My iTunes today was shuffling randomly along: Dan Deacon, followed by Kraftwerk, then Faith No More, then Metronomy, Burial, Sleepy Jacksons, Thom Yorke Love Is All CommonSlayerSpecialNeedsOfMontreal…and then, a familiar drum beat emerges and the riff from ‘In My Place’ kicks in. It put a wider grin on my face than any of the previous and I found myself singing very loudly, and poorly, to it.

Am I bad person for really enjoying Coldplay? I’ve been wondering – should they be viewed as a skeleton in the musical closet or consigned to a public guilty pleasure?