Parachutes

I do like Coldplay quite a bit, actually. 5*

Nice :)

Very bland soft indie rock. Not a single memorable vocal performance or instrumental melody.

Soft rock that sounds like Randy Newman but even worse.

Awesome and lush pop music that’s nothing but pleasure to the ear. It feels a bit generic in some spots, but Coldplay does a really good job at keeping things engaging with their gorgeous production and great performances. Obviously Yellow is a classic, but I also really love Spies, Sparks, and Everything’s Not Lost (none of which I was familiar with before). Happy to be introduced to more of this awesome stuff. Overall, great listen from front to back, and a wonderful sound that doesn’t overstay its welcome.

Did not expect to like this. Pleasantly surprised. Am I becoming a Coldplay fan? I'm not. Sadly.

One of my favorite albums of all time. Brings me back to college in the dorms.

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

tough to separate my feelings of Coldplay being music for bedwetters from my desire to give this album a listen with fresh ears. it's inoffensive, easy listening and the way Chris Martin sings "you're skin and bones" on Yellow is actually kinda beautiful icl. but nothing particularly exciting to discover listening back 20 years later

U2 for home county vegans.

Still not a Coldplay convert! A couple of good songs. Point for each

It’s abit wishy washy at points but the debut Coldplay id call solidly “good”. Trouble being the stand-out track

Quite a comfy album and spies is excellent, but as a whole I’m really only vibing with it and not loving it

People love to hate just to hate. Did Coldplay maybe sell out after Viva La Vida? Yes. But is there body of work up until that point honest, sincere and of great production value? Yes. Two things can be true at once. It had been a long time since I listened to this album and I expected it to be worse than I remembered. But it’s solid! Great melodies, great playing from the band, and tightly mixed. If you like Jeff Buckley’s Grace but saying you don’t enjoy this album at all, you’re lying to yourself. But don’t get me wrong, this is not nearly as good as Grace. Lol! But it has some of the same sonic qualities at times and beautiful lyrics.

I somehow managed to dodge coldplay for this long so I don't really have a say on the whole hate going on. The song yellow is so mediocre though why is that their most listened song. (my rating is rather 3.5 stars but we don't have that sigh)

sorry i can't it's boring

Okay This album has one of my favorite songs ever and it’s of course sparks. Some people call this Walmart Radiohead, they have a name😢. I love Chris Martins voice a lot and i just wanna mention his feature on Kanye West’s Graduation (Kanye not ye)And he does his part so well that i couldn’t wait to relisten to this album. First off everytime i think of cold play i immediately think of the affair caught on camera, like how could you get caught like that😭.This album is perfect for rainy days i mean it’s so mellow and calming to me especially sparks. I do see the same formula used for some of these songs but atleast it’s good to listen to. I don’t find myself a music critic although i do listen to music i only rate it a certain score if i actually enjoy the album and liked it and this album is just one of them. for some reason i thought this album was made in like the early 2010s or late 2000s. no it was made in the year 2000?? i didn’t know they were here for 26 years its crazy to think of. and for their debut album to be this good is insane. look at the stars look how they shine for youuuu, another one of my favorite songs aswell. if i were a smoker id smoke to this whole album. in all seriousness the impact tho album has on me isn’t really big but its been with me growing up, just listening to yellow or sparks or even the whole album. this album has meaning. peak song writing as well. the song trouble is beautiful, matter of fact THE WHOLE ALBUM IS. one down side is that i don’t see myself really listening to this in the future unfortunately but i would listen to it here and there and you know i love a classic sad album but i don’t know if i would give it 5 stars but 4 stars is good . nevermind i change my mind its a 10/10 i love the vibe of this album its there 5 stars

Great debut possibly their best album

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.

Really solid album, especially for a debut. I think I like their second album better, but this one has a number of great tracks. 3.5

Wow. What an incredible comforting sadness. Very gentle and tender in a way that’s so powerfully touching. How can you not feel emotion with the beautiful vocals of Chris Martin? Those sweeping sounds take you sky-high without letting go. And the way a song like Shiver increases the intensity of its instrumentation to create this slightly harsher feeling of grandeur? Just fantastic. You just have to be romantic about an album like this. Faves: Shiver, Sparks, Don’t Panic, Everything’s Not Lost, Yellow, High Speed

I personally prefer Rush of Blood to the Head, but this is still enjoyable pop rock. 8/10.

Listened to this one a decade ago and it still holds up. Processed and dreamlike but the acoustic sounds still come through very well. Favourite track: Shiver

6.5/10 It's pretty alright, I didn't find anything remarkable about it but it's good for easy listening in the background.

I'd never actually listened to this the whole way through but I really do like their second album better

Álbum excelente, adoro essas músicas

really nice listen

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

Some nice tunes here. Chris Martin’s voice works sometimes, but can become tiresome. That said, on the whole, it’s a decent album. I really enjoy Yellow quite a lot. However, I won’t be putting this album in regular rotation.

This was pretty bad.

I dont like the mood of the songs, gets boring quickly. The guitars and melodies makes it a little bit interesting though.

A very cohesive sound and I didn't realise this was actually their debut - it's very strong in that context. But yeah I do think a lot of the songs are similar!

2.5

Very good album. Brought me back to having graduated high school and getting ready to head to college.

Muy buenos, muy creativos, pero demasiado depres

I used to be the kind of music fan who’d dismiss a band like Coldplay as music for posh picnic crowds at Glastonbury. I couldn’t separate the music - which, secretly, I kind of liked - from the image of the insufferable Chris Martin. Now, 25 years on, with a bit more maturity and an open mind, I’ve listened to Parachutes in full for the first time, and honestly… it’s kind of lovely. It’s warm, nostalgic, and full of feeling. Yellow instantly takes me back to my college/university days, the video still fresh in the memory. Then there's Don't Panic, Sparks, Trouble - so many wonderful songs, and even the album tracks are solid (even if it does drift a little during the latter half). It’s an album driven by emotion, with genuinely beautiful melodies throughout.

Has to be one of the best debut albums ever

I like the vibes so far, like the sound is dynamic. Spies - the bit at the end is nice with the repetition Sparks - It's crazy to think that i have listened to this in many tv and i'm taking the time to listen the first time. High speed - very chill, very zen Yellow is my absaloute fav. I think the end of the album was my fav and i fell asleep listening to it.

I can kind of shocked this was on here. But Yellow rocks of course. Makes me think...will there be a maroon 5 album here or something?

Very nice sounding soft rock, certainly not adventurous but it knows what it is and does it well

I was trying to think of why this isn't a 5 star but I can't. I love this album and it has so many good songs. Coldplay did great things after this (as well as bad things) but this album is a no skip classic

Milque, meet toast. I had this album on CD in 9th grade. Somehow it made it into the collection along with Linkin Park and the Beastie Boys. The songs aren't really bad per se, they're just so, so boring. Like, they took the elements that would make a song stand out and turned them down, so that any glimpse of a unique idea is buried beneath a glacier of bland coffeehouse drivel. There's not a single moment I can point to on the album, where I could picture anyone, not just me, saying "wow, that was cool." It's a 2.5/5 from me. Not aggressively bad, but determinedly mediocre.

Je to výborné. Rush sa mi páči ešte viac, preto dávam 4. Ďalšie albumy podľa mňa už nedosiahli na tieto dva.

mid

I'm not really familiar with Cold Play beyond the obvious tunes. True to their reputation, this is a bit of a snooze fest.

It’s fitting to listen to Coldplay’s Parachutes just a week after Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations. Both bands emerged to fill the void left by Radiohead as they moved into new territory in the early 2000s, constantly experimenting and developing their sound (the mark of a truly good band!). Muse took the heavier route, Coldplay the softer one, but both ultimately come across as astonishingly derivative. I’ve long said that Coldplay make music for people who don’t like music. Everything they do feels overtly commercial: anthemic, larger-than-life slop, completely devoid of meaningful content. Their enormous success doesn’t surprise me, though. They fit the mould of mass-appeal, lowest-common-denominator, cookie-cutter music built for massive stadium pop concerts. But their success does make me sad. There is so much incredible music out there, and people settle for this crap. Honestly, if someone tells me they like Coldplay, I instantly think less of them. As for Parachutes itself, I’ve rarely been happier for an album to end. Every track is plagued by dreadful lyrics, an unbearably annoying vocal performance from Chris Martin, and instrumentation that sounds relentlessly derivative of Radiohead songs like “Bulletproof… I Wish I Was” or “High and Dry”, stripped of everything that made those tracks compelling, then regurgitated with zero passion or soul. I will never return to this album, and I’d advise anyone who genuinely loves music to steer well clear of this dud.

Already heard it before. 5/5.

You can't deny the influence of this record!

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Singles are adequate but overplayed, nothing else really resonates.

Ora ho capito perché di solito non ascolto i Coldplay.

Not a big Coldplay Fan but definitely a solid album for those who are.

Coldplay, no geral, é um "não" para mim

favorites: dont panic; shiver; yellow

I’m not sure why I’ve been so resistant to giving Parachutes a proper listen. The songs I heard a lot — Don’t Panic and Yellow — I always thought were pretty good. This time through, I was really struck by Trouble, which I recognized but had never appreciated before. The whole album has a nice flow. Yes, it’s the equivalent of “Indie Easy Listening” but I find that description far more welcoming than I did in 2000. This feels like Coldplay at their most honest, and I found that refreshing.

Just can't do this, maybe if I need to be put to sleep.

Really front loaded. They used to be an alright band.

Alternative rock, post-Britpop, indie rock, soft rock. Liked it more than expected.

00’s Pop ⭐️Trouble

Yellow is good but the rest is dull

I'm quite familiar with this album. When Coldplay first came out, I admit I didn't like it. I found I could enjoy "Trouble" but still had a tough time getting their overall thing. When their second album came out, I enjoyed that quite a bit more. I checked that out, and found it to be solid, and upon revisiting this album, I was able to see it in a different light and came to enjoy it on a similar level. But then they released their third album. It's got one or two good songs, but otherwise blah. And the "blah" has only intensified since then. So, it has become disheartening to listen to the first two Coldplay albums, knowing what has happened since then. These first two albums are absolutely worth being on this list and a clear distinction should be made between them and the albums thereafter.

Disappointing samey samey

Harmless, innocuous, safe, forgettable but saved a bit by Yellow, the tune which launched them into the musical stratosphere

Like listening to music in soft focus and pastel colours eating jelly babies and drinking sherry. Nice until you vomit. Yellow rescues it a bit.

In the beginning I thought I could cope. Pleasant enough. Showed promise. But as time went on it started to wear me down. A mild irritation developed and then sleep became a stranger. Normal society didn't understand and shunned me. I was an outcast. Unable to hold onto my job I lost my family, my home and my future. And all because Coldplay can only write three songs.

Not as bad as I expected.

🥲🥲🥲

I have a complex relationship with pre-2011 Coldplay. I say pre-2011 because everything after Viva La Vida has been kind of ass. Parachutes is good if it comes to me at the right now when I want to listen to something calm and a little boring. They're easy to clown on, but Parachutes is pretty good and I wish that they maintained that momentum instead of falling into pandering radio pop. Don't Panic is a great opener that always makes me feel some kind of way. Shiver kind of annoys me and I have no idea why it has more streams than Spies which immediately follows it in the track list. Yellow and Sparks are the biggest hits off Parachutes with 3.5 and 2.5 billion streams retrospectively. With that, Yellow is so insanely overplayed and it's usually a skip for me for that reason. I'm just kind of sick of it and I do think it's one of the weaker tracks on the album, so it's a shame that Yellow was the biggest song on it. Sparks is pretty boring but still pretty, and I like it a lot better than Yellow. High Speed is great and sounds like a dinner party with some vibey, slightly funky bass and guitar. The 7 minute(!!) hidden track at the end was fine, just like the rest of this record. Say what you will, but Chris Martin has a recognizable and strong indie voice and Coldplay's influence can't be understated. I don't always reach for this album, but when I do it hits. I was in the mood for it today and it was a nostalgic pleasure to listen to, despite its sterility. Parachutes is so wildly inoffensive. It's your mom's favorite album unironically. It's Torn between a 2 and 3 but I'm going to give it a 3 for its staying power, nostalgia general beauty, and obvious influence on music to come. God DAMN though, is this shit boring.

The fact that this album produces so much rage in people amuses me. I mean, it’s a bit dull and uniform and it never breaks out of its comfort zone, but it’s not terrible. For a debut record it’s confident and slick. A perfectly pleasant album that knows what it’s doing and does it well.

Calm. Not bad but not great either.

En general, me gustan muchas de sus canciones. Sin embargo, no tiene una gran variedad este álbum. Cuando son buenas, son muy buenas. El resto del tiempo son más tirando a lo genérico.

Mediocre

Still don’t like Chris but yellow & trouble are belters

Still mellow.

This is a very, very good album. I liked it when it was released and it's still a cracking listen

It’s just so boring lowk, I’ve never really heard a band quite as aggressively mid as Coldplay

Perfect sad music

Good album, Coldplay are overhated (If you disregard Chris Martin and new Coldplay stuff)

All Time Favorit 🎉

It sounds like Coldplay, and not even the exciting stuff. Meh. It’s hard, too, to put it back in its context. This was different 26 years ago. Now it’s been copied and interpolated to death.

I know coldplay is a meme and gets hate but this first album is really nice. Great production and chris martins voice is so soothing. Feels like im floating. 4 stars

2026.01.25

A modern classic. Hit after hit.

a better album than I remember

yknow, i actually liked this way more than i thought i would.

One of the greatest debut albums ever

Soulless. Should change their name to Cold and Calculating.

Still their best

Unfortunately, my childhood orthodontist strictly played Coldplay and The Fray, so they are kind of tainted for me. Even more damaging: in middle school, we had the length of a Coldplay song played 3x (the same one…) to get changed in the locker rooms. Horrifying pubescent memories. Faves in album order: Spies Sparks Trouble

Takes me back.

No thank you. Temu Radiohead not needed.

Their most avant-garde record. It remains less Coldplay-sounding than their following records so it is perhaps less iconic. 8/10 [KEEP]

Highlights: Shiver, Yellow Lowlights: Trouble, We Never Change It's an album. Don't really have any thoughts on it good or bad. I liked some songs but not enough to listen to them more. Chris Martin's voice also got a bit grating to me as the album went on, especially when he hit high notes. I liked how mellow it was, but that also caused the songs to feel really samey to me.

Gorgeous! Loads of Bends-era Radiohead influence, hints of OK Computer.

Coldplay presents its challenges in terms of offering a review. On the one hand, I find it is quite a listenable album. The tonal range and complementarity of various instruments alternating between accenting the melody or the beat displays definite music prowess. Possibly, Chris learned a fair bit about this from his mother. On the other hand, one can't help but feel there is a certain formulaic pop love song structure that comes off as just a bit trite. Were it not for how eminently charming Chris is, the lyrics and his falsetto singing style could definitely be seen as cloyingly saccharine. I rate it higher than I might because somehow it does manage to hold me in its thrall.

YESSSSSSSSSSS top ten no skip album

Oh well, what can I say

Quizás sea el mejor álbum de una banda y un estilo que mucho no me atrae. Valoro igual que el álbum pasa piola. Y tiene un par de hits con melodías increíbles. 6/10

This album reminds me of so much of the music that got me and my husband talking so I am forever grateful for this ! Although I don’t listen to it much nowadays it never fails to make me sing along and take me back to my youth simply great album

Fantastic album. Songs, singing, lyrics, instruments. Gawd I’m so old fashioned. 4.5.

it was partially yellow.

Just what was need to fill the radiohead alt rock space after Kid A. Shame where Coldplay ended up

00:07am slušala sam album 3 puta danas, možda i 4, dok sam pisala dnevnik i to samo zato što sam vidjela da je lagana neka varijanta melodije pa mi je odgovaralo zbog , ali da je ijedna upečatljiva toliko da mi je ostala u sjećanju, makar zbog teksta, nije. Čula sam da imaju neke dobre hitove baš sa ovog albuma, ali sve u svemu meh. Nisam nešto oduševljena, ono da mi prija dok slušam, sad ću ga upalit da zaspem eto ako išta barem

The album starts with an a lot of emotions. Whether motivated, sad, or excited, you can feel how the sound of the project will be. You can hear a young Coldplay starting to figure out the direction they’re going. It sounds like mistakes and what ifs. However, you hear the “we”ll be fine” and keep going as well.

they want me to listen to Coldplay? its not even the best Coldplay album Chris martins vocals sound whiny but it could just be the sign of the times if you're gonna start listening to a Coldplay album, this isn't the one I would start with

Sure

אתחיל ואומר שקולדפליי אינם להקה מדהימה או מחדשת, לקרוא להרבה משיריהם אמנות זה שגוי. כמו כן עבר זמנם במובנים מסויימים. עם זאת, יש משהו מאוד נעים וקוזי באלבום. זה אלבום חורף. השירים עצמם ברובם מוכרים לי שאני אף פעם לא יודע אם זה דבר טוב או לא כשאתה ניגש לאלבום. השיר הנחמד ביותר הוא כמובן צהוב וזאת מכיוון שהוא אחד משירי האקורדים הראשונים שניגנתי. במובן הזה האלבום ובמיוחד השיר הם קצת נוסטלגיים, ויש תחושה של נוסטלגיה באלבום. יש קו אחיד יחסית, הכל מרגיש רגוע, קושי, דיכאוני אבל לא רצחני או אפל מידי. מרגיש קצת כמו הקרחת של הזמר ששכחתי את שמו של קולדפליי: עצוב, בנאלי, לא מחדש כלום, רגיל. במובן מסוים קולדפליי הם הביטלס של בני ה40 ואם יורשה לי גם בני ה30 וקצת. והביטלס הם עממיים, כך גם קולדפליי. המשמעות של עממיות היא שיש אמירה מסוימת של הלקה, אבל היא מגיעה לעומק מסוים ונעצרת. גם בליריקה, גם בלחן. היופי הוא שאין שום התנגדות של האוזן או של המוח במיוחד לשירים, החסר הוא שאין חידוש דרמטי או אומנותי. ברור לכולנו שכריס משהו אוכל גבינה לבנה. ומיהם אותם אנשי גבינה לבנה? אנשים חסרי אישיות מובהקת או עצמי. אנשים בנאליים מידי עד כדי היותם מיוחדים מרוב בנאליות. אנשים קצת משעממים. וכך גם המוזיקה. מקסימה, באמת. אבל בסוף אין בה שום דבר חוץ מבנאליות. בנאליות מרגיעה, בנאליות חמימה, נעימה, בנאליות נוסטלגית, אבל בנאליות.

reminds me of being a kid. wish coldplay still sounded like this

Not the biggest fan but man that album was really good. 5 star worthy and I’m sure will still hold up in 2036 and 2046.

I certainly like this stripped back, raw and less polished version of Coldplay more than modern day Coldplay. There’s a tone of cautious optimism, they somehow seem sad and happy at the same time. I enjoy that more than the new Coldplay which is just, happy all the time - it seems at least. Nice to hear another Coldplay member sing on the first track also.

I forgot how great this album is. Wow. Genuinely underrated.

I don't like Coldplay anymore, but I loved this when it came out, so it's very nostalgic.

Words cannot describe how much I hate this band

It is pop music. Not terrible, but not my thing.

I listened to this when it first came out, but not much since then. Listening to it now, I expected to have more nostalgia than I did. Instead I was just bored. I think their other early record is better than this one.

It's funny how you can say something that seems defensive to some, but from you're standing, it's just a fact: this album is from a time when Coldplay was simply a better band. This, A Rush of Blood to the Head and X&Y are a reason to listen to Coldplay. The instrumental at the beginning of "Shiver" does exactly that. It has this dramatic weight to it's fuzzy guitars that match the somber tones of Martin. Just a really great track, I wish they lead Parachutes with this instead of "Don't Panic". The same raw emotion is conveyed across most other tracks in the album, most notably on "Spies", "Yellow" and "Trouble". Especially Trouble, with lyrics many people can probably relate to. Although the 'vibes' of each song feels very similar, the harmonies and tone of each feel very distinct. As a first album, it's killer, but as time goes on and evolution doesn't happen quite as much as it should have, this album becomes bittersweet for Coldplay fans, I feel. Overall, love this album. Reminds me of childhood and feels like it has soul and purpose at it's core still.

So sweet that it's easy to overlook how gnarly a couple of those distorted guitar tones are

Coldplay heeft mooie nummers. Maar vind dit album een beetje flauw

There are a couple of good tracks but mainly this just seems like a Jeff Buckley tribute?! Was not expecting that! I just can’t think I’ll listen to it again.

6/10 Best songs: Yellow, Everything's Not Lost My opinion about this album is the same as my opinion about every Coldplay song I've ever heard: well-done music, but waaay too slow and one-note for me. It shouldn't be a surprise that I find songs like Yellow, where harmonies add some interest, to be the strongest on the album.

A solid debut album. “And it was all yellow.”

Their best album in my opinion! This is one of those records that should be in any list of perfect releases and best debuts.

I feel like I grew in a time where Coldplay had been good for a few albums and became a bit of a meme. Relistening to this album now, and I see what made them great in the first place. A lot of replay value here as an album, and plenty of individual songs that stand out.

unlike my first impulse, this album still shines brighter from song to song, when ignoring the cheesy aspects of it. liked it in my teens, still like it a lot now

Pretty good. Some songs I heard before but never listened to the whole albums pretty good for winter sad slow vibes ha ha

I think Coldplay's reputation is a little unfair. Here you can definitely see their ability to tap into emotion, both quiet and soaring.

It’s not quite my sound but there is good talent on display here. Having a debut album this good is many an artists dream

sad boy music but goog

I cannot really fault this album. It is the only Coldplay album I would listen to now. Have to step back from the its on trend to dislike Coldplay and remember how it felt like to listen to this album when it came out in 2000...and that was a good feeling.

nunca me harán quererte coldplay

2,4/5

Bland.

Good chill album

Sparks live (Dakota's version) went platinum in my house

Really???? Oh god. Here we go. Honestly I’m a little surprised by how much I like this. I’d totally get caught having an affair at these guys’ concert. In all seriousness, it’s good, but I don’t think we’ll be remembering it in a hundred years. The songs are all pretty similar, which as a strength means it’s forty minutes of music to let your mind wander to—great as stereotypical gaze-out-the-window during a roadtrip music. As a weakness, it begins to become a bit bland. I guess it depends what you want out of the album. It does kinda feel like if Radiohead were a less visceral, acoustic pop-rock band. I don’t know. Sort of like if you made a stripped-back Let Down into an entire album. Maybe it’s my prejudice towards the British. Yellow is an undeniably good song, of course. And I appreciated the quick little interlude of Parachutes. Don’t Panic as an intro was also quite good—same with Everything’s Not Lost as an outro. Everything’s Not Lost is probably my favorite song on here, in fact. This gets a four not because it’s on the same level as other albums I gave a four, but because it does the job. It’s for people who like Coldplay. I’m not a people who like Coldplay. But for a people who like Coldplay, it’s perfect: vaguely ambient, sad but uplifting, inoffensive, and emotional. For an album in the Coldplay genre, it’s top of its class.

Lovely background music, but nothing really stood out to me.

“Home places we’ve grown All of us are done for” This would be my anthem if i was a foot fungus about to be killed off by treatment. So maybe in another life. Coldplay is one of those bands i really struggle to understand why people like…. sorry

I did like this a lot. I mean it is quintessential coldplay and miles better than anything they've made in the past ten years. I had this at a high 3 rounded down but upon reflection I literally favourited ⅔ of the songs on the album so it should definitely be a 4 #silly me

I originally thought that Coldplay was a universally (and uncontriversialy) loved band but having read some of the other reviews, it appears that they do also have some haters. I however cannot get behind any of the criticism - I feel like this album is timelessly emotionally resonant, swimming in the happy medium between reminiscence and melancholy. I can't foresee a time when this album isn't widely influential and loved which is rightly so.

this is a hard one for me. i used to love this album so much and i listened to it alot in summer 2024 to the new year, however i feel it just doesn’t hit the same anymore. there are alot of really good songs on here and a few not so much - but my favourite always was and always has been shiver and i found after listening to this album i had it stuck in my head all day so i think for that reason i will round a 3.5 up to a 4

Coldplay are just one of those bands that are solid. This album has some really nice songs that are just right when in a certain kind of mood. They feel gentle and like a warm blanket. Will definitely listen to again. sparks :(

Coldplay haven’t always got it right in recent years but I enjoy this early version of them figuring things out. A pleasant listen.

Growing up in the UK when we this band blew up, it was uncool to like this band. Leaving my biases at the door, I had a good time with this. You can see why they blew up. 'Yellow' is still an absolute belter of a track, and I was impressed with some of the non-singles too. It's like if Radiohead focused on putting out hits instead of experimenting after releasing The Bends, which doesn't have to be a bad thing! They play it safe and there is a hint of blandness creeping up as you approach the end of the record, but it finishes up just before it detracted from my enjoyment too much.

3/5. A pleasant surprise. Coldplay is one of those bands that has a stigma around their music, and I would agree that much of their catalogue is pretty bad. However this debut album is actually pretty alright. Some easygoing alt-rock that highlights Chris Martin’s strong vocals. Also some solid guitar parts. Quite enjoyed shiver especially. The biggest flaw of this album is that it’s just a bit samey, which causes it to feel very front-loaded. nothing in the back half really gripped me as much.

I already had Sparks and Yellow saved But now I saved Shiver and Spies. Its like medium good. Like some songs may hit the feels a little, but not enough for me to wanna put the song 10x on loop. The ending to Spies got me tho. I started singing out

The fall off is insane, didn't know coldplay made music like this Sparks I already knew and is still the best song on here. Yellow a little overplayed.

I'm not really a Coldplay fan, but their importance as a cultural phenomenon is undeniable. Some tracks are good, but as an album it's mostly quite dull. Can't really give it more than a 3, but might let it stay there.

Got bored so quickly, too sad on an already sad day

Too middle of the road for me, a couple of decent tunes

I am really glad I listened to this, the album in its entirety is quite good. The big singles - Yellow and Trouble - were the ones I’d heard most (growing up in the UK and listening to radio they were on a LOT) but I like them the least. And the final song is a mood

THEY’RE JUST SPIEEESSSSS

absolute banger and so nostalgic

It’s alright… all kinda sounds the same His voice is very nice and the music is good Just very similar to each other and all a bit too for my taste

Excellent debut album. Not my favorite Coldplay album.

i was raised to be a coldplay hater and i actually didn’t HATE this. however in accordance with my upbringing and beliefs i can’t in good conscience give this higher than a 2

That's not a bad album, quite listenable.

First song on First album is their best. All downhill from there.

One of my fav Coldplay albums ever. 10/10

This was an interesting angle of Coldplay. A lot more conventional rock band components here with drums and guitars on essentially every song. Weird to feel the need to point THAT out but it is definitely a departure from a lot of the other hits everyone knows. Critically speaking it's a good album. Rush of Blood to the Head has the superior A Side, but this at least stays interesting from front to back. Yellow was huge, but I also really enjoyed Don't Panic (which was also big but not as big).

Classic Coldplay. Great.

I can't give 4.5 but i would. Loved it

Top songs: Shiver Sparks Trouble Life is for Living

Quite enjoyable!

It's fine. Couple hits, couple misses. Certain artists like Coldplay that get exceedingly popular also seem to get exceedingly hated on (Nickelback, Taylor Swift, etc.). I personally think this hate is almost always over the top. Save your hate for true trash like Kid Rock. I definitely didn't hate this, but it also didn't really do anything for me. Just very average.

Nice Brit-pop, but musically nothing earth shattering or forward thinking.

A classic.

some really popular songs overall nice vibe almost no lows and few highs

It was okay. Very Delilah coded.

Still fantastic

I want to grab this album by its shoulders, shake it, and tell it to speak up! There are a few good songs where the understated deliveries by Chris Martin achieve a nice sense of roomy space. The rest all blend together into something that, like everyone has said at this point, just grasp at bits of Radiohead & U2. The run of “Sparks”, “Yellow”, & “Parachutes” all carry some well-known melodies, Coldplay can’t be faulted for not knowing how to whip up a memorable hook. But by the time the title track came around, I was good and ready for the end. Luckily, this thing is a merciful 40 minutes if you include the bonus track. Likely a colossal work for those who held a moody disposition about the world around them, and likely more irritating for coffee shop employees at the time. Strong 2/5, I hear all the components which make this a successful record, it’s just not my jam

Like some kind of 2000s TV show soundtrack

6/10. Very mid record. Not great, not terrible.

easy listen, big coldplay guy favorites: we never change sparks everythings not lost 4.3 stars 8.6/10

En kuunnellut, mutta klassikkolevy. Coldplayn paras. 4/5.

6/10

I love this album. I bought it in ourprice when it came out as my independence on music had started to grow. It sounds intimate and classic/timeless in it's setup.

Strong, classic even but doesn't move me.

The only Coldplay album that I like. Enjoyable 4/5

Classic

In the UK in the 2000s Parachutes was on regular rotation in most CD players across the country. It hit the sweet spot of being both intellectually stimulating and instantly accessible, synthesising a broad range of fresh sounds (a little bit of OK Computer, a little bit of David Gray) and delivering something brand new to a country who’d almost had its fill of Oasis. Every song has a deep emotional core which you can lean into and convincing melodic hooks to match. There’s a nice balance of intimate, introspective ballads and fuller, rockier songs, but it never tips over into bombast.

Weirdly I got back into this album in Nov-Dec, it’s a solid 4 for me, I remember all the words of all the songs so I must have been chaining this as a young teen when first getting into music. It doesn’t quite warrant a 5 for me as none of it is truly special but it sticks well and I have a very soft spot for this and their 2nd album.

Had classics. It was fine

Eh

Coldplay comes out hot with their Parachutes debut. Mellow, thought-provoking, and well put together. All songs are good, couple big hits. L = (2.75*s) Above average, kinda slow through the middle, but no skippers. J = (2.75*s) Didn’t know Yellow was from their first album. Have they ever topped it?

Pretty solid debut from Coldplay. I enjoyed this album much more than I thought I would. Parachutes is a softy but really good. I remember not liking "Yellow" when it first hit MTv but after I saw it with the MI cousins during a night of family festivities, I was changed. It is actually a beautiful song. The band may have tapered off after this hit record but credit is due to them for breaking in to the music market with Parachutes...3.38 stars.

After years of being a decent Coldplay fan I had started to become underwhelmed with them over the past couple of albums. Their hits had been excessively overplayed and their schtick had seemingly started to wear thin. Their albums had become less and less interesting as the seemingly pushed for a pop rock sound. Despite being an OK album, A Rush Of Blood was a bit of a lackluster listen on my last revisit, so I went in with tempered expectations for Parachutes. I was pretty pleased how well Parachutes held up. It's a little simpler and holds a little more of the indie rock vibe that made Coldplay more alluring earlier in their career. Parachutes has a bit more of a glum alt rock sound that maybe worked better earlier in their career when it still felt fresh. Perhaps it was feeling more and more thin as they aged and continued to release albums in their signature vein. While Chris Martin is mostly an admirable frontman, his act had started to feel packaged as he became an aging rocker and more of a pop culture icon. All in all I was a mostly OK with Parachutes on the revisit. 3.10 stars

Very competent, I see how the stale melancholia could be mistaken as profound emotional depth.

I enjoyed this album even though I don't typically listen to Coldplay. "Yellow" actually fits well in the series and lead up to it as opposed to playing it any other time.

5/10

one of my favourites!!!

Prachtig. Toen Coldplay nog echt goede muziek maakte. Lekker emo

Once of the best debut albums of all time. T Wow, I forgot how much Chris Martin was trying to channel/emulate Jeff Buckley on Sunday like Shiver. And he pulls it off. He found his own voice on later albums, but it's fun to re-hear this.

easy listening

Här däremot, här finns bangers

Listened to this a long time ago and only remembered a few songs. I really enjoyed it. Favorite songs: Don't Panic, Sparks, Trouble

phenomenal, forgot how much I enjoyed old Coldplay

It’s a very chill album and I’m really liking it

Beautiful

j'ai bien aimé bonne vibe

Pas ultra fan de coldplay mais c ok

Même si j'aime bien Coldplay, je suis venu avec un avis de hater en mode industry plant etc... Mais finalement que des sons hyper sympas, les lyrics sont compréhensibles et assez profonds, et c'est assez unique. Un peu le U2 des temps modernes en fait

I like the band, but the singer's voice gets old on a whole album

Listening to this album feels exactly how early twenties sound. Mainly confused and sad. A bit tiring to listen to on the road.

Tranquilo y suave a excepción de una dos que 3 canciones que destacan y se nota el sentimiento

Mid asf. OG sad girl music

I always thought of Coldplay as more of a “just the hits” band, and hadn’t listened to them much apart from Mylo Xyloto and Rush of Blood to the Head, both of which my parents had on CD while I was growing up, so I am very familiar with those albums. Parachutes pleasantly surprised me. Don’t Panic was a pretty great starter (I’m starting to sense a theme with these that I love the first track haha). Shiver was very quintessentially Coldplay, and while I didn’t love Spies the end was quite good and it fit the album quite well. Sparks was alright but not my type of song. Not gonna really comment on Yellow or Trouble, as they’re hits for a reason and are songs I very much enjoy. I’d say Trouble is probably my least favourite outta the two, but it’s a close call. Parachutes itself was a serviceable intermission! Going into High speed, it was an interesting sound. I didn’t love it, but I can appreciate it. The two last songs of the album blended together a bit for me, but Everything’s not Lost + life is for living did close the album nicely for me! Overall, a 3.5/5 ⭐️, might increase if I came back to it and gave it more listens. I do genuinely love a lot of early Coldplay, and saw them in 2017 which was an incredible show! Favourites: Yellow, Trouble, Don’t Panic Least Favourites: Spies 4/1089

A classic album. So many great songs. Excellent vocal performances.

Who can deny “Yellow”? Not my favorite album of all time but definitely one I would listen to in a pensive mood. This morning’s commute, with the rain having broken only a few hours ago, was a good time.

Some enjoyable songs but overall too melancholy for my taste, i don't know when i'd listen to it in everyday life

Decent pop tunes, i love a bit of Coldplay in my playlists - just consistently listenable songs.

about 12 years ago I saw someone write something like "saying Coldplay is your favourite band is like saying your favourite colour is beige" and oh boy ! that's stuck with me Honourable mention to the kiss cam at that Coldplay concert catching that cheating CEO I hadn't heard most of this, and I didn't mind listening to this at all. I also liked the bonus track, which I'd obviously never heard. Sure, it's a bit beige, a bit dull, but that's fine Songs added to playlist: - Sparks - Yellow

3/5

I noticed there is a very popular song on here, I liked this album. Not the VERY best but I did enjoy it

Disjointed imo however has some really nice sonnets.

Looking back, it’s great that Parachutes was their debut album. Still, they just doesn’t quite click with me. What surprises me most is that my reaction hasn’t really changed at all over the past 25 years.

I hated this album when it came out, thinking it was a bland dumbing-down of somewhat more interesting music. Now I had a chance to revise my youthful opinion. Turns out the opening run of tracks is full of lovely and clever (albeit subtle) songwriting and production choices. "Don't Panic" is gorgeous, "Shiver" pulses with emotion, and "Spies" makes a convincing case that this lite version of sounds that were popular at the time could be the better one. Most surprisingly for me, I now think the real secret to the enduring appeal of "Yellow" is that it's more or less perfect. I should also mention that after several albums in a row of wall-to-wall misogyny, it was BEAUTIFUL to hear cheesy love lyrics without any hint of condescension, irony or secret darkness. He sounds like the boy your mom wants you to marry. Plus I honestly envy his voice. Sadly, the rest of the album, much like the rest of Coldplay's career, treads water in an abyss of the completely forgettable. It doesn't feel bad, necessarily, just doesn't feel like much of anything at all, and all the nifty choices that filled the opening half simply vanish. It's like if "Music for Airports" was unintentional. I'm feeling generous today and the re-listen actually surprised me, so 3 stars.

👍🏻

Good, boring

The music equivalent of an empty crisp packet blowing around in the wind

3,5+ Don’t panic Spies Sparks Trouble High Speed

Still pretty good, but not as good as I once remember. Good enough for 4 stars, though

Lovely that.

This is probably the most I'll ever enjoy a Coldplay album. Sure, it's still kind of melodramatic and a bit sterile. But the emotional hugeness isn't quite as over-exaggerated, and the proceedings all feel a bit more subtle. The songs are pretty consistently good too. Shiver, Yellow, Sparks, and Trouble are all pretty enjoyable hits from this album. I also enjoy Spies and We Never Change quite a bit. I don't think Coldplay has ever worn their pop-rock sound better since. Here, there are times where they kind of sound like you sanded down pre-Kid A Radiohead, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Even if I still don't find Coldplay particularly interesting, I did sort of enjoy this pretty consistently. Even if there isn't a lot here I think I'll be coming back to, Parachutes works as a whole that Coldplay delivers.

Terrible music to cheat on your wife with

C+

Chris and Dakota breakup makes sparks better

god.. one of my favorite albums EVER.

Unknown band to me but surprisingly interesting. A good album.

No. 59 I really got hooked by this one. Really not typically into Coldplay but I definitely got swept up in the music and the tones and production along the way.

Lets face it, although they’ve become their generation’s U2- it’s cool to dismiss them as MOR pretentious dullards- if you just listen to this on it’s merits it is pretty good.

Inte mitt Coldplay. Varför denna plattan, det måste finnas flera bättre. En trea

Don’t rlly like Coldplay but it was an enjoyable listen

Bland bland bland

saudades desse rockzinho leve deles, hoje em dia só pop…gostei bastante da primeira metade do álbum, sparks é minha favorita do coldplay.

sinceramente nao gosto muito do Coldplay mas até que metade desse álbum realmente é bom, eu já gostava bastante de sparks e percebi que tem músicas nesse álbum que se parecem, eh um álbum bem coeso tbm

This album doesn't really do anything interesting, but at least it isn't actively annoying. At this point I think maybe they hadn't quite perfected the art of over emoting to death the way they would on Rush of Blood, so this one's almost listenable.

This was great. I'd never heard the whole album. The singles are obviously iconic, but I have a few new faves, like Trouble and Everything's not lost. What a banger of an album. It doesn't quite give me all the feels, but it's close.

Coldplay always makes me think of the slow parts of a Gorillaz track combined with flyover Radiohead material. Inoffensive but hardly favorite band material.

Feels like a boring version of U2 to me. 3 stars or C.

yellow sparks 2000 alternative rock united kingdom

odličan album, jako moj đir, daje ti baš onaj neki specifičan osjećaj utjehe, nade, inspiracije, coming of age, sve ce bit u redu vibe; super

This album was nostalgic, i listened to it so much when it came out. But listening to this t now, there isn’t really much that is still special about it, especially since Coldplay has mostly remained unchanged in their sound. Makes it feel flat and hollow.

By far their best Album, imho. Catchy, melancholic songs, dig it. Fav: Shiver

This album flowed nicely. I like it enough to listen again, but not enough to go out of my way.

I think this is a fine album, I wouldn’t say there’s multiple hits or that it is emotional inducing, but yellow is a classic and I’d listen to it on a loop while working, overall a 3/5 album for me

I like a couple of the songs but it’s a meh album

not my thing

good

A well recorded, well performed batch of tedious songs.

I dont get the hate for this album, the highs are pretty high. Sadly the lows are pretty low.

Some songs were good, some made me feel like I was in a hospital waiting room.

Coldplay is Coldplay, easy listening with some classic tracks.

I know this is a hot take but this album does NOT do it for me. And I love a good Coldplay hit, even the sleepers on their other albums, but I’m not a Yellow girl, and clearly not a Parachutes girl. I’d say my fav is Sparks (tho second half of song got boring to me, I’m sorry!)

Beste Lieder: Yellow Lieder Playlist: 0

not a huge coldplay fan but i was surprised by how easy this album was to get into, not something id listen to every day probably but very nice and relaxing! favs! - shiver - spies - sparks

Il suono mi piace molto ma è davvero tutto uguale

Sparks, Yellow, Trouble. That’s a pretty good three song punch right there. The rest of the album seems kind of eh.

Soft rock. One of those albums that is the same song 10 times, but fortunately the song is good.

I expected Sparks to be a lot better based on it's stream count, but it was far too emo for me. Yellow is undeniably a great tune, but for my money the best song on the album is Trouble. Overall a little to dour for me.

Credit to Coldplay that this is a much better album than I anticipated. Ideally I’d give it more than a 3, but not quite a 4. I liked it more than most but I didn’t love it. Maybe my ratings are too harsh? Oh well, gotta be consistent now

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.

pretty good

3/3. The first 3 has arrived. This one kinda snuck up on me, but I think on repeated listens this might actually be a no-skip album. Sounds totally modern, and the production is exceptional. You can really hear every detail, and the songwriting is there to match. This would be an easy recommendation for anyone to listen to.

Amarilloooooooowwwwww… perdón… ejem… yellooooooooow… que gran disco para empezar una carrera musical… lástima que, a mi pesar, se han perdido. Perdido la fuerza, la melancolia (cállate Pere puto emo de mierda) y la poesía… ahora los escucho y me parecen una fábrica de melodias pop prefabricadas. Vamos, lo que sería el ikea de la música pop

Day710 - yellow was the gateway drug into coldplay and it’s amazing but i could also listen to trouble,shiver and sparks on repeat

Ehhhhhh I do sorta like coldplay? But maybe only here and there, because this album wasn't really doing it for me. Fine in general though. Yellow still doesn't really do anything special for me :p I liked Don't Panic and Spies in particular

There's a very good reason that Coldplay basically took over the world in the early to mid 2000s. Even though this album is derided by some as just diet Radiohead, I find that Coldplay bring their own touch to these songs, infusing them with a warmth that even the best Radiohead tunes lack (and I say this as a massive Radiohead fan, mind you). The songwriting was there, the atmosphere was there - what's not to love?

The back half of this album did not live up to the overly high expectations I had after the first five songs. But none of it was bad. That front half just brought some HEAT. And I mean come on. Yellow is an all timer. You caught me on a good day Coldplay. This is more like a 4.5 that I am rounding up to a 5.

It's a funny feeling to get this one on the challenge, a rare band where their big rise and fall happened during my younger years, where I was aware they were a popular band but never really engaged beyond that. Listening to 'Yellow' today was a genuine nostalgia hit. As full album experience, though, they have one mood and they stick to it to a fault. I was vibing hard at first, already considering a 4 or 5, but by the halfway mark the sound actually started to wear me down. It doesn't help that although the songwriting is undeniably pretty, the instrumentation is disappointingly bland -- that's one point where Radiohead is miles ahead in (though I don't love the comparison). Standouts: Don't Panic • Shiver • Yellow

Judging this album using The Bends as a yardstick because the influence is undeniable. It's good, but it's not as good as The Bends. However, I was very pleasantly surprised by an album that I have mainly seen about in reviews of A Rush of Blood to the Head, which generally call it derivative and embarrassing. Really found myself appreciating it for what it is and enjoying it.

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

Bring back the old Coldplay straight from the go Coldplay

Average

Really hate Chris Martin’s voice. The guitar is good enough. Covers are good, originals are annoying. Amazing how much of this album I’ve heard incidentally without ever setting out to hear it on purpose.

Amazing album, instant nostalgia 🤩

One of my biggest "guilty pleasures" because I am not a Coldplay fan at all but I will always defend this album. There's a certain beauty and wholesomeness to it that gets more and more lost the further you go through they're discography. I'm not gonna try and convince anybody that Coldplay is actually good, because they're not, but before you dismiss them entirely give this a listen. Favorite track: Don't Panic

I almost never use the word boring when describing music, but I'll make an exception in this case. This album is lukewarm like a vodka tonic sitting on top of the urinal the men's room for an hour after the bar closes. And I'm the yellow-brown lime wedge floating listlessly on its surface.

Had this in my cd player for a year when it came out

middle kinda boring but that beginning and end is great

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

Kažkaip užkabino, labai patiko, kiekviena daina buvo graži.

Ok album with pleasant songs. For me this was music that you can listen to when you are relaxing and just let it play on the background.

I enjoyed it never understood their hate until they went pop lol

Whoa Coldplay are amazing

Very meh.

Cannot calculate how much of my high school homework was completed while listening to this album on a loop. A perfect album for the yearners out there, no notes

“People like Coldplay and voting for nazis. You cant trust people Jeremy” Feels like an unbelievable cynical cash in on ok computer.

2000s Coldplay = eating grilled chicken breast and unseasoned potatoes. 2010-2020s Coldplay = eating dog turd covered in glitter. (I don’t mind this but can’t understand why anyone would choose to listen to it when The Bends exists)

Some great, some good, some meh

honestly can’t think of anything bad to say about this album. sonically and lyrically amazing. chris martin has a beautiful voice.

💙 Even though it's been more than 20 years since I've listen to this album in its entirety, I know it back and forth, note by note.

As a confirmed Coldplay hater this is them at their least pompous and mediocre. Some good tunes and attempts to be Jeff Buckley. They genuinely could have been more interesting, and less successful, following this path.

Not too bad considering it's Coldplay.

Sounded nice in the car on a cold morning.

Yellow was a welcome listen on an otherwise kind of bland album.

*fart noises*

Fabulous album.

One of my all-time favorites

Nondescript Beatles cover

Radiohead laid out the groundwork for this sound, and as much as I viewed Coldplay as an attempt at ripping off what Radiohead had done, they weren't the only band at the time doing it, and they definitely did a better job than most on the first couple of albums to the point I actively listened to them alongside Radiohead. I honestly thought "Don't Panic" and "Trouble" were on the second album and was considering giving it 3 Stars based on that fact alone.