A lot of this blog will probably end up being devoted to music. Here I present for you a previous music-related comment of mine, as published by The New York Times, and retrieved via LexisNexis:
SECTION: Section 2; Column 5; Arts and Leisure Desk; COLDPLAY; Pg. 6
LENGTH: 168 words
HEADLINE: Travis Came First
BODY:
To the Editor:
Jon Pareles has gracefully articulated everything that bothers me about Coldplay, from Chris Martin's voice and lyrics to the band's attempt to create entire albums as reverberative as its most successful single (this tendency is wholly apparent on its second album). Yet I own Coldplay's first two albums, and consider listening to them a guilty pleasure.
While I agree with Mr. Pareles, he is wrong on at least one count. Coldplay has indeed ''spawned a generation'' of similar bands. But Travis, if anything, spawned Coldplay. Travis released its first album (''Good Feeling'' in 1997) years before Coldplay broke out with ''Parachutes''; ''The Man Who,'' Travis's subsequent album and its most comparable to anything of Coldplay's, was released in April 2000, months before the release of ''Parachutes.'' While it is undeniable that these bands have influenced each other, it is worth noting who came first and who has demonstrated greater musical depth.
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Shaker Heights, Ohio
URL: http://www.nytimes.com
LOAD-DATE: June 12, 2005
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