Reviews (page 12 of 14)
An accomplished debut and a strong precursor to Rush of Blood... Two great songs in Yellow and Trouble, two pretty good songs in Sparks and Everything’s Not Lost, with some okay filler between.
I listened to Coldplay twice do I get a medal
It's alright, I guess. Very boring and forgettable, but not the worst thing in the world.
Buen disco debut de Coldplay. El inicio es muy bueno con Don't Panic y Shiver aunque después se cae. Lo mejor es la mitad con Yellow y Trouble, aunque después se vuelve a caer. 3.5 estrellas que bajan a 3 ya que las canciones que no menciono, aunque no son malas, si desaparecen creo que nadie se quejaría. Songs: Trouble, Yellow, Don't Panic, Shiver
Fine-ish, always thought of Coldplay as a singles band. Nothing but Yellow stands oit
Cuando Coldplay era una copia de Radiohead y sonaba hasta interesante.
Soothing. Good listen.
Good, not really my style
Soft, harmless pop, can see why Coldplay became so popular. Ear candy melodies but not much to return to. First half more sonically interesting. 6/10 Best Tracks: Don't Panic, Spies, High Speed
3.5
Good start.
It’s really not that bad, but for some reason I really don’t enjoy it.
I think it's surprising that I wasn't more into Coldplay in high school. Until Viva La Vida I pretty much only knew "Yellow" thanks to a mix tape my dad was commissioned to put together for a close family friend.
Listening to this now doesn't sound as bad as it used to. Still kinda gay, though
Not so bad.
Wouldn't normally throw on a Coldplay album, tend to find them boring after a couple of songs but this was more enjoyable than I expected, forgetting their big singles were on this album. They go a long way for making up for the more tedious songs but even those are well written.
Better than I thought. Couple of great tracks and the rest were well crafted easy listening tunes. Largely forgettable but enough quality in the great tracks to make the album good rather than average.
Would be higher if it was live versions. Some great songs on here... Little bored by the end
Ik heb de hits te vaak gehoord. Beetje sleets. Ze kunnen echt wel wat, maar ik mis de energie.
Another meme-y band that people make fun of because they are good and then got big and mainstream and it became cool to make fun of them. Not exactly my speed, but you can still tell there is talent here and a reason they were big
Track by track emoji review: 😐, 😐, 🥱, 😐, 🟨🙂🟨, 😐, 🥱, 😐, 😐, 😐. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I like coldplay, but this album is not the best one for me
Como no soy antiColdplay (aunque sí me parece que hace mucho que debieron parar), sí me gusta este disco, pero igual tampoco es uno muy querido por mí. Tiene momentos lindos y "Yellow" sí me parece ya un clásico moderno. Por lo demás, nada espectacular, ¿creo? La voz de Chris Martin me gusta. Mi fav: "Shiver". 7/10
Not bad or anything, just insufferably mellow.
honestly, better than I thought. I get why Coldplay got big, they just became so insufferable later on. Feels like a solid 3.5 but I gotta round down as payback for how annoying this band and their fans were during highschool years.
A classic, modern-era pop album. It's not something I'd listen to every day but it does bring back some memories, and, anyway, back in the day it got lots of airplay!
Biased against coldplay?
i'm slightly surprised at not actively wanting to die having listened to this whole thing. i still don't like them much, but this is was more or less ok.
Solid album.
So I love me some heavy radio play pop music, I love a good movie song, I'm not against popular stuff. I just checked and I'm dissapointed the Spice Girls never made this list. But I've never once intentionally listened to a Coldplay song and I know 3/4 of these mediocre, sleep-mood songs. Are they just a more friendly radiohead? I'm so confused. Worst part is they are not bad enough to give a two.
Good background music. Usually not in the mood for something quite as mellow.
Some good songs on here then a bunch of forgettable slow boring stuff too
Good album but not their best
I remember this
This album feels mediocre, and it's hard to understand why it made this list other than a severe recency bias. This album also definitely suffers from having been released the same year as Kid A, which makes Coldplay seem like a version of Radiohead that's safe for Boomers to listen to. It's not bad, it's just not an album that I could imagine telling someone that it's important for them to listen to 3/5
I’ve spent the last 2 days listening to IDLES, so I may have been a bit harsh on this one. It definitely was not the change of pace I was looking for today.
Spotify. Fave song “Trouble”. Ok listen. 3.5 star
Not really my thing, but good none the less.
ok
They're shit these days. Were they shit at this time of period as well? Is this rating based on nostalgia only? Perhaps. But i quite like it.
I've only heard Coldplay's hits and thought it was too mopey, go-nowhere soft rock type stuff for me. So this may be a struggle (or at best, it could be good background music.) Ok, I'll do pros and cons: pros: it's relatively short for an album released in 2000, keeping to the golden 40min or so. the guitarwork is tasty in places, lots of minor key stuff that I don't mind in heavier music or stuff like Oasis. Some of the tracks were pretty dynamic, relatively big changes that created a vibe etc. cons: it's whiny and pretty samey, lots of meandering, introspective, self-indulgent jams. the singing is generic soft voice stuff, can get pretty annoying tbh. probably my biggest criticism is that it sounds like a watered down version of post-rock, which even though it isn't my fav genre, does have its moments. overall: it's better than I expected, but to be a total music snob, it feels more like an entry point for bigger things than any real destination of its own. 3/5 because for what it is, it's competent and once you acclimatise to the vocals it's pretty listenable.
Holy shit. This is my third Coldplay album on this project. I really hope it's my last; I don't understand why this bland music is celebrated through its inclusion not once, not twice, but THRICE on this list. What makes this mid-tier music that was ubiquitous in the early aughts so compelling? It's inoffensive, yet unfulfilling. Boring, same-same, meh white bread music.
how are there two Coldplay albums on this list?
Chris Martin and I share he same birthday so I've always felt connected to Coldplay, but never really listened to their albums. The hits are fine in general and I always thought that there's a world where I'm born five years later and Coldplay takes up the space in my soul that Counting Crows snuck into, but alas, it's just radio friendly sad boy music. I actively hate the song "High Speed" now and long for the days before I heard it. The song Yellow and the fact that Chris and I are b-day buds are the only things keeping this bore-fest above a 1.
Don’t Panic Yellow Trouble
Don’t Panic Shiver
sleepy
Its not offensive at all but i just cant get into it. Its like Radiohead without the constant cresendos and whining Tom York. This should make it a but better but it doesnt.
Oli kyllä liian hempeetä menoa omaan makuun, ei mitään tarttumapintaa.
pass. better than what would come, but still...pass
Состав: ароматизатор брит-поп идентичный натуральному, песни колдплей
It's Coldplay sorry
This is a sensitive emotional boy album but I am just sensitive and emotional in a different way. Highlights: "Shiver", "Sparks", "Yellow"
at first the first few songs I thought that I would like this more than I thought and maybe it’s just the front man that I don’t like because he is a weenie. this would be better as an instrumental album because I do like the band part a little. by the time spark came on I realize the lyrics are pretty bad and by the time yellow came next, which is the song that I did recognize, I realized that they’re just really boring in the lyrics are bad indeed. one word basic song titles. by the time travel came on I realized I just don't like them. then what was up with the song parachutes? That's what the album was named after but it was like 40 seconds of blah. by the end of the album It was pretty hard to get through it. I could see maybe listening to this not voluntarily but if it came on during a snowy day while I was doing some crafting or baking shit I might not turn it when I wasn't paying attention, but it's really music for people who don't like music and people who are not deep so they can feel deep. I could see how this would be influential for those people. it's just very white. in the beginning I was hopeful when it was around four stars maybe even and then I went down to three stars by the end of the two star the last song kind of brought it up a little bit I do like the band sometimes almost I almost like the band music just definitely not the front man and most of the time I actually don't like the band either. I hope this doesn't mess up my algorithm and there's a bonus track how lovely great
Was okay
nah
Why do all these Coldplay songs sound like Coldplay? Yawn. I was singing Yellow before I listened to the album. So, a slightly catchy song. Still boring. These guys were in Shaun of the Dead, probably boring the zombies to death with their music. Yawn. The album cover confuses me, here on this page, it looks like a spinning lit globe of the Western Hemisphere. Yet on Spotify, it looks like the moon. Odd. 2
Just not a Coldplay fan
Probably a Marmite band and realise I should either love or hate them. They don't evoke any response from me at all really though. I didn't mind having this on in the background but can't say I either enjoyed hearing it or needed to switch it off. I've no need to listen again though as I hear Yellow and Trouble on the radio enough and the rest are just boring in the same way songs from other artists like Ed Sheeran are to me. Chris Martin sounded as if he had almost woken up towards the end of Everything's Not Lost. Unfortunately by that time everything was.
So boring, like maybe peak boring (except Turin Brakes and so help me lord if they are on this list I think I may actually quit). Dude can't sing and they haven't got the plug-ins in place to correct that just yet. In fact, this has to be one of the worst produced records on this list. The drums, in particular, are so so terrible, narrow and tinny and so distracting. I get that this was probably made on the cheap, and sounds 'cosy', but I'm pretty sure anyone can mic a drum kit up better than this. Also, anyone can play drums better than this lol. (The guitar on the chorus of 'Don't Panic' and at the start of 'Shiver' is good, so there's that. I think Coldplay as a whole are popular because their music is SO bland and Martin's lyrics so absolutely nothing that you can interpret everything however you want.)
I once heard someone argue that Coldplay is sacred music for secular people and I've never heard a more accurate description.
Not a fan of Coldplay.
not bad just very boring
117. Parachutes - Coldplay (2000) 6.19.26 Variety: 2 Adequacy: 4 Listenability: 3 Uniqueness: 1 Emotionality: 2 = 2.4 rounded down to a 2 "You'd kill yourself for recognition/ Kill yourself to never, ever stop" Coldplay is one of those bands that people LOVE to hate on. And maybe with good reason. As much as I try to avoid celebrity gossip and that kind of junk pop culture, when there's so much of it about certain people, some is bound to seep through. Let's ignore all that though and look at these guys as a musical act. While never near the top of any list of mine, I think it's pretty impossible maintain any sort of shock that they were successful. Their hits at least are all pretty melodically forward, very easy to digest, and aimed squarely at the mainstream. As i get older, I find it harder to dismiss something entirely just because it isn't my cup of tea. At least I find it harder to shit on stuff. I also find it entirely worth my time to at least dip in and take a look at these huge acts that didn't necessarily ever gel with me. Yes, believe it or not, when something leaves a giant pop cultural footprint, it's worth investigating why. That doesn't mean you have to like it, but there's a reason it connected with SO many people. THE TRACKS "Don't Panic" - I had thought the only track I would recognize on here was "Yellow", and had assumed all the other hits had come on later albums. But nope. I remember always reading comparisons to Radiohead and Travis way back when, and I can sort of here it in the focus on melody, the slick production and the incorporation some interesting instrumental swings that recall mid period U2. This is perfectly fine, low key sad boy stuff, and is very hummable. "Shiver" - I'll be damned, another one I recognize. I hear a little more Grandaddy and some Doves in here this time. While it doesn't necessarily bother me, I can see how Martin's voice could grate on some people. He seems to vacillate between lazy, almost slurred delivery and his falsetto for the chorus. This is pretty damn catchy as well. "Spies" - Alright, maybe I have heard this whole thing before? My wife might own this actually, I'll have to check ( she does not - so where have I heard all these?). Starting to see some of the criticism of Martin's vocals. If every song you sing is sung like a love song, are they all love songs? Or are none of them? Maybe I'm confusing the permanently dreamy, just woke up delivery for something it's not. This is very middle of the road, and apart from the nice guitar tremolo, not much here I could find to interest me. Also, the "epic" ending felt very unearned. "Sparks" - Another one I recognize! This was a nice bit of a slow hangovery shuffle. Catchy, and pretty in all the right places. Martin's voice serves this pace a little better maybe. "Yellow" - Woof. Ok. I get it. It's super catchy, and a sing-a-long chorus that seems tailor made for big arena concerts. I can see it. I just hate both Martin's delivery here - it presages the baby-doll, "indie girl" or "cursive" singing that people all complain about nowadays. This is the SAME shit. Also the lyrics are the worst sort of placeholder nonsense. I don't mind dumb lyrics, or even nonsensical ones, but this one gets to me in the same way that Elton John's "Rocketman" does where it all SEEMS to make sense until you pay attention. Is yellow supposed to be the color of those stars? Is it some representation of happiness? I guess smiley faces are yellow? Some flowers are yellow? I don't know, but I tend to think disease and decay, decadence, or even urine when I think of yellow. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Catchy, hooky, good arrangement. Hate the vocals, confused by the message. This is 20/20 hindsight, but the more cynical part of me can also see this as the moment Martin cracked the formula and his eyes briefly turned into cartoon $$s ( or ££s I guess?). His Eureka moment where he discovered the secret of separating millions of wine mom's from $15.98 plus tax. "Trouble" - The hits keep coming I guess. I really thought all this stuff was spread out among 2-3 albums. Another fine arrangement, and a very catchy vocal melody in both the verse, the main piano line, and a sweeping, soaring chorus. Martin seems to have an ok range, so I can't tell if the falsetto he slips into in between even syllables in the same word is a conscious decision of an affect. I think the song would be better without it, but would it be as successful. He's SO EMOTIONAL, you guys - you can really feel it in his delivery! "Parachutes" - Not really worth mentioning other than what a weird choice for your title track to be a nothing of barely an interlude. "High Speed" - Some noodly, much more basic feeling adult contemporary stuff here, more in the mold of a slow motion Dave Matthews. That said, Martin's voice is much more under control here and maintains a mainline feel. I also have heard this one though. Somehow. "We Never Change" - The first real dud on here for me. This one relies almost entirely on Martin and his sub-Nick Drake-isms. There's not much at all going on here instrumentally either. Maybe just a hint of some interesting atmosphere with that echoey twangy "Sleep Walk" guitar. "Everything's Not Lost" - This didn't really work for me either. This felt like a swing into a sort of attempt at a Warren Zevon or Randy Newmanesque 70s, witty piano ditty. Not these guys' strong suit, I have to say. I can imagine this was designed to be the moment the lighters coming out for at the live show. A much better sing-a-long chorus would be needed for that though. Closest thing to a wet fart on this album we've had yet. "Life Is For Living" - The hidden track. Are there any albums from '95-'01 or so that DIDN'T have a hidden track? Or two? "Guys that last track didn't work. We have to out-schmaltz it. TO THE COLD CAVE!" Some sort of weird take on a waltz, this feels less like an outro than a just plain unfinished song, one that also feels well outside their purview. HIGHLIGHTS - "Don't Panic" - "Shiver" - "Sparks" - "Trouble" MIDLIGHTS - "Spies" - "Yellow" - "High Speed" LOWLIGHTS - "We Never Change" - "Everything's Not Lost" - "Life Is For Living" FINAL THOUGHTS I didn't hate this by any means. It was full of a lot of nice melodies, nice production, fine playing, and interesting arrangements. My biggest issues were that it all seemed very self serious and had an aura of "this is important, this means something" that rubbed me the wrong way in the same way that U2's "Rattle and Hum" era stuff did. Martin's vocals also got old pretty fast, and I wish he'd had some more energy on some of these, and had varied his delivery a bit more. Might have to see if I can find any covers that hit me better to verify. I could be wrong though, maybe that just awake at 4Am after a night of heavy drinking voice is more of an integral part of the sound than i want to admit. There just wasn't anything worthy of any hatred, Mild contempt maybe? It's a professional sounding, hook-filled, hit delivery machine. I can look at this in the same way people might have looked at Christopher Cross in the late 70s/ early 80s. Finely crafted music aimed squarely at a particular audience, that was maybe unfairly maligned by the cool kids. Sure, I enjoy a bit of "Sailing" and I won't necessarily kick "Arthur's Theme" out of bed, but by the time "Ride Like the Wind" comes around, I'm a bit weary of the approach. Sure, ALL popular bands are guilty of repeating what works. But the best ones do evolve and provide some variety. Coldplay feels surprisingly fully formed here, and I'm willing to guess I could keep going through their discography without seeing very much development at all. As much as my younger self would hate to admit it, this does not feel like it was undeservedly loved by the masses. At least not in the way that it was baffling or anything. I can totally see why this went down smooth. It's just never was, and remains not my thing. You just won't catch me performatively turning the radio station in disgust or making a snide comment when I hear them. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Those four catchiest ones are worth rescuing, but won't be making it anywhere near my 5-star playlist. FURTHER LISTENING - The Bends by Radiohead - Surfacing by Sarah McLachlan - Urban Hymns by The Verve - The Last Broadcast by Doves - The Man Who by Travis
it's coldplay innit. i've never listened to a full album of theirs before and maybe i'm letting my prejudices get the better of me, but it was exactly what i expected. not much to complain about, but not much that stands out, either. mushy.
Coldplay. Does what it says on the tin.
Similar to most of the Britpop albums I’ve encountered on this list - one good song and the rest is boring, melodramatic BS.
If this album didn’t have Yellow on it to break up the monotony I would have gave it a one star…
Ok album
I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I was that guy who said "everyone who thinks Coldplay is a shit band is a fucking idiot" and instantly blew my brains out. I am writing this review as a spectre to say that anyone who gets that defensive about this four chord piece of overhyped trash should listen to someone do a musical scale and have an out of body experience about how many notes exist. This is the epitome of "it's alright".
look, i'm not a coldplay hater. i really enjoy a few of their songs. i even like their dancey/house turn in the past few years! so please know it isn't coming from a kneejerk place of obligate haterade when i say that this was boring AF. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. if yellow is your big dance number, you've made a dull-ass record
boring af. with each coldplay album i hear, it becomes clear that a rush of blood to the head was a fluke. when YELLOW is the best and most exciting song on your album, something has gone horribly wrong. two stars because it's not actively enraging to listen to. favorites: shiver, yellow
2.5 rounded down to 2 because Coldplay sucks even if this album has its occasional moments.
Thoughts before listening: I think this is the one with "Yellow.". It's fine. Review: Yeah, it's fine is about the best I can give this. "Yellow" is a really good song ("Trouble" is pretty good too), but Coldplay is just so boring to me. Sure there are some anthems here, coming off as clones of just the ballads from Bends-era Radiohead (although "High and Dry" and "Fake Plastic Trees" are much better songs), but the lack of any grit whatsoever just grates on me. I'll give it 2 stars for the anthems I guess.
I’m not sure why they’re so popular This is a no for me
i get why 13 year olds in the 00s might have liked this. it truly is the corporatized, radiohead light product. songs about spies coming out of the water because they are “watching” us. oh and the stars! theyre yellow! did you know??? thats love. competent playing for a band that really liked “ok computer” but specifically the song that sounds like radiohead playing a competent 90s clean guitar rock song. sigh. this band only gets worse from here.
1 song album. Shiver is a great song. The rest is just dull. This band was formed to shift units. There is no depth at all
U2 imitators doing a bad job imitating u2
U2 2 electric boogaloo. I do genuinely like yellow as a song, but it just doesn’t make up for how boring the rest of the album is. If this is the best Coldplay has to offer, I don’t want to hear the rest. 2/5 stars- this better not mess up my Spotify algorithm
n é ruim, mas tb n achei nada bom, mt calminho e sem sal pra mim, uns 2.6 sei lá
Coldplay isn’t my jam
un sueño
4/10 Not a massive Coldplay fan.
More like coldsleep
coldplay... I am in the mood for coldplay once in a blue moon and most definitely a full album Would I listen again: never again, even Yellow lol Deserves to be on this list: what is so good about them??? 2.1
I liked some of the songs "just fine" but really didn't like some of the songs too. The problem is, I didn't like ANY of the songs enough to offset that, hence the mediocre score. It's an "ok" record... very middle of the road pop-rock-y.
Never been a fan
It's yellow, and kinda beige.
17 million copies sold worldwide. Surely 17 MILLION people can't be wrong, can they? Look, I am not saying they are wrong. I'm just saying 17 million people clearly have poor, boring taste. I actually gave this album a full three spins to give it a fair shake. Nope, not for me. 'Yellow' makes me unreasonably angry listening to that whining voice. The good news is there are 9 other songs on this album. The bad news is none of them are any better. Then again none of them are worse either... so theres that.
kinda boring ... tbh , it was okay tho
Music engineered for emotional montages to end the episodes of all the dramas on ABC and CW
This was an annoying listen as a late 90s teen into the alt/indie - Coldplay just took all that was good of that era and toned it down towards britpop to make bland and inoffensive shite for cheating CEOs I was very close to giving this a 1 (especially after Yellow) but there's just a bare glimmer of composition and emotion in Shiver and Everything's Not Lost that brings it just barely over the line
Great sounds and perfect arrangements trying to prop up lacklustre songs with little to say and even less urgency to say it.
Bit dull
I don't really know what to say. It was an okay listen but I wasn't incredibly interested for most of it.
Definitely some good songs, but his voice wore on me over the course of the album.
Oh, what a thing to do And it was all beige 🎵
I don’t know who this is for. There’s some halfway interesting guitar work on a few tracks, and the bass is actually pretty dope, but otherwise this whole record is dull as dishwater. The title track seemed promising, but then it was only a few seconds long. Bummer.
Every element of this just feels kinda lifeless and unmoving. I don't mind listening to it but I wouldn't say I enjoy it either. I can't be bothered to feel strongly about it one way or the other
Don’t really like it, not for me. I don’t even love Radiohead and they do this style way better. I think High Speed is my favorite track.
Rock music for mams. Don’t hate it but it is boring.
tipico coldplay melodico, nada especial, 2/5
couple solid songs. band isn't my fave but doesn't deserve a 1 just bc I'm a hater.
It just feels bland to me.
Zzzzz... This band is a 5-star recommendation if you want to replace your sleeping pills with a homeopathic alternative. Unfortunately, I have to give them only 2 stars, as listening to them basically negated my morning coffee push.
Technically it’s not bad, just a bit boring. Some decent melody’s and such but starts to really drag on with the second half of the album being quite depressing - fucking he’ll just realised it’s only 42 mins, feels a lot longer. Don’t Panic is my favourite song and (not coincidentally) the shortest one
This was a bit of a blast from the past -- my girlfriend bought me this CD in 8th grade (and I was done thinking it was cool or good by the end of 9th grade). It was the kind of album that "rocked" but I could still listen to it in the car with my mom. It sorta sounds like Radiohead if Thom Yorke decided he wanted to write hit songs and date Hollywood actresses. At the time, Coldplay were an unknown group of British balladeers, but within a couple years they would set the template for the next 2 decades of adult contemporary. So, in a lot ways, this album aged badly -- too many other bands sound like this now, and they're all crappy and annoying. Sorry to Chris Martin and co, this is not strictly their fault. But it sure would help their cause if they ever wrote a single song with some teeth.
I remember getting this shortly after the album broke in the US. The Post Cool Britania era was a weird time. Damon was crying on album over Justine. The Gallaghers were too busy fighting to make a decent album. Pulp was Pulp. Then the video for Yellow was everywhere. It seemed Coldplay would slide into that semi Britpop lane. At times it does, but I find it to be mostly Chris Martin sounding sad. Shiver is good, Yellow is still Yellow. The rest? snoozefest. It's all so bland and lacking personality.
It was a total meh
What if Radiohead made adult contemporary music?
2. I think that about sums it up.
If Coldplay has no haters I am dead. I guess I generally prefer this Radiohead knockoff era of theirs to their latter Swedish House Mafia for Mums one but it’s degrees of difference at best. I’d regularly think the opening instrumentation for a track was quite nice only for Chris Martin to open his mouth and ruin the whole thing. That said, Yellow and Trouble were basically UK radio mainstays for most of the 00s and have earned their place as a piece of the furniture. Not good furniture, mind. It’s more like some weird little tchotchke you’ve always known at your grandparents house. Hideous, but to not have it there would be fundamentally wrong.
This is like vanilla pudding. Sure it's fine, but, like... it's vanilla pudding. It's never going to be the best thing you'll eat, and it's bland. You don't go around craving vanilla pudding, you just eat it and move on. (I'm sure there are people that love vanilla pudding. I wonder if they also love Coldplay.) Listening to this album, I can appreciate that it's fine. I can even enjoy it somewhat. But I am never going to be like, "man Parachutes by Coldplay is a great album. I can't wait to hear it again." No, instead it's more of a "that was boring, time to move on." It's just too, dare I say, vanilla, for me to put much energy into. The worst part for me is that there is very little diversity on the whole thing. Almost all the songs are downtempo and similar sounding. That makes it really drag. I feel like the tracks would be better on their own rather than hearing them all together on the album. And that's sort of true, as I recognized plenty of songs on here that I had found fine when hearing them in isolation rather than with the others. So, yeah. Vanilla pudding, in album form. I don't get this as an essential listen. It's fine at best, but really probably a bit below that. Overall: 2.2/5
Didn’t finish it, but heard enough
I find Coldplay exceptionally boring and one dimensional. But not as bad as U2.
4/10
Dad bod rock.
While this didn’t suck as much as I remembered, I cannot understand why it made it on the 1001 list. Solid D+ C- album.
Never listened. Expectations: Low - Verdict: Not for me - I put this off for a while because I wasn't looking forward to it. It's just bland. The earlier Coldplay is supposed to be the the better stuff and I do prefer it to later hits I've heard but there is still a weird corniness to it for me. Every song sounds a little bit like it's from a bad TV programme.
Made a rush of blood to the head seem like a masterpiece. What's worse is it's still probably their 2nd best album
Quite slow, too much for my liking but some good songs and melodies
I think I don't like his voice all that much. Kinda boring then he screeches
Okay, fine, I'll listen to Coldplay. I'd really rather not though, so thanks! It's fine if you're into it I guess; it's just tepid and bland for me.
Had our one. Don’t need this.
the songs are nice i just find coldplay boring and very overrated, yellow is a really nice song i just don’t think they’re anything special
Not a fan pf Coldplay
Ik zie dat het album goed ontvangen is en geprezen wordt. Ergens kan ik dat wel begrijpen. Het is melodieus. De teksten gaan ergens over. Toch was ik blij dat het luisteren er op zat. Vond het toch wel wat saai en die overslaande stem begint ook te vervelen
Dit album deed mij minder dan ik dacht. Ik wist dat dit een van de betere albums van coldplay was, maar dat betekent nog steeds niet dat ik het leuk vind. De nummers worden afgewisseld tussen: saai, cringe,leuk, goed en dan weer niet leuk. De paar goede nummers die er op staan wegen het niet op met de nummers die ik niet leuk vind. Het is niet verschrikkelijk om naar te luisteren. Quote van Julia “misschien vind je coldplay niet leuk, maar het is wel echt goede achtergrondmuziek”
Good band, just not for me.
Blind album, know the artist and the hits from the album. Guess there was a reason I never went and listened to it cause I had a feeling I wouldn't like it. Glad I tried it, and glad to say I probably won't listen to this album as a whole again. 2.
Didn't dislike it as much as I thought I might. Think I like some of the non hits better than the hits, like Spies.
Meh
Just a band that is not for me. 8th biggest band in the world, so a lot like them, but just not the type of music I enjoy. Yellow is the only song I really cared for on the album. 2/5
Simple in a okay way
Not my style
Wasn't as bad as I expected. A couple songs are actually pretty good. But his voice is hard to listen to.
Surprisingly not bad, I’d give it a 2.5 if I could. Around 3/4 of the album in though I did stop paying attention because it’s almost all piano and acoustic guitar. Coolest part was when it was over the next song was an acoustic version of deftones Be quiet and drive that I’ve never heard.
Not my thing
Second of two Coldplay records and this is the less offensive of the two. It's far from good, it's not even in the same country as good. But it's not as irritating as Rush of Blood so there is that. The hit song here is called Yellow but really it should have been Beige
I didn't come to be indier than thou, but it is annoying and also very boring.
I wanted to hate this album, so I did.
While this definitely isn't as terrible horrible no good very bad as everyone's saying it is, it's still not something I'd ever revisit.
tough to separate my feelings of Coldplay being music for bedwetters from my desire to give this album a listen with fresh ears. it's inoffensive, easy listening and the way Chris Martin sings "you're skin and bones" on Yellow is actually kinda beautiful icl. but nothing particularly exciting to discover listening back 20 years later
2.5
Very good album. Brought me back to having graduated high school and getting ready to head to college.
Milque, meet toast. I had this album on CD in 9th grade. Somehow it made it into the collection along with Linkin Park and the Beastie Boys. The songs aren't really bad per se, they're just so, so boring. Like, they took the elements that would make a song stand out and turned them down, so that any glimpse of a unique idea is buried beneath a glacier of bland coffeehouse drivel. There's not a single moment I can point to on the album, where I could picture anyone, not just me, saying "wow, that was cool." It's a 2.5/5 from me. Not aggressively bad, but determinedly mediocre.
I'm not really familiar with Cold Play beyond the obvious tunes. True to their reputation, this is a bit of a snooze fest.
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Singles are adequate but overplayed, nothing else really resonates.
Ora ho capito perché di solito non ascolto i Coldplay.
Just can't do this, maybe if I need to be put to sleep.
00’s Pop ⭐️Trouble
Disappointing samey samey
Harmless, innocuous, safe, forgettable but saved a bit by Yellow, the tune which launched them into the musical stratosphere
In the beginning I thought I could cope. Pleasant enough. Showed promise. But as time went on it started to wear me down. A mild irritation developed and then sleep became a stranger. Normal society didn't understand and shunned me. I was an outcast. Unable to hold onto my job I lost my family, my home and my future. And all because Coldplay can only write three songs.
Not as bad as I expected.
Calm. Not bad but not great either.
It’s just so boring lowk, I’ve never really heard a band quite as aggressively mid as Coldplay
Highlights: Shiver, Yellow Lowlights: Trouble, We Never Change It's an album. Don't really have any thoughts on it good or bad. I liked some songs but not enough to listen to them more. Chris Martin's voice also got a bit grating to me as the album went on, especially when he hit high notes. I liked how mellow it was, but that also caused the songs to feel really samey to me.
Oh well, what can I say
It is pop music. Not terrible, but not my thing.
I listened to this when it first came out, but not much since then. Listening to it now, I expected to have more nostalgia than I did. Instead I was just bored. I think their other early record is better than this one.
There are a couple of good tracks but mainly this just seems like a Jeff Buckley tribute?! Was not expecting that! I just can’t think I’ll listen to it again.
nunca me harán quererte coldplay
2,4/5
Bland.
“Home places we’ve grown All of us are done for” This would be my anthem if i was a foot fungus about to be killed off by treatment. So maybe in another life. Coldplay is one of those bands i really struggle to understand why people like…. sorry
Got bored so quickly, too sad on an already sad day
Too middle of the road for me, a couple of decent tunes
I want to grab this album by its shoulders, shake it, and tell it to speak up! There are a few good songs where the understated deliveries by Chris Martin achieve a nice sense of roomy space. The rest all blend together into something that, like everyone has said at this point, just grasp at bits of Radiohead & U2. The run of “Sparks”, “Yellow”, & “Parachutes” all carry some well-known melodies, Coldplay can’t be faulted for not knowing how to whip up a memorable hook. But by the time the title track came around, I was good and ready for the end. Luckily, this thing is a merciful 40 minutes if you include the bonus track. Likely a colossal work for those who held a moody disposition about the world around them, and likely more irritating for coffee shop employees at the time. Strong 2/5, I hear all the components which make this a successful record, it’s just not my jam
Eh
Very competent, I see how the stale melancholia could be mistaken as profound emotional depth.
Mid asf. OG sad girl music
The music equivalent of an empty crisp packet blowing around in the wind
C+
This album doesn't really do anything interesting, but at least it isn't actively annoying. At this point I think maybe they hadn't quite perfected the art of over emoting to death the way they would on Rush of Blood, so this one's almost listenable.
Coldplay always makes me think of the slow parts of a Gorillaz track combined with flyover Radiohead material. Inoffensive but hardly favorite band material.
This album was nostalgic, i listened to it so much when it came out. But listening to this t now, there isn’t really much that is still special about it, especially since Coldplay has mostly remained unchanged in their sound. Makes it feel flat and hollow.
I like a couple of the songs but it’s a meh album
not my thing
A well recorded, well performed batch of tedious songs.
Some songs were good, some made me feel like I was in a hospital waiting room.
I know this is a hot take but this album does NOT do it for me. And I love a good Coldplay hit, even the sleepers on their other albums, but I’m not a Yellow girl, and clearly not a Parachutes girl. I’d say my fav is Sparks (tho second half of song got boring to me, I’m sorry!)
Beste Lieder: Yellow Lieder Playlist: 0
Really hate Chris Martin’s voice. The guitar is good enough. Covers are good, originals are annoying. Amazing how much of this album I’ve heard incidentally without ever setting out to hear it on purpose.
Ok album with pleasant songs. For me this was music that you can listen to when you are relaxing and just let it play on the background.
Very meh.
“People like Coldplay and voting for nazis. You cant trust people Jeremy” Feels like an unbelievable cynical cash in on ok computer.
Sounded nice in the car on a cold morning.
Yellow was a welcome listen on an otherwise kind of bland album.
There are some good tracks on here, but even the good ones are just so beige. Drums are dull and generic, guitar is repeating 4ish chord sequences, singing is very American idol (derogatory). This is what happens when good musicians make bland choices.
There is no denying that Coldplay hit a nerve in 1999 at a time when the uncertainty of the 2000s was coming together. It found a place in so many peoples hearts and nostalgia is extremely difficult to argue with. This album is ok in the beginning and I tend to start doing anything else other than listen to it by the end. Unfortunately, Yellow was played so much for me as a kid that I cannot stand that song. This album is certainly better than they rest of their music, but that is a pretty low bar.
Like a vasectomy through the ears. You can literally feel the testosterone leaving your body song by song.
Musically Coldplay is one of the blandest bands of the past century. Dull and boring. Lyricly they resemble a romance novel. This is awful.
I'm gonna admit, when this came up today as my album, I let out an audible groan. But I was encouraged to give it a go, that it would likely not sound how I thought it would. First 10 seconds of the first song, Don't Panic, I thought, hhmm... is this reminiscent of Pavement? Is there hope here? I continued to listen and I can confirm it is nothing like Pavement. I wasn't able to get through a single song without skipping. This is not great. This is not for me. I will never independently relisten to this again.
Not for me
I had a dj friend whose boyfriend was from the same town as these guys and knew them as your average try-hard trend-hoppers who would do anything for a gig anywhere. I presumed most of that was the unending contempt English people have for anyone trying to better themselves, but the sense Coldplay was just good enough at the whole Radiohead-lite thing to make it work yet not really committed to anything other than inhabiting the look and feel of meaningful artists was tough to shake. Basically a bunch of phonies. And yet! Right out of the gate, I was impressed with Don’t Panic and still return to it from time to time, Yellow, while as dumb as a rock song this side of Oasis could be, still had a guitar hook that couldn’t be denied, and a pretty good britpop/Bends/Grace facsimile in Shiver for the Grey’s Anatomy set. Coldplay retain this challenge for me - Chris has a beautiful voice, which can be approachable, even conversational when he’s not going for Buckley/Yorke, the music is evocative and moving, if never dark/alienating, and yet the rote sanctimony and lyrical stumbles - which are part of the appeal for many, many, many others - stop me dead in my tracks. Even on Don’t Panic, whose music is appealing to me, the lyrics feel like first draft placeholders “bones sinking like stones” in search of something with universal meaning “we live in a beautiful world” - scratch the surface and what do you get? Vibes? Something more cynical and calculating?
I find Coldplay very middle of the road, I liked “ yellow” when it came out, but do not have any Coldplay in my collection, the albums ok, but 5hats it.
First time I think I’ve ever actually given Coldplay a proper listen and it really isn’t great… Sparks is a very good but other than that, it’s really not worthwhile
Boring
Oh, not Coldplay! This really dull - I suppose making saccharine background music is why they are such a big selling band.
Didn’t really care for it
In a past life, I would've given this more stars.
Coldplay is a meme and this album did not change my mind that much. The vocals here are really grating, it all sounds extremely artificial and soulless.
Classic Coldplay. Some good songs but overall insignificant
Admittedly I've never been much of a Coldplay fan, but went into the album with an open mind. There were a few okay tracks here, Shiver has some interesting parts (Guitar/drums) and I found Spies and Trouble more listenable. Personally I just can't quite get into Chris Martin's vocals, I generally can enjoy higher pitches but the falsetto just doesn't hit home for me and it is used a LOT. I couldn't vibe with the moody feeling that seemed to run through every song. They're obviously good musicians/songwriters, there's just something missing for me.
While there is nothing immediately offensive about this, I don’t dig it. It doesn’t move me
After listening to this album, all the song sound the same. It's boring and repetitive nothing special. Without tracks like "Yellow" and "Trouble" it would be a forgettable album
Still a good album, shame about the rest.
It sounded a little more intriguing than the 2002 album that came after that had Scientist and Clocks, but likely not revisiting 2
Not a bad record - maybe Coldplay’s best? Don’t Panic and Shiver are two great openers, but they lose me after that. Coldplay would go on to become… much, much worse from here.
I’ve never understood the “wows” over Coldplay- it’s really rather bland and boring and ages like milk.
meh boring af
zzz
Ett par låtar jag gillar, men i helhet extremt sömnigt. Fattar inte alls.
I mean Coldplay is pretty good in general, but this album was pretty slow and meh. Not exactly something I want to listen to very often.
This album came out during my primitive listening years and just before I burned all kinds of music onto CDs yet somehow Coldplay songs were never part of my burned CD focus. Why? I can't figure it out, they sound like a lot of the other music of that time and I liked my fair share of 'overrated' bands. The hit songs are good but maybe because I know them and they're easy listening? The other songs are ignorable and not memorable. Ugh this album perplexes me. I do like yellow.
Le band qui a été inventé pour ceux qui arrivaient pas à keep up avec l'évolution de Radiohead. Prod correcte. Mais c'est beige overall. Chris Martin a le trophée du gars qui abuse trop de son falsetto dull. 2.49 étoiles
This WAS a great record. But thanks to this soft - crying - i’m sad - type of music (which could have been ok for one record only) today rock and roll is suffering. Coldplay still packs Stadiums with their feel good soft crap, while true rock heroes are left aside.
6 - MEDIUM
Will return to this. Wasn't feeling it in the moment.
Half decent but signposted their future mediocrity.
Meh.
OK.
Other than the all time classic, Yellow, I wasn’t too into this album. It didn’t stimulate my ears compared to an album such as The Genius of Ray Charles. Yes, I know it might be unfair to compare the two. However, my taste is my taste, and I suppose this one failed to suffice me.
Just not a Coldplay fan. Music in the most vanilla sense of the word. Plain.
A decent amount of cool stuff at the beginning, but too much of the album is just flat out boring.
*listened before the project* are you now kidding me? Coldplay? If Coldplay is worth listening to then I deserve the Grammy
Oh dear oh dear. If I didn't like Radiohead I am probably not going to like their derivatives.
His falsetto sounds like a crying animal and that's the inflection for the entire album. Admit it: you only say you like this album to get with women.
2/5. Sure, I get it, it has influenced many artists that I listen to nowadays, and Coldplay got going strong from the start and it's easy to see why. But I just don't like this very much. It's not even about Coldplay, this could be any band, it's just not for me. Chris can sing and there are some tracks that save it from being a loss but it is definitely not a repeat listen, just a little too soft. Best Song: Yellow, Everything's Not Lost, Don't Panic
Not sure why but can’t listen to a whole Coldplay album
I took a piss I took a piss on you It's what you told me to do And it was all yellow 💛 ...I think it's hilarious. I can't be the only one who's made a similar rhyme to this song. Was actually surprised at how much of this album I remember, as it was played by members of my friend group at the time of release. I've always thought it was rather tepid music for responsible adults (which made it weird when certain friends would play it as everything else was bangin' electronic music or punk or hip hop, etc.), and my opinion really hasn't changed. Not the worse music in the world, but does absolutely nothing for me, save for the fun of replacing lyrics with piss pig themes.
Coldplay was definitely a breath of fresh air when they first came out, especially considering what was happening in music at the time. On the flip side, bands that define an era often get stuck in a paradox, becoming products of their time, and Coldplay is definitely a product of the early 2000s. Overall, I think they’re a pretty good band with decent music. I’ve always appreciated their atmospheric soundscapes, but they’re not a band I feel much desire to revisit these days.
No
Is Coldplay always this depressing?
it's been a while ... Don't Panic was nice to hear again, but i'd hardly call this album an amazing listen. it was inoffensive and pleasant without stirring any real emotion or setting my heart racing. it'd be another 2.5 therefore i am down-voting to 2 stars
Greit nok, ikkje nåke eg ville satt på sjøl
classic
This is pretty bland, early Coldplay is probably better than latter Coldplay but I don’t know if that is saying much. I feel there are people that hate Coldplay far more than I do, I’m fairly ambivalent, they have some decent songs but I don’t know if they can be considered essential listening.
Average album. Really love the song trouble, to the point it's on one of my playlist. The rest of the album is pretty forgettable. As the album kept playing it started to feel like i was listening to one really long song
I tried, and it sounds like a cliche, but both listens I didn't notice when the album had ended
I like yellow and sparks most out of this album (but those are the popular ones too). I didn’t really like the other songs, it was really boring. It can be good like background music when you don’t want to pay attention to the music.
When mum says "we have Radiohead at home"
Pretty slow and mellow album except for Yellow which slaps. I really could care for rest of it.
Despite being one of the lamest popular rock bands of the last 25 years they have a knack for writing the occasional good soft rock song. “Yellow” and “Trouble” are well composed and performed, although the lyrics are vague and trite. Yet even at their best on this debut they still only amount to heavily diluted versions of 90s Radiohead and U2.
Soft rock just really frustrates me. This is the musical equivalent of a pre-teen novel or a Hallmark movie. It sounds like its meant to caress and reassure and do absolutely nothing more.
Music and lyrics are just bland and inoffensive however Chris Martin's singing makes this annoying.
Listening to this straight thru, I don’t think I learned anything about Coldplay that I didn’t already know.
meh
Was meh
What’s the deal? I can’t tell one song from another. It’s musical tapioca pudding.
I want to acknowledge the moment that's been circulating online, and the disappointment it's caused. What was supposed to be a night of music and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake playing out on a very public stage. I want to sincerely apologize to my wife, my family, and the team at Astronomer. You deserve better from me as a partner, as a father, and as a leader. This is not who I want to be or how I want to represent the company I helped build. I'm taking time to reflect, to take accountability, and to figure out the next steps, personally and professionally. I ask for privacy as I navigate that process. I also want to express how troubling it is that what should have been a private moment became public without my consent. I respect artists and entertainers, but I hope we can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life into a spectacle. As a friend once sang: 'Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you.'"
The perfect album for douchey CEOs to cheat on their wives with the HR lady.
When I was in 8th grade I thought this shit was so profound, looking out the backseat car window reflecting on LIFE. I recommend to 8th grade idiots, & I do miss old Coldplay, but even back in the day this wasn’t the Coldplay album I was going to.
knowing yellow was on this album i was expecting more
Some decent lyrics but I am not a fan of the vocals.
5/10 it’s not bad just boring and definitely not as good or memorable as their next album in my opinion
Yellow is a great song. Everything else.... So boring.
not my type no passion imo doesn't reel me in whatsoever
Meh. Only track I liked was "Spies". Everything else I've already forgotten.
It was a slow start, but it did pick up and then it went back down, then up just a little bit. Favorite Track: Sparks
Я взагалі не дуже люблю Coldplay через їх неймовірно «безпечний» підхід до власної творчості, але Parachutes мені завжди здавався гарним та багатообіцяючим дебютом. Проте так було до вчорашнього дня. Я повернувся до нього після дууууже великої перерви, і він майже нічого після себе не лишив. Звісно, вокальні партії Кріса є головною прикрасою цього альбому, а всім відома Yellow розкриває його потенціал на повну. В усьому іншому це, знову ж таки, більш «безпечна» версія постбрітпопових Radiohead. Я б навіть сказав - «демо-версія», з якої вирізали все найцікавіше: глибокі ідеї та революційний на свій час сонграйтинг. Зараз альбом значно впав у моїх очах, і я його більше не вважаю «світлою плямою» серед нудотно-сірої творчості Coldplay. Чи сумно це? Та ні, мені й так взагалі байдуже було на цей гурт.
I dont understand the hype of Coldplay
ew coldplay, honk shoo mimimimimi I don't wanna be too hard on it bc I don't want my opinion to come across as just hating for the sake of it. That said this was kinda boring. Don't Panic was a solid opener, Shiver had a very cool open, then just like taking a piss, it was all yellow. In fact I've definitely had more memorable pisses than listening to this. Was it awful? No. Did I need to hear it before I died? Absolutely fucking not. Favourites - Don't Panic
Was mid. Like Radiohead but mid 4/10
Boring. Clocks is OK.
Super boring. Just the bends era Radiohead but significantly worse.
Coldplay have a couple standout tracks, but otherwise 99% of their work sounds like background muzak piped into a Starbucks to me. Adult contemporary listening that you just kinda hear more than listen to. This is the first time I've heard this album in its entirety and my thoughts above remain the same. That said, when I was in college and they first hit, my gf at the time, M, had a soft spot for "Yellow" because it reminded her of her sister's new marriage. I remember she thought it was such a dumb song, but it hit her in the feels regardless because she loved her sister so. Because she was the first girl I ever loved, and due to her overwhelming interest in astronomy, I could not help but associate the track with M, myself. So I put the song on a mix for her, downloaded illegally from Napster and burned onto a CD-R, early 2000s-style. And now I'm forever among the ranks of dudes who put Coldplay on a mix for a girl he loves.
i don’t have enough estrogen to enjoy this album. hard pass.
I thought Yellow would make me like the rest of the album. The rest of the album made me dislike Yellow.
Pleasant, polished, and eerily artificial. Parachutes is the sound of background music giving up
Onaangename stem. Op Yellow na weinig dynamiek, dus een beetje saai.
Zeikstem
Schön aber nix besonderes
A whole album of tedious songs about how the singer longs for the object of his affection, half-pronouncing every word while strumming his guitar. This is the kind of guy I would hate to have at any party I hosted, and this music literally put me almost to sleep, although the final (non-hidden) track Everything's Not Lost was a bit livelier and had some structure and build to it, just tipping this over to two stars.
What a divisive band! These reviews are wild. I’ll admit, all the Coldplay hate had prevented me from checking them out. Turns out I don’t really regret that. I know Yellow and The Scientist and would probably recognize more. And I’ve always thought those songs were fine. I came into this with an open mind. I liked a few tracks. I didn’t like most of it. I wouldn’t call myself a hater. I tend to think if people get joy out of music, there’s value in that. I’ll say this just wasn’t for me. Is it his falsetto that I don’t like? Is it what gets all the hate? Also, my recent complaint of all the albums we’re getting lately being from the 90s has been heard. It’s an album from… 2000!
Don’t care for this album. It’s mid with only a few good songs, if this album was a rush of blood to the head i would’ve given it a 5/5 but it’s not so it’s a 2/5.
Never really got into Coldplay. They just feel like background music. And this album showcases that. Spies was reall nice, and Yellow is always good. The rest were just eh. Best song: Spies
Way more boring than A Rush Of Blood To The Head, which is saying a lot
never goes past pleasant but at times his voice really gets to me. Granted it is a 2.5 or something because it comes in and out but I didn't feel like it would go up on a second listen so didn't bother and frankly I can see it going down in score as no individual song left an impression on me. I did like Viva la vida so maybe I just need them to tweak this sound a bit
pretty solid albums. you can really hear the difference between music from the current gen to the music from like the 80-90s. feels like a remodeled retro house.
Listening to Coldplay is like listening to nothing.
Not gonna lie, I was not looking forward to this album. I remember Yellow and never connected with that songs, so I actively avoided this band. I heard stuff on the radio but normally didn't listen. This felt a little like U2; great musicians but not a style I'm drawn to. Listening to Don't Panic, I felt it like it was way too repetitive, and the last album I listened to was electronic. Honestly I really tried with this album but it felt so melodic and uninteresting, I felt was bored, I need something more, and this didn't offer that really. For me, this felt like it was britpop with less energy. I would have liked to listen to the music without the singing. Standouts: Shiver, High Speed
yellow
Not my bag
Looking back, it's hard to grasp the change Coldplay have had, and it's a bit difficult to separate their work from the image they've built over the years (not too loved by music fans, I'm no exception). That being said, I tried to be as objective as possible. Parachutes is a very 2000s mix of folk, pop and a bit of rock at times. I have to say that I expected to dislike this record more than I did. I feel the record works best when it leans into more simple compositions. Martin has some good vocal performances, especially when he sounds a bit more raw (like in "Shiver" or "We Never Change"). This, coupled with the acoustic guitar, is the strong point of the album for me, when it turns almost into folk, feeling more personal and almost vulnerable. I think my favourite song was "Shiver", good performance from Martin, good chorus and a nice guitar riff. "Trouble" was good too. Starting with a simple piano ballad, the song remains almost minimalist until we reach the chorus, where it's a bit crammed but still not bad. "Yellow" is a very difficult song to judge, as it has been overplayed until it developed a life of its own. Within the record, it's one of the most energetic tracks. The chorus is as catchy and memorable as ever, although the lyrics are overly simple for my taste (as in most of the songs, being honest). Most of the other songs, I didn't particularly care for. I didn't actively dislike them (besides maybe "Spies" and "Everything's Not Lost"), but I found them bland and forgettable. Overall, it's a pretty tight record, a consistent sort of folk-pop with not too deep lyrics. Besides having pretty big radio hits that remain catchy, I don't think it's a particularly remarkable record, but it's also not as bad as Coldplay's fame would suggest. I think this record, while not spectacular, does suggest Coldplay could've had a life beyond the often overproduced and saccharine pop they chose in later projects.
Feels gimmicky with over reliance on falsetto. Soulless.
2.5 the only listenable coldplay album? faves: yellow
Yellow is great.
it's nice music to shop by. Or fall asleep to. Which I did once.
Every once in a while there's a hint of a temperature above tepid — the intro to "Shiver", "High Speed" has some nice bits — but Coldplay is dedicated to stopping any momentum in its tracks. Do they punch it up when they play stadiums?
I just didn’t have fun.
Glad when it ended.
Pretentious. I like other stuff they’ve done.
Look....not a Coldplay fan, but I understand why people like them. Just doesn't do much for me for the most part. Can see the talent, nice background music, not worth playing again imo.
The entire album I get like I was in an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. The early seasons. I hate Grey’s Anatomy.
100% pure, concentrated blandness. They obviously know how to play their instruments... But fuck me it's bland... M A K E C O L D P L A Y H I S T O R Y
They can clearly play and write songs but their output is just so uninspiring.
Pari kivaa kappaletta, muuten aika yhdentekevää.