After seeing Chris Martin of Coldplay interviewed on 60 Minutes the other night I thought I'd borrow their albums from the library to see what the fuss was about.
The only one I've gotten so far is X&Y, but I'm favorably impressed.
Posted by Linkmeister at February 10, 2009 04:23 PM | TrackBackI've liked all of them but the latest one. I kind of think of them as the Duran Duran of this generation: they fuse a bunch of musical styles/genres together and make something that appeals to lots of people in a kind of general way and never pushes anything far enough to turn people off all that much.
Posted by: Scott at February 10, 2009 04:47 PMI think they're a splash in the pan sort of band....the splash may last a two or three years but in the end...forgettable. I think their music sounds too much the same from song to song...but then, I haven't heard every song they've cut.
Posted by: Karan at February 10, 2009 05:41 PMCould be, could be. Lots of groups in the 60s-70s had hits through two or three albums, then fell off the map. Who remembers America or Seals and Crofts? I just looked up the latter at Amazon and found their Greatest Hits album. I recognize four of the ten songs.
Posted by: Linkmeister at February 10, 2009 07:40 PMAmerica -- Horse With No Name, Pacific Highway
Seals and Crofts -- Summer Breeze
Hardly the best exemplars of what 60s-70s music was all about, and never thought of as "industry leaders" by anyone. If S&C hadn't put their own monikers on the label, I wouldn't have a clue about who played in either band.
Might as well have suggested Bread or Zager & Evans.
I don't know enough about Coldplay to attempt to come up with a more apt comp.
Posted by: N in Seattle at February 11, 2009 07:50 AMWell, I was trying to find equivalents for Karan's "splash in the pan" remark.
60s-70s music is pretty much all I got. ;)
Posted by: Linkmeister at February 11, 2009 09:11 AMYeah, Z&E were much less than a "splash". I'd call In the Year 2525... a single, solitary drop.
What about Peter Frampton? Frampton Comes Alive was 1976. I find it difficult to consider anything from the disco era as "60s-70s", but at least this one's chronologically appropriate. In that same period, what about Bob Seger?
Then if we go to the 80s, maybe someone like Hughie Lewis might fit.
Posted by: N in Seattle at February 11, 2009 11:57 AMI admit I like Frampton Comes Alive, and at least he had a history with a good English band, Humble Pie (with Steve Marriott of The Small Faces).
'Course, by that standard, Bad Company should be immortalized, since Paul Rodgers had previously sung with Free (and good grief, he's kept busy!).
Posted by: Linkmeister at February 11, 2009 03:39 PM