At the moment I'm taking a sort of of break of Coldplay..

i mean.. I'm listening other bands or another type of music..

BUT I STILL LOVE THEM! I YHINK THAT THEY'RE THE BEST FOREVER!

 

I listen to Coldplay but the way I used to do like.. a year before..

But i think that this will be until the new album arrive..

When this happen I'll have "Coldplay fever" again.. :P

Au contraire, I think they have developed and changed considerably through the albums. A rush of blood to the head had a completely different sound and vibe from parachutes as did X&Y to AROBTTH. If someone who'd never heard of coldplay were to listen to square one after something like sparks or we never change, they would never guess they were the same band. I mean. who would've expected them to produce a song like politik to open up for coldplay at glastonbury 2002? In fact their albums (and the songs within them) are diversified enough to the point where it's very difficult to pinpoint a "coldplay-esque " sound per se. For instance. If you heard a brand new coldplay song on the radio today I don't think you'd recognise it if it weren't for Chris's vocals.

 

Now, it's a pretty expensive order , I think, to hope for a radiohead-esque experimentalism out of coldplay. Because frankly for any other band to pull out a Kid A after something like OK computer is sheer insanity.

You make some good points, but Speed Of Sound for example, was instantly recognizable to me as being Coldplay long before Chris's vocals came in, and without some new production/progression evolution, that will happen again. It's not the end of the world (in fact I still love Speed Of Suond), but it would be nice to see some new direction.

 

And you're right about Kid A...even GOD HIMSELF couldn't pull off another Kid A,lol.

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:laugh3: Ditto, except they're my #1 now. :laugh3:

 

I think Muse's fate was sealed as my favorite band after seeing them live in April--Holy SHIT! It was freaking mind-blowing!!! :freak:

 

Coldplay has dropped down on my list quite significantly--now I like Muse, Rage Against the Machine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, and some other bands more than Coldplay. :/

 

Funny how just last year, I was voted biggest Chris and Coldplay fan! :laugh3: Sorry. :uhoh:

 

Maybe after the release of a new album my obsession will be reborn. :laugh3:

 

I VOTED FOR YOU! *bows head in shame*:lol:

 

Like I've said before, loving a band is sort of like loving another person (esp. if you're Gwyneth,lol) You aren't always head over heels in love, but you know the love will always be there, like someone said. If all we did was listen to one or two bands all the time, we'd be missing a whole world of great music.

I VOTED FOR YOU! *bows head in shame*:lol:

 

Like I've said before, loving a band is sort of like loving another person (esp. if you're Gwyneth,lol) You aren't always head over heels in love, but you know the love will always be there, like someone said. If all we did was listen to one or two bands all the time, we'd be missing a whole world of great music.

that's right :wacko:

I love Coldplay.. and in every love there are always good and bad moments..

there are things that i don't like about Coldplay sometimes.

but.. it's still love :heart:

that's right :wacko:

I love Coldplay.. and in every love there are always good and bad moments..

there are things that i don't like about Coldplay sometimes.

but.. it's still love :heart:

 

I hate how they never help with the housework, and they don't pick up after themselves...oh wait, that's my ex,lol

I hate how they never help with the housework, and they don't pick up after themselves...oh wait, that's my ex,lol

hahahahahahaha

Maybe the Coldplays do that either :P

I've loved Coldplay to bits for a year and I hope I'll be a loyal fan forever. but I think I'll be going mad when I have to wait another 3 years for another album :cry:

hahahahahahaha

Maybe the Coldplays do that either :P

 

lol. Maybe Gwyneth has to nag Chris to pick his socks up off the floor.:laugh3:

lol. Maybe Gwyneth has to nag Chris to pick his socks up off the floor.:laugh3:

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

I would punish Chris..

 

but without any reason ..:sneaky: :whip:

I'm sure he doesn't mind the occasional spanking!:wink3::laugh3:

i think im on the brink of becoming "tired" of coldplay as well as many of you have described. i still listen to them insanely regularly (so much that i think many other people on this board would find it overkill), but if the next album does not come out within the next five months or so to provide us all with some new stuff to chew over, i can practically hear my obsession with all things coldplay fading into just love. and love can be shared with other bands (for me its the beatles, U2, death cab for cutie, the strokes, radiohead...)

 

i did a similar thing with the beatles. the beatles were the first band i ever liked, which got me into music. i listened to literally NOTHING ELSE for a year and a half, and then i got into U2 as well, though i didnt love them as much as i did the beatles. but because the beatles musical repitoire is static (and has been for years and years), i just...ran out of stuff to listen to. theres nothing else coming out (unless someone robs the vaults, which im all for :sneaky: ), theres no musical evolution going on beyond what has already happened. i didnt really realize it at the time, but i was growing tired of the beatles because i knew everything there was to know about them and had listened to every song they ever put out and ever would put out hundreds and hundreds of times.

i only understood that i was tired of them once i discovered coldplay through the "speed of sound" music video in spring 2005. and while i still LOVE LOVE LOVE the beatles, i just...dont listen to them all that much anymore. coldplay usurped them as my favorite band because there was a whole new world of music and information to explore.

i think this is part of what keeps me going with my coldplay love: the promise of more material in the future. if coldplay were to break up tomorrow (god, that scares me!), i think my passion would slowly begin to fade because i would have hit a dead end in the coldplay universe. i think as long as theyre creating new music in the years and decades to come, music that i really like and appreciate, then theyll never fall out of my top three bands.

the beatles were a huge part of my life, just as coldplay are now, and i must say that im scared of losing my passion for them for this reason. im also scared that in the hiatus period between LPs 3 and 4, another band will slowly edge out coldplay as my #1 because coldplays taking too long to try and wow me again. i dont want this to happen without them getting another chance to knock my socks off like they did with parachutes and AROBTTH (which i discovered years after their initial releases...). this is why i want them to hurry the hell up with LP4, because i dont know how long my rabid love for them can hold out without new stuff to sink my teeth into.

 

god i talk too much :rolleyes:

I think I'm in the same boat as a lot of you. Coldplay was all I listened to for about a year. At the time, they were the best band I knew of. Through this board I have gotten into so many more bands, and now I like them more than Coldplay. Unless their next album is a masterpiece, I can't see myself loving them like I once did. Radiohead are now my favourite band, I don't get bored of them like I do with Coldplay.

i haven't listened to coldplay in a long time. but i guess i would listen to it when the new material comes out.

It's natural i think, i mean you can not enjoy the same thing over and over again at the same level. I do stll think trouble is one of the most beautiful song,but have not listened to it for months now. There're many bands that i like now, but Coldplay is the only band i know everything about:)

I like Sigur Ros a lot, but have no idea about band members. :D

I remember when I started liking Coldplay. I loved them before I even saw their faces and I knew that whoever was behind the voice had talent. I only listened to their new stuff and was slowly introducing myself to their older stuff. I didn't know much about the band members, only Chris really and was broken hearted when I learnt he was married. I would stare at their pictures, listen to their songs over and over, but I felt distant from them (well, they do all live in London) but now its more of a case of feeling like I know them, like a friend. Anyhow, now that I caught on to Muse its like I'm back at Square One, trying to learn more about them and introduce myself to their old stuff, but I still feel distant.

It's always a bit of a sad moment for me to buy the "missing piece" or the last album by a band, because I realize that the possibility of the music that the band has created will be completely gone when I have listened to every last one of their songs. I had a similar experience with Coldplay: I bought X&Y, loved it, grew tired of it, disliked it, bought A Rush Of Blood To The Head, grew tired of that one even more quickly because I thought it had the same problems as X&Y, then finally got Parachutes, which didn't lose its magic quite as quickly.

The purchase of each album was meant to redeem my faith in Coldplay. I wanted to hear music that made me think they were great, but I still don't think that any one of their albums is a truly great piece of work. Some of them approach greatness, and some of their songs are fantastic, ("Shiver", "A Rush Of Blood To The Head") but when all is said and done I'm left with the suggestion of how great they could be. I've listened to each album enough that I almost feel like I have figured Coldplay out. This is why I'm so interested in the upcoming album - I'm hanging on to the hope that Coldplay will pull something out of their hat that will surprise us all, something that will make self-proclaimed haters do a double take.

coldplay is the only band i never get tired of. i think its because i balance them out with other things quite well: my regualr ipod usually has some form of coldplay circulating on it, but my ipod shuffle (which is always with me and is what i listen to while driving, which is a lot) has only my very favorite coldplay songs on it along with lots and lots of other bands, so i get a good mix. i think i got tired of the beatles because i listened to literally nothing else.

 

and emma-beatrice, i know EXACTLY what you mean about coldplay being like a friend. theyre my best friends out of everything on my ipod, i think, because im pretty distant from almost every other band. for a while it was the beatles that i was best friends with (and theyre still very good friends :D), but i think the fact that half of them are dead and that the other two are quite old makes that harder. coldplay exists now, which makes a big difference in my mind. its the promise of new material that keeps me going.

 

I'm hanging on to the hope that Coldplay will pull something out of their hat that will surprise us all, something that will make self-proclaimed haters do a double take.

 

exactly how i feel, man. im just anxious for it to get here.

This thread has a lot of words!

muse will never be my number 1.there not true 2 themselves.too me they sound fake.Coldplay no1 always but radiohead are freakin amazing.!!!1

I think I'm in the same boat as a lot of you. Coldplay was all I listened to for about a year. At the time, they were the best band I knew of. Through this board I have gotten into so many more bands, and now I like them more than Coldplay. Unless their next album is a masterpiece, I can't see myself loving them like I once did. Radiohead are now my favourite band, I don't get bored of them like I do with Coldplay.

 

Looks like we have alot of Coldplay turned Radiohead fans on the forum. Its funny for most of us it happened before In Rainbows instead of because of In Rainbows.

Why no radio One interviews?

 

Looks like we have alot of Coldplay turned Radiohead fans on the forum. Its funny for most of us it happened before In Rainbows instead of because of In Rainbows.

 

I wonder: Coldplay were so eager to use BBC radio to further their career, but has Lamacq had any word from them lately, or Nick Harcourt? Word to CP: My Space will not carry your career.

 

I say it in all loyalty and love.

How do you get a new thread going on this gig, by the way?

Go to the forum you want to post it in and click 'new thread' or 'new reply' depending on which display setting you have the board on. It's on the left-hand side, I think under the stickied threads.

How do you get a new thread going on this gig, by the way?

I'm surprised after 500 posts you haven't started a thread! Maybe I'm just thread starting happy...

I can relate to getting an "overdose" of Coldplay's music as well! I've been varying my musical interests - hearing a lot of great Elton John, Little River Band, Clapton, and (don't laugh too hard) ABBA! U2 quite a bit as well..

One thing - I didn't really listen to much of Coldplay's earlier works; going back and discovering gems that somehow missed radio over-play made their music great again for me.

Personally, I like Radiohead, but they're more of an aquired taste. I have heard them since their start; missed quite a few years in-between, and started listening again. As for creativity they're great, but not as good a listen as Coldplay, or the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. (and, I just can't imagine Radiohead being top rated on the internet! Are they really that good, or just so different that listeners are drawn to them?)