Coldplay and Travis are shit - Change my mind.

[Boris Sprinkler]

There's a workaround for this:

1) Throw all your apple shit in the fucking bin
2) Live happily ever after

Im well aware of the actual matrix. But I don’t buy new phones and I got an old iPhone with headphone Jack so I can take tunes with me without streaming and beaming my location.
I would like an old mp3 player but I have to keep hunting.

 

[liquidindian]

When I saw this I assumed it was a thread from a decade ago, resurrected. Very retro.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Last Broadcast is an amazing album. I wouldn't class them alongside any of these bands tbf.

Dug it out recently for the first time in ages. Still absolutely holds up.

 

[krtek a houby]

Forgot to add step 1a) set the bin on fire then set the fire on more fire.

Unforgettable

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I enjoyed this film

 

[stavros]

And if no one is looking, I'll gladly kick the sterophonics over the edge too. Fuck 'em all off for good, ta.

Shite as they were/are, I wouldn't put the Stereophonics in the same category as the other bands discussed here. They were rockier, and more uptempo.

I guess "white British/Irish blokes with guitars" get classified together if they're around at the same time. Witness the Roses and the Mondays, who really sounded nothing like one another, and what was classed as Britpop, ranging from Oasis and Ocean Colour Scene to Radiohead and Spiritualized.

 

[jontz01]

They had their fair share of an air of soft bland ballad tripe. They tried to rock it like the others, but eventually got kicked into the pit of shit. And that's how it is.

 

[xenon]

Travis are just beige Indy dreck
Coldplay are similar but with more pianos and catchy hooks. Some nice drum parts. Is it 2003 again by the way?

 

[wtfftw]

Enter Embrace, another band that rankled my gears. I wonder if Coldplay took any influence

I detested Embrace as well but then they supported some other band I saw live and they surprisingly were not shit. I still wouldn't willingly listen to them mind.

 

[xenon]

Why are Coldplay so much more successful than Travis, or indeed the others that would have fallen under Alan McGee's "music for bedwetters" category? I'm thinking Starsailor, as well as the aforementioned Keane and Embrace.

Because a lot of people like middle of the road boring toss.

 

[xenon]

I still have the free Coldplay mp3s they downloaded on to all our iTunes 14 years ago with no consent.
So if I have my tunes on shuffle I sometimes get Coldplay. Which can make me say “what da faaark”.

Never forget.

I had that U2 album. I deleted it of course. The only same thing to do. it doesn’t come back once you delete it. Unless you use iTunes on the PC which is just masochism.

 

[xenon]

I’m not sure if I haven’t seen Travis live, by accident. On the same bill as supernaturals, real people, something like that. Forgettable rubbish. I was there to see Paul Weller and you’ve got all this other stuff first.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I have a 12 year old MacBook. I had some MP3’s in the iTunes. I have deleted the U2 ones and forgotten about that, war is a good album.
But I want to be reminded that Coldplay did that. So I guess masochism is involved somehow.

 

[krtek a houby]

I have a 12 year old MacBook. I had some MP3’s in the iTunes. I have deleted the U2 ones and forgotten about that, war is a good album.
But I want to be reminded that Coldplay did that. So I guess masochism is involved somehow.

Apart from October and Rattle & Hum, U2 have a good run up to, and including Passengers　　

 

[RedRedRose]

I won't hear a good word said about U2.

Please stop.

 

[Kaka Tim]

dire then, dire now. utterly beige, bland toss for people who want thier music to be .... "nice".

the appeal of their music reminds of the oscar wilde gem -
"a sentimentalist is someone who wants the pleasure of real emotion, but doesnt want to pay for it"

 

[liquidindian]

The older I get the more I think a big part of growing up is realising that certain things just aren't for you and that's okay.

Do you really want everyone to stop buying tickets for, say, The Thrills and driving up the cost of your free jazz gigs or whatever? No you don't.

 

[hitmouse]

When I saw this I assumed it was a thread from a decade ago, resurrected. Very retro.

I had the same thing, a weird moment of dissonance where I thought "this is clearly an old thread from 2005 that someone's bumped, but the "change my mind" meme format would not become popularised by that youtube arsehole until many years later, I suppose it must just be an odd coincidence that OP chose that wording in 2005?"

 

[Kaka Tim]

The older I get the more I think a big part of growing up is realising that certain things just aren't for you and that's okay.

Do you really want everyone to stop buying tickets for, say, The Thrills and driving up the cost of your free jazz gigs or whatever? No you don't.

Don't get me started on free jazz

 

[hitmouse]

Don't get me started on free jazz

Well, at least it's better than actually asking people to pay for jazz.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

If you go back and read the original column in the paper it reads pretty wet itself...

 

[ska invita]

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.

Chris Martin's mum snares badgers

 

[liquidindian]

Don't get me started on free jazz

Don't worry, I wouldn't be able to count you in what with the irregular tempo.

 

[hitmouse]

Well, at least it's better than actually asking people to pay for jazz.

Getting a lot of angry reactions to this post, nice to see that so many people immediately get angry when they think about jazz.

 

[krtek a houby]

There's two types of music fans
Those who love jazz, and those who watched The Fast Show

 

[danny la rouge]

There's two types of music fans
Those who love jazz, and those who watched The Fast Show

John Thomson is in fact himself a jazz fan.

 

[ska invita]

There's two types of music fans
Those who love jazz, and those who watched The Fast Show

there was a documentary about whatever the current uk jazz revival was being talked about then, around 2010 I think, and one of the talking heads mentioned how much damage the fast show had done!

 

[skyscraper101]

If you go back and read the original column in the paper it reads pretty wet itself...

McGee is bellend who thought the arsoning of a warehouse during the London riots was 'funny' because it contained a lot of shit records. Or words to that effect.

 

[krtek a houby]

John Thomson is in fact himself a jazz fan.

Nice

 

[hitmouse]

there was a documentary about whatever the current uk jazz revival was being talked about then, around 2010 I think, and one of the talking heads mentioned how much damage the fast show had done!

Why were they asking Tina Weymouth about the 2010 UK jazz scene anyway?