Coldplay and Travis are shit - Change my mind.
- Thread starter savoloysam
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bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Why?
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
Because you lied when you were 17.
Cid
Proper break this time
It's ok if you like them savoloysam .
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Coldplay's first two albums are ok, cant remember much Travis stuff.
Is it really important at this stage?
Is it really important at this stage?
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
I've heard it said that (above a certain level of basic competence, obvs) there is no such thing as bad music, just different taste.
Let it go.
Let it go.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
I do love arguing about music though.
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
Once when trawling through the CDs in Oxfam where every album was priced between Ā£3 and Ā£5 I found a Travis album priced at Ā£1.
The prosecution rests your honor.
The prosecution rests your honor.
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Funnily enough years ago I found a Coldplay CD in Oxfam for Ā£1 and bought it because I'd heard of them but never heard them, iyswim.
I played it once.
Never knowingly heard Travis. When I google Travis the first result is a builders merchant.
Ah, Ming to the rescue!
I played it once.
Never knowingly heard Travis. When I google Travis the first result is a builders merchant.
Ah, Ming to the rescue!
bcuster
Well-Known Member
Not too good
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Bought Sly & The Family Stone "Life", Bowie "Aladdin Sane", White Stripes "De Stijl" and a rake of other albums recently for the equivalent of 35p to a 1.40 per CD.
RedRedRose
Well-Known Member
First Colplay album was great.
Travis are largely inoffensive, with the occasional decent tune.
Travis are largely inoffensive, with the occasional decent tune.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
Best charity find i ever got was AC/DCās first album on Australian import with a load of new tracks And the original cover for 3 quid.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Only ever owned one of their albums (on cassette!) about 40 years ago - For Those About to Rock. Cost something like 6.49 punts from Golden Discs...
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
Back when everything was mundane.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Nothing against Travis. It's not exactly groundbreaking stuff but they're nice lads with nice songs and there's nothing wrong with that.
Coldplay, they seemed like nice lads with nice songs for a minute but then the singer vanished up his own arsehole and they completely forgot what a tune is. That song 'fix you' was the point of no return. It was a lifeless dirge with the definitive 'nice guy friendzone misogynist' lyric, sung woefully off key. And it was a massive hit. They took that misplaced positive reinforcement and ran with it, ending up producing music that feels like you're having room-temperature grey paint siphoned into your ears.
Coldplay, they seemed like nice lads with nice songs for a minute but then the singer vanished up his own arsehole and they completely forgot what a tune is. That song 'fix you' was the point of no return. It was a lifeless dirge with the definitive 'nice guy friendzone misogynist' lyric, sung woefully off key. And it was a massive hit. They took that misplaced positive reinforcement and ran with it, ending up producing music that feels like you're having room-temperature grey paint siphoned into your ears.
and they fucking ripped off Kraftwerk.
and they thought they were being clever by putting anti-piracy protection on one of their cds (if I remember correctly). Little did they know about the charity shop sale sections at that time.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
This isn't a great tune.
I gave it a listen as I didn't want to be unthinkingly judgemental. I'm always open to discovering new sounds I've dismissed in the past, old enough now not to care about any subcultural nonsense about what I should like. Maybe 20 years after it came out I might have found this stuff was missfiled in my brain based on preconcieved notions that don't hold up.
But no. The only emotion it inspired in me was annoyance. It drifts along looking to pull on heartstrings that I guess I don't have. I could feel myself physically cringing at his voice.
But that's fine. I'm sure I love thousands of songs that would cause other people to dive for the off button.
I was forced to watch Chris Martin from Coldplay at a festival I was working at once, singing at a piano. That's one of the worst performances I've ever had to endure as he smugly sat there emoting as he tinkled on the piano. If I hadn't been contractualy required to be there I'd have run far, far away.
Keane are the band out of this bunch of acts that I have a soft spot for. Not because I like them or their terrible fucking music or anything to do with the band but because of Tim Rice-Oxley's mum. I spent much of the 00s working with disabled people in West Sussex and Dr Rice-Oxley was a legend amongst people with MS. I never met her, but the devotion she inspired in the people with MS I worked with was awe inspiring. She was a physician in consultant rehabilitation medicine at Western Sussex Hospital Trust. Everyone who saw her talked about her as the greatest Doctor they'd ever met. One of the people I worked with spoke about her a great deal and mentioned her son was in a band. I think the the happiness she inspired in all those people has somehow rubbed off into my mental conception of her son's band, because sure as shit I have no emotional investment in anything Keane themselves did.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Tbf, Kraftwerk have been borrowed by numerous artists. Esp in hip-hop. Probably one of the most influential bands ever.
Of course, but it's fine if the artists are credible, Coldplay aren't.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Kraftwerk did give permission for them to rip off the song though.
True.
