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2015 Best Albums and Songs by Coldplaying


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It's time for charts, folks! :D

 

I recall the rule from the previous poll:

 

1) Make a ranked list of your 5 to 25 top original studio albums released this year and post it in this thread. After the deadline, there will be a countdown of Coldplaying's favourite new albums.

2) Make a ranked list of your 5 to 25 top songs released this year and post it in this thread.

The deadline is Sunday, 20th December at 23:59 GMT

3) Original studio albums only, please. No EPs, live albums, reissues, or compilation albums. Cover albums allowed. Soundtracks must be primarily original material.

4) A list must have at least 5 albums to count. You may list up to 25 albums/songs. Lists must be ranked by the deadline. Unranked lists will be fed to the forum goat.

5) Albums must have been originally released between December 1st 2014 and December 1st 2015. The original release date is the first official release date in the US or UK, whichever is first. International-only releases go by the first official release date worldwide.

6) Songs must have been originally released between December 1st 2014 and December 1st 2015, either as a standalone single or part of an album.

7) You may edit your list at any time up to the deadline. Post your tentative lists here and I will post a link to it in the second post. The list I link to will be the list I count, so make sure you edit your original list or let me know if you post a new one. If you want to vote for both Album and Song of the year, can you keep both lists on the same post

8) You can vote for just albums of the year or just songs of the year, or vote for both, it's upto you

Please number your albums and write the artist name before the album name. For example, #1. Radiohead - In Rainbows

(This will save eons of time and will help you find out the results much sooner. Thanks.)

 

Extra rules:

1) For particular strange cases (you never know what you might find :D ) we'll decide together what to do.

2) Our Scoring System

Rank - Points:

1 - 500

2 - 425

3 - 375

4 - 325

5 - 300

6 - 275

7 - 250

8 - 230

9 - 210

10 - 200

11 - 190

12 - 180

13 - 170

14 - 160

15 - 150

16 - 145

17 - 140

18 - 135

19 - 130

20 - 125

21 - 120

22 - 115

23 - 110

24 - 105

25 - 100

3) Tell me If I forgot something

4) HAVE FUN!

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Albums

1. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday

2. Neck Deep - Life's Not Out to Get You

3. Plain White T's - American Nights

4. Sleeping with Sirens - Madness

5. Muse - Drones

6. All Time Low - Future Hearts

7. Mayday Parade - Black Lines

8. Blur - The Magic Whip

9. Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Get Lost, Find Yourself

10. Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit

 

EDIT:

11. State Champs - Around the World and Back

12. The Neighbourhood - Wiped Out!

13. The Maine - American Candy

14. New Politics - Vikings

15. Three Days Grace - Human

 

 

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I put mine...

 

Albums:

1. Keep Shelly In Athens - Now I'm Ready

2. Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters

3. Mac DeMarco - Another One

4. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday

5. Rae Morris - Unguarded

6. Pomegranates - Healing Power

7. Everything Everything - Get To Heaven

8. Miami Horror - All Possible Futures

9. Valet - Nature

10. Organoid - Spectral Theory

11. Braids - Deep In The Iris

12. Foals - What Went Down

13. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

14. The Maccabees - Marks To Prove It

15. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love

16. Editors - In Dream

17. Pure Bathing Culture - Pray For Rain

18. Mark Knopfler - Tracker

19. 36 - Void Dance

20. Belle And Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime Wants To Dance

21. Florence & The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

22. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

23. Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 1: The Time Machine

24. Blur - The Magic Whip

25. Denai Moore - Elsewhere

 

Songs:

1. Pure Bathing Culture - Pray For Rain

2. Rae Morris - This Time

3. Keep Shelly In Athens - Silent Rain

4. Lianne La Havas - Tokyo

5. Foals - Mountain At My Gates

6. Teen Daze - Morning World

7. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - The Dying Of The Light

8. Civil Twilight - Only For A Time

9. Mac DeMarco - I've Been Waiting For Her

10. The Maccabees - Something Like Happiness

11. Valet - Clouds

12. Sufjan Stevens - Death With Dignity

13. New Navy - Rosaline

14. Nothing But Thieves - Trip Switch

15. Young Galaxy - Ready To Shine

16. Tygran Hamasyan - Lilac

17. Denai Moore - Piano Song

18. Tamaryn - Cranekiss

19. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - The World Is Crowded

20. Nite Fields - You I Never Knew

21. Sister Crayon - Devoted

22. Dutch Uncles - Be Right Back

23. Everything Everything - Regret

24. Pomegranates - Soul Crossing

25. Braids - Warm Like Summer

 

EDIT: I edited the best songs list on 7th Dec

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Why is the deadline December 13th? Why not the 20th if everyone agrees?

We'll have more than enough time to count the votes till the end of the year...

 

 

Rolling Stone and NME posted their album and song of the year lists:

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2015-20151201

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-songs-of-2015-20151203

 

http://www.nme.com/photos/nme-s-albums-of-the-year-2015/394320

http://www.nme.com/photos/nme-s-tracks-of-the-year-2015/394334

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Albums:

1. Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?

2. Destroyer - Poison Season

3. Nigel & The Dropout - Folderal

4. U.S. Girls - Half Free

5. Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Club Meds

6. Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness

7. Ghost Culture - Ghost Culture

8. Zun Zun Egui - Shackles' Gift

9. The Dears - Times Infinity, Volume One

10. The Acorn - Vieux Loup

11. Young Galaxy - Falsework

12. Follakzoid - III

13. JR JR - JR JR

14. Frog Eyes - Pickpocket's Locket

15. George Morris - We Will Go to Hell for This

16. Braids - Deep in the Iris

17. Lord Huron - Strange Trails

18. Yukon Blonde - On Blonde

19. Tunde Olaniran - Transgressor

20. Protomartyr - The Agent Intellect

21. COIN - COIN

22. Torres - Sprinter

23. Hayden - Hey Love

24. Metric - Pagans in Vegas

25. Geographer - Ghost Modern

Songs:

1. Flint Eastwood - Find What You're Looking For

2. Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Vessel

3. The Dears - Here's to the Death of All the Romance

4. Majical Cloudz - Downtown

5. Young Galaxy - Ready to Shine

6. The Acorn - Influence

7. Destroyer - Bangkok

8. Yukon Blonde - Saturday Night

9. U. S. Girls - Woman's Work

10. Braids - Warm Like Summer

11. JR JR - Gone

12. Geographer - Too Long

13. Frog Eyes - Joe With the Jam

14. Metric - Fortunes

15. George Morris - Habitat

16. Follakzoid - Electric

17. Ghost Culture - Arms

18. Tunde Olaniran - Namesake

19. Julia Holter - Feel You

20. Valley Hush - Black Sea

21. Nigel & The Dropout - Gestalt

22. Zun Zun Egui - I Want You to Know

23. Hayden - Hearts Just Beat

24. Torres - Strange Hellos

25. Lord Huron - Meet Me in the Woods

 

Honorable mentions go out to the few EPs that would otherwise be on my year-end list by Flint Eastwood, Flor, Valley Hush, and Gosh Pith. Majical Cloudz also completely blindsided me, I expected greatness but didn't exactly expect it to top my list. It's been a great year.

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Albums:

 

1. Editors - In Dream

2. Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall

3. Balthazar - Thin Walls

4. Blur - The Magic Whip

5. The Slow Show - White Water

6. El Vy - Return To The Moon

 

Songs:

 

1. Editors - Ocean Of Night

2. Jamie xx - Loud Places

3. Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall

4. Florence + The Machine - Queen Of Peace

5. The Slow Show - Paint You Like A Rose

6. El Vy - Return To The Moon

7. Blur - Ong Ong

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Albums:

 

1. Jamie xx- In Colour

2. Mumford & Sons- Wilder Mind

3. Foals- What Went Down

4. Tame Impala- Currents

5. The Libertines- Anthems For Doomed Youth

6. Florence & The Machine- How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

7. Blur- The Magic Whip

8. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds- Chasing Yesterday

9. Muse- Drones

10. CHVRCHES- Every Open Eye

 

Songs:

 

1. Jamie xx- Loud Places (feat. Romy)

2. Muse- The Handler

3. Jamie xx- The Rest Is Noise

4. Muse- Psycho

5. Foals- Mountain At My Gates

6. Blur- I Broadcast

7. Måns Zelmerlow

8. Foals- Mountain At My Gates

9. Blur- I Broadcast

10. Måns Zelmerlow- Heroes

11. Foals- Birch Tree

12. Jamie xx- Sleep Sound

13. The Libertines- Gunga Din

14. The Libertines- The Milkman's Horse

15. Florence & The Machine- Queen Of Peace

16. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds- The Right Stuff

18. Mumford & Sons- Tompkins Square Park

19. Spring Kings- Who Are You?

20. CLUBS- Wild Alive

21. Years & Years- King

22. Tongues.- Colours In The Dark

23. Mac DeMarco- I've Been Waiting For Her

24. Muse- Mercy

25. Tame Impala- Eventually

 

(EDITED)

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Albums:

 

1. Rhodes - Wishes

2. Half Moon Run - Sun Leads Me On

3. Nothing But Thieves - Nothing But Thieves

4. James Bay - Chaos & The Calm

5. Lucy Rose -Work It Out

6. Kwabs - Love + War

7. Years & Years - Communion

8. Foals - What Went Dowm

9. AaRON - We Cut The Night

10. The Shoes - Chemicals

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Villagers - Darling Arithmetic, read into the background of it... The singer recorded all of it in his house by himself, the themes of the songs deal with bigotry and homophobia and it was released around the time of the Marriage Equality referendum in Ireland...

 

 

it also sounds great on (Gold) Vinyl

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ALBUMS:

  1. Years & Years - Communion
  2. Jamie xx - In Colour
  3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
  4. Grimes - Art Angels
  5. Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon
  6. Madonna - Rebel Heart
  7. Adele - 25
  8. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
  9. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
  10. Tame Impala - Currents
  11. D'Angelo - Black Messiah
  12. Miguel - Wildheart
  13. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
  14. Vince Staples - Summertime '06
  15. Justin Bieber - Purpose
  16. Erykah Badu - But You Caint Use My Phone
     
  17. Disclosure - Caracal
  18. Neon Indian - VEGA INTL. Night School
  19. Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
  20. Arca - Mutant
  21. Björk - Vulnicura
  22. Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
  23. Alabama Shakes - Sound And Color
  24. Janet Jackson - Unbreakable
  25. Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late

 

SONGS:

  1. Years & Years - Worship
  2. The Weeknd - The Hills
  3. Major Lazer - Lean On (With DJ Snake Feat. MØ)
  4. Grimes - Kill V. Maim
  5. Lana Del Rey - Music To Watch Boys To
  6. Madonna - Devil Pray
  7. Justin Bieber - Sorry
  8. Drake - Hotline Bling
  9. Jamie xx - Sleep Sound
  10. Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money
  11. Ciara - Dance Like We're Making Love
  12. Janet Jackson - No Sleeep
  13. FKA twigs - Glass & Patron
  14. Erykah Badu - Dial'Afreaq
  15. Adele - I Miss You
  16. Tame Impala - Let It Happen
  17. Kendrick Lamar - Wesley's Theory (Feat. George Clinton & Thundercat)
  18. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best
  19. Sufjan Stevens - Fourth Of July
  20. D'Angelo - Really Love
  21. Björk - Lionsong
  22. Disclosure - Magnets (Feat. Lorde)
  23. Missy Elliott - WTF (Where They From) (Feat. Pharrell)
  24. Brandon Flowers - I Can Change
  25. Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream (Rudimental Remix)

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My memory is super hazy, but I remember Coldplay would've won in 2008 if they didn't discount the votes yet MX wouldn't have even won in 2011.

Yeah I figured out later that they're are ineligible for the Coldplaying Awards but you can vote for them here. For the AOAL single, not for the album because of the deadline.

 

 

Here's pitchfork's list: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9764-the-50-best-albums-of-2015/

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To Pimp A Butterfly is overrated. I'd probably dig it a lot more if I weren't so goddamn white. I love Kendrick, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is one of my top 50 albums of all time, I think it's a good deal better than TPAB. It is the best album of the year tho but not by such a landslide. I appreciate the Prince and Outkast influences I recognize in it but I bet the biggest influence sonically was the movie Whiplash:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZTYgq4EoRohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4noaE0CdZUw

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Albums:

1) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

2) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

3) Kamasi Washington - The Epic

4) Floating Points - Elaenia

5) Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness

 

6) Jamie xx - In Colour

7) Björk - Vulnicura

8) Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete

9) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

10) Vince Staples - Summertime '06

 

11) Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent

12) Jeremih - Late Nights: The Album

13) Rabit - Communion

14) Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

15) Future - DS2

 

16) Joanna Newsom – Divers

17) Jlin – Dark Energy

18) 2 8 1 4 - 新しい日の誕生

19) Neon Indian – VEGA INTL. Night School

20) Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls

 

21) Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

22) Arca – Mutant

23) Viet Cong - Viet Cong

24) Holly Herndon – Platform

25) Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION

 

Special Mentions:

Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late

FKA Twigs – M3LL155X

Galcher Lustwerk – I Neva Seen / Parlay

Kelela - Hallucinogen

Lotic – Heterocetera

 

Nao – February 15

Novelist x Mumdance – 1 Sec

SOPHIE – PRODUCT

Various Artists – PC Music Volume 1

Young Thug - Barter 6

 

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order):

 

 

Anthony Naples – Body Pill

Beach House – Depression Cherry /Thank Your Lucky Stars

Dawn Richard – Blackheart

Deerhunter – Fading Frontier

Destroyer – Poison Season

 

DJ Richard – Grind

Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf

Earl Sweatshirt – I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

Grimes – Art Angels

Hunee – Hunch Music

 

Jam City – Dream a Garden

Jay Rock – 90059

Jazmine Sullivan – Reality Show

Jim O'Rourke – Simple Songs

Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$

 

Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle

Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?

Matrixxman – Homesick

M.E.S.H - Piteous Gate

Miguel – WILDHEART

 

Natalie Prass – Natalie Prass

Pusha T – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude

Rustie - EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE

Shamir – Ratchet

Tame Impala – Currents

 

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BEST ALBUMS OF 2015 BY COLDPLAYING

25) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

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24) Half Moon Run - Sun Leads Me On

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23) Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters

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22) Mogwli's - Kids In Love

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21) Neck Deep - Life's Not Out to Get You

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20) Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind

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19) Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall

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18) Destroyer - Poison Season

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17) Rhodes - Wishes

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16) Family Of The Year - Family Of The Year

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15) Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone?

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14) Keep Shelly In Athens - Now I'm Ready

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13) Muse - Drones

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12) Florence & The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

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11) Tame Impala - Currents

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10) Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness

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9) El Vy - Return To The Moon

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8) Editors - In Dream

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7) Years & Years - Communion

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6) Foals - What Went Down

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5) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

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4) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

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3) Blur - The Magic Whip

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2) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday

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1) Jamie xx - In Colour

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BEST SONGS OF 2015 BY COLDPLAYING

 

10) Rae Morris - This Time

9) Muse - The Handler

8) Young Galaxy - Ready To Shine

7) Florence + The Machine - Queen Of Peace

6) Flint Eastwood - Find What You're Lookin For

5) Pure Bathing Culture - Pray For Rain

4) Editors - Ocean Of Night

3) Years & Years - Worship

2) Foals - Mountain At My Gates

1) Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places

 

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