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Coldplay puts people to sleep (officially)
Brit band Coldplay is the preferred music choice to send us off to sleep at night, a survey has found.The clean cut rock band fronted by Chris Martin topped a poll of artists lulling Britons into slumber.
The dulcet tones of James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Take That and Norah Jones completed the "kip parade" top five according to a study undertaken by Travelodge. [UK press association]
Posted on April 9, 2008 12:30 PM
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lullaby renditions of coldplay songs as hidden tracks on all their cds when you hit play.
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 12:41 PM
Man, if I ever need to sleep I just throw on the latest LCD Soundsystem CD. It's so monotonous that I just feel my eyes get heavy almost instantly.
CSS is also a good solution if you're ever having sleep problems.
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 1:13 PM
oxymoron
Posted by James Snuka | April 9, 2008 1:34 PM
Redundant.
Posted by robert dooooosh | April 9, 2008 1:49 PM
Everyone rips on Coldplay because it is the cool thing to do..I enjoyed some of their songs on Parachutes. High Speed and Sparks were great! Anyhoo...
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 2:00 PM
now this would be my response to coldplay:
Karaoke singer attacked after starting song
Woman punches man on stage
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/327017_karaoke10.html
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 3:02 PM
Same hipsters who bash Coldplay now LOVED them 3 years ago.
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 3:13 PM
I loved them.... THREE YEARS AGO. Zing!
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 3:26 PM
Hipsters are allowed to love one mainstream band + Springsteen. That one band might as well be Coldplay.
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 4:30 PM
4:30- you mean *aging* hipsters. i agree.
Posted by grace6697 | April 9, 2008 5:15 PM
I hated them. Hate 'em now. I win at hipstering!
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2008 5:45 PM
I swear that every time I go to the Pavillion movie theater in Brooklyn, they get you good and sleep before the movie starts by playing Norah Jones argh.
Posted by Raj | April 9, 2008 10:12 PM
A friend got free tickets and we were 4 rows back at some gig of theirs a few years ago uptown. I had no opinion of them before this show, but I must say they were one of the most boring things I've ever sat through. Even their 'rock' songs were so void of peaks and valleys that I found myself playing solitaire on my iPod: that act had way more momentum then their set. They certainly didn't seem to happy to be there.
Posted by greg | April 10, 2008 9:23 AM
Umm yeah...The furthest uptown they played was Radio City? Was that where it was? That was 2000. They have come a long way since then.
Posted by Anonymous | April 10, 2008 9:41 AM
Umm no... The Beacon Theater, about 3 years ago, some for fan club/AOL thing. And they were boring as shit.
Posted by greg | April 10, 2008 11:40 AM