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Subject: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: Donnie Darko on 01/13/06 at 3:44 pm
An okay band, but they are so U2-like.
When I see their lead singer sing, I want to sock him in the face ;D
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: Carl on 01/13/06 at 4:19 pm
I think they recently played somewhere in New York, are they the U2 cover band? Unless, I'm thinking of the wrong group.
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: danootaandme on 01/13/06 at 4:22 pm
Very much like Aerosmith and the Stones
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: GoodRedShirt on 01/13/06 at 5:35 pm
The lead singer might make some people want to smack him in the face, but I think the band are tolerable. Every band today is inspired by older ones, so yeah, maybe they do have U2 similarities.
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: Donnie Darko on 01/13/06 at 6:45 pm
The lead singer might make some people want to smack him in the face, but I think the band are tolerable. Every band today is inspired by older ones, so yeah, maybe they do have U2 similarities.
I was just kidding there. ;)
Every band ever is influenced by older bands.
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/13/06 at 7:29 pm
Rock music died twenty years ago. Nobody noticed. Rock 'n' Roll is the most over rated music in the history of mankind. I hate to be iconoclastic, but then again, I enjoy it very much. Forty years ago, rock 'n' roll was iconoclastic and anti-establishment. Today it is a world of icons and unquestionable authority on popular culture. Bono and David Bowie are today what Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby were fifty years ago!
:P
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: Donnie Darko on 01/13/06 at 8:40 pm
Rock music died twenty years ago. Nobody noticed. Rock 'n' Roll is the most over rated music in the history of mankind. I hate to be iconoclastic, but then again, I enjoy it very much. Forty years ago, rock 'n' roll was iconoclastic and anti-establishment. Today it is a world of icons and unquestionable authority on popular culture. Bono and David Bowie are today what Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby were fifty years ago!
:P
Rock Music
R.I.P. 1954-1994
Today only Rock's ghost lives in the shadow of Rap.
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: Mr Tumnus on 01/14/06 at 12:46 pm
An okay band, but they are so U2-like.
When I see their lead singer sing, I want to sock him in the face ;D
HAHAHA!! Yeah chris martin has that effect
I always think his voice is like that of American comedian Emo Phillips.
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: Red Ant on 01/14/06 at 2:25 pm
Rock music died twenty years ago. Nobody noticed.
20 years ago? Take a look at what was on top in 1986:
http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1986/top100.htm
For the most part, yuk!
I think 10 years ago was the final nail in the coffin for rock. Almost all of the alternative bands were either dead (literally-Nirvana, Sublime, etc or practically-Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, etc.), on their last good CD (Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, etc.) or making very lackluster music (Metallica Reload, etc.). Creed killed rock. ;D
Coldplay is not a U2 rip-off. They're a Sting/Radiohead rip-off. Well, maybe not but the similarities are there.
Subject: Re: Coldplay are a U2 ripoff
Written By: Mr Tumnus on 01/14/06 at 6:10 pm
Crikey I think Sting (Gordon Sumner) would be devastated to hear that you think his brilliantly unusual voice is similar to that of the depressing c.martin's.
They're - (coldplay) nothing like The Police/Sting...dunno about Radiohead tho'?
And the comparison to U2 - HAHAHA!!