Reviews (page 13 of 15)
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...
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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
Album cover computer art hilariously of its time. A very competently executed very bland Radiohead. I forgot how many of these I got completely sick of hearing on the radio. I think I don't mind some of the songs from the previous album, but I do hate these ones. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
This isn’t bad, 22 years later, but I probably won’t listen to it for another 22 years. These guys know what they’re doing, that’s for sure.
Nothingburger. I listened to this the first time while driving and on at least five occasions looked down to notice that the song had changed without me even realizing it. Just slides right off the brain. Not "bad" per se, but not much of anything else either.
I get why the hits on this album were hits and the rest weren’t. They’re the only songs of note on this album really. I still don’t think they’re all that great but they’re more catchy and poppy compared to the dull songs that make up the rest of the album. Daylight is an exception, not a hit but it’s not a bad song. Although you can tell that Daylight is just Coldplay trying really hard to be Radiohead.
I wasn’t expecting a single Coldplay album in this list, much less encountering two within a week(!). I definitely liked this one is much less—just lots of uninspired writing and sappy vocals that is better served as bland background noise than closely examined music, too inoffensive to even hate.
Part of me thinks the reason I don't like Coldplay, a band that instinctively I should love, is because they were enormously popular before I'd really ever heard of them. The other part of me thinks it's just because they're fucking dull.
Chris Martin's voice is really annoying. This is bland and boring, though maybe with a different singer I might like it more.
inoffensive blandness.
Two words: boring music.
Bland and whiny
Dull.
Fucking yawn
significantly worse than i was expecting
2 - Whatever. That's all I can really say.
My lawyer has, once again, advised me not to comment on this album
Just a kind of bland, same-y sound across all of their albums. The chords they play over and over again just remind me of the worst segments in Guitar Hero/Rock Band. Just playing the same notes over a 20 second stretch. The singing and lyrics are so whiny... not fun at all.
ass
something about coldplay makes me want to watch skydoesminecraft and build legos
Nothing offensive about it. Nothing to hook me on either. Just pop rock with piano. It felt like the same song was playing on repeat.
I never really made a point to listen to Coldplay. I hear their songs on the radio but they never really made an impression on me. Aside from a few songs, this style of music is just not for me. The overall melancholy, sad vibes of most of their songs are not something I care to listen to on any sort of regularity.
Amsterdam is now my go-to top Coldplay song - sums them up perfectly, whiny and slow, not for me
not as bad as I thought it was gonna be, but still not good
If you like Coldplay, I don’t trust you. This is the most generic shit ever. NPC music to its very core.
"This is the dullest moment I have ever experienced" - George Costanza
Coldplay have annoyed me for a long time. I didn’t mind listening to this though. But I doubt I’ll listen again
Some nice
Better than the previous Coldplay album I got, but gawd are they boring. 2/5
Boring except for clocks
Coldplay ei oikein kokonaisuutena lähe. Vähän tämmönen markan Radiohead. No ei kyllä sitäkään... Kohokohtia: politik, god put a smile on your face, daylight
Much of this album sounds like it was written to be the background music for a hospital or cop drama. Just about any song would fit perfectly as the detective who is obsessed with a case comes home to find his wife has left him. He has a flashback of them being happy when they were dating and having a picnic, then back to him sitting at the dining room table in the dark with a glass of whiskey… Or one of the emotional scenes in Scrubs after one of J.D.’s patients dies. Anyway, I was looking forward to this album because I never really got into Coldplay, but had always heard they were great. I figured I had been missing something. Nope. I haven’t missed anything. This album is just there. Technically, I suppose it’s well done, but there wasn’t any meat to bite into. There just isn’t anything driving it forward or drawing me in or giving me anything to care about. It’s just a group of Brits being whiny and sad. (I’ve noticed that this type of stuff sells really, really well in the UK. Are they doing ok over there?) Clocks is pretty good.
The older I get, the more bored I become of Coldplay
This album is a perfect example of why we need half stars. This is the exact median of music. The safest of safe. I'd give it 2.5. I'll round down because once you've heard the first thirty seconds of any of these songs, it's not going to surprise you in any way. Very safe and repetitive. Also, for a 54 minute album, this REALLY drags on. Best track : God Put a Smile Upon Your Face
Okay okay okay so I'm a bit conflicted. I always told myself that I never really liked coldplay and maybe some of that has to do with the image that has been painted for me: them just being really bland, bland and boring overrated band. And sure, some of their stuff is really just that and even many of their highly appreciated hits have never really resonated with me and some just sound god-awful. So I've just come to the conclusion that yeah don't care for them as much to really never give them a try, but now I can finally say that I've given them a fair try and at least listened to one of their albums. And after listening to this, I'm kinda surprised. It's not that bad! Not really my thing though, but not as terrible as I would have thought. So me rating this album still fairly low is still a positive thing because I really thought I was going to hate the shit ouf ot this. 2.5/5
Like vanilla dairy free ice cream in music form
Outside of my 2-star review of Parachutes (album #252 for me on this site), I have never deliberately listened to Coldplay but I am alive in this culture. So, I know there are plenty of reasons to hate on Coldplay. But I'm going to set aside all the bias I can and put this record on loud to see how it goes. Politik has some nice atmosphere and is reasonably well-crafted and yet I can already tell that the vocal delivery and lyrics already leaning pedestrian will become recurring annoyances as the album progresses. By the time I get to Warning Sign I'm just exhausted by the basic, flatness of it all. Lackluster writing, music absent of inspiration, zero inventiveness, a cultivated blandness, the most broad appeals to "feeling" that have less pull than the most trite of Hallmark cards. This is well-produced elevator music for an aging "indie rock" audience. I will suffer through the last three songs hoping for a surprise but so far I could've just listened to Politik and let them end on their least offensive "high note". And being the least offensive on air experience seems to be what this band is all about.
I didn't like Coldplay before listening to this one and after hearing this album I like them even less. I couldn't go through this album in one sitting.
Front half surprisingly decent. The well-known tracks are in the middle and I do not enjoy them. Back half miserable.
So bland.
I did really try with this album. But I do find them so dreary and dull. They have a few good songs but even the best songs I find quite boring. Coldplay just feel like brown soup to me. Yeah, it's serviceable and will keep you alive but it's just bland and every bit is basically the same.
2.5 inoffensive don’t feel strongly either way
Bonus star for clocks otherwise it bored me
Does have a nice production and all the instruments sound nice together. But it can be so god dam BORING. Trying to be an objective and clever reviewer bro but This is just too hard ot get through, got to The Scientist and just was like fk this
43/100 Politik 6/10 In My Place 6/10 God Put a Smile upon Your Face 2/10 The Scientist 6/10 Clocks 8/10 Daylight 4/10 Green Eyes 2/10 Warning Sign 6/10 A Whisper 3/10 A Rush of Blood to the Head 2/10 Amsterdam 4/10
2 stars: Not my bag.
bland, forgettable, 2.5/5
Kinda one sound for all songs except Whisper. Good coffee house listening, better get the espresso though or you’ll be asleep. (2.1*s) <— sleepy ones.
Meh, i dont really like it alot. Nothing groundbreaking. Better than an absolute generic album, but doesnt get much better than that.
Meh! More Coldplay. Thanks.
I wanted to like this album but it’s a little bit of a snooze fest
not my type, I don't like coldplay but i give it a try again, still doesn't like
When it started, I kind of liked this album - but as it went on it became rather blah. No real excitement to it, just a fairly tepid offering. By the end I was bored with the sound.
Don’t personally get why Coldplay is so huge, most of this seemed generic, forgettable, and boring
*raspberry*
There are chords. There is singing. Sometimes it gets a little louder. A Whisper was different enough to be moderately interesting. 2.5 stars because its just there. Rounding down to 2 because it was tedious enough for me to start skimming by the fourth track.
A prayer to the whinging man. Some aren’t bad songs but that lead singer turns them into wet farts.
Meh
Avoided these guys but can see why it works if you like BIG chords
I’ve tried and tried. I just can’t get the Chris thing. Oh well. Not a 1 star.
Compared to the other one we listened to, it had better hits but the filler was boring. (2.5)
Meh
Bad safe pop music. You don't need to listen to this album before you die.
It's essentially fine, and for many young people in my generation it was a first exposure to a more alternative sound that led to discovering other more interesting things. However, it is also basically inoffensive pop with guitars and does not deserve to be on this list.
Lala..lalalala..lala..lalalalaaaaa *expels air* it’s just so lala
Boring. Someone wrote on metalhead.club that this has been released before they went fully generic mainstream pop rock. Honestly, I don't see this development.
oh ive already listened to this album in the past. not exactly my cup of tea but clocks is top 10 songs aot. i also like god put a smile upon your face.
Nothing even remotely special about this one.
Me aburre Coldplay, no lo puedo evitar. Les reconozco la calidad y el éxito, pero no son para mí.
Good
not technically bad but i would not listen to it on purpose
clocks. scientists. this was me at 12
Largely dire!
Overall kind of sad music
I think people are pretty hard on Coldplay to the point where one might even be embarrassed to say they like them. Thankfully, I'm not in that boat but I can admit they have a few good songs. My biggest pain point is they seem like they aimed low and didn't take any risks for the formula they're working with. They have a recognizable sound, good hooks, and Chris Martin has a great voice but they just fall flat. This album is dull and designed to capture the ears of mass quantities of boring, simple people. I forgot it was even playing and I hate the cover art so rounding down here. See, its fun to hate Coldplay.
Yawn. Pretty boring album. Like a few songs by the band (couple on this album) but not a huge Coldplay fan.
A Rush of Blood is a pretty solid debut album. Nothing special but a couple recognizable songs that stand up over time. Unfortunately it seems like Coldplay has been making a worse version of this album with each subsequent release. For years I called myself a Coldplay fan. After I spent some more time with their discography there was nothing to differentiate one song/album from another. It didn't help that their popular songs inevitably become overplayed. What starts as enjoyable becomes a nuisance after overexposure. 2.5 stars
Not impressed. I’ve never been into Coldplay but liked a few of the early radio hits. I tried to give the album an honest shot and not just hate on it because it’s become fun to rag on Coldplay. It’s not bad, but it’s just not very exciting either. Almost all of the songs have the same formula of quiet-loud-quiet-build to crescendo-end. The drum parts have so.many.cymbals. It’s just high hats and cymbals all the time. The guitar parts all tend to feel droning, and there’s usually some synth or orchestra swell. They’re like an adult-contemporary Radiohead. Bland and inoffensive. And I say this as a big Travis fan, so I’m not wholly against dour British ‘00s pop-rock. I just couldn’t connect with it. It’s nice enough background music, I guess.
I did add The Scientist to my playlist. Glad I listened, but still not a big Coldplay fan.
I find Coldplay's sound to be whiny, and I would not have listened to it without this app.
nope even at their best coldplay isn't it
Mostly bland and forgettable. The album seemed to improve in the second half, although that may have just been me warming to it a bit. Highlights: The Scientist, A Whisper, A Rush of Blood to the Head. Lowlights: the entire rest of the album.
I hate this band for how mediocre their music is, how commercial it sounds, like it was designed for TV shows and commercials when an emotional moment needs some punctuation. The only song to catch my ear in a good way was Green Eyes. I hope there is no more Coldplay on this list.
I was hoping I could get passed the narrative that Coldplay is boring and basic but I can't. This album has some nice moments of melancholy British rock but overall it's so forgettable and simple. The Scientist is good but even in the context of the album it gets lost in the forgettable strings swelling and simple guitar strumming that consist through the whole album. Sorry but yep this is boring.
Clocks was good. The other songs are not. It carried on way too long.
Nice vocal and piano melodies, other instruments are fine, drums are eh. Solidly okay album.
Music for white people about white people.
Good opening track. The album was mostly boring and repetitive and predictable.
I won't go so far too say I think this album is bad. I just don't want to hear it ever again.
Didn’t like it
Good but boring
This is perhaps one of the most boring and innocuous albums I have ever heard. If you were looking for a top album from the “inoffensive rock” category, look no further it doesn’t get better than this.
Inoffensive.
1. politik - 1 2. in my place - 3 3. god put a zmile - 1 4. the zcientzizt - 1.5 5. clockz - 2 6. daylight - 1 7. green eyez - 1 8. uuarning zign - 1.5 9. a uuhizper - 0 10. a ruzh of blood to the head - 1 11. amzterdam - 1.5
Really tried to kick my prejudice on this band. I had a difficult time putting my finger on what I dislike about them. This album is kinda good. But, if you like the first song you’re gonna like the next 5-6 songs cause they all kinda sound the same; medium tempo rock that’s not very exciting. From listening all the way through I understand why they are such a popular band but it’s not my favorite kind of music.
Coldplay expertly take punk rock's simplicity, and strip it of its violence, its anger, its vitality, its nihilism, its raison d'être, and wrap it in wool. The result is a blob of sickening infantilism: melodies so simple, nursery rhymes would eschew them; lyrics so plain, white bread looks exotic in comparison; voices so banal... you get the idea. Nonetheless, it is obvious when placed next to Coldplay's other albums, that A Rush Of Blood To The Head (well, at least the first half, the second half really does drag on) reaches closest to Coldplay's Platonic ideal. What that ideal is, and why anybody would seek it, I do not know. But I'm repulsed by it.
2 absolute bangers (clocks and a rush of blood to the head) and 9 absolute duds innit
I didn't like them at the time and went into this thinking maybe somehow I'd get it now, twenty years later... I don't. Whingey blandness, albeit with some good songwriting; not my kind of thing, though.
Nondescript songs blend one into another. Album can loop all day without notice.
It’s fine. If you told me this was the soundtrack to Grey’s Anatomy I’d believe you.
Pretty good though a bit maudlin overall, middling 2, one of the two good Coldplay albums.
Watered down Radiohead. Not much to offer instrumentally or lyrically.
Ni nice
Beetje saai
i hated this
Didn't hate it just not for me
Dos rolitas cool y lo demás suena igual.
While it is certainly better than anything they have released in the past 15 years, it’s just ok. I have a soft spot for The Scientist though. A right smack dab in the middle 2.4
2.4 As Paul rudd once asked, "do you know how I know your gay? You like coldplay". Chris Martins oohs and ahhhs annoy me to no end. If they took those out I think I could be at least bi-curious about this album
not bad
I tried listening to this but didn’t get very far.
Coldplay are a mainstream soft band. Very uninteresting musically, very pretensions. What's more is chris martin actually thinks he's deep af. when its soft pop rock for middle aged women.
The titular track is great, on its own I would give it a 4. Amsterdam is good too. Those two songs sway me to a three. However, the rest of the tracks are boring and of the same formula.
Given that I have never owned a Coldplay album and yet knew most, if not all, of these songs, it just goes to show how ubiquitous the band is. As with a lot of things, I can take them in small doses. Like a piece of caramel, one is just about fine, but 11 just make me feel sick. I find them a little too earnest and the songs all meld together into one anodyne mush! They are never surprising or witty or fun. But they’ve honed a particular sound which is cloying but mostly unobjectionable. Unless you have to listen to whole album…
During the day yesterday, Marianne turned to me and asked, "Why is it you hate Coldplay so much?" She was clearly digging today's album and my apathy toward the band has apparently earned a bit of a reputation. I had listened to the album, or at least most of it by that time, and insisted, "I don't hate them." They're OK. I just cannot determine what it is about the music that makes them so popular. She said, something about "The Scientist," and at that moment, I realized I used to perform that song with Jack, my long-time partner in music. I looked over the song titles before listening to the album, I listened to the song as the album played, and had a vague feeling I had heard it before. In fact, I once knew the chords and sang a harmony to it. I rehearsed and played it dozens of times. And that's what I mean. This band's music is so innocuous, it just floats by, it doesn't stick. There's nothing to grab hold of. The production on the album was good, they clearly had a massive budget. The sounds and singing were all just fine. The songs had structure. And now, this morning, I can't even really be certain I listened to it. If a tree falls in the forest and you hear it but then immediately forget it happened, did it make a sound?
I wasn't a Coldplay fan prior to this album. I'm still not
Pleasant sounds, dry execution
just really not much there. Don't like the lyrics, they're super stale. Sound of the music is nice enough I guess idk it's pretty boring. They are to radiohead what norah jones is to traditional jazz singing except norah jones could play the traditional stuff too and coldplay can't do radiohead
Aside from the occasional track every once in a blue moon, there really isn't much I care for about Coldplay and never have. Nothing offensive here, but also nothing interesting whatsoever. The musical equivalent of wallpaper
Classic Coldplay, but sounded repetitive at times
Painfully generic. Meh. 2/5 Would not listen to again
love clocks lol
Not something I couldn't listen too, but I was bored listening to it.
Not very interesting
boy do i not like coldplay. there really was a dearth of anything interesting going on in western culture post 9/11-2008 and i’m not sorry i missed it. i liked the guitar. chris martin can’t sing for shit and his casual view of women and sort of the Also Starring in his view of life in which he is The Main Character that exist solely to make his life easier is so stereotypical 2000’s man. the music’s boring and the whole record really has the energy of a straight white man who thinks what he has to say is a lot more important and groundbreaking than it really is. also hearing clocks and realizing it was That Song from the terrible disney movie from like 2006 with kiefer sutherland felt like getting punched in the jaw.
I always hear that Coldplay used to be good, that this is their best album, that I’ve got to listen to it. Well, here I go. At some points, it reminds me of OK Computer except made very dull and sanitized. The chord progressions are often simple or generic or repetitive. Clocks and Daylight are my standouts. Throughout the album, it feels like they were on the cusp of something great and had a good atmosphere. But songs didn’t hit the heights I’d have liked. Think they could have made an excellent album if they grew in the other direction.
I was a huge fan of this album when I was 14, I am no longer 14.
Famous for some reason, 0 bangers
How does one make a 5 minute song and it go absolutely nowhere for its entire playthrough?
I don't like Coldplay. Completely overrated and repetitious garbage.
This is the musical equivalent of baby food.
The songs are so moody and sad and slow. I got bored so quickly during each song. No thanks.
A watered down Radiohead. U2 if they were more boring than they have been after Joshua Teee
A couple solid songs here for sure, surrounded by a whole lotta fuckin' meh. 2.5 rounded down.
it has The Scientist and Clocks, so i think people mistake it for being a good album. lots of meandering nothing songs between a few great lyrical works. nothing groundbreaking but very notable for coldplay's career.
This was a bad time to realize I don't really like Coldplay. Some songs like Viva La Vida are good but I just wasn't a huge fan of this album.
Not my jam. Here it is, I made it 2026 without listening to coldplay. Probably should have kept that streak going.
This is just all a bit beige. I can understand why this sold so many copies. It's the least inoffensive thing I've listened to in the first four weeks of this - and I had the Beach Boys yesterday. But it's so inoffensive as to be mind numbing at times - I drove whilst I was listening to this, twice. I barely heard the music. I get why people listen to it and it's well enough crafted I guess, but, heck, I could never listen to this again with any passion. It's probably good in a lift.
God Put a Smile upon Your Face is the only good track here. If the next album is going to be a 2 hour recording of crying cats in heat, then I'm certain to enjoy it more than all the other tracks on this album.
Meh. If Radiohead had a whiny, unimpressive little brother, he would make this album.
this is a difficult album to review. upon my listen, i realized there were a lot of aspects in coldplay's music that are like candy to me. this album is moody, emotional, beautiful. musically, it's positively brilliant. but there was some sort of disconnect, and i couldn't click with this album. is it possible that "the scientist" over-hyped coldplay for me? maybe. i mean, i couldn't tell you how many times i heard coldplay's "the scientist" in a tv how or movie. it remains a beautiful, beautiful song and is the standout of this album.
Uninspired and dull, I lost track of the fact that it was even playing through my headphones.
Middle of the road at best. Chris Martin voice has always been to whiny for me.
It's just so boring. One or two songs got enough radio airplay that you can sort of remember them, but the rest of the album isn't exciting musically, lyrically, or vocally.
Gigantisch minpunt omdat dat totaal kapotgedraaide Clocks erop staat. Kortom, hoe een aardig bandje met aardige nummers verpest wordt doordat het niet is opgewassen teveel airtime op Sky Radio en Top 2000. De muziek van Coldplay is domweg niet goed genoeg om de enorme populariteit te rechtvaardigen, en dan komt het al snel je neus uit. Middelmaat ten onrechte op een podium gehesen.