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The case against Coldplay (brutal review of anti-Bush band)
Houston Chronicle (via NYT service) ^ | 6-2-5 | JON PARELES

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: americahaters; apple; bushhaters; coldplay; martin; music; ouch; rockroll
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To: Petronski
The 'NYTimes of the South' must have had open ad space to have run this.

This rag is losing subscribers and advertisers faster than gitmo muslims crying torture!

41 posted on 06/06/2005 8:26:41 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Serb5150
I now have to listen to my roommate sing along tunelessly to every song on the d*mn album and she has yet to get any of the lyrics right.

Heh heh heh . . . snicker . . . hah hah hah hah!

42 posted on 06/06/2005 8:27:05 AM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: dead

ROFL!


43 posted on 06/06/2005 8:27:52 AM PDT by Constitution Day (It's hard to get an answer when you haven't got a clue)
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To: Petronski

Coldplay is just pissed that some guy immitating a 2-stroke moped engine is topping them on the charts.


44 posted on 06/06/2005 8:28:15 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: soundandvision
Chris Martin is Richard Marx with a little street cred.

Kinda like a fresh Richard Greico for the 21st century, salted with the insatiable angst of Michael Stipe?

45 posted on 06/06/2005 8:29:29 AM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: Phantom Lord

Ding ding ding ba da ding ding ding ding


Ri-i-ing!


46 posted on 06/06/2005 8:30:20 AM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: Petronski

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.


47 posted on 06/06/2005 8:33:01 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: conservativeharleyguy

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.


48 posted on 06/06/2005 8:34:52 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Petronski

I disagree that Coldplay need to shut up and sing. I think they shut up altogether.


49 posted on 06/06/2005 8:34:59 AM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("I'm not very dignified." - Howard Dean)
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To: Petronski
Kicking Coldplay's ass...


50 posted on 06/06/2005 8:35:22 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Advantages are taken, not handed out)
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To: Petronski

I like your analogy better :)


51 posted on 06/06/2005 8:36:16 AM PDT by soundandvision
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To: Petronski

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)


52 posted on 06/06/2005 8:36:23 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: Paradox

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. :)


53 posted on 06/06/2005 8:38:08 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Petronski

Coldplay is boring. Anyone heard of a band called The National? A band with potential, IMO.


54 posted on 06/06/2005 8:38:39 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: soundandvision

What do you think of Green Day? I hear their Boulevard of Broken Dreams all the time.


55 posted on 06/06/2005 8:41:17 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas

Outkast is pretty cool in my book.


56 posted on 06/06/2005 8:43:17 AM PDT by Petronski (How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
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To: rwfromkansas

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..


57 posted on 06/06/2005 8:43:57 AM PDT by Paradox (Who cares about his razor, I use Occam's Chainsaw!)
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To: rwfromkansas

Yellowcard :-)

Way away is my fav.. but then I digress from all this non-Bush supporting band bashing....


58 posted on 06/06/2005 8:44:18 AM PDT by ekidsohbelaas (curiouser and curiouser)
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To: Petronski

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.


59 posted on 06/06/2005 8:45:37 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: GSWarrior

I am turning into a big fan of The Killers.

They are awesome!


60 posted on 06/06/2005 8:46:26 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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