Parachutes

if you can somehow detach the insufferable cunt that is chris martin from the music then shiver is quite a good track and the album has very good production values. that being said, it is actually impossible to detach the insufferable cunt that is chris martin from this album. so rather than enjoy it you sit there fuming at how much of an insufferable cunt chris martin is and how he is somehow profitting from me having to listen to this album. what a cunt. even a mental new age hippy who sells twat candles that smell of her minge thinks he's a cunt, thats probably because he is an insufferable cunt. i'd be happy for this to be lower than lennon. yeah, you read that right.

I thought this band received an unfair amount of hate and I was wrong

Anyone who thinks Coldplay are a shit band is a fucking idiot. I would suggest they should go have a long hard look in the mirror. Yes their later more recent releases have been sub par but there are a thousand other bands who've milked it just the same (U2) without copping the hate that Coldplay have. This album is perfect. Shiver, Yellow, High Speed all obvious highlights. Everything's Not Lost is a killer closing track as well.

Instant groan. I never got into coldplay, they always seemed like a lame Radiohead rip off. I've gotten into countless arguments about this band, but I don't think I've ever heard an entire album. Every song is pretty solid. I need to get over my knee jerk reaction to some bands.

For all the grief Coldplay catches, this album does a good job of illustrating WHY they became so popular that they also became a punchline for BEING popular. Damn, it's a really good album - well-crafted, song after song - and good to have a reason to listen to it and remember what the fuss was about.

Music for bedwetters.

I prefer beige Coldplay to technicolour rainbow ft. Rhianna Coldplay. This is going to get hammered on here, but it's alright. Unspectacular and uninspiring, but alright.

Is it still socially acceptable to admit you like Coldplay? I'd give this album 6 stars if i could.....

A stunning debut! Very calming for the soul. I had already heard this previously.

i do not care, i fuckin love coldplay

We love Coldplay, don't we folks? The critical world (read: Pitchfork) has always panned these lads but I enjoy their music. This album contains "Yellow," which is one of my favorite tunes from them. I like this album a lot because it doesn't sound like they're trying for some big radio sound, they are just making good music. Perhaps that's the beauty of a debut, Coldplay before they were big. Plenty of great songs on here, I wouldn't mind some more Coldplay albums! Favorite tracks: Yellow, Trouble, Sparks, Everything's Not Lost, Shiver Album art: I've always loved this one for it's simplicity. Great font, great contrast, and a globe spinning way too fast. And look, the globe is all yellow! 4/5

Trash. Pure and utter trash. I hate this and Coldplay with an intense, burning passion. I would wipe the existence of Coldplay off the face of the Earth if I could. I wish I could give this horse shit zero stars.

I don't care how many people want to trash Coldplay. This album is fucking awesome. Eat a dick, haters.

The best thing about Chris Martin is that he named his kid Apple and apples are the natural toothbrush. British people are famous for their teeth. I’ve heard many times, but don’t know if it’s true or not that the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia because if it was invented anywhere else it would’ve been called the TEETHbrush. (I bet the same myth persists in the EU too but they replace West VA with Britain when they tell it.) Anyhow, the only thing I like more than Parachutes is a Rush of Blood to the Head which probably happens when you ‘chute doesn’t open or when you forget to pay rent, bounce a check or get your car towed for having too many parking tickets, which was my life until I listened to ‘chutes. I’m a huge fan of this album, classified as "adult contemporary" music. After the first listen I was hooked and discovered I was now an ‘adult'. :( Big bummer. This meant that I’d have to stop eating fast food and sleeping late and start opening the mail and start paying bills on time. But there was a huge upside… all this new music that I could explore and immerse myself in. I’m talking Matchbox 20, Dildo, Rob Thomas and Josh Groban to name a few. Soon after the first listen I became one of those people that drives to work singing in their cars, tucking t-shirts into my jeans and checking food nutrition labels at the grocery. It was a long road, but now, 20 years later, I still like the subtle distortion and that sexxy voice of Chris Martin. After Rush of Blood, my affinity for the band waned, and I found myself relapsing occasionally to listen to Fugazi. However, this album made an impact and I’m proud to say that I haven’t gotten a parking ticket since. Thank you Coldplay.

This is a strange one - looking through the reviews I don't think I've seen a more polarising album. All 1s or 5s. I've tried to listen to it neutrally, and will give it a 3. There are some OK hooks, but generally it is pretty bland.

one of the best albums. really good songs and refreshing to hear them after so long. they were a part of my childhood and for that theyre something special

i dont understand how anyone can be moved by this uninspired and tedius musical exhalation

On the plus side only 40 minutes long, and no one else came in to the office today so there was no going postal - but dear god what a bunch of turgid shite

Chris Martin's falsettos make me want to chop off my ears...

The ultimate nostalgia trip. You know that feeling when you hear something you haven't heard in a while, and all you can think about is how different life was back then? That's this album.

Parachutes deserved the accolades it received because it followed the general rule when introducing decent pop songs: keep the emotion genuine and real. And Coldplay did that without hesitation.

Beautiful album

Sehr gut. Hat mir sehr gefallen! Coldplay kennt man ja, aber ein ganzes Album hab ich noch nie gehört.

Still love this album

I've avoided listening to a Coldplay album for this long, and I was right to do so. So boring.

Wish I could wipe this from my memory. Would give this shit zero stars

Not a cool album to love…. But once upon a time Coldplay could really make music. This very much reminds me of days gone by!

Perfect! Great album, with a lot of fresh sounds

Parachutes is 90s pop/rock essential. Chris Martin sounds great and there are plenty of catchy hooks and memorable lyrics on this record

This is a solid musical album. Personally this is my favorite Coldplay album. Hard to not give this 5 stars.

Mellow. Beautiful.

I know it, I love it. Automatic 5 for me.

The only thing I ever think when I listen to music is “could I play this song and if so when and where and what would I need to do it?” I’ve heard Yellow probably 200 times and it’s still a good song. Trouble feels exactly like me. I really love this album, but I feel lame and white for liking it so much. We talk about liking things as an innocuous process, but it feels political. Kyle Stedman makes a good point though. This is private listening and liking. So I can cut myself some slack.

Loved it. So soothing.

Fav: Spies, Sparks, Everything's Not Lost

Very pleasant, professional and well made. Good opening 6 tracks, Yellow and Trouble are classics, but tails off a bit in second half. Enjoyable overall, but the generic/unspecific lyrics and song titles makes it all feel a bit superficial.

The opening 2 tracks are nice. Not wild, not provacative, just nice. Yellow is basically the album but in miniature. Everything's Not Lost is a great closer.

Boring brit pop rock, I don't get the love and I necessary don't get the hate either. Although whiney falsetto vocals get's a bit tiresome after one song, let alone a full album. Thankfully I slept though most of it.

Второе худшее из того, что слышал в рамках списка. И эта отвратительность... она не в раздражительности. Она в пустоте. А точнее в пустоте, позиционирующей себя как глубину. Да, я могу прослушать новый для себя по звучанию арт- альбом и также ощутить поначалу пустоту и неприятие. Но мне хватит свести 2 и 2, чтобы прийти к выводу, что я что-то не понимаю. Тут же ничего непонятного вроде бы и нет. Пустые аранжировки, пустые вокальные партии, пустые тексты. Музыка, которую будто слушаешь в примерочной торгового центра. Звуковые обои. Да, может и компетентнее оценивать альбом как вещь-в-себе, в отрыве от реалии. Тогда да, могу попытаться найти приятные мотивы, припевы, которые мог бы напевать... Но зачем? Думаю, избавившись от подросткового роцкодрочерства я ныне везде что-то хорошее могу найти. Shivers вот вполне приятная. И что теперь, единицы никому не ставить? Думаю, всё же имею право их ставить тому, где могу найти что-то хорошее... но при этом ненавижу всей душой. А тут этот случай. Задаюсь вопросом, откуда пошла эта тема с безпозвоночными слюнявыми группами с серьёзным лицом напевающих какую-то попсовую унылую хуйню. Хотелось бы назвать их, но они настолько безлики и вездесущи, что даже не откладываются в сознании. Где начало. У меня познания невелики, но почему-то всегда на роль источника претендовал Колдплей. Для меня именно подобный кал и испоганил рок-музыку. При господстве гранжа и альтухи такой хуйни вроде не было. Про них можно что угодно говорить, но они играли с настоящим чувством и верили в то, что продвигают. Этот же кал настолько безэмоционален, пресен и неискренен, что я иногда начинал сомневаться, не ирония ли это. Нельзя же всерьёз петь о любви, как будто хочешь скорее домой пойти. Не, пускай этот альбом будет в 1001 альбоме, что нужно послушать. Но не чтобы насладиться, а чтобы ужаснуться от массового безвкусия. Чтобы услышать звук безликого капитализма, вырождающегося общества потребления.

Come on, I already know I’m gonna give it a 5 :) They sound so much more like a folk rock band than they do now. Sparks kind of reminds me Elliott Smith.

5/5 - the beginning...

I love this album - and I think it's notable and hopefully accurate to mention this doesn't sound much at all like what Coldplay became, for better or worse. I suppose in my case for the better, as this is a relatively raw moody rock band utilizing dynamics and haunting open chords (Coldplay's work after their 2nd album is - for me - far too dense/overproduced). I recall a friend recommending this album to me soon after its release, calling it "early-Radiohead-lite" which isn't a terrible comparison. The 4 piece organic band construction works so well on every song on this album - the fantastic guitar lines with heavy emphasis on delays/reverb are a great contrast with the relatively dry vocals. "Shiver" was and is still my favourite track from this collection - aggressive and delicate at different points, just a tremendous song. "High Speed" and "Spies" are other huge standouts. "Yellow" is of course the big single from the album and i'm not as crazy about it, but it's still damn catchy - everything on the album is a great example of the best of ~early 2000s era melodic guitar rock. It's not *quite* perfect (but few are) - the last two songs for me drag just a little bit - but in the end it's the rare album that you can play top to bottom without a thought to skipping or wishing a song was over. 9/10 5 stars.

Somehow this guitar-driven pop rock is the best Coldplay has ever done. I really dig their early sound. This might be the cornerstone pop-rock record, full of melancholy, nostalgia and iconic hooks. This probably inspired half of my countries (Latvia) older pop-rock roots. On the second part it gets kind of dull and similar though. Other than that, pretty good album.

Great album to clean your apartment to. Never been a big fan but it's good background music.

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can’t trust them Jez

Overall, I like a lot of their songs. However, their songs don't have a tremendous amount of range or variety to them. When they're good, they're very good. The rest of the time they are very generic.

Aaahhhh I really got hooked by this one. Really not typically into Coldplay but I definitely got swept up in the music and the tones and production along the way. The second half of the album was better and convinced me to go back for a second listen. I still enjoyed it but have to admit that it's really flat lyrically and not much substance at all. Just really easy to get caught up in, which makes for good Pop music. I'll say 3.5 since they got me but go with an actual 3 since I know better.

Of course it's ridiculous to compare this band to the best in history, but that doesn't mean they're bad. This is a perfectly competent debut album. Best track: Yellow

A fairly inoffensive post-Britpop debut which offered almost no clues about the horrors these guys were subsequently to inflict upon the world. Two decades now and their utterly unfathomable superstardom shows no signs of abating. Just as mystifying to me as the appeal of populism.

Great album from start to finish

Album art: 5

Tuve este álbum pirata cuando era broca cochi, me encantaba. Sigo sintiendo que es lo mejor de Coldplay, es un disco suavecito pero lleno de atmósfera tranquila.

Such a good album from start to finish. Old school Coldplay is some of the best

I love this album. I bought it when it first came out and thus became an early fan of the new band Coldplay. The warm and immersive guitar, the soft vocals… every song is wistful and soothing and evokes a gentler time.

This album feels like how crying feels, carthartic It makes me feel like my childhood years when I had a crush, almost like butterflies in my stomach Its so beautiful. This is why I like 1001 albums because I would never in my life had thought "Today I'll listen to a Coldplay album" and discovered this I wish I knew how to express myself about this album but all this album is to me can only be felt by unexplainable emotions

Well, I myself can detach Cris Martin from the music... I’ll tell you why, not all of us come from the same place, not all of us are so aware of the public life of the artist, not all of us are here for something else than the music, I’ll tell you even more: there was a time at the beginning of the century in which us, the millennial teens were watching MTV and found this beautiful 3 songs in the programing: Don’t Panic, with its cartoonish innocent video, Trouble, with those two different videoclips the second of which was sort of an urban legend and of course that amazing, straight to the heart, one take video (a gimmick we know) of a beautiful song called “Yellow”. Yes, it’s been 22 years for us to see how they didn’t live up to the expectations, yes we all wish they kept doing soulful music instead of a feature single with the most generic popstar available every other week, but none of that can take away what this album felt like at first, because yes, to spite of all those art revisionists, the first feel is often the most valuable thing you can get from art. I was all about nu metal at the time, but I still recall finding something special on this record. I was aware of the Radiohead comparisons but damn did Yellow meant something to me, “for you Id bleed myself dry” damn and damn. But what would be my surprise that upon hearing the full album that would not be my favorite song, no, right before that one it would come that amazing song asking “did I drive you away?...” soulful AF, now that’s a song I will never get tired of. “sparks”; and don’t get me started on the closing of the record everything’ not lost. Great music. I saw them play stadiums, arenas and theaters back then, I was by myself the only time I heard “Sparks” live but it was worth it. I wasn’t planning to see them live this summer but my girlfriend insisted, it’s not the same experience as there are a lot of lazy written-to-be-a-hit fillers now but they still can do a good show. I have a capitol press of the vinyl and the Parlophone one, the first is shit and the second one could be better. I would not recommend their later stuff but I would always do it with this one. Life is for living, and I don’t want to live it alone :)

I know Coldplay divide people but I love them. Best concert ever.

"Look at the stars, look how they shine for you!" Estoy seguro que mucha gente reconoce esta frase, aún si no les gusta Coldplay. Este fue el primer disco de Coldplay que escuché, y como comenté en la reseña de 'A Rush of Blood...', considero que representa al estilo del nuevo milenio. Musicalmente más relajado, con un buen toque de melancolía. Un gran álbum para escuchar en un día lluvioso.

One of the best coldplay album imo. I still like their latest ones, but the first ones were really better

It might be fashionable to deride Coldplay, but there's a reason they became one of the biggest bands in the world. Great melodies sitting over well structured songs, beautiful sounding guitars (I'm a fan of delay and modulation effects used tastefully), plenty of dynamic range.

"Trouble" is the stand-out track for me. The piano is hauntingly beautiful. The song is excellent for reasons that I am not able to fully articulate. Yellow is also great, but its hardly new or exciting for me. It has over 2B listens on Youtube Music alone. You'd have to have been living under a rock for the past 20+ years to have not heard it. Spies also started to grow on me over the course of the day and multiple listens. Overall the album is quite excellent for a debut/freshman album from the band. The songs flow together really well. My one critique is that there's really no songs that bump up the tempo or ever really get more aggressive in their approach to music making. What I mean is that there's nothing to punctuate the slow, mellow songs; there's never any sense of building and building and building until release, and so while the music is quite enjoyable, I could see the replay value decreasing over time due to the lack of variety in the songs. My comparison would be to that of Radiohead, where they punctuate their slow mellow songs with aggressive upbeat shredding songs to improve the variety of the music. I never got all of the hate for Coldplay. Probably just being overplayed? Or maybe it just fun to hate on them in the same way it's fun to hate on Nickelback?

Listen to "Yellow" while looking out of the window as the sun sets on July 18th 2017 while sipping lukewarm Fanta at a summer resort in southern Croatia, then tell me that Coldplay was never good.

not really sure what everyone's problem is with coldplay. some gorgeous songs on here favorites: shiver, we never change, and obviously sparks

The first album that I have listened to numerous times! (not front to back though, so this is still interesting) Beautiful melodies on all the tracks, Chris Martin is also exceptional, I think one of the first time I heard him was on Homecoming from Kanye's Graduation (probably my favourite album of his by the way) and I've definitely been a fan ever since. I know there are only 10 songs here, but it's crazy how there's not a single bad/mediocre track here, every song's a banger. I love the blissful, happy, mellow energy so much. In terms of themes/subject matter it's a pretty simple and easy album, but it's not like that's a bad thing. Honestly Chris Martin could probably sing about what he had for breakfast and It would still be good lol. I've decided to read the lyrics of each song as I'm listening to it, just so I wouldn't miss anything, and that has definitely made me appreciate music more. The heartbreak on "Shiver", running away from your fears and weaknesses on "Spies", etc. The tracks are all beautiful and sad, but kind of hopeful at the same time. It really works really great in my opinion. I thought I should also mention the album cover, since that's an essential part of a lot of albums. I really like the brown/yellow colour, the warm toned down hue is great and really portrays the feel of the whole album. I'm not really sure what the circle itself is, but that's not super important I guess (looks like a spinning globe of some sort) I've gotten to Yellow and Trouble, the two songs I've favourited a fair time ago probably. Happy to announce that they're still great and make me feel really great! Can't help but notice that there are a lot of love themed songs here, definitely something I can relate to haha. "For you I'd bleed myself dry" sounds edgy on paper, but comes off really beautifully in the song, awesome songwriting on all the tracks here. Also, "Trouble" is nuts!!!! such a pretty song. "They spun a web for me". "Everything's not lost" what a beautiful way to end the album. I can definitely see myself coming back to this if I'm feeling down or sad. As I said before, not a single bad or boring track on here; and while it is pretty simplistic I still love and adore it. an easy 9/10 in my opinion (keep in my mind I'm rating all of these in a vacuum, since I haven't listened to any other Coldplay albums front-to-back before). Favourite songs: actually most of them, but Yellow and Trouble are still my favourites!

Classic Coldplay sound. Its interesting how much they were going for a more alternative sound in the beginning especially in their first 3 songs. It was a good listen and I'll have to listen to Shiver and Spies one more time because they gave me that airy Coldplay sound that I love to listen to!

"Parachutes" is the debut album by British rock band Coldplay. Alternative rock, post-Britpop, indie rock and soft rock are the Wiki-listed genres. OK. The album was produced by Ken Nelson, Chris Allison and the band. And the band is Chris Martin (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboard), Jonny Buckland (electric guitar, vocals, piano), Guy Berryman (bass) and Will Champion (drums, percussion, backing vocals). The album had commercial success reaching #1 in the UK and #51 in the US and was mostly well received critically. "Don't Panic" opens the album. Acoustic guitar, drums and weary vocals by Martin. Buckland's electric guitar is going up and down the scales. A nice guitar solo and layered vocals. "Shiver" is much faster at the start with a harder edge guitar. The song slows down. Martin shows his falsetto. Wow, there's a lot of Jeff Buckley influences in the vocals and song structure. A good song though. And speaking of good songs, a melancholic acoustic guitar begins "Yellow" which goes to, at this point, that classic guitar riff. Pretty straight-forward vocals and lyrics as Martin sings about undying selfless love as yellow is the brightest color. Martin brings out his emotional vocals and relationship honesty in "Trouble;" he sings about the stupid things he's done to his girlfriend. Piano and slow drums. This album is alright. Coldplay has always been one of those bands I've never sought out or really hated. The influence of Jeff Buckley is evident in the musical tone, vocals and lyrics (being mostly about relationships). The music can be slow and I admit to losing attention several times. Overall, the album has several decent songs (the ones mentioned in the previous paragraphs) with the rest being just OK to me.

Pretty good

Coldplay frustrate. They are able to craft and perform some nice music but seem afraid to push into the unknown like their influences and contemporaries. They may occasionally flirt with unique ideas, but will rarely, if ever, surprise the listener opting instead to pull back and stay safe. This has been my response to Parachutes. It is a good album from start to finish but it lacks creativity and ends up falling flat in places. It is frustrating because you can hear the possibility of whatever is lacking below the surface but it never quite comes to fruition. I do, however, enjoy the second half of the album a bit. From the song Trouble, to the record's closing "hidden track", Life Is For Living, each song in this set seems to function as moody personal reflection which shows a certain level of authenticity and vulnerability. These two qualities, coupled with some earnestness, might explain this debut's lasting appeal among fans. However, if the band had discovered what they needed to be more interesting and unique, then I would gladly rate this album higher.

If you can somehow forcefully erase all Coldplay from your memory and decontextualize it, it's a pretty decent album. Inoffensive and entertaining.

Not really familiar with much except Yellow and Trouble. Very much a “nap friendly” album. Wouldn’t throw it on a Friday night before the bar but not bad either

Why does every song sound the same? Sort of a sad, melodic journey. Blech.

Listening to Coldplay is like fucking with a limp dick - whilst to a casual observer it may look fun and interesting, actually everybody involved gets angry, frustrated and upset, and if you tell your friends about it they will laugh at you. This JUST scrapes 2 stars, because it's not actually really bad and offensive, but by the christ it is close. It is so bland and humdrum, Chris Martin has an annoying voice, and that fucking song about spies coming out of the water, but you can't touch them because they are spies is nearly as bad as Cars Are Cars by Paul Simon.

Risk-averse Radiohead.

The love for Coldplay on this site is fucking WILD. This is bland muzak for people who found David Gray a bit too edgy. So lacking in character I can't feel enough feelings to hate it. The argon of the pop world.

I'VE JUST HAD THIS ALBUM. IT IS FUCKING MINGING. PARACHUTES PUNCH LEMONADE. IT IS FUCKING MINGING. SUCK YOUR DAD

I thought Coldplay gets way more stick than what they actually deserve, so I tried to approach this with an open mind. Was not familiar with their debut as X&Y (2005) was their first record I gotten into - and particularly liked as a teen. In theory, Parachutes (2000) should be working really well: as Britpop was clearly losing momentum by the end of the 20th century, Coldplay was trying to find a new way of building upon this legacy - the massive commercial success of this album clearly indicates they succeeded in doing so. But for God’s sake, this is such a boring album, with most of the songs sounding frustratingly stale - watered down guitars and generic piano bits everywhere. In a way, I think Parachutes may be responsible for pioneering this new era of white-middle-class-men making risk-averse music under the pretence of being a rock band: while they fill arenas and sell out stadiums, they just don’t have much to say about the world. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think popular music should always be clever or meaningful in particular, but if the music itself lacks some excitement in the first place, at least try making up for it by saying something relatable about the era you’re living in. Or women. Maybe, this is just how the early 2000s was. To be fair, I also remember myself being quite bored at the time.

Shame it exists.

I'd rather wash my genital area with a wire brush and bleach everyday for a month over listening to this.

As soon as I saw Coldplay, I audibly groaned. I read some positive reviews to hype me up, but alas, I cannot stomach it. One reviewer said if you're going to hate on Coldplay, you have to extend that hate to other similar bands, like U2, and lemme tell ya buddy, I SURE DO. They are on the same level of abso-fucking-lutely not in my house.

Coldplay makes music for wankers. It's like Wish.com Radiohead. Chris Martin is the chief executive wanker. The only time I enjoy Coldplay is when another artist covers them (see: Aimee Mann or Willie Nelson covering The Scientis ... absolute baner). There's just something so inherently drab about every note these guys play that makes even decent music on paper turn to shite as soon as it comes out of them. Standout Tracks: Yellow (and only for nostalgia sake, because it's the first song I ever heard by them and thought, "hey this is cool!" until I heard the rest of their mediocre drivel)

Tried a couple of tracks but feared for my algorithm too much and binned it

Ugh.... Just because something sold by the millions does not mean it is an important album. Robson and Jerome sold millions of albums too, enough said

Sucked when it came out. Sucks in 2024. Boring mono tone songs with overly nasal vocals. Lyrical content is sad and Grey and boring. Every song uses the same structure. Waste of time to listen to.

Modern classic, britpop perfection. Wish Coldplay hadn’t forgotten how to make this kind of music.

Yellow will always be one of my absolute favorite songs. The rest of the album is just okay, but I’m giving 5 stars just for Yellow.

easy 5, one of my favorite albums of all time! it’s just fantastic all around. this is the coldplay i love the most. yellow is one of those songs i simply haven’t gotten tired of yet through all these years. mainly because i truly love the original sound of it. it’s kind of alt rocky and that guitar riff is the best part about it. just never gets old to listen to. sparks is really, really nice to play on acoustic guitar. and while listening to this for the millionth time i now want to learn the short title track, parachutes. i also see the weird coldplay hate shines through in the review section. i’ve never understood it, but then again i don’t understand humans.

My favourite album from Coldplay. When they had some soul. Ruined everything after their third album.

This was a surprisingly great album. I never thought to look at their older work. I think Shiver, Spies, and High Speed were my favorites. Have to listen again.

Love it it's a lot of songs I've cone across on the radio

Great album

"Don't Panic" klinkt nog steeds fantastisch. "Shiver" was ik een beetje vergeten, ook behoorlijk goed. Beetje jammer dat het zwakke "Spies" zo'n beetje het langste nummer is. "Sparks" kende ik op de een of andere manier niet, ook heel mooi. Geldt ook voor "Yellow" en "Trouble" natuurlijk, maar die vallen weer in de categorie te vaak gehoord. Goed, daar kan Coldplay niks aan doen. "High Speed" ook goed hoor. Net als "Everything's Not Lost". Hoe kan het zo mis zijn gegaan met deze band? Al met al echt een absurd goede verzameling nummers. Ik heb ze rond het uitkomen van dit album live gezien in een van de kleinste tenten op Lowlands met maar een paar honderd bezoekers. Als je dit album hoort, kun je je eigenlijk niet voorstellen dat ze toen al niet op het Alpha-podium stonden. Vooruit, vijf sterren, al was het maar omdat ik net zie dat Pitchfork het een 5,3 heeft gegeven.

So good

Honestly, forgot how great this album is. Musically, but also emotionally. First 5 of the project

Great album. Really draws you in to their sound.

Nothing but straight heat I can't put into words how much I wish all of Coldplay died in a plane crash after the first two albums, people talk about the Radiohead influence in this album but I hear so much Jeff Buckley too, yeah sorry this is banger after banger I love you early Coldplay

4,5 (i've listened 4 times now, I really like this) I've been looking forward to this. Coldplay have been on my listen-to-list for ages. A controversial band, loved and hated. I know the hits: Viva, paradise, yellow, sky full of stars, but have never gotten around to listen thoroughly and make my own opinion. Although I have a lot of respect for Chris Martin as a human being, pop-cultural influencer and songwriter. So much radiohead inspiration here, that's cool. But still in a pop setting. It's more like sob rock. Like doesn't "High Speed" and "We Never Change" sound so much like "Subterranean Homesick Alien"? And isn't that song a homage to Bob Dylan's "Sub. Homesick Blues"? So it goes Bob Dylan -> Radiohead -> Coldplay I wonder who Bob was inspired by for that song. And when i'll make my entré onto that list haha. It's very pop, but just enough of the alternative to call it something else. I also love how it's holding back from going "all-in" on full pop. Like they are probably very young here and are very aware about not being too mainstream at this point haha. Love the simple rockband setting. Like it's just drums, bass, electric, acoustic and his vocals. Oh, and the backingvocals are so good. I think this album is very influential. It feels like this album has shaped so much pop rock in the 21st century, especially in the 2000's: Maroon 5, The Script, The Fray, Snow Patrol and all that sobby raspy male voice stuff. It's almost perfect that it was released in the year 2000. Love the coverart. And how the title track is only 40 seconds And that there is a ghost track. Love stuff like that. I'm giving it 5 (would give it 4,5), for grapping my attention so much, and because I feel like I will listen to this a lot. Favorite tracks: Don't Panic Sparks Yellow High Speed We Never Change Fun fact: Coldplay is number 6 most streamed the last 28 days right now. Just checked. I had no idea that they still are this big. That's crazy.

Always a favorite. Brilliant, sad, well made

I loved this one when it was new. You could release this today and it would be a massive hit all over again.

Didn't even have to listen to know it's a 5...but I listened anyway because it's so good. Personal connections to music can easily outweigh the quality itself, but in this case, it's just so solid. What a way to announce yourselves to the world.

Special guest reviewer says: epic sometimes minor key melancholy without causing pain, Yellow is a headbanger. Better than the White Album. So good.