Coldplay - Parachutes
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Artist: ColdplayBrand: COLDPLAY
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Don't Panic
- Shiver
- Spies
- Sparks
- Yellow
- Trouble
- Parachutes
- High Speed
- We Never Change
- Everything's Not Lost
Music reviews of Parachutes
Music Review: Smooth, Mellow and Emotional Alternative Pop
Rating: 5 Stars
Rarely have I seen such controversy in reviews over one artist. What is more amazing is that much of the controversy has to do with the genre of the group rather than quality or style of the music. The music on this CD is interesting and enjoyable, especially if you like Coldplay and "Parachutes" or not. Coldplay is listed as alternative, but alternative has pop variations and I would classify this music generally as pop or perhaps pop-alternative. That this music appears on the Hot 100 and Adult Top 40 charts would seem to confirm the tendency toward pop. I also think this CD has a grunge feel to it as well. If you feel a need to become argumentative about whether Coldplay is pop, grunge or alternative, I would say you have too much time on your hands.
This CD opens with a song that reminds me a lot of the Cranberries' early music. "Don't Panic" is just a tight little song that sounds as though it should be five minutes long rather than a bit more than two minutes. The song has a great refrain and catchy music that makes you beg for more; a very nice opening song on this 2000 debut CD.
The mellow and melancholy continues with "Shiver." There is a catchy guitar hook in this song that is used sufficiently sparingly that I kept hoping to hear it again. This love song has some high vocals and a slightly heavy beat. The pace also speeds up during portions of the song. I enjoy this song, which was released as a single and hit #26 in the U.S. on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, but I think this CD contains even better music.
I enjoy the third song a lot. "Spies" has paranoia and melancholy and will be a perfect soundtrack song when someone gets around to recognizing the fact. The vocals on this song are excellent, and the music is very competently supportive. I must admit that this combination of vocals and music I have enjoyed from other artists, so I am partial to this song regardless of its other attributes.
The slow, heavy "Sparks" is a bit too ponderous to be one of my favorites. The song is bluesy and melancholy, but I prefer the lighter tracks over this one. The music is nice and easy, and I could have listened to this track without the vocals.
The song "Yellow" has received a good amount of airplay, and reached #6 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. I like the honesty of this love song, and the often surreal feeling we sometimes have when we are so in love that we are unable to describe the feelings of love. The song is so sincere and heartfelt that it can send shivers down my spine. I love a well-executed love song, and this one verges on being a great rock love song.
Coldplay ventures into territory executed well by but a few artists as they center "Trouble" on a piano. Here is a song that could easily have been at home with several artists, including Billy Joel, Elton John and Dan Fogelberg. The vocals are what set this song apart from those other artists. The song is bluesy and emotional and melancholy, and the singer brings you into his world of regret and desire and moments lost in a "web for me."
"Parachutes" is very short, less than one minute, and is almost an intermission between the first and second halves of the CD. The song is all acoustic and very mellow. I must admit to being clueless as to where the word "parachute" fits into this song, but maybe I am getting too old to understand some poetic allusions.
Remember earlier in this review when I talked about genres? The song "High Speed" kicks straight into alternative, and even has moments of progressive. The introduction to this song is mellow within the context of this album, but the ethereal elements, the guitar chords and synthesizer are marvelously innovative and clever. The lyrics seem to refer to the pace of our lives and our often frequent feeling that we are not in control of how fast we slide down the slippery slope. The song alternates between mellow moments and more dramatic moments with some semi-power vocals that make this song quite unlike any other song on this CD. I suppose you can tell I really like this song.
Keeping in topic with the previous song is "We Never Change." The lyrics of this song express a desire to live simply. The line "I wanna live where the sun comes out" expresses to me the desire to live in the country, assuming that either tall buildings or pollution obscures the sun in a large city. The languid pace of the song also implies a bucolic setting. This song is almost too slow, and near the end I thought it struggled to finish out.
The final song on this CD is the longest on this CD, clocking in at over seven minutes. This song is morosely sung, and yet the words are modestly hopeful. The music is relatively simple and catchy. The instruments provide musical accents rather than overwhelming the song. There are moments when the music verges on progressive, and yet resists the temptation to slide across the boundary. This song also contains marvelous blues elements and provides the album with a flavor quite different from the remainder of the music in the album.
Coldplay hit big with this debut release. The CD hit #1 in the UK and #2 in the U.S., and won the 2002 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. Three singles from this CD hit the charts in the U.S., and four singles hit the charts in the UK. By any measure Coldplay is a group that deserves your notice, particularly if you like good music, and most especially if you like mellow alternative, pop or blues. Enjoy!
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Music doesn't come more touching than this. With their debut single alone, the emotion-fortified "Shiver," Coldplay prove they can shift between elated and crushed in a breath, as singer Chris Martin pours out music's oldest chestnut (unconditional yet unrequited love) with the shakiest of voices and a backdrop of epic guitars. For 10 tracks on Parachutes, he adds newfound meaning to the most tired and overused rock sentiments--love found, love lost, love unrequited--over acoustic guitars and emotionally fraught rock. And for once, all the clichés ring true because Chris Martin genuinely sounds like a man picking over the bones of his life, coming up with just as many reasons to be cheerful as seriously depressed. Not that Parachutes is a depressing album--there's too much conviction to the guitars and hope in Martin's words for that. Instead it's a beautifully tender balance that comes as close to perfection as anything that's come before it. --Dan Gennoe
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