COLDPLAY Released (Before They Got Boring) Prominent Debut Album ‘PARACHUTES’ 25 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from the past
10 July 2025
English giga stars COLDPLAY already showed their huge commercial potential with
their very first album, named PARACHUTES, which was released on 10 July 2000,
today 25 years ago. Its superb single Yellow showed the way.
Rolling Stone wrote: “Who will be the next Radiohead? Or the next Verve, or Travis?
In England, the answer on everyone’s lips is Coldplay. On its debut album, Parachutes,
this youthful quartet resembles each of the above bands.
Coldplay make straight-ahead, melodic Brit pop that strives for significance with a capital s, even as it has a hard time shaking its influences — you can also hear the ethereal guitar chime of U2, a bit of Dave Matthews’ breathy folk implosion, even a misting of Roger Waters-era Pink Floyd.”
To my ears, their 2nd LP, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, was even better, a near-perfect pop album. The next one X&Y had some topping moments (Fix You, Sound Of Speed) but
it became clear that Chris Martin wanted to conquer the whole wide world with sugar sweet synth glimmering tunes. From there on, I lost all interest.
YELLOW
Pure pop pearl
ALBUM
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