Aw jeez, not this shiat again. Yeah, they're pop-infused, safe rock. Its been around forever. It sells well. Coldplay isn't the first, nor at all the only one around today. Matchbox 20? A million other bands from the past 20 years?

People like safe music. Move on.

Coldplay are "one of the very worst things to have happened to popular music in at least a decade"

That's just like, your opinion, man.

Music snobs are the worst kind.

houndoggie: Music snobs are the worst kind.

Yes, but beer snobs are close.

/not a coldplay fan
//or a music fan for that matter

Yeah, clearly a band that plays its own instruments and actually writes music are much worse than all the other manufactured shiat in the billboard charts.

I still don't mind (and even like) most Coldplay songs. They're a bit boring, but maybe listeners will get curious about their influences and pick up some Radiohead albums.

I'm holding out until I find out what Gene Simmons thinks about all of this.

jimmyego: Yeah, clearly a band that plays its own instruments and actually writes music are much worse than all the other manufactured shiat in the billboard charts.

I don't care who, what, when, where or how the music enters my ear canal is made, as long as it songs good to me then I am happy.

I'd like them a lot better if they weren't clearly ripping U2 off.

As bad as Coldplay is/may be, it isn't the worst thing to happen to pop music in at least a decade. That honour belongs to American Idol.

They are as derivative as Oasis who Brits seem to love. Go figure.

"...you listen to Coldplay"

TF Grammar Nazis, which is correct:

Coldplay is one of the best bands out there today.

or

Coldplay are one of the best bands out there today.

unremarkable asterisk: That honour belongs to American Idol.

This.

/Even with the British form of honor

jimmyego: Yeah, clearly a band that plays its own instruments and actually writes music are much worse than all the other manufactured shiat in the billboard charts.

My first thought to. Popular pop music actually written by the people singing it is a good thing.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: TF Grammar Nazis, which is correct:

Coldplay is one of the best bands out there today.

or

Coldplay are one of the best bands out there today.

It seems American English uses the first form and British English uses the second. Although a lot of people in the US seem to be starting to use the second form for no apparent reason and it bugs the crap out of me.

However, I'm a DBA, not an English major, so take that with a grain of salt.

That article is full of asshole.


/enjoy whatever music you like

CyberDave: It seems American English uses the first form and British English uses the second. Although a lot of people in the US seem to be starting to use the second form for no apparent reason and it bugs the crap out of me.

Seems to me that:

Coldplay is a band

Coldplay are crap musicians

This also applies to the stupid-ass "single concept" sports team names - I'm looking at YOU, Miami Heat and Utah Jazz.

Clocks is one of my favorite songs, and Viva la Vida pwns, so STFU snobmitter. I hate rap and hip-hop, that doesn't mean it sucks, just that I don't like it.

/not gay

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: which is correct:

Trick question.

mediaho: They are as derivative as Oasis who Brits seem to love. Go figure.

I hate them so passionately.

dna_level_c: Trick question.

Ding!

blah blah...yuppie soccer moms...

/neutral on Coldplay

How many farking threads do we need about Coldplay?

/You hear one Coldplay song, you hear them all...

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: TF Grammar Nazis, which is correct:

Coldplay is one of the best bands out there today.
or
Coldplay are one of the best bands out there today.

English vernacular experts, which is correct:

Coldplay are wankers and Radiohead are tossers.
Radiohead are wankers and Coldplay are tossers.
Radiohead and Coldplay are, collectively, a bunch of wankers and tossers.

That question has been bugging me for years.

obligatory:
http://www.everythingsoundslikecoldplaynow.com/

They're not really my bag, but a band that can actually write hooks and come up with melodies catching so much flack is the worst thing that's happened to popular music in the last decade.

I don't know why writing a hook or a catchy melody is so frowned upon by music wankers ... its way more difficult and takes way more skill than endless droning and diddling around with your instrument for 15 minutes (And how did Radiohead make a name for themsleves? They got noticed when they wrote a couple of catchy melodies like Creep and Green Plastic Trees).

If you think it's so simple and easy to do, then by all means write a couple of hooks, make millions of dollars and fark a legion of supermodels and hot actresses ... it's gotta be better than your current job.

I hate to admit it, but I kind of like that TV commercial they wrote.

ThatGuyGreg: CyberDave: It seems American English uses the first form and British English uses the second. Although a lot of people in the US seem to be starting to use the second form for no apparent reason and it bugs the crap out of me.

Either one can be correct depending on whether the subject is meant to represent the band as a whole or the individual members. In many cases, it can be either one: [the band as a whole] sounds like crap, or [the members of the band] sound like crap.

I think too many people error in the assumption that that's always true, though, and it isn't: "[The band] was formed in 1888 and still plays today." You couldn't use "were" there because obviously it's not the same individuals playing.

This also applies to the stupid-ass "single concept" sports team names - I'm looking at YOU, Miami Heat and Utah Jazz.

I think both of those can be considered either singular or plural, since they're kind of unquantized concepts anyway. You couldn't have the Miami Heats or the Utah Jazzes.

InmanRoshi: They're not really my bag, but a band that can actually write hooks and come up with melodies catching so much flack is the worst thing that's happened to popular music in the last decade.

I don't know why writing a hook or a catchy melody is so frowned upon by music wankers ... its way more difficult and takes way more skill than endless droning and diddling around with your instrument for 15 minutes (And how did Radiohead make a name for themsleves? They got noticed when they wrote a couple of catchy melodies like Creep and Green Plastic Trees).

If you think it's so simple and easy to do, then by all means write a couple of hooks, make millions of dollars and fark a legion of supermodels and hot actresses ... it's gotta be better than your current job.

Coldplay is not the worst thing to happen to popular music in the past decade, but they do play a part. Are the evil music corporations all that evil? Are free downloads of whatever is out there as wonderful as we think? It's all so smarmy and corporate-- but I've eaten at McDonalds and drank Starbucks coffee before.

I do play in a band (no 15 min wank solos), and find their lyrics, and melodies to be trite, but heck yeah, I'm jealous of their success. I know they worked hard to get where that are. They have the money, the ladies, and a child with an extremely dumb name-- all of those riches and success though such mediocrity. Dang.

Yep, those guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs with poetic lyrics, appeal to millions of people, has a lead singer with an absolutely beautiful voice are a bunch of no-talent hacks that are giving music a bad name.

Only the Brits can produce an article that stupid.

Congrats.

parachutes and ruch of blood... were good albums. will they annoy your parents? no. are they good for when you're having a snuggle with the missus? you bet

oh, and anyone who thinks coldplay is killing music really needs to turn on any one of the mtv channels sometime. you'll see exactly 0 coldplay videos, but a great number of people who are responsible for the thorough decline in popular music's downfall

isaaczeke: Yep, those guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs with poetic lyrics, appeal to millions of people, has a lead singer with an absolutely beautiful voice are a bunch of no-talent hacks that are giving music a bad name.

wow, i didnt know someone could breath and simultaneously blow coldplay. kudos are in order.

Torc: You couldn't have the Miami Heats or the Utah Jazzes.

Which is why they're a retarded name for a team to begin with.

/Heatsen!
//Much many Jazzesen!

isaaczeke: Yep, those guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs with poetic lyrics, appeal to millions of people, has a lead singer with an absolutely beautiful voice are a bunch of no-talent hacks that are giving music a bad name.

You can market anything if you give it enough face time, and Coldplay was shoved in a lot of people's faces. Of course, someone's bound to like it.

The majors locked up the industry a long time ago. It's not whether Coldplay is good or bad. There's so little that gets into the window of heavy rotation on radio that you've not got many choices. You could play Dead Kennedys every hour on the hour and sell a million records because sooner or later, it's going to be ground into everyone's skull, like "Yellow" or "Clocks." Your farking mom would be humming "Holiday In Cambodia."

Look at the Weather Channel. They played some of the most insipid "new age jazz" around, but have an avid following of people who listen to the music and buy the cd's.

Coldplay is hardly the worst thing to happen to music. American Idol isn't either, although it certainly is the best example of where the music industry went wrong.

I actually like "The Scientist", but I couldn't get over this comment from TFA:

Your definition of rock seems to be head-banging, loud, chunky music. There IS a genre called "Alternative Rock", which you don't seem to have heard of. And Coldplay are certainly rulers of that genre, at least.

- Anisha, India, 13/6/2008 09:37

Um, what??

genzoman: isaaczeke: Yep, those guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs with poetic lyrics, appeal to millions of people, has a lead singer with an absolutely beautiful voice are a bunch of no-talent hacks that are giving music a bad name.

wow, i didnt know someone could breath and simultaneously blow coldplay. kudos are in order.


I was holding my breath.

isaaczeke: genzoman: isaaczeke: Yep, those guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs with poetic lyrics, appeal to millions of people, has a lead singer with an absolutely beautiful voice are a bunch of no-talent hacks that are giving music a bad name.

wow, i didnt know someone could breath and simultaneously blow coldplay. kudos are in order.


I was holding my breath.

hoisted by my own pitard. touche

It's a little late to be 'cool' by dissing Coldplay.

Nice try, wanker.

unremarkable asterisk: As bad as Coldplay is/may be, it isn't the worst thing to happen to pop music in at least a decade. That honour belongs to American Idol.

Colplay's lyrics make me wretch, but yeah, this is MUCH worse. I guess part of this is that people who weren't old enough in the 70's don't know how bad it was back then. Coldplay, as much as I am not a HUGE fan now, are not as annoying and bubblegum as the hits of the 70s; but that's not saying much, really.

ThatGuyGreg: CyberDave: It seems American English uses the first form and British English uses the second. Although a lot of people in the US seem to be starting to use the second form for no apparent reason and it bugs the crap out of me.

Seems to me that:

Coldplay is a band

Coldplay are crap musicians

This also applies to the stupid-ass "single concept" sports team names - I'm looking at YOU, Miami Heat and Utah Jazz.

I don't think they are crap musicians, just crap lyricists. "Roman Catholic choirs are singing" makes me WRETCH. It's rock and roll, people. You know, THE DEVIL'S MUSIC.

/pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name

I don't mind Coldplay. U2 sucks.

isaaczeke: Yep, those guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs with poetic lyrics, appeal to millions of people, has a lead singer with an absolutely beautiful voice are a bunch of no-talent hacks that are giving music a bad name.

He has a good voice when he's not singing in falsetto.

I have to say that I really hate The Cure now. They used to be so much darker/more intense. Now they sound like sissy whiners. What's with all of the cooing and oohing? They took a big dive after Disintegration.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: I don't mind Coldplay. U2 sucks.

I think Achtung Baby is a great album.

Coldplay sucks, they're like soooo corporate man. Goddamn, I am so farking cool b/c I don't like things that are popular

/get a life you 3 chord knowing, mom's basement living virgin

One more thing here...

Pink Floyd = mellow, with FARKING BRILLIANT lyrics. Deep

Coldplay = mellow, with annoying pompous lyrics.

Oh please, they're not even in the top hundred worst things to have happened to popular music in the last decade.

Creed? Limp Bizkit? Nickelback? Crazy Frog? Take That comeback? The continued existence of Celine Dion? Shania Twain swinging the mainstream? The Libertines? James Blunt?! Hello?

Thats funny, i was wondering who the hollow U2 copycat band on the new iPod commercial was, and i just found out today it was Coldplay.

Coldcut on the other hand has some decent stuff. Cut Chemist, also.