I miss old Coldplay

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  • 63schoefflin
    63schoefflin Posts: 2,581
    New singles stink.... These guys haven't done anything good in such a long time now. Bummer.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Olivavu said:

    Coldplay have ALWAYS been terrible!

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  • iammine16
    iammine16 Vancouver, BC Posts: 856
    I have always been a Coldplay fan since seeing them on the Parachutes tour. I have seen all of there tours (except I missed the Rush of Blood to the Head tour), and I have no problem with the different types of music they come out with. I am looking forward to the new album and show!
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  • jason_bouchard88
    jason_bouchard88 Posts: 220
    edited May 2014
    iammine16 said:

    I have always been a Coldplay fan since seeing them on the Parachutes tour. I have seen all of there tours (except I missed the Rush of Blood to the Head tour), and I have no problem with the different types of music they come out with. I am looking forward to the new album and show!

    I'm a bit skeptical with their new album due to the fact it only has 9 songs. Don't mind the new direction, in fact, Midnight was difficult for me to like it because it didn't sound like a Coldplay song at all. I like it now. I only saw Coldplay twice, the last time was their free concert at the parking lot of MuchMusic (just Much now) Headquarters in 2011.
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  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    (....sigh....) Just listened to their new album. Pretty damn bad. "Ghost Story" is the best track. I feel really bad for their drummer because they essentially replaced him with a synth drum machine on almost every song. "A Sky Full Of Stars" sounds like something Avicii would play to close out his EDM set in Vegas. I really, really do miss the sounds of "Parachutes" and "A Rush Of Blood To The Head". But hey, at least I can turn those albums on with a touch of a button nowadays.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,911
    MSnider44 said:

    (....sigh....) Just listened to their new album. Pretty damn bad. "Ghost Story" is the best track. I feel really bad for their drummer because they essentially replaced him with a synth drum machine on almost every song. "A Sky Full Of Stars" sounds like something Avicii would play to close out his EDM set in Vegas. I really, really do miss the sounds of "Parachutes" and "A Rush Of Blood To The Head". But hey, at least I can turn those albums on with a touch of a button nowadays.

    That's what I figured it would be like based on the couple songs I have heard. I'll still give it a listen but not expecting much.
  • jason_bouchard88
    jason_bouchard88 Posts: 220
    MSnider44 said:

    (....sigh....) Just listened to their new album. Pretty damn bad. "Ghost Story" is the best track. I feel really bad for their drummer because they essentially replaced him with a synth drum machine on almost every song. "A Sky Full Of Stars" sounds like something Avicii would play to close out his EDM set in Vegas. I really, really do miss the sounds of "Parachutes" and "A Rush Of Blood To The Head". But hey, at least I can turn those albums on with a touch of a button nowadays.

    That's because Avicii produced A Sky Full of Stars.
  • jason_bouchard88
    jason_bouchard88 Posts: 220
    Everyone is entitled to their opinions. I like how they experiment in Ghost Stories, but it is not my favourite album from them. I still would want to go see Coldplay in concert, but only if I can somehow win tickets as they will be expensive and that's not a band that I would want to pay this much for a show.
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Still need to hear the whole album, but the handful of songs I heard thus far have been highly disappointing. I even liked a lot of what was on Mylo Xyloto, which was a different direction in some ways, but I could get on board. This new stuff, not as much....
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  • jason_bouchard88
    jason_bouchard88 Posts: 220
    samjam said:

    Still need to hear the whole album, but the handful of songs I heard thus far have been highly disappointing. I even liked a lot of what was on Mylo Xyloto, which was a different direction in some ways, but I could get on board. This new stuff, not as much....

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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,911
    I wasn't as down on their last couple albums as most seem to be (liked Viva La Vida and Mylo was OK), but man this new album is not good at all. I've listened a couple times now and there really aren't any songs that stand out to me at all. Yikes.
  • jason_bouchard88
    jason_bouchard88 Posts: 220
    The problem I have with Ghost Stories is that the lyrics feel lazy.
  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    I don't miss any Coldplay. I have disliked every note I've ever heard. I only miss the days before they existed :)
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  • Olivavu
    Olivavu England Posts: 1,683
    Coldplay are horrendous.
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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    did something happen to the drummer causing them to get all this fucking drum machine crap?
    first 3 are stellar
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,256
    Just collaborate with Calvin Harris and move on already.
  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    hrd2imgn said:

    did something happen to the drummer causing them to get all this fucking drum machine crap?
    first 3 are stellar

    The first two albums are absolutely stellar: "Parachutes" and "A Rush Of Blood To The Head". No question, no argument, no doubts. A couple of the best two albums released in 1999 and 2002, and in the previous decade(s).

    Crazy how they almost had to go about their first album without their original drummer (Champion) because he coudn't quite cut it. I'm sure he's learned the skins more than well enough in recent times to keep up with his bandmates from his "not good" early years.

    Will Champion (drummer) was the last of the four band members to join the ensemble on 31 July 1997. He took up the position as drummer with no prior experience, but quickly adjusted to fill the role.
    http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/will-champion-just-right-for-coldplay/

    In 1999, lead singer Chris Martin sacked Champion, but the band asked him to return soon after
    "It started when I had to ask forgiveness for sacking our drummer Will Champion ten years ago," Martin is quoted by the Daily Express as saying. "Three days later the rest of us were feeling miserable and we asked Will to meet me and our bassist Guy Berryman in Monkey Chews in Camden where we asked him to come back."
    http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a177327/martin-i-punish-myself-with-vodka.html#~oFbbfXHjGyNcvG

    But now it has been revealed it nearly wasn’t to be for the Hampshire student who went on to be one quarter of Coldplay. For drummer Will Champion, who was born and raised in Southampton, was sacked by his bandmates before they had even released a single. Talking about the 1998 incident for the first time, the group – whose hits include Clocks, Yellow and Violet Hill – have revealed they blamed their percussionist when they were told they would never make it big. “We got signed and went to a studio and we were doing OK but this producer we were working with told us we weren’t good enough, we weren’t technically good enough,” said singer Chris Martin. “What bands often do in that situation is blame the drummer for going out of time or whatever.
    http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4638568.It_nearly_wasn___t_to_be_for_Coldplay_drummer_Will/


  • MSnider44
    MSnider44 San Diego Posts: 746
    After watching Global Citizen Festival on MSNBC tonight, I need to re-visit this post. I can again comfortably say, I really, really miss old Coldplay. Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood To The Head will never be matched.
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    Didn't even bother listening to their last one after several repeat listens. They've been crap ever since Martin started sucking the Radio Disney teet collaborating with Rihanna and praising Katy Perry. They've become the favorite band for people who hate distorted rock music.
  • InHiding80
    InHiding80 Upland,CA Posts: 7,623
    MSnider44 said:



    12345AGNST1 wrote:

    Is their older stuff a lot different and actually good? I actually don't mind their more recent singles too much since my taste in music has expanded a lot.


    Consensus on this thread is that Rush is one of the best albums of the 2000's.

    Parachutes was the beginning of great indie rock, and thankfully the beginning of the end of boy band music.

    Ironically, Chris Martin is collaborating with that kind of crap today like Rihanna.

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