Alpha Centauri

Strange, hardly hear them on my radio station but today they played all their songs. Not all at once but it was nicely arranged. I can't generally say their my type in music though. Like sound was a bit to slow for me.

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jnova

The thing about Coldplay is that they have mass appeal because they are both intense and poppy at the same time which is quite rare. So metalheads and rap enthusiasts at the same time can enjoy their stuff.

Or so I've found to be the case.

scottsy

That's actually quite a fair assessment of them, in my opinion - they are a band that has a very broad appeal - so people who like all sorts of different styles can find something in them - some people are led to believe this makes them a bit bland at times, which I guess kinda happens if you shoot for the broad middle of the general publics opinion... but to me they just write some sweet tunes and I really appreciated the added complexity of Viva La Vida.

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Gavin B.

I'm a musical pluralist with a keen appreciation of pure pop like the Beachboys, Bacharach, XTC, the Brill Building sound, Dido even Petula Clark.

Coldplay has been around for a while now and I've listened to all their albums and I still can't think of single positive thing to say about them. There are dozens of Brit bands worthy of more attention than Coldplay.

For instance the lyrics to Clocks

Are those not the most vapid and derivative lyrics ever? Let me metion the fact that nearly every Coldplay song is a cornicopia of hackneyed cliches. Or the lyrics to Trouble in which the trite "spider web" analogy gets beaten to death with a tire iron.

If you're a real glutton for punishment you can wallow in Hallmark card sentiments of Daylight which manages to use nearly every derivative allegory in the firmament to say abosolutely nothing.

How can "introspective" music be so completely devoid of any emotional or cognitive content?


To make matters worse the musicians in Coldplay sound like a pastiche of every minimalist downtempo "alternative" band... but for all their efforts they might as well be an uninspired crew of session players. Coldplay's musical vision is on par with the anonymous musicians who play on New Age, relaxation therapy, ambient music albums for stressed-out investment bankers.

Nobody should apologize if they think that Coldplay the vapid incarnation of everything that's wrong with popular music, because they are.

Akira

...and yet you like Dido

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jnova

I don't really understand what 'intense' would be to these people then because some of the songs on Viva La Vida were intense by any definition I've ever seen or read.

scottsy

I love how these five short words absolutely discredit everything in that lengthy post with song lyrics and everything included to make a point - brilliant! :-)

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Rainard Jalen

I hope you intended that sarcastically. Because Gavin B raised some very important points about Coldplay, and also presented them intelligently and eloquently. The band do and always have had extreme weaknesses on the lyrical side of things. If anybody ever stopped to actually listen to the words and consider them with a little more than a pinch of salt's worth of consideration, they'd be struck first and foremost by their sheer vacuous insipidity. I could go ahead and start quoting direct examples, but the snippets presented by the earlier poster are more than enough to give an adequate taste of what we're talking about.

sweet_nothing

Honestly who listens to Coldplay for the lyrics?

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adidasss

Word to that.

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