A Rush Of Blood To The Head

I like Parachutes quite a bit, but I never took the time to listen to their followup outside of its singles. One could argue that it's just as good as their first album and I wouldn't say a thing, but I personally prefer the more stripped back version of the band. Not to mention that I am absolutely sick of hearing Clocks, so that doesn't help. I know it's cool to hate on them but this is pretty good for what it is.

Not as bad as I would've wanted it to be. I can begin to understand their popularity now.

I use to be a huge fan of Coldplay, now I think they sound a bit catchy and are a bit too intense. But I would still be willing to see them in a arena show. Couple hits, the emotion arent there for me anymore...I'm getting old.

Some very strong songs that became timeless hits and some weaker and boring ones. It's kind of "half'n'half" so I'll go with 3 stars.

Wanted to like it more but find 75% of it a bit boring.

pretty solid overall but I don't really love any particular song. "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" is probably my favorite.

Highlights: Politik God Put A Smile Upon Your Face The Scientist Daylight Artwork: 6 / 10 Rating: 6,5 / 10

The melodies were even more mediocre, but what mattered is the way the song was structured and orchestrated. Anyhow I like it ^^ (6/10) FT: Scientist, Clocks, In My Place

Le Radiohead du pauvre, c'est pas si horrible mais ça reste Coldplay. Prefs: Politik, The Scientist, A Rush of Blood to the Head Moins pref: Green Eyes

Pretty meh, liked it for background for my thoughts.

6th May 2022 Listened in the morning while working from home. Went to the gym and watching Liverpool Villa in the evening then did house buying emails :( The middle few of God Put A Smile On Your Face, The Scientist and Clocks is strong. The rest of the album feels a bit meandering. But it’s Coldplay so…

A Rush of Blood to the Cock. By Ballplay. Feeling pretty ambivalent about this one. It’s full of soporific anthems and the most rousing dross you could hope to hear. The songs are beautiful in their sparse composition and excruciating in their childish simplicity. The lyrics are poetic cliché. I woke up singing these forgettable earworms. Clocks is a brilliant song, but I do kind of wish they would all fuck off and die. Tricky one - could go 1 star, could go 5. Call it a 3 I guess.

Never was a Coldplay fan but the popularity of this album still hold all these years later. It's a solid album.

I’m not sure if you need to listen t to this whole album- it’s still played on the radio all the time

Eh. I don't think it was all that interesting? Not a coldplay fan though.

Average pop

I was ready to hate this because I'm sick to death of their singles...but some of these songs I really enjoyed. So, pleasantly surprised.

Pretty good album. I actually liked a lot of the songs I hadn't heard before. Sorta sounded like Radiohead-lite. Enjoyable. 3.5/5

didnt know bout this one

Coldplay's usual piano driven pop/rock formula. Best (and most well known) track is Clocks, most of the other tracks are good, but not great. 3/5

Good album, but the songs sound a bit alike, it is hard to listen to the entire album from start to finish.

Ihan positiivinen yllätys kyllä

Outstanding. Love their sound. Need to hear more of this. 3/5.

3/5

I don't mind the music, a bit middle of the road for me, definitely adult-oriented. The sort of thing the Grammy folks like. Coldplay probably has a handful of songs I like. Clocks has been one of them, so I'm happy it's on here. A few of the others work for me, it's just hard to figure out what all the fuss is about. I'm tempted to give a lower mark but I'd be penalizing them for their success.

There's a lot of hate for Coldplay and I can see why, to me they're U2 for the older crowd that likes mellow mainstream rock. If I close my eyes I can definitely see them playing to a huge stadium crowd that's holding up lighters. Clocks is a very good song with a great hook, but unfortunately the rest of the album is very plain oatmeal. But hey, it sells. If not for Clocks this would get 2 stars

Back when Coldplay was considered good and not a junk pop band. This album had several songs that were decent to good. The sound is pretty good and in 2002 was probably ahead of it’s time. 6.7/10

Meh

I have not listened to much Coldplay besides their biggest hits on the radio, etc. I know they are both extremely popular and extremely disliked. And perhaps the fact that they are extremely popular is a part of why they are extremely disliked... I don't really feel strongly about them either way. They sound like U2 trying to imitate Radiohead with a dash of Oasis thrown in here and there. They're very competent at crafting these dramatic dynamics but I'd rather just listen to their influences. They don't really seem to add much to the conversation. In fact, I'd have to say it comes across as a bit watered down. Like Radiohead for people who don't want to be challenged.

Paradão d+ Mas eu conheço grande parte das músicas

It's so weird to listen to an album I would have insisted I did NOT know and find I know almost every song. And as for this singer's voice... no idea of his name, yet it's so familiar, I'd know it anywhere. I don't know what the album is about; I feel no need to know. Faint echoes of Nick Drake? It's good music. Yep. They know their way round a song.

I really enjoy some Coldplay tracks but this album left me underwhelmed. It was listenable but not remarkable 3*

hasse hier nochmal die drei sterne zu vergeben. hier sind ein paar gute pop songs dabei, aber coldplay könnte mir echt kaum egaler sein... vielleicht kann ich diese band auch nicht mehr ernstnehmen nachdem mich und viele andere seit über einem jahrzehnt mit grausamen pop songs terrorisiert haben. der einzige name, der mich noch mehr vor einem album abschrecken würde wäre imagine dragons. dafür war das hier aber verhältnismäßig gut, nicht meisterhaft und auch nicht weltbewegend. warum sollte mir dieses album also nicht einfach egal sein?

Also hm ich hab früher viel Coldplay gehört war sogar mal auf Konzert *___* Extrem funny wie man auf der ersten Hälfte iwie alles kennt. Finde das sind legitime Hits. Der Radiohead Vergleich ist legitim zB bei God put a Smile upon your Face, das Riff klingt wie von OK Computer gerippt aber ohne ~edge~. Und genau das ist der Punkt, die Band ist was ganz anderes, ein Pop Versuch von Britrock oder wie man das nennen will. Viel Nostalgie schwingt da mit aber das ist O.K. Es ist Pop-Musik und hat ja Leute von Mainstream bis Indie erreicht und damals vermutlich oft auch auf einen Nenner gebracht und das ist ja schon mal viel wert. Jetzt aber zum Negativen: Die 2. Hälfte des Albums ist aber einfach nur noch Genudel. Das gibt mir nix mehr und ist arsch langweilig find ich. Ich bleib mal bei der Mitte mit ner guten 3!

Irgendwie weder gut noch schlecht und relativ egal. Die Experimente mit Akustikgitarren-Sound wirken nicht richtig schlüssig. An diesem Album wieder bemerkt, dass eine ~ richtige ~ Band ja ein Klavier haben muss, aber nicht immer unbedingt zum besseren hin. Der politische Track beschreibt Coldplay inhaltlich ganz gut: Komplett abstrakte Plattitüden, irgendwas mit zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen Besten Tracks: A Whisper, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, Clocks

OK - recognised some of the tunes, but it didn't make much of an impact

some classic hits that have become cliché + a lot of vaguely tinny beige filler

I was expecting this to be bad but I didn't really mind it too much. Only a couple of good songs ("Clocks" is really good... heard it a million times but had no idea that's what it was called. "The Scientist" is pretty good too). Everything else kind of blended together a little too much for me.

I know Coldplay mostly as an object of fun. I'm sure I know lots of their songs that I don't realize, something about stars I think? Anyway, I don't really have an opinion and the album cover isn't illuminating anything. OK yeah I know some of these songs. The ones I know are fine, the other songs are mostly fine. I can't deny the quality and catchiness. But the sum of lots of fine doesn't really get to great for me. It's a straight up the middle 2.5 for me, rounding up to 3 for overall prettiness.

Solid

I’ve come around a bit in Coldplay after writing them off at the time this came out. Not something I ever seek out, but there’s decent stuff here.

I'm sure this album's inclusion is going to stimulate some good debate. As a card carrying member of the sad white boy club, I've enjoyed some singles from Coldplay (as members are required to do), but I've never sat down with one of their albums from front to back. It's subdued, and seems like it owes equal measures to U2 and dream pop. Has some ethereal qualities to it, as well as being a little simple. Did I enjoy it? Somewhat, the middle feels a little barren until it hits the last two songs. Does it deserve to be on this list? Possibly. Coldplay has been a cultural force for a quite a while, insomuch that their most recent record was still generating significant buzz. I've seen another reviewer call this "lowest common denomenator", which I agree with, but it's at least good enough to truly appeal to that wide a swath. It does feel genuine. I personally somewhat enjoyed it, but might just stick to the singles. Favorite tracks: "Amsterdam", "The Scientist", "Clocks"

I reviewed this album a few months back under a different user profile. My general feeling then was that "A Rush of Blood to the Head" was a 3* album, a bit overstuffed in pursuit of the perfect "anthem" but much better than Coldplay are given credit for. It's true the band seem to be an easy target for music lovers, and if you dig to the root of most criticism, it comes down to them being overplayed or ubiquitous for the better part of two decades. Hardly their fault- even if their stadium-filling success seems undeserved, it's worth listening to an album like this with fresh ears. Their approach is often heavy handed, unsubtle, over-simplistic. Sometimes this works beautifully: "The Scientist" still plays as a great song and Martin's falsetto isn't too grating. It's true that sometimes, songs are dragged down by facile piano refrains ("Clocks") or clunky riffs constantly hammering every quaver ("Politik"). On these occasions, it feels like being bludgeoned repeatedly with a sentimentality hammer. However, some of the more unassuming tracks here are winners. "Green Eyes" is a lovely diversion from the Coldplay "sound", and "Amsterdam" is intoxicating through its slow build and "fairly-standard-but-not-quite-insipid" chord progression. It's a gem tucked away at the end of this record, and worth getting through everything else for.

Already knew this album, very good but i’m not into this style anymore. Had a lot of nostalgia vibe while listening to it

Rhythmic structure of Daylight is identical to Clocks, and they follow one another on the album. /shrug Pretty enjoyable overall, especially nostalgiac for me, and very emotionally driven.

Oje. Obwohl - nach dem hören muss ich sagen: gar nicht so schlecht, obwohl gelegentlich an der Grenze zur Generizität. Für wenn Radiohead zu schwer oder unverständlich ist. Kopisten… schlechte 3.

Googlade chris martin… största misstaget jag nånsin gjort….

Just enough instances of beautiful musicality to keep it from being totally generic. Pretty much the exact middle point

3.75

Fine.

The Coldplay tracks I know and love best

in the middle of the road you see the darndest things

Fav songs: - Politik

This album is fine and perfectly listenable for the most part. I don't have strong feelings about it. Chris Martin's delivery feels emotionally flat, which makes it hard to care about these songs. The fairly plodding pace of the album doesn't help. Fave Songs: Clocks, The Scientist, A Rush of Blood to the Head, Amsterdam

Nooit helemaal goed geluisterd, maar prrrrrrima plaatje hoor.

I sometimes think (unfairly) that Coldplay was what pushed Radiohead firmly into the leftfield. The chronology doesn't quite work, obviously. But, nonetheless, it is interesting to note that after early material that tracked pre-Kid A Radiohead, A Rush of Blood went headlong after a stadium pleasing bombast that aligned more closely with another big album from the year 2000 – U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind. The best of this album are the songs that bookend it - the 9/11 influenced Politik, and the elegiac Amsterdam. In between, any number of above average, slightly over-polished excursions on a basic theme. I'm not sure whether A Rush of Blood...has aged well, or that it simply stands up well against the hackneyed material Coldplay have served up in recent years. Either way, it's definitely a fan favourite, a pleasant stroll into nostalgia for raging pop-pickers like me, and a perfect introduction for the 15 year old who doesn't understand what Coldplay did to deserve the platform they have today.

Het doorbraak album hé, dit is nog ok alles wat hierna kwam lijkt hierop

you may not like them but it's impossible to hate them

I think The Scientist is a great song, and I quite like Chris Martin's voice. Its a watered down Radiohead really though isn't it, with the same style but none of the substance

Nice but heard it too many times. Still a really good album!

Ihadn't listened to this album forever, never finished it. Got sort of bored.

Sounds a lot like James and Travis in a good way.

Pretty good background music

Fint

altid godt

Gode gamle Coldplay. Solid pop, kendt, lidt ensformigt i længden

I wanted to like this album. They had a big sound to many of the songs but they get a bit repetitive and one song is just like the next. Some of the lyrics were pretty pedestrian and seemed just thrown in there. Nothing terrible. Best songs are the scientist and Amsterdam.

Better than their debut, has more hit singles and is overall quite alright. But it still isn't as good as their competition...

The real heroes here are the sound engineers. This album is ridiculously lush, it’s a joy. Unfortunately, this album still somehow feels less than the sum of its parts. I liked every song. Hell, some I even loved. But together as a single listen it gets very samey, very quick.

I'm not a Coldplay basher but does get a bit dull in parts. The scientist is excellent

This was a much better Coldplay sound.

Ekkert meistaraverk, en The Scientist og Amsterdam halda plötunni uppi

Can’t deny I love the hits but some of the album seems a bit boring.

Going to be a bit more generous here as it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Found some of the lesser known songs (Green Eyes, Amsterdam) decent enough. Very much their creative peak.

There's an overwhelming preconception that Coldplay are musical beige... it doesn't help how overplayed a lot of the singles are as background music on lightweight UK TV shows to elicit any kind of emotion. Despite this there was a lot to like for me here (I hadn't heard Amsterdam, God Put A Smile on Your Face or Warning Sign and all three were highlights). The Scientist is undeniably moving in its simplicity, but there are only so many mid-tempo torch songs a listener can stand before they all start losing their impact and smudging into each other. Still, imagining hearing these songs for the first time, in context from a fledging young band, made me enjoy Coldplay more than I perhaps ever have.

Not up my alley, but pretty good for what it is - contemporary pop.

I honestly just find them so boring but I'm giving a 3 because 2 of the songs I actually don't mind.

Farò un grosso sforzo per essere obbiettivo nel mio giudizio visto che i Coldplay rappresentavano la musica che ascoltavano quelli che non capivano niente di musica secondo i metallari (quale ero io in quel periodo) e quindi ho sicuramente forti pregiudizi. Premetto col dire che è stato un ascolto piacevole, anche molto piacevole a tratti. Chris Martin penso di poterlo apprezzare molto più ora di un tempo e devo dire che la sua interpretazione dei pezzi mi è sembrata tra gli elementi più forti del gruppo. Anche alcune soluzioni di arrangiamento o alcune chitarre le ho trovate molto attinenti ai miei gusti. Il problema però è che questo disco incarna due anime e a volte sembra schizofrenico. Questo aspetto coinvolge tutti gli elementi come anche la produzione che su certi pezzi suona indie e su altri (In My Place) suona molto mainstream. Questo album a me sembra in bilico, le influenze ci sono, la visione artistica è forte, la creatività non manca, però... Sì sceglie spesso la strada facile. Sto album ha il piede sul freno. Certi pezzi chiaramente sarebbero potuti andare in altre direzioni ma non ci sono andati intenzionalmente per renderlo accessibile. Lo dimostrano pezzi come "A Whisper" che secondo me è di gran lunga il migliore dell'album. Il resto vola sempre, sembra volutamente, basso. Però stiamo parlando del secondo album cazzo, troppo presto per annacquarti. Suona tutto come una versione da supermercato dei Radiohead (Andrea forse mi odierà per questo). Non lo so, dopo due ascolti come dicevo mi è piaciuto, è stato piacevole ma soprattutto è stato piacione e quando nella musica vuoi fa il piacione io non mi sento di premiarti pure se magari ti ho apprezzato più di altri.

I'm not in a Coldplay mood really. This is the second album of theirs so far and the other was way better than expected, but this morning I'm in the mood for abrasive death metal or rap, not this lol. In any case, I've heard the hits from this before; I'm pretty sure this was their breakout album. I don't hate the band (or Chris Martin), but it just feels like they heard post rock and diluted it with U2 until it was radio friendly. The singing is the low point, no way around it. He rarely raises his voice above a whisper. Lyrics are practically meaningless, just introspective high school poetry stuff. The music isn't too bad, mostly kinda dreamy guitar licks with the reverb and delay dialled up, although it's pretty repetitive - as you'd expect something with a post rock flavour to do, I guess. It has to get a 3, even though it's a bit so-so and drags on almost an hour - another one that falls in the "too inoffensive to hate on" bracket. 3/5.

Strong start, gets a bit snoozy in the second half.

Lots of good songs

Bra! Ett par av låtarna drar mig tillbaka till barndomen, starkast känslor av den typen kommer av "Clocks", en känsla av att vara liten, bara springa runt och göra ingenting, kanske var det på någon fotbollscup, kanske någon annanstans. Det är varma känslor. Bäst: "The Scientist"

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

ehhhh...I've much given better albums a 3 and I have to stand on something of consistency when it comes to reviewing an album like this. Yes. Clocks is fucking important as a single and it made your dad and mom feel something back when it was released. Yes. The Scientist has been used in movies and tv moments that might've helped make you cry. but damn. I can't call this anything but pop dribble with a melancholic rock spray paint coating. I think Coldplay did a great job of using pianos with their high falsettos and very low gain distortion "explosive" moments. I think they got away with some clever riffs and a moment in time where pop rock was finding a modern sound. Call me a hater but...man, these lyrics...have you ever read such ambiguous tat? Fuck.

Come all ye: the emasculated, the castrated, the submissive, the cuckolded, the shrinkage victims, the low-testo and the overall giver-uppers. This is the soundtrack of your life.

Det er måske lidt hårdt at give den en 2'er, men wow hvor er det en kedelig plade. Selvom Chris Martin egentlig er lidt mere whiny på Parachutes, så føles det mere out of place her, og hvor det ikke var super irriterende før, så er det i hvert fald nu 2.4

Clocks is the only decent track. It's otherwise boring and poor.

Album : 26/1089 Songs known going in : 2/11 Cover Art : atleast they tried Favourite song : Rating : Notes : politik was just a bit boring? I will admit I think his voice is nice. I just dont find it all that interesting. It fades into the background too easily which feels rogue as many people would describe the music I like as that. Oppositely I cant say the scientist isnt good the piano really suits his voice ok green eyes is cute

Meh. Coldplay hasn't aged well.

Sounds like five pairs of pleated Dockers became sentient and started a band.

Sigh. It's not actively bad, but it's certainly painfully boring. Despite my long-winded review, I didn't actually mind Parachutes, but it wasn't that interesting. Now I see that it was a lot more interesting than this, because it actually had a lot of interesting progression and build-ups. Whilst this album contains more of their older "hits", I don't think there's a single song on here that I couldn't have knocked off at least 2 minutes in length of without losing any real enjoyment. This isn't aided by Martin's vocals, which I just find boring and a bit whimpy without justification. Clocks is a nice song, but even then, it's still too long and is just the same idea throughout. That's about it.

Fine but not life changing. Moves in the wrong direction from Parachutes but hits an interesting midpoint before their later albums Highlights: "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face", "Clocks", "Daylight"

Top tier instrumentation. Lyrics are good. But once again voice from the main singer that I cannot stand.

The songs are so long for no apparent reason, it's very repetitive and I was very bored during the whole of it. At least it's not necessarily offensive to the ears.

Never really liked Coldplay but also never listened to an album of theirs. So far this music is just boring, very slow and repetitive. Yeah definitely not for me, I can see people liking but it's just a bit too low energy for my taste. Pretty much all the songs except for the "hits" pretty much blended into each other for me.

I don't like coldplay

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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.

Incredibly vanilla music. Not awful, not even bad, just a bit bland and dull. Clocks is pretty good tho

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

Under første låta er det sånn at jeg nesten er villig til å innrømme at Coldplay er low key bra; i hvert fall helt alright. Og så kommer In My Place og jeg husker hvorfor jeg mener at Coldplay suger kølle. FOR EN DRITTLÅT! Den lead guitaren er så usedvanelig innpåsliten og enkel og ekkel. Neste låta føles litt ut som en U2 låt. Musikalsk låner bandet liberalt fra bedre band (Radiohead), men Chris har ikke edgen til å bære låta. Sånn sett funker det bedre når de slår over til piano rock på The Scientist. Her mener jeg bandet gjør det de er flinke på. Det er ganske banalt, men jeg kan høre at det er en velskrevet og fin låt. Jeg trenger ikke å like det. Samme gjelder Clocks, som ble spilt vel så mye som In My Place. Høres ut som de har gått tom for hitz nå, men liker dem bedre som banal bakgrunnsmusikk enn som fanebærere for de verste innfallene fra post-britpop.

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

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.

Some good songs. Not sure it really holds together as an album... I gave this three stars, but then got a second Coldplay album and realized that these guys can write a few good songs, but then the rest is mostly garbage. I would probably give a "Coldplay Greatest Hits" album three stars...

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

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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.