Parachutes
Our lives may never be worthy of commemoration in a rock song, but Coldplay are here to represent their audience in broad strokes. Coldplay people wake up in the middle of the night, run away from problems, hurt the ones they love, and like the color yellow. On the piano-led ballad "Trouble" or the wee-small-hours mood of "Everything's Not Lost," they find something that compensates for the ordinary: beauty.