Parachutes

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

easy listening, but just not my jam...probably won't listen again or dig into their other stuff

Coldplay’s magnum opus. 3.5/10

i'd give it a 2.5 if I could. When considering all my other 3s, this doesn't fit there. If most of my 3s came on randomly I'd probably leave them on, but I'd most likely change the playlist if this one started. But I do recognize the musical ability is pretty good so I don't feel great about a 2. Especially because I'm not giving it a 2 just because "ew Coldplay", but it's just not my jam.

депрессивная музыка молодежных сериалов нулевых чтож имеет место

Nothing doing

2/5 nuuuuh

There were a few songs near the beginning where the acoustic guitar licks were quite enjoyable. I found the rest of it not to be that interesting. I was listening while I was cooking so I didn’t really pay a lot of attention to the lyrics  so I might come around to it if their lyrics were so amazing they could save the day. 

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Just felt boring and uninspired mostly.

Just kind of "meh" to me. I didn't really hear anything memorable. Not offensive, but I treated it like background music.

It was aight. I give it three twists of a dog's tail

Pleasant if dull. First side is stronger than second but ultimately it is background music.

On one of my milestone birthdays, Sue surprised me and took me to my first concert at ACC. It was a double surprise because the band playing was Coldplay and as far as I knew, neither of us listened to Coldplay! But I didn't mind since their songs on the radio were ok. It was a splashy energetic concert, great effects and a good performance, but I couldn't help thinking, while the crowd, yet again, sang along to the chorus of another innocuous ballad, "I just don't get it". I still don't.

It's Coldplay, it's alright.

can't stand his whiney voice. I do like "don't panic" though, maybe cos it was on the radio less. Would still listen to this over cat stevens, he sets the low bar.

De entrada me estaba gustando un poco más que el otro disco que tocó (la primer canción me agradó), pero ahora, después de haberlo escuchado 2.5 veces tengo que concluir que en verdad creo que no tengo mucho más que añadir de lo que mencioné en A Rush of Blood. Mis quejas siguen siendo las mismas, es música inofensiva, en general aburrida y que se siente sin propósito. Sus letras son vacías más allá de hablar o de algo abstractamente bonito o de algún anhelo romántico. Creo que es buen músico, el disco suena bien producido pero de nuevo todas las canciones como si fuera la misma, se mezcla en lo mismo todo y termina en algo aunque bien construido carente de contenido. No propone, no dice, no contesta nada... música absolutamente light para mientras compras tus calcetas en el Suburbia.

Not offensive, mostly just background noise

Coldplay is best🤷🏼‍♂️

1.5| le voy a dar el 2 solo por qué es parte del inicio de la "nueva música del nuevo milenio" y por qué shiver vale la pena pero no aporta nada para mí y creo que no debería estar en esta lista igual que el "a rush blablabla"

Typical weak Coldplay stuff, do not like.

Coldplay are shit

boring tbh couldnt finish

Coldplay is actual music. I cannot deny it. It is is an unfortunate fact. But it is the music and the refuge of the dull, the slow-witted, the uninspiring; those merely able to be upwardly mobile enough to purchase albums occasionally. Very occasionally. This band, and this record in particular, is for English guys named Will or Tim who first heard them at uni where they were studying economics (or similar boring shite) and later were given a safe job, in a safe industry, slightly above their ability level. Coldplay's mediocrity mimics their own dull, everyday banality. They marry and settle down with an equally dull woman called Jen and go to Coldplay concerts together where they sing along to the insipid and uninspiring lyrics like they are the absolute lifeblood and essence of who they are as boring, middle-class British people who've never done anything, seen anything, or experienced anything extraordinary in their lives. Coldplay is elevator music in the worst kind of hell. A vapid, black hole where no one says or does anything interesting, ever. It is the soundtrack to the death of the mind.

It's not as bad as I feared it would be to revisit this. I remember the first time someone played me Yellow at school. It wasn't total shite. It was just that I had never been so underwhelmed by a hyped band in my life. Shiver and Everything's Not Lost are ok. The production is fine but Chris Martin has an awful falsetto that is like nails down a blackboard. Ultimately Superhans said it best: "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy." By a scrotum hair, I would listen to Coldplay ahead of voting Reform. But it is really is that close.

I thought it was going to be bad enough sitting through "Yellow" voluntarily, but after listening to the entire album, I stand corrected. It was all awful. I'll give them the benefit and acknowledge their musicianship. But every song feels like trudging through mud listening to the most depressing Englishman who ever lived. No thank you, I'll happily never listen to Coldplay again. And nothing of value will be lost.

Coldplay just doesn't speak to me

Lots of people have a bland, insipid, mediocre, forgettable MOR song or album, even more than one, but who has a whole career as bland, insipid, mediocre, forgettable, and MOR as Coldplay?

Had hugely low expectations. Was still disappointed.

Fuck Coldplay all my homies hate Coldplay every song here is blander than lukewarm water

This has no business being on any "Top" list unless it's 50 best albums to fall asleep to

There's not really any one specific thing that I would point to as being exceptionally bad here. The writing is fine, the playing and performances are adequate, the production is nice enough. It's really just that listening to it brings out the same feelings in me as forced smiles and small talk.

Shite early noughties British indie. We can only apologise for what was inflicted on the rest of the world

Coldplay on kyllä todella paskaa musiikkia :) Kärsimystä koko levy

Not for me

I've never listened to this album but I sure that I have heard enough of the songs from it. Well enough to know I will automatically give this a 1 star.

Kind of boring

Not my cuppa tea

NO thanks

I don't like Coldplay.

First listen

recognized Yellow from hearing it on the radio, but that's about the only feeling i had during this. pretty bland overall. it has the trappings of being emotional but nothing about the music conveys emotion, so it just comes off as hollow

i'm sorry. this was really, really awful. High Speed was almost good and was the only one with a different producer, so there's that. but... the lyrics aren't even intelligent enough to be insipid. they're ralph wiggum words and not the cute kind of choo-choo-choose ones. screech/whine/crying your lyrics doesn't make one sound more heartfelt either.

Coldplay is so not interesting

Bends rip off

Not even hating because it’s Coldplay but that was boring

Nice debut

The lyrics were written by a divorced Dad who sees his kids once every few months and wants to use this window of of opportunity impart wisdom upon them. But all he can think of is Live Laugh Love. Vocals are posh bloke puts on estuary accent to appear like a man of the people. Music almost nonexistent. I cut the grass while listening to this. The rum tum tum of my elderly petrol lawnmower was the best thing I heard. Better than everything else I’ve heard by this lot like they’re trying and failing to sound like 00’s losees Athlete. 1 star.

Coldplay innit

Zzzzzzzzzz 😴

Chris Martin’s voice is just so awful. Everything I don’t want from a singer. The whole thing is just painful and bland and dire.

I did it - I listened to a Coldplay album from front to back. It was even more boring than expected. I kind of almost get Yellow, otherwise utter dross. 1/10

Coldplay is awful.

I always thought Coldplay were an absolute snoozefest of a band, and my view hasn't changed. Sure, 'Yellow' might be an earworm, but I can't for the life of me understand why 'Parachutes' is held in such high regard and how it was the beginning of Coldplay becoming one of the biggest bands of the 21st century. What is it people like about Chris Martin so much? He's essentially ripping off Thom Yorke from Radiohead and is nowhere near as interesting nor as talented, and his falsetto is cringeworthy. Every song sounds the same on 'Parachutes', and there's nothing really interesting going on, except maybe Jonny Buckland's guitar riffs from time to time; admittedly they're not too bad. But this album has sold over 17 million copies worldwide as of last year? How? What makes Coldplay so great? I've never understood it and listening to 'Parachutes' in full has not changed my mind. Look at Coldplay, look how they whine for you, and everything they do, yeah, they are bored fellows. Best songs: Look, Yellow's okay I spose

holy nothing burger album favorite song: sparks least favorite song: everything’s not lost

Pablum.

Eh

Out of college, money spent, See no future, pay no rent, All the money's gone, nowhere to go. Any jobber got the sack, Monday morning turning back, Yellow lorry slow, nowhere to go. But oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go! Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go! Took me years to realise that this middle 8 in You Never Give Me Your Money is a reflection on the time Paul got a job in December 1960 as a second man on a Speedy Prompt Delivery lorry after they came back from the first Hamburg stint. It's such a fascinating little insight into a time where he worried that he was going to have to be a jobber, and not realise that magic feeling in his head. And speaking of magic feelings....this can fark right off!

American Idol audition music.

This is an adult version of Taylor Swift... So if I was a teenage girl laying on my bed pining for the attention of someone, I might connect with it... But I'm not so I'll pass.

The best part of this album is 7 minutes and 15 seconds into the last track. Try it. You can thank me later. Hold on, you can thank me now!

one of my least favorite voices singing some of my least favorite songs!

Offensive that this is on the list tbh

I’d rather listen to the sound of my testicles being crushed on infinite repeat than this abjectly dull record

I mean I didn't hate it like some people on here clearly did, but this is def not something I'm revisiting. This is the first album so far in this process that i skipped halfway through some songs. It did feel nostalgic tho as someone who grew up in the early 2000s which ups the rating a little bit bc love them or hate them Coldplay will always be part of the soundtrack of that era. Idk this just feels like music that i could find a better version of in other artists and a lot of the songs just DRAAAGGGED (hence why most of my top songs were the short ones). Spies made me wanna commit an act of violence. Top 3 (gun to head): 1) Don't Panic 2) Yellow 3) Parachutes

After the first 5 songs, they sounded the same still. Coldplay sucks. White people took an L here. Let's move on. Also 4.1 minutes average per song is fucking stupid.

Soft rock that sounds like Randy Newman but even worse.

Listening to this once was ok enough for me...

This shit is yacht rock for the 2000s, but instead of the earnestness, it is replaced with pretentiousness. God this is really just not for me at all. I can’t wait to give this navel gazing garbage one star.

Absofknlutely not. Coldplay is U2 with half the artistic merit. Mass appeal, lowest common denominator drivel. OUT

This was pretty bad.

Soulless. Should change their name to Cold and Calculating.

No thank you. Temu Radiohead not needed.

Words cannot describe how much I hate this band

Bland bland bland

In the early aughts I once described Coldplay to a friend as "Watered down Radiohead for mass-consumption." (Martin's falsetto may have had something to do with that take) I don't even give them that much credit today. Complete dreck.

Truly awful. Boring, slow to the point of dragging, no energy to even sustain the vibe they’re going for

nie wiem czy jestem w stanie całego albumu przesłuchać… jestem w środku drugiej piosenki T-T did not listen lol niewykonalne to jest

*fart noises*

Other than 'Yellow', I hadn't heard (or at least consciously retained) anything by Coldplay before today. The only thing I knew of them was that, like Nickelback, they were the target of much hate. So, now I've heard a full album and... well... I'm not impressed... It's hard to describe this. It feels like a non-thing. Perhaps being an ethereal non-entity of sorts was the intent? I don't know. And it didn't much inspire me to care, either. Nonetheless, I did give it a second full playthrough, though, to see if anything would stick, and sadly, the most memorable moments I'll be taking with me are the cringy falsettos which were outright obnoxious. So yeah, not a great experience, and I feel like I've now wasted more time on this review than the album deserves. Conclusion: the haters were right.

I couldn’t stand Coldplay in 2000. With years of growth and this 1001 exercise I’ve come to appreciate things I didn’t once. Coldplay isn’t an example of this. They still suck.

I didn't like at all. I don't understand why people listen Coldplay. It sounds like shit.

Shiver feels like a pre-empting of Mike Posner's Cooler Than Me, the worst pop song ever written. The rest is just ploddy

Not my favorite style of music. Coldplay was the biggest pop band around during their heyday but I was not following that style of music then and it has not aged into something that I like. They seem like a competent band that makes more or less the same song or style of song over and over. Sometimes the songs are catchy and sometimes they are not. Its not quite elevator music but it is somewhere between that and the music U2 made post 2000 but with a far less accomplished singer than Bono.

Didn't listen because it's coldplay

The worst

Nope.

Not even good enough to be called bad music. It's anti-music. I have nothing but disdain for this band, how fucking dare they do this to music. So bland it almost hurts, but hurting would be far too interesting to be associated with this drivel. Now where's my reward for listening to this tripe, surely I get a medal or something?

I thought I knew how awful Coldplay was before listening to this, now I really know they suck.

For some reason I hear this album and the idea of "political theatre" enters my mind. It just sounds so... manufactured. It's stale, generic, pandering, sanitized, mass-consumer drivel. Absolutely nothing about Coldplay or this release strikes me as raw, direct, authentic, artistic, or expressive. Entirely performative. You can keep this one, thanks.

Now I understand the derision

This was the album that made me realize Coldplay is really not my thing The voice and the over-produced sound grate on me more and more each time I hear it I really dont get how they are so popular . . .

I don't listen to Nazis, you should have learned that with the Kanye.

Не очень люблю колдплей ебаный, но что поделать. Не хочу расписывать каждую композицию, потому что я уверена на 100000 % они все будут относительно одинаковые (спойлер: угадано) Звук многослойный, но большого интереса не представляет. В песнях будто бы везде один мотив, но с разными подложками и разбавками, якобы, разных звучаний. Не знаю, это как купить пирожки с примерно одинаковой начинкой. Дорого и бессмысленно. Вокал неплохой, текст – так себе, не чувствую в нём чего-то особенного. Типичные мысли и записки человека. О жизни, о любви, грусти и тоске. База. Всё ещё воняет какими-то воспоминаниями о долгих поездках в машине. Всё ещё пиздецки неприятное ощущение для меня. Да и ваще, я не очень люблю музыку двухтысячных. Пока слушала, пропустила две песни мимо ушей. Настолько не цепляет. Велл, очевидно, что не мой жанр эт всё. Одна песня мне запомнилась из-за силы текста на фоне тихого инструмента. Классический эффект, на самом деле, на меня просто всегда работает. Оверолл 2/10

They get a lot of hate. And, add me to the list. Bleh.

Just like lavender is supposed to be calming; cold play is described by some as soothing instrumentations. For me though it is far from calming, in fact I want to be destructive, not that I am a violent person, but forced calming is something I can’t abide in. This album is a one.

Being honest, I will not be listening to Coldplay recs. Yellow and Viva la Vida is fine, but I aim to have self-respect

This Is probably Coldplay’s best album, but that doesn’t mean I particularly like it.

Voce irritante, musica offensivamente banale e allo stesso tempo pretenziosa

Fuckin' A. Two Coldplay albums in a week makes me want to stick an icepick in my earhole. The pumpkin spice latte of music, just stop already. This band fucking sucks.

I'm sorry about "Parachutes," I've never liked that crap. I've gone skydiving myself, and it was exciting and overwhelming. This is lame and irritating. Chris Martin's voice, in particular, really pisses me off. Coldplay leaves me completely cold, and nothing here radiates even a spark of warmth.

I realised quickly why I never listen to Coldplay - everything is SO depressing! Only "Trouble" lifts me slightly but I won't be listening to this again.

This is the two hundred second album I’m rating. I’m a Coldplay hater even though I’ve never listened to a song. Adding to my Playlist - Shiver and Everything’s Not Lost. Not Adding to my Playlist - Don’t Panic, Spies, Sparks, Yellow, Trouble, Parachutes, High Speed, and We Never Change. Yellow - Reminds me of the trash I heard on the radio. All in all I liked 2/10. The Smiths but more boring.

I cant listen to this..

One of the most depressing albums ever.

Coldplay is nothing music. So incredibly boring. It's "television music". I just can't.

I was surprised to see this on the list, but I gave it an honest listen. It's truly the musical equivalent of white bread or a Hallmark movie. Bland, inoffensive, formulaic. It's like adult contemporary pretending to be indie. It certainly was popular and influential, but I cringe at all the bands like The Fray and Owl City which Coldplay spawned. I acknowledge I'm a hipster. Chris Martin pretends to be Jeff Buckley or sometimes Dave Matthews, but he truly is a great singer and I can understand why he's captured the hearts of so many middle-aged moms worldwide. The lyrics are all so cliche and boring and melodramatic and sugarcoated. The album doesn't flow song-to-song. I will admit there was nostalgia over "Yellow" and "Don't Panic", and I'll embrace them as guilty pleasures. But "Yellow" doesn't even seem to fit within the rest of the album. "Shiver" was also kind of an interesting song but I'm already forgetting it after a few songs. It's really all just so forgettable.

It’s Coldplay. It’s bland. Not a single song stands out as memorable. It’s just… dinner party music for boring people.

Qué insoportables son estos tíos. Son los U2 malos, los Radiohead sin talento. Y como haga otro falsete más, voy a quemar una foto de Chris Martin en un ritual de magia negra.

Coldplay... whatever

U2, komplett med the Edges gitarrspel. Kräver fullständig koncentration för att skilja låtarna åt. Blir väldigt lätt bakgrundsmusik. Inget som sticker ut, skaver eller lämnar något som helst avtryck. Fruktansvärt tråkiga texter. Majoriteten verkar handla om att stå i kö och vänta på sin tur. Intetsägande, anonymt och meningslöst. Lobotomera och vattenkamma bröderna Gallagher så får man Coldplay. Hade det inte varit för att det spelades in 2000 hade jag trott att det var AI-genererat.

Even worse than I thought it would be

Boring

Dentist office music

Gay

Pure pablum that is inexplicably popular.

This album doesn’t need to be on this list, boring and generic

We've got Radiohead at home, this is Radiohead at home

1 for shiver, the rest is so dull .

Just hasn't held up for me.

It's Coldplay

koldprenk

*puke*

REALLY????! music to break your own arm wanking off to

HOW THE FUCK did a band with at most two good songs, who ran out of ideas ON THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, become one of the biggest bands on the planet. HOW.

Coldplay is muzak as are Nickleback and Creed. Cringe and boring. Bland. Just a bunch of.. nothingness.

Overall: 2/10 Well, I hate Coldplay. I always have and I always will. They bore me to tears and Chris Martin sucks as a vocalist and a person. This entire album went in one ear and out the other and I quite honestly forgot I was even listening to it at all. Straight up garbage, thank you Coldplay. Fav Song: Shiver didn't suck that bad Least Fav Song: Yellow

The end of the 1990s brought many great albums, and how did we usher in the new decade? Boring, beige, pedestrian music. A dull uninteresting album from a boring band. I would only recommend this album to someone on their death bed, and just so they wouldn't feel so bad about dying.

Music to drive your ford focus to a garden centre to. Boring, insipid and hard to imagine getting excited about. The few times that they try to “rock out” come off like David Cameron breakdancing after too much Eton Mess.

Clearly you're all in or you're all out. I am out.

Brutal. The only parachute needed is for jumping out of a plane to get away from this hot burning pile of trash.

Dear God this was not enjoyed by me. Initially I was glad to see Coldplay, as I don't really know much of their music but I know they are polarizing. Now I don't get how they're polarizing. It's bad.

Super fucking garbage

Dreadful.

Disclaimer: I have been anti-Coldplay since the early 2000s. They were inescapable in the UK, leading to many jokes and conversations about how stuff like Yellow was a joyless dirge. This seed of distaste blossomed throughout their even more insufferable Viva La Vida era, and I generally hold the view that they are the nadir of a kind of soft rock which offends me on an elemental level. That said, in the spirit of this project I want to approach this album with an open mind - I genuinely hope that an end-to-end listen will challenge my views! ------- We were right to mock them. It sounds like the backing band from Ricky Gervais' fairly-funny "Life On The Road". Boring and smugly sentimental. Favourite tracks: Spies had some decent bass? Meh...

Boring

Felt like a pretentious white girl. Not interesting. Predictable. Generic.

May cause drowsiness and dizziness; do not operate heavy machinery.

So boring, didn’t enjoy.

this album would have been worse if not for yellow so boring, so inoffensive, i get why they were huge but fuck off personally

mid

If you’re struggling to sleep. Here’s your solution. Exhaustingly droning vocals surrounded by edgeless and uninspiring instrumentals. Honestly I feel like I went into this album with a good attitude. I was excited to hear their debut album, but my god thiw album is so shallow and boring. Seriously a great sleep aid if you need one though.

Sorry, but this is shopping mall music. No idea why this made this list. 10/100

Infelizmente o Coldplay não acertou nesse álbum, no meu ponto de vista. Tem outros bem melhores!

Not gonna do it. Can't listen to this

Trilha sonora de formatura de odonto

Fuck you coldplay

Budget U2.

I think this is quite bad!

i remember being a kid and feeling like coldplay was inescapable, much like death or taxes. chris martin's fucking voice was so irritating. yellow, clocks, in my place, you couldn't walk through a fucking grocery store without hearing one of them. i liked shiver the most, however, it's basically just their best impression of jeff buckley. i don't even hate coldplay, i think viva la vida is an interesting record! enjoyable even!

Incredibly boring