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It's really funny how nearly everyone agrees that their favourite Coldplay song changes with the weather. The band I love best after CP is Travis and my fave song of theirs (Luv) - closely followed by Why Does it Always Rain on Me?, Driftwood and Turn - NEVER alters. But with Coldplay my favourites depend so much on my state of mind or what is happening to me. Anyway, most of the time it is Don't Panic, but yesterday it was See You Soon and today it is What If? No matter how I am feeling, there is ALWAYS a Coldplay song which seems to have been written for me.:)

Hmmm - good question. As I am a relatively new fan of Coldplay, I haven't heard/seen everything of theirs, so can't give an answer to number 5, but the others are: My fave song is - Arrrgh - all of them according to my mood! No, I think Don't Panic...or What If...or Trouble!!:confused: My fave b-side/Unreleased song is I'll See You Soon My fave video clip is probably The Scientist or Trouble My fave lyric is, 'All of us are done for' (don't ask me why - too complicated!) And you asked for anything else, so:- 5. My fave album is Parachutes 6. The most gorgeous band member is Guy, closely followed by Chris!

Well, Sky, don't know what your commercials are like in Canada, but here 99% of them are incredibly cheesy and moronic. I just prefer to not watch them. I worked out a while ago that the average person in the UK watches over 200 hours of adverts a year - that is around 14,000 hours in a lifetime!!! No thanks - just think of all the Coldplay I could be listening to!!:)

Sorry - am no good at posting pics but it is easy to find this guy on the Big Brother website. It is MIKEY - who was, to my horror, evicted from BB on Friday. Argggh - he is without doubt the most gorgeous man I have ever seen. I used to think that was Guy Berryman, but have changed my mind! Mikey has floppy dark hair, massive brown eyes like a spaniel's, the loveliest teeth and smile EVER, and this kind of mixture of awareness of how gorgeous he is combined with a kind of humility. Delectable.

I detest all of them! They are so patronising or stupid and make out that the average viewer has a mental age of a six year old. I hate the ones where they show 'family life' and 'couples' as if everything was so idyllically perfect all the time - there is one with a guy making a phone call for a loan, I think to a firm called Picture This or something where his wife is camcording him and he is playing with a football. Grrr - makes me need a fix of Coldplay to recover! To be honest, I watch very few adverts as I keep the remote control in my hand and turn them off most of the time. Very useful those remotes!

Arrgggh, sooo hard to just find three! But after much thought, these are my faves:- Parachutes 1. Trouble 2. Don't Panic 3. Sparks A Rush of Blood to the Head 1. In My Place 2. The Scientist 3. Amsterdam X and Y 1. What If? 2. Fix You 3. X and Y

I had never heard See You Soon before I was bought the Coldplay Live 2003 DVD for my birthday (I am a relatively new Coldplay addict!). I can't say I have really thought that much about the lyrics yet, but was bowled over by how beautiful the song was. Just mesmerising. In fact, the whole DVD made me love songs that I previously hadn't liked that much such as God Put a Smile Upon Your Face. I also hadn't heard Moses before and thought it was brilliant. Now I just need to wean myself off watching part of the DVD every day!:)

Chris said he isn't a lyricist and that's why Coldplay CD inserts never have the lyrics on them. I wish they did, as I always want to know exactly what is being sung. Chris is too humble and self-effacing - he may not be a Keats or Wordsworth, but when the lyrics and the music combine, there is something which is just so profound and touches your soul!

I posted my message in reply to the question before realising that the majority of posts were about something totally unrelated to it. I'm not against people chatting at all, but think they should go into the chat forum and keep this one for answers relating to the thread. JMHO!

Coldplay have a MASSIVE influence on me. My health isn't good and I have to stay at home a lot - it gets incredibly depressing and wearisomely boring. But somehow when I put on one of my Coldplay CDs or DVDs, I feel better. To me, Chris somehow gets the message across that he's in 'it' (ie whatever we're going through) with us. The message that life sucks a lot of the time BUT 'we live in a beautiful world' is to me what Coldplay are about. The only negative is that I think I am in danger of becoming obsessed with the band! I used to think I loved Travis, and when I saw them live three years ago, felt I was in heaven. But Coldplay are for some reason I can't put my finger on, simply ADDICTIVE. I literally can't get enough of them, and whenever I'm particularly down, I HAVE to get my fix of a couple of songs at least.:\ Well, there are worse addictions I suppose! And so long as they stop me from chucking myself off a bridge, I'll keep with them!!:)

Just don't get the point in a thread like this. What's it supposed to be about? I like to think Coldplay fans are intelligent, but you wouldn't think so from all this rubbish! Just posts with one emoticon or a silly comment no one understands?? :confused: Think I'll join a Westlife appreciation site or something!:D

KM, don't know where you come from, but no way are kids whose parents are teachers, accountants etc, (as Coldplays are) deemed to be working class in Britain. It's hard to describe class without sounding 'classist' but the fact is that the concept of working class in the UK is generally that the fathers are 'blue-collar workers' - ie they do manual work such as plumbing, bricklaying, building etc, spend a lot of their time down at the local pub, and go to Benidorm or Tenerife for their hols! Whereas middle class parents usually work in the professions - ie are teachers, doctors, solicitors and so on, have interests like playing golf or singing in the local choir, and go to France or Tuscany for their holidays! This is VERY steriotypical I know, but there is actually quite a lot of truth in it too. But no way are the Coldplay guys from working class families, particularly Chris. Have you seen the website of his school, Sherborne school in Dorset? This is one of the poshest and most expensive private boarding schools in the country, and costs over £7,000 PER TERM!!! Three more of the 'Old Boys' who went there were Jeremy Irons, Jon Pertwee (used to be Doctor Who) and John le Mesurier (Wilson in Dad's Army). bedofroses says how she saw an interview with Chris about two years ago, describing the middle-class background he comes from, and how proud he is of it. I think there's far too much judging people according to the family they were born into - OK, Chris comes from a privileged family but that's life. It's like some people are good looking and others aren't, some have good health and others don't. It's an unfair world, but IMO, Chris and the other guys have used their privileged upbringings to wonderful effect!! Anyone who's interested in Chris's school (he is mentioned in the Old Boys section!) can see it on:- www.sherborne.org Click on General, then on Famous Alumni, and you will see a pic of Chris in all his beauty!!

an_cat, if you read the first post - ie mine! - you will see what the thread was about. It referred to a point made in one of the articles shown in the Latest News section, which said that the Coldplay members are 'four nice working class boys'. And I was pointing out that this seems to be something which is automatically assumed about British bands - that they are working class, whereas all the guys in CP come from very well-to-do, middle-class families, with Chris going to a very posh and expensive private boarding school. nelly, I understand the class thing very much as you live in Cheshire. I live near Manchester and know how prevalent it is there. Actually I don't think money has anything to do with class. It's more a kind of worldview, a way of thinking, of background etc. I used to work as a classroom assistant at my local primary school and although 90% of the families were what I suppose would be thought of as traditional, decent working class/lower middle-class, there was a section who lived on a council estate about half a mile away who in general treated their kids appallingly. Half the time, the kids didn't know who their fathers were, and were used to one man after another moving in for six months, beating up the mother, then leaving again. There is no way THESE type would have given their children piano lessons, Firthy and Nettie!! We had huge trouble with the kids from this estate - with their behaviour, reading, attendance, everything. When we spoke to the parents and asked them to help with their children's reading etc, they looked at us with amazement and just said, 'That's your ****ing job!' Yes, Erin, the British class system can seem odd to people from other countries, but it is getting less obvious, as most people have much more money than they used to have, and what interests me is how many of the traditional working class people in our area send their children to private secondary school. Our local state comprehensives are very poor, but there is a brilliant private school about three miles away, and now, because so many 'ordinary' people have much more expendible income than their parents did, they are choosing to send their kids to a private school if they are bright. And I say good luck to them. I know of lots of people who are shocked at the idea of choosing the best school for your child, but in the end, it's their money, and no one blinks an eyelid if someone decides to spend it on a fast car, state of the art DVD system, conservatory or foreign holidays etc. The suggeston that every school can be equally good if enough money is poured into it by the government is bullshit. That's not how it works - it all starts with the family. BTW, thanks Bijeli for saying my thread was interesting! That's what I love about this site - because all us Coldplay fans are so intelligent (well, most of us!) we can discuss all kinds of things. Until they get spammed of course!!:D

I love so many parts of so many songs I'd be here forever, but will be back after checking out the times of the songs. For now, I adore the verses of 'What If?', the rocky bass bit in 'The Scientist', the whole of 'Sparks' (am I the only one who loves this song?), the bits where Chris sings 'Yeah?' in 'Square One' and, like so many of you, the end bit of 'Politik'. Oh the things I have to do for this forum - got to listen to all my Coldplay albums now to find out my other fave parts!

Re why your teacher says science backs up creation KM, that is probably because she's a Biblical Fundamentalist. There are millions of them out there, especially in the US - gullible, brainwashed idiots who believe that every single word in the Bible is LITERALLY true, eg a six day Creation, that the world is only 6-8,000 years old (and therefore that the devil has invented fossils to kid mankind!!) I get some of my most hilarious moments from reading Fundamentalist websites - there is even one where they discuss (with completely straight faces!) how Noah disposed of the manure on the ark!!! And hey, you guys who say you wouldn't touch this issue - we are Coldplay fans, and therefore highly intelligent, rational people who can discuss ANYTHING!:smiley: Sure, we might offend someone, but that's life - we shouldn't avoid any possibly contentious subject. We don't want threads which only deal with who has the sexiest pectoral muscles, Guy or Chris! For anyone who is interested in what some of these Biblical Fundies think, see:- www.ldolphin.org/cisflood www.av1611.org (and for a positively hilarious article from this site, type into Google Terry Watkins truth about hell). According to this article, hell is at the centre of the earth and has been seen by scientists!!! There are loads of Creationist websites too KM if you want to read up about what they think - for instance, www.creationsim.org "Questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as my heart"