Coldplay - Parachutes
|
List Price: Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $5.99 (33%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $4.41 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Parachutes
Free Music Review: A slow start, but a decent start nonetheless.
Hit: 3 Stars
Coldplay's debut album, while a fairly decent listen itself, was barely a glimpse of what the band would later prove to be capable of. There are a handful of good tracks, like "Yellow", "Trouble", "Shiver", etc, but overall the album is rather plodding and monotonous. The band's second album, "A Rush of Blood to the Head", was a huge step forward, with much stronger melodies/songwriting, and more diversity, and the third album, "X&Y", was another leap forward still. Furthermore, the band put on an incredible performance on "Austin City Limits", proving once again that they just get better and better.
For high quality melodic rock, I recommend either of the other two albums over this one, but this is still worth the purchase for sure. Not bad, but it only gets better from here.
Free Music Review: coldplay at their best
Hit: 5 Stars
Many people say that a rush of blood to the head is coldplay's best album,but i disagree.While AROBTTH was great and freshly diferent parachutes is just brillant.For their first album coldplay show remarkable maturity their are no bad songs on this album.Unlike AROBTTH and x&y.I think this album rivals the bends and OK computer.It takes a while to get used to radioheads albums(OK computer does anyway),but with parachutes you can sit down and listen to it from start to finish.Don't panic is a smooth easy to listen rock song.Shiver is one the great coldplay love songs.Spies is a great little melody with martins voice haunting and fortelling with such doom and gloom you can't help feeling sad yet the hope is there during the whole song telling us that its ok.Sparks is a great love song a great prelude to the highlight of the album yellow.It is a well written song and one I regard as the greatest song coldplay have ever preformed.Trouble is fantastic and martin on the piano is super.Parachutes is short & sweet.High speed is a nice song as is we never change.Everythings not lost is a song of hope and rising from the brink of nothing and is great.Free Music Review: Better than A Rush...(Maybe) 4.5
Hit: 5 Stars
In the beginning I thought A Rush of Blood To the Head was a better album than Parachutes. Now I believe Parachutes is better. It meets my requirement for a great album: every song is listenable and ranges from good to VERY good, while Rush...has a couple of duds which lessens the overall effect of the album even though it holds many of Coldplay's STRONGER songs.
No, I don't like all of the songs to the same degree, but this is a very consistent album with great romantic songs.
Don't Panic-short and beautiful, but not sure the lyrics are accurate with the world we live in now. Matter of fact, has the world EVER been beautiful? Yes, before people existed. Anyway, my 2nd favorite. 5/5
Shiver-this is a song I usually skip, but when I listen to the album in its entirety I recognize it has some quality. 3/5
Spies-a weird song, but good nonetheless.4/5
Sparks-my favorite on this album. It's indescribable. 5/5
Yellow-the hit from the record, and in my Top 4. 5/5
Trouble-my 3rd favorite, yet probably the best song on the album as far as depth, emotion, music, and lyrics. 5/5
Parachutes-Only 46 seconds, but nice. 4/5
High Speed-here Chris Martin sounds un-Chris Martin-like. You can tell this was one of Coldplay's earlier songs: one of the songs before Martin adopted his "high" voice. 3.5/5
We Never Change-an emotional song that pulls at your heartstrings. 5/5
Everything's Not Lost-another good sad one. 4/5
Hidden track: another short one, but the lyrics are meaningful. 4/5
Free Music Review: Coldplay's Best
Hit: 4 Stars
Having listened to both this album and X&Y, overall, this is the better album. X&Y contains my all time favorite Coldplay song, Speed of Sound. But that's basically the only song on that album I could really get into. This album, for some reason, was different. The tracks just seemed to flow more. Shiver, Yellow, and High Speed were three of the best, and Everything's Not Lost was a great way to close the album, although I wonder why the last two minutes were quite necessary, I thought it detracted from the song. Overall, though, this is better than X&Y by far.Free Music Review: Smooth, Mellow and Emotional Alternative Pop
Hit: 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!