Hello everyone, so I was thinking the other day...Coldplay has some really catchy and amazing riffs, so why don't we make lists of our 5 favourite ones? It doesn't matter if it's piano, guitar, bass or anything else.

 

Mine would be:

Charlie Brown (guitar/piano)

Life In Technicolor (strange instrument I don't know the name)

In My Place (guitar)

Lovers In Japan (tack piano, don't really know if it counts as a riff but...)

Clocks (piano)

DAMN, I love them all... but as you have cruelly limited me to just five, I'd have to go for:

 

Clocks

In My Place (been a while since I listened to that one, cheers for the reminder - off to itunes I go :D )

Charlie Brown

ETIAW

Talk

Awesome thread idea! :) Mine would have to be:

 

- Charlie Brown

- Talk

- Life in Technicolor

- Speed of Sound

- In My Place

 

Musically I love Viva la Vida, the violins and everything....but that's not really a riff obviously.

Hurts Like Heaven

Major Minus

Lovers in Japan

Clocks

Speed of Sound

Charlie Brown

In My Place

A Message

In no particular order....

Bigger Stronger

Major Minus

God Put A Smile Upon My Face in concert

One I Love

Clocks

So many!!!!!

No order:

 

Life In Technicolor

Clocks

MX/Hurts Like Heaven/Charlie Brown

Strawberry Swing

Whisper

Pour Me

Death And All Of His Friends/The Escapist

Warning Sign

Hurts Like Heaven

Yellow

Square One

Strawberry Swing

The duelling guitar and piano on Speed of Sound!

Talk

Trouble

Don't Panic

Amsterdam

A Message

Lost!

Life in Technicolor

Every teardrop is a Waterfall

How come no one mention 'spies' one of the best guitar refs of all time

Death and All His Friends

Glass of Water

Crests of Waves

Don't Panic

Major Minus

 

Edit: also Talk

in no particular order:

 

Violet Hill

Charlie Brown

The Hardest Part

Trouble

Major Minus

Talk

 

...so many others

A Message

Major Minus

Every Teardrop

Speed of Sound

Talk

Death And All His Friends

Hurts Like Heaven

Bigger Stronger

Murder (the first song I learned to play of theirs)

 

I'll end up adding more later. Haha.

So many to choose from!

 

Shiver

Violet Hill

Trouble

Yellow

Politik

A Rush of Blood to the Head

I loooooooooove the piano in Clocks

In My Place is the greatest one. IMO.

I loooooooooove the piano in Clocks

 

Agreed!

 

So much of my love for Coldplay's music is much deeper than the lyrics. If I could just take out the lyrics in Clocks, I would get deeply lost in just the music.

 

(btw - my absolute favorite Coldplay songs usually have to do with the music, over lyrics, and over what is popular or what is the most obscure track I can find).

CLOCKS!!

Rainy Day<333

Hello everyone, so I was thinking the other day...Coldplay has some really catchy and amazing riffs, so why don't we make lists of our 5 favourite ones? It doesn't matter if it's piano, guitar, bass or anything else.

 

Mine would be:

Charlie Brown (guitar/piano)

Life In Technicolor (strange instrument I don't know the name)

In My Place (guitar)

Lovers In Japan (tack piano, don't really know if it counts as a riff but...)

Clocks (piano)

I love sleeping sun ☀

Square One

Politik

Violet Hill

Clocks

Don't Panic

Glass of Water

The piano in Lovers in Japan, Clocks, and at the end of Charlie Brown (beautiful after a high energy song)

The guitar entrance in Fix You

The bass in Sparks

and of course the drums in Viva (I know its kinda cliche but it makes the song i don't know...lol)

Sorry I really am a piano girl I know I don't give the other guys very good kudos but I love the piano!!!

Jonny's guitar riff into the chorus of We Never Change

Jonny's main guitar riff in Shiver

Jonny's riff after the chorus in Spies

Yellow

Chris' main piano riff in Amsterdam

Beginning of Us Against the World. Also Famous Old Painters. And Yellow.