Reviews (page 13 of 14)
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.
I remember when people were pitching Coldplay to me as a lighter version of Radiohead. Those people are liars, and we are not longer friends. I think that they might have been confused by the fact that the singer is really handsome. It is now day 2 of me trying to listen to this album. I got 2.5 songs in the first time before I turned it off. It's not even bad, it's just dull. Don't worry, I figured out that if I just bury myself in trying to sort my email inbox, I can sort of time travel through the rest of this album. It's not very good, so far as I can tell 2/5
Just a thoroughly boring album pretty much from start to finish here. The Scientist is one of the most confoundingly popular songs of all time. Clocks is the only song worth any time here, and even that was pushing it once the rest of the album put me in a bad mood
There was nothing particularly bad about this, it's just not at all my style. Daylight is about the closest to something I'd normally listen to.
I have always viewed Coldplay as this wet blanket Radiohead wannabe that somehow made rock music so watered down and soulless even your mother in law could dig it. Other than their first two albums, which have some decent, if ubiquitous, songs, I have never dug too deeply into their catalog. And if this album is considered to be their best, I can’t imagine I ever would need to. While the 3 lead singles from this album are good enough to garner radio play, I couldn’t imagine seeking them out other than to make an early 2000s playlist (I think the video for the Scientist is permanently burned in my brain given the excessive MTV rotation). The rest of the album is pretty average. No edge, no charm, just a shitrock on which Ed Sheeran was born.
עצלני, תפל, משעמם. 5/10
Fuck this album. Haha
Coldplay forfeited the right to a fair trial long ago - their brand of middle-of-the-road, milk toast indie pop has clogged up the airways for the past decade and on that hill they must be strung up - but that's not to say this record has nothing going for it. Love them or (more logically) hate them, they have a style - in the same way a bank manager or a similarly nondescript office drone has style. It's heartfelt guitar rock, not ambitious or challenging, but still earnest enough to secure them a deluge of critical and commercial acclaim. It's a shit template, but if nothing else it's a template that they created and, dare I say, perfected. So for that I can spare this album the lowest of marks. But Coldplay suck, and that will never change. And we'll continue to love hating them.
I appreciate Coldplay a lot more than many other people, but I suspect that might be down to the age I was when their first couple of albums came out. While I still enjoyed a few tracks, this really dragged for me; I found it deeply dull. I've heard a lot of familiar music in high quality for the first time recently and discovered wonderful new things in it; I heard things in this I hadn't before too, but nothing interesting.
I like this album more than I ever have but I still don’t love it.
ee niewem taki o mn nie przekonał
Good songs but just not my type great for homework and studying tho.
Often when listening a song would start really strong, with all the instruments hitting pretty hard and grtting you pumped, and then that mope-y voice would start singing. It's certainly not a bad voice, but it feels so dainty that it takes a way a lot of energy that the songs often try and have. Obviously there are songs that work around this, with stuff like the Scientist being actually pretty good, but most of the time it almost goes for this sound with a "get up and fight" attitude yet no actual punch, and Clocks is just awful, but that's definitely due to overplaying and it just being plain boring.
2 or 3 good songs, rest boring
One long ass boring song. I didn't mind the song, but I don't really want to listen to it again.
I see the talent in the band here, but this album is kind of boring to me. Sometimes it kind of feels like they're playing just to play. Obviously, some of the songs are very well written, but some of the ideas just get pretty tired.
Coldplay was a staple in the early 2000s and dominated the airwaves much like the Gloved One in the 80s. However, this album has aged like a cheaper laminate and is starting to show its age.
The band does very little for me. There's some good songs o the album, but nothing that makes me ever want to put it on.
This is garbage, but i could be getting affected by my bad day at work
2.5 Stars
2/5. Some great slow pop songs but otherwise, a boring album. Not much is said despite the epicness it tries to reach.
I was relieved when it ended. A few highlights, but the rest is too bland for my liking
Once the initial nostalgic songs were done… rest of the album was forgettable background
I was quite keen on this at the time but of course time has revealed it to be a cynical and soulless grab at the lucrative “songs for adverts and sports montages” market. Just an album of nothing. Extra star for residual, misguided positive feelings.
2.5 stars - not actively awful just not very interesting to me
Just slow
Irrationally dislike. Look, it's impossible for me to be completely objective when it comes to Coldplay. On the exact day my divorce was final, I found myself attending a Coldplay concert. Coldplay was never one of those bands I was dying to see, but I was vulnerable and someone gave me a ticket. Plus, someone sold me on the idea of how there would be a ton of "hot horny chicks" in attendance. It was a crisp late September evening at an outdoor concert in Kansas. There was cheap reefer being passed around that gave me a headache. Or maybe it was the music. The crowd passed around a huge beachball during "Yellow". The aforementioned "hot horny chicks" were captivated by Chris Martin in a way that reminded me of old videos of women screaming at Elvis or the Beatles at Ed Sullivan, only without anything resembling passion. There was mud everywhere even though it wasn't raining, and someone accidentally spilled a cup of red wine on my shirt. That someone might have been me, who knows. But let's not bury the lead here. Attendees at an outdoor concert were drinking open cups of red wine, which sounds like something that would only happy if Coldplay was the featured performer. The concert ended with "Fix You", which seemed a little too on the nose given the current state of my life. But I knew then that there was no such thing of "Conscious Uncoupling". Call it what it is. It's a fucking divorce, no matter how hard Gwyneth Paltrow wants to spin it. Coldplay will forever be polarizing, which basically means they'll be immortal. Too many people love their red wine and beach balls and Chris Martin. Just like a good portion of us will always think of Coldplay as watered down Radiohead, U2 without, pardon the pun, the "Edge", or the Bizarro Oasis. Hell, some of their songs are easy to like. Don't expect any of them to fix you.
Coldplay were very important to me growing up. I no longer understand why.
Politik- quite generic verses and chorus In my place- I like instrumental, think rest is quite mediocre God put a smile upon your face - recognisable riff, verses actually have a melody this time👍 The scientist - just alright Clocks - catchy and memorable👍 Daylight - the verses go very slowly, this is background to me. Why do all songs on this album have to be 5 minutes Green Eyes - quite cute , quite jarring when the piano comes in Warning sign- l like the idea of purposefully searching for warning signs and reflecting that was the wrong thing todo , solid song👍 A whisper - not Sure about first chorus , has a good energy and guitar another long Outro for no particular reason A rush of blood to the head - bit of a narrative , nice buildup to first chorus, nice Instrumental👍 Amsterdam- dull until the outro, not enough to make up for rest of track This album is just very mediocre on the whole, lyrics are quite simplistic and some songs monotonous. I did really like some of the tracks but I don't think the whole album is that compelling 2/5
I really don't understand the fuss about these guys. I listened to the whole album - it's not actually horrible, it's just kind of flat.
when coldplay were still attempting to be some faux parody version of radiohead 5/10
Fine, it exists
Meh, it's cold play. Not as bad as I was expecting, but just not a fan of cold play.
I waited 20 years to listen to this album. I thought maybe, when forced, I'd find something endearing. Nope, just music to listen to while walking through the mall, I hate malls. Not the worst on the list though, so one bonus star.
Not really a rush of blood to the head, more a slow, weak, limp battle against an incurable illness.
The most interesting thing about this album is that the leader singer's ex-wife sells vagina scented candles. So there you go, make of that what you will, review out.
It's a hour of radio filler, the kind of thing you dont actively dislike but also cant bring yourself to like either.
recommended for: a good nap on a warm afternoon. I find Chris Martin's voice kind of annoying, which might impede my napping. As an experiment, I found a bunch of instrumental versions of songs off this album and really like them (especially Warning Signs). Take away the singing and this is good (if a little sleepy) instrumental post rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkorvx50R8&list=RDv_vu_J4Dn3E&index=5 2/5 (disappointing)
As much as I tried I couldn’t get over my painful memories of a friend making fun of me for listening to Radiohead and saying they sound like Coldplay. Is this fair to coldplay? No, of course not but you know when you get really sick from eating something and then can’t eat it ever again? It’s sorta like that. Like one time I got food poisoning from butternut squash and now just the smell of it makes me nauseous. Coldplay is my butternut squash of bands
Just boring music made for supermarkets
More than half of the songs are over 5 minutes. Coldplay is pretentious and overrated.
Boring and whiny.
An album of 4 chord breakup songs. The music is okay, but not really my sort of thing. The big tracks are catchy and the appeal is obvious.
The hits you know. The deep cuts are just not there
i always find myself disappointed by coldplay albums. it feels like there’s a potential for something really interesting there, and then 2/3 of the songs sound the exact same.
Very plain. Might as well be Christian music. Good for movies and stuff ig. And I like his vocals
tedious and overplayed. 2 or 3 depending on how generous you feel.
I know I am supposed to like Coldplay. But for some reason they just leave me cold. This listen didn’t change that.
I knew three of the songs of this already, so I guess that says something about the album. The tracks are well-liked enough that they are played more often than not. But I hate to say it, Coldplay bores me. You know that scene in "Coming To America" when Randy Watson comes out and starts singing, and everyone gets uncomfortable? That's how I feel listening to Coldplay. It just isn't for me. "Clocks" feels kinda too simple, and it shouldn't, with the piano and how it's being used. And "The Scientist...." I have a cover of Willie Nelson doing it, it sounds great. It's like Cash doing "Hurt", it takes it to the next level. So yeah it just is not my cup of tea, but I can tell it was well done.
I hate being "that guy" who hates Coldplay just because it's the British thing to do. Having said that, man this is dull AF the hits aren't even great and super overplayed and the non hits are so forgettable
I thought this was going to be one that I had previously dismissed, and then upon re listening I would see what the fuss was about (as happened with Dark Side of the Moon). This is not dark side of the moon. it is a whine fest.
Slightly buttered bread.
Tepid. Colorless.
I fucking hate Coldplay. F
Not all that interesting. Some nice chord patterns, but I don't love any of the vocal hooks.
Not a big Coldplay fan, but the album was okay. Mostly I just have a hard time getting past the lead singer's voice, but it wasn't wholly unpleasant like I was worried it would be. A bit melodramatic and slow, the backing instrumentals are pretty plain. I think I would have cared about that less if the lead vocalist was stronger.
I seriously don't care about Coldplay, nor this album.
Ughhhhhhhhhhh. I don't think I'll ever understand they Coldplay appeal. I just don't think it's good much. It's boring and there is nothing special about it.
In general Coldplay is not it for me. This album is no exception. The Scientist is a fantastic song. That’s about as far as this album goes on excellence. I find their sound very drab and Chris Martin’s voice ain’t it.
Was quite interested to listen having always passed on Coldplay as bland. Maybe its expectancy bias but it really was nothing... I didn't hate it so its better than a one I suppose.
Ist so vor sich hingeplätschert, definitiv besser als alles was ich kannte von Coldplay und ist ok gealtert, hat also meine Erwartungen überstiegen aber insgesamt einfach 0815 Alternative Pop/Rock der mir nichts gibt außer paar netten Klaviermelodien und losen Shoegaze Referenzen, plus es zeichnet sich hier halt auch dieser öde Pathos ab mit dem die heute noch Hallen füllen
Langweilig und radiohead-pilled (das ist schlecht) Es beeindruckt mich einfach nicht, gar nicht. Vor allem die Vocals geben mir manchmal einfach Fremdscham, kann es nicht erklären. Eine positive Sache kann ich sagen, Green Eyes ist ein ganz guter Song und hat mehr britpop vibes für mich. Ansonsten, wie gesagt, einfach extrem langweilig. Wenn nochmal ein Coldplay Album dran kommt, hoff ich, dass es Viva La Vida...wird. Das einzige nicht blande CP Album. Vielleicht hör ich mir das nochmal an die Tage. Oder vielleicht was anderes Gutes in dem Stil, Noel Gallagher oder so. (RT)
Das war mir iwie völlig egal einziger richtiger moment of interest war ah! clocks von coldplay! Hab dann iwann auch bisschen abgeschaltet leider, aber war jetzt auch nicht schrecklich langweilig und da war clocks von coldplay drauf das kennt man ja von damals
Vodafone Werbung.
Not really a fan of Coldplay and though there were a couple of songs on there I recognised, didn't really change this opinion
Super relaxing album but not one that I will go back to often
2.2 - enjoyed Parachutes significantly more than this album. Nothing really stood out or caught my attention. Unlikely to revisit anytime soon.
They’re just so beige
Meh. But like, really meh. Had to listen to Beyonce halfway through.
It probably deserves three stars but it bored my pants off more often than it didn't.
Not bad. I was expecting better.
zzzz. boring
Bored. Very bland. The one inch I'll give this album is that it's not technically bad and it's a major part of the sound of the decade in which it was released. Hot take: if this isn't already considered dad rock, it will be soon.
Musically good but I hate it.
Not bad.
Clocks is an outstanding song, but the rest of the album passed me by. I don't remember a single line, just a general irritation with Chris Martin's vocal style (octave jumping using falsetto)..
Oh FFS, not Coldplay!! To be fair, I listened to the whole album, it was alright, but not sure it's a "must hear before you die" though.
Solid gold shit, maestro!
MOR
They obviously appeal to a lot of people, just not to me. Boring ass music.
After Parachutes Chris Martin had a realization. Why worry about interesting meaningful lyrics when you can just write a simple hook (Yellow was the most successful song from Parachutes) and let a 3 year old child write the lyrics. This is where they became the kings of the hook. During Clocks you can hear the exact second where they gave up on doing anything worthwhile musically and sold out to the masses. 2/5 as the hooks are quite catchy tbf. Lyrically Chas and Dave have more value.
Algunas canciones decentes. Politik, Warning sign. El resto, que las ponga mi dentista en su consulta. Sonido básico agradable que no llega a excitar, y la música que no excita es música agonizante. Parachutes es un disco de mejores canciones, al menos más bonitas. XO fue el último manotazo antes de ahogarse. Nadie dijo que los 1000 discos serían todos buenos.
Pop que quer ser rock.
Meh 2
La ricetta Coldplay è sentita e risentita quindi le orecchie sono talmente sature che è impossibile stupirsi per le loro canzoni più famose, però il problema che ha questo disco è che tutte le altre canzoni meno famose sembrano seguire una formula simile. Anche i pezzi più intimi sfociano praticamente sempre nel ritornello con muro di suono facendo risultare l'album noioso. Questo disco è un 2.5 che però mi sento di punire perché avevo aspettative più alte essendo disposto a mettere in discussione i miei preconcetti.
Bit dull.
Some good songs, but the album really starts to drag towards the end.
Ok I generally don’t love Coldplay but I really do enjoy The Scientist and overall I’m not opposed to how mellow this album is. A nice calming background music for working today.
Clocks is a highlight as is A Whisper. The rest, meh. I forgot I had this album in my library. I deleted it.
Boring music
I kinda feel bad for a low score but I just can't vibe with most Coldplay songs. a few were okay but most of this album I didn't enjoy listening to and I can't put my finger on it. also some of them feel too sad
Shit band, shit album. Quite like The Scientist though.
Hard to get over my Coldplay prejudice for this one but maybe I'm prejudiced for a reason. Martin's voice whilst distinctive was also a precursor to a string of whiny self important singer songwriters of the early noughties (Martin himself has hilariously played up to this stereotype on a number of occasions) and there is now something ploddingly middle class and middle aged about this type of music.
Shit band, shit album. Quite like the scientist though.
Like they set out to write the soundtrack to a series of DIY SOS. Which is fine, I guess, after all DIY SOS is a very popular show. I just find the album so dull and one paced and I struggled to differentiate between most of the songs. It’s not without its highlights (God put a smile upon your face for example) so was torn between a 2 and a 3 but I just cannot see me ever choosing to put this album on again so it’s gotta be a 2 for me.
This album is a reminder of why people could have claimed Coldplay as their favorite band at a time and place while still being taken seriously. That being said, this album already shows some of the worse that Coldplay would become. I think it’s a reminder how difficult it is to listen to this album with fresh ears in a world where Coldplay has become all that they are, with the myriad of knock-offs and sell-outs who have copied the formula that is in its early stages in this album. Songs like The Scientist and Clocks are really difficult to place in this album because I have heard them so very much outside of the album. That shouldn’t be a negative, but it makes it hard to appreciate the album as it is. All in all, it is a good album with some pretty great songs (among them are both The Scientist and Clocks). I don’t think it is the greatest album ever and it still lapses into the sort of hyper-simplified pop balladry that Coldplay has since become well known for. 5/10
background music that did not give me a headache. 500 points Gryffindor
This album passed me by. Some of their big hits that took me back to the two hours of my life I rated Coldplay were quickly forgotten as the album moved on to averageness. 4/10 so a 2/5.
Maybe the best coldplay album i've listened to? but also not great even at that.
gave it a try and good first tune, but find them so boring overall
OK, but I don't seem to be their fan in general
Que no se diga... Escuché con atención una hora de Coldplay... DOS VECES. Tenía la percepción de Chris Martin como alguien que se dedica a hacer música fácil, melosa, sin matices, sentimental a madres, de tullido emocional dolido, digamos el tipo de concierto que le llamarían el W40 pa la novia. Escucharlo por un lado confirmó mucho mi percepción, aunque sí tiene algo que ha hecho a fin de cuentas que ha durado más de 20 años haciendo dinero de esto; pareciera que tiene este tipo de música hecha una ciencia. Las canciones como tal incluso podría decir... no son malas, al menos no todas; el mayor problema es que todas son iguales. Es un disco plano, sin matices, nada sube, nada baja, ni el tono de voz, ni el tema de letras, ni el ritmo. Es un sonsonete "agradable" inofensivo que puedes poner de fondo. Escuchar un disco entero se me hizo muy cansado. Los sencillos que conocía, In My Place Clocks y The Scientist... canciones que están tan embebidas en el breviario cultural que en algún momento por reflejo te das cuenta que ya cantaste "Nobody said it was easy." Es música aunque suene contradictorio está muy bien hecha pero ni me jala ni puedo respetar por lo repetitivo y plano que es.
coldplay has not been good for music.
eh... meh.
NEXT!
post-rock lite. certainly could live a very full life without hearing this record. fav track: green eyes
I was pretty bored throughout this.
2.5
Not a fan
I liked 4 songs, couldn't get into the rest of the album. 2/5
Listening to this is a reminder of just how deeply the singles embedded themselves in pop culture in the '00s and '10s. As radio-friendly rock/pop music goes, it's pretty quality; But the wave of British music which preceded it is strictly better as far as I'm concerned. The back half of the record, in particular, tends to be too melodramatic for the band's sound to support.
I just can't get into Coldplay. So boring.
Gutless, spineless pseudomusic for those who can't be bothered with the real thing. "Clocks" is especially inane - it sounds like it was written by someone who's had a grand total of one piano lesson.
Jamais écouté avant. Le plus petit dénominateur commun mis en musique. Chaque note, chaque mot, chaque beat est mesuré, calculé au millimètre pour que rien ne dépasse, que rien ne puisse heurter qui que ce soit et que tout le monde y trouve son compte. Résultat : tout se ressemble, tout est prévisible, tout sonne faux, en particulier les émotions que les pleurnicheries de Chris Martin tentent en vain (mais avec beaucoup d'insistance) de nous arracher... La production, qui se veut majestueuse, est surtout un sommet du pop-rock pompier, certes parfaitement calibré pour les stades, mais sans la moindre once d'originalité ou de prise de risque. Alors c'est sûr, c'est pas fatiguant, c'est pas éprouvant, c'est même pas déroutant... mais que c'est chiant ! Même les tubes n'ont pas une mélodie bien trouvée ou une idée un peu différente pour se démarquer ou simplement marquer... Un encéphalogramme plat. Top : A Rush of Blood to the Head Flop : Daylight
Coldplay more like hard work
Shitty Radiohead the Musical
Repetitive. With some of the most basic bland drumming I’ve ever heard.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Nah
Whine, whine, whine. Music predictably builds to a sappy crescendo. Whine, whine, whine, repeat. Fuck this formulaic and performative trash.
Feel like shit this morning and you wanna give me this dogshit to listen to The scientist is decent though
If you had asked me 10 years ago if I liked Coldplay, I would say I did. Somewhere between now and then, they drifted from my awareness and became just another band that I knew existed and that had a few songs I kind of liked. I can't say I thought about them often (except for that kiss cam incident about a year ago) or that I particularly missed them. On top of all that, I had never listened through an entire Coldplay album until I listened to this one. I can't say I enjoyed this experience. This album was a slog, and the songs just don't feel like they have anything to them. Somehow, even the big singles here seem drearier than I remember. I think this is probably an incident of an album not aging very well, but I don't think I would have enjoyed much of this album even if I had heard it as a teenager. Younger me would have been surprised that I am giving a Coldplay album this low of a score, but now I wonder if I will even remember this band at all in another 10 years. Favorite track: "Clocks," despite it reminding me of listening to the radio at my old nursing home job.
Wintergreen-flavoured music for the Rod Flanders in your life. Unflavoured for me!
Holy shit, what a kutmuziek. And Chris just has an awful, deeply umpleasant voice as well
I’ve heard this before. I do not like Coldplay as I have stated earlier. It’s been many years since I last heard this so I’m going in with an open mind. It sounds like the auditory equivalent of eating a damp unflavored rice cake in an entirely beige room. This is flat diet store brand cola, but from that phase when crystal pepsi was a thing. This is a hospital gown. I would respect them more if they were some obnoxious crunkcore band rather than this bland jello mold.
did not like this. Just not for me, 1 star. Very generic pop rock
What’s weird album, there is nothing wrong with it, the production is great, there is some great guitar lines and drumming. But as a whole, it is just so boring!
Sorry, no. This is fucking awful in all the ways.
I do not enjoy Coldplay I dont have time to analyze my reasoning - I just choose to avoid them Please stop suggesting them
Willie Nelson's version of The Scientist was better.
NO NOT COLDPLAY I THOUGHT MY DAY COULDNT GET ANY WORSE AND NOW IT HAS. I guess Clocks and The Scientist are alright but I just really really hate Coldplay it’s all just millennial junk and not the good kind 😭 I’m sure they’re lovely guys though. Music not so much.
I hate the Fucking eagles man
zelfs nummers die goed beginnen weet die zanger compleet onderuit te halen... van de meerderheid echter was dat niet nodig... een plaat even overbodig als Assepoester The Sequel...
This album was so. fucking. boring. This is such a nothingburger. Perfect for those who absolutely obsessed with the self importance of their own melancholic emotions. Coldplay says absolutely nothing of importance. Maybe it’s just me??? Maybe I need to listen to this again under different circumstances?? Fuck, this sucks.
The Coldplay band must be absolutely bored on stage ... that was a really really long 54 minutes.
Coldplay har inte rikrigt blivit ett fullfjärdrat tortyrredskap än, det kommer väl först på nästa platta. Det finns en och annan trevlig melodi mitt i all meningslöshet och "A whisper" brötar t.o.m. på hyfsat rejält. Men det är totalt innehållslöst och närmast provocerande slätstruket. Jag minns inte hur en enda låt låter efter två lyssningar. Det är musik som inte vill nånting eller nånstans. ...och så Chris Martins ursäkt till sång på det
Jag har ganska svårt gör det här med att man av princip ska hata Coldplay och allt vad de gör. Att de står nån mainstream i motsats till ”riktig musik”. För min del är jag ganska likgiltig inför Coldplay. En band jag inte direkt bryr mig om. Med det sagt tar jag mig an skivan rätt förutsättningslöst. Hitsen känner man igen. Inser vid lyssning att de precis som övriga låtar på albumet är väldigt menlösa. Det tar liksom aldrig någon fart. Dels ligger det i produktionen, dels sången. Stephen Hawkings hade sjungit med mer inlevelse än Chris Martin. Att det finns gott om folk som gillar Coldplay stör mig inte ett dugg. Utifrån det här albumet är jag inte en av dessa. Inget mer med det.
Coldplay har två album i boken. Debuten har jag redan fått slumpat till mig. Coldplay är verkligen muskens motsvarighet till att titta på färg som torkar. Det händer ingenting. Då är ändå detta betydligt roligare än debuten. Jag antar att det är fräsigare kulör. Men det är fortfarande färg som torkar.
Tried gritting my teeth and getting through a listen whilst cooking dinner. Couldn't do it. Lasted three and a half tracks. I feel as though Coldplay make music for people who don't really like music but have to put something on so they can be seen to be participating in the act of enjoying normal people music. Background noise for accountants and real estate agents engaging in courtship. That kinda thing.
No
Kut
This band is a one hit wonder band, they make singles that are the definition of, and surround it with backwash. Only reason this is on this list is they are at the pinnacle of late 90's early 00's alterna-arena bands that made ballad like one hit wonder singles. That said, I looked up the plays, and noticed The Scientist actually has more plays than Clocks? Wild! I wonder why that is. Coldplay being on this list is one of many reasons it's tiresome to follow it. They are taking a spot from contemporary classics not represented here like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcachofa_(album)
2000s Imagine Dragons and just as good too.
Pish for wishywashy people
There's been some bad albums on this list. Then there's been some VERY bad albums on this list. Besides that, there's been some audible garbage juice on this list. However, we're not talking about any of those categories with this album. This album ventures into uncharted territory - the only territory that makes me wish I could give zero-stars (or even 0.5 stars) to an album. The territory that blurs the line between music and music-shaped noise. This is the territory where Coldplay was manufactured and where it continues to live when it's not on a tour that's so boring that old white people have to expose themselves for being shitty old white people for the entire world to see in order to add any excitement - manufactured as it may be - to this medically induced coma in music form. Coldplay's "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" caused a rush of blood *from* my head when it bored me to sleep and I banged my head on the corner of the desk on my way down. 0/10 would not recommend.
Please god not Coldplay.
Few bands provoke my ire like Coldplay. I don't just hate their music, I think I might genuinely hate the members as people. I don't know any of them personally, obviously, so I guess I can't say that for certain. But, I suspect that anyone who can create such banal and tepid bullshit at such a consistent rate is probably the type of person that I would hate...and I actively try not to hate anyone. What I'm saying is that I don't think this type of garbage comes out of a vacuum; this music is so shitty that it must originate from people who are just as shitty as the music they're creating and assaulting us with. Their music is so abjectly terrible that I take personal offense at Coldplay's existence as a band. What a bunch of insufferable pussies Coldplay is. I believe that everything they've ever written just reeks of insincerity. Everything they write feels like sadboy, pseudo-intellectual posturing designed with the sole intention of getting undiscerning women wet in the trousers with mock emotion. They're like the band equivalent of the guy who shows up at the party to orbit vulnerable women, hoping that they'll find someone desperate enough to cry on their shoulder. What baffles me is that people keep buying this tripe. I think that's why I might hate Coldplay as people: with every album released, they chip away at my hope for humanity, and it starts to feel really personal. 1/10
i hate coldplay with a passion (i didn't listen)
Got home, lay on my bed. Dragged Coldplay through my head Found my way to the past and had toke And somebody spoke I went into a scream Grabbed my soul, grabbed my hat Stopped playing in seconds flat I'd love to turn...you....offf......
I just dont like Coldplay!
Started off ok, but this is so dull. Impossible not to zone out.
A nivel musical y sonoro es un sonido agradable no muy lejos de lo normal. No es mi estilo, no se si se me antojaria escuchar este album por ese factor. Personalmente me atrae desde el lado de que ese sonido Coldplay tan caracteristico, eso debo decir, lo asocio directamente a mi novio y a los primeros meses. Melancolia tierna, amor. Likes: The scientist - Daylight
song I didn't dislike: the scientist whiny, bland, boring 20/100
Boring.
God I really fucking hate Clocks. It's not even that bad a song, but it's not that good a song either and I had a friend in college that way overplayed it. The rest of the album also sucked. I don't really like Coldplay. Moving on. Best song: In My Place
How many more Coldplays are there in this challenge? :'( I say like Nick Cave: “Music should risk failure. Otherwise it’s just product.” Coldplay = product
Me aburrió tanto que lo dejé al tercer tema.
If you gave up on U2 because you found them too humble and self-deprecating, then this is the album for you! Radiohead wannabes who seem to have genetically engineered VERY IMPORTANT anthemic songs for 90,000 people to sing along with at Wembley. Not a single spark of life or energy anywhere, the songs just lie there, waiting to be played under the credits of a b-grade American police procedural. Coldplay rode the inoffensive train straight down the middle of the road to become, for one brief shining plastic moment, the biggest band in the world, so clearly they knew what they were doing. But there's no excuse for it.