It's a cracking album, the new one. It's not as easy as it looks, touching people's hearts at the same time as making tunes that are ballsy enough to fill a big venue. I think Coldplay are just about the best proper pop band going right now.
― Gaz Is Real, Friday, 12 February 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
that lead single really sounds like foals.
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
xpost Bah. It's really easy to do that. It just takes a certain kind of robotic soullessness to aim for that all the time (see: KLF, "The Manual," plenty of arena country)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
Idea of Coldplay being any sort of go-to stadium band makes me pine for the worst of late 80s Kerr and Bono
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, it's like chain fast food. Do people really go because it tastes good, or just because it's fast, easy and a good value for a ton of calories?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
Hating somebody because they're popular always sounds a bit bitter to me ;-)
― Gaz Is Real, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
I don't hate Coldplay! I think you'll find me upthread saying I like their first four albums, to degrees. But I really, really don't like the last three, because they are so shameless in their triangulation. They're the Clintons of Rock.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
They're so inoffensive it becomes an easy target. I don't hate them but their fans are very strange, at least the one I've met. I don't know if they don't listen to that much music or everything they listen falls in the same line but they honestly believe they're such a cool, innovative band. Come on, they're pretty much playing dadrock.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 12 February 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
I like dadrock! There's nothing wrong with dadrock. It's the unctuous inoffensiveness that gets under my skin. They're like Maroon 5 with a delay pedal.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
I never said there was anything wrong with dadrock. But dadrock is not innovative, cool music. It takes once innovative cool music, digests it and makes it acceptable for everyone to enjoy in the background.
If there concerts are anything similar to what they did on the superbowl, though. The venue owner would do better selling lattes than beers.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 12 February 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
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The venue owners would do better selling balloon animals.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 February 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
New album's cack. Where's the fuckin' PIANO?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 12 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
they did a surprisingly great Radiohead impersonation on recent single All I Can Think About Is You:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLNG0WnGsI
― niels, Sunday, 3 September 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link