Socrates

Yes, they are. Their fourth album is due out this year.

Your mom is awesome.

Wrong, because that song sucks. It's when the guitar ripped straight from Franz Ferdinand's 'Jacqueline' comes in on the opening track, because, for an all-too-brief moment, you almost can't hear Chris singing.

:lol: 'Great art'. Oh man. I don't even need to say anything, this post makes a fool of itself.

Hey, Reilly, do you know what the best moment on X&Y is? Your board friends can play too. Go on, guess.

'You're'. I'm just trying to keep up with Chris Martin.

Don't lie to yourselves. Lie to me if you want, but not yourselves.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Wow. I want you to print out this page and give it to a mod so they can kick you off. Don't cry, junior.

Bad thread made worse by bad replies.

They are progressing at a snail's pace. A snail on Lithium. That's been stood on. More than once.

The Beatles were your best moment. It's all downhill from here, sweetcheeks.

Of course what remains to be said is that while Radiohead revolted against the system seeking to morph them into a saleable commodity, Coldplay embraced it wholeheartedly and sold their souls to the twin devils of money and mediocrity. Ahahaha. But seriously. You wish I was kidding.

Sigur Rós are not great on record, but pretty amazing live. I recommend them as a therapeutic way to wean yourself off Coldplay. Go, my children. Go and scamper in the Icelandic fields of dew-spattered grass and frolicking pixies with Downs syndrome and all that drivel. Good band.

That's actually an impressive variety. You get my very rare approval. Also, anyone who mentions Steve Reich, Refused, or the Notorious B.I.G. on a Coldplay board deserves all the credit that's coming to them.

Love it, it's one of my absolute favourite things. But the majority of prog-rock is awful, and Pink Floyd are no exception. King Crimson are the redeeming band of the genre.

Are we looking at the same haircuts? The girl on the left can live.

That record isn't as good as Up in Flames, but yeah, you're right. (Clue: the guy above is a moron.)

Not an appreciative audience, just a person who's willing to indulge in the vast vats of your self-importance and ego for the moment. Now if you'll stop conflating the issues, I don't think anybody here claimed that X&Y was the best album of 2005, just that it wasn't lame, tedious, reprehensible, middling or any of the other adjectives that you'd use to describe it. As for your list, you have a pretty large one going in there, of which many albums or EP's are highly overrated or downright suck. Beck? Past the shelf life already, do not listen to spoiled goods. Bloc Party? Vastly overrated shite, same with Architecture in Helsinki, Autechre, Caribou and Gorillaz and LCD Soundsystem. MIA's just dull, Mu's simply stupid aimless screeching, and Queens of the Stone Age certainly makes me wish I was back in the Stone Age. I'd suggest that you go find yourself some good music, and when you do, then feel free to come back and lecture us on the ways of the art of listening. Until then, you're in no position to say otherwise. Bad Beck is still better than the best Coldplay have ever offered, and the bundled remixes are great. Bloc Party's record, while not faultless, and with a short shelf life, is vastly more entertaining and exciting than X&Y. Calling Autechre 'overrated' should, in a just world, render you deaf so that you can never even by chance listen to good music in your life again and be found so very, very wanting. And calling Mu 'stupid aimless screeching' either betrays your complete ignorance or narrow-mindedness. You choose. I've put enough effort into replying to you as it is, and you only made derogatory comments about less than a fifth of the list. Have you not heard the others?

Two kinds of song? Just like Coldplay, you mean. At least Bloc Party's songs are exciting and enthusiastic. They have not yet had all their youthful energy sucked out of them. And I agree that the songs have no real staying power, bar one or two, but it's a bad sign for Coldplay when a band with a debut record has a song ('Compliments') that outclasses everything on their supposedly refined third album. Picaresque is not that great, and I actually don't like the Decemberists hugely, but... still better than Coldplay. And there are numerous EPs on that list. If you want strictly proper albums, I can substitute others in.

The Clash are superb and Massive Attack are mostly very good. The Strokes have their moments. I'm going to ignore everything else you said because I'm in a good mood today.

Parachutes, as the least reprehensible Coldplay album, is a 6/10

I could not be less underwhelmed. Thanks for sharing this.