You can't beat a bit of melancholy.... Us Brits seem to be the masters of it.

Coldplay owe their ass to these bands:-

Stone Roses -I wanna be adored (manchester's finest)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ZPJwuH_E_k

Depeche Mode still sell out huge venues.

'Enjoy the silence' is still a top tune.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oSfxyG8LY2I

They kept it real - dave the singer was having tattoo's removed....to have new ones in their place and was shooting smack into his eye last i heard.

Echo & the bunnymen 'killing moon'

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7GSdAAHwl78

The Cure - A forest

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1QGPlcSdMxc