They are a safe pair of hands Coldplay, whether you like their music or not they do put on a good gig.
That's why they've headlined so many times - a safe choice that are always willing to do Glasto and are liked by a massive audience. I'm not a massive fan, but I can understand why a lot of people like them.
I can't. Didn't realise they were still popular with others either, in fact I thought they had generally become a bit of a joke. But then I am rather isolated from what "young" people today are into. About as un-Glastonbury a band as I can imagine but I suppose times really have changed. Did they do Yellow?
They don't do as much mopey ****e as they did before, they do more pop based stuff now, which is why they're popular again. They're a joke amongst people who have deeper tastes, so to speak, but amongst the average person, particularly around my age, loads love them. In a nutshell, they play catchy tunes now. Not necessarily good, but catchy. Like most of music released nowadays that goes in and around the charts. No idea if they played Yellow, I was watching LCD Soundsystem and just quickly had a look.
They did play Yellow. All the LED wristbands turned yellow for it, to give the non colour blind a clue.
Adele's not my cup of tea, but she's obviously a talented singer, I'm not sure why she feels the need to make the rest of her act into a **** Micky Flanagan impersonation. I can't stand Coldplay. I also thought New Order were fairly poor (though to be fair I only saw two songs).
People with deeper tastes? Would that include yourself? Average person? Would that be people with different tastes to your refined ones? Liked the description in the Guardian comments section of "Coldplay's bed-wetting music".
Hadn't seen it before, not having any interest in Coldplay. Wasn't the fact it was directed at them particularly as I don't have any opinions on their music, just thought it was an amusing description. The fact the writer put bed-wetting music inside inverted commas suggests he might have been acknowledging he was quoting someone else.
Yeah It was always applied to Travis and other shoe gazing student dirge that you could slowly release your bladder to and not even notice. It's a much used phase for bland indie blather. I do love how many people are trying to make excuses for liking the Coldplay act whilst trying to remain aloof and cool. I wouldn't listen to any of their stuff but happy to admit they know how to put on a show. This deeper tastes stuff is, as has been said, a clear way to appear pretentious and somehow right when it comes to your tastes. A real music fan isn't scared to admit they like something without checking the legitimacy of it first, by reference to their particular peer group.
Urban Dictionary - 'Bedwetter' A tribe of indie centred around the piano-centric stylings of Coldplay and various copyists, e.g. Snow Patrol, Athlete, Embrace, James Blunt, Starsailor, Travis. Named by that respected and affable pillar of the musical community that is Liam Gallagher, they are generally associated with sensitivity, scarves and limp wrists. December 05, 2005
Totally agree. Some people - in life rather than on this board I hasten to add - are scared to admit what they actually like at the risk of being uncool. My favourite band of all time is The Smiths but I have zero shame in admitting that I think 3 of the best songs (of the last however many years - 15?) are Biology by Girls Aloud, Freak Like Me by Sugarbabes and La Swift's Shake It Off and that they each piss all over the steaming turd pile of All For One.
Im pretty sure - nay 100% sure - that Mcgee publicly used it first and an impressionable Liam nicked it off him. edit - this article from 2000: http://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,347745,00.html
Another point of note...many great bands are ****e live. New order have a current problem: Bernard can't sing Many ****e bands are great live. Musical taste has to accept that and there are some groups I adore that I'd avoid at Glastonbury and just listen to the well produced album instead.
As I have written previously, as Duke Ellington said there are two kinds of music - good and bad. Which is which is a matter of opinion and subjective. Some people should just get on with listening to what they like and leave others to do the same, instead of analysing, dissecting and trying to reference everything to a genre or movement and coming out with pretentious crap about some band representing the zeitgeist of their times ( a phrase to quote another great musician, Count Basie, that stinks out the place and for which people using it should be battered round the head with a rolled up copy of an old Melody Maker). Those who indulge in all this analysis and comparisons remind of years ago when my kids were younger. Some bought Sega consoles and others Nintendo. They then spent more time justifying their choice and denigrating the choice of the others than actually playing on them.
Indeed. I have eclectic and refined taste in music. But when I want Kylie's Tears on my Pillow on, I want it on! It's not unlike fashion in general. It is aligned to confidence: you either lead by example or follow...
True. Back in the sixties I went to see the Kinks. They were awful. The following week the Nashville Teens, who were regulars at the time, put on a great show to 4,000 people, a lot of who wouldn't have admitted it. The original Manfred Mann with Paul Jones were brilliant live. Musically the Hollies, who were regarded as rather uncool,at the time, were excellent live. Don't know about the Stones and .Beatles as I couldn't hear a thing when I saw them, though the atmosphere was great, especially the Stones. Always liked Them but they could be hit and miss live. Never saw Roy Orbison live unfortunately but everyone I know who did said it was one of the best nights they have had musically, no fancy effects, hardly any movement, just someone stood there singing brilliant songs superbly.
