coldplay vs radiohead?

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’”

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

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

three words when it comes to coldplay:

chinese
sleep
chant

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.

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

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”!

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.

Also yeah I'd never thought about the Venus in Furs in Yes before, good call.

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

Otm

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.