and you just wanna turn the show off. But you can't because you said you'd listen to 1001 albums. Clocks was good tho

Boring. Barely suitable for background music.

Some great tunes here, but it’s hard to separate from the meaningless stadium slop that Coldplay have been leaning into for the last couple of decades.

- Not these “both sides” Zios. - LOL at the review with the “chord chord chord chord chord vocal chord chord chord” complaint. I can’t not hear it now. - Most of the songs feel like boring filler, but there are some nice melodies sprinkled in (e.g., In My Place, Clocks, Green Eyes), but mostly the tracks are so slow, they make me want to sleep. Man, the drummer must be bored. - I like the vocal fingerprint of Chris Martin's voice, but his technique isn’t all that amazing (nasally, flat at times, especially in the higher registers) & the lyrics are nothing much.

Sounds like Coldplay.

Meh. Just very boring. Not much else to say

Generic rock

As a direct opposite to our last two albums, this sounded “effortfully uncool”. If I never listened to this album, then “Clocks” and “The Scientist” would’ve stayed as pleasant songs in my head - but having to listen to this whole album at once really knocked them down. Not a good listen.

Too much CUCK PIANO!

Never been a huge Coldplay fan

Coldplay is a particular sound and I don't always love it. This album was a miss for me. Maybe we've just over-played "The Scientist"...

Seems impossible, but last week was my first time hearing Coldplay. Aggravating. Such a great songs, such a great voice, such criminal abuse of piano riffs. An entire album of soft rock versions of U2 ballads without anything included that makes U2 interesting. I would have quit halfway through but pushed on to see if they would ever vary it. Nope. First album in this list that's actually pissed me off.

2.5 - not bad for Coldplay but not great for everyone else

Fine, I guess? Honestly pretty forgettable, thought not outright offensive to listen to. Aside from the icon piano intro to Clocks, not a lot that really stood out, though I did enjoy the track "A Rush Of Blood To The Head". Otherwise, it was just background noise. Not bad background noise, but the more I think about it the more I'm annoyed that it didn't even make the effort to at least offend me so I would feel *something*. 4/10, 2 stars.

Lacking in anything particularly interesting, danceable or gritty. Obviously popular with lots of people but just not what I'm interested in listening to.

Like Parachutes, AROBTTH holds ~2 good songs to its name, then the rest is bad-soft-rock-Chris-Martin-earnest…uhhh…-ness that only Coldplay can pull off so irritatingly.

Лучше, чем то, что я уже слышал у Coldplay, но всё равно скучно и посредственно.

Meh

I never really got into Coldplay. This is very…competent. But it doesn’t do much for me. I was interested to listen for clues that they channelled a lot from Radiohead in this period, which is often said. There are definite signs of that, but I don’t think it’s egregious.

Coldplay do one type of song pretty well

Coldplay left me well, cold

If you're going to listen to soft rock, there's far worse choices than Coldplay, but I really don't like soft rock. Also let's keep it real, their lyrics are ass

Top Ten Ironic Album Names. Feels like I listened to the same song for an hour. I don't mind Coldplay every now and then (I even like Viva La Vida), but this album was incredibly boring.

Nah.

Oooooooooo

Meh

I'm going to quote my favorite goodreads review of my own book to express my feelings on coldplay. "I can't say it's good, but it's better than expected and so for that I give it two stars"

Has Coldplay been described as a lamer, less challenging/interesting, more eager to please version of Radiohead? That's how they feel to me. Coldplay is a great argument for why we need to be able to use the word 'gay' to describe things. Even though the hits on here are pretty nice easy listening, it's gay. I'm gayer for listening to it. I like cosplaying as a snobby music critic and shitting on Coldplay when the playlist next to their album in my Spotify is called '2000s Crunk Hits.' That's REAL music

Hot take: they are boring

Flashes of truly inspired songwriting. Mostly blasé. Album art is cool tho!

このアルバムは、自分が嫌いなタイプのポストロックのステレオタイプそのままの音だと感じた。このバンドの近年の作品は嫌われがちなのに対してこのアルバムの時期は称揚されがちだけど、この時から根本的な部分では変わっていないと思う。

Some fun songs, a bit of nostalgia really but Coldplay have a lot of boring songs 😴

I can see why people like them, good vocalist, some catchy melodies, just not for me

to me, this sounds like an album that a dentist who makes six figures would really be into… non-threatening adult-oriented rock. very boring. although, to be honest, “the scientist” is pretty dope.

Chris Martin has a nice voice, and I like the lyrics but I find a lot of coldplay music to be boring.

God this was boring. Not sure how this band got big. Here's my favorite song. Hmmmmmmmm. Humm. Humm. Huuuummmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmm. Hmmzzzzzzzzz...

Ok if bland have never been a massive fan

*sigh* it's just so ... pedestrian.... !

Nothing revolutionary or exciting, but genuinely not a bad start to this album.

Sterile, pompous and boring album to listen to in the background.

This is probably the first time I’ve ever hit play on Spotify to listen to Coldplay. I’ve never even tried listening to them before, and there’s a reason for that. I just don’t see the appeal. They’re really not my thing.

Hate Coldplay, but not as much as Frank Zappa.

Yeah I don't like Coldplay. It's good music for someone that doesn't dive deeply into music but I understand its appeal. I did listen to it, which more or less validated my own beliefs about the band. The two songs I thought were alright were God Put a Smile on Your Face and A Whisper. If Coldplay were a shoegaze band they would be 1000 times better, but then people will complain about not hearing Chris Martin's ULTRA CRISPY DRY VOCALS which people like to hear. Whatever.

I don't know Coldplay well. I get Radiohead vibes, but worse and more boring. With Radiohead, at least you feel like dying or something like that. But listening to this album is just endless suffering lol. But some songs are good, it was nice to listen to them. 2/5 —————————————— Liked: — Politik — The Scientist — Clocks

I know everyone loves this album. It’s not bad, but it feels like the same thing over and over. I’m skipping “clocks” I’ve heard that enough. Ok. Album is almost over. It’s not terrible. Don’t know if I’d seek them out.

A rush of blood to the head is the opposite to the experience I had when listening to this album - it couldn’t even inspire a rush of blood to my little toe

Was boring. I would not listen to it in my free time.

Why do I dislike Coldplay as much as I do? Their production and style is generally in line with the kind of music I usually enjoy. But, it's just so anodyne, unremarkable, meek, milquetoast, bland, but not so bland, not so milquetoast, not so meek, not so unremarkable, not so anodyne as to be unlistenable. It's a weird balance of wanting to be really, really interesting, but it's just not. It gets that star above a single one for that riddle alone.

Bland

Мені ніколи не подобався Колдплей. Ноу хейт, але завжди здавалась дуже скучною музикою. Не поганою, а саме скучною. Після переслуховування думка особливо не змінилась. Це обʼєктивно точно не погана музика, але мені здається занадто одноманітною ще й практично кожна пісня затягнута.

Kinda liked half of this album when it came out. I can still admit there’s a couple of good songs on it but it’s too polished and shallow production-wise for my tastes.

Inherently, not a BAD album. Like the melodies are predictable but effective, and the production is mechanically well done with sound songwriting. But it's far from memorable. Every song sounds more or less the same, with the same piano style, with overly dramatic mid-tempo pace, and generic, uninspired lyrics. I've never been a fan of Coldplay, especially their recent stuff, but still, "Clocks" is nice.

Temu U2.

This was an album where I knew the singles, and even then, I wasn’t really that impressed with them. It’s fine background music but I could not really get myself to focus on the songs or melodies. Even now I can’t think of a single other song off the album. At least it’s mostly inoffensive that way.

I find this a very vanilla album!

Starts as it means to go on. Sadly, that's with plodding, clichéd, rock seemingly written with stadiums in mind - even though this was just their second album. Such a shame that the talent on display on Parachutes morphed into such formula-based music. So inoffensive that it's offensive.

Pretty bland I don't understand the appeal of this band

In the UK for a month and Damn! both Coldplay albums! maybe the setting is helping out, because I did enjoy their debut more than I remember. that said, AROBTTH is a lot more dull and a lot less definitive of a statement than Parachutes and I found it had grown off me instead. deserves to be one of the 1001? either this or Parachutes does, maybe Viva la Vida. pick one tbh. i'd leave it at that. put it on a wheel even! give this 10% of the area, Parachutes 40%, and Viva la Vida 50%. then spin and let the chips fall where they may.

I only have 1 Coldplay song in my 23,000+ song library, and it's "Yellow". Nothing on this album made me change that. It's OK. Much better than the drivel they put out after this. The pretentious hipsters who made this group a thing still bugs me to this day. At least I've never been caught cheating on my wife at a fucking Coldplay concert. LOL 2.25 / 5 (better than Krautrock, but not by much)

Eh

It's ok, but will never listen to it again

qualcosina delle canzoni meno ascoltate si può perdonare, ma il resto no eh

There's something about Coldplay's combination of mass appeal and melodrama that both made them a shorthand for sad songs in the 2000s, and makes them a target for easy bullying now. Coldplay is a punchline as often as they are a serious recommendation at this point, and 15 years or so of *very* mediocre music as of now isn't doing them any favors. But I must assume this empire was built on something, so I'm trying to go into A Rush Of Blood To The Head with an open mind. A lot of people really like this album, and this appears to be one of Coldplay's consensus best: there has to be *something* here. And I will say that we kick off with a pleasant surprise. Politik counterbalances Coldplay's aforementioned signature melodrama with some great tension, and the result is a pretty tasteful, enjoyable song. Although, unfortunately, In My Place sounds exactly like I expected, and much of the album follows suite. To mention the other positives, A Whisper is another song that gets the tension right. And The Scientist as well as the title track here dial Coldplay's sound in, and deliver some more intimate, earnest sounding music that I think really works. However, everything else suffers from being "sad" music that is for the widest audience possible. The emotional meat feels insubstantial, and impersonal, and everything is pasted over with, and I want to emphasize this one more time, oh *so* much syrupy melodrama, delivered through huge arrangements and overdone vocals. The result just usually sounds hollow to me. I actually think Clocks is one of the worst tracks here. Here's an exercise if you want to participate. Put on the beginning of Clocks while watching drone shots of any University. You will be *instantly* transported mentally into an advertisement. I get Coldplay on a few songs here, but so much of this is exactly what I expected. If this is just about Coldplay's best, I'd hate to hear their worst.

Was never really that big into Coldplay, even if I do think their early period is probably the band at their strongest. This album feels like it's pulling quite a bit of influence from Bends-era Radiohead (God Put A Smile On Your Face in particular) but it has none of the bite or thrill. It's like the album's songs are already being precision engineered for stadiums.

wanna know how i know you're.... i DID listen to this shit in high school, the iPod era. i can say that it does hold up IF you ignore al the bullshit after THIS record. almost all the stuff they did after was lame. this is like the start of seeing that direction. alt rock becoming too pretentious and big for its own good. at the time, tho, this did feel like an accessible way to get into that scene of alt 90's that radiohead turned people off from. it feels as though this whole album was on the radio at one point. i associate it with the over saturation of something that may be good in moderation. after a million listens in a mall or store, the mystique is completely gone and it feels as sterile as a waiting room. goin back and listening to these, if i didn't know them as well, and there wasn't memes about how lame they are, it would be better, instead its like, "yeah, its the same as i remember." wanna cheat on your wife and get caught at a mid concert? this is the band. i guess i am being harsh, but they are still around making music, so who cares? Daylight is actually good. most of the rest of it has a bad taste after hearing. 2/5 to shit on them, but I'm part of it since i did have it playing in '03.

Great album

Coldplay at their most whinesome, boring and, well, Coldplay. It contains all the ones you know but don't know the names of or the words to. It contains all the ones that most make you think of Chris Martin closing his eyes and frowning at a piano, while also being very smug. It contains all the ones that have no musical value. Annoyingly, it also contains all the ones that you sort of vaguely hum for a few days after, and on that basis I guess it deserves the very basic modicum of respect that a very low two star mark denotes.

Boring album, overall all the songs that didnt get the heavy rotation treatment feel better.

Oh Coldplay. You stalwarts of adult contemporary hipsterhood. Take Radiohead, strip the artistic ambition, and infuse it with a safe and radio friendly aesthetic. Whenever I listen to this album, I think to myself “I don’t hate this” but, at the same time, I never ever have the desire to actually put it on. And that, really, is Coldplay. It’s fine and listenable. But it’s so unrelentingly antiseptic and uninspired. Music for people who don’t really like music.

There are a couple of good songs, but I don't particularly like Coldplay. Rated 2 of 5 stars. Best 2 songs are Politik, and Amsterdam.

2002 ... and for my 100th : FFS Why is this here? Just so bland, dull, boring and nondescript. Music for people that don't like music. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Some, as much as I could take Revisit ❌️ Radio 2 ★☆☆☆☆ (2/10) It only gets a 2/10 because my mum probably likes it.

Nonostante ne conoscessi alcune di canzoni una palla mostruosa.

Unseasoned music by a lemon and herb band

Not sure how to rate this one. I'm not into Coldplay although obviously I know their songs. I'll just leave it as a 2 star. It's probably a 3 but I don't feel strongly about them at all. My guess is this got a 3.2 for the global rating.

There’s nothing wrong with this. It’s well played, some of the songs are good and the production is good. It’s very safe though, and as a result very dull.

I’m never going to like Coldplay, which is not to say they don’t have a few good songs. I’m sure they are nice guys (well I’m not… the ‘niceness’ grates and makes me want to punch something, maybe Chris Martin). Musically it is not offensive, it’s just middle of the road inoffensive which might by it’s very nature be offensive… To call it Radiohead light is a slight on Radiohead but it comes from the same sound palette; just doesn’t take any risks. The songs are full of platitudes and facile rhymes. I hadn’t listened to this album in full before today and so was astounded that, while I don’t like Coldplay (I mentioned that), I didn’t know they could be even worse than I had imagined- the abomination that is ‘Green Eyes’? ‘Warning Sign’? That said, I do like ‘God Put A Smile Upon Your Face’ and ‘Clocks’ isn’t bad but, in between these is the album’s big dramatic centrepiece ‘The Scientist’ which is overwrought and annoying. I really don’t understand why so many people seem to like this unless it is the music for people who don’t like music phenomenon that explains Adele’s popularity, or why most people seem to think that Dire Straits’ only record is Brothers in Arms, or that Ed Sheeran has something profound to say about anything…

So passé. Why are we still idolizing people like him?

This may be the most boring music I have ever heard. How did this win a Grammy? Where is the musical innovation?

🗯 The sound of Parachutes taking a boardroom meeting with U2. Could’ve been an email. After the quiet brilliance of Parachutes, this feels like the stadium reach — all the right moves, all the right notes, but too calculated. ‘Clocks’ still hits — crystalline, undeniable — but other tracks (In My Place, God Put A Smile…) feel tired now, polished to within an inch of their lives. ‘The Scientist’ tips into Lennon cosplay, and ‘Daylight’ waves the U2 flag a little too proudly. Sure, everyone copies, but I can’t cop it from Coldplay. The diehards inhale it, and honestly, I’m so happy for them — someone has to keep the beige industry alive. For me though, it just never shakes the sheen of strategy over soul, missing the hunger, the sheer burn of their debut. Verdict: Not Essential (a stadium stretch that trades intimacy for ambition) For fans of: U2, Travis, Keane, the idea of music as a perfect festival singalong

This album started off real strong with Politik, and I was ready to be swayed in Coldplay's direction. It then turned into exactly what I was expecting. It's well produced, they're all talented, the vocals are attractive. It feels very commercial, doing all the right things to call attention without too much risk. 2.3/5

Not bad but not terribly memorable either. It's got the hits on it, and that's about it. Everything else feels like filler. There's few albums here that are likely to grab you from start to finish. This feels like an album I might appreciate more as I get older, but it doesn't have an urgency to it that would command my attention today.

Too much Coldplay in one sitting.

Every Coldplay song could be played over the bittersweet epilog of an Oscar-bait movie. You know the ones. The main character is looking out the window of the bus/plane/car/train on thier way to an ambiguous person/place with an expression that can interpreted as almost any emotion. Every. Single. Song. Influence 1. Quality 2. Hits 4. Meh 2.

I don't get all the love for Coldplay. Mediocre at best for me

This does not bode well

I still can’t really get behind Coldplay. Most of their stuff is soooo sappy and sad. A couple okay tracks but nothing I’d really call amazing Standout Songs: God Put a Smile upon Your Face Clocks

I feel like Coldplay makes music for people who want to like indie rock but doesn't like indie rock. I think they get too much hate tho, their music is a ok. Palatable (?) but forgettable

Not quite as boring as I remember Coldplay being, but still pretty boring.

Terrible. Absolute cookie-cutter music.

Basic

Nah

Meh. Soft mushy & pretentious

The title track is ok. The rest is the answer to the question: What if U2 made music for when you are on hold? I can't believe these jokers have two albums on this list.

Definitely listened to this in a previous time of my life. I remember getting it from the library and putting it onto my computer. Now I'm thinking about the guy who cheated on his wife and brought his mistress to the Coldplay concert and Gwyneth Paltrow. A rich text. I do like Clocks and The Scientist. Well I like The Scientist.

About ten years ago, I was dating a woman who had a friend who was engaged to some super-rich guy who worked in international banking. They had a beautiful condo in the city, and we visited one night for an overnight. We all liked to drink, but Mr. Moneybags could really put it away. I didn't dare try to keep up with him, although they poured some really good liquor that night. After dinner, we retired to the deck, and we were admiring the skyline and the beautiful night, and Moneybags said, "How about some music? Do you like Coldplay?" I was not going to be That Guy so I said sure, figuring he'd start a mix with some Coldplay. Nope. NONSTOP AND NEVER-CEASING COLDPLAY for the rest of the night. He proceeded to dump *so much* booze down his hatch, then he went for a 20 mile run the next morning. Psychotic. When that one couple got caught cheating at the Coldplay concert, I was looking for him. What a fuckin' weirdo that guy was.

I had high hopes for this anlbum after the excellent Parachutes. Sadly, for me, the chute never opened. The result was a sickening splat!

Why does this slow-ass album take almost a whole hour to finish, ughhhhhh