Topic: Coldplay annoy (Read 25782 times)

Gryff · « **on:** 09 Nov 2005, 15:51 »

I am not that keen on starting an "I hate Coldplay" thread, but seriously, most annoying way to announce a tour http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-11/09.shtml" target="_fresh">EVER.

Seriously.

amok · « **Reply #1 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 16:24 »

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Coldplay annoy

Sun is hot

seriously though that is pretty gay

Se7en · « **Reply #2 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 16:34 »

Fuck em. Fuck em all with a big spintered stick. I blame coldplay for killing britrock. Before coldplay, you could turn on the radio and hear a listenable rock song. After coldplay, there was nothing but idiotic wimpy passionless worthless moaning gits strumming away halfheartedly at guitars and whining about how difficult life is, despite a big fat record contract.

You could set a fucking tax form to music, and it would be more inspiring and meaningful than goddamn coldplay.

TheLoweringTide · « **Reply #3 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 16:52 »

Wow...I actually don't hate Coldplay entirely, and I think this is easily the worst idea in the history of thinking. What happened, did they decide that giving out a tour date everytime a fan fellated Chris Martin was too easy?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #4 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 17:36 »

Quote from: Se7en

Fuck em. Fuck em all with a big spintered stick. I blame coldplay for killing britrock. Before coldplay, you could turn on the radio and hear a listenable rock song. After coldplay, there was nothing but idiotic wimpy passionless worthless moaning gits strumming away halfheartedly at guitars and whining about how difficult life is, despite a big fat record contract.

I'm going to start a piano rock band. We're only going to have one tinkly piano riff, and all our songs will be ridiculous, metaphoric drivel about just how hard it is to be a middle class art student nowadays. We're going to be very, very, very rich.

heretic · « **Reply #5 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 17:41 »

wow, what asshats. seriously, couldn't they just come out and tell us they're trying to kill all legitimate musical endevors?

Gryff · « **Reply #6 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 18:27 »

Right now, somewhere, sp2's Coldplay-sense is tingling.

Philybe · « **Reply #7 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 18:50 »

Not all of their stuff is bad, but damn is that just a stupid ass way to announce tour dates. The fans are already paying cash for tickets, isn't that enough?

elcapitan · « **Reply #8 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 19:34 »

... Wow.

I mean, wow. That really is pretentious. And by pretentious, I mean gratuitously masturbatory. And I don't even particularly dislike Coldplay (although I certainly wouldn't go to one of their shows).

Kai · « **Reply #9 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 19:54 »

I just realized...

Where the hell is SP2?

normz · « **Reply #10 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 19:59 »

i think sp2 has been so overwhelmed with hatred he is now mute

practicality · « **Reply #11 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 20:23 »

I think Coldplay did something daring to get their fans to rally behind them and say "OMG LETS GET HITS ON THEIR SITE".

Too bad it pissed off a lot of other people.

L337ninja71 · « **Reply #12 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 20:42 »

Cold Play has a sound I like there for I listen to them. Its not like they don't have any musical tallent at all!

KharBevNor · « **Reply #13 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 20:44 »

What would be amusing is if not enough people visited the site, and no-one turned up for their last dates.

lastclearchance · « **Reply #14 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 21:34 »

What's so awful about this? They're obviously going to announce them all before tickets go on sale, and if they don't Ticketmaster will. Until then, they're just encouraging people to tell their friends about their band and go to their site. I mean, sure, it's a little annoying, but considering how many have already flocked to the site, it's not like it'ds going to take that long, so it's not that obnoxious. It's a way for Coldplay's name to spread around the internet one more time, even if sometimes negatively. I mean, it got them a pitchfork news post, and it'll either get another, or an updated one, when all the dates are out. That's more than the usual press, no?

Or maybe I just don't care because I don't care about seeing Coldplay live. Come to think of it, from such seeming Coldplay-haters, you all sure do want to know when these tour dates are.

TheLoweringTide · « **Reply #15 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 21:41 »

Yeah, Coldplay totally needs more free internet publicity. I mean, no one has ever heard of them.

lastclearchance · « **Reply #16 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 22:03 »

Quote from: TheLoweringTide

Yeah, Coldplay totally needs more free internet publicity. I mean, no one has ever heard of them.

So really this is just anger at major labels' marketing methods. Not at Coldplay. Let's get our targets straight.

thermodynamics · « **Reply #17 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 22:10 »

if i was as popular as coldplay, i would probably be just as pretentious, if not more so.

"for every 33,000 women that send us naked pictures of themselves, we will announce another tour date."

"for every 33,000 people that kill themselves wearing a coldplay tshirt, we will announce another tour date"

i'm not condoning them, because i like them. it's been the "cool" thing to hate coldplay for a long time now. the backlash against the backlash has sorta, um, arrived.

La Creme · « **Reply #18 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 22:52 »

But lo, the backlash against the backlash against the backlash is nigh!

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 22:53 »

About sp2, check his last post, he said he would be gone for a few weeks.

sjbrot · « **Reply #20 on:** 09 Nov 2005, 23:28 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

What would be amusing is if not enough people visited the site, and no-one turned up for their last dates.

I was just thinking that! I could just imagine Chris Martin checking the site every couple of hours, wondering why no one wants to find out if they are playing Louisville or not.

McTaggart · « **Reply #21 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 02:02 »

I went to their site. I gave them another hit. I wasn't considering going to any of their shows and I'm still not. Just helping get them announced for people who do want to see them.

Important thing:

Quote from: lastclearchance

So really this is just anger at major labels' marketing methods. Not at Coldplay. Let's get our targets straight.

Kossie · « **Reply #22 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 05:12 »

I despise them - always have, always will. Nuff said

Thrillho · « **Reply #23 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 09:47 »

Quote from: pitchfork

Coldplay? More like Coldpretentious! If you thought those guys were annoying, just wait until you hear this:

Pot, kettle, you are black.

ASturge · « **Reply #24 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 09:52 »

^

haha!

Then again, your 'Pot Kettle' thingy is also a bit pretentious.

Good call though.

Thrillho · « **Reply #25 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 09:54 »

Quote from: ASturge

^

haha!

Then again, your 'Pot Kettle' thingy is also a bit pretentious.

Good call though.

Duh, I'm a pretentious fuck. At least I admit it.

ASturge · « **Reply #26 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 10:23 »

It's aaaaaal good.

Coldplay annoy me quite a bit. Though i do like the drums at the end of "Fix You"

heretic · « **Reply #27 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 11:59 »

Quote from: lastclearchance

some stuffs

i think it annoys this crowd becasue shameless self-promoting, when concerned with successful bands, is looked down upon. at least i look down on it. they're huge. they have a massive fan base. they really don't need to pull this kind of self-gratifying stunt to get people to know them or take notice of a tour. they're doing something so obvously commercial with something that's not supposed to act this way. they're not promoting a fast food joint, this is fucking music. music isn't supposed to operate the same way as all other coporate endevors. this particular action happens to be so blatently commercial that it opens it's self as a target and symbol for what is wrong with the music industry. it makes me want to shove credit cards through thier eyes. fuck coldplay.

also, their music sucks big floppy donkey dick.

Switchblade · « **Reply #28 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 13:09 »

Okay, I like Coldpay, but that's going a bit too far.

Seriously, guys, so you're popular. Don't let it go to your heads, yeah? Cheers.

Luke · « **Reply #29 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 13:42 »

I got the e-mail from the site announcing their new website. I checked out the site. I checked the date for the nearest performance, noted the date, and moved on.

I didn't give any of this a second thought.

Seriously, guys, what the hell is the problem?

Sideways · « **Reply #30 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 13:46 »

It is pretentious, but seriously guys... you think they're in charge of every marketing move that is made on their behalf? You don't know much about record labels and general promotion, if you honestly believe that.

"Hating" them for their music is strong, and downright immature, you bandwagon-jumpers. Disliking their music is fine. Disliking comments they may have made from time-to-time, and thinking them asshats for saying these things, is fine too. Hate is too strong, and hating for reasons of marketing/public relations... it's downright ignorant.

heretic · « **Reply #31 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 14:10 »

i don't hate the members of the band personally. i hate the public entity that the band is. that consists of the music, the member's public image, thier marketing strategies/moves and everything else that comes from that band. i don't care if it was thier idea or not, it's their band i hate because it is their band's crew what's doing it.
i don't think hate is too strong becasue this serves as a very poignant symbol for everything i hate about the music industry.

hating them for thier music is not immature and i think that's a pretty inflammatory thing to say. i don't think nayone here would honestly put fist to one of thier faces were we to meet them in person, but to the entity that we call coldplay, i would like so sodomize it with a rusty spoon. not that i'd do this to any of the guys in it, but saying it sounds wierd and it is comprised of people so we say "they" or "them."

Quote from: sideways

Hate is too strong, and hating for reasons of marketing/public relations... it's downright ignorant.

hate is a personal thing. it's not your place to say what's aappropriate for others to feel, or how they may use the word hate.
in what way is that ignorant? what makes you think that this hate is uninformed? there's no way you could know how much any of us know about coldplay or thier mareting strategies. you assume that becasue we hate thier marketing practices or thier music that we are uninformed? That, sir, is ignorant.

Switchblade · « **Reply #32 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 14:41 »

I know this is a thread derailment, but I'm siding with Sideways here. This really does smack more of the whole "OMGWTFLOLBBQ Coldplay did something pretentious, let's all say how much they suxx0r!" bandwagon. Only without the 12-year-old AOL-er speak.

So they're now connected to a marketing strategy and attention-getting technique that you find distasteful. Okay, even I'm mildly surprised and irritated that they seem to think they have to stand further above the parapets, or would actually put something that selve-serving into action, but the sheer extent of the reaction I'm witnessing here seems out of proportion to the incident itself.

So you don't like what they've done? Feel they're a bit too big for themselves? Like to shoot them down every chance you get? Well, who said you had to give a fuck in the first place? Nobody's forcing you to listen to them, nobody's tying you down and playing "Trouble" at you 24/7 for a month, please don't subject those of us who actually like them to the constant stream of vitriol. In short, if you don't like them, why not stop talking about them and discuss somebody else?

And, so as to heed my own advice, I am now getting out of the kitchen. It's too hot for me in here.

Cpt.Fantastic · « **Reply #33 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 15:15 »

Quote from: Kid Modernist

About sp2, check his last post, he said he would be gone for a few weeks.

... phew.

Kai · « **Reply #34 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 15:20 »

Am I the only person who actually likes sp2?

Se7en · « **Reply #35 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 15:39 »

Quote from: heretic

i don't hate the members of the band personally. i hate the public entity that the band is. that consists of the music, the member's public image, thier marketing strategies/moves and everything else that comes from that band. i don't care if it was thier idea or not, it's their band i hate because it is their band's crew what's doing it.
i don't think hate is too strong becasue this serves as a very poignant symbol for everything i hate about the music industry.

Damned right. To me, coldplay represent the death of british pop music. They are the walking stereotype of everything that was wrong with radio rock in the early 00s. They are like U2, but with even less talent and even less variation.

Luckily, things are looking up. The killers were a ray of fucking sunshine compared with coldplay and their low fat sugar free decaff "rock", and i have high hopes for the artic monkeys.

Valrus · « **Reply #36 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 16:29 »

Quote from: Kai

Am I the only person who actually likes sp2?

No, although you might be the only one who always likes him.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #37 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 18:04 »

I like sp2 most of the time.

La Creme and Khar are my favorite people on this board, though.

Kai · « **Reply #38 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 18:43 »

Quote from: Se7en

Luckily, things are looking up. The killers were a ray of fucking sunshine compared with coldplay and their low fat sugar free decaff "rock", and i have high hopes for the artic monkeys.

The Killers make me want to literally, kill myself. It takes quite a song to actualyl make me want to shoot myself in the head. Pretty much anything by Dahv does this.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #39 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 19:25 »

The Killers are fucking terrible.

Se7en · « **Reply #40 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 19:27 »

Well, if you cant apreciate some simple, well produced and fairly tuneful rock music for what it is, then perhaps its for the best.

Joseph · « **Reply #41 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 21:38 »

No, that's not it. The Killers are just trash. They don't have good tunes, and it's not all too well produced. They make Coldplay look good.

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #42 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 22:06 »

Oh, bullshit you guys. I call bullshit. You guys just don't like The Killers because they are popular. Come on now.

I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.

jeph · « **Reply #43 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 22:07 »

COLDPLAY: U2 FOR PEOPLE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER WHEN U2 WERE SOMEWHAT WELL-REGARDED

(U2 are also completely terrible)

Inlander · « **Reply #44 on:** 10 Nov 2005, 22:26 »

I'm not that enamoured of U2, and I'm not particularly hating of Coldplay, but . . . I will shit myself if Coldplay ever do anything even half as good as "Sunday Bloody Sunday".

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #45 on:** 11 Nov 2005, 03:05 »

i liked Coldplay better when they were called "basically just some of the songs off Sunny Day Real Estate's last album being played over and over again".

amirite?

Kossie · « **Reply #46 on:** 11 Nov 2005, 04:47 »

Quote from: Kid Modernist

Oh, bullshit you guys. I call bullshit. You guys just don't like The Killers because they are popular. Come on now.

I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.

Man, Im sorry to pick on you, but your post is an exaple of what I'm seeing here. The description of this thing says "no hipster snobs", but do some of you people have to be so pretentious as to drill people for merely expressing their hatred or dislike for a band or what have you? Come on, no one but the force fed idiot teens of the western world 'like' the Killers, thet're a new fad to make some money off and then ditch like heaps of other train wreck bands. Some of you, by the sheer luck that the wave lengths of the bands tunes have an affirmative match with your brain patternts may like them, fair enought. I still hate them, and bands like them, for turning my little sister and her generation into a premature skank and fashion whore. Very same situation as bands like Good Charlotte and Simple Plan. I stand by my opinion that you can learn a lot from SOME bands by looking at their label and popularity, and if any of you want to start an argument on that, be my guest, but please...

JUST BE HONEST! Its all good, and less pretentious.

rive gauche · « **Reply #47 on:** 11 Nov 2005, 07:04 »

Quote from: Kid Modernist

I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.

Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.

Also, I don't know why people get so worked up over Coldplay. They're probably one of the most meaningless bands to ever exist.

Thrillho · « **Reply #48 on:** 11 Nov 2005, 08:58 »

Quote from: Kossie

JUST BE HONEST! Its all good, and less pretentious.

Honest and pretentious are one and the same when you're DK.

I find the Killers average, but inoffensive. They have about four good tunes - ditto Kaiser Chiefs.
I wouldn't buy the albums, but they have some nice songs. Why hate?

As for Coldplay - the last album was dire, but I still love it.

Decima · « **Reply #49 on:** 11 Nov 2005, 09:47 »

Uhm... I like coldplay, and I dont think that whas such a stupid idea? Kinda funny, actually ^^

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Se7en

TheLoweringTide

heretic

Philybe

normz

practicality

L337ninja71

TheLoweringTide

thermodynamics

La Creme

Kid Modernist

sjbrot

Kossie

ASturge

ASturge

heretic

Luke

Sideways

heretic

Cpt.Fantastic

Se7en

Se7en

Kid Modernist

Kossie

rive gauche

Decima