What do you think about the titles of the song of the next fourth album by ColdplaY?

 

Lost!

Cemeteries of London

Violet Hill

Poppy Fields

42

Yes!

LeftRightLeftRightLeft

Rainy Day

thinking like let us see and listen...

 

and yeah before supporting i thought that some what not good,

not bad.

i hope leftrightleftright isn't some stupid dance song like the macarena or something like that

you know, with the spanish accents and stuff:laugh3:

sounds like the 'heavy dark' material they've been talking about..its looking good

i agree with prospekt, all good songs should be on the album even if they dont fit together, but hopefully the two great songs will be released on an ep or as an b-side. i wonder what the titles shown in black are...

my opinion about the titles :

Lost! > nice

Cemeteries of London > not good at all...bad title

Violet Hill > nice

Poppy Fields > ?

42 > nice

Yes! > not good

ot LeftRightLeftRightLeft > not good

Rainy Day > very nice, I like rain :smile:

i can't decide what to think just from the titles... i mean, this could mean anything, so we'll see. :rolleyes:

as coldplay-s said i am agreeing with "violet hill" and "rainy day" because now its all monsoon here and i love it like anything.

another suggestion:

prospekt said that all songs have the same style, and i think, good or not, that the album will be a bit like x&y, cemeteries says a lot, doesn't it?

LeftRightLeftRightLeft sounds like it will be about war. Like how in armies they march saying "Left, Right," etc.

LeftRightLeftRightLeft sounds like it will be about war. Like how in armies they march saying "Left, Right," etc.

 

that definitely would not surprise me

I couldn't resist adding a poll to this thread ;)

Ahhh i dont know about the titles.There are some good ones.I like 42,Rainy Day,and Lost!.And i also dont think the album will be just 42 mins. and just 9 tracks.They are still in the stages of deciding the tracklisting and all that.And they usually go through many arrangements with adding more songs and stuff.Although this is very good news i say i will be expecting maybe 2 or 3 more songs.

personally im glad they're not necessarily choosing the best songs, but deciding to stick on a theme. I think they might have chosen what they believed to be the best songs on X&Y but to me the album didn't flow as nicely as I wish it would have done.

can someone drop these tracks here..........

well i remember that some of AROBTTH album, some songs are renamed.... i mean it was said that they will do a song named in a way and on the album has a different although is the same song so don't mind too much with the titles, what's important is the content (lyrics and music) ;)

Sounds very interesting. Definitely not like you're average every day Coldplay songs.

 

 

I can't wait for this album. Atleast they're doing something different. Maybe this'll put them in smaller venues?

of course youre right

Re: tracklisting

 

Everyone just calm down... remember how X&Y, Chris said that they were aiming for a 10 track album, with 5 tracks on each "half" of the album (X half and Y half)? Well, we ended up with 13 tracks on X&Y. Not to mention how many times the tracks were renamed on X&Y and AROBTTH. This album feels like it'll be more like "Parachutes" in the way that it will pretty much reinvent Coldplay from the ground up.

 

I'll admit it made me a little nervous to read that at first... but here's what I think.

 

"Lost!" is a great name for a song. The exclamation point for some reason seems overkill and reminds me of something My Chemical Romance would do, but hey - the title of the song leads me to believe it'll end up good.

 

"Cemeteries of London" might be one of my least favorite titles thus far. It seems so cliché. Maybe it will turn out different, but the title itself is bland and uninspiring.

 

"Violet Hill" is promising enough. Probably a song about losing someone and there being a really sentimental spot to Chris called "Violet Hill".

 

"Poppy Fields" is... well... I'll reserve judgment on this one right now.

 

"42" is by far the best title listed thus far, and the best candidate for album title out of all the tracklisting IMO. It is so abstract it could be basically about anything, but I'm going to grasp at Douglas-centered straws here and say it's about how skewed the meaning of life has become in today's society? Couldn't you just see the headlines... "COLDPLAY'S NEW ALBUM '42' DROPS AT #1". "'42' REASONS COLDPLAY STILL HAS IT".

 

"Yes!" is almost as disappointing a title as Cemeteries of London... but meh... whatever.

 

"LeftRightLeftRightLeft"!? NO! NO NO NO NO NO! This just REEKS of War on Terror propaganda! Not that I'm for the War on Terror, but I absolutely hate it when artists scream their political ideologies from the microphone. Songs like "A Rush of Blood to the Head" and "Politik" are political enough without bashing it in your face, which is why I love them. This just sounds like the lyrics will be something like "We all march in time/We're stepping to your beat/The hypocrites have won/And justice takes defeat", or something really cliche and generic like that. Please let this one get dropped. Please.

 

"Rainy Day" is the only title on the album to give me a real classic Coldplay feel. Why something as simple as a Rainy Day can do that, I do not understand. Keep it.

 

 

 

My pick for all the tracks... the one most likely to be a slow ballad is Rainy Day. The one most likely to be their first single is "Lost!". And the one most likely to be the best song on the album is "Violet Hill".

 

 

</overanalyzing>

Looking forward to seeing what this album will be like :)

I have to listen first..

then I'll give my opinion...

 

But ..

i think Cemetries of London sounds promising...

just that..

This news on their new album is really quite exciting. I agree that I think leftrightleftrightleft will most definitely have something to do with the military or war. Many of the song titles, although cool doesn't seem that coldplay-esque.

 

I loved the names of the tracks on parachutes, mostly really cool one-word titles like shiver, spies, sparks, yellow, trouble, etc. The conjunction of the title style really seemed the connect the album.

AROBTTH also had a similar style with clocks, daylight, a whisper, amsterdam...Although I wasn't a fan back then the track title "God put a smile upon your face" probably seemed as weird as "yes!" does now. but X&Y had pretty standard song names, and none of the albums involved song titles that sounded quite as wacky as leftrightleftrightleft...

And wouldn't it be crazy to have two songs on the same album with exclamation points? I also wonder whether 42 has any reference to the meaning of life in hitch-hikers guide (just like don't panic).

 

But in the end it's the song and not it's title that matters. I'm surprised more people aren't discussing how short the album's gonna be. 10,11,12(13) and then 9...songs? I never expected such a surprising abbreviation...I was thinking more of a "big, boom-busting, greatest album of all-time."...which it still could be, but it won't be as long unless some songs go jesus of suburbia on us.

 

Anyway, that's my two...or more cents. I'm probably most curious about cemeteries of london. It sounds haunting, quiet...with perhaps another brilliant piano riff.

None, they are all crass.

New songs. Titles and Clues. My own analysis

 

I think the names aren't so important. Take a look at one of the best albums in pop/rock history. The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Band Club. The name itself of the title song or pieces of it as "Being For The Benefit of Mr.Kite!"; "When I'm Sixty-Four" or "Fixing a Hole". That's not the point, it's the feeling of the music and the combined power of the songs.

 

Some people are criticising so much now based on primary information, not really thinking that maybe the titles enclose clues to the songs.

 

It's obvious that "42" relates to the Douglas' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as "Don't Panic" did. And if you read that, you will know that is the final answer to everything.

 

"Violet Hill" is the name of a street of London located in the City of Westminster. Is it a remembrance form that place? Or a clinic for the spirit which also in London? This and "Cemeteries of London" could be very expressing their love for London, as they brilliantly did with the homage that the video of "Fix You" represented.

 

"Poppy Fields" could sound a weak title. But maybe it's ironic. Poppy Fields produce drugs as heroin or opium in countries like Afghanistan. A critic song to War today? Or is it related to "Strawberry Fields orever" as the title could suggest?

 

"Leftrightleftrightleft" is one of the basic exercises while training for boxing. Knocking out song for something/somebody?.

 

"Lost" or "Yes". They have the mark behind because they are outstanding tracks from the rest?

 

"Rainy Day" is the perfect name for a closing track, and it's the last of the list. I smelt a red herring the first time I saw it!

 

The real question that should be out there, is why the hell in the list there are four names covered in black. Provisional names, maybe? I see no trace of "Bucket For A Crown", "The Fall of man", "Mining on The Moon" or "The Butterfly". These could be the names of the rest of the songs, or mybe a Hispanic name. What do you think?

 

I can distinguish some characters, in the covered names, so maybe if somebody photoshopped the note a little bit, characters could be differentiated, enforcing some scales of grey. Somebody is gonna try it?

 

I heard rumours that the band is going to record in Spain again… but this time is not going to be in Barcelona. I can't tell anything else as I don't have strong confirmation on that.

 

I trust very much in the band, but specially with Phil Harvey, Dravs and Eno supporting them. I still don't know if it's going to be good but I believe it's goin to be different and unexepected.

 

Just my thoughts. Your friend and neighbour

i'm glad coldplay is humbling themselves to 9 songs.... sometimes an album can get too overblown and too thought out (aka X&Y). just because its nine songs doesn't mean its not going to be the greatest album they made. quality over quantity my friends.

 

and by the way i doubt coldplay will be playing small venues again (though i wish i'm wrong).