coldplay at their best

Many people say that a rush of blood to the head is coldplay's best album,but i disagree.While AROBTTH was great and freshly diferent parachutes is just brillant.For their first album coldplay show remarkable maturity their are no bad songs on this album.Unlike AROBTTH and x&y.I think this album rivals the bends and OK computer.It takes a while to get used to radioheads albums(OK computer does anyway),but with parachutes you can sit down and listen to it from start to finish.Don't panic is a smooth easy to listen rock song.Shiver is one the great coldplay love songs.Spies is a great little melody with martins voice haunting and fortelling with such doom and gloom you can't help feeling sad yet the hope is there during the whole song telling us that its ok.Sparks is a great love song a great prelude to the highlight of the album yellow.It is a well written song and one I regard as the greatest song coldplay have ever preformed.Trouble is fantastic and martin on the piano is super.Parachutes is short & sweet.High speed is a nice song as is we never change.Everythings not lost is a song of hope and rising from the brink of nothing and is great.

Better than A Rush...(Maybe) 4.5

In the beginning I thought A Rush of Blood To the Head was a better album than Parachutes. Now I believe Parachutes is better. It meets my requirement for a great album: every song is listenable and ranges from good to VERY good, while Rush...has a couple of duds which lessens the overall effect of the album even though it holds many of Coldplay's STRONGER songs.

Coldplay's Best

Having listened to both this album and X&Y, overall, this is the better album. X&Y contains my all time favorite Coldplay song, Speed of Sound. But that's basically the only song on that album I could really get into. This album, for some reason, was different. The tracks just seemed to flow more. Shiver, Yellow, and High Speed were three of the best, and Everything's Not Lost was a great way to close the album, although I wonder why the last two minutes were quite necessary, I thought it detracted from the song. Overall, though, this is better than X&Y by far.