Hey all,

 

Just out of curiosity, if you had to make a 'Best of Coldplay' album, what songs would you include? How would the tracklisting go etc and keep it at a size of around about ten songs.

 

Mine would go something like this.

 

 

1. The Scientist

2. Yellow

3. Politik

4. Clocks

5. Fix You

6. Viva la Vida

7. Violet Hill

8. Life in Technicolor ii

9. Lovers in Japan

10. Charlie Brown

 

Seems like I have a slight bias towards VLVADTHF haha.

This is not "the best of coldplay", but since I was bored, I made it. I would name it Life In Technicolor, cause they always name their albums by a song.

 

 

 

Front cover:

 

Back cover:

 

 

I hate "best of" albums :|

^Yeah, me too. :nod:

ahah :lol:

btw up in flames + postcards from far away =

 

jeez, only ten songs? :( most 'best of' albums i have seen have a lot more than ten songs on them! :laugh3: but if i had to choose 10 it would go something like this:

1. Don't Panic

2. Lovers in Japan

3. Politik

4. Violet Hill

5. The Scientist

6. Life in Technicolor ii

7. In My Place

8. Fix You

9. Viva La Vida

10. Yellow

Though believe me, if I could make it 20 songs I would :)

1. Violet Hill

2. Talk

3. Hurts Like Heaven

4. Viva La Vida

5. The Scientist

6. Fix You

7. Lovers In Japan

8. In My Place

9. Yellow

10. Us Against The World

11. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

12. Trouble

13. Life In Technicolor ii

14. Charlie Brown

15. Politik

16. Strawberry Swing

17. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

18. Lost (feat. Jay-Z)

19. Paradise

They way I figure a best of album is that a band should take NO MORE than 25% of the total number of studio album songs they have released so far. So not including Mylo Xyloto that would equal 10+11+12+10 = 43 .....so 30% would mean about 13 songs...

 

 

But including Mylo Xyloto I would give the "best of" 3 or 4 extra slots cause Mylo has 14 songs.....not sure if there all "complete" songs though....

 

 

So thats 17 songs for 5 albums here they are:

 

 

1. Violet Hill

2. Square One

3. In My Place

4. Sparks

5. Viva La Vida

6. I Ran Away (B-side)

6. Moving to Mars (B-side)

7. A Message

8. A Rush of Blood to the Head

9. Clocks

10. Fix You

11. Death and All His Friends (No Escapist)

12. Politik

13. Yellow

14. The Scientist

15. Amsterdam

16. N/A

17. N/A

18. N/A

 

 

Parachutes: 3 songs

AROBTTH: 6

X&Y: 3

Viva la Vida: 3

B-Sides: 2

Mylo Xyloto: At least 3 songs most likely

 

I've got three spots reserved for Mylo Xyloto and I didn't want to put anything on there that has been released yet because I want to hear the full album first. Paradise might make the cut cause I love that song....and I might give it more than 3 songs and take something off, 18 is a good number for 5 albums I think....

 

But I HAD to put Moving to Mars on here....SUCH a great song, shame it was left off the album :(

ahah :lol:

btw up in flames + postcards from far away =

 

 

DOUBLE ME GUSTA.

I'd go with:

1. Politik

2. The Scientist

3. Yellow

4. Charlie Brown

5. In My Place

6. Viva la Vida

7. Swallowed in the Sea

8. Clocks

9. Lovers in Japan

10. Strawberry Swing

11. Fix You

12. Amsterdam

13. Everything's Not Lost / Life is for Living (extended version)

I'd go with:

1. Politik

2. The Scientist

3. Yellow

4. Charlie Brown

5. In My Place

6. Viva la Vida

7. Swallowed in the Sea

8. Clocks

9. Lovers in Japan

10. Strawberry Swing

11. Fix You

12. Amsterdam

13. Everything's Not Lost / Life is for Living (extended version)

Sorry double post ! :embarrassed:

I don't know the exact track listing I would want, but I would definitely want it to include these :nice: :

 

 

Politik

Trouble

Don't Panic

VLV

Violet Hill

Fix You

In My Place

Square One

Clocks

Yellow ** although I'm not a HUGE fan, but its the obvious break out song lol

Amsterdam

Shiver

 

....I can't think of any more.. :( clearly I'm not a HUGE fan of X&Y but I do love the song... ;) Up until this album (since I haven't heard it in its entirety) I can't legitimately add any to my list.... except for maybe HLV lol - I love all their albums thus far... just some more than others :P

Shiver

Spies

Everything's Not Lost

Clocks

Amsterdam

Daylight

GPASUYF

The Scientist

Square One

Speed Of Sound

Talk

Fix You

42

Violet Hill

1. Paradise

2. Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall

1. Paradise

2. Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall

 

THIS + Infinite. :shocked2:

1- Politik

2- The Scientist

3- Viva la Vida

4- Charlie Brown

5- See you soon

6- Fix you

7- Life in tecnicolor II

8- Trouble

10- Yellow

11- Huts like heaven

12- Prospekts March/ Postcards from far away

1- X&Y

2- Violet Hill

3- Spies

4- Shiver

5- Amsterdam

6- Clocks

7- Us Against The World

8- The Hardest Part

9- A Message

10- Politik

11- Moving to Mars

12- Charlie Brown

13- For You

14- A Rush of Blood To The Head

15- The Scientist

16- Yellow

17- Viva la Vida

18- Fix You

19- Major Minus

20- Everything's Not Lost / Life is for Living (extended version)

 

gosh!!! i cannot stop writing...

If I could, I'd list almost all of their songs on my "Best Of Coldplay" album. But here's my top 10:

 

1. Talk

2. Green Eyes

3. Sparks

4. Trouble

5. Moses

6. The Scientist

7. Amsterdam

8. Lovers in Japan

9. Spies

10. Paradise

1. Yellow

2. The Scientist

3. Talk

4. Square One

5. Don't Panic

6. Lovers in Japan

7. Viva La Vida

8. Fix You

9. Clocks

10. Strawberry Swing

11. Hurts Like Heaven

12. Charlie Brown

13. Glass of Water

14. Life is For Living (Live)

Damn I forgot LiT ii, but I think the greatest beginning/end of any album is Viva - Light Through the Veins is epic.

1 Life in technocolor ii

2 Shiver

3 Clocks

4 Politik

5 Cemetaries of london

6 Charlie brown

7 Major minus (live version, recording in a studio)

8 A message

9 Paradise

10 Viva la vida

11 Violet hill

12 Swallowed in the sea

13 Prospekt's march

City of Blinding Lights + Achtung Baby.

just mine but here it is.

 

1)Talk

2)Politik

3)The Scientist

4)Lovers In Japan

5)Charlie Brown

6)Fix You

7)Trouble

8)Viva La Vida

9)Clocks

10)Yellow

11)Everything's Not Lost + Life Is For Living

12)Chinese Sleep Chant

13)Life In Technicolor ii

 

Thats mine...and yeah. ;D

1. Speed of Sound

2. Politik

3. Only superstition

4. Crest of waves

5. Brothers & Sisters

6. The Scientist

7. Fix you

8. In my place

9. Charlie Brown

10. Yellow

11. Hurts like Heaven

12. Clocks

13. Viva La Vida/Life is for living

 

Yeah.. It was really tough to decide on this and Id probably change it like 5000 times so Ill just leave it as it is. Also I thought combining Viva and LiFL at the end would be nice ;D