Parachutes

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.

Warning: This album causes ED

I'm a Yellow apologist but this was boooooooring

Bland as get out.

Coldplay in Reinform

So, so bland. There are times that Chris Martin sounds like Dave Matthews, and then he sounds like a 10-year-old whose balls haven't dropped yet. The falsetto in every bloody song is damned annoying. I hope I never have to listen to another full Coldplay album again. So bland.

Ok, I don't think I've ever heard a whole Coldplay album before. I remember hearing a few of these songs when they came out but I can't remember one time I ever played Coldplay on purpose. I had 0 liked songs from them on Spotify and, spoiler, that didn't change today. I know they get a lot of hate in a Nickelback-esque sort of way but I don't really have any feelings about that one way or another. Three songs in, I'm ready to move on. The music isn't bad, it's just...blah. Chris Martin sort of seems like he wants to be Thom Yorke and wanting to be Thom Yorke is never a good thing. I have nothing to base this on and I could be completely wrong, but just by listening to this album, I feel like Chris Martin is the kind of guy who if you asked him 'what's the best song ever written?', wouldn't hesitate to name a song from one of his own records. Thom Yorke would do the same. I mean the vocals here aren't bad, but it's like someone asked a semi-capable AI to generate a 'generic white guy' sounding vocalist. It would totally be Chris Martin. As for the rest of the band, I can't really comment, there was nothing of note except I remember thinking one of the bass lines was kind of cool. And that indifference, to me, is worse a lot of the time than music I can say something negative about. So, Coldplay? 2/5 and I hope this was a one and done for this list.

Milquetoast

The instrumentals are okay but boring, and Chris Martin's vocals and lyrics are so wishy washy. I can't abide him. I was on a train journey that was about the length of the album, and it felt like the longest journey of my life.

It’s the most milquetoast of ironies; Coldplay, a band with so amazingly few characteristics to remark upon have, for a quarter of an actual century, managed to inspire the most intense of reactions from seemingly all who hear them. Good or bad, you have an opinion on Coldplay. And that opinion is either “world-beating stadium-eating monsters who have totally reinvented what it means to continually reinvent yourself” or “Chris Martin is the audio equivalent of finding out your house has been flooded”. No in between. And this is the sense in which Coldplay actually matters. Not as musicians – fucking hell, imagine! – but as early bellwethers of the defining cultural shift of the 21st century – the embracing of antagonistic dichotomies. Coldplay is a significant early entry into the pantheon of things that we love to love or love to hate, a trend they commenced but that soon swept up the likes of Nickleback, James Blunt, immigrants, and latterly the environment. What do I think? I think we live in a beautiful world, and I think that’s a really true and fair thing to say. And I think the stuff around it that he’s singing to is lovely, too. In fact, I doubt you could objectively argue against that assertion. Really, everything here is absolutely as it should be. But then, that feeling again. That feeling that Coldplay isn’t good. Coldplay doesn’t care. Coldplay isn’t here to be anything else than another reason to hate my neighbour. Weird. I swear it just sounded like safe indie miserablism.

Whilst I can't deny their popularity, and some lyrical and musical elements are great... the vocalist's dreary tone is too much of a nail in the coffin for me. If I was depressed, Coldplay would be what finished me off.

about as good as tap water when you're not thirsty. it's an album. it has songs. it's music.

Ehhhhh, there are definitely some catchy songs, and I don’t want to pile on the Coldplay hate for the sake of it. But it really didn’t do it for me!

I wanted to like this, but I really did not enjoy this. Every song sounded the same, and it never picked up. The energy never got past about 3/10. Some of the songs were nice, but I was not impressed

Insufferably bad. Coldplay are an egotistical, talentless bunch who can shove their crap up their ass so hard it comes streaming out of their mouths.

It's alright innit, definitely has a stronger start than end

Parachutes was alright. Started brightly, sagged in the middle, bit of a boost and then fades out

Got a real nostalgia rush from listening to this for the first time in years. It’s a good album but I don’t think I’ll go back to it for a long while

Not a fan. Coldplay is basically elevator music. Even the decent songs just sound like they are copying Radiohead - who would have done them better.

Fine for background music, but I wouldn't do much more with it than that.

Pièce de théâtre froide - Parachutes Gonna have to listen to it a second time. An album this popular should not leave me this emotionless. I must have missed something. Well maybe I missed it again but the second time was as dull as the first. Yellow is cool I like the bassline. It's not bad music I guess. If it's that popular, they definitely did something right. I, however, don't resonate with it. 2.5

Who knew at the time that such innocence would lead to the crap that was to come? Pleasant, in isolation.

I like Yellow in the way that you kind of like things you hate, or kind of hate things you like. I've heard it said that it's a pretty direct ripoff of Pavement's Here. I don't see it so directly but would not be at all surprised if they knowingly wanted to use it for a radio hit. Some bits of pretty decent guitar. Lots of bits of forgettable instrumental. Some of the songs I don't remember hearing are pretty bad. Could learn a lot about pop music accompaniment here, if you want to make a palatable frictionless kind of thing. But this is 1001 albums to listen to before you die. It is not 1001 commercially successful albums to predict the next selling trends. I can't quite bear to rate this lower than A Rush Of Blood To The Head but they ought to both get 1 star. We've listened to so many "they were influential, I swear" early Britpop and early dance music albums - where's all the underground rock Coldplay processed into their bland hits? music: hated. (⌐■_■)

If nothing else, it’s interesting to go back and hear these guys when they sounded a bit like some dudes in a band, rather than a billion dollar institution. You can already hear their destiny, but they still sound somewhat human.

its fine. vaguely pleasant. chris martin is clearly a skilled vocalist with some impressive moments on here (especially on shiver). yellow is well-executed melodic pop. also liked the moody restrained distillation of britpop in don't panic. most of the rest, however, turns out to forgettable, somnolent balladry/"altpop". if banality is any heuristic for evil, then the "deep cuts" on here are the pinnacle of hitlerite music. no point in really discussing the lyrical contents much, seem more fitting to populate generic greeting cards or cocomelon nursery rhymes. from yellow, "look at the stars, look how they shine for you, and everything you do." the chorus from don't panic, "we live in a beautiful world." and these are two of the tracks i actually liked most from this album (sonically anyways). unfortunately i only have so much tolerance for the gratingly saccharine. ultimately, the merits this album might have come in the form of diluting the artistry of their much better influences (ie. radiohead, smiths, jeff buckley, britpop generally). being derivative need not necessarily be an irreconcilable deficiency—particularly if the influences are in good taste—but it can certainly lay bare the countless ways that the derived work falls short of the original.

What a snooze

It's just... forgettable. And bland. I don't hate Coldplay, I really don't. But besides "Yellow," which isn't a great song, the other songs are not memorable. NEXT.

Standouts: Shiver, Yellow. Mostly music for white moms in the 2000s in their feels.

Surprisingly good so far, just decent indie. Getting bored half way through the album. Meh.

Very nice. No recordaba que coldplay me pudiera molar unironically. Aunque creo que será sólo este álbum.

Pretty chill but I am not sure if I would remember "Yellow" or "Trouble" (favorite off the album if we're picking) if they weren't on the radio so often growing up. Considered making a joe biden amv to this

these songs are basically pleasant and catchy, if a little saccharine, with some neat effects here and there. but Chris Martin's vocals and especially lyrics are giving nothing, and I'm pretty sure I'll never put any of these songs on of my own will again. so 2.

What can you say - it sure sounds like Coldplay. I will say I went in not expecting much of anything, but I did at least get some interesting guitar work at the start, as well as solid bass lines throughout. In the end though, while a pleasant, inoffensive vibe most of the time, it didn't really do anything compelling, but I get why it's included: This is The Eagles for Gen X/millennials.

The best Coldplay album. By stalking reviews, I've noticed some correlation between loving this and hating hip-hop, make of that what you will.

Not for me

Not my style, boring and samey

Kinda the same stuff they always play. I like sounds that are less vanilla, and this sounds like that to me.

Sounds just like every other Brit album from this era. Not bad enough to hate, I just don't get the hype.

4.5/10 Coldpaly inace ne volim, ali sam pomislio kako bi mozda njihov prvi album mogao biti ugodno iznenađenje dok jos nisu bili u zescem mainstreamu. Yellow mi je onako, ok a ostatak jednolican i blago dosadan. Nista vise ni manje nisam ocekivao, prolazno i zaboravno ali nikako "smeće" kategorija (kasniji hitovi su druga priča).

Listening to this album helped with my insomnia.

249/1001 😴 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑

Nunca he sido muy de coldplay yo

Meh if mehness

"me aburren como Coldplay" Spies es un temazo igual.

2 cos it's got a song called Don't Panic Still dire though

dollar general Radiohead. 2.5 stars

2,5

Generic rock

Chris Martins voice really started to irk me after the 4th or 5th track. I found this album to be very bland and tasteless. Par for the course for Coldplay really.

Wow I expected this to be right up my alley but boy was I going down the wrong street. Yellow is good though.

This is a sleepy little album that frankly, I find to be pretty dull. It’s hard not to think of music like this as just something you would hear at Starbucks all the time, which also kind of ruined that Norah Jones album. I hate Starbucks.

Not great.

'mid

Not listened to this since since 2000 and due to my tastes changing it is not as good as I remember haha

One of their best

U2 but make it boring

Meh. Samey-samey and a bit depressing.

Radiohead but much worse

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dont panic- 4 shiver- 3 spies- 3 sparks- 3 yellow- 2 trouble- 2 or 3 parachutes- 4 high speed- 3 we never change- 2 everythings not lost- 2 or 3

Hardly exciting but perfectly digestible.

I like the piano intros in the songs Trouble and High Speed. I don't like whole album, though. It was pretty boring.

Magic

Just like not good really. Uninteresting.

I used to think early Coldplay was the best Coldplay. Turns out it is all pretty mid.

Coldplay… Nem era tão ruim, mas não consigo pensar em outra coisa que não seja: ”O que será que aconteceu com os músicos da banda?” As músicas nem são tão ruins, e tem alguns conceitos inesperados vindos do Coldplay, seria a banda shoegaze? Fica o questionamento. Melhores músicas: Piores músicas: 2/5

To be honest, I came into this with my own set of feelings about Coldplay. In particular, I'm not a fan of their hit song \"Yellow\" which is on this album. I was excited to reassess my feelings about Coldplay. Oftentimes, I prefer earlier work by popular musicians because popular music doesn't always appeal to me. I am pleased to say that I was correct in my earlier assessment. While many tracks on this album are tolerable, they are made intolerable by the sameness that permeates this album. Lulling guitars and instrumentals with occasional falsetto for 10 tracks doesn't work for me. Every song on the album is better than \"Yellow\" but none good enough to build my enthusiasm. 2/5

Yawn

Coldplay is diet-Radiohead. It’s easy to consume and rarely challenges the listener in anyway. I don’t really understand why this album was so successful. It’s fine. This is what I hear when I’m getting my teeth cleaned.

This was super "meh" for me. A big part of the rating system for me is if I end up letting an album play more than once without feeling the pull to grab my phone and change it to something else. The last few have had a lot of moments where I realize its played through and its looping back and I am not mad at all about it. This....did not have that, I was pretty acutely aware of the moment the first song started again. I don't think the songs were "bad" they just were all kind of boring and they felt "safe". I guess its no surprise but I've never listened to much Coldplay and this album is not going to change that around for me anytime soon

Typisch Coldplay...

I have a soft spot for Coldplay. This is probably the best album in their discography and that doesn't mean a lot. Fav Track: Shiver

Tepid, tedious and overrated.

Coldplay siempre fue una banda hitera. En mi caso, uno de los últimos recuerdos de MTv. Luego de escuchar hasta el hartazgo por ahí y por la radio sus singles, hoy toca finalmente un álbum. Música tranquila, de mañana, para viajar en ruta. Nada más para agregar.

Thought I might have been missing out by never giving Coldplay a chance but I can confirm I'm all good. Good enough technically but don't care Will I listen to again: 0%

Very boring, all equal... at least the songs are not so remarkable or protagonists to be annoing

24 years and still not a fan. Yawn rock.

Rather boring. I don’t like the singer.

Bounces off my brain as Generic. Not my sound

I mean, they have some good songs, but otherwise they're so boring

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

A very solid album but one that is in a style that bores me. I'd give it a 7/10 or so but that means 2 stars for this list because nothing should be below an 8 here.

Gear: Grado Hemp Artwork: 🪐🪂❓ Mix: 😲🙂👌 Musik: 🤔😮‍💨🤷‍♂️ Wertung: 🪂🪂/5

Coldpiss.

greige

Mostly empty. 2+/5

1. dont panic - 1.5 2. zhiver - 1 3. zpiez - 1 4. zparkz - 2.5 5. yellouu - 3 6. trouble - 1.5 7. parachutez - 0 8. zpeed - 1 9. change - 1.5 10. lozt - 1.5

Yellow is good some of it is not bad but not good

People listen to Coldplay and voted for the nazis, you can’t trust people. Didn’t hate it, well produced but it didn’t exactly grab me. Just a little beige.

I didn't hate this album the first 10,000 times that I heard it. But, unfortunately I worked at a record store when this came out, and we had the label reps calling daily to offer us prizes if we played it daily on the in-store system. This is where this album became my nemesis.

Plodding. And I still can't bear his voice.

Perhaps my favorite Mingus album. Great to revisit.

this was WAY more boring than I remembered it being, and way more boring than its reputation suggests it should be. what a dreadful era of music

i was complaining online about getting this album on a friday night, and three separate people reached out and said that this was their go-to teenage depression album. which makes sense! what a bummer.

grow up

Not bad nor is it good, perfectly mediocre. 2/5

The rest of the album was so boring that I almost enjoyed yellow in comparison

Boring……well made but boring,

I feel like, Coldplay is quite overrated, and l think this album kind of confirms this. That is not to say that it’s HORRIBLE, but if this album represents their discography then that remains my opinion on them. However, I think Sparks actually really hits when you listen to it, it’s very good and probably why it’s one of their most popular songs. I may also be influenced because of its use in the editing community like instagram (if yk yk) I find Yellow kind of annoying to listen to because (at the risk of sounding snobbish) the song is distastefully overplayed and therefore I don’t like it. The rest of the songs in the album all sort of sound like variants of one another, obviously an album having a strict theme isn’t inherently bad, but I felt a little bored while listening to it. The outro/ending of Trouble was nice. I think that We Never Change sounds a bit like Sparks. I do like the use of the electric guitar (I think that’s what it is?). It just makes me feel a certain way and I’m not exactly a fan, but I can respect it. I don’t know if it’s an album you MUST listen to before you die, but maybe the music critics know better than I do. Also the hidden track scared me lol I didn’t realise that it was there.

chris martin's voice kind of annoys me, and so do the bits of the instrumentation where it's stripped back and acoustic. some of it is catchy though, and it's not totally horrible.

Just not a Coldplay fan. Maybe it's his singing voice, but maybe just not enough "edge" to make their music compelling for me.

Com toda certeza, Coldplay não é pra mim, acho muita paumolência.

Generally boring

I've never understood the hype for this band. Back when we listened to the radio Coldplay was inescapable and I hated it with a passion. Well it has been a few years since my ears have been assaulted by this, so lets have a critical listen. This is generally bland and the singer has a voice that would drive any sane person to violence. That said it is well produced and there are some spots that are musically interesting which keeps this from being a one star.

Coldplay is just mid to me. I have enjoyed a few of their songs over the years. As for this album…..it’s ok. The only songs I recognized were Yellow and Trouble. Overall, this is a much, much, much more mellow album than I expected. Their big “hits” since then have been more arena-oriented. This album was mellow to the point of being sad. Need to be in a certain mood to give this a listen……or end up in a certain mood. 😔 Overall…..I give it a Meh.

I was hoping to like this more than I did, but I just felt it really lacking most of the time, and so bland. And the longer I listened to his voice the more insufferable and weak it seemed (especially his falsetto). The lyrics also sucked a lot of the time. I do think Yellow is a nice song, but even that song could've been a lot better if it were written by another, more capable band.

Didn’t care for this when it came out, still dislike. I can’t get into this

To some (or most), I assume this is an enjoyable album. The first half (up until before Yellow) was fairly tolerable, and I can't lie, I didn't mind Spies (maybe because their lead singer shuts the fuck up for some of the song). I just can't stand Coldplay, though I completely understand why fans would love this record. For me, however, this album was painful to get through.

good enough

"You know how I know you're gay? Because you like Coldplay." Some ok songs, but overall not for me.

Musically some of this is nice, but it gets really boring - the vocalist is boring too.

Good production but pretty bland overall

++: Shiver +: Spies, Parachutes, High Speed, Everything's Not Lost +-: Don't Panic, Sparks, Yellow, We Never Change -: Trouble, Live Is For Living 6,4/10

Booooooo 🍅🍅🍅

I mean I went into this expecting much worse but still this is likely the only time I'll ever purposely listen to Coldplay

Every decade or so, an album comes out that defines the sound of the musical zeitgeist and breaks out to be a massive hit. However, these albums usually leave me cold. I listened to this, but tbqhwy it’s just dull and never catches fire in any way. I imagine that this is what middle class people listened to at dinner parties in the year 2000. I never went to any dinner parties, which might explain why this didn’t engage me. Your mileage may vary.

Dull.

zzzzzzzz

SHUT UP!!!!!!

Coldplay. Meh.

Overall, meh, probably. Liked Shiver when it came out, didn't buy this album (or even bother to steal it off the internet, which given the ease at the time, says something), just got the impression they were just another half decent indie band. And this is an absolutely half decent 'indie' album. Listening again 24 years later, fighting against the prejudice of the megalithic dad-rock giants they became, I'm left with exactly the same impression. Which is probably exactly why they became so massive. It's absolutely fine. And millions of people love stuff that's absolutely fine. Me, I totally zoned out partway through Trouble and never got pulled back in. I'm reminded of Immortan Joe's disappointed snarl - "Mediocre".

Weak ass barn wedding with twinkle lights in mason jars ass bullshit (but "Yellow" is kind of a jam)

Too slow… too soft… no grit

Not a fan of Coldplay. Insipid is the word that comes to mind. Sorry Coldplay, I know you’ve worked really hard. It’s not you, it’s me, yadda yadda yadda

Couple decent songs, but mostly boring, samey, and forgettable

I'm normally quite biased when it comes to my dislike for Coldplay, so I'll try to be more balanced. The album as a whole is just fine. It's not very interesting really. The music is just fine, the vocals are a bit whiny but fine, and the lyrics are fine. It isn't remotely more interesting than 'fine'. Yellow is the most famous song off of the album, and it is better than every other song on it. I honestly don't mind it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it. A lot of the songs sound so similar that I feel like they never end, and I could feel myself falling asleep at times. Coldplay isn't particularly interesting or creative, nor they do have an energy of any kind. I'd give this album a middle of the road 2.5 just because of Yellow making it less painful, but it will have to be a 2.

Coldplay before they became stadium fillers. It's too not bad - it's exactly what you'd expect early noughties' indie rock/pop jumping into the place that Travis (remember them?) left when their drummer broke his neck diving into a swimming pool - in fact, that story is more interesting than this album. It's all a bit mopey and wet cheese and onion crisps. Having said that, I think I still prefer it compared to their behemoths. Best Tracks: Shiver; Sparks; Everything's Not Lost

Yellow ++ Trouble ++

I found the album pretty boring. It was playing in the background. It was suitable for suppressing the street noise. There was nothing to catch my attention at any point. Even "Everything is not Lost", which was described by some as the best track, I found extremely unimpressive. But it didn't bother me. 2/5

yawn

Best Song: Yellow. It's big and catchy. Worst Song: Parachutes. Does this even count as a song? Why was it here? Why was the album named after it? Overall: Room-temperature water strikes again. Somehow sleepier than the other album of theirs on this list. Real snoozy. Music for fading into and out of anesthesia.

Outside of Yellow and Trouble, I can't say I liked any of the other songs. Nowhere near as good as 'Rush of Blood to the Head' or 'X&Y'.

As someone who grew up listening to 2000s Christian music, this is the most dated, tired, and overfamiliar album I've heard in a long time. I'm sure it sounded great when it came out, but I can't stand listening to it now. Then Again, Yellow is pretty good.

All Coldplay songs sound the same to me.

Beige. I get that if I were a certain age I’d have almost certainly played this on a loop. But I’m not. Not offensive. Just beige.

not terrible but got pretty bland

It's kind of like if The Bends was shit. They tricked me into thinking it might actually be good with Shiver but then it was not.

Radio friendly, the guy your mom is cheating with friendly, JC Penny friendly, you get the point.. This album is the definition of playing it safe- nothing over the top pushing the envelope here, but nothing absurdly offensive (we can delete Yellow though) Classic radio head pill of it's time, and I feel like I have heard dozens of albums just like this- this isn't a knock on coldplay, just a observation of the music in this era. On a side note, how is this the same coldplay from the 2010's? lol Chill vibes, I wouldn't mind if it came on, but not going out of my way either.

Literally 3 songs stuck out to me on this record and I was yellow High speed and Sparks. Maybe I am past my prime with this sound of rock but It is too much like radiohead so breathy and dream poppy but I just did not like this record. I think coldplay might be a bit overrated in these cases. I just couldnt get down to the breathy and annoying vocals of this album and Coldplay more than weezer is so unpredictable when it comes to music they put out good albums like rush of blood and bad ones like they might be even worse than fallout boy in this imo anyways meh moving on

Not a huge fan of Chris Martin’s voice

Ett av världens mest överskattade band. Inte jättedåligt men inte särskilt bra heller.

The sound of a white man who has never had any problems.

It’s not good fight me

While I find Coldplay pretty “meh” I don’t see how they can invoke such strong feelings either positive or negative. After listening to this album i couldn’t help but wonder if this music was some unknown artist (like Elliot smith) if we wouldn’t be more generous to our takes and say something like “oh that was pleasant”. However, the album radio afterwords put on similar songs that were actually enjoyable which kind of proves the “Coldplay is boring” take. I am now curious what specifically it is sonically about their music that makes it so mid at best

Painfully average. Just generic and boring. Nothing interesting about it. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Things I texted my equally judgmental brother while listening to this: “Chris Martin’s hero must be Bono” “Coldplay is just U2 with even less edge. Pun not really intended but allowed” “This is a band full of people whose sole purpose in life is to have a song played during the end credits of a 2010s ABC prime time drama. “ “Coldplay is music for people that would like Radiohead if they were more optimistic” That last one… I know they don’t sound much like Radiohead, but people do compare the two, and those people have a relatively unnuanced ear for music.

this sucked ass

Keine Ahnung wieso, aber ich hasse Coldplay einfach. Die Stimme nervt mich und es ist einfach generic.

I understand the appeal but Coldplay is just too slow and soft for me. I like my music to have more energy. With that said, Yellow is definitely the standout track on this album.

saw dune 2 today…it was all 💛yellow💛

Coldplay is so boring. 2/5

Coldplay is the UK’s Nickelback.