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Parachutes was an alright album. It was also a debut album.
Twelve years later the world's biggest band should have grown from this right? Wrong.

Okay, A Rush of Blood To The Head was absolutely brilliant so why is it that a group who are receiving critical acclaim and multi-platinum sales would dumb down their music for commercial appeal? Dear Lord Chris, is this really what Bono would do? Well yeah, X & Y was standard pop music, which isn't always a bad thing but in the case of this LP it certainly wasn't a good thing: dreary, lackluster, repetitive, safe. Safe being the key word here, as X & Y was a commercial super hit, but many fans and critics alike, me being one of them, were left underwhelmed at not only the fact that this album was so drastically inferior to its predecessor, but also at the fact that with an album which was three years in the making, Coldplay failed to realise the prospect of creating something so much better than what X & Y turned out to be. It had some great hooks! The album certainly has its moments but as a whole its just one track looped thirteen times over the only difference being the increasingly cheesy lyrics.

Hey its 2008! Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends redeemed the misfire that was LP3, but it still wasn't the classic Coldplay's abundance of fans had been waiting on. Nevertheless it was a really good album, and it should keep us satisfied until the next release, which will be in three years time based on the rate of release the band usually abide by. This was the case indeed, and in 2011 Chris and friends defecated Mylo Xyloto onto shelves. Princess of China... seriously? I honestly thought they were taking the piss when they announced they were collaborating with Rihanna. But they weren't. Bar a small few tracks the album was legitimately awful.

The worst part is I actually enjoyed actually liking a radio friendly rock band, and furthermore I liked defending Coldplay when people down talked them. Oh well, three more years I suppose.