Parachutes

not great, but better than I expected it to be. Fun arrangements, good vocals - I can see why people like it back then, I wouldn't listen to it though.

A little disappointing, but Yellow holds up.

This is a pretty good album. Much like the rest of the early Coldplay stuff it's fine and it's much better than what came later. I can see why it was popular it's definitely an easy listen. Shiver I think my be my favourite.

Better than I expected Nice on a rainy day

Yawn. Look, folks, it's a pop-rock band. My position on the ranging debate over whether or not they are good, highly influential, overrated, et cetera is very simple: they aren't worth the energy to debate. The album itself was very well-produced mediocrity. This is boring. Influence 3. Hits 3. Quality 5. Intangibles 3. My daughter had to wake me up when it was over 2.

Radiohead for suburban moms

Don't know why it's on this list, but this is a perfectly fine album. Nothing more nothing less.

Not my favorite album but lovely

Played this album a lot back in the day but not since a steady 3

Listening to this, I got lost thinking why was Coldplay not well regarded or acquired some status, compared to other bands. I read something about the earnestness of their music and how hard it was for something like that to resonate in an era of apathy and cynicism. And I'm in favor of that view. But listening, I don't really feel that big of a connection or amazement from their music. They are not bad, for a debut album is decent. But beyond the singles, this is not remarkable. And I think that's the problem: their music on this album is okay. In that logic, their next works, where they experimented and delved on other genres are probably more interesting. But sadly, I got this notion of them making music for "normies", so I didn't listen more. Maybe they indeed became a pop band. But in some sense, ¿Don't we want to see our favorite artists explore and experiment? ¿Is not this a monkey paw situation? Maybe the most valuable part of this exercise of listening music is the capacity to recheck some artists, their music and appreciate more with a new perspective

Coldplay is always so meh to me

This album has two incredible songs, Yellow and Everything's Not Lost. The rest of it isn't bad but just doesn't really compare.

A solid album all the way thru

13 year old loved it back in the days

ultimate sad boy album, whenever i hear sparks i immediately think of sad nba player edits - otherwise a little overhyped i reckon but still good maybe i’d like this more if i was more heartbroken

It's nice to hear an album that uses subbass after such a long time of pre '85 albums. Anyway, it's ok, Yellow is the only standout.

Coldplay is a band you love to hate, but their first album is usually free of criticism. So I expected to like Parachutes, an album I listened to a few times in the early 2000’s. The album started with a couple of well known bangers and I fully expected to give this four stars. The second half kind of fizzled out though, Coldplay style.

Look good album, poor timing, probably would've been a 4, in 2 months, but if we're getting back to back Coldplay, I'm gonna need Africans on mesas with pianos, iykyk

Kind of slow and same Yellow High speed

xo

Could have been worse From the extremely polarized reviews I saw, I was convinced this would be a hit or a massive miss. It wasn’t either. I enjoyed the first few songs, but after that they started to blend together. It wasn’t awful, though, which was better than I was expecting.

jsp j'aime que ses plus connues et encore, c'est cool mais rien de fou

This is a sweet little album. No one can hate on this Coldplay album, now any of there other albums say what you want but this one is so nice and lovely. I love yellow and the story of him trying to sound like Neil young in the studio.

Nearly four stars. So close, but it's s bit bland in a weird way. I really like it, though.

Good but gets a bit same-y

Now why TF (capital THE FUCK) is Coldplay on this list. Like ok. You're really gonna make me listen to a Coldplay album in full?? Really??? I had a personal thing going to never listen to a Coldplay album yet here I fucking am I guess. They're good, I like them I like this, just it's fucking Coldplay. Like. Can we not. It's ok though. We can. I'm not panicking don't worry. It is a pretty beautiful world. Fuck you Ms. Russel. Sparks live is kinda peak. Yeah ok this is actually really good. Oh it's so british though. I'm getting blur flashbacks someone save me please. They're literally all spies bro. I hate Yellow. It's just too TikTok. Idk I can't do it. Reminds me of covid. I'll always look out for you 💔 That's deep. Idk I can definitely get behind sparks. Bro I literally never meant to cause you trouble. Bro. Bro please. Bro I mean it. Bro. I'm literally just in my little bubble bro. Bro please. Why are we always in a bubble. That's my question here. This is not bad. I don't know I think we change. I think the people that say we don't just don't wanna acknowledge that sometimes change is unrecognizable. We're always changing, but we never notice since we're always just ourselves. Hopefully. Lowkey we're done now like wrap it up. I'd give it a 3.5. Favourite: Sparks Least favourite: Yellow

You can tell Yellow is going to be a hit, and several other songs stand out as well. Very impressive for their first real album and after only a couple of years together. Not a lot of range on this album in their sound, but it's still one you can put on an listen all the way through.

Very assured for a first album and a lot of earworms

starts off really great and falls off a bit in the middle. a couple boring songs and a couple great songs i gave it a 75

Not Coldplay's best, but I do love me some Coldplay.

Not my jam. I think Chris Martin has a good voice for the style, but I can't get jiggy with the soft-boi rock style. I will say that the remastered version sounds great in headphones. "Shivers" is the one track that I think goes in a general playlist.

🌽 🌽 🌽 IT WAS ALL YELLOW 🌽 🌽 🌽 Shiver’s good, like the drums and guitar pattern on it. I like the title track- it’s a nice little interlude. The twangy guitar on high speed is jammin’. I think my big question I’m chewing on today is “why do I like Radiohead so much and feel the opposite about Coldplay?” Maybe part of it is the overplay. RH feels more vulnerable and sincere, although there were some tracks on here that did feel real to me. It’s a shame newer Coldplay doesn’t seem to have the same stuff.

Some good songs but it wasn't anything life-changing. I was a little bored to be honest.

3.8

One of those bands that somehow manages to be both overrated and overhated. Nice guitar lines but otherwise mostly a bit dull, though pleasant enough. Not too long, which is good.

coldplay ):

Great first album, shame about the rest

Pretty alright, but I feel no need to return to it. And y'know, sometimes that's what this challenge is about too: listening to something new and just thanking it for the singular experience it gives you.

Back in the early 2000s, we didn't have internet access at home, so I faithfully and diligently read Finnish music magazines. Probably in August 2000 Markku Halme (RIP) reviewed Parachutes and said in his positive review something like "boys from good families have made a warm, but truly uncommercial album". At fifteen years old I was already a proper indiepop boy so I thought that this will be something no one else will ever love or understand so I bought Parachutes without hearing a note. The disappointment came only around the time of the second album. This is Coldplay's best album and "Don't Panic", "Shiver", "Yellow" and "Trouble" are as clearly Coldplay's four best songs. Unfortunately, the other songs are not nearly as good. There must be a Marvel-multiverse where Coldplay only ever released those four songs on an 12-inch and continued with real estate jobs or banking or whatever and music nerds would pay handsome money to get a copy of that EP.

3 - Buen disco, pero siempre me ha parecido un sonido algo deprimente.

Songs all sound a bit the same. Some songs kinda peaceful but also just a bit boring.

Fine.

Coldplay being Coldplay.

Usual Coldplay, put the first song on and it all merges into one

Good, but it's never been my jam.

Production is good, but nothing really stands out

Ja op zich leuk, maar vind Coldplay gwn mid

los sonidos de los 2000 me gustan mucho. Lo que me pasa con coldplay es que me pone negra la voz del cantante, o no sé, pero tengo una gran barrera de rechazo. al final también me sonaban un poco repetitivas.

3.65/5

Ok so I must state my anti Coldplay bias at the door. I find Chris Martin grating as a human being and a musician, but this is primarily based on late 2000s Chris Martin and beyond, the age of the “conscious uncoupling” etc. This is a decent album. There’s a good amount of variety between the slower, emotive stuff, more up tempo pop and some almost (almost) psychedelic sounds. And Yellow is a banger even with all the elongated “oooooo” noises. So hey I enjoyed it but my views aren’t necessarily changed.

Una grata sorpresa. Realmente lo disfruté

A LOT better than more recent stuff. A bit muted for me

took me back to the Napster era. Chris Martin has a beautiful falsetto, Spies is a cool song. Their sound is a little polished and emotion free for my taste but there are some fun and lasting pop songs on this album. Everything's Not Lost sounds like a billy joel song.

Classics like Yellow 💗 their debut album is fine

Here are some scenarios where I would recommend this album: you want some entirely forgettable music to cry to; you find Radiohead too edgy and not quite dreary enough; you are having a dinner party with strangers, and you want everyone to be disappointed but unaffected by your music choice. Man, I've hated this album by default since it came out and became the epitome of middle-of-the-road, boring parents' music. But you know what? I'm a boring parent now, and this is pretty enjoyable. Some of the songwriting is decent. Yellow is an absolute smash. I'd still rather listen to something with more character, and I still resent how much they rip off Radiohead. 3*

Found it pretty boring, but relaxing as if the songwriter had nothing to prove and all the time in the world. Tracks to Track: Yellow (stood out by a mile)

5/10

a bit too boring at points but the highs are SO high... damn... don't panic is a killer opener

The most vanilla music imaginable

There is beautiful music and stupid music for 90% of this grrrrrrr. I was still pleasantly surprised ngl. But why on earth are there 2 Coldplay albums on this list???

before i listened to this. ana messaged me that i'm not allowed to call it safe or compare it to pantone's color of the year because she already did that. she's evil for that because there really is no other word for this than safe. it's completely serviceable and commercial. the kind of thing you'll hear playing softly as background noise in a business trying to fill the silence because it's unlikely to offend anyone. it's palatable and it has some pleasant moments, but outside of mild toe-tapping, there's not much here that makes it stand out. i listened to this while doing some crosswords, you get what i mean? that's the vibe. i can't even really imagine the type of person who Loves this album, but it might've been better had everything been minecraft parodies i think.

I've never hated Coldplay, at least y'know, the first half of their catalogue. I stick by Viva La Vida or Death and all his friends actually being a great album (even if its not on this list). I find the fact that the highest rated reviews on this website are significantly lower then the average sums up Coldplay. In a word, this album is safe. If it was a color it would be Panotone's colour of the year, Cloud Dancer, and if it got any awards for the best of something today it would rightfully be met with similar outrage. That's not because this album sucks, but rather its because it is the most "okay" album to perhaps have ever existed. Coldplay's first foray is the pinnacle of easily digestible, radio friendly, alt-rock. None of this is an insult, it is doing precisely what it was made to do and it is doing it well. For songs I like from this album, I'll go with trouble, which I heard in countless adverts growing up but I still somewhat like. Songs like High Speed and Sparks are fine too, even if they sound like Radiohead without the parts that make radiohead special

I started listening to this album on my way to school, but forgot I still had somethings in the queue. I was like "Oh wow, I didn't know Coldplay was this good" and then I went back and looked at the songs I had just listened to and realized it wasn't Coldplay. I had thought the voice kind of sounded like Coldplay, but then once I actually started listening to Coldplay, I was like OHHHH yeah this is definitely them. Going into this album I think I only know Sparks and Shivers. It's decent. Good background music.

Perfectly fine

Less into this than their second record. But its still much better than expected. Their modern music is real bad. This is just passable. Better for sure but still not alot of substance. It goes by quick enough. Thats mostly the good things I got. Yellow is a legit good song. Ive always like thay one though. Nothing else really stands out. And thats the best Coldplay has to offer. After this we get viva la Vida or whatever and after like 2009 that got real annoying. So Coldplay is dead I guess. Bye. Didnt hate to know you but I didnt have fun either

It's fine, nice to listen to, sounds cohesive as well. Nothing special, though

3.75 - Grading this album was difficult. Coldplay holds such a huge space in the mainstream rock space, and I have always wondered how that is when I've always viewed them as some version of plain or as just being adequate, safe, and agreeable. That being said, it is a pretty unremarkable album BUT there are a few songs that are so timelessly iconic (at least in my upbringing) that they hold much more weight than what I'd give them on just a first listen. Fav Songs: Sparks // Yellow // Parachutes

The Thom Yorke wannabe and co. debut album really brings back early memories of music. Always felt more of an affiliation to Rush of Blood to the Head & X&Y, but this holds its own. Fave tracks: Don’t Panic, Spies, Trouble, High Speed

overrated, coldplay suck. I'm half kiddint. This was pretty good, just not really anything super amazing

It's 3.5

Oh look, back when Coldplay actually wrote music. I've never liked Coldplay, but this version of them were actually good.

When I first heard "Yellow" as a teen, I told everyone I wanted that played at my funeral.

Just ok to me, but has a few songs I remember fondly (sparks, shiver)

White bread

Another Coldplay album that is just fine. They are just inoffensive rock, and there’s a place for that, just not something I go out of my way to listen to.

Неожиданно неплохо. Ровненькое аккуратное инди со вкусом тыквенного латте от самых плюшевых рокеров

Feel good music but sad style lol trouble is a better track than yellow.

It's a solid album, not exactly for my taste but it's clearly a good Coldplay album. 6.5/10

Other than being really popular I'm not sure why such an inoffensive band attract such hate. This is pleasant enough but doesn't hit the heights of their second album.

Can see their talent but still so mediocre

Probably would have slapped in 2000 but in 2026 its a little samey. A nice winter album though. Maybe I'm not depressed enough for this one right now? Yellow is an all timer though. I also really liked the final track "Everything's Not Lost" it felt like a refined Randy Newman song

Was not impressed yellow is a banger tho

I'm a bit fatigued from too much Coldplay over the years. But I'll admit this is a decent álbum, nicely arranged songs.

Coldplay is a 3 of a band for me. They're harmless. They're non-confrontational. They're safe. They're the band you take home to your parents. They're not the band you remember after they're done.

Me gusto el album, muy tranquilo y relax. Son esos albumes que te queres sentar a leer la letra y saberla

This was much better than I expected it to be. I get why people used to think they sounded like radiohead.

Of course it's ridiculous to compare this band to the best in history, but that doesn't mean they're bad. This is a perfectly competent debut album. Best track: Yellow 3⭐️

Meh

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

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.

Great debut possibly their best album

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

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.

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.

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!

Muy buenos, muy creativos, pero demasiado depres

mid

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

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

Yellow is good but the rest is dull

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

it was partially yellow.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

That's not a bad album, quite listenable.

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.

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

It was okay. Very Delilah coded.

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

6/10

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

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

easy listening

Pas ultra fan de coldplay mais c ok

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

pretty good

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

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

Average

middle kinda boring but that beginning and end is great

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

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.

Nondescript Beatles cover

Mid-tempo rockers, turning the page on the quiet-loud-quiet from the grunge era, adding their touches of Radiohead influence and brit-pop bombastic singing, this album is ok, if not a bit repetitive. Seems to occupy a safe space in rock-n-roll here, nothing "edgy" or similar. Songs are decent and easy sing-a-longs (albeit not Beatles sing-a-long good).

Quite bland and depressing. Might be good for an autumn evening with a book.

I expected this to be a 2. I had A Rush Of Blood Tor The Head previously in this list and whilst it was good for what it was, it wasn’t for me. This isn’t really my thing either but there is no denying the might of some of the songs here. As a result, I’m giving it a three.

M'ha agradat molt més del que esperava la veritat. Tot i això hi ha cançons que sobren. Ns q més puc dir

Pleasant enough but pretty bland.

I can't understand how Coldplay manage to engender so much emotion in either direction. I certainly don't love them but I also don't have enough spare energy to dislike them too much either. Fine to play in the background and not be offended by.

Nice try. Still don't like but understand why it got acclaim.

Coldplay are old souls at heart, for good and for bad: tho their genre is alt, indie, or whichever white moniker you prefer, they share more w/ soft rock from the late 60s and 70s than they do w/ R.E.M. thru Pavement, etc. That is, Chris Martin and co. are essentially a folk-rock group, but they're not all that folksy or homespun: Chris is too graceful a singer to have the required rasp of a folk artist, and the music is gossamer rather than knowing or tender. What really drags them into the mud of mediocrity are their philosophical pretensions, which are even more boring than Radiohead's: 'That the spies hide out in every corner / But you can't touch them, no'; 'We've been living life inside of a bubble.' 'Yellow,' like 'The Scientist,' is a classic, tho.

I am shocked that I have never heard Parachutes in full before, despite being raised on Coldplay as a child. It is also so blatantly clear that Coldplay wanted to walk in the shadows of Radiohead, and I don't mind that by any means but it does make this album feel a bit plain in terms of sound. There are some excellent songs here like Sparks and Yellow, but everything else felt like a watered down and more accessible version of already existing Radiohead tracks. This album had a consistent sound and I can definitely give it that, but the writing here with the exception of the highlights was pretty basic and not really all too noteworthy. I can get why someone would adore this album for how accessible it makes the depressing themes, but just listen to Radiohead and they will do it 10 times better if not more. Maybe A Rush of Blood to the Head will be different, but for now I am not super impressed with what Coldplay has to offer here.

This was easy listening music compared to yesterday’s album. I was actually looking forward to listening to something a little more mellow, so I decided to listen to it on my commute into the office. I figured it would calm me as I drove through the lovely streets of downtown Springfield. But what it really did was almost put me to sleep at the wheel. Jesus Christ how does anyone stay awake listening to this album? I’ve always liked Yellow, but I don’t need 40 minutes of that same thing. Giving it a 3 because I can’t justify giving it a 2 after using that rating yesterday. It’s not terrible, it’s just boring. Yawn.

Know how I know you’re gay?? Ok. Bad joke. Truth be told, I’ve always enjoyed Coldplay’s music (even despite the stereotype). This debut album from the band is more somber in nature and is not a collection of their more popular songs (with the exception of Yellow which was wildly famous),but the music is good, the vocals hit, and the arrangement is well put together IMO. A talented group of musicians who deserve the recognition they received after rolling out this album to the world.

Fint album. Hørte på albumet mens jeg leste The Count of Monte Cristo, var avslappende og passet bra med lesingen. Tror nok sparks er favoritten.

Pleasant enough but I get why they get all the hate. 2.5 rounded up for the easy listening.

As their debut album it’s listenable and has a few good songs but it all becomes a bit like wallpaper anthems in the end and sounds very samey. Staggering that they have > 93 million monthly listeners on Spotify!! Guess there’s no accounting for taste 😝

Never been a fan, but if you have to give me pop, at least they have some real instruments. Liked Trouble. Reminded me a bit of Pink Floyd (if I may) 7/10

I liked how one song sounded math rockish. Some tracks are solid. Coldplay is very hit or miss for me in general. But definitely one of the better pop albums out there.

2.5 RYM

It's Coldplay in all its early glory. It's not as bad as everyone dunks on. It's lamer Radiohead but better than most other lame Radiohead impersonators. And it's better than their modern form.

This is the most Coldplay I've ever listened to at once. When I first discovered them, it was in the viva la vida era and I was up in arms because they had taken a song from the legendary Joe Satriani. I suppose he's moved on so I should too. But I'm surprised at the amount of substance I've found here, paired with a few strange lyric choices. Overall I enjoyed it.

Just ok.

Hmm mitigée, quelques sons que je trouve bien, avec des ambiances sonores et des textures vraiment intéressantes, parfois de jolies mélodies, mais dans l'ensemble ça me touche pas de ouf en termes de tonalité émotionnelle générale. Dur à dire car je peux un peu me laisser emporter, et le timbre du chanteur est beau et agréable, mais c'est pas quelque chose avec lequel je vais en général bcp viber.

Coldplay é o tipo de banda que não desagrada ninguém, mas nunca emplaca algo espetacular. Pelo menos pra mim (muitas pessoas discordam). A maioria das músicas são bem repetitivas e monótonas, com 0 dinâmica. Vez ou outra fazem algo um pouco diferente que destoa e chama a atenção, como em "Trouble". É um álbum que serve o seu propósito de ser algo básico, extremamente digerido pra qualquer ouvido, tocável em qualquer loja de roupa no shopping. Uma banda que, na minha opinião, é 99% do tempo absolutamente mediana. Melhor do álbum: "Trouble". Pior do álbum: "We Never Change".

Época que Coldplay era bom ainda, e mesmo assim era bem ok. Pra mim esse álbum grita 3,5 mas considerando o que virou a banda hoje em dia, vou arredondar pra baixo. Dá pra ver claramente que tem boas ideias aqui que foram amadurecendo (principalmente nos albuns seguintes), mas no geral achei mediano. Primeira vez que escuto ele inteiro corrido

It's really telling how different this album and the next one are in all of Coldplay's discography. This feels very small, almost intimate, compared to A Rush of Blood. I don't like it as much! Even the louder tracks like Shiver and Yellow just don't pack any punch. I like loud and ambitious coldplay, so Rush and Viva la Vida are much more my shit. This just feels kind of dated. 3

--Don't Panic...I like the guitars here --Shiver...I'm liking the more rock-forward feel of this album over Rush of Blood to the Head --Spies...pleasant --Sparks...not a lot of, well, sparks to this one --Yellow...simple but effective --Trouble...nice piano-centric track --Parachutes...okay --High Speed...kind of twiddling their thumbs here --We Never Change...dreamy. nice vibes --Everything's Not Lost...a jazzy number for the closer. Not bad but a little long

I've always thought that Coldplay was Just Fine, but nothing to get too excited about, but now that I see the intense hatred some people have over them, I'm tempted to rate them higher, because I don't think they deserve that either. Nope, still a 3.

Good, well produced.

Great album that started a pop rock trend in the early 2000s.

Some great songs on here a very high 3

I really liked the first song, then the next few had potential but felt a little cringy. Now im on Trouble and man what a piano hook, gotta save that for sure. Just finished the album, i liked the last few tracks a bit more when he quit whingin' about a lass so much and took it to more universal themes. The first half was good musically but lyrically he was losing me with the same ol' self pity simpery. Standouts: dont panic, trouble, and everything's not lost. The last song wasnt amazing amazing but I could see it cheering me up when im in a dour mood

Great stuff

I first heard this album played in its entirety in a bar. I couldn't get over how much it reminded me of a less challenging Jeff Buckley. It sounded pretty good in the background drinking a few beers on a Sunday afternoon. not quite the way this band sound today. Hard to argue with the quality of this album. 3.5.

Definitely a lot of nostalgia for some of the songs on this album, but as a whole it dragged. Just too many similar songs for me. I think a lot of them could be good on a playlist with a specific mood, but I wouldn’t want to listen to the album again. Will always be fond of the songs I already knew though. Fav song: Yellow Least fav: Sparks

Warm, and with a nostalgic millennium level of underproduced production value.

I used to slam on Coldplay as their singles just don't do much for me. I will say as a whole the album does stand up and I do get why people enjoy it.

Not exactly music to dance to.

Overall okay, but “Yellow” is the only real standout for me—probably because it’s the one I’ve heard most and it carries some era-specific nostalgia. Parachutes (2000) sits in that late-’90s/early-’00s post-Britpop, soft-focus lane—acoustic guitars, gentle tempos, intimate vocals. “Yellow” pops thanks to its instantly memorable guitar motif and chorus. Elsewhere, “Shiver” has some lift, “Trouble” is a tidy piano ballad, and “Don’t Panic” sets a mellow tone, but much of the album blends into mid-tempo sameness and safety. As a debut it’s cohesive and easy to live with, just not packed with “wow” moments beyond “Yellow.”

A good debut from a cool-ish band. Nicely recorded. Not my thing I think.

Music to be depressed to.

Sympa mais toujours un peu pareil

Really good. Is it something I would listen to again and again? No. But it's good.

Didn’t change my mind about Coldplay but Martin is very talented.

C,est bon la première fois que tu l'écoutes après des années. La deuxième écoute est pénible par contre, on se rend compte que c'est rien, que c'est quétaine et qu'il n'y a pas de viande autour de l'os. Mais bon, il y a clairement quelque chose qui fonctionne.

Better than the other Coldplay album on here I guess. Hopefully no more

Entspannend. Sehr gut für entspannte Abende/Wache

Suits an overcast day. I do like it just don't tell anyone😆

It's OK. It certainly has a style, and the whole album flows together, but I do wonder if you took out the gaps would you even realize it wasn't just one long song.

Meh

A nice album but felt pretty pedestrian. Not much going on but nothing too gash behind it.

Great debut album! 4 out of 10 songs are super famous. They expressed a variety of emotions with simple melodies. It's relaxing listening to them, but in general quite bland for me.

I used to like this album a lot back in high school. It's just okay.

I listened to this a lot when it came out. It's pretty good but I do not listen to it anymore

5/5/10

Well crafted, but it's not going to blow your mind

Listen, I know Coldplay is whack. I think they're whack. Honestly, I cringe most of the time they come on the damn radio. HOWEVA, I'll say that I recall this at the time, and it's pretty good. When they were basically aping Bends-era Radiohead, they were a pretty solid band. Sad boy rock? That I can get down with. "Yellow"? Great song. "Don't Panic"? Great song. Are there boring songs, like "Spies"? Yes, very much so. But this isn't some Maroon 5-ass pop slog, it's an actual-ass album of pretty good sad rock. I'll admit I dug it. Spotify then rolled over into an acoustic version of Deftones' "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)", a GREAT sad rock song, which is, IMO, an endorsement of the Coldplay album as well.

Chill album with some classics. I’d give it a 3.5

Listened to this twice, initially felt solid about a 3 but it grew on me. Coldplay frustrates me because their stuff I like, I like really like a lot but so much of it is forgettable.

Bit bland, kinda predictable, easy background listening

it's alright. i liked high speed and everything's lost + hidden track. not for me but i see why someone would like it. I don't like the voice but im picky.

3.5

A couple good ones

Good genre of music. Not huge fan of the album.

3.5

meh

Man... I want this to be higher. Maybe it's the day? Great album, but too low key.

the title song isn't even a minute long. come on guys. Coldplay is kind of mid (i mean that literally) and most unforgiveably, they're British but not even the fun kind of British. Still, it takes a certain mood but there's something about listening to this album at home while it's raining outside and you're thinking about your feelings.

Some great tracks, but lots of average ones as well

Is Chris Martin British? 3.5/5

I figured that Coldplay's music would be, from the very beginning, trite and sappy. It is. What I didn't count on were tracks like "We Never Change" and "Everything's Not Lost", both of which are nicely constructed songs that don't go over the top.

platonic ideal of a 7/10 album. this makes for a hard time rating it on a 5 point scale. quite the conundrum. deserves to be one of the 1001? yea i spose

It’s objectively good I suppose but I can’t get into it. Sorry to these men.

Helluva debut album....might say I prefer this to 'A Rush of Blood to the Head.' 3.5 stars

It's a nice, sweet, easy-listening album. But also, it does not really challenge the listener, or push boundaries, or do something that outshines its contemporaries. In fact, it can sometimes feel a bit derivative.

Genitals are kind of interesting, otherwise the human race would have died out. But they’re only kind of interesting. If your songs are only saying “I have this one particular type of genital!” then they’re pretty boring. Like Led Zeppelin. Their songs are definitely about the fact that they have dicks, but they’re not only about that. They are also about wizards and Vikings and drugs and The Lord of the Rings. If Led Zeppelin’s songs were just about the fact that they have dicks then they’d be Poison. With Coldplay, their songs are kind of pretty, slightly catchy and totally inoffensive. But their songs’ only subject matter is the fact that all of the members of the band have no genitals, and that’s boring. Making all your songs about not having a dick is no more interesting than making your songs about the fact that you have a dick. I can’t listen to 41 minutes of “I’m a eunuch. I have no genitals whatsoever. I’m completely smooth down there like a Ken doll!” Mix it up. Throw in a line about a wizard or something.

Decent

Bangkok 2000. Done my teaching for the day. Hanging out at the multiplex waiting for a movie and bought this. Listened to it a bit and not much since. Wonder what became of them

I do like the last song, which was a good plan on their part. Otherwise if feel that most everything is, if not lost, then at least wouldn’t be missed. It’s a bit of a cut-rate U2 sitch (or I just might be a “things-were-better-in-my-day” fuddydud…), because they’re clearly a talented bunch but the songwriting leaves me full of breath.

Oh Coldplay- when this was released there was no baggage with this band and I actually enjoyed my second copy that I picked up somewhere in Calgary. I actually still Listen to sparks quite a bit. Not a bad album overall all things considered.

I don't like Coldplay much as an albums band but if they only released singles, I would call them near great. Not a bad album by any means but jarring as you have a couple great songs & 8 or whatever OK songs. I get why they are a huge band but other than a Greatest Hits collection I don't need much more from Coldplay. I Am Curious (yellow)

I don’t know why I really was avoiding this album in the history. I’d just keep imagining Coldplay songs I know and it would make me feel tired and bored without even pressing PLAY. Honestly, though, it wasn’t so bad. Pleasant enough and all that.

Was expecting to hate this way more than I did. It’s mostly harmless, like a bald hedgehog

I prefer Coldplay a little more punchy; Viva La Vida is one of my all-time favorite albums. This record is a lot more low-key, sometimes to its detriment, albeit with some exceptions- "Yellow" and "Don't Panic" are excellent.

This was the first full Coldplay album I’ve ever listened to, and it was pretty good. It makes me wanna dive into their discography more. I knew yellow and parachutes, but was very interested to discover what else this album had to offer and I was pleasantly surprised. If you like soft rock, this album is right up your alley.

I'm not gonna trash it because it's Coldplay. I gave it an honest listen, and enjoyed it more than I expected. It's still Coldplay tho, but slightly above expectations. Slightly. Dude loves singing in his falsetto

Didn't realize how many of these songs I knew and that they were Coldplay? It's a good, if not one-note album.

I liked this more than I expected. I'm not a big fan of the giant arena rock stylings of the other Coldplay records that I've heard. Those records also seem super derivative. This is pretty in places, and has some emotion, and while I'm not sold on the quality of the band as an entity, it's a good outing. Much better than I thought it was going to be. Lyrics are definitely trite in places... that to me is the weakest thing going on in this record.

It’s inoffensive and slightly uninspired Dad Rock but I can’t deny there are some catchy songs here. A 3 feels like the perfect score for Coldplay.

BEST SONGS: - Shiver - Trouble

J'ai toujours mélangé Coldplay et Radiohead dans ma tête. Maintenant je connais la différence : Coldplay c'est mieux.

Well, I think there are better Coldplay albums out there, so maybe this one could have been left off, but it was still good in a Coldplay way.

Музыка: 8/10 Разнообразие: 6/10 Тематика и вайб: 7/10 Цепляемость (отдельные песни зашли): 5/10 Реиграбельность (можно ли рандомно врубить на фон): 7/10 Итог: 6.6

Don't forget these before Skydiving.

Just an album you would listen to with your mistress.

3.5

Bit sad

Decent album. Songs you know.

A little Chris Martin goes a long way for me. Coldplay are undeniably musical, production quality is good on this one, even the songwriting is good. It's just kind of boring.

Dreary enough, Chris Martin puts years on me. I’d say at the time it was released it was a nice change from all the boy band stuff. Shiver’s probs the best song on there for me.

A really strong first half but it really dips near the end. just like the bands trajectory.

Wow are all Coldplay albums this melancholy? Didn't hate it but kind of needed a hug after listening!

Some good songs on here but quite a bit was a bit too long and boring and overall it was just decent. 3 stars

I kinda wanna listen to Jeff Buckley now.

Very heartfelt and melancholy album. Felt like the atmosphere at the end of summer or saying goodbye to everyone after high school graduation. Not quite my genre, but it was enjoyable.

Ganske behagelig å høre på.

Me gustó, muy emotivo y no conocía algunas canciones. 5/10 Yellow 10/10

Really good guitar and bass tones and production. More in the singer/songwriter vain than the rock one which is different than I remembered. A solid record but you get the point 75 percent of the way thru.

Coldplay has always alluded me, as in later years they seemed like they were attempting to find the commercial success of U2, but lacked the “spark” that U2 had (at least up until the 2000s). I did enjoy this first album, though, as there is a raw emotion to it. Down tempo songs like Spies and Sparks are dripping in Chris Martin’s contrasts between his gruff lower register and falsetto. It’s not polished, which I appreciate. Yellow is a good song with pop appeal, and Trouble is a popular song though I don’t particular care for it (overhyped for too long). I think my favorite track on the album may be High Speed as the musical and vocal interpretation was fresh, and the song is anything other than what the title implies. Of their work, I may like this on best but they still are not a go-to band for me.

6/10

Not as bad as the terribleness they made later. Some really enjoyable parts even.

Don’t care much for their later stuff but I liked this album both when it first came out and still now. Most songs are above average and there’s some great stuff: “shiver” and “sparks” plus the hits “trouble” and “yellow”. They got a lot of flack and are a bit whiney but still deece.

Standout Songs: Shiver Yellow Everything’s Not Lost

A part quelques titres (hits), l'ensemble est certes beau mais plutôt mou, ce qui ne permet pas de mettre 4 étoiles

Quelques chansons cultes mais globalement assez chiant en fait.

It wasnt as bad as I was expecting . Not keen on his voice though.

3.5

This is a crazy debut album, I never realised it was before. Shiver may be one of my new favourite songs. Shiver, Spies, Sparks, Yellow is a crazy track run. It is a pretty mellow album without an uplift though. I wish they stayed with music in this direction rather than the poppy weird music they do now, but also understand bands have to “evolve” as the times do. But we should really bring back the eclectic-ness of the 2000s where popular rock didn’t have to sound like it was written by a five year old.

Helt ok

Heard most of the songs before. It flows well and a quick listen.

Meh. Kinda cheesy. Well produced though.

As someone who wouldn’t go out of their way to listen to Coldplay, I was pleasantly surprised by this album. The RadioHead influences are undeniable, and it is definitely an album I can see myself coming back to.