I miss old Coldplay

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  • lgg
    lgg Posts: 12
    i listened to Rush of Blood last night, and I would say, after not hearing it for quite a while, it really is a great record. It's nearly 10 years old now, so I doubt Coldplay will ever scale those heights again, but this was a great record. A Warning Sign is fantastic.
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  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    Not sure why people dont seem to realize it but X&Y is a great album.
  • Better Dan
    Better Dan Posts: 5,684
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    Not sure why people dont seem to realize it but X&Y is a great album.


    I like X & Y as well. I completely stopped following Coldplay after that though. Their first 2 were just great..really enjoyed the third..and I don't know why but I just lost interest in hearing any more of their stuff after that. :o
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  • Music For Rhinos
    Music For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    Better Dan wrote:
    Music For Rhinos wrote:
    Not sure why people dont seem to realize it but X&Y is a great album.


    I like X & Y as well. I completely stopped following Coldplay after that though. Their first 2 were just great..really enjoyed the third..and I don't know why but I just lost interest in hearing any more of their stuff after that. :o

    Viva La Vida has some good stuff as well. I would say that was their last good album. Mylo is pretty much junk save 3-5 songs.
  • marcos
    marcos Posts: 2,112
    Wow, everyone here hates the new record except for me? It did get good reviews by some critics but overall people were disappointed this year with the releases other from major rock bands like Foo Fighters and Radiohead. I liked the Foo Fighters record but did feel Radiohead was boring but love the songs when they play them live.

    I guess I stand alone in liking the new Coldplay and to think I use to vehemently hate this band :D
  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    FYI....

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  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    Coldplay have ALWAYS been terrible!
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  • TroubledSoul
    TroubledSoul Posts: 1,374
    didnt you know its cool to hate coldplay? :roll:

    like its cool to love radiohead... and muse.

    for whats it worth i miss old coldplay as well. rush of blood is a stunning album... yellow i reckon is the weakest song on parachutes.. x and y had a lot of filler, and an embarrassingly overplayed and oversold fix you. but it did have kingdom come.

    viva had its moments and i personally like it more than x and y.

    milo xylitol is rubbish. ive struggled to listen to it.
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  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    So I watched two Coldplay concerts tonight - ACL NYE 2012 Special and Glastonbury 2011. When they play their stuff from Parachutes and Rush, they are so good - brings back memories.

    But it also got me thinking about the title of my post: I often could, can, and do say the same thing about old Pearl Jam....
  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    TroubledSoul wrote:
    didnt you know its cool to hate coldplay? :roll:

    I find that notion hilarious.

    It's nothing to do with image, it's more to do with the feeling that a lot of people have that Coldplay are the single most over-rated band of all time.

    They have a singer that can't sing, they write awful lyrics and play bland music.
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,234
    new song, Midnight. It's different :-S

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  • jjflash
    jjflash Posts: 5,031
    Only one listen so far of Midnight but me likey. Will be interesting to hear the other songs they pair w it
  • Longueuil
    Longueuil Posts: 2,224
    edited February 2014
    Who sings on the new song? It's too weird for me I think.
    But i’m listening A Rush of Blood to the Head because of this thread and it is like meeting an old friend. Good stuff.
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  • retropony
    retropony Myrtle Beach SC Posts: 352
    how do I get that 3 minutes and 28 seconds back.........? %-(
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  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    Trying to sound like Bon Iver with the auto-tune....
  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    They put on a good live show. I do like rush of blood... A lot good album.
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  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    After all these years, and even after my original post on this subject way back when ... I still really miss old Coldplay. Really I do. After watching their two song performance on SNL this past weekend, it makes me miss old Coldplay even more. These dudes are done, which is unfortunate. Too much EDM influence in their newest music, and they pretty much pulled a commercialized 180 on their mid 00's album releases from the late 90's "Parachutes" and early 00's "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" which are masterpieces in my opinion. And I guess they're happy with only those first two albums being just that. Bummer....
  • thefixer9
    thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    VIva La Vida is an amazing album.....my favorite from them.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    the songs off the new record are sounding good. i think the band writes better when Chris Martin is suffering : (
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  • dr122931
    dr122931 Posts: 464
    edited May 2014
    First two albums are good (minus a few songs), an obscure b-side called "such a rush" is also amazing, X&Y is average at best, then everything is shit. I saw them on the X&Y tour and lost all interest in them after seeing them live. Chris Martin seems like a total douche and I hated the way he performed and interacted with the crowd. He was trying to be Bono and failed miserably. Watching his overly-rehearsed performances of crap songs like yellow, scientist, and fix you made me want to shit myself in disgust.
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