POLL: coldplay

Being a humanities graduate I have rambled on, as I feel the questions should have been more open ended, in keeping with the requirements of qualitative research. (just kidding! :)

Rarely.. Only short articles.

Public Radio news & occasionally commercial radio music.

I should form a NY 'punk' group, obv.

i am american

Actually, it's 1) not really, 2) yes but I rarely buy them, and 3) yes.

2) if online counts then yes, if not no.

3) if MTV etc counts, then yes, if not not.

does no-one else like 'yellow'? really?

what do you ppl like (or not hate) about Coldplay? What could be worse than their self serious histrionics and bland derivative overwrought arrangements? (Answer: sigur ros obv)

Heh -- Mark P to thread.

no. (well, i buy the wire once a century and occasionally someone guilts me into buying a zine.)

yes.

y'know, I used to really like it. But oversaturation kills my love of anything, to be honest.

oversaturation kills my love of anything, to be honest - and this was one place that hatred is coming from, yes? and, i'm to understand, especially in the UK?

this was part of a pitchfork review of the new one:

we began to hear rumblings from the many-headed hydra of UK rock journalism that some amazing new music had come to usher us into the New World. This music was deemed fascinating, uncompromising and utterly prizeworthy by our English brethren, who spoke in hushed tones of how it was to be the coming of "the next Radiohead," or perhaps more tellingly, "the next Travis."

(i'm not fully able to catch the full meaning of that quote, as i have never heard travis and have no idea as to how they are thought of/ their importance etc.) i can understand hatred that's caused by over-hyping a band, it just seems like people don't own up to the fact that it's the hype that is bothering them. who cares if they are boring, you'd just ignore them if it weren't for the media ranting and raving. wouldn't it be better to ignore the media than be pissed off all the time about their newest darling?

anyways, not that it matters or anyone cares, but the reason i like some of these new songs (i have never heard anything off of parachutes except for yellow, and i admit to hearing that an awful lot on mtv and the radio) is that they just plain sound nice to me. i don't really have any baggage to contend with when i hear the music. it's not the greatest or anything, i just like it!

so sue me - i like the new coldplay album!! ;-)

i used to really hate pearl jam specifically because of all the attention they garnered, esp. the 'best band in the world' stuff. i can't remember if i was honest about why i hated them at the time, probably not... now i just don't really care much either way about them. i have a copy of vs. that i was given and i actually paid 5 dollars for a copy of vitalogy.

there is hope for you all yet.

Never thought I'd rep for a song of theirs, but Miracles seems to be genuinely affecting or almost thereabouts

At least until the rapping part. Or more accurately the first minute.

'A L I E N S' easily the highlight of the new EP for me.

i liked their first 3 releases then they lost me as they got too commercial!

I’m a big fan of their earliest stuff, hell even the “Ode to Deodorant”/“Brothers and Sisters” demo tape is a million miles better than anything on that “landfill indie” thread I slogged through a couple months ago. I absolutely adore the sparse-quiet-production-plus-loud-jangly-arpeggiated-guitar sound of Parachutes. Anyway, once they started trying to sound like an arena rock band on their second album I kinda got off the bus. I do love Chris Martin and his piano, though. More pop songs should have pianos in them.