Coldplay - Parachutes
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Free Music Notes for Parachutes
Free Music Review: The Beautiful Life
Hit: 5 Stars
When I first listened to this album in its entirety, I was at my friend's lakeside cottage in upstate New York. On the most beautiful day of the summer so far and with no one else around, we flung all the windows open and turned the stereo up way loud so we could still hear it when we were out in the canoe in the middle of the lake. Coldplay's "Parachutes" plays much like the soundtrack to a beautiful life. Melancholy at times, hopeful at others, Chris Martin's voice throughout is the sound of a beautifully wounded human being searching through the remains of what good in the world might be left for the taking. Songs that are this lyrical, a la Radiohead and Sarah McLachlan as two examples, sometimes tend to be remiss in offering a real rhythm that you feel you can move to. Coldplay reconciles more successfully than most bands in its genre both mood and melody to create one of those albums that can be played from beginning to end without having to skip over any of the tracks. Martin's voice has the same lingering quality of Dave Matthews' without some its strength, and in conjunction with haunting guitars and deliberately tense percussion, it streams throughout touching songs that fit almost any mood. When life is good, this is the type of record that will make you smile spontaneously for no apparent good reason as you're driving home. On those rainy days, "Parachutes" delivers the perfect brooding kind of setting to satisfy more needfully depressive tendencies. Come bedtime, I cannot think of anything more delicate and soothing to put me to sleep.
If you've ever listened to Radiohead and wished they had a little more rhythm, or if you've listened to Travis and wished they had a little more soul, or if you've listened to "Yellow" and thought that THAT was the best song ever sung, then give all of "Parachutes" a listen. Perhaps the most poignant message of the entire album comes in the opening track in which comes the prevalent confession that "we live in a beautiful world." Beyond this, the rest of the record stands to prove that despite the pains of unrequited love and rejection, we have everything to be grateful for in this silly little life.
Free Music Review: Yes, Oh Yes
Hit: 5 Stars
Coldplay is an excellent band. This album,"Parachutes", is just perfect. It's a nice clean cd that you can just chill to and relate to any time you fill like just laying back. Their words and music flows perfectly together and just blends through ~ next song to the next. Parachutes is a good name for the way this album moves. 1. It starts off with a song titled "Don't Panic" which is a great one to start the story off. It softly plays with a acoustic guitar in the background. Then with its' foot beating beat kicks off with Chris' deep taking his time voice. The song flows into "We live in a beautiful world." The song moves where with all the different soothing sounds you can get lost in it.
2. The next is more up to beat where after the last you just want to move with it. This one is titled "Shiver." Believe me chris' high going voice with the jammen guitar is enough to really fall in love with. Got to love that up to beat drummer in the back.
3. "Spies" is another softer song that as a great story. The story alone is just great. It takes you down a crying road then all of a sudden climaxes to a good ending you were not expecting putting a smile on your face. The music is a sad that sound with a high pitch guitar coming in with it and of course Chris' voice is perfectly added to the mix. This is indeed on of my favorites.
4. "Sparks" is another love song that just is so cool sounden! The bass is here is greatness it just ties everything together. The guitar gently keeps its beat with the small smashing of simbuls in the back. Then a great sound of another soft guitar plays in and out.
5. Then "Yellow" probably most up to beat one. You probably heard it for it was popular. If you haven't listen to it it's great the soft going group of voices with guitar jam.
1,000 word maximum! crap! Any way a whole page wouldn't do for this cd. Trouble is sad and has one of the best story lines for a song I ever heard. Music wise... One of the best! From there it flows on and on like a never ending dream. ( NOTE: IF JIM CARRY LISTENS TO THIS STUFF...) -its cool sounding music-
Free Music Review: Golden 'Parachutes'
Hit: 5 Stars
Finally, the new century is getting interesting. Not only do we have TravisÕ anodyne "The Invisible Man" from earlier this year, but now, cut from a slightly different patch in the same bolt, comes ColdplayÕs debut, the peerless "Parachutes." Comparisons have already been drawn to other artists, including Radiohead, the Verve and even Jeff Buckley, and although the Coldplay sound easily dovetails with that of these venerable musicians, the band is more than the sum of its influences. Coldplay is staking out a territory of its own, imbued with honesty and earnestness. The start of a movement? Call it the New Sincerity. In an interview with Melody Maker, singer Chris Martin characterized his band and his music as embodying aspects of "brightness and hope and devotion." Genuine sentiments, which might make him appear a little out of place here in whine2K. "Parachutes" is an album full of light and lilting melodies, songs as sweet as they are sweeping. Let yourself be carried away by the ethereal "DonÕt Panic," in which Martin Ð backed by the swirling guitars of Jonny Buckland and the pulsing beat of Will Champion Ð reminds us that "we live in a beautiful world." With their high, haunting vocals, both "Shiver" and "Spies," tunes in which BuckleyÕs ghost is most clearly evident, embed themselves deeply in your memory Ð but not until after several listens, much like the rest of Parachutes. Perhaps this is due to the albumÕs unprepossessing qualities, something thatÕs also resoundingly absent in the overwrought Õ00s. Subtlety? WhatÕs that? Find out here. Queue up "Yellow," and be double dipped in what has to be most delicious melody since TravisÕ "Why Does It Always Rain on Me." Clearly, Coldplay is unafraid to be understated, delicate even. But that doesnÕt mean they are wimps or are devoid of darker shades. "Our music has moods," Martin told Melody Maker. "But thereÕs often a load of optimism in there." Imagine someone in his early 20s openly talking about, of all things, optimism. Amazing! Just like Coldplay.Free Music Review: I was *so* wrong about this CD. And it brings me great joy to be!
Hit: 5 Stars
It's very, very mellow.
Anyway, at first, none of the songs really stood out...
But flash forward 7-8 months, and this is quite a nice, relaxing, and very, very soothing alternative CD.
And Chris Martin's voice for the most part, fits right in!
My favorite songs are:
Spies (great underrated lyrics I never understood till now)
Don't Panic
High Speed
Sparks
Trouble (nice piano)
I now own all 3 of Coldplay's albums. I think that this album is there very, very best, and they expanded their sound, to reach the masses with A Rush of Blood to the Head. It was nearly as good, but less unique than this CD. X&Y was most definitely the weakest link.
But all of the CDs have at least 4 inspiring tracks on them.
I really like the upbeat numbers that they do; Clocks, Daylight, Speed Of Sound, Fix You and Square One are amongst my favorites!
This CD should be owned by most alternative music fans. As a MATTER OF FACT, do your friend a favor, and spread some love this Christmas by buying them this! They will love its mellow and calming vibe. It's in-describe-able!! Seriously. It's so lovely, that I'm at a BIG loss of words.
I don't know if I've said this already, but when I initially purchased this from Best Buy for 13 bucks, and got it home, I was thinking, "This doesn't stand out much."
But these days, it's definitely one of THE BEST alternative CD I own. It's perfection. You know they've found something special when the skit on the album perfectly blends into the next song.
So if You've had a hard day at work, kick off your shoes and socks, turn the damn phone OFF, and pop this into your CD/DVD player. Smoke something nice, get a cappuccino, and just L-I-S-T-E-N. Most of all, R-E-L-A-X.
I have no regrets buying this one.
5 stars.
Free Music Review: Sentimental Angst
Hit: 5 Stars
We have perhaps become so used to the angst ridden madness of Radiohead, the drug-induced space journeys of the Verve and Spiritualized, or even the Beatles rip-off meanderings of Oasis, that we have become numb to sentimentality unless it comes from the cliche canned sounds of boy bands and teenage girls dressing like porno stars.Then comes the wonderful sounds of Coldplay. A well-crafted assemblage of tunes from the UK possesses much of the characteristic existential crises from their contemporaries, yet at the same time they manage to soften the blow with a certain accessibility that refreshes in ints intelligent execution. Bookended by the somewhat sarcastic yet still sincere words of "Beautiful World" and the mantra of "Everythings Not Lost" at the end, we can feel connected to this band. There are emotions of loss and even giddyness in love, matched with "Trouble" and the anthem "High Speed" there is a level of honesty that we can empathize with and understand. There is a journey to take here. But it is one that we have been on at some point in our lives, not one that we need to translate or puzzle over its meaning.
Yet, like their contemporaries, they pull all of this off with the same fluid songwriting and melodic play of guitar melodies that flow like cool water and a warm voice makes us yearn to be in the same smoke-filled pub, getting pissed with a few of our finest friends on a dark and rainy Scottish night.
The drawbacks are that the album does not last long enough for us to get even a buzz. And there is a little clarity lost in the production, like technology got in the way of a very live experience. But they are not to be faulted for sounding a little rough. It makes us breathe a sigh of relief that here is a new band writing music that means something to them - that it came from the experience of touring and playing in front of countless audiences before delivering the goods to an over-produced American economy and audience. But thank God for America that with such fresh recordings as this everthing's not lost...