Coldplay: Like or leave, and WHY

[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.