3 January, 2006

Could do with a little chili sauce

Coldplay have a mildly inoffensive song.  It's not to my taste &ndash musically unadventurous and lyrically very trite – but not unpleasant.  I tend to describe it as easy listening for the under-fifties, or like a traditional English kebab.

Just occasionally, it's exactly what one fancies, and whilst being consumed, it's okay. However, almost immediately afterwards one is left feeling distinctly unsatisfied, a bit greasy, and slightly nauseous.

Of course, the biggest problem with Coldplay is that they only have that one song, repeatedly rephrased to fill whole albums. Never mind composition by numbers, this is composition by demographics.