Chris Martin On The Simplicity Of Coldplay Songs | Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend 

Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head are absolute classics.

I love the fact that Chris is just as engaged in the interview and even eagerly asks Conan questions. Plus Coldplay songs are certainly not simple, at least not their first 4 albums and Everyday Life.

"Clocks" is quite simply one of my favourite all time songs, in any genre!👌

Coldplay really captures wonderful feelings in their music. Chris is a wonderful artist and seems like such a kind compassionate person.

I love Chris, he is so humble and to me his voice is angelic.

Such a beautiful humble guy . I love Chris too

"Maybe not the best, but the most US." I try to remember that whenever I'm writing songs.

Their first two albums I will listen for the rest of my life. It's like a special safe place I can return to

So glad Conan brought up the tuning / way he plays. That and the chords are the most unique thing about their songs, and it's one of the reasons I love them so much. It's not straight forward, and that's what gives it that extra spark. Great interview!

Song “ A Rush of Blood to the head” is such a great one… that Biiiiig chorus and Chris’ melancholic delivery is such a beautiful sound. Album as a whole is 10/10 for me

Chris is extremely dynamic. He has a wide collection of musical talents.

I love how chris makes it sound simple, but the real reason they are so good is beacuse he is a genius and has a magical ear for melody and chords. Its not teachable❤

Dang, whether you love Coldplay or hate 'em, this is some uplifting stuff right here. You don't have to strive to be your heroes. Just find your own sound, your own niche that makes you you.

The fact that there are Coldplay haters blows my mind. Sure, you might not enjoy their music as much as I do, but how can you dislike this person?

Love Chris. He’s an amazing human, no doubt.

I feel Chris Martin is the most down to earth guy ever. What an amazing talent and yet so humble and realistic.

Coldplay is my GOAT in terms rock-pop bands

The little changes he makes in the guitar tuning in the first 2 albums is what i love about them. You can come up with beautiful sounding chords that way.

That was really wonderful. Chris & Conan are both really cool guys.

Simple is key! I love the simplicity and the harmony. This brings me back every time

"your limitations become strengths".. never heard anyone say that before. that is beautiful

One of my fav music acts.

I didn’t really like Coldplay when I was a kid cuz I heard viva La vida over and over. But recently I figured out how incredible they are. The song yellow is what made me realize. And Chris Martin seems like a cool dude

Such a great episode👍 Every clip is interesting

Chris Martin seems so authentic that Conan has challenges with that at time

Coldplay will always have a special place in my heart ❤️

Oooo my God, how motivated I feel by this part of the interview. I'm looking for knowledge in singing, today I auditioned to try to get into singing class and do what I love, write this down the next time Coldplay comes to Brazil, I'll sing with them. Record it! motivated me even more

What a great conversation!

Well, you can't really get more simple than "you, you are, my universe. And I, just want, to put you first."

I enjoy jazz and sophisticated music, but there is something in Coldplay’s music that I find authentic and amazing, even though I can’t pinpoint what it is. Chris gives an amazing response in this video that addresses that. Very few musicians in mainstream pop/rock music follow the principle of breaking the rules and experimenting until they get a sound that reflects their identity. Usually, producers in mainstream music rely on a cookie-cutter formula to chase after what sells best. This drains the life out of most popular songs/artists. That’s why I have a great deal of respect for Coldplay!

"Maybe I can make things weirdly me." 👈🏾 That's it. I'm keeping that.

" That's what I feel so encouraged about. The whole world right now is seeing people become themselves even if it's a bit differentbecause that's how I feel about our music and I don't claim it's the best but it's definitely the most us"

My favorite band ever. My college years was peak Coldplay.

Each of Coldplay’s albums are indeed different & unique. Albums 1-4 are my favorites. Their B-sides tracks are pure gold though.

chris has a very soothing voice

Let me tell you Chris, imo it definitely is the best. I've used your music 🎶 and the feeling I am so grateful to receive to go from 28 stone and deaths door 🚪 to the fittest happiest 50 year old in the world. Next step is to use your music to become the best sports performance coach in the world 🌏 on the very day I reached my first goal , I found out we share the same birthday. Keep doing what you're doing you are changing lives. August 22nd in Glasgow and the feeling I received carried me on like a magic carpet of development which then led to a huge win that afforded me black market tickets 2 at 350 a pop😮 and I'll see you at the Etihad 0n 3rd June for what I know will be just the most amazing day of my life. ❤😊

I actually loved this interview, Chris is amazing, thought this was an interesting clip.

Coldplay are in the top tier of live music. They are awesome live

great conversation about island hopping and confidence / momentum

Parachutes is a perfect album, it could honestly be a 'best of'.

Even if you're not into the music, I don't see how anyone could dislike Chris. He's just such an intelligent, interesting, and real-seeming person. I always love listening to him chat about his music and art, and no one gives a better interview than Conan. So good!

Chris is actually much more eloquent and insightful than I've given him credit for. This isn't an interview, it's a conversation.

i totally agree w how you write, you don’t sit down and draft out music, you play what sounds right and good, and then sometimes yea, it ends up being simpler than you would’ve initially liked, but trying to make something unnecessarily complicated usually makes it bad. you have to have a purpose

I like this kind of vulnerable Conan where he can share his thoughts without always bantering AHSDHA

Simplicity is an understatement.

What a genius!! : )

Very inspiring

why is he such a friggen class dude, he must meditate an hour a day he's insanely chill and down to earth and just happy

As a guitar player and wanton pianist and keyboardist, Coldplay songs aren’t simple.

No other band has achieved so much, all the so called big bands like the stones, U2 etc, just can’t do current, they just rely on their old fans, never attracting new fans, coldplay just keep evolving and delivering hits like no other band has ever done, unique and classy

I love Coldplay and Chris

I love Chris Martin. Please come to Charlotte NC or Roanoke VA. We just relocated and we need COLDPLAY here. #weloveyou #yourethetits #confettibomb

so true, every time i tried to play a coldplay song i like it's never straightforward in chords/tuning lol i.e. see you soon

He's such a beautiful boy!

Conan really needs to become a music writer or a music journalist because his knowledge and love of music is evident.

I enjoyed it when he called him Conor😂 3:13

This is the best thing I could see ever

Coldplay are great, I enjoy a fair amount of their later work but yeah the first 4 albums are classics

Amsterdam is underrated ❤❤❤

"Oh morning come bursting the clouds amen"

the beauty of simplicity= COLDPLAY

Conan can do anything

Complete heaven

the "E" string comment by Conan refers to the string being tuned down to "E flat " , and played open while playing a "B" chord on 7th fret. on " Vida la Vida" I believe.Other tunes also. "Yellow" maybe more. Chris very clever, imo :-)

Chris Martin is one of my biggest inspirations as an artist. Thank you so much for this interview! 💛

I thought the video was flipped until I saw the guitar behind 🤣

When is Chris going to start reading sleepy time books? My toddler son woke me up after only a couple hours of sleep and his voice is lulling me back to that wonderful disastrous dreamworld. I’d call him like being young with my gf where she would call me and just have me talk while she fell asleep 😴

I wish Chris would read a Thich Nhat Hanh book on audible.

Humble to say 'I don't claim it's the best, but it's definitely the most us'

"limitations are your strength" wow

Maybe he can be a great singer and guitarist too if he keeps practicing!

for me the best coldplay album are the first three, from viva la vida to the other are all commercial

Luck plays such a huge and very significant part in many/most/all successful people's careers, but it's not often talked about.

I love hisvexpression “weirdly me”

somebody needs to reunite the school counsellor with Conan!

This is the post you will write your 3 favorite Coldplay songs Mine are 1-Life in Technicolor II 2-Strawberry Swing 3-Charlie Brown

the most vanilla band ever to exist. and yet whenever that piano melody from "Clocks" is anywhere within earshot of me, i lose my goddamn mind.

Conan should had a pin on his jacket like chris.

Simple complexity defines more their sound.

take "birds" for example. I never heard anything like it , for some reason it takes my back to a period of my life years back while I only heard it only very recently. I'm a scientist by profession but I blv coldplay songs comes from somewhere else , the group is just a medium

Big up the Exeter

DANIEL NORGREN! DANIEL NORGREN! DANIEL NORGREN!!!! You must interview this magician!!!

This guy sounds like he does asmr sleep videos. He should sing in a band

my ex-boss, just look like your face Chris, first I met him in office I amaze and feel like, is he the twins of Chris/Coldplay? his voice deep like yours, and he also tall as yours too. OMG... I met him everyday just feels like I met Chris everyday... I was happy then.... hehehhe

of course he's crisscross applesauce. love him

3:13 In 2009, kid now adult, sees Martin on TV and whispers, "Wtf?" and retakes up the cause.

Yellow is just a masterpiece

"I don't claim it's the best but it's definitely the most us."

His feet are freaking me out

Nobody can do YOU like you do you.

I'm not into Chris Martin's music - I on an entirely different path based on bebop jazz. But I like Chris whenever I hear him in interview. He sounds grounded and very wise.

this is SOO much better format then regular cocaine-energy talkshows.

A friend of mine, a young girl at the time, was looking at a drum kit in a music store in Sydney around 10 years ago...Chris just happened to be walking past the store and noticed this....he walked into the store, paid for the drum kit and then continued on with is walk. True story.

"What's his name?" "I can't remember"... "... okay ._."

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Laughin' big from O'Brien on Martin: "he might still be booing but there is more people around him" (this is a remarkable one sentence self-explanatory), then O'Brien elaborates on that what I guess many wouldn't consider that funny. As it occurs to me: those people may be the security, "ring of fire" etc. From such way of understanding Martin it's some different "elaborating" O'Brien does: "its" or "that's the guy who is the one". That's what brought up what I litterally saw, in photo, in the newspaper the day before yester, some chiseled saying from the Chinese: "It takes no more than two people to bring change about". Ultimately, it is a possibility that Martin's experience with smaller crowds was that what those Chinese say is true but with very small crowds one single person is more able to bring change about than one person in a stadion. I guess that's somehow what he's actually meant, somehow, and somehow O'Brien understood, and laughing hard transmits that this is no easy subject; it's of great use to treat that in the maths. Is that Sheeran today or last year's touring? (Another etymological I'd like to be allowed to write down at this space: Is th-ed Sheeran, never mind!) Who want to "read more"... (from my diary): Today I thought is the day RU-vid introduced effective downvoting of comments (and replys). Actually, with some of the comments any thumb down would turn the down to the black, with other comments it seems any down will put a discount on the ups. That coincides, to my mind, with what Martin said about "more people". Security guards might "diminish" that one booer (jokingly, laughing big), and that one down as that one person - O'Brien elaborating - would "not show" - very different from a circle of 5 that shows up as 5 black crows that look upscale and attractive and can do this to each other, as it sound good only if listened to, and there is a learn after me and some show me how to. Is booing saying: it's not what he think's he's up to but he's missing out for other reason like blue sued shoes not blued enough - boo, not blued enough. Don't cancel me out.

encoraging

and don’t forget Viva la Vida is a classic also!😊

why is chris' shirt's letters backwards and conans isnt? is that the camera? its really confusing me! haha