It's weird to see a thread I started 3 years ago again! Lol. My favorites have actually changed since then. Opener has got to be life in technicolor now and closer would be up with the birds. Hopefully GS provides us with another great opener and closer!

Opener: Politik

Closer: Everything is not lost

Opener: Mylo Xyloto

Closer: Amsterdam

Opener: Mylo Xyloto / Hurts Like Heaven

Closer: Death And All His Friends / The Escapist

Opener : Politik

Closer : Amsterdam

Guess what's my favourite album ahah

Opener: It's a hard choice, but the climax of Politik barely edges out the riff of Square One.

 

Closer: Comes down to either Everything's Not Lost or Twisted Logic, but since Twisted Logic got no love live, I'll choose it. It's truly one of their hidden gems.

Opener: Politik. Without a doubt.

 

Closer: 'Til Kingdom Come / Death and All His Friends / Amsterdam (in that particular order).

Opener: Square One

Closer: Death and All His Friends

opener: mylo xyloto/hurts like heaven

closer: amsterdam

Opener: Square One

Closer: Amsterdam

OpenerPolitik

Closer:Up with the Birds

Opener: MX/hurts like heaven

Closer: til kingdom come

 

 

cK

Opener: Life in Technicolor

Closer: Amsterdam *please bring back to set list*

 

Waiting on Angie's pics

Opener: MX/Hurts like heaven

Closer: Amsterdam

opener: politik

closer: death and all his friends

Opener: Life in Technicolor

Closer: Everything's Not Lost

Don't Panic

 

Death and All His Friends

Favorite opening: Music of the Spheres (depist it's just a interlude, but i love it)

Favorite Closer: Amsterdam

I feel Rush of Blood has just a solid opener and closer.

Politik: The sort of bombasting violence they put into the first seconds, announces such another tone than Parachutes. Ending is greater than great, chord progression is so beautiful and the 'love over this' line is even more powerful than any line in Fix You. 

Amsterdam: Lovely, very lovely, soothing track with some touching and right-placed lyrics, proportioned emotional vocals and as almost every closer have, a superior finale.

▪Opener: Politik

▪Closer: Hypnotised or Colortura

I find it difficult to choose a closer because I appreciate both songs for different reasons. Hypnotised is wonderful because it ends lyrically on a strong upbeat presence, "It was dark... now its sunrise", just makes me smile.

I admire Colortura because it reminds me of a throwback, classic song from the 60s. Cannot get enough from that track.