The only band I do not like is Coldplay. The reason I say this is compared to all other popular bands, I like a smaller percentage of Coldplay songs.

I do not acknowledge a distaste in any music in particular lightly. I have listened to every single Coldplay song. To refresh my memory before I wrote this blog I listened to all of them again.

I can tolerate What If, Swallowed in The Sea, Warning Sign, and a few others from their Parachutes album. (That album is their best, but that isn't saying much. It isn't anything special.)

An honest description of Coldplay:

- Occasionally poetic.
- Vocal lines mixed at a lower volume in favor of often-repetitive instrumental fills; often hard to understand Chris Martin's lilting falsetto.
- Unusually ambient.
- Less harmonically interesting than many major groups.
- A tendency to sound like Smooth Jazz at many instances, techno at others, and southern rock in others. I appreciate the variety.
- Many songs usually sound interesting until Martin begins singing.

One cannot truly make a claim about a band until listening to all of its music. I did this with Coldplay and you should as well before evaluating the group either way.