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[Music] Coldplay concerts next year
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Uncle Spielberg
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It remains one of life's mysteries when so many people trash Coldplay when all the evidence is there to see they are a magnificent group, brilliant live, one of the best in the World with a fantastic catelgoue of songs but hey ho such is life
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Could equally be rewritten 'It always amazes me when people have a different taste from one another'.
Imagine how boring life would be if we all valued everything equally.
They don’t cross the threshold of being a band I’d go a see live but I loved A Rush of Blood to the Head. I bought the album and the guitar tab book. Unlike a band like Radiohead, there seems to be no development, experimental element or originality about their work but I get that they have some cracking songs. I wonder if their work will be around in 100 years time and if they’ll be seen as an important influential band or just a popular band who made some decent music but nothing that changed the dial in a historical sense of the popular music cannon.
There are another half dozen Coldplay songs that I really like outside of the previously mentioned album but unfortunately, there is a lot of stuff I just can’t stomach (like Yellow) so unless I’m picking the set-list, I just wouldn’t enjoy at least half the gig. I can’t be a proper fan if I dislike their their Spotify top 5!
There are another half dozen Coldplay songs that I really like outside of the previously mentioned album but unfortunately, there is a lot of stuff I just can’t stomach (like Yellow) so unless I’m picking the set-list, I just wouldn’t enjoy at least half the gig. I can’t be a proper fan if I dislike their their Spotify top 5!
Not commenting on Coldplay particularly, but I'm pretty sure you're more likely to be remembered in 100years if you've written a bunch of cracking tunes rather than being important or influential at the time.
jordanseagull
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- Feb 11, 2009
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I get what he means though. They’re so widely trashed in the UK yet they sell out 10x Wembley dates with resale prices over £300 per ticket in the gods, it is weird
Probably because they are one of those hyped up by radio stations type of bands.
When I say radio stations I don’t include Radio 6, more like one of the several same acts always on Heart FM commercial type stations
Do you remember Paul Whiteman from 100 years ago? He recorded a lot of popular songs but was arguably the Coldplay of his time.
First album very good , second album a masterpiece , next two were good if patchy .
Recent attempts at down with the kids type music have been appalling.
So i have no intention of encouraging Chris Martin’s embarrassing midlife crisis by attending these shows.
Recent attempts at down with the kids type music have been appalling.
So i have no intention of encouraging Chris Martin’s embarrassing midlife crisis by attending these shows.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Coldplay are one of those bands that everyone has to tell you their feelings on.
And as I'm a human, here are mine:
Loved Parachutes - it is/was a lovely little album.
Liked Rush of blood to the head - there are/were some great songs on it.
I drifted away from the third album on.
I saw them at Glastonbury a few weeks before/after they released Yellow, just as they sat on the cusp of stardom. I then saw them touring Rush of Blood - I think it was at Alexandra Palace but a quick google says they didnt play there. I'm convinced they did.
Both times they were really good. I doubt they've got worse, probably better so if you have a ticket have fun, I'm sure they're going to be great.
And as I'm a human, here are mine:
Loved Parachutes - it is/was a lovely little album.
Liked Rush of blood to the head - there are/were some great songs on it.
I drifted away from the third album on.
I saw them at Glastonbury a few weeks before/after they released Yellow, just as they sat on the cusp of stardom. I then saw them touring Rush of Blood - I think it was at Alexandra Palace but a quick google says they didnt play there. I'm convinced they did.
Both times they were really good. I doubt they've got worse, probably better so if you have a ticket have fun, I'm sure they're going to be great.
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Guitar tab book? I could not name you their guitarist and I'll wager he wont make top 100 guitarists of all time!
No, in that I'd literally never heard of him.
Although I gather he played with Bix Beiderbecke who I have heard of due to the Beiderbecke Tapes.
I may well have heard of him if he was a noted writer rather than primarily a recording and performing artist. In a similar way, I understand that Bach was primarily known in his own time for his organ playing and only became widely known as a composer much later.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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I’m very much in the “if something on here is of no interest to you keep quiet about it” camp.
We’re all different and we like different things and my late mother always said “if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all”
anyhoo….
Coldplay are fuckin shit.
[I feel so much better now]
We’re all different and we like different things and my late mother always said “if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all”
anyhoo….
Coldplay are fuckin shit.
[I feel so much better now]