Coldplay

Boy ¡¡. that piano and drum intro in "Clocks" is pure prog ¡¡. Yes, Coldplay must be in this site ¡¡¡

...You see ?...Please stop wondering what should be prog or not. When something is prog it sounds and feels as progressive rock, not like anything else.

 For that reason we have all these Canterbury movement bands all around with their flat classic rock music making me feel I still have too much to listen to about prog. Then when I finally get them, I feel like I´ve lost time looking for them.

 What is Queen doing in this site?, Queen II has a small song near the end with some little details that could belong to a standard prog album. So what?. Having Queen in this site just turns them from a great Rock pop band, into a mediocre prog band. Something worse would happen to Coldplay and many others if they were considered prog. 

Edited by eduardossc

Absolutely not. But, I do think they're a great band!

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..

I like Coldplay, good band...but they shouldnt be here....

But then, neither should Radiohead, Opeth, voivod...etc etc...

Coldplay's use of keyboards certainly out progs Radiohead.

Oh, wait, Black sabbath and Venom, they are two that should be here also...

Death metal? Long songs? concept albums...yep Venom has em all.

Actually for that matter, so does Elton John and Chicago...

Anyone get my point yet?

Coldplay should NOT be added to any prog site!!!

They're a decent POP rock band, though.

Yeah, I'm an honest person.

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

Why is everyon comparing them to Radiohead? They seem more like Travis to me, which is equally average and boring.

BTW: Does anyone of you know The Electric Soft Pared - The American Adventure? THAT's a good example of what interesting British pop can be like!

Edited by MikeEnRegalia

Not a chance...Coldplay define the term 'overrated'; in the UK at least, you can't move for someone trying to ram down your throat how 'brilliant' and 'amazing' their albums are. I can't see it at all- to me it's just dull, post Radiohead indie.

The difference between Radiohead and Coldplay is that Radiohead are anything but formulaic, and are constantly innovating new sounds- Coldplay are not. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody said 'where are Keane on this site' just because they have keyboards and 'sound like Radiohead'...

NO

Borealis wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Borealis recently said that SOAD was for 13 year old kids ... doesn't make sense to me, neither with SOAD nor Coldplay. That really affected you, right? Well, actually, just to make a statement, I do not says that system of a down or coldplay (Although I do not remember saying anything about coldplay being for 13 year old kids...) is MADE for kids, but no matter what the intention is, it IS people from 13-16 year old mainly who listen to them. The music industry (MTV, etc...) probably aim these ages as a public with Soad. I am 16, and all I hear is people listening to system of a down, so there is on megadeth, metallica and iron maiden. My sister, who is 13, says that everyone listen to system of a down (even a lot of girl, to impress boys probably) because they says it's 'cool'. I don't know what where the intention of soad, but that are the results...

It didn't affect me at all ... and you said that, didn't you? Anyway, I can only say that the 13-15 year old kids that I know don't like SOAD. And certainly not Coldplay. But German kids are surely different ... they can't understand the lyrics, to start with.