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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 5:36am
Coldplay... Right up there with Jessica Simpson and Jay-Z.
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 5:39am
Sorry guys. I'll put on some Killswitch for you, because music about something is overrated. Auditory rape is much better.
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 5:40am
Restiformbodies. Radioinactive. Clouddead.

Auditory love making.
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 6:19am
Oh yes, because some grease ball who wants to tell me of his pain through the medium of tedious, leaden, derivative ballads means so much. I can totally see how you would be taken with such mediocre, joyless, and uninspired crap, with its sad-bastardism and unnecessary falsetto, plus some graceless, repetitive piano playing to add some variety. Of course the meaning you speak of probably lies in the lyrics, right? Its a shame they are typical, clichéd, inarticulate sad-parting-song bullshit sung in some sort of lame, lethargic, wistful melancholy devoid of any kind of musicality.
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 7:13am
Uh, yeah. Chris Martin is a greaseball. Despite the fact that grease ball is a derogatory term for Itallian-Americans and Chris Martin is British.

And while Coldplay has done some bad and cliched love songs they have offered far more to the world in the terms of reinvention of the pop-rock music by reintroduction of the piano as a center piece, and have offered up some damn scathing political rock, and also some excellent self-reflective lyrical masterpiece. So go on and put on your punk Hyfester. With your mediocre, joyless, unin... oh wait.

I have come to the conclusion that you simply hate the piano.
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 3:30pm
I love piano, but Coldplay grates on me quickly. Especially since the BBC seem intent on cramming 'Clocks' down my throat every time I turn on the TV. Oddly, although they have been accused of being 'Coldplay junior', I really like Keane.
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 3:35pm
I don't hear as much coldplay since:

I'm not British

and

I hate TV and radio. So they get signifigantly less exposure. But that said they are incredibly popular here to the point where the record stores bought their new CD and turned it over and sold out in less then a week. So they bought something like 10000 copies a week in BC and it all moved for two months and then wham, nothing, since pretty much everyone already had it. They put it on sale for ten bucks, so using a gift card I chopped it down to 5 bucks. That's like 30 cents American. Probably the best music quality/monetary investment I have ever made, althought Avalanche for 15 bucks is close.
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 3:40pm
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 4:25pm
Is it just me who finds that very, very annoying?
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  • Posted On: Jun 21 2004 7:23pm
When I first heard Coldplay I was convinced that it was some sort of joke by the British to make fun of indie music. Actually I am still rather confused as to why American audiences largely rejected the comparatively lively British music of the 90s but are so fascinated with lame-ass trite like Coldplay, who shit out such singles as Yellow, a song which was bland and uncontroversial enough to gain popularity alongside of Creed and 98 Degrees.

Coldplay is terrible. The instrumentation is weak. The piano (I'm not even going to address the retarded comment that I hate piano just because Coldplay sucks at it) shits out chords without any style or feeling. The vocals for the large part suck. Congradulations if they have a message. Perhaps instead of writing horrible music the singer should just write down his message and hand out it on slips of paper instead of making us listen to "Clocks" and "Yellow" and "The Scientist" on the radio over and over.