Parachutes

Alot of the songs sound the same

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.

I think people who sneer at Coldplay are similar to those who looked down their nose at ABBA years ago. They have more hooks and great melodies in this album than most groups manage in a career Never cool. Never edgy. But these songs still pack out stadiums after 25 years so it’s hard to argue they’re without merit Yellow, Spies and Shiver remain particularly great

Loved every song

3.8 + What a wild trajectory Coldplay has had given this rather unassuming debut - a pretty record with subtle and intimate production. I especially like the overwrought guitar voicing on "Shiver" and Martin's breathy vocals on the verses of "Don't Panic." Perhaps the stadium-filling bombast of Coldplay's later outings can be traced to the big chorus on "Yellow." If they had perhaps tamped down their ambitions slightly and proceeded in a more artful direction, they probably wouldn't have landed the Super Bowl halftime. Good on them, I suppose.

Best Coldplay album. Spot on. Loved it

Some very beautiful songs, but most, at least for me, drag on a bit too much. Still a fairly good debut record that set up a nice stage for a long run of semi great records in the years to come! Favorite lyrics: - I awake to find no peace of mind. Favorite songs: - Don't Panic - Shiver - Spies - Sparks - Yellow - Trouble - High Speed 7 out of 10

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'm a Coldplay apologist. I don't care for most of their new output, but I grew up with these early albums, and I still like them a lot. I really enjoyed listening to Parachutes today. The first 60% of the album is particularly strong, and "Shiver" and "Sparks" remain favorites of mine. The only songs I don't care for as much are the short transitional title track, and the closer "Everything's Not Lost". That said, really strong pop record, and a great debut for them. I'd like to see them return to a more rock-oriented sound in the future, and please, for the love of all that is holy, stay away from EDM.

Good Album 4/5

A great album!

Dont care what people say, if you hate coldplay for their latest albums thats absolutely fine but there is a reason they got famous to begin with

One of my favs

Boss to be honest. A classic sound and a world away from the coldplay that has sold out today. Spies and yellow are personal favourites

Sucks big time.

Coldplay's album Parachutes is one I've heard a good bit of over the years. For a debut album it was a massive commercial success with multiple popular singles; impressive in my book. Coldplay definitely gives me U2 vibes and in my book that's a good thing. They're a very solid example of a more chill rock band that has the ability to write catchy songs. I don't dislike the album but I don't think it's enough for me to be an album I listen to a ton of.

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.

Carries some nostalgia Guess I don't find it as offensive as some ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One very late night in Malibu, I savagely berated a man who sopped up what little bandwidth we had to stream Coldplay. Fucking Coldplay….

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.

Enjoyed Coldplay more than I thought. Very mellow and encompassing

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

UK friends told me about this band, this album before we’d heard of Coldplay in the US. They said, “You’ll love them; they’re just like U2!” Nope.

1. Don't Panic: beautiful track, guitar mixed with the piano sounds great. 8/10 2. Shiver: absolute banger of a track, guitar goes hard. 9.5/10 3. Spies: pretty alright song, not particularly interesting 7/10 4. Sparks: great song, possibly my favorite on this album 10/10 5. Yellow: all-time classic, great song, chris vocals are really good on this one. 8.5/10 6. Trouble: second favorite, every part of this song has such strong points. great piano opening and great ending encapsulating a hauntingly good chorus. 10/10 7. Parachutes: nice little interlude, nothing much to be said about this. 7/10 8. High Speed: nice song, not too special but it does have a very good vibe to it. 7.5/10. 9. We Never Change: love this song, lovely melody and vocals. 9/10. 10. Everything's Not Lost: great song as well very strong points. 8.5/10 Hidden track. Life Is For Living: actual nice hidden track, good end to the album. 8/10

Låter lite som ett blekt och urvattnat Radiohead. Gjorde mig bara oerhört nervös och fick mig mest att tänka på hur tunn gränsen är mellan vila och plåga.

Pass

J'ai aimé plus que je ne m'y attendais. Coldplay a un côté un peu quétaine, mais la musique sait comment nous emporter et créer des émotions. Un peu de nuances ferait parfois du bien

Sonntag 5. März Classic.

SO nostalgic, makes me feel like I'm in my childhood bedroom again. Love.

Good debut album by Coldplay, with highly memorable hits and great melodies and hooks. I love Coldplay first 3 albums before they became boring and uninteresting. Good times. 8,3/10

Better than I expected.

Great nostalgia

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

Amazing. 2nd best Coldplay album

Better than Adele; worse than Mumble and Sons

I don't hate Coldplay but I was surprised by how many songs I knew AND really liked

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.

Sounds like something that would be on at American Eagle Outfitters. It’s good for background music.

Kinda just ehhhh. It’s a very easy listen with lots of catchy instrumentals and riffs, and Chris Martin’s vocals are also really nice, but the lyrics kind of make it not have any lasting impact. As soon as a song is off I forgot what it was even about or what emotion it conveyed. 6/10

man, they used to be so good

Ooof, this gets you in the feels.

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.

Some songs borrows so much from Jeff Buckley it's distracting. Shivers in particular sounds exactly like something that would be on Grace. Anyway, this album was huge when it came out and it marks the turning point where britpop started to fade to become something more atmospheric and, dare I say, Radiohead-esque. Like Doves and all that. Radiohead had left for more experimental pastures and so the indie rock throne was vacant, Coldplay clearly wanted to redeem that spot and it succeeded, they went on to beome one fo the most popular acts of the early 00's.

Good pop, but it gets old real quick. It's just not my kind. That said, it's a strong first album.

I was a hardcore Coldplay fan in College, but as I discover more band such as radiohead that fade away. I still think that they had something interesting to bring to the industry. their show seams amazing and I love Chris voice.

An overall nice album that I'm not fan of, but that is surely important in this decade. Great pop songs, distinctive singing, a sound of their own.

Goated album

Their best album

Good record

Yellow is the hit off of this for a reason. Everything else kind of blurred together.

Excelent Coldplay Album

Prima, singer-songer writer, iets te traag

Strongest five I can give. Every song on this album is fantastic. Coldplay had such a fantastic style. I still listen to this album regularly. If you all dont give it a five I will judge you. Can't wait to see the 3 star meh in group ratings after I submit this.

I forgot how long some of these are.

Heard a lot of these songs before, never listened to the whole alum. Some goodies

No wonder they got huge... Yellow into Trouble.... 👏 Don't Panic a very underrated track 👌

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This album is one of the 3 good ones Coldplay made. I don't hate it, but it's not as good as A Rush of Blood to the Head. Don't Panic is all time though.

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.

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Masterpiece

As a full album, I'd say it's kind of boring. I used to listen to this back then but if you were to ask me if i remember any of these songs. I'd tell you i recognize like 3-4 of them. But those 3-4 songs I really like. Overall it's fine but not something I'd need to listen to as a whole.

the epitome of light rock in the y2k era. Can't discount the sound quality of this album but just mediocre for me

I enjoyed more than I thought I would. Especially Shiver and Yellow.

Leuk album, met soms nog leukere nummers. Toch mis ik het kippenvel gevoel. Het blijft een beetje hangen op de 13 in een dozijn popmuziek.

An album released the year I turned 18, by a bunch of college boys from the same country (sort of) - how could I not like it! I loved it at the time and, listening purely on its own merits, I loved it again now. Shiver (their breakthrough track) was an instant classic, and it turns out I remember pretty much every word of the whole album. Wonderful, it's just a shame they moved away into dance music and Hollywood marriages!

It wasn't bad but not my style.

Do you know Coldplay is one of the best-selling bands worldwide since 2000. This is a perfectly fine debut. Innocuous. I think I own it. I probably haven't played it since the year it was released. But, it is perfectly fine.

This is a good, extremely well produced debut album. Sounded different than other “rock” records of the time. It ushered in a lot of more musically introspective bands. Kind of surprising how this launched Coldplay as a stadium headliner.

This is a nice collection of songs and introduction to this band. I think their only 5 star album might be viva la vida or a rush of cold blood to the head, but not sure if either are on here.

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

Especially with Spies as a surprise highlight, I have to admit that the bones are stronger than I want to give them credit for. Still annoying that they don't totally obtain, and that the vast majority of bands that used the electronic bits made them seem much, much worse. Short and hidden tracks on the slowdown back half are good ideas.

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Still their best. Should’ve stopped with this one though

I would never willingly listen to a Coldplay album. Listening to Parachutes didn't change that. Absolutely bland. Not a single interesting song. Boneless Radiohead.

Meh. Overrated but popular.

I cannot stand this band!

Great album. Yellow is awesome. Very chill throughout.

It was easy listening and I enjoyed most of the album. 3*

Some decentish songs but the majority tended toward whiney.

Radio head vibes but more commercial. Really this is 3.5 star for me. I could see listening to it again, but not a ton.

I hadn't listened to this album in years. Their later stuff out me off them a bit. It's a solid album and Shiver is an indie masterpiece. Stand out tracks - Shiver - Trouble - Yellow - Sparks - Parachutes

I get that Coldplay has achieved somewhat of a meme status in popular culture, but as a sensitive crybaby Aquarian, I enjoy how watery and emotional this album is. It’s not like, something I’d ever wanna go see live, but yeah, it’s a good one to listen to while moping in front of a heater eating a tortilla.

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

The vibe of the early 2000s. I never listened to much Coldplay, the hits are nostalgic and his voice is actually really beautiful but most of the songs were kinda blah. 3/5

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.

An early 2000s classic

Coldplay’s debut album to kick off the year. The perfect choice as it felt nostalgic to come back to this band given my early fandom with them. An excellent, emotive album from top to bottom.

The most boring rhythm section of all time.

notes - debut album by coldplay - sort of a soft rock/pop album - this album has banger after banger after banger - the songs are all fairly similar but also very memorable - also includes huge hit yellow - this album is super deicate, doesnt feel the need to be in your face - pretty obvious radiohead influence - i listen to this album and other early coldplay all the time and it makes me so upset how disappointing theyve become fav - trouble - love the way this song shifts between the chorus and verse least fav - everythings not lost - most forgettable song on here 4.5/5 - fantastic album that falls off near the end

This is the second album of theirs that I have gotten. Being their debut album, I found myself enjoying this one just a bit less than the other one which had most of their biggest hits. This album is ok on its own, although his voice does get a bit whiny here and there. Decent music.

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

It's alright, love shiver but it's otherwise pretty much one gear the whole way through. Think it was fairly unique at the time, guess it's not their fault they were followed by a dozen other bands doing the same thing.

I enjoyed it slightly more than I thought I would, but it isn't half dreary. Still finding their feet, I guess. Most of the album tracks are forgettable.

I don't mind Coldplay too much, unfortunately their stuff is overplayed. However, apart from their singles I'm not sure I've ever properly listened to a Coldplay album. This debut album is pretty good, I liked a lot more of the tracks than I thought I would. But by the end I did get a little tired of the melancholy. Highlights were "Shiver", "Yellow" and "Spies".

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

I've only heard Coldplay via shows like SNL or when Chris Martin has guested on TV shows (Modern Family, Extras, Simpsons). They try hard to portray themselves as a sensitive, sentimental pop band than wants to be loved. I've read the backlash and hatred towards Coldplay that puts them in a similar category with Nickleback and James Blunt, songwriters/musicians that cause a divisive reaction when their music is played. If you put those opinions aside, what we have is an average British pop band that is somewhat overrated and musically nothing special. At first glance, they sound pleasant and positive, but after listening to the entire album, they leave me with a feeling of over-compensating sincerity. One listen was enough, I don't need to hear more and yes, I'm starting to believe the anti-Coldplay hype is justified.

Boring. Chris Martin's voice is grating.

Very good album, probably one of Coldplay’s best

Oh Great I though, a Coldplay album, much eye rolling and tutting ensued. But I wasn't really prepared for the weird mix of emotions that actually listening to a Coldplay album all the way through (for the first time ever I might add). I never really actually harbored a deep hatred for Coldplay unlike a lot of people, I just always thought they were vapid, middle of the road and just far too concerned with getting radio plays than actually making good music. And its so easy to rag on them, and quite fun as well to have a go when everyone else is doing it. First of all, let me get it out the way. Yellow is an absolute banger, for a song the the entire world (including me) has heard hundreds if not more times. I was shocked that I had never really listened to it. The electric guitar production in that song is so good, its played sloppily and sounds raw and really unique. Champions drums have this wonderful reverb tail on the snare which really binds the piece together and all of the little glissandos in Chris Martin's vocals are all far more deliberate and well crafted than I originally would have thought. I mentioned Will Champion's drumming, I really think that's the key to this record, he's definitely a Ringo rather than a Pert in that its all understated but played with so much groove, I don't think there's a bad drum part on the whole record. I could go on so let me just sum up a few short feelings about a few more songs; Don't Panic is so anxious and driving its a great intro to the album and Trouble sounds deep and wide and lush as the sea with that wonderful piano sound and lush percussive acoustic guitar. That being said I would call quite a few of the songs filler, Spies and Sparks failed to make much of an impression on me. But the reason I found this a weird experience more than anything was that I actually enjoyed a Coldplay album. In fact in the last year I've listened to and enjoyed a Coldplay and an REM album. What does this say about me? Does this mean I'm getting old? Should I got out and buy some slippers and a big bag of Werther's originals? Over the course of these 41 minutes and 55 seconds I was forced to take a look at myself and where I am in life as I get into my late 30's. And I came out the other side having realized that yes maybe I've grown up and am seeing the value in something that I didn't see any value in when I was younger. And you know what, that's fine! We are all a sum of thousands of experiences, and all of those have lead to me being a lot more self assured and artistic than I ever was in the year 2000. Maybe that naff band with the annoying frontman are worth a chance after all because there is something of value in there even if the package as a whole isn't perfect.

Instant 5 Dammit I just want to give it a five, but it's just not that good. It's just Yellow and Shivers that stand out, the other tracks just blend away too much. 4.5, but I really like the Coverart.

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Literally the world's blandest music

There are a few albums in this world that make you shout "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU GUYS?" every time you hear it. Chicago's 'Transit Authority' and Live's 'Throwing Copper' spring to mind. Parachutes by Coldplay is another one. Do you just enjoy the music, get a little smile when that guitar in 'Don't Panic' starts building up, and sing along with the classic 'Yellow'? Or do you get sad that a band who showcase so much talent and songwriting skills on this debut became what they have become later in their career? Because no matter what comes afterwards, this first Coldplay album is still rock solid, even 20 years afterwards. Listen to songs like 'Shiver' or 'Spies' and there's no denying how incredibly good this is. And anyone can understand why this album became such a hit, with the masses as well as the indie crowds.

Love how mellow and groovy it is

Listenable background music. Songs blend together in a way that makes the album feel longer than it is. The predictable and repetitive melodies make the songs easy to follow and sing along to but there's nothing surprising on the album.

““Yellow”? Hey, more like beige, lads, am I right? HAR HAR HAR!” It’s more fashionable to hate Coldplay than just about any other band going, and I’m still not totally sure why. Throughout their transition from an intimate guitar-based indie rock outfit, to bearers of pop-rock torch anthems, to a pristine stadium-filling pop act with a roster of guest artists, they have seemed to alienate every camp of music fan. “Parachutes” takes us back to the very beginning, which saw grand and epic songs sitting alongside rough throwaways. They’re a young start-up band here, for better and worse. The simplest songs are the strongest, with “Don’t Panic” and “Yellow” doling out fragile, sincere emotion with pleading eyes and shaking hands. They’re beautiful, and require little more than a verse and chorus, three chords each. Later, the build up in “Everything’s Not Lost” gives a juicy bit of gravitas and euphoria to the album’s end, saving it from becoming a little too colourless in the home stretch. Chris Martin’s signature falsetto is nicely judged throughout, undeserving of the vicious barbs it gets thrown at it. But it’s Jonny Buckland who gives the record’s standout performances with distinctive, accomplished guitar lines. At once emotive, tasteful, and varied, he gives many of these songs some much needed colour if Martin’s voice or songwriting fails. Their interplay is on finest display in the terrific “Shiver”, another album highlight which I hadn’t heard before. Moving on to the weak spots: “Sparks” and “We Never Change” are both dirge-like and forgettable with cloying 3/4 strumming patterns and a failure to grasp any emotional heft. My impression was that “Spies” and “High Speed” wanted to be dark and mysterious, but between trite lyrics and Martin’s earnest, unadorned voice they don’t quite convey anything besides filler. And “Parachutes”, a 43 second interlude, is utterly pointless. I return to the theory that Coldplay have degenerated with time, becoming shells of their former selves. Any die-hard “Parachutes” fan insisting their lyrics peaked early could surely not defend “I want to fly, and never come down; and live my life, and have friends around.” Any champion of a “more stripped back production” could surely not listen to the uber-compressed intro of “Shiver”, with clipping left right and centre, and insist it was a better job than their later work. “Over-produced” doesn’t always equal “bad corporate sell-out trash”. The point is, much of Coldplay’s earlier work was more flawed than some fans probably care to admit, and much of what they’re doing now probably has more merit than some fans would be comfortable with. I take my hat off to them for evolving and staying aloft for over twenty years, whichever direction their music might go. “Parachutes” is no more than one step in their journey.

Easy to listen too, great as vibes, I want to learn trouble on the piano. I remember hearing the song yellow a lot on the radio and in general. I think my favorite song is sparks or dont panic.

Listening to this for first time in a long time, one's reminded of the immortal words of Beavis and Butthead "why are English people such whining wussies?" But also that Coldplay would've done better to stay in precisely that sadder, whinier and more emo mode, rather than trying so naively to conquer the world with, you know, love and joy, or whatever other limpid motivations inspired their later (and very badly misguided) efforts. They were never going to convince with that quite callow effort, now were they? The happier and more earnest and ambitious they got, the more they sucked. And in their faux intensity ended up this generation's Styx (in the immortal words of J. Hoberman), try as they might have been to be U2 (whose own later efforts have fairly trilled with rather Coldplay-like insipidities). Still, one must cop to having been quite taken by this record upon its release, much as one is embarrassed admitting it now, given how bloody awful and insufferable Coldplay has been for so long now. The hidden track at the end is a clear harbinger of the pretension to come. One liked this record originally for reasons (perhaps misconceptions) having to do with being melancholic and jaded in a stylish and sophisticated and globally au courant sort of way (the life one was leading at the time, alas). And even now this is occasionally gorgeous and affecting, which is just cringe-making to confess, this being a tortured affection rather than a guilty pleasure. "Yellow," once annoyingly ubiquitous, and "Trouble" chime and sort of swing appealingly, if basically. "Sparks" and "We Never Change" have precisely that sort of languor and ennui for which one has always had a weak spot, perhaps mistaking it for depth or meaning, rather than seeing it for the cloying sentiment it surely is here, though well hidden here under the guise of world weariness. The bottom line is that one still sees the surface appeal as much as one wishes one's more refined critical sensibilities would allow one to eschew – indeed transcend – those blandishments that produce a certain sort of satisfaction, which is of course a lowly thing. Hoping we can keep it a secret.

Coldplay is boring

Dire stuff, I was correct to give them a miss back in the day

Ah, the album with the most legendary bass line ever conceived… As cheesy and soulless and Coldplay has seemingly become, there is no denying this album’s beautiful simplicity.

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Yellow is great. Other songs were awful. I love chilled out music, but this is totally unengaging

Like chocolate and their cheaper alternatives, I declare Parachutes a music-like product. It has sounds, vocals, songs, but it cannot be called music. A charmless waste of time. Supermarket ahh music. Sticks to your teeth and leaves an artificial sugary aftertaste - hope it doesn't cause cavities. Shame it took a spot of a true chocolate bar.

And it's all yeah ok.

3.5

Decent, enjoyed it.

It's been a longtime, and god damn it, it wasn't that bad

An amazing debut from Coldplay. Although through the years there have been countless memes and brush-offs that Coldplay have sold out. However with a wildly successful commercial debut album, how can they have ever been sold out? Parachutes includes absolute classics such as Yellow and Don't Panic - where would we be as a society without these songs? Best: Yellow; Don't Panic Worst: Everything's Not Lost

A mid tempo early 2000s classic. Yellow is the big hit but there are a lot of fine songs here. FIlled with beautiful melodies and plaintive singing, this album perfectly expresses the Coldplay sound. I expected it to be more up tempo and was taken aback on first listen. I warmed up to it on the second time around and it may even get a 3rd listen at some point. 3.5 stars

Overall decent. Follow up album was better IMO but this one was different for the time.

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Ok. I didn’t like as well as the other one

Mysigt och stämningsfullt popalbum med några riktigt bra låtar. Dock håller inte kvaliteten på låtarna hela tiden.

Sad. Made well

Parachutes is not so much pop as one could expect when hearing the band's name. This, their debut album, ventures into indie rock and resembles the early Radiohead at times (but with a slightly more positive vibe). Especially Don't Panic and Yellow are the standouts here, but most of the album is quite good, though it loses a bit of steam near the end. 3.5/5

I'll admit, I was a bit disappointed when I saw this one pop up. But I forgot how good this album actually is,I enjoyed almost all of it. The last three tracks are a bit meh, but everything up until then is great! Really well written and performed. Where did it all go wrong for Coldplay? They really did have some great albums in the 2000s.9/10

Had a lot more to it than my preconcieved notion of it.

this album is so good. first full listen and it’s very consistent and has great production. the singers voice is nice.

It's a very interesting coincidence, that this album came out on the list just after another debut album of Fleet Foxes. I can see many parallels between those two records, and it actually gives me intriguing perspective in regards to how to rate "Parachutes". The difference from one to the other is not big enough to constitute a better rating, just because Coldplay is a more well-known band and I knew and like couple of their singles before. I always thought of Coldplay as a music equivalent of Paulo Coelho books. On one hand it's because of the similarities in the names of their most known work - "Scientist" and "Alchemist", but also because they pretend to be much more 'intellectual' and introspective than they actually are. While I know this might be a gross exaggeration on the Coldplay part, there might be a piece of truth in it. "Parachutes" is an okayish rock/pop album, with very simple, but catchy melodies, and good, but at times unbearable, Chris Martin's vocal. The songs, when listening to them separately, sound perfect for a chilled radio session in your garden, but as a whole, the album becomes incredibly corny and the songs seem identical, like the band is unable to change the gear (highest gear when going only 20mph). I like the songs and I'm going to appreciate them whenever I hear them on the radio, but I will probably never listen to the whole album again.

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.

This is a consistently good album. Varied in instrumentation and pace. Good singing by what's his name too! Hasn't really aged, or feel of its time, even though it's 22 years old.

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.

Mostly dull and the songs are too similar. Maybe 3 songs are worth it.

Es ist enervierend offensichtlich, was die da probieren: melodiöse Popmusik zu komponieren, die gut arrangiert und produziert ist, ohne allzuviel wehzutun, aber dennoch so etwas gehobenes Niveau oder Anspruch suggeriert. Das Ergebnis ist eine unerträgliche Sosse aus gefühliger Gefälligkeit mit einem Sänger, dem man sofort das Mikro aus der Hand schlagen möchte. Ich sagte es bereits: für wenn Radiohead zu schwer ist. Wenn jetzt noch eine Coldplay-Platte kommt, channele ich meinen inneren Kinski und hau Robert Dimery persönlich in die Fresse. DUMME SAU!

This album was my childhood

Not as good as their second album, better than everything that followed that though. Yellow, Trouble, Don't Panic, Spies are all good.

Not as good as Rush of Blood to the Head, but still some really good tracks on it, and fits well together. That opening couple of tracks (I really don't like Yellow, the success of that followed by The Scientist on the next album sent the band down a direction that I really didn't like) is great, Shiver being my favourite. There's not a bad song on the album, but there's not as much that elevates it as Rush of Blood to the Head. 3/5.

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

nostalgic bc I loved them when I was younger & it’s obv their best album

Enjoyed this. Very peaceful mixed into the pop/rock. Cool to hear Coldplay before all the fame.

Jájá

Still sounds pretty good to me.

catchy 3.

Quick listen, didn’t capture my attention.

The better of the two Coldplay albums in this list imo. Funny to get them two weeks in a row. Viva La Vida is their best to me but this one is really solid too.

Pity that such a sexy voice comes with such terrible songs

Not as bad as some people make out but also not as great as others say. Chris Martin should really sing an octave lower, not that falsetto he goes for. I heard it once and it's much better. There are a couple of good tracks her but the mastering on Shiver made me really angry. Once all the instruments kick it I kept thinking my speakers were clipping but no, it's just their crappy production.

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

Fucking hell, his voice does my head in

Það er einhver stemming í þessari plötu sem ég fíla svo vel. Held ég setji þetta í flokkinn "haustplötur". Drullugott stöff.

Good Coldplay album

It's not bad, but it is dull. I get why people like this, but I'm not one of them. I don't need to listen to this again.

Still great.

Can anything sound bad after Kid Rock? I don't love everything here, but it's very listenable. Yellow is pretty strong. It's at least fine background.

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...

It

An album that's always pretty good and thoroughly enjoyable and easy to listen to but also suffers from a lack of really grabbing songs or exceptional moments.

A really good debut album

This is my 3rd coldplay album. I listened to the new one which was garbage and a rush of blood to the head. Thankfully this album sounds more like the second one. Dont panic and shiver were great opening songs. I like the acoustic vibe they have on this album. I understand why Yellow has over a billion streams - banger. Sparks also a great song. I would have given this a 5 but I felt like it didnt end on as strong of a note as it started. 8/10 Great album!

Really liked shiver and the last 2 songs

Not a bad album, but less engaging than A Rush Of Blood To The Head

No puedo ser objetiva. Me hace bien 😌

Hating Coldplay is the cool thing to do but I think they're actually pretty decent, and Parachutes is among their best stuff.

This whole album just sounded like Yellow lol. If that’s your vibe, this is the album for you In general: 5/10 My rating: 3/10

Good but not great. Made my workout difficult. Not quite my tempo. Wouldn't do a cover of one of the songs

meh

There’s definitely some nostalgia at play here for me. These songs have such somber tones and catchy melodies. This album definitely had an impact on my song writing and overall taste in music.

Good album. Liked a variety of the songs but can’t say they were all too good. Didn’t love it but didn’t dislike it one I would return to again for a easy listen

Enjoyed: No Listens: 1 Is this the reason depression diagnosis' have raised in the last 22 years? I can't say for sure, but I certainly took bigger risks when crossing the roads today

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

Way better the previous Coldplay album we had, does this appeal to my white boy indie loving sensibilities, ye. Do I mind? No. Loved the guitar tone and the lyrics weren’t as prominent so I didn’t have to dislike them

probably my favorite coldplay, but i still just feel almost nothing about it. giving it a 4 because it’s better, but it’s a low 4

I always love Coldplay

I love Coldplay.

No thank you

Meh. Didn't love or hate. Not a big fan of the the style, but it was catchy enough. I think it's slightly better than a 3 but not a four. On a scale of 10 I'd give it a 6.5.

They divide opinion - but that's because they sit perfectly in the middle. This album is as 3 as a 5 star rating gets. In today's world where you can all too easily offend, this is beautifully inoffensive.

actually solid Coldplay what tf happened bae

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.

How did I miss this one in it's time. I wrote coldplay off as sorta sissy pop music, but they can rock.

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.

3.5/5 As I read in the comments it’s either you hate Coldplay or you love them. Still I am somewhere in between. The way the music is composed is great and I can understand why people love it and see the quality. But it doesn’t get to me, the album is good some also individual songs are great. It got better when I listened the album again so I will give it 4 stars as 3.5 is not possible. Favourite songs - Yellow - Trouble - High speed

Favourite Song: Shiver

Heard before: only in bits Coldplay have some big songs, but I’ve never been able to get into their albums. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would (the vocal melodies were unexpected and great), but although the production sounded great at first, eventually the album sounded a little monotonous to me.

This album was okay. A little bit generic, nothing really popped out at me as being incredibly special. Wasn’t a bad listen and there were a few decent tracks but nothing memorable.

The album has a particular 2000's sound to it. It's clear why Coldplay rose above the rest of the similar bands at the time. I especially appreciate that many of the songs have a really fantastic and moving coda, growing beyond the simple verse->chorus->repeat schematic. Overall a really strong album with numerous hits and a solid flow with very few weak moments. Worth listening to from start to finish. Ending with "Everything's not lost" was a real highlight.

Mellow and nice album to listen to. Would definitely play again, however it didn't leave a huge mark on me, therefore 3/5.

liked songs: Don’t panic Sparks Yellow Trouble We never change Everything’s not lost

It's like a musical weighted blanket.

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

Always a classic. Very nostalgic

Good chill album. Would listen again

Okayish for me. Nothing more to say.

thoroughly enjoyed!

Had heard Shiver, Yellow and Trouble before as singles and they definitely carry this album. High Speed isn't bad either. 5/1001

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.

default but i enjoyed it

Nice h

balanced neutral. Had some popular bangers but I'm not huge on coldplay

10/10 a true classic. cant believe i don’t listen to this record more often. its so refreshing to go back and listen to a band that sounds like a band… ie live instruments.

Not as great as I remember

Track I liked so far: Sparks, Yellow (of course)

el pop rock volvia a los oidos y de una forma melodicamente hermosa y con una estructura digna de los 2000s, coldplay debuta con este album (el mejor de ellos a mi gusto), tocando fibra y corazon con su melancolía y retrospectiva convirtiéndose en el lider del pop rock de los 00s coldplay no suelta ese gran poder cautivador como contraparte al nu metal que sonaba en tal momento. este disco tiene ese sonido que te hace querer escuchar sus temas hasta el cansancio y cantarlos a todo pulmón. escuchá “parachutes” y vas a amar parachutes, como yo. fav songs: dont panic ☆ spies ☆ shiver ☆ yellow (es llorar cada vez que se escucha) trouble we never change 5.0

Tolerable I suppose. only because i like Yellow

Lightning in a bottle

a classic album I come back to all the time hard to say if this or rush of blood is better

Simply wonderful. So evocative of late teenage years... I remember first hearing Trouble on the radio and thinking it was Oasis. Given what Coldplay have become I think it is easy to forget that they were once a straightforward indie band, and a bloody good one at that. Trouble, Don't Panic, High Speed, Everything's Not Lost, Yellow... there's so much good stuff on here. Screw the haters

Man I haven't even thought of Coldplay since like 2011. Some of these songs are great, they just got super shitty after like 2011. Can't listen without thinking of 40 year old virgin

Classic, a great first album by them. All the tracks work well together, with Shiver, Spies, and Everything’s Not Lost personal favourites.

This is an album where I know most of the songs. It reminds me of listening to this in high school. I love don't panic. shiver - guitar hero representation. sparks <3 it's so calming and relaxing. it's hard not to enjoy this album. also this is their debut album. very very good debut album. I eel like that should always be noted in these reviews, to have a debut album on this list I think is important. i forgot about everything's not lost, i am realizing a lot of these songs got me through some tough times in high school. this is nice to revisit.

Nice vibey thing. Main songs were overplayed when it came out

An interesting retroflection on Coldplay's earliest artistic focus now that they've fully jumped the musical shark for profit's sake. This LP expertly rides the line between singer-songwriter (plenty of acoustic/soft vocals throughout) and the burgeoning early-aughts indie rock of the time, given that it's not afraid to throw in a healthy dose of overdrive/reverb or even delve a little into gazier, washed-out tones. Things do get into Radiohead-lite territory on the back half and drag just a tad, but this is still a worthy artistic product in its own right and a great listen at that.

Very well put together, great vocals, yellow and last track are the best

So... this is where it all begins, huh? Not as bombastic as I was expecting it to be, but it still does the job well. Question, though: Where does the rot start? Is this, truly, Coldplay's best album? Should I go ahead and delve into the rest of their discography to find out? Plenty of potential to be seen and heard here. Favorites: Don't Panic, Shiver, Sparks, Yellow, High Speed, Everything's Not Lost - Life is for Living.

Ah, dobar Coldplay, šteta sta su se uništili. Dost dobar album, sad kad sam ga poslušao nakon dugo godina, bome je dobar. Radiohead se čuje definitivno ovdje, mozd je zato i dobar :P

I remember buying this CD when it came out. It was a punt for me at the time. The joy of the 1001 albums is that we get away from the modern fashion of listening to individual songs on playlists. Going back to listening to an album as the artist intended. Enjoying the juxtaposition of one track to the next, the journey they take you on. I loved this album when it first came out. It’s well crafted, starts strong and ends well. Listening to this album transported me back to a memorable time in my life and that in itself was a joy. I understand the ire that Chris Martin conjures up. I’m ignoring all that. It’s easy to forget that he became popular because the music was good. Fabulous debut. Solid 5 stars here

I knew going in I probably wouldn’t enjoy this album seeing as I’m not a big Coldplay fan. Just are to slow and relaxed for my taste. And that’s kinda what the album is for the most part, albeit with some exceptions still not horrible, not great.

Most redeeming quality is that it's so early 2000's sounding it's like a historical record of it's time. Sounded like a mix between the dying breath of the 90's optimism with a soft overly polished sound of the 2000's.

Alternative rock, 2000. Really interesting debut album and one of the best mainstream records of the 2000s. Also arguably the most interesting and the best LP by Coldplay. Songs like "Shiver", "Yellow" and "Trouble" are great pop/rock songs both artistically and commercially.

Don't Panic - 6/10 Shiver - 7/10 Spies - 8/10 Sparks - 5/10 Yellow - 10/10 Trouble - 6/10 Parachutes - 7/10 High Speed - 7/10 We Never Change - 8/10 Everything's Not Lost - 9/10 Life is for Living - 6/10

Increíble!!!

5/10. I always kinda thought people were too hard on Coldplay fans, but now that I know how mediocre some of their songs are I've decided they deserve it.

Very low-tempo. 6/10

Before I start people can say that Coldplay are generic and shit but that’s really in their late albums and are just a typical victim of late album syndrome, this album though is a banger… Don’t panic is a solid album opener I like how ( for Coldplay’s standards) the song gradually increases in heaviness throughout, it’s really short compared to what I remember still good though. Actually shiver might just be one of the heaviest Coldplay rockers and it’s really good I especially love the pre chorus/ chorus! Spies is very slow it’s a nice mid side one break it’s great and shows what talents Coldplay used to have. Sparks is another acoustic track it’s good ( not as good as spies though). Yellow is a banger ( not the best song of the 2000’s) but still an amazing song to have as a breakthrough hit! Trouble is great too that piano is near iconic! The album’s title track is an interlude ( what a waste). Higher speed sounds cool enough to not be filler but the verse isn’t even great but it just loops over the chorus is okay though. The penultimate track we never change is a great song except for the line “ live my life an have friends around” rubbish lyricism still okay though. Everything’s not lost is the saving grace for this album amazing closer ( the hidden track is good too). This album is front loaded ( not as much as prefab sprout or the killers ( both of which have either got 5’s or getting 5’s)). But for this album it’s harder for that score because of how much worse that side two is. Like I wanted to give it a 5 just to show that Coldplay are a good band but I can’t. Actually fuck it I gave elbow a 5.

Favorite song: Shiver, We Never Change, Don’t Panic

Very nice I never thought I'd like Coldplay

just not a coldplay guy

Sounds pretty, but also boring.

Coldplay. It's either Love or Hate. Those that love the band probably outnumber the haters, but Overall: Excellent ( but after listening to it all day. I'm really tired of hearing it). Standouts: "Don't Panic", "Shiver", "Yellow", "Trouble" 3.5/5

Wow. I never thought I'd see myself enjoying a Coldplay album, but here we are. This is actually not bad at all. I definitely hear the Radiohead influence, but there's nothing wrong with that. Pretty solid, easy listening.

This is maybe my second Coldplay album I’ve ever listened to. (I definitely listened to “Viva la Vida” a few times my freshman year of college.) It’s gorgeous. And jazzier than I thought it would be. Something about that melodic acoustic guitar. Really nice. I love this album cover. It’s very memorable. And I just realized after staring at it for a while that it’s a globe of the Earth. I always assumed it was Jupiter or some other planet. Anyways, I think it’s beautiful.

"Don't Panic" was on the Garden State Soundtrack and gives me literal chills every time I hear it. There are so many hauntingly gorgeous songs here, I gotta give it that 5 piece.

"Yellow" is one of my favorite pop songs. Chris Martin has such a wonderful and wide ranging timbre in his voice and he is a master of matching inflections with emotions in lyrics. The same can be said for many songs on this album, like the opener, "Don't Panic", the down tempo, modal mix piano ballad "Trouble", and even "Shiver" which comes across to me like a poppy Radiohead song. I really like this album and I think people who hate on Coldplay forget that they had some really incredible records.

Light 3

I liked this album a lot high school but don’t listen to Coldplay much anymore. This is mostly a nostalgia rating

3.5 Definitely a warmup to “Rush of Blood” in my opinion, but Shiver & Yellow are as good as anything on that album

Surprisingly beautiful

A really great album. Coldplay had a way to make you dream, without the calm tone lf their songs to become boring. Great album.

I forget who it was that described Coldplay as making ‘music for bedwetters’. Alan McGee, probably. Unfair. But you know where he is coming from. Something linking Coldplay and McGee’s golden goose, Oasis, is that I have no idea who produced the albums of either. It’s not that producers are usually high profile, but most of the best do have a distinct thumbprint. With the two, nowt. (Also: Coldplay swallowed Brian Eno live. This suggests a black hole of conventionality, or a curiously ruthless streak. Hard to say which of course he two.)

A mellow rock vibe that is very enjoyable and nostalgic. Good vibes.

Similar theme throughout. High speed was one to listen again

Enjoyable to listen to in the background, but probably wouldn’t give another active listen. Starts to blend together a bit. Stand outs were Yellow and Trouble. Spies was kind of a miss for me. Felt like it really got going near the middle but then came back down near the end.

De va bättre än ja trodde fr

Good album to be earnest… some inspired guitarwork and catchy drums + charming songs

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

I pick on Coldplay but I found this album to be much better than expected.

Good album

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

some hits and misses but by far their best album

With Coldplay’s success they became the new U2, the band that it became cool to hate. I agree they are overrated and there latest music has been all garbage, but this is a great album along with their other early stuff and should be on the list. Sadly Chris Martin is just as annoying as Bono though.

Well, this was unexpected. I like some Coldpay songs, mostly the more uptempo mid-career singles, and I turned this on counting on a slog with only one recognizable song, "Yellow", which...ugh. To my surprise, "Yellow" held up way better than I gave it credit for, plus there was "Trouble" which is superior and which I'd totally forgotten existed. Beyond that, well-crafted songs, and gorgeous production. I'd probably need to be in the right mood, but I'd return to it.

Coldplay songs always sound so melancholy, and this album is no different. I like that though; the music sets a certain haunting mood.

DEs vibes de RAdiohead, c'est très bon et on voie bien ce qui s'en vient pour eux. La machine est en cours de construction pour l'apogée de ColdPLay. J'ai toujours eu une réticence à écouter ce groupe à cause de leur succès pop commercial mais je dois avouer que cet lbum pour un début est très surprenant. 4.15

Nice enough just not my type of music.

So, I have to admit to a large amount of anti-coldplay bias. Along with Stereophonics they represent the death knell of the 90s, of my teenage years / childhood and not in a nostalgic way. A decade of music that excited me at the time but ended with a monotonous slump, both of these bands (along with Muse and a few other suspects) were its soundtrack. They felt like copycats, riding on earlier glory, but without the edge or tension that made the originals. Coldplay felt like Radiohead with the teeth removed. Stereophonics a Faces/Oasis covers band that got lucky. I'm probably being a bit harsh, but I was 21 and pissed off. They were everywhere, presumably because there was nothing else new and remotely exciting happening. I'd spent 3 years at uni unplugged from charts, TV or current trends, listening instead to the back cats of the likes of the beach boys, the kinks, the beatles, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, wierd amazing jazz and loads of other stuff. Back in my home town, I stuck my head above the parapet and everything had gone to shit. Things got better, eventually there were some new bands, a bit of the old chaos returned with the likes of the strokes and the libertines...but mainly I went back to back cat diving and moved further from the music that originally inspired me. Now I better see the flux and wain of exciting music, waves of excellence quickly pass, but when you hit them at the right time they are truly beautiful...when they go, you are left with Coldplay and the Stereophonics and that empty feeling that somehow things could be better, but just aren't. It ok though, cause someday another wave will come...or maybe it won't, but you can find it if you look in the right places. I listened to Parachutes on my early morning dog walk. It's a well made record, whiny and lacking any real tension, but sounds alright. A bit dull but pretty inoffensive. I noticed it starts with a track called Don't Panic. From where i now sit, its mostly harmless...

Uno de los álbumes que más escuché en mi adolescencia. Ese y AROBTTH son los mejores de coldplay para mi.

I love (old) Coldplay, fight me

It's alright

god dammit why does Coldplay need to keep surprising me, fuck, this is actually good just like a rush of blood, I didn’t think I would like this but I am actually very happy and surprised - this is a 9/10 for me I still stick by my belief that every other coldplay album is lame, my mind was changed on their first two so I listened to their third, X&Y, it was just so boring like maybe i’m crazy but the difference between A Rush of Blood and X&Y is like night and day (except reverse) they started out so good and in that third album, they just sound like a hollow remake of themselves, the songs all sound the same, the drop/hook is always predictable and boring, I swear there’s just something missing from it who knows, maybe if I come across another coldplay album on this site, I will be proved wrong but right now I still think only their first two are good

surpreendente, muito mejor que a atual fase pop. baita som

I like Coldplay, but they get boring after a bit

This is a band with which I am definitely familiar but who I missed entirely when they first broke into the airplay scene. I had heard a couple of these tracks, I think, but never really gave them a listen, and most songs on this album are entirely new to me. I didn't really know what to expect as the album started playing but looking back, I think I had a bias against them for some reason (don't know why -- maybe someone mentioned to me at some point that they didn't like them or something like that, who knows). I just let it play through, and I like it more than I thought I would (based on that bias of unknown origin I just mentioned). I don't hear it as all that bold or original, yet there is enough there in the music to keep my interest. If it weren't, I probably would dismiss this album entirely as just too bland and saccharine. It does get a little repetitious, but it's not too bad. I hear some good songwriting and solid performances. Nothing earth-shattering, but good music doesn't have to be. I don't think I'll seek this out all that actively, but it's decent.

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

I can't say I particularly enjoy Coldplay, a lot of their songs are sappy as hell and a little too soft sounding for my taste. I came into this album ready to dismiss it, but after my listen I will admit I may have pre-judged a little too hard. While this still isn't my particular taste, I found the music to be technically competent (although not virtuous), the songwriting is consistent, and the production is good throughout. Additionally, given the time this album came out, it was certainly influential in shaping pop/alt rock for the two decades since. I will begrudgingly admit that without this album, we probably wouldn't have a lot of modern artists like Bon Iver, Kings of Leon, The Killers, Mumford and Sons, Half Moon Run, etc. These guys were, and still are massively successful, and I think that pandering to as wide of an audience as possible is a skill in it's own right. Overall not my thing, but I do believe it has earned it's place on this list. Fav Tracks: Spies, Yellow

Ubiquitous, understandably.

A little slow for me

listened to again what an AMAZING record

Hard skip.

It’s a great debut pop record but I’ve heard better considering this is all about albums before you die

The 1001 Albums Project sometimes takes from Anthrax to Coldplay. And that's ok! Let 1001 flowers bloom. I'm not a Coldplay fan in particular but I also don't hate them like many people seem to. I'm not familiar with this album but first impression: pretty good album art. Getting started, relaxed very Coldplay sounding opening song. Then on to Shiver, which I really don't like. Sparks is pretty and Yellow is a nice enough song if a bit nonsensical. In general Side A is mellow and medium lovely but Side B settles into low-key boring. In any case, the songs don't ask too much of the listener. This album is probably fine if you are in the mood. Today I didn't happen to be.

Sensacional, um clássico da minha geração que eu ainda nao tinha me dado conta.

Can't stand Coldplay, but this album was great, shame they disappeared up their own arses. Point deducted because of Chris Martin

Ignoring the cultural food fight over the band. This is a solid album for an average day. It isn't outrageous. It isn't in your face. It won't wring out every emotion and leave you a puddle on the floor. Instead, it'll walk alongside you on a cool autumn day. It will hum along with you on a commute. Don't Panic, Shiver, Yellow, and Everything's Not Lost will fill up so many of the spaces that make up the vast majority of our time. If you let it, it'll add a comfortable element to your mundane moments. Everyone like a good sweater. Hence its popularity.

Always enjoyed this one

i know its embarrassing saying you love coldplay over any other niche band or whatever but they make the only acceptable kind of 'generic' music, banger debut album

Ugh.

Not a fan

I have always enjoyed Coldplay, When I got this album for the day I expected the Reviews to be very positive and very high. never realized that Coldplay was hated by so many people until I checked the Reviews, I have absolutely no clue what the controversy or reason people hate them but I couldn't really care that much either. I enjoyed this album and while I can agree that it falls flat lyrically I enjoyed it the whole way through. Favourite Songs: Trouble, Sparks, Yellow

Man I wish I was their drummer.

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.

I'm afraid I have to be true to my early-30s self and honor this record, because I loved it then. It was sad (as I was by temperament) and serious (as I ever hoped to be) and at times beautiful (ditto). It really does hold up pretty well, sounding gorgeous, substantively stylish and professionally made. But, God have they been mostly awful ever since (the Styx of this generation, as J. Hoberman once put it). 3.5 for 4.

I had no idea Coldplay's debut was comparatively speaking so recent. Somehow I thought these guys had been around for ages. It's really very decent and was pleasant to listen to. But really nothing more than that. Giving the album a 3.5 but rounding up because I'm in a good mood.

What a great album. This is before Coldplay went super pop. They are very relaxing songs. Could see me playing them soaking up the sun in summer.

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.

7/10

Very pleasant, once you get used to Chris Martin's octave-jumping falsetto style, which is irritating to begin with.

Can’t get into them

I’ve heard of them but I never want to hear them.

j'avais oublié que c'était comme ça