First Impression of Coldplay

MrMagpie · 05-01-2006, 11:02 PM

The first time I saw them was when they were doing a special presentation of Live 2003 on CBC here in Canada. It was advertised in TV guide and the picture of chris made him look like an old country singer. Just the way the lighting was, the black and white picture, and the pose. I thought I was in for a bad suprise. Turns out they were just O.K. and that song Yellow was pretty cool and same thing with clocks.

I taped it and a few weeks later I got really sick and I was just so down I didn't watch tv or anything but for some reason I kept watching the coldplay tape over and over. And now I love the band!

Anybody else have any interesting stories?

coldplay_steph · 05-01-2006, 11:06 PM

Nope. My first impression was "Who's this geek walking on a beach? This video is boring".

I was so young and stupid.

Then AROBTTH came along and it all changed.

crazyduckette · 05-01-2006, 11:11 PM

I remember watching the Yellow video and thinking there was 'something' bout Chris but I didnt fall into Coldplay that way. The main thing that got me into it was in about November 2002 when I did some work experience at a graphic design place and they played AROBTTH on a little cd player in the corner a couple of days I was there. So I have really happy memories of that place as they basically got me into Coldplay!! Love ya O&G!!! lol!

Texasluvsjonny · 05-01-2006, 11:11 PM

I saw Yellow video and thought the band had a nice sound. Bought their CD and Yellow was my least favorite song on it. What an amazing record. I remember going and buying AROBTTH on it's release day and driving around listening to it in my car for 5 hours.

Xadajoda · 05-01-2006, 11:12 PM

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Quote:
"Who's this geek walking on a beach? This video is boring

My first experience was watching Trouble on VH1 or MTV, not sure. I was like

"This is fucking amazing. The song, the video...and who's that incredibly bloody gorgeous guy singing???"

coldplay_steph · 05-01-2006, 11:15 PM

lili_pt · 05-01-2006, 11:22 PM

with me was like that too Xadajoda but it was with shiver's videoclip...i just thought that chris was soooo sweet!!!! and then i heard trouble and bought the cd...i didn't like yellow that much at that time....and then i was completed addicted to the parachutes cd

knoxoverstreet · 05-01-2006, 11:30 PM

When I first heard CP, I was cleaning my house, and I thought- oh, this music is good, but nothing more(the best music to hear, while cleaning your haouse

). But as many others, after some time, i heard it again, and...it was better

but I still wasn't a grouppie, or almost-grouppie, as i call myself now

Few months later I heard it for a few times in a city, and on TV, so i've downloaded some of their songs by emule (but later i've bought originals!

), and it has started...

MrMagpie · 05-01-2006, 11:52 PM

coldplay_steph, I love your avatar in our sig!!!! I couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes.... me and my friends joke about those two alot.

frostbitepanda · 06-01-2006, 12:02 AM

I think I've said this many times before, but I despised Coldplay. I was in a very... transitional time in my life (8th grade... 2002) and I was sliding from the Hip-Hop/Rap genre to the bad, manufactured, mainstream rock. I had heard "Clocks" on the radio a number of times and strongly disliked it (I'd turn it off everytime I heard it actually). The reason being: I hated Chris' voice. I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever heard. It's horrifying to even think of that now.

But my brother was the one to point me in the right direction. He came into my room one night with his new iPod and made me listen to "The Scientist". I'll never forget what I felt during that song. It was like I was in a different world all together. It was because of that song that I realized what affect music can have... the power it posesses. It was amazing.

And so, the next day, I downloaded everything I could find of them and I have never been the same since.

It's amazing how music can do that to people.

LVI56 · 06-01-2006, 12:35 AM

I had heard they're songs, Clocks and The Scientist and liked them. but what really got me into Coldplay was seeing them perform Politik on the Grammys, from then on i was hooked, it was such a great performance.

logicallytwisted · 06-01-2006, 01:59 AM

Has to be the In My Place video and I was thinking to myself who are these people?? and by that time I was playing guitar , so I learned the song, so there we go. But I got hooked, high on Coldplay just this summer, after the Live 8 thing... when I started obssesing about the songs the performances the wristband the tape, gosh, Chris, Guy, Will, Jon *sighs*

KM · 06-01-2006, 02:27 AM

I heard Clocks on the radio in 2003 and loved it immediately. I bought Rush of Blood maybe a month later, and the first time I saw what they looked like was when I looked in the sleeve. Couldn't help but smile.

I just remember thinking... "The singer is a pong," which is what we call people with buzz cuts and round heads.

Yeah.

Carol_Berryman · 06-01-2006, 02:31 AM

well, i watched the yellow video I was 10 or something...and then I changed the channel to watch cartoons...I wasn't keen on music but I thought it was kinda cool, anyway

KM · 06-01-2006, 02:36 AM

I'm not patient enough to sit through Yellow, I think.

05-01-2006, 11:02 PM	#1
MrMagpie Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 26,887 Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	First Impression of Coldplay The first time I saw them was when they were doing a special presentation of Live 2003 on CBC here in Canada. It was advertised in TV guide and the picture of chris made him look like an old country singer. Just the way the lighting was, the black and white picture, and the pose. I thought I was in for a bad suprise. Turns out they were just O.K. and that song Yellow was pretty cool and same thing with clocks. I taped it and a few weeks later I got really sick and I was just so down I didn't watch tv or anything but for some reason I kept watching the coldplay tape over and over. And now I love the band! Anybody else have any interesting stories?

05-01-2006, 11:11 PM	#3
crazyduckette ...they're just spies Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 8,740 Location: Brighton, UK Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I remember watching the Yellow video and thinking there was 'something' bout Chris but I didnt fall into Coldplay that way. The main thing that got me into it was in about November 2002 when I did some work experience at a graphic design place and they played AROBTTH on a little cd player in the corner a couple of days I was there. So I have really happy memories of that place as they basically got me into Coldplay!! Love ya O&G!!! lol! __________________ http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7...dorable0iz.gif no, thank YOU Jonny

05-01-2006, 11:11 PM	#4
Texasluvsjonny Jonny's personal fluffer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 16,806 My Mood: Location: Livin' large in the Friends and Family room! Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 5 Thanked 287 Times in 97 Posts	I saw Yellow video and thought the band had a nice sound. Bought their CD and Yellow was my least favorite song on it. What an amazing record. I remember going and buying AROBTTH on it's release day and driving around listening to it in my car for 5 hours. __________________ Houston-Austin-Dallas-Cleveland-Indy-Alpine Valley-Dallas-ACL Taping-Houston-Dallas-Milwaukee-Today Show-Chicago-Chicago-DC-Philly-Orlando-Ft.Lauderdale-Houston-Dallas-Birmingham-Indy-San Antonio-Dallas-Houston-Alpine Valley-London-London-Mexico City-Mexico City-Guadalajara-Monterrey-Chicago-ACL Taping- Austin-Today Show- L.A.-Dallas-Dallas-Houston-Houston-DC-DC-East Rutherford-Chicago-Chicago-Brooklyn... Jonny

05-01-2006, 11:12 PM	#5
Xadajoda Coldplayer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,982 Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	: Quote: "Who's this geek walking on a beach? This video is boring My first experience was watching Trouble on VH1 or MTV, not sure. I was like "This is fucking amazing. The song, the video...and who's that incredibly bloody gorgeous guy singing???" __________________ Lilla waves \"Oh, now there\'s only one kind of love that lasts. That\'s unrequited love. It stays with you forever.\" Woody Allen

05-01-2006, 11:30 PM	#8
knoxoverstreet Coldplayer Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 301 Location: Pabianice Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	When I first heard CP, I was cleaning my house, and I thought- oh, this music is good, but nothing more(the best music to hear, while cleaning your haouse ). But as many others, after some time, i heard it again, and...it was better but I still wasn't a grouppie, or almost-grouppie, as i call myself now Few months later I heard it for a few times in a city, and on TV, so i've downloaded some of their songs by emule (but later i've bought originals! ), and it has started... __________________ ...give me love over, love over this... ...I\'m gonna buy a gun and start a war, if you can tell me sth worth fighting for... ________________ 1.Leipzig 9/11-and nothing else compares 2.Sorry for my ENGLISH http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/6387/sm13ej1xo.gif

05-01-2006, 11:06 PM	#2
coldplay_steph (The Lukewarm) Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 21,275 Location: London Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Nope. My first impression was "Who's this geek walking on a beach? This video is boring". I was so young and stupid. Then AROBTTH came along and it all changed.

05-01-2006, 11:15 PM	#6
coldplay_steph (The Lukewarm) Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 21,275 Location: London Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

05-01-2006, 11:22 PM	#7
lili_pt Coldplayer Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3,325 Location: Casablanca Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 72 Thanked 54 Times in 25 Posts	with me was like that too Xadajoda but it was with shiver's videoclip...i just thought that chris was soooo sweet!!!! and then i heard trouble and bought the cd...i didn't like yellow that much at that time....and then i was completed addicted to the parachutes cd

05-01-2006, 11:52 PM	#9
MrMagpie Banned Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 26,887 Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	coldplay_steph, I love your avatar in our sig!!!! I couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes.... me and my friends joke about those two alot.

06-01-2006, 12:02 AM	#10
frostbitepanda Grrr... Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,778 Location: atlanta Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I think I've said this many times before, but I despised Coldplay. I was in a very... transitional time in my life (8th grade... 2002) and I was sliding from the Hip-Hop/Rap genre to the bad, manufactured, mainstream rock. I had heard "Clocks" on the radio a number of times and strongly disliked it (I'd turn it off everytime I heard it actually). The reason being: I hated Chris' voice. I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever heard. It's horrifying to even think of that now. But my brother was the one to point me in the right direction. He came into my room one night with his new iPod and made me listen to "The Scientist". I'll never forget what I felt during that song. It was like I was in a different world all together. It was because of that song that I realized what affect music can have... the power it posesses. It was amazing. And so, the next day, I downloaded everything I could find of them and I have never been the same since. It's amazing how music can do that to people. __________________ http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4...rachutes-1.png here i lie on my own in a separate sky coldplay / sigur rós / death cab for cutie '05 coldplay / sigur rós / the flaming lips/ sufjan stevens / joanna newsom '06 arcade fire / rufus wainwright '07 radiohead / coldplay '08 flight of the conchords / bon iver / bonnaroo / black moth super rainbow / fleet foxes / the flaming lips / yo la tengo / grizzly bear / mayer hawthorne / andrew bird / the dirty projectors / sts9 / dan auerbach '09

06-01-2006, 12:35 AM	#11
LVI56 Mr. Brian Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 382 Location: Lake Elsinore, California Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 1 Post	I had heard they're songs, Clocks and The Scientist and liked them. but what really got me into Coldplay was seeing them perform Politik on the Grammys, from then on i was hooked, it was such a great performance. __________________ Yanni Voices: Anaheim Honda Center 06/21/2009: Section 201 Row G Coldplay: Anaheim Honda Center 11/25/08: section 207 Row R Coldplay: Anaheim Honda Center 2/6/06: Section 223 Row M

06-01-2006, 01:59 AM	#12
logicallytwisted Coldplayer Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 133 Location: In the place where there is no darkness. Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Has to be the In My Place video and I was thinking to myself who are these people?? and by that time I was playing guitar , so I learned the song, so there we go. But I got hooked, high on Coldplay just this summer, after the Live 8 thing... when I started obssesing about the songs the performances the wristband the tape, gosh, Chris, Guy, Will, Jon sighs __________________ \"Please visit MTF.com and please eat more chocolate and please listen to more Coldplay. Thanks alot, goodbye.\" CM. \"Interviewer: Does it make you really nervous when the moms and dads are there? Chris: What are we like 6? We are Coldplay. We did Live8.\" I am in CFU. http://www.finalstar.com/coldplay/photos/chris094.jpg

06-01-2006, 02:27 AM	#13
KM Mega piranha Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,494 My Mood: Location: Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I heard Clocks on the radio in 2003 and loved it immediately. I bought Rush of Blood maybe a month later, and the first time I saw what they looked like was when I looked in the sleeve. Couldn't help but smile. I just remember thinking... "The singer is a pong," which is what we call people with buzz cuts and round heads. Yeah. __________________ artz

06-01-2006, 02:31 AM	#14
Carol_Berryman Coldplayer Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 5,083 Location: Rio de Janeiro Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	well, i watched the yellow video I was 10 or something...and then I changed the channel to watch cartoons...I wasn't keen on music but I thought it was kinda cool, anyway __________________ GBL? What is it? (No GBL zone !) <3 GUY! http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3...raetalz8ds.jpg I LOVE GUY! JAG ÄLSKAR GUY! EU AMO O GUY! IO AMO GUY! YO AMO A GUY! J\'AIME GUY! Quiero ter hijos tuyos, Guy SO. YOU. IN MY BED. NOW. GGGist! I\'m in CFU. R U?

06-01-2006, 02:36 AM	#15
KM Mega piranha Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 9,494 My Mood: Location: Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory Gender: Country: Chat posts: 0 Thanks given: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I'm not patient enough to sit through Yellow, I think. __________________ artz