OK, you have the album tracks and b-sides: how would you arrange the tracklist for the X&Y album and what would you leave for b-side material?

 

 

Rules:

1. You must leave at least 3 for b-sides, so 15 album tracks as maximum (there's some bad math for you)

2. No ballistic weapons

 

you have:

 

Square One

What If

White Shadows

Fix You

Talk

X&Y

Speed Of Sound

A Message

Low

The Hardest Part

Swallowed In The Sea

Twisted Logic

'Til Kingdom Come

Things I Don't Understand

Proof

The World Turned Upside Down

Gravity

Sleeping Sun

How You See The World (1 or 2)

 

 

go!

 

 

(PS: If you're really bored, say which you'd release as singles (not necessarily personal favourites))

for instance, here's mine:

 

1. Square One

2. Low

3. Speed Of Sound

4. A Message

5. White Shadows

6. Talk

7. What If

8. The World Turned Upside Down (called X&Y)

9. Twisted Logic

10. Sleeping Sun

11. 'Til Kingdom Come

12. How You See The World (2)

13. X&Y (w/ different title)

14. Gravity

 

 

Singles:

 

Talk (Proof)

 

How You See The World #2 (Things I Don't Understand)

 

Speed Of Sound (Swallowed In The Sea, The Hardest Part)

Im confused... :confused:

if you were to design the Album of X&Y, using the songs that Coldplay have recorded in 2004/2005, how would you choose to do it? Which recorded tracks would you include on the album? Would you prefer one of the b-sides instead of one of the tracks on the released album? Do you think the tracks could be arranged in a different order?

1. Square One

2. Gravity

3. White Shadows

4. Fix You

5. Speed of Sound

6. The Hardest Part

7. X & Y

8. How You See The World

9. Talk

10. Sleeping Sun

11. Swallowed In The Sea

12. Low

13. Twisted Logic

Bonus Track: Till Kingdom Come

 

Singles:

Speed of Sound (Things I don't understand; Proof)

Fix You (The Worlds Turned)

Talk (What If; A Message)

Square One

Things I dont understand

White Shadows

Fix You

Talk

The World Turned Upside Down

Speed of Sound

A Message

Low

The Hardest Part

Swallowed by the Sea

Twisted Logic

Sleeping Sun

album title: Twisted Logic

 

1.Square One

2.What If?

3.White Shadows

4.Fix You

5.Talk

6.How You See The World

7.X&Y

8.Speed Of Sound

9.Low

10.Swallowed In The Sea

11.Things I Don't Understand

12.Twisted Logic

hidden:Gravity

 

Singles:

 

Talk (Proof,The World Turned Upside Down)

Fix You (Sleeping Sun,Pour Me)

Low (A Message,Til Kingdom Come)

Exactly as is, only without the hardest part and white shadows to be replaced by how you see the world and sleeping sun. Then the singles should be:

 

Square one (b-sides: the world turned upside down and proof)

X&Y (b-sides: gravity and white shadows)

A message (b-sides: things i don't understand and pour me)

1. Square One

2. White Shadows

3. Fix You

4. Speed Of Sound

5. Low

6. What If

7. A Message

8. Proof

9. Twisted Logic

10. Talk

11. Swallowed In The Sea

 

Singles:

Pre-Album

1. Speed Of Sound / Proof

LEAD SINGLE: 2. Talk / Things I Don't Understand, 'Til Kingdom Come

Post-Album

3. Fix You / How You See The World 1

4. Swallowed In The Sea / How You See the World 2

5. A Message / Sleeping Sun, Gravity

 

I Would Scrap:

The Hardest Part

The World Turned Upside Down

1. Square One

2. White Shadows

3. X&Y

4. Fix You

5. Talk

6. Speed of Sound

7. How You See the World No. 2

8. Low

9. A Message

10. Swallowed In The Sea

11. Twisted Logic

 

Singles:

#1 Speed of Sound/Things I Don't Understand/ Proof

#2 Fix You/The World Turned Upside Down

#3 Talk/Sleeping Sun/Gravity

#4 White Shadows/'Til Kingdom Come

 

Scrap:

What If

The Hardest Part (if it was like the VIVA tour performances, then I would put it as a b-side for Fix You)

1 Square one

2 White shadows

3 Fix you

4 Speed of sound

5 Talk

6 A message

7 X+Y

8 The hardest part

9 Low

10 Gravity (more like Embrace version...)

11 Things I don't understand

12 How you see the world

 

Singles:

1. Speed of sound (Twisted logic, Proof)

2. White shadows (What if, Swalloed in the sea)

3. Fix you (TWTUD, Pour me)

4. Square one (Till kingdom come)

5. Gravity (Sleeping sun)

You forgot Pour Me

My "If I was King" X'n Y choices

 

1. Things I Don't Understand

2. Talk

3. The World Turned Upsidedown

4. Twisted Logic

5. Fix You

6. Square One

7. White Shadows

8. Speed Of Sound

9. Sleeping Sun

10. Gravity

11. Swallowed in the Sea

12. A Message

13. Til' Kingdom Come (not hidden)

 

 

13. Proof (hidden)

 

 

 

Singles

 

Lead with. Talk (b-side; A Message, original Talk) a month before release.

 

Second Single. Speed Of Sound (b-side; What If, ) A week before album drops

 

Third Single. Fix You (b-side; Low, How You See The World 1)

Last Single. White Shadows (b-side How You See The World 2, X&Y)

Square One would easily be the next single if Id have picked a 5th.

 

Scrap anything left...

You know White shadows can't work unless it's gaplessly behind fix you.

What's with all the dislike for The Hardest Part?

 

Anyway mine would be:

 

1. Proof

2. The World Turned Upside Down

3. Square One

4. What If

5. Swallowed in the Sea

6. Gravity

7. A Message

8. Things I Don't Understand

9. Speed of Sound

10. The Hardest Part

11. Talk

12. White Shadows

13. Fix You

 

I'm not so much a fan of X&Y, Low or Twisted Logic so left these out. I love Til Kingdom Come but it doesn't really fit anywhere so also left that out and Sleeping Sun doesn't work either.

 

I always feel albums should close better as well as the open so finishing with Fix You is a good way of going out with a bang (well the ending part is)

1) Square One

2) Things I Don't Understand

3) White Shadows

4) Talk (can't decide whether to put in the album version or the original advance version)

5) The World Turned Upside Down

6) How You See The World (1 or 2)

7) A Message

8) Low

9) Sleeping Sun

10) Swallowed In The Sea

11) Twisted Logic

12) 'Til Kingdom Come

13) Fix You

 

Singles:

Square One (b-sides: X&Y, Speed of Sound)

Talk (b-sides: What If, Proof, Talk [advanced version or the other one; depending on which went into the album])

Fix You (b-sides: Gravity, Pour Me)

 

 

Scrape The Hardest Part