Coldplay has more in common than f***ing Oasis than Radiohead. RH lives on their pedastool.

I never said their 80s style. It’s U2s 90s and early 00s style.

Coldplay has never taken anything from Radiohead

The comparison mostly got brought up because both bands came up around the same time

Let’s leave Radiohead fans alone, ok?

Your boy Chris Martin said he'd give up his left nut to create Ok computer. Keep being delulu tho

My freshman year roommate loved Coldplay.

F*** that guy so f*** this music

And? I’m sure he’d love to make something that good

Doesn’t mean he was influenced by it

Coldplay could make Kid A, but Radiohead could never make A Head Full Of Dreams. Muse could easily make both.

2 more years

ok dis true

I'm more of a Mew fan than anything else from that era/sound tho

Mewtwo (me too ((check my avi (say what!!)))

Niggas in here hating on Coldplay oh man lol

I’m sure u niggas are just a joy to be around

You're playing dense and you know it

And 90s Radiohead is far more similar to Coldplay than 90s U2. The acoustic and atmospheric passages, it's all there. The other guy who mentioned Oasis is right, but I'd say they are both equally as important to Coldplay than U2. I'd even put other bands like Blur, Travis, Verve over U2. Don't get how you can't see it.

Radiohead and Coldplay even had f***ing splits, wdym Chris wasn't influenced by Radiohead oh lord

I don’t see it one bit especially because there wasn’t anything distinct about Radioheads acoustic riffs that bands like Oasis, Verve, Neil Young, REM, Elvis Costello weren’t already doing

It was really their songwriting which set them apart and Coldplays is just so much more simplistic and poppy in comparison that it makes no sense to say they were trying to be Radiohead.

People really don’t realize how pronounced and defined the UK scene really was and that’s because Radiohead fans have the IQ of a rodent who think their gods invented music.

You're thinking from today's lens, Coldplay originally used to be lyrically dense as most UK bands, they just traded that for more simplified lyrics and catchy hooks as they went on. Yes, because they came out around a similar time they influenced each other. No, I'm not saying Radiohead's their biggest influence, it's Travis.

Songs like Everything’s Not Lost, Don’t Panic, Yellow, etc. are still quite simplistic and got much of the same DNA as their newer stuff like Paradise, Adventure of a Lifetime, or Viva La Vida

And like Brian Eno worked with both groups. It’s moreso that both bands had some similar inspirations but took very different directions musically

I only agree w the last part

Yeah my post was a joke I'm afraid

until they completely sold out sure and made dogshit edm w avicii chainsmokers etc or super generic pop rock but outside it’s your boring soft rock that takes all its cues from the bends and ok computer

this thread is like 2 years old and half the posts hate on these niggas anyway

I wish they’d do another album like their first w just drums guitar bass vocals and piano.
They’ve done enough extra s***

Doesn't matter

Yeah, evolution is not linear. Coldplay had a rush of blood to the head in 02, still heavily indebted to the mainstream britpop sound while Radiohead came out with Kid A and hail to the thief that very much departed from that sound.

Hits from OKC like No surprises and Karma police are still as radio-oriented as stuff like Yellow and the scientist. But neither are simplistic, even later examples like viva la vida aren’t.

It’s also important to note that Radiohead came out far before Coldplay, they already went through many phases by the time Parachutes came out. Thom fronted a indie band before he created Radiohead which was Smiths/REM patische, and even when Pablo Honey came out in the early 90s, it was heavily ripping off west coast grunge bands. They didn’t create their own identity until the Bends came out, but they weren’t considered influential until Ok Computer came out. Hell, other britpop acts like Pulp, Ride, Verve were far more interesting at the time. Kid A completely sealed them off from the mainstream britpop sound