i would be way more likely to enjoy a random coldplay song if it came on at the supermarket. the comfort of unfamiliarity and the pleasant surprise of it not being nearly the worst it could be, like 'superman' by five for fighting or something. radiohead are just completely spent for me at this point and their fans are so dim and pretentious and repellant, too much like me 15 years ago, i would try to leave as fast as possible if one if their songs came on in some public place i happened to be in.
― macropuente (map), Friday, 5 October 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
agreed that five for fighting is the absolute worst
― maximum derek borchardt (crüt), Friday, 5 October 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
Listening to Coldplay is like a drawn out version of flipping through a station and hearing a song that catches your ear but then they start singing about Jesus and you change the station immediately
― maximum derek borchardt (crüt), Friday, 5 October 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
tho I'd much rather hear a Coldplay song than that newish "rock" song about the thunda, th-th-thunda
― maximum derek borchardt (crüt), Friday, 5 October 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
the english art-rock band from england called radiohead is a high quality musical quintet and they are from ENGuhlend, highly recommend "the kid a"
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 5 October 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
you may already know their song "the creep" which is about a creep who moonlights as a weirdo
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 5 October 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
it is not that great of a song but it has a part where you sing high and loud so people like to sing along even though they can't do it good, just loud
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 5 October 2018 04:00 (five years ago) link
anyway if you enjoy other radiohead songs, you might like other english musicians like mark morrison or hermin's hermits
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Friday, 5 October 2018 04:01 (five years ago) link
they are also from england
beavis otm
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 October 2018 04:19 (five years ago) link
first time i listened to the coldplay album someone had burned me a copy and had switched out the title track with a guster track of the same name and i was briefly stuck in this lynch state of "how bad do i really hate this band?"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 5 October 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
I know the casual thing to say is that Radiohead is pretentious but Chris Martin feels way more pretentious to me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 October 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
wish it were Franz Ferdinand who'd decided to become a Pop band instead, Coldplay just couldn't pull it off. they were at their best when Eno successfully helped them become art rock-lite on Viva La Vida
top 5 coldplay off the top of my head:strawberry swingglass of waterclocksalways in my headchinese sleep chant
― ufo, Friday, 5 October 2018 05:48 (five years ago) link
Thom Yorke Admits Vast Majority Of Musical Output Fueled By Constant Fear Of Being One-Upped By Coldplay https://t.co/jPUNPMVW2j pic.twitter.com/kFfkkaSIkf— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 18, 2018
― silverfish, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
re: the rappers loving Coldplay thing. I always loved the Kanye line "I told Jay I did a song with Coldplay / Next thing I know he got a song with Coldplay" in Big Brother. Firstly, for being the only person to ever rhyme Coldplay with Coldplay. And secondly, for the idea that him and Jay refer to Chris Martin as 'Coldplay' in their conversations with each other.
― triggercut, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
what happened to coldplay after their 3rd release? they got too commercial for me!
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
spiderman and i'm stuck in the middle
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
I realised years ago that the reason I'd never consciously heard any Coldplay was that I always changed the channel when they came on.This realisation came when some pub was playing a Coldplay song and it was aggravating enough that I checked what it was.
Anyway, Radiohead.
― raven, Thursday, 9 September 2021 07:59 (two years ago) link
Radioplay vs Coldhead
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 9 September 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
My dad always thinks I like Coldplay when actually I like Radiohead.
― chap, Thursday, 9 September 2021 10:46 (two years ago) link
can coldplay do this?
https://i.imgur.com/Z17LD2I.png
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
honest coldplay question: can someone put "yellow" in radiohead terms? not musically, but in terms of where that stands in their catalog.
full disclosure, i was a coldplay fan through parachutes. i liked yellow. it was all yellow. to me that was like their "creep", at the time. but the difference is, then they became U2 and made much huger songs. whereas, with radiohead, creep was creep, and although they became critically acclaimed after that, creep is still the big song for them, the one that people who weren't there for radiohead will think of first. i think.
so what is "yellow"? "pop is dead?" lol
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
I think “yellow” is “creep”…. they’re both their breakthrough single and performed similar in the charts - top 10 UK - barely registered in the US Charts.
Believe it or not Paranoid Android is their best charting single in the UK.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 September 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Yeah Yellow is definitely Creep
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 9 September 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
“yellow” is still a jam
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 September 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
Xp for real? I remember Pyramid Song charting really, surprisingly, high too
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 9 September 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
In the US: “creep” charted #34 and their second highest single is “nude” at #37.
In the UK they charted in the top 10: “paranoid android” charted #3, “no surprises” and “there there” at #4, “street spirit” and “pyramid song” at #5, “creep” at #7 and karma police #8.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 September 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
Yeah “pyramid song” being a hit in the UK is weird, weirder when you consider it performed better than “creep”
I think if Kid A had any singles “idioteque” could have been their highest charting hit.
The only potential singles I can think of in the kid a/amnesiac era are “everything in its right place”, “idioteque” and “i might be wrong”… maybe “optimistic”.
Kid A seems much more radio friendly to my ears than amnesiac, their single release strategy was completely off there… I mean I suppose it worked since both albums went to #1 in the UK/US (and in pretty much every country that has charts) but Amnesiac should have been the album with no singles.
Pyramid Song being a #5 chart hit in the UK is probably just accumulated goodwill from OKC and Kid A.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 September 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
Hell, even an edit of National Anthem has single potential.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 September 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
Coldplay’s run of singles is surprisingly low in the US as well, I thought they were well beloved in the states, and had a run of top 10 singles similar to Maroon 5 (15 top 10 singles) but they only have 4 top 10 hits in the US (speed of sound, viva la vida, sky full of stars and “something just like this” with the Chainsmokers)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 September 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
In the USA I think clocks or one of those other really shitty ones was their creep? like the mass breakthrough
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 September 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
Clocks was omnipresent for a long time. As a casual consumer of publicly broadcast music in the states I experienced the overplayed Coldplay chronology as Yellow > Clocks > Fix You
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 10 September 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
My boyfriends cousin played Coldplay 'in the background' the other day when we were hanging out after dinner and I was amazed how awful it was. I remember like yellow etc which was just boring or whatever but the stuff she played all sounded like boyband music, much worse than I realised.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 6 April 2024 18:04 (two weeks ago) link
Drake=Coldplay Kendrick=Radiohead
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:49 (two weeks ago) link
These are the brave and controversial takes I come to ILM for
― H.P, Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:49 (two weeks ago) link
(But yes much agreement)
― H.P, Sunday, 7 April 2024 09:50 (two weeks ago) link
Coldplay is really the dumbest band name, like did they name themselves after a sports drink or something Good tunes tho
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:31 (two weeks ago) link
no the tunes are awful as i recently learned but its more the very undignified vibe of middle aged people having 'fun' in a very ad with clips of people having a good time with [product] way.
― plax (ico), Monday, 8 April 2024 10:20 (two weeks ago) link
Mostly I just think of “conscious uncoupling” when I think of this band. What is the opposite of that? “Unconscious coupling”?
I like “Don’t Panic” and “Politik” and lots of the album Viva La Vida, but when this band is bad it’s kinda the worst, an entire oeuvre built off recreating the back-to-back punch of “High And Dry” into “Fake Plastic Trees”.
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 8 April 2024 12:28 (two weeks ago) link
Viva La Vida kinda great
― H.P, Monday, 8 April 2024 12:54 (two weeks ago) link
incredibly great
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 8 April 2024 12:59 (two weeks ago) link
im just pleased that its seemingly possible to go 20 years without hearing anything by these people
― plax (ico), Monday, 8 April 2024 15:55 (two weeks ago) link
I’m impressed tbh, they seem inescapable in my ambience
“Yes” is like… camp. “We’re gonna cover Venus In Furs but make it commercial and bathetic… no wait, Eno wants to remind you that he really likes that last track on ‘Loveless’”
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes” (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 8 April 2024 16:13 (two weeks ago) link
Death and all of his friends (with the life in technicolour outro) is where Coldplay peaked; drawing every ounce of goodness from their cheesy melodramatic style and distilling it into one track
― H.P, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:19 (two weeks ago) link
The track being cheesy and melodramatic too, but such a damn ear worm that there's all the forgiveness in the world for it
And strawberry swing is just a damn fun little bop
― H.P, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:20 (two weeks ago) link
three words when it comes to coldplay:
chinesesleepchant
completely different vibe, yes― but radiohead never hit on the thing that coldplay do flawlessly on that song.
so idk, call them sellouts or whatever, but bubblegum shoegaze had potential at one point. i will always defend coldplay. they had and continue to have an occasional solid jam.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 8 April 2024 22:33 (two weeks ago) link
Omg I never heard venus in furs in Yes, so obvious. And yeah, I'd take an album of chinese sleep chant.
Big soft spot for lovers in Japan too as it's the song that broke up the rigidity of my right-left hand partnership and I can still remember the feeling of joy learning how to play that syncopated beat on the piano to speed as a 13yo
― H.P, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:46 (two weeks ago) link
Oh, I didn’t know what Chinese Sleep Chant was. I just thought it was “the ‘Soon’ lift that follows the ‘Venus In Furs’ lift”. It is a very lovely lift of “Soon”!
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 00:33 (two weeks ago) link
Gotta love their commitment to the 'Album'. 13 songs but 10 tracks. Three are flatsharing, but only one of them gets a mention on the back cover. And yet, Yes doesn't segue into CSS, and DAAHF doesn't segue into The Escapist, so why not mention those other two? (and, again, why not just make them separate songs?) Quite cute in how obtuse an attempt it was to clog up the iTunes/download/shuffle way of doing things.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 00:37 (two weeks ago) link
Also yeah I'd never thought about the Venus in Furs in Yes before, good call.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 00:38 (two weeks ago) link
Three are flatsharing
Okay should be six are but you get the point
the funny thing about them is they were actually better at doing all those art rock lifts on vlv than they are at being a pop band
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:27 (two weeks ago) link
Otm
― H.P, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:44 (two weeks ago) link
I still like "Yellow" - and Mark Kermode's description in his original review for Richard Linklater's Boyhood is pretty amusing:
Even the opening strains of Coldplay's "Yellow" seem to be heard with younger, more innocent ears, as if we are listening to the song in an age before Chris Martin and co became the touchstone for all things terrible.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 04:38 (two weeks ago) link