This is great! Like Coldplay radio station :dance:

And what I like about radio stations is the quality of sound :)

haha, thanks! :P

 

awesome!

wish theyd have played the blue room version

No way! How did Spies not get in the Top 10?

^ Yes way! :o

 

grrrrrrrrrr Ian, the stereo's about 4 mins ahead of the computer

Great show!

Counting down now!

 

10) Trouble

 

 

(Came 7th in Coldplaying.com favourite songs poll)

 

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 Martin 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 Buckland 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.

 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JzgCFtcQ2e4

 

There are 2 versions of the video Troube

UK version posted above

US version:

 

According to Chris on an MTV interview he said the song represends getting in sort of trouble with someone and the analogy of a spider web is used because it's the sort of trouble you didn't mean to get into with someone.

 

i believe this is about someone who has been so overcome with emotions that he ends up hurting others...he feels so much that words cant explain it all and he gets frustrated...he cant even get things in order in his mind' date=' let alone to relay them to someone else...and he feels like he's going crazy...so his doubt and lack of words seems to hurt the other person...or maybe his past has just caught up with him and he's left to deal with mistakes, although he's changed as a person...he can't change what's been done[/quote']

 

I have a different take on this song. My situation was a bit different' date=' I was dating someone I shouldn't have been dating (she is married) and I got involved with her. She was/is a family friend she was going through some problems and I guess I was there to make her feel better about herself. Then one day out of nowhere she stopped calling. The line that says "I never meant to cause you trouble, no I never meant to cause you harm" always sticks out in my mind because if I had never gotten involved with her, we would still be talking and we would still be friends. Great song![/quote']

 

oh no, I see

a spiderweb is tangled up with me

and I lost my head

and thought of all the stupid things I'd said

 

oh no, what's this?

a spiderweb and I'm caught in the middle

so I turned to run

and thought of all the stupid things I'd done

 

and I never meant to cause you trouble

and I never never meant to do your wrong

ah, well if I ever caused you trouble

oh no I never meant to do you harm

 

oh no, I see

a spiderweb and it's me in the middle

so I twist and turn

but here am I in my little bubble

 

singing and I never meant to cause you trouble

and I never meant to do you wrong

ah, well if I ever caused you trouble

oh no I never meant to do you harm

 

they spun a web for me

they spun a web for me

they spun a web for me

here we go!

So Politik was out of the top ten :disappointed:

VLV better be higher than 9!

9) Talk

 

 

(came 13th in favourite Coldplaying Songs poll)

 

'Talk' takes the riff from electronic music legends Kraftwerk's Computer Love and builds a completely new song. It keeps the mechanical beat of the original but adds a huge guitar and dancefloor filling bass-line. Stadiums wont be big enough to contain it.

 

"Talk" is the third single from X&Y, the third album by British alternative rock band Coldplay. It was released in the UK on 19 December 2005. The radio edit has been available since 14 November on the iTunes Music Store. The song entered the UK charts at #10 on 25 December 2005.

 

Coldplay received permission from the electronica band Kraftwerk to use the main riff from their song "Computer Love" for "Talk", replacing Kraftwerk's synthesizers with guitars.

 

The band recorded three separate versions of "Talk"; the one found on X&Y was based on an early cut of the song. A newer version of the track (with a different set of lyrics) was leaked onto the internet in March 2005. "Talk" was originally intended to be a B-side for the single "Speed of Sound" before becoming the last addition to X&Y's track listing.

 

This song was performed live at the 2005 MTV Europe Music Awards on 3 November in Lisbon, Portugal. It was also performed live at the 2006 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

 

The music video for "Talk" was helmed by director/photographer Anton Corbijn. Filming took place on 5th and 6th November at Ealing Studios, London, just before the band began an European leg on the Twisted Logic Tour. The black-and-white clip invokes a B-movie science fiction theme, with imagery ranging from a flying saucer to 3D glasses.

 

It seems the entire video can in fact been viewed in three dimensions using Anaglyphic 3D glasses like the ones worn by the band. Due to the red (left eye) & blue (right eye) edges that define a stereoscopic image. However the effect is subtle and best appreciated with a high resolution version.

 

The main plot line of the music video features Coldplay as astronauts landing on an alien planet, where they re-activate a dormant robot. The robot in the video bears a strong physical resemblance to the original Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy television series. Along the line of televison series, at the very end of the video, there is whistling that resembles The Clangers. A previous Coldplay track, "Don't Panic" also referenced the series with its title. At one point of the clip, subtitles present the lyrics of the song spelt backwards just like in the video for "No Surprises" by Radiohead.

 

 

 

"It started off with a Kraftwerk sample [it nicks the riff from the German technocrats' Computer Love]. Chris wrote a letter to Ralf [Hutter' date= Kraftwerk kingpin] in German."

 

"The record company said' date=' 'This has to be the first single.' So we scrapped it, re-recorded it, scrapped it."[/quote']

 

"I flew back to New York for a day and mixed it. Then I was able to enjoy it as a song' date=' rather than 1012 ideas that weren't right."[/quote']

 

This song is about uncertainty for sure. But it could apply to many people because it does not specify that it is about uncertainty in love, in relationships, in friendships, in your career etc . . .

For me, it totally makes sense because sometimes I "feel like a puzzle" I can't find my missing piece. LIke, for me, I've got what I want and then some . . .but ther'es something missing still. Sooooo coool that they can just put down in words thoughts I couldn't pinpoint myself. But growing up is not lame. You just need to know that life is one big roller coaster ride. As much as we may feel lost, we just need to remember that it is an adventure, and it is fun!

 

It's cool because Colplay answers the question about what this person should do. Climb a ladder up to the sun, do something that's never been done. They're telling us to get out there and live our lives to the fullest. There are no limits and life is what you make of it. I love it. It is so inspiring and it really helps when I feel lost.

 

Oh brother I can’t, I can't get through

I've been trying hard to reach you 'cause I don't know what to do

Oh brother I can't believe it's true

I'm so scared about the future and I wanna talk to you

Oh I wanna talk to you

 

You can take a picture of something you see

In the future where will I be?

You can climb a ladder up to the sun

Or a write a song nobody has sung or do

Something that's never been done

 

Are you lost or incomplete?

Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?

Tell me how do you feel?

Well I feel like they're talking in a language I don't speak

And they’re talking it to me

 

So you take a picture of something you see

In the future where will I be?

You can climb a ladder up to the sun

Or a write a song nobody has sung or do

Something that's never been done, do

Something that's never been done

 

So you don't know where you're going and you wanna talk

And you feel like you're going where you've been before

You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored

Nothing's really making any sense at all, let's talk

Let's talk, let's talk, let's talk

VLV better be higher than 9!

 

Ben already played Viva la Vida, it's not in the top 10

8) Shiver

 

 

(Came 14th in Coldplaying songs poll)

 

'Shiver' is the first single from the debut album Parachutes.

 

The months of pre-production, gigging and studio time which preceded Coldplay’s arrival in Liverpool's Parr St Studios had not been wasted.

 

When the band began jamming new tracks such as Yellow, Everything’s Not Lost and Trouble just before their New Year break, the album’s projected tracklisting quickly changed. It became apparent that some of the older songs had been surpassed and were no longer going to make the final cut.

 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CG4fh4NgOgY

 

This is a great song of desperation about the one you love' date=' but cant be with. I think they have a history together, she probably dumped him and now pays him no attention whatsoever, which is what the core of this song is about. Little stalker-ish perhaps, but a great rock tune.[/quote']

 

I don't think it's about unrequited love. I mean, not in the sense that he loves her and she just doesn't give a damn about him. To me it's about how they're almost best friends and he loves her more than that but she doesn't know of his feelings. Because to me, when you love someone so much they're your best friend and he's willing to be this and do that for her no matter what. Whether she loves him back or they are just friends. He's loves her that much.

 

so I look in your direction

but you pay me no attention, do you?

I know you don't listen to me

'cos you say you see straight through me, don't you?

but on and on

from the moment I wake

to the moment I sleep

I'll be there by your side

just you try and stop me

I'll be waiting in line

just to see if you care

 

oh, did you want me to change?

well I'd change for good

and I want you to know

that you'll always get your way

I wanted to say...

 

don't you shiver

you shiver

singing loud and clear

I'll always be waiting for you

 

so you know how much I need you

but you never even see me, do you?

and is this my final chance of getting you?

 

but on and on

from the moment I wake

to the moment I sleep

I'll be there by your side

just you try and stop me

I'll be waiting in line

just to see if you care, if you care

oh, did you want me to change?

well I'd change for good

and I want you to know

that you'll always get your way

and I wanted to say...

 

don't you shiver

don't you shiver

I sing it loud and clear

I'll always be waiting for you

 

yeah I'll always be waiting for you

yeah I'll always be waiting for you

yeah I'll always be waiting for you

for you, I will always be waiting

 

and it's you I see

but you don't see me

and it's you I hear

so loud and so clear

I sing it loud, and clear

and I'll always be waiting for you

 

so I look in your direction

but you pay me no attention

and you know how much I need you

but you never even see me

Hey folks! Arrived just a bit late!! How can Shiver be only number 8?? It's the most f*cking awesome song ever written!!

 

BTW, I voted for Shiver, Trouble and In My Place some days ago :D

Ben already played Viva la Vida, it's not in the top 10

WHAT!? ugh... I think a revision will be in order a few months down the road. That means Strawberry Swing aint got a chance in hell. I hope SEE YOU SOON hasnt been played YET! Please dont tell me... Oh well Im going to keep listening anyways.

and once again Jen remembers why she is rubbish at music rounds in pub quizzes

7) In My Place

 

 

(Came 9th in Coldplaying.com favourite songs poll)

 

The first singe and another of those bittersweet but empowering anthems: simple Jonny Buckland guitar figure destined to promp arms-aloft' date=' bare-boobs-on-the-video-screen action at a stadium gig sometime soon - much to the band's probable despair.[/quote']

 

"In My Place" is the first single on Coldplay's second album A Rush of Blood to the Head. This was their third Top 10 hit on the UK Singles Chart. Regional singles were released for UK, Europe, the Netherlands, France, Canada, and Australia. Promo singles were released in UK, US, France, and Japan. The single cover features guitarist Jon Buckland, art directed by Solve Sundsbo.

 

"In My Place" was one of Coldplay's "old-new" songs for their second album. It had originally been written at the time of Parachutes original release in September 2000 (see 2000 in music). The song had been performed regularly on live tours prior to A Rush of Blood to the Head.

 

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6-Yl1WnbdG0

 

"In My Place" won Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 2003 Grammy Awards.

 

I think this song is about being in a relationship you should not be in, for whatever reason. Crossing lines and giving up parts of yourself that you should never for anyone.

 

I think it is actually meant to come from two different people. One is the guy begging the girl back, and asking for mercy for "crossing lines he should not have crossed" and using the excuse that "he was lost"

 

And then the girl hears family, friends, etc, attempting to open her eyes to the reality that this guy is not good for her. "How long must she wait?" "How long must she pay?"

 

---or---

 

maybe it is one person who has hurt others in the past and now cannot find a real relationship because he created such negative Karma for his romantic future. Interesting.

 

I think "lines that I couldn't change" are circumstances beyond his/her control, not necessarily something he did. Then he/she crossed them, and should not have.

 

In my place, in my place

Were lines that I couldn't change

I was lost, oh yeah

 

I was lost, I was lost

Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed

I was lost, oh yeah

 

And yeah

How long must you wait for it?

Yeah, how long must you pay for it?

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

For it

 

I was scared, I was scared

Tired and under prepared

But I'll wait for it

 

And if you go, if you go

And leave me down here on my own

Then I'll wait for you, yeah

 

And yeah

How long must you wait for it?

Yeah, how long must you pay for it?

Yeah, how long must you wait for it?

 

Singing please, please, please

Come back and sing to me, to me, me

Come on and sing it out, now, now

Come on and sing it out to me, me

Come back and sing

 

In my place, in my place

Were lines that I couldn't change

And I was lost, oh yeah

Oh yeah

Hello Ben! Greetings from Brazil :D

Grrrrr my top three is gone :angry:

6) Violet Hill!

 

 

Violet Hill is a track included on Coldplay's fourth album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. The song will be released as the first single from the album on May 5, 2008. A music video for the song was filmed in Sicily, Italy.

 

One of the strongest of the new songs, the band was considering giving it away as a special promotion in coming weeks and then leaving it off the album. However it was later revealed that not only would Violet Hill end up being on the album, it would be the first single. Opening with a jagged distorted guitar riff, the song announces a new template: The stalking, bluesy beat fits nicely with Chris Martin's earthy vocals and plaintive lyrics: "If you love me, won't you let me know?"

 

The band also announced on April 28, 2008 that the single would be released from the official Coldplay website on April 29 for a week free of charge before the paid download on May 5. The song received its first radio play on April 29, 2008, on Radio 1 at 12:13. Coldplay’s new single 'Violet Hill' was downloaded for free by over 600,000 people in the 24 hours since it was made available at 12.15pm on April 29.

 

In the May 7 issue of NME, a promotional 7" vinyl for the song with B-side A Spell A Rebel Yell will be included. Chris Martin described the song as having a "chalky, pastel feeling" which he said reminds him of his childhood. "Imagine a pseudo guitar-like circus music with a pinch of Chicago... It's something new from us and you will be impressed."

 

First Release Of Violet Hill Causes Websites To Crash

 

Coldplay’s new single 'Violet Hill' was downloaded for free by over 600,000 people in the 24 hours since it was made available at 12.15pm on Tuesday (April 29).

 

In the first 12 hours it was downloaded by 300,000. This figure doubled overnight as other countries logged on to Coldplay.com, the source of the free download. The single will be available free for a week and will then be released as a paid-for digital single on May 6.

 

Meanwhile, Last.fm have been keen to point out that the Coldplay figures are a record, exceeding even the most popular track from the Radiohead album that was streamed for free back in October. That notched up 22,000 listens in 12 hours.

 

Last.fm's figures are based, obviously, on the traffic that is scrobbled among Last.fm users, so these are only a minimum figure. But in 23 hours, there have already been 33,523 listens of Violet Hill - equivalent to 1 listen every 2.4 seconds. That's despite Coldplay's server wobbling about a bit under the weight of requests yesterday. Last.fm has already claimed a significant 119% rise in the number of click-throughs to Amazon's retail site since it introduced free streaming for the big four music labels.

 

Was a long and dark December

From the rooftops I remember

There was snow, white snow

 

Clearly I remember

From the windows they were watching

While we froze down below

 

When the future's architectured

By a carnival of idiots on show

You'd better lie low

 

If you love me

Won't you let me know?

 

Was a long and dark December

When the banks became cathedrals

And the fox, became God

 

Priests clutched onto bibles

Hollowed out to fit their rifles

And the cross was held aloft

 

Bury me in armor

When I’m dead and hit the ground

My love's opposed it unfolds

 

(Guitar solo)

whooo whooo

(Guitar solo continues)

 

I don't want to be a soldier

Who the captain of some sinking ship

Would stow, far below

 

So if you love me

Why'd you let me go?

 

I took my love down to violet hill

There we sat in snow

All that time she was silent still

 

So if you love me

Won't you let me know?

 

If you love me,

Won't you let me know?

 

 

 

http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/Violet_Hill

??? VIOLET HILL OVER VLV???? Im may have to tune out now....

 

 

jk dang Im blown away

Grrrrr my top three is gone :angry:

 

I've got one left!

5) Speed Of Sound

 

 

(Came 17th in Coldplaying.com favourite songs poll :o)

 

2005 MTV Europe Music Awards - Best Song

2006 Brit Awards - Best British Single

 

"Speed of Sound" is the first single from British rock band Coldplay's third album, X&Y. It made its radio premiere on BBC Radio 1 with Steve Lamacq on the evening of Monday, 18 April 2005; the track is currently available for download on the band's official site and on the iTunes Music Store. A 30 second clip of the song was also available as a downloadable ringtone.

 

Beginning with a piano riff reminiscent of Coldplay's "Clocks", the song builds into a huge, synth-heavy chorus: "Birds go flying at the speed of sound, to show you how it all began / Birds came flying from the underground, if you could see it then you'd understand." The song was created as the band attempted to work through a cover version of Kate Bush's song, "Running Up That Hill." If you listen closely, you can hear the resemblance of the main riff to that in Bush's song.

 

"Speed of Sound" was beaten to the number one spot on the UK Singles Chart by the novelty ringtone "Axel F" by Crazy Frog, a computer animated marketing tool. It also became Coldplay's biggest single in the US, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

 

The video promo for "Speed of Sound" was shot on a Los Angeles sound stage over 22–23 April 2005. Shooting took place on large sets backed by large LED displays. The performance based video was helmed by Mark Romanek, who was responsible for Johnny Cash's "Hurt" and Jay-Z's "99 Problems".

 

The video earned 4 nominations at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysfp3jDqT8c

 

I think that the whole song is about discovery, finding things and getting inspiration. The first 2 verses could relate to how he was trying to find inspiration for this album.

 

I think the chorus has a direct link to how songs can give you inspiration, "birds flying" at the "speed of sound" means the songs that free you and broaden your mind, even your own songs can bring to the surface things you had kept in your unconscious "underground"

 

I'm torn between the meaning of the third verse, it could mean the limitation of human knowledge and the human mind, there are so many things that we'll never even think about "Ideas that you'll never find" and that perhaps other people and other songs can find them for you.

 

The next line, however, seems to be about the expanse of your imagination, or the things locked away in your mind and I believe its "ALL the inventors could never design the buildings that you put up" i.e in your imagination,

 

and then it seems to revert back to the idea that our knowledge is limited "some things you have to believe but others are puzzles puzzling me" or it could mean that we all have different interpretations about things and we'll understand some things and others will understand other things... I guess that's what this site is all about!

 

how long before I get in

before it starts, before I begin

how long before you decide

before I know what it feels like

where to?

Where do I go?

if you've never tried then you'll never know

how long do I have to climb

up on the side of this mountain of mine

 

look up, I look up at night

planets are moving at the speed of light

climb up, up in the trees

every chance that you get

is a chance you seize

how long am I gonna can stand

with my head stuck under the sand

I start before I can stop

before I see thing the right way up

 

all that noise, all that sound

all those places that i have found

and birds go flying at the speed of sound

to show how it all began

birds came flying from the underground

if you could see it then you'd understand

 

ideas that you'll never find

or the inventors could never design

the buildings that you put up

Japan and China... all lit up

the sign that I couldn't read

or the light that I couldn't see

some things you have to believe

but others are puzzles, puzzling me

 

all that noise, all that sound

all those places that i have found

and birds go flying at the speed of sound

to show how it all began

birds came flying from the underground

if you could see it then you'd understand

 

all those signs I knew what they meant

something you can't invent

Some get made, and some get sent

ooh

words go flying at the speed of sound

to show how it all began

birds came flying from the underground

if you could see it then you'd understand

oh, when you see it then you'll understand

Violet Hill and Speed of Sound better than Shiver???? Oh God I'll pass out :furious: