Released: 23
October 2000.
Recorded at: Parr St Studio, Liverpool.
Produced by: Ken Nelson & Coldplay.
The final track to be laid down in Liverpool before the final session in Wessex
Studios, London, Trouble was not always the piano-led slow-burner that it became.
Chris came to the band with the main chord structure and lyrical theme in
September pre-production. Initial jams produced a fast guitar riff coupled with
an aggressive vocal line that seemed heavily influenced by the early Supergrass
singles. On the few occasions that the song was included in the set on the
Bellatrix co-headline tour of November 1999, the emphasis had shifted onto the
main keyboard riff but Will's drum pattern gave the song a calypso feel that
actually sounded better than you might imagine.
Come March however, the song had settled into its Parachutes mood and form.
Jonny had brought in one of his most subtly affecting guitar lines and Will had
slowed the pace down to incorporate a laid-back snare sound that semed to have
its origins in trip-hop. On completion all agreed that this was likely to be the
album's pivotal track.
When the decision was made to release Trouble as the third single, the splendid
acoustic version of Shiver that the band had laid down for Jo Whiley's Radio 1
show was an obvious candidate for a b-side. More controversial was the re-rendering
of early Fierce Panda single 'Brothers and Sisters' for the other. This was a
song that had been in the live set from June 1998 and had been recorded in the
studio on two previous occasions. Band members' affection for the song differ
and its absence from the current set is perhaps indicative of this.