Like someone said on the first page of the topic, it will not beat Fix You, or Clocks, etc.

It's an excellent song, I love it.. but the best ever? I don't think so...

I mean, listen to Sparks or Amsterdam and there's no comparison.

 

Exactly. Charlie Brown >> Amsterdam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sparks

Exactly. Charlie Brown >> Amsterdam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sparks

 

I actually love Sparks, dude. :nod:

Sparks is fucking awesome.

 

Charlie Brown is harmless and inoffensive, especially when compared to the two lead singles off MX, but it's not even their best song of the past year. I even liked Christmas Lights better.

Exactly. Charlie Brown >> Amsterdam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sparks

 

Amsterdam >> Sparks >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Charlie Brown :nod:

 

Charlie Brown isn't even the best song from this era, IMHO. It's not a bad tune, but it isn't better than the other songs mentioned.

 

@Corkus -- I loved Christmas Lights :rolleyes:

Amsterdam >> Sparks >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Charlie Brown :nod:

 

Charlie Brown isn't even the best song from this era, IMHO. It's not a bad tune, but it isn't better than the other songs mentioned.

 

@Corkus -- I loved Christmas Lights :rolleyes:

 

Charlie Brown >> Amsterdam >> Sparks :nod:

:P

Sparks is fucking awesome.

 

Charlie Brown is harmless and inoffensive, especially when compared to the two lead singles off MX, but it's not even their best song of the past year. I even liked Christmas Lights better.

 

 

I love you for saying that! Sparks is one of my all time favorite songs, not just from coldplay but in general. I used to sing my girlfriend to sleep with that song over the phone, now were married and I still sing it to her. Everything about that song is perfect and as much as I like CB, sparks is way way better!

I've fallen in love with this song again recently. Surely it's going to be a hit worldwide?

this song is good, but not the best ever, clocks is EPIC, and Shiver, and Viva La Vida,

Hurts Like Heaven and Charlie Brown are good songs, the betters of the new era, but stay in the lot of best songs of COLDPLAY

Charlie Brown >> Amsterdam >> Sparks :nod:

:P

 

I dont like sparks, is very slow

i love amsterdam, but its slow in the start, but is great

Sparks is fucking awesome.

 

Charlie Brown is harmless and inoffensive, especially when compared to the two lead singles off MX, but it's not even their best song of the past year. I even liked Christmas Lights better.

 

I love Sparks as well. It has a cool chord progression, bassline and melody.

 

But I like Charlie Brown better. Christmas Lights is a boring piece of ****.

Love charlie brown, but its not even the best song on the album. hurts like heaven is my fav. its all a matter of taste. to me coldplay doesnt have a best song, they have so many great songs it impossible to choose. Sometimes clocks sounds the best, maybe its everythings not lost, politik or even death and all of his friends is great. it depends on mood and taste. also on an unrelated note, I thought this was magical

 

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Love charlie brown, but its not even the best song on the album. hurts like heaven is my fav. its all a matter of taste. to me coldplay doesnt have a best song, they have so many great songs it impossible to choose. Sometimes clocks sounds the best, maybe its everythings not lost, politik or even death and all of his friends is great. it depends on mood and taste. also on an unrelated note, I thought this was magical

 

This man gets it. The best song is always based around the feeling and your current mood. For example I love Charlie Brown, but of late I've been enjoying Paradise almost as much or more.

I loved Charlie Brown on first listen but now I'm really deeply in love with the song. It's just so happy...and not in the same way as ETIAW. I really enjoy that the band makes this song such a wonderful live experience and future-hit without resorting to cheaper tactics (see: In My Place, VLV, Paradise).

I loved Charlie Brown on first listen but now I'm really deeply in love with the song. It's just so happy...and not in the same way as ETIAW. I really enjoy that the band makes this song such a wonderful live experience and future-hit without resorting to cheaper tactics (see: In My Place, VLV, Paradise).

 

Viva is brilliant. Just because it was a radio hit doesn't mean it's a bad song...There's really nothing else like it. Unquestionably one of Martin's best lyrical works, one of his greatest melodies. What's cheap about it?

Viva is brilliant. Just because it was a radio hit doesn't mean it's a bad song...There's really nothing else like it. Unquestionably one of Martin's best lyrical works, one of his greatest melodies. What's cheap about it?

 

Totally agree. Viva was not planned as a single; rather, became one because of the fans, remembering that song was released as an extra in iTunes and then began to gain importance.

^ As I recall, didn't the Coldplay employees at EMI think the song was 'too weird' for single material?

 

 

. . . There's so much irony in that, considering that Viva was one of the most successful songs of the decade :laugh4:

Now I like Charlie Brown more than Clocks (YES, I'VE SAID THAT! :o)

Viva is brilliant. Just because it was a radio hit doesn't mean it's a bad song...There's really nothing else like it. Unquestionably one of Martin's best lyrical works, one of his greatest melodies. What's cheap about it?

 

Well I agree that Viva is brilliant, but I was facetiously referring to the singalongs in those hits "oohohohoh", "yeahhhh", and "paraparparparpar." Charlie Brown doesn't have a chant. It barely has a chorus. Besides its catchy guitar line, it doesn't have the marks of a radio/crowd-pleaser hit.

I would need to hear the studio version first.......still my fav new one :)

For me, CB is tied with VLV and Fix You as Coldplay's best song.

Charlie Brown is definitely one of their best songs, as is Don't Let It Break Your Heart IMO.

So this song come from:

-Chris' scooter getting stolen and him wondering about the journey it took after

-Chris spending time in a dollhouse with his daughter

-Guy and Chris wondering what it would be like to be a cartoon

-Charlie Brown

 

And I swear the music video for this better be animated peanuts style and end with Chris and Linus doing a paino duet.

I think it might be the best, it is my new favorite song :)

Yes it is. I always thought that nothing can beat The scientist, Violet hill, The hardest part or We never change.