Posted on 06/06/2005 7:07:42 AM PDT by Petronski
There's nothing wrong with self-pity. As a spur to songwriting, it's right up there with lust, anger and greed, and probably better than the remaining deadly sins. There's nothing wrong, either, with striving for musical grandeur, using every bit of skill and studio illusion to create a sound large enough to get lost in. Male sensitivity, a quality that's under siege in a pop culture full of unrepentant bullying and machismo, shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, no matter how risible it can be in practice. And building a sound on the lessons of past bands is virtually unavoidable.
But put them all together and they add up to Coldplay, the most insufferable band of the decade.
This week Coldplay releases its painstakingly recorded third album, X&Y (Capitol), a virtually surefire blockbuster that has corporate fortunes riding on it. (The stock price plunged for EMI Group, Capitol's parent company, when Coldplay announced that the album's release date would be moved from February to June, as it continued to rework the songs.)
X&Y is the work of a band that's acutely conscious of the worldwide popularity it cemented with its 2002 album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, which has sold 3 million copies in the United States alone. Along with its 2000 debut album, Parachutes, Coldplay claims sales of 20 million albums worldwide. X&Y makes no secret of grand ambition.
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This rag is losing subscribers and advertisers faster than gitmo muslims crying torture!
Heh heh heh . . . snicker . . . hah hah hah hah!
ROFL!
Coldplay is just pissed that some guy immitating a 2-stroke moped engine is topping them on the charts.
Kinda like a fresh Richard Greico for the 21st century, salted with the insatiable angst of Michael Stipe?
Ding ding ding ba da ding ding ding ding
Ri-i-ing!
I only liked one song of theirs, and I can't even remember what it was called, which shows it didn't leave that big of an impression.
At least Yellowcard, Bowling for Soup etc. are good.
you will find plenty to download in the spyware-free Ares etc.
They aren't bad, but I really only liked one song of theirs enough to download.
I disagree that Coldplay need to shut up and sing. I think they shut up altogether.
I like your analogy better :)
It's the latest craze - bash Bush and get a magazine cover. They s@#k. What happened to Green Day? They had a whole album dedicated to Bush bashing last autumn. I hear they saved rock! (with maximum sarcasm)
Some of the hip-hop is cool, but it also can get old.
I admit to playing Hey Ya in my dorm room sometimes, but also there comes a point when I can't take much more of it. :)
Coldplay is boring. Anyone heard of a band called The National? A band with potential, IMO.
What do you think of Green Day? I hear their Boulevard of Broken Dreams all the time.
Outkast is pretty cool in my book.
I ABHOR much of rap, dislike most hip-hop, yet I found some of it better than most of the "rock" music today, a sad state of affairs. That said, I will usually like one or two songs from any band, but then it will start sounding redundant to me, and I get sick of them, heh..
Yellowcard :-)
Way away is my fav.. but then I digress from all this non-Bush supporting band bashing....
Agreed. I just have a limit on hearing the same words over and over. But, I do like their stuff until I have to shut it off. Very creative, unique....cool voice.
I am turning into a big fan of The Killers.
They are awesome!
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