.Coldplay's 'Parachutes' turns 20 today. We remember how this quiet, pretty avalanche of an album turned them into international rock stars:
. They’ve joined the ranks of Nickelback and Creed as bands that even the average person knows they’re supposed to hate. But that reputation aside, Coldplay made some of the greatest albums of the 2000s, beginning with their softest, most melancholic recordThe band, led by a then-curly-haired Chris Martin, formed at University College London in the late ’90s and originally went by the name Starfish.
.” Its noisy Radiohead-esque bluster was rambunctious, and it’s easily the closest they ever came to sounding like a punk band. Their first, more formal release was a demos EP called. Much like “Ode To Deodorant,” its melodies and guitar dissonance recall a rougher version of, but it’s far mopier—almost morbid.
2000 was a good year for hyper-melodic and gloomy. Badly Drawn Boy released his Mercury Prize-winning debut, Grandaddy dropped their dejected concept albumand the king of those two aforementioned adjectives himself, Elliott Smith, released. Coldplay would soon join these names with their own LP—though they went on to sell far more copies than any of those great albums.was released on July 10, 2000, and it was the first major stepping stone for the soon-to-be stadium rock band.
Despite the forlorn aura of “Yellow,” it’s actually one of the more uplifting tracks on the album. Before reassuring us that “we live in a beautiful world,” Martin mourns the fate of humanity on the opening tune “Don’t Panic”: “All of us are done for.” Later comes “Spies”—a paranoid track with sinister slide guitar about trying to evade one’s demons—followed by “Sparks” and “Trouble,” two love songs far too downcast to listen to in public due to the risk of tears.
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