People just love to hate Coldplay, which I understand. Like U2 and other supergroups of our time they seem to be jammed down our throats by a music industry bent on forcefeeding us whatever they think that we will buy. Also, Coldplay has a pretty mainstream sound that is easy to get tired of. However, I remember discovering Don´t Panic on a sampler CD that came with a music magazine way back in the day when I still bought music magazines and nobody knew the band. It is off Coldplay´s first album, Parchutes, which came out in 2000. While preparing this post I discovered that Coldplay really doesn´t like this album and have publicly stated, "We know that's terrible music". Well I beg to disagree. Coldplay´s first two albums, Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head, are my favorites and I lost interest in them after hearing their third album X & Y. However, Don´t Panic, besides being the phrase printed on the front of The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy
one of my favorite books ever, is a very dark song and was the least commerically successful of the singles of the first album. It´s another one of those "get with it and enjoy life because you know you´re gonna die" songs that I love so much. Here is a short example of the llyrics.
Bones sinking like stones
All that we've fought for
Homes, places we've grown
All of us are done for
We live in a beautiful world
Yeah we do
Yeah we do
We live in a beautiful world
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My song Our Bog Is Dood is closely based on the poem of the same name by Stevie Smith. She is one of my favorite poets. She also wrote Not Waving But Drowning which I believe is her best-known work. (My song and video for that one are here .) I love what one YouTuber called Stevie´s "twisted, darkly comic style." Now about the poem, it seems pretty obvious when you read it that "Our Bog is dood" is code for "our God is good". Those who profess this are children, naive followers who do not question their religious beliefs but accept them blindly. However, even between the true believers there is conflict because when it gets down to the exact details of what their God is like "They never could agree". Religion, in the end, is an individual experience and Smith slyly illustrates this. She also mentions intolerance for anyone who doesn´t bow down to the children´s God. The children have their beliefs, saying "And if y
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