I recently decided that Chris Martin writes songs with more depth and meaning than almost anyone else in the world, so I've decided that I will periodically go through and rate every song based on the following criteria:

1.) Originality

2.) Musicality

3.) Meaning

 

Each criteria will receive a maximum of five points, a perfect score is a fifteen out of fifteen, I will start from song one of album one which is Don't Panic from Parachutes.

 

 

Don't Panic

 

Originality: 2/5

This may seem like a poor score, but I'm rating Chris' songs on his entire body of work for the Album they are from, and this is clearly one of Chris' first songs he wrote. The song has nice lyrics, but the lyrics seldom change from stanza to stanza, however they are poetic and serve a purpose like all lyrics should.

 

Musicality: 5/5

when Coldplay went out to create the album 'Parachutes', you can tell they wanted a smooth moving, relaxed sounding album, and this song catches that feeling perfectly. Chris, Will, Johnny and Guy all mesh wonderfully in this song from beginning to end and Chris' vocals flow seamlessly over the music combining to give us a pretty good song to start a pretty good album.

 

Meaning: 3/5

The meaning of this song, like almost all songs is different from person to person, but what I feel Chris was singing about in Don't Panic is a change in how he was living his life. The song would've been written around a time where all he knew was beginning to change as he was now in college, and now in a band. It seems like Chris is writing about everything he had fought to have, is now sinking into the depths of a more grown up and responsible world, and just like most of his songs he adds a bit of a love line to it towards the end saying "Cos yeah, everybody here's got somebody to lean on." which hints at the fact that even though everything he knew is now gone and changing, he had a special someone that was helping him stabilize and adapt to the change.

 

Overall: 10/15

 

It may not be a great score, but considering it was one of the first songs Coldplay ever wrote it's pretty good. Musically this is a superb song, but lyrically is where it meets it's short comings, the repetition of the lyrics does good to drive home the point Chris was making with this song, but a little more variation could definatly have helped.

 

 

 

Please feel free to rate this song yourself and to give me feedback (Negative or Positive) on my analysis, I feel this is a good way to learn more about who Chris is as a person, because if you listen close enough, he pours himself out in some of his songs.

I like it how you don't show your bias in your opinions - it's a great talent. I hope to see more but do expect criticism as judgements differ.

"Don't Panic" is one of the greatest Coldplay songs of all time.:D

I actually don't disagree with much. Maybe give or take a point from one of the categories, but I consider Don't Panic to be more of an important benchmark song than anything.

 

You gonna keep going?

Are you seriously going to go through EVERY song individually? I mean songmeanings.net could be more efficient for some aspects of this. Unless you really want to breakdown the music of each song like everyone has already done in our heads...

 

But if you insist on moving on, Don't Panic is my 3rd fav. Coldplay track of all time. It's the track most representative of the entire album. It's simple, yet so crisp and effective. It could be their most "coldplay" song. It's perfectly mellow, warm and melodic.

Don't Panic is a great song. It always puts me in a happy mood, so I'm going to give it a 5 out of 5 stars.

Can you PLEASE post these in the one thread one thread or get them merged? Pleeeaaaassseee.

Wow, I'm happy I finally got some replies to this, it went empty fora few days, I will keep goin then.

Are you gonna do all their songs? Shiver next?

 

 

Anytime you post a thread talking about a Coldplay song it's only a matter of time before you start to get replies. ;)

Yup, I just posted the review for Shiver which was challenging because I had to break it down trying to find flaws in it. I failed.

^I have a feeling somebody has way too much time on their hands........................... :rolleyes:

^I have a feeling somebody has way too much time on their hands........................... :rolleyes:

 

You got that right, cause I've done this twice now late on a Saturday night, they only take about ten minutes to do.