Parachutes

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Parachutes
Studio album by Coldplay
Released	July 10, 2000 (U.K.); November 7, 2000 (U.S.)
Recorded	November 1999 - May 2000 at Orinoco Studios, London, England; Parr Street Studios, Liverpool, England Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales Matrix Wessex Studios, London, England;
Genre	Rock
Length	41:50
Label	Parlophone
Producer(s)	Coldplay Ken Nelson Chris Allison (Track 8 only)
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Q link Rolling Stone link Pitchfork Media (5.3/10) link Stylus Magazine (C) link New Musical Express (9/10) link UltimateGuitar.com (8.3) link PopMatters (Positive) link musicOMH.com (Positive) link CNN (Positive) link
Coldplay chronology
The Blue Room EP (1999)	Parachutes (2000)	Trouble - Norwegian Live EP (2001)

Parachutes is the debut album by English rock band Coldplay, released on July 10, 2000. It quickly shot to number one in the United Kingdom, and stayed in the top ten for thirty-three weeks. The album produced four singles: "Shiver", "Yellow", "Trouble", and "Don't Panic" (the last of these, however, was not released in the UK). In the United States, the album peaked at fifty-one on the Billboard 200, eventually selling over 2 million copies.

The album is recognized to have an alternative rock sound similar to fellow alt-rock band Radiohead from their The Bends-OK Computer era. In fact, it has been suggested that the album's success was due to a portion of Radiohead's audience being alienated by the band's experimental and more electronic-influenced Kid A album [1][2], which was released in October of the same year and leaked to the internet 3 months prior.

Most of the album was recorded at Liverpool's Parr Street Studios, with a total of nine weeks of actual recording, interrupted by two mini-tours. However, "High Speed" was recorded with interim producer Chris Allison over Summer 1999 at Orinoco Studios, London.

The album cover for Parachutes contains a photograph of a globe personally taken by the band with a disposable Kodak camera. The globe had been purchased from W H Smith for £10; it was featured in the "Shiver" and "Don't Panic" music videos, and also accompanied the band on their tours.

Parachutes was placed #14 in Channel 4's 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2006 the album was placed #33 in NME's 100 greatest British albums. In 2003 Q magazine's readers placed it at #25. Still, Chris Martin said in 2006 that Coldplay looks beyond Parachutes: "We know that's terrible music," he said, "and we always try to think about what we can do next."^[1]

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Berryman/Buckland/Champion/Martin.

• Japanese version only.

[edit] Audio

[edit] Release details

The album was released in various countries.

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] Awards

• 2001 Brit Awards, Best British Album
• 2001 NMEAwards, Best Single for "Yellow"
• 2002 Grammy Awards, Best Alternative Music Album

[edit] Nominations

• 2000 Mercury Music Prize

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8IR35HO0.html

• "Coldplay - Parachutes (2000)." Review by Stephan Finch. "2 Walls Webzine". February 16, 2001, Retrieved July 24, 2006.
• "Music For Late Night Retrospection". "Ciao!". March 16, 2001. Retrieved July 24, 2006.
• Roach, Martin (2003). Coldplay: Nobody Said It Was Easy. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-9810-8.

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Independent site
• Sound on Sound: Recording Coldplay's Parachutes