Artist – Album: Coldplay -
Parachutes
Released: 10th July
2000
Sounds Like: You know how I
know you’re gay? You like Coldplay.
As Coldplay have spent the years since Parachutes simultaneously
becoming more bloated and banal, it’s easy to forget just how refreshing and
accomplished their debut album was. Like Steve Martin or Liverpool FC before
them, they have descended into some kind of mega-money but soulless, popular
but ultimately much more shit version of their former selves.
But Parachutes is great. ‘Don’t Panic’ shuffles in, almost
too timid to enter the room fully, before breaking out of its shell with the
bold chorus of “we live in a beautiful world”, ‘Shiver’ races along
its glorious indie-rock soundtrack, bursting out its seams in joyous adoration.
‘Spies’ is hushed and sombre, whilst ‘Sparks’ is a
gorgeous, gentle love song. And then there’s ‘Yellow’, their
breakthrough hit for fans of blue-eyed indie-soul and ‘Trouble’, the
one for adherents of darker, more paranoid music. The album has got more hits
than a useless boxer.
Of course, as successful as they have always been, Coldplay have never
been near to cool. Chris Martin looked unfortunately similar to Napoleon
Dynamite and lyrics like those on ‘Everything’s Not Lost’ in his
choir boy vocals hardly endeared his band to the stylish contingent. Subsequent
stadium rock ubiquity, Bono-esque douchebagness and bully-friendly child naming
(Apple! It’s an iMartin!), haven’t helped matters, but I truly and honestly
believe that their debut album is terrific. And I don’t care if you never read
my blog again (No! Please don’t go!)
Albumaday... rating:
8/10
1. Don’t
Panic – 2:17
2. Shiver
– 4:59
3. Spies
– 5:18
4. Sparks
– 3:47
5. Yellow
– 4:29
6. Trouble
– 4:30
7. Parachutes
– 0:46
8. High
Speed – 4:14
9. We
Never Change – 4:09
10. Everything’s
Not Lost – 7:15
Listen to ‘Sparks’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx-K3Il3s_o
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1964: The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night
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2006: Guillemots – Through the Window Pane
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