What's So Great About Coldplay, Anyway?

[TraceOddity]

There have probably been dozens of threads like this over the years, but what the hey?

 

What was the first thing that jumped out at you and made you fall in love with coldplay?

 

For me it was a feel of innocence in their music in an era where there was so much angry, cynical music being made. Don't Panic had such a sweetness about it.:) Even though they're much more worldly now, that thread of innocence still runs through almost everything they do.

[bearcat1229]

for me its the fact that they inspired me to take up instruments. They were the first band I listened to and said hey that sounds cool...now how do you make those sounds? Now music is a huge part of my life and im in "Debt" if you will to Coldplay for it.

[Jenjie]

When I went to Liverpool in 2002. I'm sure I must have heard them before that but have no recollection. Ian wanted someone to go with him, so off we toddled. It was one of the best concerts i've ever been to, and was sucked in on the spot.

[blackchickintheback]

I thought you lost your mind and were bashing them when I read the title. :freak: Hahahaha.

 

ANYWAY, I love how raw and open their lyrics are. I can really relate to them. And I love how they seem to have a song for every occasion- when I'm happy, depressed, etc.

When I first saw Yellow, man. What a great feeling! And then a few years later the Scientist and then a few years later Speed of Sound. Gosh, I can't explain the feeling their songs give me, but it's a good one. They make me feel better, and X&Y and AROBTTH got me through some heavy times. :nice:

[winigwl]

I hated coldplay the first time i heard them. it was clocks and i thought it sucked. then a while later i heard it again and finally understood the beauty of it

[TraceOddity]

I thought you lost your mind and were bashing them when I read the title. :freak: Hahahaha.

 

ANYWAY, I love how raw and open their lyrics are. I can really relate to them. And I love how they seem to have a song for every occasion- when I'm happy, depressed, etc.

When I first saw Yellow, man. What a great feeling! And then a few years later the Scientist and then a few years later Speed of Sound. Gosh, I can't explain the feeling their songs give me, but it's a good one. They make me feel better, and X&Y and AROBTTH got me through some heavy times. :nice:

 

Lol. I wondered if people might think that...it's a great way to get people to read your thread!;)

[RedGirl76]

I liked the stuff that made the charts from Parachutes but never got round to listening to the album. Then I heard "In My Place" and fell in love with that guitar riff... I played it constantly for two weeks then heard Chris Martin talking about the song, and Jonny, and was just really moved by his passion for his music.

 

It was so refreshing to hear a "pop star" talk with such intelligence and sensitivity. When I heard the rest of the band speak, I was equally impressed.

 

They're the real deal in a world full of fakes and that's why I love them.

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

so great or how i got to listen/like them? :thinking:

 

i listened to yellow and i liked it, the video was cool, so simple so what makes it be great... i liked the music, the lyrics and chris voice.

 

i didn't knew it was a coldplay song :embarassed:

 

few weeks/month later i got to know which band was behind this video and so i looked for info about them and listened most their songs and each time liking them more and more, for the music and for the lyrics and also for Chris voice that i found so similar to Sting voice when he played in The Police back in the 80s.

 

that's all...

what is great are their lyrics and music, that's what matters the most... and they are cool too :D funny people

[gus]

my life was sad i was lonely listening death metal, industrial all types of under music.one day i was changing the channel and i saw in my place the song blow mi mind and then i met my gf and now im really good :).the only reason that im newbie here is that in that days i didnt have internet but now i got it.

[Hotplay007]

i hardly remember. i remember liking fix you b/c it was nice and sweet. But the first time i listened to Don't Panic was about the End of 2006.

[karen13v]

Hmm it was my freshman year in high school (00/01) and I remember my best friend brought over this cd and we put it on and listened to it the whole way through. we laid on the bed and just knew they were our new favorite band. It was the first album I could listen to all the way through and say that i loved every single song. Of course that album was parachutes :)

[Enjoy The Silence]

To me it was the simplicity and softness of their music. What also attracted me was the "wisdom" in their lyrics - Honest and very thoughtful.

 

I actually converted from Linkin Parkism (yuck, I know) to Coldplayism. At first, I didn't like Coldplay a lot because they were too "boring" and slow for me. I was a teen back then so I was more into the rock, emo world. As I grew older and wise, I became more exposed to their songs and eventually fell in love. <3 Trust me, my relationship with LP was abusive with their anger-filled, hateful, and emo lyrics. And with Coldplay, it's a whole different story. :lol:

 

And I haven't looked back since. :D

[bluexylophone]

What instantly attracted me (when I, one rainy January morning in 2001, saw Chris in the Yellow video walking across Studland Beach) was the catchiness of the music and Chris' voice.

 

I don't wanna get too complicated but i'll just say this.

There is simplicity in complexity, and complexity in simplicity.

And a band like Coldplay exemplifies that perfectly, especially because they are such a huge and popular band

so their music isn't exactly out there but rather radio-friendly.

I don't usually listen to gigantically huge bands but mostly older, less popular music.

But when I do, it's only because the band has incredibly redeemable qualities. Coldplay is one of those bands.

 

About the complexity in simplicity thing, the new song "Lost" is a perfect example.

you play the following chords in progression: Emaj7, C, G, and D. very simple and basic chords,

chords many guitar players and pianists play every day without thinking.

but the beauty and talent in Coldplay and Chris Martin as a songwriter is that he possesses that special talent of being able to sing something completely beautiful over those simple chords. so everyone can play those chords, but writing a song as catchy and lovely as that is the distinction i'm trying to make.

and the funny thing is, what he's singing is rather simple as well.

but it's composing and creating it all that counts.

Singing something that catchy and melodious can turn simple chords into a beautiful landscape.

So whenever you hear someone slag on a song because "oh, it's just three chords",

what they fail to grasp is the many things that go into making something so simple into something so complicatedly beautiful.

 

Again, Chris, Jonny, Will and Guy are masters at this. And this is why Coldplay is loved by the millions, as they should be.

[ApproximatelyInfinite]

for me it was may 2006. i was vaguely aware of coldplay because my mom liked them, you couldn't have escaped "clocks" and "in my place" everywhere you went in 2003, and i'd seen a couple of their videos like "don't panic," "yellow" and "clocks." i thought they were interesting, but in 2003 i just didn't have the time to bother with them. in 2005 one of my friends was really excited about the new coldplay single, so one day when i was walking through the TV room at home and i saw the words "coldplay, speed of sound, X&Y" in the bottom corner of the screen, i sat down to watch. and there was something about that video (the music, the colors, the crazy dancing), that sucked me in and i was converted by the time it was over. and my love for them just picked up speed the more and more i heard the music and heard about them.

 

but really, i wasn't a HUGELY obsessed freak until i joined here in early 2006 :P

[guyy]

For me it was the well-aimed randomness of Pandora, and only a few months ago.

 

It popped up Clocks one day, and it was so good that I almost immediately made a Coldplay station. (I had had so little interest in recently-made music before then that I had actually managed to have never heard it before.) Incredibly it chose White Shadows--the only one of their songs I like more than Clocks--as the first song to play. I can't think of a way I could have been more effectively hooked. :D

 

I think mainly what made me like them is that their music isn't just plain horrible (like most "pop" music) or intentionally disharmonious (like, well, almost all other modern music). How could I not like one of the very, very few bands making music with actual beauty?

[the hitcher]

When I went to Liverpool in 2002. I'm sure I must have heard them before that but have no recollection. Ian wanted someone to go with him, so off we toddled. It was one of the best concerts i've ever been to, and was sucked in on the spot.

 

did you go to the mountford hall gig in liverpool, the warm up gigs the week before Glastonbury 2002? that liverpool gig was amazing if that's the one you are talking about! :D :D i have many happy memories from that gig :D

[KileyRN]

Well, when I was at college, I was really into alternative music and was always looking up bands on the internet that weren't really big yet here in the US. Well, I came across Coldplay and liked their sound. It wasn't until soon thereafter (like a couple months) that I was hooked. I remember seeing the video for Yellow and I was homesick and kind of lonely. That video just reach out to me. Their music is like the theme song to my life. Corny, I know...

[bigger stronger]

I remember the moment I became a coldplay fan. I was watching the 2003 Grammy's and they performed Politik. I had heard of Coldplay before but I had never really given them a chance. In the performance, it looked like Will was using his head as a drumstick and Chris was going to break his piano bench. They also had a string orchestra behind them. I had never seen that kind of passion presented on stage before.

 

Here's the link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P54iLHkrtPA

[Jenjie]

did you go to the mountford hall gig in liverpool, the warm up gigs the week before Glastonbury 2002? that liverpool gig was amazing if that's the one you are talking about! :D :D i have many happy memories from that gig :D

 

I did indeed. Its the first time that Coldplay entered my consciousness, and boy did they do it with style!!!! So its all thanks to Ian, if he hadn't wanted company that day, I never would have found Coldplay :shocked2:

 

It was an amazing gig. I still have pictures in my head, leaning on the barrier right in front of Guy. And the mad dash home from Liverpool, stopping in a random newsagent for snacks!!

[triciamcg]

I really feel it emotionally when i listen to coldplay, no other band comes close to the passion and depth of the lyrics, other coldplay fans no wat i mean when i explain how much i love them but non coldplay fans dont seem to understand, think it takes a certain type of person to really appreciate them, your either absolutely love them both for the music and depth of feelin or your just a passing fan of a certain song.

[Fixed]

They're incredibly nice guys. That's one of the main reasons why I like Coldplay so much.

[SwallowedInSea]

I remember the moment I became a coldplay fan. I was watching the 2003 Grammy's and they performed Politik. I had heard of Coldplay before but I had never really given them a chance. In the performance, it looked like Will was using his head as a drumstick and Chris was going to break his piano bench. They also had a string orchestra behind them. I had never seen that kind of passion presented on stage before.

 

Here's the link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P54iLHkrtPA

 

That was the moment for me as well. That was an incredibly passionate and intense performance, and it really got to me. The next day I bought AROBTTH and listened to it straight through several times. And I fell in love :).

[Lore]

their music makes me feel good.. don't know why... even the sad songs...

 

I like them since In My Place... I used to love that song so much... and then I listened AROBTTH so many times... with X&Y was kinda weird since it's a bit different... it's not that I don't like it.. but sometimes I skip it almost completely and sometimes I just love most of the songs...

 

when I met the it was the best time ever... for the first time they were "real" :lol: and their concerts were so awesome... I fell in love more and more :heart:

 

now I'm really happy because I like so much the new album... even the first time that I heard it... some songs makes me feel so happy and it's great :dance:

[Space Cadet]

There have probably been dozens of threads like this over the years, but what the hey?

 

What was the first thing that jumped out at you and made you fall in love with coldplay?

 

For me it was a feel of innocence in their music in an era where there was so much angry, cynical music being made. Don't Panic had such a sweetness about it.:) Even though they're much more worldly now, that thread of innocence still runs through almost everything they do.

 

For me, the first time I heard Clocks it felt like a ten-tonne weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

 

I was working in a store, miserable (quit the next week), sick of three months of bad Christmas carols playing over and over, and it was finally the first week they had gone back to the radio instead of that one tape (not that anything on the radio was much better).

 

The second thing was much like yours, Tracie. It was the first time anyone had given me hope that there was something beautiful and worthwhile in the world of modern music, because I didn't like most everything I had heard up to that point.

[CRYSTAL]

i don't know what exactly to say when i heard some songs like Yellow i think so in 2001 on MTV i wasn't such a fan then!

 

that too and some other song also i saw can't remember properly.

 

afterwards in 2005 i was so depressed with the changes in my life and listening again to Channel V and then some X&Y songs came and through out the year i watched and Looked for songs even preparing career based work.

 

and then all the promos again.

 

and that's all i am a fan!