Coldplay

Well, after listening Radiohead's OK computer I accept, that Coldplay might be not proggie enough to be prog *shrug and sigh*

But I still think they make really nice music which might be at least something like Prog-POP.

Doesn't mean progressive to be different? And at least they are different than the whole boy/girlgroup/britney/pseudosoulwhinerstuff... and I am glad when I hear them in the radio, because I'm sick and tired of those nurseryschoolpunks and discochicks.

On normal radio you never find something like www.deliciousagony.com

I just watched Coldplay on a Tee Vee concert. If that's prog, I'm gonna grow a beard and join the Taliban.

Coldplay is probably one of the best, or at least most interesting options to look for in mainstream music today. Even their first album, "Parachutes" had some kind of 'dark' aura that maybe got lost in the next records. But again, they are not progressive at all and thus they shouldn't be included here. I think that this is one of the cases when you can say a band is not progressive. There are other more difficult cases like Radiohead or Muse, but in the case of Coldplay the thing is clear.

I hate you all that say Coldplay suck! They don't suck, I love Coldplay. It's just sort of spacey music. They're not prog, no not at all.

wow, no, they don't belong here... Coldplay is so overrated

..and btw, Radiohead may not be prog, but they do rock

no of course not.

lets add backstreet boys

eduardossc wrote: May I then, suggest "Ashley Simpson" ?. Listen to "Pieces of me", it has a constant intensity and mood change throughout.

 I insist ¡¡¡

I love Coldplay but they definatly don't belong here.

sleeper wrote: Coldplay dont belong here because they dont have the technical abilaty requred to perform prog

Pink Floyd, anyone..?

laplace wrote: Face it, if you like Coldplay, SoaD, Franz Ferdinand, etc, etc, then you like mass-marketed talentless drivel. Just accept that you're easily pleased, and be comfortable with it, so you don't have to try and validate it or justify your tastes. I'm the same way, when my brain hurts from complicated music, sometimes I sit back and enjoy a nice slice of the mass-marketed talentless drivel known as Rammstein. I don't pretend they're a mature band..

You know. I used to feel the same thing about pop. ..Now I don´t consider making good and catchy pop is a proof of lack of talent. At all.

If that was true, The Beatles would have to be considered talentless. And They wrote and performed beautiful, exciting and very interesting music. Pop music that was nowhere near of being talentless. "Elenor rigby" could be considered very simple and whatever you might say. Still, it required of a lot of talent to make it that enjoyable. The same I could say about dozens of pop songs of the 80´s which I love.

Pop and prog are just different, and they are consumed in different ways. Both enjoyable as they are and for what they are. Some of us may find more pleasure listening to music when it is prog, but that doesn´t necesarily make the music better. Better for what?. Would a christmas song be crap just for not being Prog?. Would you sing "Locomotive Breath" in front of the neighbor´s door. ?