Coldplay: Like or leave, and WHY

[Caprice]

i heard yellow first when the music video first came out and i liked it enough to download it. then a rush of blood to the head came out. i liked it alot so i bought it and listened to that album like mad.

then my brother got parachutes and didnt really care for it so i listened to it ALOT. really good acoustic work.

then x&y came out and truly, i wasnt that impressed. yes there are some good songs, till kingdom come, speed of sound, to name a few. but i tryed listening to it in the car and i got just so, sleepy bored.

idk maybe its cause i dont have air conditioning in 90F weather.

but yea, i like them, alot actually.

[Emmet]

I think Coldplay's success is mostly down to the fact that Chris Martin can write really great songs that connect with people. I know who a few people who have listened to Fix You and started 'welling up'.

X & Y is a difficult album to get into whereas the other two were immediate for me. I know a couple of people who work at one of the studios they record at, Chris wrote loads of really different sorts of tracks between the last album and the new one which he eventually binned because he felt they weren't 'Coldplay' enough. I'm not sure whether that's going to stifle them in the long run, if they feel they can't progress musically/sonically they might keep knocking out the same type of album again and again (hello Oasis!).

And yes, I like 'em

[Eikman]

that is way too much discussion about a band like coldplay.