Listening Room: Coldplay - “Fix You”
Damn if this song doesn’t open with some of the worst lyrics imaginable. That has to be the dopiest opening couplet of any non-country music song ever.
I make a big deal of it because in spite of that terrible opening, “Fix You” is just an amazing song. I can’t explain why a fat, grouchy, nasty fucker like me falls for the gooey Chris Martin songs. “Fix You” is the Danny Tanner-moment of truth on Full House. “Fix You” is the canned “Awwww” moment. I hate this sensitive shit! I hate this sensitive shit and I love “Fix You.” Do you have any idea how angry that makes me? I refuse to be seen with myself in public when I play this song. Thank God iPods allow us all to listen to these songs in secret.
The song lopes along with platitudes and earnest nonsense for a full two minutes and then it surges into the stratosphere. It is physically impossible not to reach for your lighter as the song’s second act begins (it’s an ’80s thing, kids). The only thing bigger than the anthemic second half of this song is Martin’s good intentions.
X&Y was a disappointment for me as an album, but “Fix You” and “Speed of Sound” kept it from being a total bust.
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that’s what you get for listening to Coldplay.
Josh’s idol
Damn, my image link of Danny Tanner didn’t come through. And it was such a great pict of a young Bob Saget!
Love both songs, along with that ‘Kingdom Come’ song.
I hate that ‘Fix You’ was in that God-awful ‘King Kong’ movie that was made by George Lucas’ pool boy.
“There’s only one ‘Return,’ and it ain’t ‘of the King,’ it’s ‘of the Jedi. ‘ ” -Randal Graves
I love the Coldplay/Radiohead thing. It is sort of like the McCartney/Lennon thing.
It’s just not cool to be in the first camp. A brave man once said to me, “I’ll take ‘Silly Love Songs’ over ‘Woman is N****r of the World’ anytime.”
Too fucking right.