Since Coldplay now have five albums out, it's time for me to compile my list of the 25 best songs they've ever released (IMO). I'm including only songs that have been released on any format such as album, EP or single. Unreleased songs that we've only heard live versions of don't count - if the band wanted those songs to be judged as part of their discography, then they'd have released them in some way, shape or form, the way I look at it. This is my own personal opinion. I would like to see other users contribute their lists and perhaps give reasonings as to why they chose certain songs (which I plan on doing at some point, just thought I'd get my actual list in here first though).

 

TOP 25:

1.) The Scientist

2.) Shiver

3.) Clocks

4.) Amsterdam

5.) Charlie Brown

6.) Viva la Vida

7.) Strawberry Swing

8.) A Rush of Blood to the Head

9.) Trouble

10.) Yellow

11.) Talk

12.) Green Eyes

13.) Hurts Like Heaven

14.) Speed of Sound

15.) Warning Sign

16.) Don't Panic

17.) Fix You

18.) Life in Technicolour II

19.) Death and All His Friends

20.) Spies

21.) In My Place

22.) Square One

23.) Paradise

24.) White Shadows

25.) Politik

 

STATS:

Parachutes - 5 songs

A Rush of Blood to the Head - 8 songs

X&Y - 5 songs

Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends - 3 songs

Prospekt's March - 1 song

Mylo Xyloto - 3 songs

Non-album - 0 songs

 

Discuss my list, share your own, and so on. I've seen threads that ask for top 10 songs and such, but none that ask for this many and none that actively ask for discussion on each other's lists, which is why I've posted this.

mine

 

1.The Scientist

2.Politik

3.In My Place

4.Everything's Not Lost

5.Swallowed in the Sea

6.Bigger Stronger

7.Violet Hill

8.Yellow

9.Green Eyes

10.God Put a smile Upon Your Face

11.Gravity

12.Wedding Bells

13.Til Kingdom Come

14.Viva la Vida

15.Sleeping Sun

16.Christmas Lights

17.Spies

18.Parachutes

19.Square One

20.A Message

21.Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

22.How You See the World

23.A Rush of Blood to the Head

24.The World Turned Upside Down

25.Major Minus

Don't understand how people can even pick their top 3. We all have favourites but it constantly changes for me, sometimes I'm sick of a song then sometimes I can't get enough of it. Sorry.

It's very difficult and their positions change all the time but I'm gonna give it a try:

 

1. Viva La Vida

2. Fix You/ The Scientist

3. Charlie Brown/ Paradise

4. Yellow/ Clocks

5. Hurts Like Heaven

6. Violet Hill

7. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

8. Spies

9. Lovers In Japan/ Life In Technicolor ii

10. Speed Of Sound

11. A Rush Of Blood To The Head

12. White Shadows

13. Trouble

14. In My Place

15. Death And All His Friends

16. Strawberry Swing

17. What If

18. A message

19. Christmas Lights

20. Major Minus

21. Don't Panic

22. Politik

23. Talk

24. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

25. Shiver

In chronological order, not ranked:

 

Such A Rush

Brothers And Sisters

Don't Panic

Spies

Trouble

Politik

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

The Scientist

Clocks

Daylight

Warning Sign

A Whisper

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Amsterdam

I Ran Away

Twisted Logic

Til Kingdom Come

Cemeteries Of London

Yes

Chinese Sleep Chant

Violet Hill

Strawberry Swing

Death And All His Friends

Glass Of Water

Rainy Day

Major Minus

Up With The Birds

 

Parachutes: 3

A Rush Of Blood To The Head: 9

X&Y: 2

Viva La Vida: 6

Prospekt's March: 2

Mylo Xyloto: 2

Others: 3

 

I'm not sure, I tried to pick something off of everything. It's hard. I can easily rank the albums, but I can't pick songs. It depends on the season of the year, the day of the week, the time of the day, which album/song I last listened to, the colour of shirt I'm wearing... It changes all the time. I don't know.

 

Don't count, there are 27.

Don't understand how people can even pick their top 3. We all have favourites but it constantly changes for me, sometimes I'm sick of a song then sometimes I can't get enough of it. Sorry.

 

:nod:

Well I could do a top 3, but a top 25? Too much effort for something that's totally changed tomorrow.

And yes I'm lazy.

Well

 

Here's my top ten:

10. Swallowed in the sea

9. Cemeteries of London

8. Things that I don't understand

7. Rainy Day

6. Major minus

5. God put a smile upon your face

4. Yes!

3. Violet Hill

2. Twisted Logic

1. Strawberry Swing

I can't do top 3 too ( cause i'm lazy and also because it's really hard to do it, i change every day!)

I can't do top 3 too ( cause i'm lazy and also because it's really hard to do it, i change every day!)

 

I know that feeling :laugh3:

I really can't even choose my favorite one...I think it depends on my mood a lot!

Parachutes:

 

Yellow

Sparks

Trouble

Life is for Living

We Never Change

 

AROBTTH:

 

Clocks

The Scientist

Amsterdam

In my Place

Warning Sign

 

X&Y:

 

Swallowed in the Sea

Speed of Sound

Fix You

X&Y

The Hardest Part

 

VLVODAAHF:

 

42

Viva la Vida

Violet Hill

The Escapist

Cemeteries of London

 

MX:

 

Moving to Mars

Us Against The World

Don't Let It Break Your Heart

Hurts Like Heaven

Charlie Brown

 

 

- Tapatalk 2 -

Parachutes (4):

 

Don’t Panic

Shiver

Yellow

Life Is For Living

 

AROBTTH (5):

 

Politik

In My Place

The Scientist

Green Eyes

AROBTTH

 

X&Y (5):

 

Fix You

Low

A Message

Swallowed In The Sea

Til Kingdom Come

 

VLV (5):

 

Cemeteries Of London

VLV

Lovers In Japan

Strawberry Swing

Deatch And All His Friends

Lost

 

MX (4):

 

MX/Hurts Like Heaven

ETIAW

DLIBYH

Up With The Birds

 

Prospekt’s March EP:

Life in Technicolor ii

 

And as a bonus can I add Moses to the list? Please? :shy:

Parachutes

-Spies

-Yellow

-Trouble

-Everything's Not Lost

 

 

A Rush of Blood to the Head

-Politik

-In My Place

-The Scientist

-Clocks

-Warning Sign

-A Rush of Blood to the Head

-Amsterdam

 

 

X&Y

-Square One

-Talk

-Speed of Sound

-A Message

 

 

Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

-Ceneteries of London

-Lost!

-Viva la Vida

-Violet Hill

-Strawberry Swing

 

Prospekt's March EP

-Prospekt's March

 

Mylo Xyloto

-Us Against the World

-Up with the Birds

 

MX era others

-Moving to Mars

-Christmas Lights

Here's the top 25, how I would rank them.

 

1) Amsterdam

2) The Scientist

3) Lovers In Japan

4) Politik

5) Clocks

6) Fix You

7) In My Place

8) Viva La Vida

9) 'Till Kingdom Come

10) Lost!

11) Trouble

12) Shiver

13) Reign Of Love

14) Warning Sign

15) Violet Hill

16) Charlie Brown

17) Hurts Like Heaven

18) Speed Of Sound

19) Life In Technicolor ii

20) God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

21) A Rush Of Blood To The Head

22) Swallowed In The Sea

23) Death And All Of His Friends

24) Square One

25) Up With The Birds

This is my list (not ranked):

 

The Scientist

Politik

Clocks

Amsterdam

Warning Sign

Swallowed in the Sea

A Message

Fix You

Speed of Sound

Talk

Lovers in Japan

42

Strawberry Swing

Yellow

Don't Panic

A Rush of Blood to the Head

See You Soon

Life in Technicolor II

Moving to Mars

Everyteardrop is a Waterfall

Charlie Brown

Hurts Like Heaven

Us Against the World

Don't Let it Break Your Heart

Shiver

 

Wow that was a lot harder than i thought it would be! so many songs been left out... :(

 

So, to sum up:

The Blue Room EP - 1

Parachutes - 3

A Rush of Blood to the Head - 6

Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends - 3

X & Y - 5

Mylo Xyloto - 5

Prospekt's March - 1

Every Teardrop is A Waterfall EP - 1

I can't decide an order, choosing the top25 was hard enough, they're all brilliant

 

Yellow

In My Place

42

Lovers In Japan

Yes

Violet Hill

Fix You

Viva La Vida

The Scientist

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

Shiver

Trouble

Clocks

Hurts Like Heaven

Speed Of Sound

Square One

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

Politik

Paradise

EveryThings Not Lost

Strawberry Swing

Don't Let It Break Your Heart

Lost

Talk

Life In Technicolor II

Very difficult, so I'll just have to go with something I'll no doubt disagree with in the morning!

 

25. Viva la Vida

24. A Hopeful Transmission/Don't Let It Break Your Heart

23. Everything's Not Lost

22. Up In Flames

21. Mylo Xyloto/Hurts Like Heaven

20. Lost!

19. Speed of Sound

18. Amsterdam

17. In My Place

16. Death and All His Friends

15. Paradise

14. Fix You

13. Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love

12. Clocks

11. See You Soon

10. Violet Hill

09. Til Kingdom Come

08. Life in Technicolor II

07. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

06. Christmas Lights

05. What If?

04. Charlie Brown

03. Strawberry Swing

02. Politik

01. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

 

Breakdown:

 

Parachutes - 1

AROBTTH - 5

X&Y - 4

VLVoDAAHF - 6

PM - 1

MX - 6

(Other - 2)

Here's mine :) This isn't a order of favorite to lest favorite or vice-versa. These are my most favorite, most of these are tied for first place as my favorite song overall, I cannot just pick one dominate song.

 

1. Viva La Vida

2. Strawberry Swing

3. Lost!

3. Lovers In Japan

4. Fix You

5. Paradise

6. What If

7. Prospekts March/Poppyfields

8. Death and All of His Friends

9. Up With the Birds

10. Speed of Sound

11. Life In Technicolor ii

12. Clocks

13. The Scientist

14. X&Y

15. Talk

16. Yellow

17. Postcards from Far Away

18. Daylight

19. Glass of Water

20. Rainy Day

21. Life Is For Living

22. In My Place

23. Violet Hill

24. Yes/Chinese Sleep Chant

25. Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

 

I couldn't put 25 in without 26.. I cant just leave this one out.. =)

 

26. Charlie Brown

It was hard, but I made it:

1. God put a smile upon your face

2. Talk

3. Violet hill

4. Lost

5. White shadows

6. Square one

7. I ran away

8. One I love

9. In my place

10. Charlie Brown

11. Clocks

12. How you see the world

13. Moses

14. Speed of sound

15. Politik

16. Shiver

17. Twisted logic

18. Daylight

19. Yes

20. Green eyes

21. Cemetries of London

22. Low

23. Major minus

24. Yellow

25. Spies

1 Clocks

2 GPASUYF

3 Viva La Vida

4 politik

5 the scientist

6 yellow

7 in my place

8 talk

9 violet hill

10 green eyes

11 don't panic

12 42

13 cemeteries of london

14 Speed of sound

15 twisted logic

16 trouble

17 bigger stronger

18 lovers in japan

19 lost!

20 LIT ii

21 Fix You

22 Paradise

23 shiver

24 christmas lights

25 hurts like heaven

 

this is so hard !!! I can't decide an order,

In no order except for the first 2:

1) Hurts Like Heaven

2) Yellow

3) Don't Panic

4) Swallowed in the Sea

5) Christmas Lights

6) Trouble

7) Fix You

8) The Scientist

9) In My Place

10) Charlie Brown

11) Violet Hill

12) Death and All His Friends

13) Clocks

14) Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

15) Lovers in Japan

16) Chinese Sleep Chant

17) Us Against the World

18) Viva La Vida

19) Talk

20) Paradise

21) Help is Round the Corner

22) Life in Technicolor ii

23) Shiver

24) God Put a Smile Upon Your Face

25) Low

 

That was really hard and I will no doubt disagree with this list the second I post it! They just have too many amazing songs...

Phew, 25 songs?! This should be easier than picking a top 3 or 5, but I don't think there's any way I can rank them in order. (This is a rough order, I tried comparing each song one by one but I gave up after about 20 minutes of umming and ahhhing :confused:)

 

Politik

Clocks

Square One

The Scientist

A Rush of Blood to the Head

White Shadows

42

Death and All His Friends

Amsterdam

Lovers In Japan

Fix You

A Message

Cemeteries of London

Glass of Water

Everything's Not Lost

Moving to Mars

Life in Technicolor ii

Hurts Like Heaven

Violet Hill

Major Minus

Charlie Brown

Things I Don't Understand

Trouble

Only Superstition

Spies

Here's mine:

 

25. Talk

24. Yellow

23. Violet Hill

22. Shiver

21. Cemeteries of London

20. Yes

19. Lost?

18. Green Eyes

17. M.M.I.X./Every Teardrop is a Waterfall

16. Lovers in Japan

15. God Put a Smile on Your Face

14. Life in Technicolor ii

13. 42

12. Us Against the World

11. Mylo Xyloto/ Hurts Like Heaven

10. Up in Flames

9. Rainy Day

8. Don't Let it Break Your Heart

7. Warning Sign

6. Til Kingdom Come

5. Strawberry Swing

4. Glass of Water

3. Amsterdam

2. Death and All His Friends

1. Up With the Birds

 

Wow, that was difficult. My top 5 are basically all number 1...

 

Parachutes: 2

A Rush of Blood to the Head: 4

X&Y: 2

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends: 8 (basically the entire album :/)

Prospekt's March: 3

Mylo Xyloto: 6

1 Life in Technicolor ii

2 Hurts Like Heaven

3 Violet Hill (live)

4 Politik (live)

5 Shiver

6 Fix You

7 Charlie Brown (live)

8 Green Eyes

9 Strawberry Swing

10 Christmas Lights

11 The Goldrush

12 Parachutes

13 Amsterdam

14 Us Against the World

15 Up With The Birds

16 White Shadows (live)

17 Don't Panic

18 Lovers in Japan

19 Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground

20 UFO

21 Paradise

22 Viva la Vida (live)

23 Til Kingdom Come (live)

24 Ring of Fire (cover)

25 Lost (live)

No order but:

 

PARACHUTES

1. Shiver

2. Yellow

3. Trouble

4. Everythings Not Lost

 

A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD

5. Politik

6. In My Place

7. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

8. The Scientist

9. Clocks

10. Daylight

11. Warning Sign

12. Amersterdam

 

X&Y

13. What If

14. Fix You

15. Low

16. Swallowed In The Sea

 

VIVA LA VIDA

17. Life in Technicolor ii

18. 42

19. Viva la Vida

20. Strawberry Swing

 

MYLO XYLOTO

21. Hurts Like Heaven

22. Charlie Brown

23. Don't Let It Break Your Heart

24. Up With The Birds

 

THE BLUE ROOM

25. See You Soon