“Green Eyes” ( A Rush of Blood to the Head, 2002) The lyrics on the track, like many on the entire album, echo the idea of feeling “lost” and “drifting,” this time in space, with a dreamy guitar melody and a beautifully haunting violin outro.
The title track off of the band’s third studio album represented exactly what they wanted the album to sound like – a glorious space odyssey, influenced by David Bowie and Brian Eno. A majestic amount of ground covered for a sub-four-minute deep cut.
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“42” is one of the few that bothers to bring it full circle, with their eerie piano ballad about something being wrooooooong evolving into a jagged alt-prog shuffle with rusty “Optimistic” guitars, only to return back on Martin, the piano, the dead living in Martin’s head. Two-part songs were the reason for the season on Coldplay’s fourth album, with about half the set’s tracks ending up in very different places than they started. “42” (Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, 2008)
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It grows to a powerful ballad, with bellowing harmonies and chiming guitar riff, to create an intimate-sounding track to offer relief from the series of bombastic singles that opens the album. “Up Against the World” ( Mylo Xyloto, 2011)Īnother Mylo track, this one features a tried-and-true Coldplay combo: Martin’s soft vocals and a strumming guitar.
“Lost!” ( Viva La VIda or Death and All His Friends, 2008)Ī Viva La Vida single that borrows the organ from “Fix You” for far less stadium-leveling purposes: “Lost!” is a gently knocking testament to being adrift-but-not-too-adrift, Martin moaning, “I’m just waiting till the shine wears off.” “Lost!” also marked the peak of Martin’s double-dating friendship with fellow music industry titan (and power coupler) Jay-Z, with the Jigga Man showing up on the song’s remix with one of his wiser post-retirement couplets: “So it’s tough bein’ Bobby Brown/ To be Bobby then, you gotta be Bobby now.” - A.U.Ĥ6. A single version nearly snips the original’s length in half, but “Up&Up” is best served as a nearly seven-minute, fiercely positive pop-rock jam. chant, a hopeful crescendo that captures a glass-half-full full-length. The final song on A Head Full of Dreams demonstrates Coldplay’s mission statement for the album as a speedy follow-up to the somber Ghost Stories: “We’re gonna get it, get it together right now,” Martin & Co. “Oh, I think I’ve landed/ Where there are miracles at work,” frontman Chris Martin sings, and for the seventh time, you’re right there with him. “A Head Full of Dreams” ( A Head Full of Dreams, 2016)Ĭoldplay hit the ground running on the opener to their seventh (and largely presumed final) album, a blood-rushing, open-space rocker that tries to lap U2’s “One Tree Hill” and almost succeeds.
Not only did it highlight the band’s relatively new incorporation of over-the-top synths, but it also gave a nod to classic Coldplay styles with its mini-guitar solo and piano outro. The band paired rousing, layered vocals, dramatic violins, and dreamy synths to create the addicting track, which scored a Grammy nomination for best pop duo/group performance. Look how they all still shine for us in 2019.Ĭoldplay released this euphoric track as the second single from their 2011 rock opera Mylo Xyloto. To properly commemorate 20 years of Coldplay jams, we’ve decided to count down our 50 favorites from the seven albums and change’s worth of songs they’ve released so far.
It’s a large part of the reason why they’ve managed to stay popular and relevant for so long - impressively, their four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 have been spaced out to 2005, 2008, 20 - and why we’re so excited to have them back in our lives, as they return this Friday with the double LP Everyday Life.
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