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| Artist: Coldplay
Label: Parlophone
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  238 reviews
Sales Rank: 518
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 766486216822
EAN: 0724352778324
ASIN: B00004U9MS
Release Date: July 10, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Don't Panic | | • | Shiver | | • | Spies | | • | Sparks | | • | Yellow | | • | Trouble | | • | Parachutes | | • | High Speed | | • | We Never Change | | • | Everything's Not Lost |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Music doesn't come more touching than Parachutes. With their debut single alone, the emotion-fortified "Shiver", Coldplay proved they could shift between elated and crushed in a breath as singer Chris Martin poured out music's oldest chestnut (unconditional yet unrequited love) with the shakiest of voices and a backdrop of epic guitars that rouse and tug at the heart strings. For 10 tracks on Parachutes, he comes out with these, adding new-found meaning to the most tired and overused rock sentiments--love found, love lost, love unrequited, hurting the ones you love and the struggle that is life--over acoustic guitars and emotionally fraught rock. And for once, all the clichés ring true, thanks to Chris Martin genuinely sounding like a man picking over the bones of his life and soul, coming up with equal parts reasons to be cheerful and seriously depressed. Not that Parachutes is a depressing album; there's too much conviction to the guitars and hope in Martin's words for that. Instead it's a beautifully tender balance that comes as close to perfection as anything that's come before it. --Dan Gennoe
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| Customer Reviews: Read 233 more reviews...
 Trancendental June 14, 2008
Mr. I. W. Elliott (UK)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Parachutes is still my favourit album from Coldplay. This album contributed to coldplays success with great songs Shivers, Yellow, High Speed, Everythings not lost. What can I say one of the best English bands ever.
great coldplay cd/album .. June 5, 2008
kerriann (cheshire , united kingdom.)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
great cd/album , got all of there cd/albums and i think they are all just great , actually they are superb & just simply powerful -- thankyou coldplay ..
see u ..
 Over hyped with not much much substance February 24, 2008
Supersonic man (United Kingdom)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The songs on this album are ok but that's it they are just mediocre. There are good musicians at work here but somehow the sum of their talents adds up to something which leaves me uninspired and untouched. There are better songs on "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" but Coldplay are still overrated. Best songs by far are "Trouble" and "Shiver" but download these. Don't waste your time and money listening to anything else off this album because it won't get your blood pumping. Good music to send you off to sleep though I suppose.
Classic, but not their best January 27, 2008
D. A. Mcculloguh (England)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Emotionally unsettling and uplifting in equal measure, simple smart records are sometimes the best. Some of Coldplay's best work is here along with the souring choruses that they would perfect with the next album.
Chris Martins voice may lack the beauty of his counter parts but it works for his character, he feels vunrable and troubled and immediately identifiable that's exactly why Shiver was such an outstanding debut single. Slowly building momentum with guitars into a pure jam of uplifting chimes, only then does Chris begins crooning his tale of being unnoticed by someone whom he desires, it's a sad song, indeed and it impacts and gives you a cold shiver, similar if we must to Radiohead's Creep. Don't Panic a simple but serviceable opener feels a bit like Bitter Sweet Symphony without wings. `Spies' is probably the most interesting song on the album which like Shiver races to a climax of pure brilliance but not without first taking a murky look at the world. Sparks is a slow simple ballad in an album not short of them and then we get to Yellow.
Amazingly I hadn't heard Yellow prior to buying the album and it was immediately on constant play, the perfect love song even with a somewhat random use of Yellow (my guess is personified joy). This happy number if followed by `Trouble' a tragic ballad of guilt and uncertainty set to a haunting piano riff (its funny Coldplay were known as the piano band and Keane just mere impostors when their debut and X&Y rarely use it) The title track is little more an interlude that a simple love poem followed by High Speed and We Never Change which are decent but not single material. The albums swan song is Everything is not lost a brilliant bad day song followed by a brief hidden track which isn't separated by a long time period (like some artists...)
So why only a 4? Mainly because the last quarter slips compared to the rest of the album, A Rush of Blood to the Head is so very much better in every way for better quality of songs and consistency of good songs, fact is this is a must have album for anyone who likes emotional smart records.
"Theres nothing here to run from, cause everybody heres got somebody to lean on" September 5, 2007
BD (UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
7 years on and Parachutes still sounds great. The first time I ever heard of or saw Coldplay, was on the much missed channel 4 music show hosted by Jo Whiley. The video for `Yellow' was shown and I was hooked instantly "You know I love you so".
A lot of music fans at the time dismissed Coldplay as a poor Radiohead tribute act, but I always felt they owed more to the Verve (no bad thing and possibly benefited from their demise) but regardless of how derivative Coldplay were, `Parachutes' is possibly one of the finest debuts of the past 20 years. Coldplay hit the UK music scene just at the right time at the turn of the century, when British music was in need of a boost following the end of the so called Brit Pop movement, and they delivered to those who took the time.
Compared to their later albums this is obviously their debut album. By that I mean it has degree of honesty about it, and there is less of a commercial feel to the sound that feels more personal to the band, which is fine by me. Highlights for me are `Don't Panic', `Shiver', `Spies', `Yellow', `Trouble', `Parachutes' and `Everything's not lost'. So that's 7 out of 10 tracks on a debut, hence the well deserved 5 stars.
Some would argue that Coldplay never topped this album, personally I am not sure about that as bands or artists record different style albums at different points in their career, so maybe that's a debate for a different review, but what I will recommend is that if you have discovered Coldplay via the massive selling `X+Y' album, get Parachutes and hear where it all began. A group of university lads finding their feet and producing inspiring musical brilliance. You won't be disappointed or fail to be touched by Parachutes.
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