Goodtunes discussion

I won't say I'm the biggest Coldplay fan. But back around 2004 when I was pregnant for some reason I fell in love with their Rush of Blood to the Head CD. This is no lie: I listened to that CD every single day of my pregnancy. For 9 months going back and forth to work and everywhere else I drove, this CD was in my player. When my son was about 11 months old the video "The Scientist" came on and he stopped what he was playing with and whipped his head around to watch the TV. I know he remembered. ;-)

I still can't get over how beautiful "The Scientist" is. It has some of the best lines in it: "you don't know how lovely you are"; "tell you I set you apart"; "tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions"; "come back and haunt me." It's just amazing.

I also love the starkness of "Amsterdam." Yet again, some great lyrics: "and I know I'm dead on the surface, but I am screaming underneath." And the fantastic ending: "stood on a bridge, tied to a noose, till you came along and you cut me loose." Can you imagine someone writing that line for you?

This entire album has some amazing songs on it.

I like them but they are rather new to me. I'm not familiar with all their work but I have heard a few that inspired me to download them.

I was a huge fan for a while. I still like them, although their last CD was really disappointing for me. They have some really wonderful songs. I agree with you on Amsterdam, Tressa. I loved "Shiver" and "Trouble" off their first record. Lots of good songs on X & Y and a Rush of Blood to the Head, as well.

Chris Martin is very cute.

There used to be some good, older interviews up on some Brit radio websites, I don't have a link but you can probably Google it. Parachutes and Rush of Blood to the Head, mmmmmmmm. I could listen to them and never get tired.

I love "Shiver," too. I don't know what he means by "shiver," but I imagine it's that feeling you get when you think someone's watching you but you can't really ever see anyone staring. Sort of like a haunting by someone carrying a torch for you and you don't even know it.

I can appreciate "Clocks" now that I'm getting older. Don't know how many tigers I have waiting to be tamed but I'm not dead yet.

Whenever I see the video for "Yellow" I can't believe how young Chris Martin was.

They have lyrics that keep me thinking, that's for sure.

They definitely do, Danielle. That's why I like Coldplay. Chris Martin is a good songwriter.

I like the song "Green Eyes" because my little boy has beautiful almond-shaped green eyes.

I love "Green Eyes." Very pretty song.

I'm not a big fan. They do have some songs that I like, but not many.

I don't even know what made me buy the Rush of Blood CD all those years ago. I don't listen to the radio and had never even heard of the songs on it. But lucky for me I did because all the songs on it became favorites of mine that I listen to--sometimes over and over again--to this day. It just struck a perfect nerve.

Actually, that CD, Rush of Blood, is their only good one, imo. I tried some of their other ones, and they made me nauseous...lol

Don't think that was the effect they were going for, lol.

I don't even care anymore if an entire album is good or all the other albums are good, I just focus on what I like. Sometimes I don't even bother with an album and just cherry pick songs I sample and take a liking to. Thank goodness for iTunes.

I do the same. Several times I've gotten adventurous and bought entire albums, only to be disappointed that the two songs I liked are the only two I'll ever like.

Have you ever gotten the impression others think you're not a real music fan because you don't buy the whole album; don't "get" the concept the group was going for, and therefore you are UN-cool?

*raspberries* If I want to listen to one song by a group I'll listen to one song!

I haven't been told to my face that I'm not a real fan or that I'm just a trend follower (though I know a few people have thought it) but I don't buy that. I do have my excuse set up for when someone actually says it: I'm suffering from adult-onset ADD and can't stand to listen to more than one band for two songs in a row. ^o^

Wow, I love The Scientist and Amsterdam too. Sorry it's so cliche, but I love Viva la Vida. I know that song like the back of my hand. I've played it in two different keys on the piano and violin. It really says something when you don't get tired of a song after that.

I think that if you like music, then you're a music fan. It's as simple as that. :)

I buy songs only from past decades, like the '70s and '80s. I only buy complete albums from favorite bands. iTunes is indeed a godsend!

I just discovered the song "Rainy Day" by Coldplay it's very unique sounding; I like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFOw1...

I'm not a big fan. I like harder stuff, plus I just haven't heard a lot of their stuff.

I kind of like the songs I have heard of theirs, but I can also see how they could be the type of band I could get sick of REAL easy to the point of nausea upon hearing them afterward. My daughter LOVES that "Vida Loca" or whatever the heck it is. It's on the Dance Dance Revolution game we have and she dances to it just to hear it. Time after time.

I will say though, I really don't get the animosity people have towards them. Yeah, they are fairly "safe" I guess, but they don't seem evil in those ways.

I agree. There's no reason to hate them! Yet, on the same note, I am not a big fan. At all! LOL

Coldplay is one of those bands that become so popular people start hating them because they're popular and get played too often. Or they're no longer kewl because they're not playing tiny venues and have "sold out" because of larger crowds. Or that's how I feel music snobs perceive them.

Doesn't erase the talent Chris Martin has for writing a great song.

Yes, it's kind of like how I randomly strongly dislike the Fray. They're some big deal here in Colorado because they started in Denver. :(

Tressa wrote: "Coldplay is one of those bands that become so popular people start hating them because they're popular and get played too often. Or they're no longer kewl because they're not playing tiny venues an..."

My main problem with them is that from what I have heard, they come up with one hook for the song, and that becomes the entire song. There is no growth or direction in the songs I have heard. I will give it to them that the hook is always insanely catchy, but after 5 minutes of the same thing, I am ready to be done with it. That is what leads me to believe that I would get sick of them rather quick.

The good thing is that they do write different tunes, unlike Nickleback who seems to like to write the same tune over and over and over again.

I agree. There's no reason to hate them! Yet, on the same note, I am not a big fan. At all! LOL


Exactly my feelings.