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18:24 / 19.03.03

Sorry to resurrect this so quickly but I just wanted to say, they do sound like U2. I had a proper listen to 'Clocks' and it is very similar to some of U2's later stuff. Apologies, Flux.

15:02 / 25.03.03

Really? I thought it sounded like A-ha.

17:06 / 25.03.03

I'll shamefacedly admit that 'Clocks' is quite good.

Still a rubbish non-Jeff Buckley band.

15:26 / 28.03.03

I think Coldplay serve a purpose, they've found some sort of niche. Their music sounds, to me, rather filmic (especially Clocks which is used for just about every single TV showtrail at the moment). Sure, it might not be highbrow stuff, but 'intelligent' and 'good' do not always equate to the same thing.

Personally I think their second album is very listenable.

Professor Silly

17:07 / 28.03.03

I see a big difference between stating one's dislike for a band and making assumptions about those that do like the band. I don't know why some people like coldplay per se.

I do know that most people don't like the music I listen to. I have fairly obscure tastes...like the Melvins...or Charles Mingus...or John Zorn.

That said, I absolutly loved Kid A from Radiohead, and OK Computer...and Amnesiac...and the live show they played here at Red Rocks (featured in a certain U2 video...Sunday Bloody Sunday I think).

To me, Coldplay seems like a cheap Radiohead. Yellow seemed to have that Loud Clangy Guitat just like the chunk-chunks of Creep. Other that that it seemed alright. Everything I've heard from them since just seems so...empty of novelty.

I especially thought their performance at the Grammy's seemed...well, like they want to be as experimental as Pyramid Song and yet more accessible at the same time. Blech.

So...fuck 'em. I'm looking forward to the new Radiohead album. Perhaps they will continue to surprise us with more Di Lassus influences, or perhaps other early twentieth century composers like maybe (gasp!) Penerkcki. ...and the masses won't get it (just like my fellow tattoo artists who bitch and moan whenever I put Amnesiac in the stereo). You know: people who like them "in theory" only.

Meanwhile, maybe Coldplay, like Oasis should, will just go away from popular consciousness.

20:21 / 28.03.03

Their songs all sound the same, but i like. Especially Clocks.

17:09 / 29.03.03

heres my two pence:
i used to dislike coldplay because all their music was samey and boring. i hadn't ever met anyone who did like coldplay, and like westlife before them, i was suspicious about how their songs always did well in the charts.
then one day like a month ago, i started singing that song "the scientist" which was somehow inside my head and realised i totally loved that song! and "clocks" isn't all that bad either!
i am beginning to like coldplay. it's a weird sensation. but i don't like the singer. he makes fun of s club jnrs in interviews and seems full of himself.
but then i think about "yellow" and i realise that i'm never going to go and pay money to see them live. yellow just made me think about pissing. and his voice was way more wah wah whiny back then. maybe coldplay have just improved.

19:30 / 29.03.03

chris martin seems to be a sort of simple bastard,with only a hand full of childlike emotions at his disposal,i envy him that. and adore the simple bastard feelings it churns up in me.a sort of dim remembrance of how i was before i became the caustic argumentative cynic i am today.i think others hate them for that reason too.they're certainly not for the terminally bitter.

Matthew Fluxington

19:57 / 29.03.03

I'm right with Suds on this - I didn't like them at first either, but eventually their songs worked their way into my head and I realized that I quite like a lot of them.

That sounds kinda insidious, but it's not.

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:32 / 30.03.03

I have to say, I do like 'In My Place' quite a lot. And 'Clocks' isn't *bad*. I do remember liking 'Yellow' first couple of times I heard it, though that has long since past.

'The Scientist' sums up the parts of Coldplay I hate, though. "No one said it would be easy, no one ever said it would be this hard" - yeah, yeah , life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it, stop whining and adapt.

18:25 / 30.03.03

Riz has pretty much summed up my feelings on this bunch better than I could myself. Can't say that I hear the U2 in them, but I heard one of the recent singles (possibly Clocks) playing the other day and it sounded like nothing so much as music for Radiohead fans who wish Yorke et al hadn't abandoned four/four miseryrock.

22:08 / 30.03.03

I've somehow managed to get this far in life w/o ever hearing Coldplay, but today I did hear "Clocks." And, yes, the U2 thing is there, from the piano riff (8th notes in a 3-3-2 pattern—a classic Edge compositional device) to the four-chord structure to the steady, almost simplistic bass. But it was the vocals that pegged it for me—every growl, every murmur, every falsetto swoop, seemed swiped from the Bono playbook circa Joshua Tree.

It was pleasant enough, but I have no burning desire tohear it ever again.

All Acting Regiment

19:17 / 04.06.03

You know what? coldplay are going for that sensitive male thing, like radiohead or nirvana. Yet they market themselves at the trendy male market, and i mean market. All songs about "i well fancy x woman but she dont fancy me" but no "i tried hard to have a sister but instead i had a dad".

Matthew Fluxington

20:47 / 04.06.03

The lyric is "I tried hard to have a father but instead I had a dad."

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