Parachutes

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.

Not for me.

Not my thing.

Good band. Not their best album in my opinion.

Nothing amazing, but not all that bad.

Absolutely generic early 2000s vanilla background music. Didn’t hate it. Just barely noticed it was on.

Sparks is the real confirmation that Chris Martin has nothing of substance to say. I'm not so concerned if I don't know what an artist is singing about, but I have to know that THEY know what they're talking about. Their titles are sparse and minimalist, but the lyrics themselves are just kind of boring. If you're going to make a minimal album, then your words better have some weight behind them. Coldplay is insipid. Their abstract imagery lacks ambition and their concrete imagery lacks resonance. They're chord choices are not nearly creative enough for the type of music they're making and they don't play them with any sort of passion or insight, save for a few isolated spots. They have some nice airy textures, but nothing comes of it. High Speed is the first song that offers any sort of developement or adventure and that's the third to last song. And even that repeats a line about being trapped in a bubble for several obnoxious bars. It's pretty, it's competent, it's fine. It's just not worth further exploration.

Not a bad album Coldplay is just meh

Mid. Soft core pussy rock. Picturing a girl who cuts her thighs because she’s too soft to end it all

And soaring out of the slow lane and into the middle of the road it's Cold Play and its all mellow, I mean Yellow. Yeah, it's not the worst album but it's not the best. It's so inoffensive it's almost offensive and just remember "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people". Super Hanz *Also, Run by Snow Patrol is basically a slower version of Yellow.

I guess I'm not a true Coldplay fan

Ah, Coldplay. Their reputation as accessible & inoffensive yet totally bland is accurate. Not a fan, but maybe they don't deserve to be as widely hated as they are? Maybe? Eh, idk. Still sounds like a boring, watered-down version of Radiohead. Great for insomnia, maybe.

Coldplay and I have never really connected. From the radio songs I felt they had kind of a U2 aura, and while I somewhat like most of U2 I just never found a need to look more into Coldplay from what I heard. Now after hearing this album I realized they aren't much like U2 here at all and I owe U2 an apology. Pretty much all the tracks have a pouty cry feel and nothing upbeat. I'm generally not in a mood that vibes with this style and feel thankful for that. Favorite track: "Shiver" 2/5

not the worst thing they've ever released

90s emo pop that evolved. I unfortunately have to give credit for the good sounding hooks, beyond that it's just painfully awful.

I almost gave this a 2. It honestly was pretty boring for me.

Mmf, wha? Did somebody slip me a tranquilizer? No? Oh, you just put on Coldplay. That makes sense. Best sleep I've had in a while.

Coldplay all kinda starts to sound the same to me. Great if you're sleepy

Don't panic has a really cool instrumental track but Chris Martin vocally seems to be on another realm of existence and the two don't really sync up. Shiver is another song where cool instrumental track but Chris doesn't get on the same page as his bandmates until the end of the song. The annoying falsetto doesn't fit with the song and it would have been better served by keeping it in his normal range. Spies makes good use of the falsetto by using effects on it and creating a really interesting atmosphere. Instrumentally it is a very engaging track and for the first time both the band and and Chris Martin seem to be on the same page. Sparks this is a track where it has an interesting idea but it never really really progresses past that point. Chris Martin's voice is very annoying on this track. Yellow this song while a big hit is just generic pop rock filler. Chris is insufferable on this track and at this point in the album I want to shut it off. The instrumental isn't anything to right home about and the entire song comes off as some sort of self importance and takes itself way too seriously just makes it frustrating to listen to. Trouble is an interesting track but not because of it's quality. It's interesting because I've never heard a popular band be so one note before like they seem insistent on making these slow, lazy tracks and utilizing Chris' higher pitched vocals but it just doesn't end up working most of the time. This feels like another filler track even though this was a single. Parachutes is funnily enough the shortest song on the album but it makes the best use of Chris' voice. Chris' voice seems to fit a more singer songwriter type of situation. high speed doesn't have the most engaging instrumental but this song Chris makes use out of the lower register of his voice and it makes for a much better listening experience in spite of the lack luster instrumental behind him. The high pitched croons are Chris Martin's signature but I think it is a weakness musically. we never change- this song is grating both vocally and instrumentally. It is another slow paced song with more of Chris annoying vocals. So far you could cut this album to 3 tracks and it literally would change nothing about this album as most of the songs are just generic filler. everything's not lost finally picks up the pace a little bit and is a different song idea at the very end of the album. Tonally Chris is fine however it seems like Chris is incapable of picking up the pace himself so the song just ends up falling flat. the hidden track is a meaningless throw away track This album has a few good ideas but they seem to cater to Chris Martin's very slow vocal pace. Chris doesn't have enough vocal heft and the music isn't melancholic enough to warrant such a slow pace all of the time. The band seems to want to pick up the pace but every time they do they slow down to accommodate Chris. Musically this album is bursting at the seems with filler. 2/5 because there are a few good ideas hidden amongst all the filler.

It's become very cool to hate Colplay over the last few years. I wouldn't call myself a fan but I do like some of the singles from the first two albums, such as Yellow that appears here. I always wondered if the hate was truly warranted since they did seem capable of some good songs. After listening to my first Colplay album in full I can just shrug and say "not exactly". This album is mostly on the dull side but it isn't exactly terrible. 1 album isn't really enough to make a judgment for a band's career but I suspect that most of the hate this band gets is because Chris Martin seems so goddamn annoying.

Hard to rate in a way, because even when there is a nice song, you're so conscious of the Chris Martin factor that it gets in the way. There are bright spots on this album - Yellow is a low-key banger, and Trouble and Shiver are OK. The first track is appalling, so I guess it's good to get that out of the way. One thing that's really notable on this is the lack of any interesting production or musicality. It just...is. You couldn't call it absolutely dreadful I guess, because that would imply something was actually happening.

Sleepy but not in a good way. I'm a boring person but not this boring.

Boooooooooooring

I have never heard of this before. Okay to listen to, but some of it was a little depressing. Not the style of music I would usually choose.

The first two songs sound like U2. I like the moodiness of Spies. I didn’t care for Yellow when it came out. It is old enough to be a fun bit of nostalgic now. I don’t really like Chris Martin’s voice. Album is mostly boring - not too dissimilar from Beck’s Sea Change, really.

That was better than expected

Es sind für mich keine Highlights erkennbar. Dadurch hat es auch keine störenden Elemente und kann somit als Hintergrundmusik verwendet werden.

Solid band, solid album. Never gotten too excited over Coldplay.

Didn't click with me. The guitar is out of tune in Clocks, one of their biggest songs. Just sounds like soft rock.

It’s obvious how they became famous but also I spent a lot of time yawning to soft jams

Thought I'd like it more, was all a bit the samey

Hate this. Has such limp dick energy. Just think its "edgy" music for mums too listen too while doing the school run

God this band is so boring. They sound like a band formulaically trying to create pop-inspired masterpieces. And since it is pop-based (make no mistake, it is), the masses lap it up but with the feeling that they're "allowed" to call this a masterpiece. It's not. There's no formula to good music beyond it being honest and impactful. I don't get that here and never have with Coldplay.

It’s been a tough week on this project. I’ve been full of the heaviest, snottiest cold I have ever encountered. The music has consisted of Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey and now … this.

Good if you're into your lovesongs sung by someone with a particularly whiny voice, which we all are at some point. I'm not in that headspace now.

This is Coldplay's strongest album in my opinion. Objectively it has a strong tracklist, along with great production and performances. Personally I've never really gelled with them though, it's all a little bit bland.

In what beige ass world is this essential listening? 🥱 That being said I did sing along to Yellow a bit bc I’m a lame wad. Not terrible, not great, just a bunch of lukewarm tunes here. 2.5 stars

Next 5 songs played by my Spotify Algorithm: Arcade Fire - Une Anne Sans Lumiere The Lumineers - Flowers in your Hair Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over 'til it's Over Beck - Lost Cause The Police - Every Breath You Take

Cold play is just okay

This is fine, nothing about it seems particularly interesting to me, and I'm unfamiliar with their arena sized sound. Just sounds like an early 2000s indie record I guess.

Post-Britpop's refutation of Britpop by simplifying the grandiose sounds of Britpop bores me so much my god this albums BORING

As I listened to their anthemic songs, I couldn't stop myself from holding a candle in the air and feel the pain of their muse.

Not at all my thing

All the songs seemed quite similar, but they were okay to listen to.

Nice production. I would not mind hearing some of these songs in isolation but I got very impatient halfway through the album - the songs are too similar to me. Everything’s not lost ends the album on a high note, so I guess it was worth listening through the whole album.

17 albums in, and 2 Coldplay albums in three days. The algorithm is learning, and it is malevolent.

this album is like eating a bunch of candy corn. in the moment it’s great, but you regret it and kind of feel sick after you’re done. also, 2 coldplay albums this week??!

If you have trouble getting to sleep, this album is for you. I literally fell asleep listening to this record. Middle of the day. Never happens. It's not as polished as their newer records, so that's good. None of the songs are bad, but I don't understand how they got to be one of the biggest bands of the world. Favorite song: Shiver.

Exact same feelings as the other Coldplay album on here: Aside from the occasional track every once in a blue moon, there really isn't much I care for about Coldplay and never have. Nothing offensive here, but also nothing interesting whatsoever. The musical equivalent of wallpaper

This album wasn’t really for me- much prefer ‘don’t panic’

Not my cup of tea.

Couldn't feel it

Pretty lame, couple of good songs.

Not as boring as A Rush of Blood, but still pretty boring.

Solid album but Coldplay will just never be my favorite

odio coldplay

truly the album of all time

My lawyer has advised me not to comment on this album

About the same as the other Coldplay album we did. So So music and the lead still sounds whiny to me.

For such a beloved band, this album is a snooze.

Rather clean my ears out with a piece of barbed wire.

This album is just radio and mom friendly almost indie. I feel like it's a "nothing to see here, move along" kind of an album but I guess it's something we all need to hear before we die to understand an important lesson about mass appeal. Sand off the edges for smooth sailing!

I'm not listening to Coldplay. Nice try white man

Not good, not bad, just boring.

When "Yellow" first started playing on the radio, I remember thinking "wow, this new Radiohead single is really shitty". Coldplay has forever been remembered to me as shitty Radiohead. There are a few times where some interesting things happen musically here, like the first parts of Shiver and the Pink Floyd-esque chorus of Trouble. But there's also just tons of stuff I can't stand; Shiver takes a turn for the boring, and the main hook of Yellow sounds like someone who just figured out how to do a string bend on guitar. Overall, the interesting stuff doesn't save the rest of the album.

Still can’t stand Coldplay, sorry. D

Sopivan pientä, tenhoavaa hohtoa löytyy. Maailmanparannusasenne, positiivinen. Kuitenkin puudutti kuunnella koko albumi suht samanlaista samalla temmolla.

Matalammasta nuotista korkeampaan falsetissa: vaikka temppu käy vanhaksi, se takaa, että levyllä on enemmän sisältöä kuin Radioheadin musiikissa. I mean it - se on jo jotain.

kinda meh, slow bad Radiohead.

Pretty bland. A couple songs are alright

It's better than their top hits and maybe why they managed to become commercially successful and known world wide but it's not much better. I still don't like Coldplay.

Some huge songs but the album itself is not my type of music. Loved the intro

This score may be harsh, but I honest to god tried to go into this with an open mind. I don't want to be that person who immediately writes off this band, but after an attentive and engaged listen I came to the conclusion this album was, for the most part, very meh. A couple tracks stood out, sure - some cool textures and strong lyricism from Martin, but the rest felt forgettable and bland. Two and a half. Face track: High Speed

Greit nok, ikkje nåke eg ville satt på sjøl

I don't hate Coldplay, I'm just indifferent. Nothing here inspires anything in me.

Not a big Coldplay fan but this wasn't too bad.

I prefer it when Coldplay makes bangers so this album isn't much for me. Also 1 star less because of Yellow. Fuck Yellow

Liked it less than I thought I would.

Always liked this album

Copying Radiohead's basic aesthetic template, dumbing it down a bit, focusing on interpersonal relationships rather than alienation, and all with a much less compelling structures, textures, lyrics, and vocals. I think it's all those melodramatic forced voice cracks that finally did me in. Couldn't even get through this in one sitting.

They have multiple albums on this list? Did Gwyneth Paltrow have a vote? And why a gold globe for an album cover? A dish of vanilla ice cream would have been too on the nose, but I'd at least have given them credit for leaning into how boring they are. Yellow is fine enough song, but then I remember that it's called YELLOW. Something tells me this is Zach Braff's favorite album. You know who I don't want recommending albums to me? The dude who directed Garden State, the woman who founded a company called Goop, and anyone who endorses naming their child Apple.

yup thats coldplay

There are moments here and there on this album where I can understand why people hold this band in high regard, but every time I’ve listened to them, I largely feel bored by the music.

I don't hate this record. It's fine. It's somewhere between a singer/songwriter record and an over-produced pop record. The songs aren't bad, but they're not great. The sound of the record is actually pretty good. I like the production on it for the most part. The mix is good. I'm just not sure it belongs on any lists at all. It feels like 100 other records. Meh.

This is the epitome of "meh" for me. It's definitely music, these people are certainly musicians, but the music they make is just so..... uninspiring and uninteresting. I do appreciate some of the celestial sounds they tend to gravitate toward, but other than that, I wouldn't really seek this out.

I'm not a fan of Coldplay, don't really like Chris Martin's voice. Yet, 'Yellow' and 'Trouble' are quite good songs. 2/5

Musically great but not my style. Wouldn't put it on but would jam to it if someone else did.

Better than Adele; worse than Mumble and Sons

There's one good song on this album, but honestly they all pretty much sound the same. Depressing. And this dude has the most irritating singing voice. I didn't DNF it though, so that's something.

It was only recently that I was reviewing A Rush Of Blood To The Head. I was disappointed at the time to find that Yellow wasn’t on that album. Well, I shall be disappointed no longer as it can be found here! Songs I already knew: Yellow, Trouble Favourites: Yellow Yellow is the one Coldplay song that I really like. Since it is on this album, I was hoping that I might find some gems here. Unfortunately, my hopes were a little dashed here. Yellow is genuinely a great song, but the rest of this album just left me feeling rather bored. At the risk of repeating myself from my other Coldplay review, I just can’t comprehend people getting excited at the idea of hearing this album. I know it must happen, and Coldplay have lots of very dedicated fans, I just can’t fathom why.

I hadn't listened to a full Coldplay album before. Their music is fine in bits and pieces for me, but a full album doesn't do a whole lot. Favorite track: Sparks

Blech. Not for me. It seems like Chris Martin is responding to late-90s brainless aggression with pablum. But it just ends up pouring terrible music on top of bad.

They're not bad, they're not offensive, they're just boooooring. Whole album played and it was fine background music.

Some decentish songs but the majority tended toward whiney.

I feel like this album is good if you are the girlfriend of Coldplay or think that you might be able to be.

Tried listening but couldn’t stop thinking about my ex :/ Yellow is still a banger, but the album feels pretty dated and boring. Viva la vida was a much better album

I went into this one with low expectations. The sound is pretty dated (it even features the millennial whoop a few times!) and there is nothing unique about any of it. But it was pleasant enough on the ears and kept a chill attitude throughout. So I guess my low expectations were met, but barely.

Some fairly decent tracks on this, nothing amazing. Pretty much the same template used across the album. Also have to remember that at the time the charts were full of Spice Girls, Take That, Vengboys etc., and this is on a total other level to that. Decent songwriter really, it’s just not for me

Don't think I've ever listened to a Coldplay album before... Didn't do much for me really. Some good tracks but sounded a bit dull overall. Think don't panic was the best track

Literally the world's blandest music

Coldplay is boring

There’s just nothing to it, no substance, no depth, nothing very catchy, determinedly radio friendly, Martin’s weedy vocals delivering little in the way of emotional depth.

Boring, sappy love songs. Some interesting parts shine through, like Shiver and Trouble, but the rest is just a slog. Definitely a good thing they shed this style to go in a broader direction.

I tried not to like it. Some good songs on there. But not my vibe. Solid 2.

Pity that such a sexy voice comes with such terrible songs

Good at times, but mostly just whiny and not really for me

Fucking hell, his voice does my head in

Baby food music. As wet as it gets.

"Baby food music." Hahaha. I actually own this record and am proud to say that even at the time and height of "Yellow" popularity I found the album as a whole completely underwhelming. I was dreading listening to it again, but actually found the first couple songs didn't bug me the way I remembered. You can hear their influences loud and clear, but it's all kind of low key and it doesn't feel like they're trying too hard to be cute or anything, unlike say whatever it was they were doing on that album cycle where they all dressed like they got hit with paintball guns. Still, every single song after "Yellow" is so entirely unremarkable and boring that I don't even think you would be impressed if a friend handed you these same songs on a cassette that he had recorded in his bedroom. There's just nothing there. It's borderline music. It's sound from an app loaded with rain sounds and wind chimes. And it utterly destroys any goodwill gained from the first half of the record. Please give us something good tomorrow, list. OR ELSE...

Not bad, but not memorable. Like early Radiohead, without the hooks.

No thank you

Some good compositions and great production value but some songs are straight up meh. And mainly - Chris Martin's singing is a gimmick that barely works in a short feature. Listening to whole albums length of it is bordering on suffering.

Bland

Chris Martin is a great songwriter but I just find listening to Coldplay SO dreary. My issues are: - His lyric ideas are good but some of the lines are trite. I just wish he was a better poet - His voice is tolerable but not that interesting - Song arrangements are so predictable. No interesting sound scapes. I suspect if he had more talented musicians around him, he would have created astonishing music. As it is, this music is fine so long as you don't listen too closely.

Ngl, this actually has some decent songs on it. But also the best song is the 1 and a half minute intro, and everything besides that and the 2 other decent songs is bland af. Also... Coldplay are just the absolute biggest let down of a music career that has existed in my life. This album felt like it had PROMISE when it came out (I would've given this a 3 or 4 back then easily). Now it's just sad and bitter. Anti-nostalgia.

Easy to listen to, but not standing out too much. Just okay. Would I listen to it again? Not really.

Okayish for me. Nothing more to say.

music to put up around women.

not my thing at all even though it's very easy to listen to found myself skipping songs cos I got bored of them

Generic. All tracks sound the same and have the same feel. I had listened halfway and was hoping it was gonna be over cause I was so bored. Honestly cant highlight anything.

Sounds pretty, but also boring.

Tråkigt.... allt dåligt med Radiohead men utan deras 1-3 undantagslåtar per skiva som går hårt.... två helt ok låtar resten ljummet...

Nice enough just not my type of music.

One of the most overrated bands of our generation. Is that too bold a statement? Probably. But this band has gotten a substantial amount of hype over the years and it's a bit of a head-scratcher for me. This album is very smooth, very soft, I would almost go as far as describing it as fuzzy. I feel weirdly serenaded by Chris Martin throughout the album, but at the same time I know Coldplay were not aiming to produce a lullaby with this album. It's safe, it's people-pleasing, and kind of boring. Martin's voice is great, but nothing else really stands out in this one. Every track sort of sounds like the one prior, and unfortunately nothing on this record is very memorable. Fave tracks: Shiver, Yellow, Parachutes

Not a fan

I was going to give this album a 3, which was what I normally do with any album that doesn't really wow me. Then, it occurred to me that I couldn't name any song on this album except for Yellow. At times when listening to the songs that weren't Yellow I found myself unsure when tracks were ending. This entire album ran together very badly in my head.

It's very easy-listening-esque. None of the songs felt very memorable to me, save for the last one. The sound and tone is fine and good; it's just that the overall feel of the album doesn't stand out at any point, good or bad. It is simply average. Favorite track: Everything's Not Lost

To put this bluntly, this is some white people music. This music is also kind of a different time, and I was a fan when I was younger, but I have definitely gone to other places with my music taste. It's fine though. Nothing too egregious to make a completely negative review. Highlight: 10.

good if you are GPaltrow

It's Coldplay. I regret everything.

I was prepared to hate this album because... it's Coldplay. But it was ok. Not terrible. Probably deserves a 3 by my typical rating standards but I have to take into account the fact that this album unleashed another 20 years of bland, approachable, radio-friendly shit

Slow moving and uneventful . A good album to have sex to or neck yourself .

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It feels like the same song being played over and over with all the feeling of a lounge band. Murph and The Magictones, anyone? I feel they're wearing beige velour. So boring. Pretty good if you need to be put to sleep.

I just find them boring. I think his voice is too ingrained in my brain as boring and full and there's nothing anyone can do about it unfortunately

god it's rough out here not liking slow, sleepy music

They're good, but the album doesn't sound to me at all.

I maybe recognized three songs, but one for sure. The album is alright. Despite what I said during my Philosophy 100 class in the summer of 2005, I am not a b ColdPlay fan. I was really only a fan of Clocks. My statement was a mistake and not true. I ended up dropping that class rather than face the shame, plus the teacher really just taught in drawings and nothing made much sense.

The big two tracks are ok, but the rest is nothing special - perhaps the mood I’m in at the moment.

Ok, but a bit dull.

Imagine my horror as I realized I once had this album downloaded to my parents' PC, through Napster I'm sure. I didn't know better then. I do now.

It was alright. Pretty chill, not much was very standout.

-It was very meh and it was also Coldplay

The singles are good but the rest of the album is just tedious. Still far better than modern Coldplay though

Yellow is amazing. I don't know why would this be an album you have to listen to before you die. It's an ok debut album from an early 2000s rock band but it doesn't compare favorably to their competition.

I quite like the song Yellow, and I think Shiver has a nice cadence to the rhythm and melody, but outside of those two songs, I can't help but think "I'd rather be listening to X", and there are two albums in particular that come to mind: Transatlanticism (Death Cab for Cutie) and The Color and The Shape (Foo Fighters). The overall composition of Parachutes reminds me a lot of early Foo Fighters songs, like Walking After You. However, with the exceptions noted above, I don't think Parachutes ever rises above or even to meet that one song in terms of storytelling or dynamics or any other particular quality. That said, Foo Fighters were all established musicians and Coldplay were not at the time of their making each album, so take that with a grain of salt. The performance is masterful, but wears thin after a few songs. Every track blends into each other - indeed, this is a common complaint about Coldplay, and it's why I mentioned Death Cab. Their music, like the album Parachutes, tends to hover around a general sense of melancholy or at least bittersweet joy. However, basically every song they've made is a unique experience, expressing some new and nuanced facet of emotion. Parachutes does not have this breadth, and I think that's a large part of what holds it back. It has neither depth in composition nor broad emotional beats, and so it feels very shallow. It's worth noting that even Chris Martin doesn't like this album, which doesn't affect my rating, but I think even the band recognizes it's not their strongest work.

Ok. Dislike Yellow with a passion, but some others are redeeming.

Way too Coldplayie. Every song sounded like Coldplay. Not good.

lukewarm album. shiver, spies, and yellow are great tracks, I just wish the rest of the album share the same excitement. Everything's not lost is an alright closing track.

Odd that Coldplay gets two mentions- I don't really think they are all that great despite having a few nice songs. Just more of the same tbh

Tocado, e um audição sem muita atenção confirma que é mais sem graça do que chato