2.5/5 rounded down to 2/5 I reckon.
First 2 albums are fine, dont like anything they released post those 2. Chris Martin intends well but comes across like a total chump
2.5/5 rounded down to 2/5 I reckon.
First 2 albums are fine, dont like anything they released post those 2. Chris Martin intends well but comes across like a total chump
He is to music what Jamie Oliver is to cooking.
Theyâve a lot of songs that go âoh oh oh oh ohâ that seem purposefully designed to give the mums a nice time
Like Tesco own-brand rock. Also Chris Martin canât sing 1/5
The pair spent the rest of the university year planning a band, ultimately forming a group called Pectoralz.
Have always thought âColdplayâ was a really boring name for a band, but at least they arenât called the âPectoralzâ anymore
Itâs a 2 and they barely scrape that TBF
Ah, English Idlewild
Mostly meant for his well-meaning but ham-fisted approach to philanthropy. Added the âto cookingâ bit because I know one of you herberts will find a link to Jamie Oliverâs band.
Chris Martin was in the year above me at school.
1/5
âThe bandâs creative director and former manager Phil Harvey is often referred to as the fifth member by the band.â
Wonder how many times he has actually been called this? Maybe four or five? Hate that trope. Oh this person decided we should put some flange on the guitar, call them the fifth member so we sound more artistic.
Another vote for the first two albums are good and then cba with anything else after that Davidoff cool water option.
Would also go 2.5, Iâll round up though because theyâll get a kicking anyway
Imagine WANTING to be referred to as the âfifth Coldplayâ
I couldnât name three of the other four
So Phil Harvey is the fifth member of Coldplay. Count how many times you hear that said. Truth is he is simply the creative director and former manager.
One of the bands I associate with Q magazine that bore me to tears. See also: Doves, Elbow and Idlewild
Their highs are scant, but fairly high. Rush of Blood is probably a 4/5 if I pull my head out of my pretentious ass long enough to admit it. The debut has two good songs on it (donât panic is their only 5), quite liked a couple of singles from Viva but in a 3/5 didnât make me check out the album kinda wayâŠ
But the lows. Mother of God the lows. Fix You was already one of the most mawkish and irritating pieces of music Iâd ever heard the first time I heard it. Four years later when it had soundtracked every âinspirationalâ montage on every single goddamn TV program it was enough to make me want to quit hearing.
Fix you is better than a lot of their songs.
2 - because I only use 1 when there is nothing of musical worth in the bandâs catalogue. They are lucky to get 2.
Theyâre fine, like the first record, the second was decent enough, the rest is pish. Absolute dross live.
They seem like decent enough lads.
I did quite like when they headlined glastonbury they played a track by that band Viola Beach who all died in that horrific crash. Nice touch.
2
Donât really know them well enough to vote properly I donât think (I mean obviously I know them, just not that familiar with their records). Remember liking Yellow quite a bit when it came out, although always thought it rips this off pretty blatantly (itâs from 1997 too, so @still_he_persistedâs maths add up)
Struggle to find the energy to really hate them. They definitely have a couple of good tunes and as others have said, Frank Oceanâs cover of Strawberry Swing is easily one of the best songs of last decade. Reckon if you went through all of their records you could put together a decent playlist tbh. (Iâm clearly never going to test this theory though.)
Theyâre obviously going to get dunked on from a dizzy height on here, so Iâm going with a 3, despite what I said above, because a lot of the hate theyâll get is going to be a bit unfair