saw them tonight and they were very good. They did everything right. They have also written quite a few good songs. Now if they could just stop rhyming so much!
I saw them in Toronto last year. Not a huge fan, but I was blown away by that gig. Why not rhyme? I think it's sublime, to repeat the sound from line to line Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Well, as long as it's not Oh Deborah, do you recall? Your house was very small with wood-chip on the wall. When I came round to call you didn't notice me at all ... it's alright ... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! But, Pulp had a point in all that rhyming ...
WOW! I would love too see them live. I think they're great. I'm going to go see Dropkick Murphy next month.
"Fake love is a very powerful thing. That girl who adored John Cusack once had the opportunity to spend a weekend with me in New York at the Waldorf-Astoria, but she elected to fly to Portland instead to see the first US appearance by Coldplay, a British pop group whose success derives from their ability to write melodramatic alt-rock songs about fake love. It does not matter that Coldplay is absolutely the shittiest fucking band I've ever heard in my entire fucking life, or that they sound like a mediocre photocopy of Travis (who sound like a mediocre photocopy of Radiohead), or that their greatest fucking artistic achievement is a video where their blandly attractive frontman walks on a beach on a cloudy fucking afternoon. None of that matters. What matters is that Coldplay manufactures fake love as frenetically as the Ford fucking Motor Company manufactures Mustangs, and that's all this woman heard. 'For you I bleed myself dry,' sang their block-headed vocalist, brilliantly informing us that stars in the sky are, in fact, yellow. How am I going to compete with that shit? That sleepy-eyed bozo isn't even making sense. He's just pouring fabricated emotions over four gloomy guitar chords, and it ends up sounding like love. And what does that mean? It means she flies to fucking Portland to hear two hours of amateurish UK hyperslop, and I sleep alone in a $270 hotel in Manhattan, and I hope Coldplay gets fucking dropped by fucking EMI and ends up like the Stone fucking Roses, who were actually a better fucking band, all things considered." -- Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Anyone who would say that about coldplay is talking straight dumbness. I have heard worse and obviously c. klosterman has too. I think it is sad that people consider them "deep" - that is a joke.
Their songs suddenly start to make much more sense when you break up or get hurt from the significant other. Like em or not that bastard, Chris Martin, makes some catchy ass tunes.
How can you listen to Coldplay after breaking up? All the songs are about happy shit, and even the sad ones sound fucking happy. I would want to shoot myself in the face. Historically, I fall into Tom Waits, Ryan Adams, Nick Cave, or something that is generally depressing and worth drinking to.
Coldplay are far too polished, far too neat, far too instant, for me to consider them worthy of keeping.
Yeah. This is what appalls me away from them. I've listened to "Amsterdam" a hundred times, trying to make some deep sense out of Stood on the edge, tied to a noose, but you came along and you cut me loose. -- but no. A giggly Gwyneth Paltrow is all I got.
“Anyone who would say that about coldplay is talking straight dumbness. I have heard worse and obviously c. klosterman has too. I think it is sad that people consider them "deep" - that is a joke.” Not dumbness at all, coldplay truly is one of the shittiest fucking bands I’ve heard in my entire fucking life. The songs are simplistic ditties with emotional packages. The lead singer sings with a half-falsetto like voice (I’d call it fucking SCREECHING), I can’t take that shit unless coming from a skilled tenor. The band has simply no room for improvement, for change. No room at all to wander into greener pastures, they are idling away in a mold which allows their floundering compositions to exist. Then the four stooges that are coldplay have the audacity to call themselves musicians as they put out three conformed, uniform wearing albums –I could fart out that much popular drivel within an afternoon. The sadness part is the pompousness of it all, the Chris martin motherfuck adding excessive and narcissistic content to the product that is coldplay as the fanny fan fan new york intellectuals swallow the bullshit with pride. Oh, and don’t get me started on chris martins stage miens, what the fuck is with the goddamn tape man? Fingers hurt from sucking so much? And no, he does not play the drums.
Perfect, You beat me to it. coldplay is entirely indicitive of the contemporary mainstream lame-ass borefest garbage that's being pimped to the mindless masses as music. Quite simply, coldplay is nothing but an extremely poorly executed version of the Beatles, minus the talent, plus massive over-production.
It's strange how pretentious snobs always seem to regard the majority as "mindless". I've no doubt that sentiments similar to Glaucon's were expressed about about bands like the The Beatles during the 1960s. Perhaps then, as now, people like a good tune that they can sing along to.
I never thought I would ever defend coldplay because they ARE so completely over-rated as being SO deep and amazing... But if you can't see anything skilled about what they do, you need to clean out your ears - i am not saying you should like them, go ahead and hate them, but they have some skill, and the live show - they just do everything right, they have been studying.
The problem is that they're just so perfect! Everything fits, good, clean work. It shows that they are 100% focused on their work when at work. The kind of dedication is rare, esp. in the genre of music they're playing.
I'm not pretentious. The vast majority of popular music consumers are indeed mindless, at least with respect to musical taste ( I was going to say 'choices', but that's just the point: the vast majority do not choose; they are marketed at). And despite the fact that I compared coldplay to the Beatles, I for one cannot stand the Beatles' music, and never have. It's strange how the mis-understood pop-'appreciators' always seem to regard those who think about aesthetic manners as being "snobs". Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Quite impossible. Not even John lennon and paul mccartney could fart that out in ONE afternoon. That isn't how it works.
