A Rush Of Blood To The Head

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

As a reward for giving a bland review to Coldplay’s first album, the next album was … more Coldplay. I’ve had enough, Chris.

It wasn’t as outstanding as some of the other albums I’ve listened to, not to say it wasn’t good, just by comparison- was lacking a bit

I forgot how much I did not like Chris Martin's voice. However, he does have some redeeming music that goes along with it. Overall, not my favorite Coldplay album, and they are not even close to being my favorite band

Not as bad as I anticipated, but not great, either. Some of the songs start fairly strong but just fade inoffensively into the background, like in-store music during a late-night run to CVS for cold medicine. They’re in the vein of Doves but lack that band’s dramatic tension, resonance and sonic dexteriity. They’re also sentimental AF, with club-you-over-the-head lyrics aiming like a guided missile straight for the hearts and groins of a very specific demographic target: white female recent college graduates living in places like Bed-Stuy and working entry-level jobs in fields such as digital marketing, PR and e-commerce.

I mean, it's fine.

2 Coldplay records on the list, yet only one Monkees LP. Because Coldplay is the ersatz radiohead and I'm shocked it caught on.

My partner bought Parachutes when in first came out. They bored me then and they bore me now!

Modern sound, interesting drums, meh vocals, pathetic lyrics. Emotion just doesn't hit right with me. Clock is the only reason I am giving it a two star rating.

Another unknown band for me. An OK band, an OK album.

I have tried this album, I have tried Coldplay –and this one is not the first album I have listened to of them–, but they are just not for me. This album is bland and repetitive. Almost the entire album feels like a whole song on repeat, on and on (and on). Maybe it is because of how simple the structure of the songs is, but also plain and... sincerely, this is Coldplay, sometimes prejudices are not far from reality. I knew it wasn't for me and, after listening to it, I can conclude I wasn't wrong. This album is just not good.

Have you ever met anyone who says they really like Coldplay? Personally, I have never voluntarily listened to them until. I have always associated it with shopping centres, advertisements, corporate videos and presentations. Music that you are forced to consume. The nicest thing I can say about this album is that Clocks reminds me of my childhood. I'm not particularly interested in wasting my energy on ragging on this. It's boring and forgettable and really the only reason that the one highlight I have stands out to me is because I have heard it so many times. The Scientist is the other 'good' song on here but like the rest of the album, I guarantee you if I had never heard any of these songs before I wouldn't have been able to pick it out from the rest of the tracklist. Politik is a decent opening track and gave me a glimmer of hope that this would actually be a good album. This the glimmer of hope was cut short by the next song much like the same glimmer of that the liberal "rules-based international order" and "end of history" would last ironically enough by the same event that inspired the writing of Politik. Highlights: Clocks

ok

inécoutable pour moi Mais je peux pas dire que c'est nul non plus

Coldplay. Sigh, okay. I liked “Yellow” and the song from the Garden State soundtrack. I had burned copies of their first two albums that I may have listened to once or twice. Capitalism has always warped artists, but 2000 to 2025 is something else in terms of what it has done to people. And those who started out kind of sucky have really gotten the worst of it. I don’t know a ton about what Coldplay has been up to in the last decade but what I have seen appears pretty awful. Setting aside modern day Coldplay, this album is fine. It barely has a pulse but it never really does anything intolerable. I don’t like Chris Martin's voice but it fits the music fairly well. I suppose that - given what this list is - this album had to be on it. I don’t like it, but it faded into the background enough to where I can’t be too upset.

I don't understand their popularity. It's all kind of bland, like instead of waiting 20 years to be played in a grocery store they made this. What's weird is it's not bad music, they have talent, but it doesn't stay with you. Some songs I went, oh this is nice, then the next track plays and sounds similar but when the record is over I don't remember what I thought was nice or why. Coldplay the light beer of music.

Coldplay has always left me cold - guess that’s why I don’t play them (sorry couldn’t resist)

++: Politik, God Put a Smile upon Your Face, Daylight +: Clocks, A Whisper, A Rush of Blood to the Head, Amsterdam +-: In My Place, The Scientist, Green Eyes -: Warning Sign 5,5/10

Im not a Coldplay fan, but tried to come in to this with fresh ears and an open heart… but nothing stood out to me? It just all kind of felt bland and commercial. Especially compared to everything else we’ve listened to, this didn’t present itself as a musical feat.

Some hits but only really HEARD the first half (i listened to the whole album). Coldplays music fits as chill background music. I also think people are being unnecessarily harsh towards Coldplay it’s a vibe.

Honestly this isn't the worst album ever. Sure it's generic as hell, but if it had been a one of it would have been atleast passable. The problem is that Coldplay has been recreating and touring with variations of this album for a quarter of a century. And somehow everything they put out is played to death by commercial radio the world over. I'm so fucking sick of hearing the Coldplay sound, and know nothing interesting is about to happen.

From what I’ve heard this is when Coldplay was actually somewhat good but to me this was quite boring and monotonous. There’s really just not much to this for me other than some really nice chord progressions sometimes especially in the scientists and Amsterdam ( the latter of which being the best song on here as it was actually likeable as a whole). However, the majority of the album is just filled with boring songs which really don’t vary and seem to aim too hard to be accessible to a wider audience which based on Coldplays influence of creep era Radiohead makes sense but it just doesn’t succeed in being actually enjoyable (although the Spotify stream numbers seem to disagree). I also just actively dislike Chris Martin’s voice which lowers my view on this album even more. Favourites: Amsterdam and green eyes, overall, 4/10 (sorry Coldplay).

truly so boring. bored to tears. then a song comes on that ive heard before and im tired and bored. 1 or 2 i dont care.

Eh. It's ok. Excessively soppy for my taste. Still some enjoyable tracks and I appreciate its cultural status. Clocks is way overplayed though!

Brought back some memories. Chris Martin is a bit pretentious and I’m kinda over Coldplay.

eh

Excepto por clocks, Coldplay me confirma que sabe a nada. Nota: 2.1

I definitely listened to this a decent amount when it came out and even saw them on this tour. I was in high school and my girlfriend at the time was very in to this album. I have not listened to this in a really long time, and it sounded so much more flat and boring than I was expecting. About half way through I had to check to make sure one of my speaker channels was not out, it just seemed like there was nothing in the mix, but nope everything was working as expected. Found this incredibly boring.

The album known for literally 2 songs is not bad but I feel it's been so overused in everything commercial. Sadly there music is not uplifting or happy at all and I think if I listened to it going to work I might be fired that day from an overabundance of clinical Coldplay sadness.

It's fine.

The first part was more tolerable than I expected, but I got really bored a song or two after Clocks. They should have ended the album there.

I've always thought of Coldplay as kind of the softer version of Nickelback - so incredibly vanilla that they had to just be trying to appeal to the masses. And I feel like 'good music' doesn't mean that everyone likes it. This is music that doesn't challenge you, and probably because of that, doesn't engage you at all either. Needless to say, what I've heard from them has done nothing for me. However I believe this is my first time listening to an entire Coldplay album. Halfway through and my opinion hasn't been swayed at all. Clocks is a song that pretty much everyone has heard before. Too many times. I have to admit that when it starts I kind of dig it but by the time I'm a couple minutes in I'm ready for it to be done. That might be the theme for this whole album. I feel like this record is on the list because it was one of the biggest albums of the early 2000s and that goes to show what a shit state music was in during that time. Have we progressed since then? I think we have... But the worst thing about listening to this album? Now Spotify is going to think I want to listen to Coldplay. Rounding down because of that. 2.25/5

Ei pääse mihinkään siitä että Coldplay on vaan aika tylsää musiikkia. 2/5

sth: Green Eyes, In My Place

Boring nad non dynamic. lots of whining and no real emotion or any interesting beats or melodies. totally forgettable

3/1001 De los primeros álbumes de Coldplay, experimentan con sonidos rockeros, pero sin alejarse de la actualidad, tiene muy buenas canciones como "clocks" o "The Scientist" me gusta, no del todo, incluso llegue a hacer el primer skip de los 1001 albumes.

★★½

This is certainly not a bad album, but I certainly didn’t enjoy it anywhere near as much as their other album we reviewed previously. I really don’t have a lot to say about this one, I found myself bored by most of it. It’s fine I guess. 2*

Better than expected but still terribly boring. 2 stars.

Too melodramatic for me

This album put me in a bad mood all day after having to listen to the slow, monotonous torture that is Coldplay. I always try and engage albums with a fresh attitude and give them a fair listen and I did, and it confirms once again how much I dislike Coldplay. I genuinely do not understand the appeal. The lyrics aren't clever, Chris Martin can sing but his voice isn't that pleasant (especially when every word is draaaggggeed ouuuuuuut), the music is simplistic, and the overall sound feels like one giant depressing whinge. (Kind of like this review)

Slow and boring to listen to. Not even great as backgound music. Will not listen to again.

Rush of blood to the head and nowhere else... this is flacid music. It's not even that bad, it's worse. It's fine. Its nothing. It's middle class wallpaper. Music for accounts. I thought it was their first album until I was finished. Where's the progression? They became like diet Radiohead as well as diet Oasis? There's some okay guitar parts and In My Place is fun to play in a cover band but there's not much else.

Grocery store music

Painfully mid. It's not good, but not as bad as I thought it'd be, I just feel like it doesn't take any risks at all. It's not nearly as bad as their later albums at least, the lyrics were the most interesting about it.

First half is kinda cool and then it gets horribly boring

One song on this album is a melancholic legend(you all know which one I'm talking about), but the rest of the album is forgettable. Favorite Track: "The Scientist".

Some bits are interesting, but too long

It's just so bland. It's all the same tempo and has all the same vaguely sad atmosphere. It's like if Shepherds Pie made music, just tasteless

I never cared for their radio hits so had never put on the album. There were a couple good tunes that weren't on the radio, but I found myself looking at the playlist often and hoping it would be wrapping up soon

This is another super famous record I'd never heard before. Seems pretty harmless.

The first half of this album is honestly not bad and definitely overhated. The scientist and clocks are decent songs and the album has a good vibe to it. Then it just keeps going needlessly. I feel like this album could have been quite good if they were able to cut the fat from it.

not a coldplay fan in general, so i wasn't expecting to like this album. i've never really liked his voice. whole thing just felt a little bland to me. 2.5/5

Happy music for depressives.

Never actually listened to a whole Coldplay album. It's like D-grade Radiohead imitation mixed with anthemic crying-in-your-car music, mixed with rom-com soundtrack fodder. Some of the songwriting aspires to be deep and profound but isn't really. I don't dislike the album, but it's so middle-of-the-road it's like a white line zipping past. 2*

"Clocks" kind of slaps. the rest of this is dentist office music. listened as I filed my taxes, which was apt and damning.

It’s….. nice. I don’t mean to be dismissive or play into the trope that this band is boring, but I don’t think I’d ever put this on for a full listen again. Clocks is a banger though.

The musical equivalent of cold unbuttered toast.

It doesn't baffle the mind but it's solid background music

I hate Coldplay

I don’t have much to say here about this pop rock album that wishes it could be alternative, but it just isn’t so. Technically, there isn’t anything “wrong” with it - the songs are fine, the instruments are fine, the melodies are good. It just doesn’t land for me, there’s nothing that really grips me. A couple of solid songs, but largely forgettable. Their first album was better than I expected, and they seemed to drop all of the cool stuff from that album for this one.

point8.

Annoying music performed well, giving it a second star.

Lmfao ok here we go. I do not like this. But it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It's not good nor my thing at all but it's fine. Like it's not unlistenable or anything but I do not want to listen to it. It's all the same. It's big and epic of that's what u like but I do not. This is fine

Not very interesting to me, and not very memorable. I’ve already forgotten most of the album. Favorite Track: God Put a Smile upon Your Face

I think they just might be lying about their numbers.

I've enjoyed some of Coldplay's music, but this didn't impress me.

16/1001 Ok, here's my take on Coldplay. Chris Martin can write songs. He can play piano, he can strum a guitar, he can come up with melodies and lyrics and all of that stuff songwriters do. And, you know, he's got personality. A pleasant, likeable guy - very marketable. He is accompanied by three other musicians about whom I know nothing. One of them wears a hat, and that is the closest any of them get to having a personality. Now don't get me wrong, none of that is necessarily a problem. The problem is that I don't know where Coldplay ends and the product begins. I can't tell by listening to their music how much of it is Chris Martin pouring out his soul and how much of it is the result of a decision taken in an office somewhere. "That 3-3-2 beat makes tracks sound urgent, let's use that here". "Yellow was a hit - lets use that loud/quiet, plodding straight time approach again here". It sounds like a solo artist with loads of other tried-and-tested arrangement and production tricks bolted on after the fact. I don't feel anything listening to this music, it seems unauthentic and sterile. For all the gloss and sheen, and for all Chris Martin's ability - and he does have an ear for a melody, I can't deny that - there is very little range or depth to Coldplay. The tension seems forced and fake. And I know whatever they did on the path to becoming U2 V2.0 has worked out for them, which is great, and maybe I'm just in the minority. I personally just don't like the music (and 20-plus years on you still hear this music on a regular basis, let's face it) - it's all surface and no depth. Not awful, just meaningless and formulaic.

This was not horrible. But not my thing. Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5

Ultimately, I felt like this album was palatable enough. Nothing really to offend here, but not much to inspire either. I suppose I like things with more of an edge to them. Sensitive, heartfelt, and… boring?

some perfectly innocent pop-rock songs. "Clocks" is a banger. rest is pretty basic Coldplay music.

I tried to keep an open mind while listening to this album. First tried to listen at the gym - too low energy. Then tried to listen while working - too maudlin. Then tried listening before bed - fell asleep. I enjoyed the piano in Clocks, and A Whisper was unexpected. I won't revisit.

Pretty gay, yes its a good album, but i always found it quite a bit booooring... Tum dum, tum dum, tum dum NOOOWW

**A boring album

One good, but often played song. The have better albums

Zastanawiam się, czy CEO i szefowa HR Astronomera uciekli z kiss cama, bo na jaw wyszedł fakt, że mają romans, czy fakt, że słuchają Coldplaya... Nigdy nie słuchałem Coldplaya, nie byłbym w stanie wymienić żadnej ich piosenki. Ta druga kwestia nie uległa zmianie, ale przynajmniej teraz rozumiem memy z Coldplaya. Rozwodniona kasza manna wśród muzyki.

I quite like the Mark Ronson version of 'God', which shows they can write a good tune, but the presentation here is very bland, and a lot of the tunes are pretty obvious.

What a load of fucking shite. Nope, that's a little harsh. It's too easy to typecast Coldplay as the new U2 punchbag. They have the tunes, the sweeping build up of emotions within songs, and the message of, y'know, centrist love. It's just not for me. I'll upgrade them to two stars.

Favorite Track: These guys sure know their way around a catchy chord progression. Still not my cuppa. The energy level does not advance past a mid-morning yawn.

This album is, unfortunately, the last strong record from the band. It feels like the moment when Coldplay began leaning towards a more mainstream pop sound. Still, the shift is executed remarkably well in tracks like "Clocks" and "The Scientist", two of the bands most enduring successes. My personal favourite peace is "Daylight". I really like its relentless energy and the distinctive sound choices throughout.

The singles have some potential but also have no need to be 6 minutes long. The rest is pretty dull

I find it baffling that this album made this list. IMO this record doesn't crack the top 10 for 2002, let alone warrant inclusion an an all time best/must listen selection. Beige is an apt descriptor for this perfect soundtrack for Starbucks, a mall, or an elevator(probably in a mall). The kind of album that people would choose to put on at the end of book club when the red wine has been flowing and it's time to get a little wild. No disrespect to book club shenanigans. To each their own. Credit is due to super clean production and tight, arrangements. I am giving it two stars as I am confident I will find something in this project that I like even less than this.

Dated and doesn't resonate today like it once did.

Little too samey for me. Might be hard for me to be objective given later releases.

Coldplay always the same. Also everything sounds like elevator music.

I don’t know why I find this band’s music so annoying. Objectively there is some variety, but subjectively I want them to shut up. My emotional reaction to this is the same as to toddlers whining.

It’s fine. Got its moments. I can’t say I’d listen to it. I don’t even think it’s Coldplay’s best songs on this.

It's a dreary Tuesday afternoon in half term. I am working from home. "I'm bored" "Why don't you play a board game?" "I don't wanna" "Why don't you see if any of your friends want to meet up" "Eh." "We've got some arts and crafts supplies in the cupboard, maybe you could draw or paint?" "I don't feel like doing that" "Well then, tough" That is the feeling this album conveys. Inoffensive, a bit boring, but better than going to school, probably.

YAWN

Coldplay is fine when listening to their songs in isolation, but an absolute drag to listen to in album format. There is at least some instrumental and tempo variety here, but everything drones on and on, and like with a lot of pop albums they frontloaded all of the better songs, making the latter half of the album an absolute slog. I don't really want to give this a 2 because I do genuinely like some of the stuff on here, it's just way too much of this sort of pop at once.

Coldplay are massively popular. I suspect this is because their music is rather bland. I played this album twice and it just passed me by as I zoned out. It didn't attract my attention at all. But that said, it seems to have attracted a whole load of accolades, as has the band itself.

I used to enjoy so many of these songs and now they just feel so tired.

In 2018, I attempted a project similar to this one on my own. I tried to listen to an album each day, but wasn't going off of any list. Instead, it was whatever I'd been curious about, or else had been meaning to listen to. So I listened to Coldplay's entire discography to that point. I gave this album pretty good marks (7/10, so 3.5/5 on this project's scale). I also didn't much like "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends." So it's interesting to me that, almost 7 years later, my opinions have changed. Coldplay has two albums on this list, neither of which is "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends." I actually find that to be the best Coldplay album now, though the other two on here are alright as well. I definitely think this one is better than "Parachutes," and I'd replace that in heartbeat with "Viva La Vida." But we aren't here to talk either of those albums. There's obviously a few hits on this one, namely "The Scientist" and "Clocks." And those are both fantastic songs. But I was much more taken with the ones I don't remember. "Politik," for one, is a great opener, as it sets the tone for the album as being piano-heavy. But its tone is darker than the rest of the album, as well as anything they'd released prior to this. "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" picks up that darker tone a little bit in places, and really keeps the interest up and shows that they've evolved. Things start to trail off a little after "Clocks," though. "Daylight" sounds a little too like "Clocks" to be back-to-back. "Green Eyes" doesn't really fit with the rest of the album in sound or style. "Warning Sign" just feels like "The Scientist." "A Whisper" and the title track sound a little too generic and like a few other Coldplay songs. "Amsterdam" is a good closer though. The calm after the storm. Overall this was a good album, if not front-loaded. The back half really tails off, which is a shame because we know they can do better. I liked what I liked, but it wasn't enough to prevent a two star rating. Shame. Standout Tracks: Politik, God Put a Smile Upon Your Face, The Scientist, Clocks

Boring album

I can barely stand to listen to Coldplay. I feel like each song is so ploddingly repetitive -- not of each other, but within each song. Each song sets up some rhythm or motif -- and not generally one that I find appealing -- and then just pounds that into my skull for several minutes straight, without any real variety or progression. Ive never been a fan of Coldplay and never understood their wide appeal, but generally I just thought of their music as dull. But today, listening to an entire album all at once, I almost feel rage.

the rush of blood was just my ears bleeding

listened to this drunk and on the train on the way back from manchester. hungover now send help

God put a smile upon your face is a GREAT song, that aside there does NOT need to be more than one Coldplay album on the 1001 list (even one's a bit much). This whining soft rock stadium slop becomes a lot better when you're happy and drunk on a train home from manchester - thanks Elliot for making coldplay enjoyable for 40ish mins

Ragging on Coldplay is really hacky. That being said, this could not be less For Me. There's a really boring guy in my office who has Coldplay album art postcards up in his cubicle and I kept getting worried he would somehow sense I was listening to this and start talking to me

This album is pretty vanilla. Some catchy stuff, but it's also quite anemic throughout.

“What if we engineered a 3/5 album to appeal to the broadest group of people that don’t much listen to music.” Pop trying to disguise itself as rock or alternative. Technically it’s no worse than any other album on the list I’ve called “fine” and given a 3, but there’s something to the sum of its parts that just causes a dislike in me.

It's not Coldplay's fault that the music in corporate sizzle reels and training videos sounds like Coldplay. But it does make it difficult to engage with albums like this. I hate grading art, but this platform won't let me move on until I do. This one's just not my thing. No offense to those for whom it is.

almost gave 3 stars but it would have only been because of nostalgia

Coldplay is not really my thing tbh

There a sameness through the the tracks that tells me, yes, its that Coldplay sound, their definitive sound. Is this album influential ? Is Coldplay influential? Not a fan do hard to say.

Why the hell is this in here

Э, может быть я просто хейтер. Лучшая песня - Clocks.

The hits were okay… I don’t get the hype of this band… it was a lot of fillers…

So unmemorable, I got confused and thought I was listening to a less avant-garde Radiohead album. Less objectionable to me than Radiohead though, 2 stars.

Boring and bland.

Not my taste at all unfortunately. I can still see appeal, therefore 2 stars instead of one.

Coldplay are just one of those bands who I think we all wish were better than they are. Like, we all know they’re talented, and we all know they can and have made excellent songs, but 90% of the time, you’re left with boring post-globalist Adult Contemporary for Soccer Moms. A Rush of Blood To The Head is no exception, and maybe the worst offender. It starts off with its most upbeat song, “Politik,” and there’s a moment here and there that grabs my attention, but most of this is pan-fried chicken breast with no seasoning. And look, I’m not above a sappy, slow love song, even if it’s not my go-to aesthetic. But the cheese balladry of Coldplay borders on offensive. It all has the same monotony. The worst offender is “The Scientist,” a song with god awful production that makes it sound like nails on a chalkboard to me, and is so poorly made that I almost can’t believe it has 2 billion streams. The rest of the album is never *that* bad, but it also does little to garner attention in any way. I think if you took the high points of Coldplay’s career – not even the most commercial points, just the good, fun songs – you’d see them for what they are: a singles rock band. On a whole album, they’re a drag, and not even an interesting one to dissect. I blame U2 for this.

Chris keksii joskus ihan kivoja melodioita. Ja silloin kun ei, mikään nostatus ei korvaa puuttuvaa sävellystä.

I was pretty bummed when this one popped up. I remember these guys coming up while I was in middle school and I thought they made boring music for boring people. Although I would watch The Scientist music video whenever it was on because I couldn’t figure out how it was in reverse but his singing remained forward?? But I figured it might be good to see if they were more interesting in these earlier albums before being put through the machine (although I would have preferred to do that with the debut album Parachutes). I will say Politik was a solid opener that gave me some hope for this album. Unfortunately the hope was misplaced and the album would not end up getting any better for me. Dunking on Coldplay is easy— and Green eyes was a nice change up no matter how slight— but this album was a big nothing. The definition of dull. No edge and evokes no emotion from me whatsoever. How anyone gets anything out of this album is a total mystery to me. I decided to give Parachutes a listen for the first time and while still not my thing, it at least had more diversity of sound and didn’t make me feel like I had chugged a keg of robitussin beforehand. They clearly lost any sort of genuine ambition and creativity by the time they made AROBTTH. But I’m giving it a 2 instead of 1 because Chris Martin sang that shit in reverse in The Scientist video.

Could never get into this...

Gear: Grado Hemp Artwork: 🗿😶‍🌫️⬜ Production: 😑🙂👌 Music: 🧼🫧✨ Rating: 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️/5

Nope, won’t even listen. Fuck cold play

It all sounds like incidental music from a particularly dull episode of Hollyoaks.

The trajectory of Coldplay, I'm realizing, is one rooted in reinforcement, and maybe more so than any band in recent memory. They continually followed the path that gave them the widest possible appeal, and as a result, a lot of the more interesting, less pop-oriented stuff - like the second half of this album - stops appearing the further you get into their career.

In solidarity with Min from Slow Horses, I want The Scientist to be played at my funeral. No one will get the joke, which will make it all the better. As an album, this I suppose, is a fine execution of early 2000s post-grunge "alt rock". I have somewhat of a soft spot for melancholic, guitar-driven music, but it's all a bit too clean for the melancholy to stick, you know? It's like everyone heard Radiohead and thought "we can do that!" .. but they couldn't. Anyway. It's not as bad people make it out to be, and it probably belongs on this list. But I'm not gonna listen to it again. (Except for The Scientist, when I'm dead).

The most Coldplay Coldplay of all the Coldplays. Every on the beat chord stab like a padded baton to the head. I don't full on hate it but I'm flummoxed why so many people love it.

Weet je wat beter zou zijn dan 1 Coldplay album in de lijst van albums die je ABSOLUUT moet luisteren voordat je dood gaat? 2 COLDPLAY ALBUMS! Maar wie weet, misschien staat er nog meer in? Zou me ondertussen echt niets verbazen. Maar de muziek dan; tsja, ik denk dat iedereen de hits van dit album wel kent... Is dat positief? Naja niet echt eigenlijk, omdat deze zo overplayed zijn voor mij. Ik word meteen weer naar Q-music gebracht, waar een of andere radio-dj met vertelt dat "Hier die lekkere nieuwe van Coldplay!", vlak voordat hij The Scientist voor de 4e keer in het uur aan knalt. Is het goede muziek? Het is allemaal prima, ik vind het niet verschrikkelijk, maar word er ook niet echt warm van. FAVO: Clocks

My favorite Coldplay song is on this album - Clocks. As for the entire album…..much more mellow than I would have thought. For me, Coldplay is much more of a single than an album band.

The scientist and clocks are good but I could not care less about the rest. One of the most overrated bands in my opinion.

I really like the debut, never gave this one a solid shot before. This band is very over-hated. I mean they've put out some garbage. Don't love the opener as a whole song. The outro is great tho. Reminds me of the lates 90s early aughts space rock stuff. And it sounds very classic Coldplay. Obviously I know Clocks and The Scientist. They're great songs but I think they're a little slow tempo wise and don't have a lot of variation - preventing them from reaching their full potential. Coldplay is like U2 in a lot of ways to me. They put out stuff that is so easy to vibe with, it almost becomes soulless at times, but they still stick a lot of landings. It's funny I know they get compared to Radiohead a lot. God Put a Smile Upon Your Face sounds a lot like what Radiohead would do in the year after this album came out. I think the problem for me is Coldplay sounds too clean, too perfect. Very Metronomey. I think about like Mew and how they have a very steady yet energetic sound. Rock music works for me cause it is so rough and imperfect at times. So at that point Coldplay is basically pop music, parading as rock music. I think if it was produced a little more like pop music it would shimmer a bit more. All of this is to say, there's nothing wrong with liking Coldplay. But from a music nerd perspective, there's little reason to actively choose to listen to them frequently. But if someone puts them on, I'm not complaining, and I'm probably singing along. But after listening a few times, God they just refuse to take any risks or do anything interesting with these well written songs.

Yeah, you know. I get why people make fun of this band, and I also can see why people like them. I’ve never really actively listened to them, but knew the hits. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t like this. But, I don’t begrudge people that like/love Coldplay. Good for them! And I’m not going to hate on a band who puts out music that brings so many people joy.

Eh

Didnt really grab me.

I am once again grateful that I can turn off my listening history on Apple Music while I listen to this so that my algo doesn't get fucked up.

I really don't like Coldplay: Formulaic, soulless, and uninteresting garbage aimed for mass stadium appeal. What happened to all the feeling?

I can't bear to listen to this. I liked Coldplay's early stuff but everything has become so overworn that it's impossible to listen to it fresh.

Some good hits, not my style.

Too repetitive. Caused anxiety.

Apart from a couple of songs, this album was dull.

The Gwyneth Paltrow of music.

This CD is dull. I've heard all the singles before. And they're nice enough, if what you want is some very light piano-forward pop. But way too many of the songs are just endlessly repetitive with no obvious payoff moment. Put "Daylight", "Warning Sign" and the title track in that bucket (you could just as easily include the entire back half the CD). It's also quite long and quite slow. The fastest song by far is "Clocks", and it runs at 130 bpm. That would make it slow by the standards of most contemporaneous rock. The two singles ("Scientist" and "Clocks") were insanely popular at the time. In retrospect I'm not sure why. They're sort of an endless slow build, nice enough, but I wouldn't have picked them out of a crowd. But the rest of the CD is a snooze.

The length of my review accurately describes how much there’s actually to this album. not a lot.

I didn't have as much of a negative reaction as I did for Parachutes.... Am I warming up to Coldplay? Still sucks though. 1.9

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Probably a better band then people give them credit for (me included) if we're talking about their older work. A few decent tracks on the album but question whether it really is one of the greatest 1001 albums ever written.

Lots is tedious

It works. Nothing stood out too much for me. I do not like clocks though. Will I listen to again: 1%

DAE Coldplay bad? There are some covers of songs from this album I like, which is enough to get this album a 2

I can appreciate Coldplay a little bit, but something about their music is just so underwhelming. I feel like a few of their best songs each have a good idea behind them, but their execution feels extremely lacking. The playing by the band comes off as amateurish; the guitars, drums, and piano are rarely interesting to me. I liked this album more than their previous one, though. I found the singer's vocals much more tolerable on this album than on their other one.

Bof les sons rock

Just a bit boring. This is the era of Coldplay that most people seem to think of when asked whether they like them or not. Or it is for me anyway. All the tracks are just 'there' they don't get any response from me either positive or negative. It just exists, like cottage cheese.

I’m so sorry to the Coldplay fans but I just found this so dull

Another whiney voice. Sounds like a bunch of posh boys got together to make an indie record after hearing someone describe an indie record. There's no energy. NFMJ

god I hate 'em

Meh

2.5☆/5 07.16.2024

Nah I'm good on this

couldn’t have been more bored

Dated. Or nostalgic if you're a fan I guess. Too brooding for me. Oh it's that one song from that one movie. Forgettable songs for forgettable movies.

It wasn’t that bad I just don’t really like Coldplay.

Bro, what kind of mood do you have to be in to ever want to listen to coldplay. gets the 2 cause i reserve the one for the absolute bottom

Sigh. Do I have to listen to this again? I'm sure I've heard this enough. Let's stay positive: This is probably about as good as they get. Competent musicianship. Not really annoying. *Yawn*. My son says it sounds like tv commercials. A very generous 2 stars.

What a bland fucking planet we live on where this is one of the most popular music groups of all time... but like, I'm not gonna deny that "Clocks" is an absolute banger