http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:47:32 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/18/030023.php#comment-705 S'pose the waves of praise for this album, and indeed this band, should convince me that something's up here, but I'm sticking to my guns with this one. Frankly, having sat through Travis, the Stereophonics, Starsailor, the Verve and, latterly, Coldplay, I'm become somewhat sick of shoegazing as a lifestyle. Having been blown away by Radiohead's pre-Kid A efforts, it seems that I'm destined to be punished by endlessly being forced to compare that sort of beauty and class to bland copyists such as these. A year or two ago, Parachutes could be heard sulking through the doors of each room in every student residence in the country, which really gave me time to ponder on how annoying the album, and especially its dirgey first single, 'yellow', became on repeated listening. Not exactly bad, but bland, inoffensive, passionless and uninspirational. Ok, so it's not exactly Atomic Kitten, but, man, i just couldn't feel it myself. ]]> 705@blogcritics.org Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:47:32 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/18/030023.php#comment-704 I completely agree with your comments, I bought the album the first day that it came out in New Zealand because I walked into a music store and heard "Warning Sign". It's a little sad you don't mention this amazing song in your review as I think that it deserves special mention. Just a great album.... I wrote about it in my blog back in August ]]> 704@blogcritics.org Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:21:16 EDT