

Album Title Drop: Subverted for the most part.The final lyric of the album is "Together, that's how we'll make it through" ("Coloratura"). Album Closure: One of the first lyrics in Music of the Spheres is "I'm not going to make it" ("Higher Power").Though given a feature credit, she never sings any lines on her own and is really just a glorified backup singer. Look at the tropes, look how they shine for you.


Was sacked early in the band's career, but quickly re-hired (causing Chris to get himself drunk on vodka as punishment). He is also a member of the completely different supergroup Apparatjik. Has a recognisable signature minimalist sound, and has been compared to The Edge. Despite some fan pushback, it was the highest-selling album of the year. Produced by Brian Eno, it rewrote the band's fundamentals, introducing experimentation of both the instrumental variety (ex: Ominous Pipe Organ, honky-tonk piano, elaborate string sections) and the arrangement variety (ex: weirder time signatures, unusual song structures). Their fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, changed this. The rest of their oeuvre leading up to the mid-2000s - A Rush of Blood to the Head and X&Y - continued the success, but also gave the band a reputation for their songs sounding too similar (the singles "Speed of Sound" and "Clocks" being frequently singled out for comparison). Coldplay is an acclaimed British Alternative Rock group, and easily one of the biggest bands to come from that genre and one of the biggest bands that the Aughts had to offer.Īfter several low-key releases during the back-end of the 90s, they hit the big time in 2000 with the single "Yellow", which would later be included on their successful debut album, Parachutes.
