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How Coldplay actually sounds

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His wife was shocked when she saw that picture because she had no idea he's a Coldplay fan.
- Maybe this is why they thought nobody would ever find out.
  
  Don't know what's worse, being caught cheating and becoming a national meme because of it, or having it happen during a Cildplay concert.

I don't get why this is so big, wouldn't anybody be that embarrassed to be caught at a cold play concert?
- I can't tell if this is sarcasm, so I'm gonna answer genuinely:
  The two people in the pic are having an affair, that's the Astronomer CEO Andy Bryon and his Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot on a kiss cam, and they hid their faces once they were on the Jumbotron.
  
  Astronomer CEO
  If this is PR for Astronomer then somebody deserves a raise.
- I know, it brings shame on you and your family. I can't blame them

Idk why people shit on Coldplay, they sound fine
- "Fine doesn't mean fine. The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine." ~ Max Black (2 Broke Girls)
  
  You're quoting 2 Broke Girls to give cultural critiques to Coldplay?
- Early Coldplay was pretty good the 3rd and beyond is when he married a crazy person and named their kid apple.
  
  Part of me continues to be jaded that Travis came out the same time and are the clearly superior band and did not make it big.
- Coldplay is like depression in music form, but mild compared to The Fray.
- Until these two fuckers basically all I knew about Coldplay was they're probably the ones who did that song about apreggios called Clocks.

I still haven't seen Wild at Heart. What am I doing with my life.
- carpe diem
- The first 3 minutes of Wild at Heart are the best Nic Cage performance ever imo

Cut Coldplay some slack, this was the funniest thing that's happened in a while. Plus, Parachutes is...fine...A Rush of Blood to the Head has a couple of good tracks. Everything after that is pretty trash, but those first two albums were good to mid.
- I would say at the time they were solid good. They weren't technically very complex but who cares - half the bands at that time barely even played instruments, just banged out power chords and yelled into a mic. As far as pop music goes those albums were great in my opinion. Wouldn't talk about them in a music theory class, but we were lucky to have such solid albums getting radio play.
  
  That's certainly how I feel about Parachutes. Solid little album, even if it's not reinventing the wheel. I feel more mixed about A Rush of Blood to the Head. Some of their best tracks are on that album (The Scientist may be their best song), but a lot of it is forgettable, and Clocks just sucks, don't know how that became a big single. I thought X&Y was pretty meh, and then I stopped listening.

Coldplay was termed Radiohead for your parents. I think that was accurate for their early career but now they're more like EDM for your parents or U2 for your great grandparents or something.
- U2 was for your great grandparents lol.
  Jk. It's impossible for people in 2025 to appreciate this, but when U2 first hit the scene, they were a fresh air alternative to the stale late '70s disco scene. And for kids like me with a burgeoning political awareness, they were heroes. Also, mullets. It's very difficult for me to accept how they turned into a bunch of tax-dodging cunts who produced a fucking Spiderman musical, of all things (probably as a tax dodge).
  
  "This song is not a rebel song. This song is Sunday, bloody Sunday" or, better: fuck you and your mother. I will say what I want when I want.and call you fuckers out for all the bullshit you put us through. But, since these are the eighties i will do it somewhat politely.
  Boy. October. War. Under a bloodred sky.
  Somewhere along there they got lost and made the unfo. Still good but.. fuck Eno.
  Then it all exploded with the Joshua tree. They became the biggest band on earth, almost imploded under their own weight during/after R&H. Reinvented themselves with Achtung Baby and Zooropa and became what we have nowadays.
  But that glorious beginning, the rage, the pain. The angst of our entire generation in those three albums with bloodred sky as the magnificent encore. The Magnus opus.
  It was nothing like them now. I can't even name their last albums.
- Radiohead has been parent music for awhile now gtfo
  
  Of course, the arrow of time remains unchanged.
  But what did change is the type of music Coldplay made. They went from Radiohead-lite to whatever you want to call that crap now.
  
  Radiohead is 10 years older than Coldplay so i really don't understand this
- Coldplay is for people who think they enjoy high art because they watch period costume dramas about the Victorian Age. Because that's what high art is, isn't it? Stuffy settings and dialogue, delivered in a bygone accent.

- Yeah, imagine finding out your spouse cheated on you and not being able to go online without seeing it everywhere. Gotta suck for both of their partners
  
  For sure
  
  There are billboards on the road using the event as advertisement fodder.

Coldplay good. Fight me
- I dont love them, or ever even hit play on them myself, but that is true of a lot, if not most good music. And when I hear them on the radio, yea, its def not bad music.
  Meme still funny tho. They are suburban mom pop.
  
  Certainly not worth fighting for.
- I don't like Coldplay at all, and never have. But I also know music taste is entirely subjective, so it is a pretty pointless thing to fight about.

From what I understand, Coldplay was what played in suburban minivans 20 years ago when the drivers were driving their kids to taekwondo practice.
Also, apparently they’re the one band that’s not officially Christian Rock that’s huge with US Christians.
- Um… what the fuck. This is literally how I was initially exposed to Coldplay.
  Out of touch, suburban mom driving kids around on errands and dropping them off at their extracurriculars.
- Why are they so big with Christians? I've seen that too and can't explain it
  
  Because they are generic and don't curse.
- 20 years ago they were what teenage sad-boys were listening to when they got bored of Radiohead and The Postal Service (and I mean that in the nicest way possible). Then after X&Y they kinda became electronic/synthpop for the clinically depressed.
  
  what teenage sad-boys were listening to when they got bored of Radiohead and The Postal Service
  I thought that was Snow Patrol.

Meh. There’s by far more mediocre bands with some fame than Coldplay. At least Coldplay isn’t one of the “hype” entertainers like Bieber that need constant press coverage to stay relevant or a band that will play anything and have no real sound of their own like OneRepublic.

Coldplay thinks they are club music?

People don't like Coldplay??
- It’s basically a meme to dunk on Coldplay. Like with Nickleback.
  
  I'm absolutely sure people don't like Nickelback.
- No nobody. All the massive crowds and millions of albums they’ve sold aren't real. Haven’t you read the comments in this thread which represent the limits of awareness?
- Only now because they inadvertently outed a CEO having an affair via a Kiss Cam at one of their recent concerts. Cheaters and corporate bootlickers everywhere hated that.
- They're kind of soulless. But I think most people just don't like Chris Martin.
- Only those that like music.

yes.

My boy Goro Majima doesn't visit such boring ventures.

Is Coldplay the American Tragically hip? Im Canadian and the tragically hip has to be the most mediocre, boring, forgettable band in Canada. I would say overrated but that’s the thing, tragically hip were gone and forgotten and not a single Canadian ever said “they’re my favourite band!” Then the lead singer became terminally ill and ran a final tour and suddenly everyone i knew who had never once listened to their music in decades was all “BEST BAND EVER” Except Coldplay isn’t dying, but I do find that I can’t ever find a person who likes Coldplay beyond having one or two of their songs as their Spotify filler that they often skip
- I'm afraid Coldplay is British.
- I think Coldplay is British.
- That's a little harsh.

Wow Laura Dern sure was something

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