New listener to Coldplay?
JPS79
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I must say I usually rolled my eyes when hearing the mellow sound that is coldplay. However nearing my 30's omg, I find my favorite song on the last Jay Z album to be hands down beach chair featuring Chris Martin and now he pops up on the new Kanye West album with a fantastic song as well. Just looking to get some opinions on the best place to start for this band, the reviews on amazon tend to lean towards rush to the head album. But you can only listen to 30 second snippets of songs, not really enough for me to get a feel for the songs. Also what about Radiohead? I remember their song creep from the early 90's but thats about it, judging from reviews ok computer seems like the logical first step for an intro to this band.
Seems the more you make
equals the loneliness you get
equals the loneliness you get
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If you havent seen 40 year old virgin you might find that quite insulting, lol.
Not a fan of Coldplay (apart from that song Shiver) but if you buy The Bends and OK Computer by Radiohead then you'll be going in the right direction.
I saw just Chris Martin support Miles Hunt from the wonderstuff at ronnie Scotts way back in 99 or 2000 and he was excellent. cut forward a few months and the first few singles and ep's were again fantastic. get to the release of Parachutes and Yellow, not much cop at all.
Saw them play all of parachutes acoustically at Ronnie Scotts hoping I'd like the album more, It didnt happen. 2nd album came Meh! 3rd album Meh Meh Meh! Rap collaborations...... oh do fuck off.
he's on the kanye west album? i can't figure that one out
i saw the editors last night. i couldn't help thinking at a few moments that "this is what coldplay should be." they're just too mellow for me. rush of blood to the head is good, but the next album sounds almost identical and their first is boring.
what annoys me more is people who use it as an adjective. coldplay isn't my thing, but 1) they're not bad and 2) dismissing a band as "going coldplay" proves nothing. there is nothing new or original about coldplay. to diss a band for having a melodic but mellow song with an anthemic chorus dismisses 75% of rock music.
As for radiohead I'd go ok computer + kid a since they don't cost much these days.
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me
On this board, it's just popular to hate coldplay, just like it's popular to hate creed.
As for Radiohead...It's all good brother!!!
6/7/2003 (***1/2)
7/9/2006 (****1/2)
7/13/2006 (**** )
4/10/2008 EV Solo (****1/2)
6/25/2008 MSG II (*****)
10/1/2009 LA II (****)
10/6/2009 LA III (***** Cornell!!!)
Kid A
OK Computer
Amnesiac
Hail to the thief
The Bends
Pablo Honey
sorry, fans of their more guitar orientated stuff, I just think that the albums they really became a special band with were the more experimental ones.
Pardon my anal-ity but it's just Editors. And they're fantastic live.
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Radiohead--start with The Bends or OK Computer. Hail to the Thief is awesome as well. Kid A and Amnesiac are difficult to get into and you probably wont like them right away, but they'll hit you at some point.
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yes, they were. but the arctic monkeys tonight were better!
not so. i used to own all 3 albums and listened to x&y dozens of times before i realized it was just too repetitive for me. rush of blood was a pretty great album, but parachutes was just too mellow for me. they've perfected that slow anthemic jam u2 refined. sure there are slight tweaks from album to album, but it's not exactly a dramatic evolution.
i'll agree with that. i don't think they're a bad band, they just bore me. i'd rather listen to u2. though i do think it's less a double standard than you indicate. pearl jam has rockers and slow acoustic numbers and everything between. coldplay isn't bad, but 90% of their songs are the same anthemic midtempo song. the rest are those slow burners that do into the dramatic finish (everything's not lost, amsterdam). like i said, nothing wrong with it, just doesn't make me feel compelled to own their albums. i'd rather wait for the inevitable 'best of' with all the songs i like.
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