EssexTex wrote: 
'Tex, I can never figure out what you really mean ... get to the point.

Maybe just me, but Coldplay just don't do it for me.

Only 2-3 minutes more - not the end of the world - time to put another load of laundry...

so unoriginal.. so insipid

Let the daily Coldplay bashing begin.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Is this over yet?

 sirdroseph wrote:  
 Well, at least you got something out of them.  I hear nothing but some sniveling ninny with sinus congestion.

 tutakea wrote: 

NO!

 EssexTex wrote: 

 hunthunthunt wrote: 
It's you.

Is it just me, or is this track played at least once an hour?

Prancing bunch of cocks

Normally, I´m not TOO overwhelmed with Coldplay, to put it mildly. This song, however, is kind of a gem. Doesn´t anybody recognize the stunning early-Genesis-like synth/organ-sound. Retro emo-prog?

Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost

Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't mean I'm hurt

Love those lines.

Although I do like Coldplay, sometimes they feel a little overly...mmmm....consistent. A few of their songs jump out, though, and this is one of them. 8.

Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I would cross

Just because I'm hurting
Doesn't mean I'm hurt
Doesn't mean I didn't get
What I deserved
No better and no worse

I just got lost
Every river that I tried to cross
Every door I ever tried was locked
Ohhh and I'm...
Just waiting 'til the shine wears off

You might be a big fish
In a little pond
Doesn't mean you've won
'Cause a long may come
A bigger one

And you'll be lost
Every river that you tried to cross
Every gun you ever held went off
Ohhh and I'm...
Just waiting until the firing stopped
Ohhh and I'm...
Just waiting 'til the shine wears off

(piano solo)

Ohhh and I...
Just waiting 'til the shine wears off
Ohhh and I..
Just waiting 'til the shine wears off

 xkolibuul wrote: 
Brave opinion to voice on RP!  Supertramp had one solid album; ELO now sounds a tad dated.  Saw Supertramp in Calgary, Alberta in the mid-1970s.  Too many screaming teenagers.....   yuck.

Every time I hear this song come on, I think, "Blue Oyster Cult? Here?"  Veteran of the Psychic Wars

 xkolibuul wrote: 


Gonna quote this for posterity.

Best song of this album, which is really a disappointment IMHO.  Glad to hear something different by them — they're just SOOOO overplayed.

good percussion ... underneath...on the bottom....almost missed it.

Take a look at the playlists for ELO, Supertramp, and Coldplay on RP, and then try again on your comparison.  Not even close.

Or to put it less subtly:  Coldplay is one of the superior bands of this decade.  ELO and Supertramp were hacks.  

 gutboy wrote: 

One of the very few Coldplay songs I enjoy...

messy

These guys seem to have come up with a formula for hitmaking, not ulike ELO and Supertramp did.
IMO they keep recycling the same old thing over and over.
They were boring, and Coldplay is boring. The shame is I think they all are gifted musicians who can do better. Come on guys, live like lions, try something new!

 westslope wrote: 

Yeah, I nosed around the 'Net last week in an attempt to discover why. My guess is that the detractors have seen them on TV, etc., where Chris Martin really put people off... kind of like Gwen Stefani at her first Grammys show years ago, I'm guessing.

Since I don't watch commercial TV, I've not been exposed to any of this, thankfully. I just listen to the music and decide if I like it...or not. I really like tracks from Parachutes, a few off X-Y, and a couple off of this CD. Yeah, the group isn't sonically adventurous and may be a bit formulaic, but then the same could be said of the Doves, a group that hasn't let me down yet.

 superfido wrote: 
You're wrong - it moves ME. Love the ambient nature and gradual build-up. Just a gorgeous track.

Great melody, good execution, moving overall. 9

I find Coldplay peculiar in the fact that even if i string together a bunch of there songs i like individually i find it hard to take them bunched together.  That doesn't go well for me and coldplay because i tend to listen to albums when not listening to RP.  I'd also have to say that as far as individual tracks go this one isn't one that tickles me.