Ok guys,

Now that Coldplay is releasing their 8th record, i wanted to know your Coldplay Best-Of Album with the precedent 7 studio albums.

I added some rules though :

- You can only choose tracks from the 7 studio albums ( Parachutes, AROBTTH, X&Y, VLV, MX, GS, AHFOD )

- You have to choose 10 songs + 1 or 2 interludes or hidden tracks. ( Parachutes, Reign of Love, Mylo Xyloto ... )

- The first song of your album must be an Opening and the last song a Closing song. You can use Opening and Closing songs in the middle of the album.

 

... Try to make an inventive and original album with the songs you really love personally ... Enjoy ! :D

 

Here's mine ( it was hard ) ( i actually changed it few times haha ) :

 

Politik

Yellow / Parachutes

Midnight

Fix You

MX / Hurts Like Heaven

Strawberry Swing

The Scientist

Spies

Death and all his friends

O ( Fly On )

A Head Full Of Dreams

Colour Spectrum/Clocks

Midnight

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face

Princess of China

Talk

Spies

Life in Technicolor ii / The Escapist (extended)

A Sky Full Of Stars

Up&Up

Awesome thread concept!! This is hard....

 

Politik

Lost!

Midnight

In My Place

Sparks

Fix You

A Rush of Blood to the Head

Life in Technicolour II

Death and all His Friends/The Escapist

Amsterdam

 

Honourable mentions to: Spies, Lovers in Japan, Cemeteries of London, Major Minus and O.

Oh dang, this was very difficult!

 

Don't Panic

The Scientist

Lovers in Japan

Hurts Like Heaven

Strawberry Swing

Parachutes

Us Against the World

Kingdom Come

Magic

We Never Change

Death and All His Friends

O (Fly On)

 

Kind of a slow/chill album, but definitely full of my favorites. Kinda want to make a playlist of it now.

Cool idea ! Bummer you can't choose B-sides though ;)

Here's my list (too much to chose from, so you could say it's really one possibility of many):

 

Politik (opener)

In My Place

Cemeteries Of London

Talk

Trouble

Viva La Vida

Clocks

A Message

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Fix You

+ The Escapist (hidden track/closer)

[iCODE] 1) Square One

2) Parachutes

3) Warning Sign

4) The Scientist

5) The Hardest Part

6) Oceans

7) U.F.O.

8) Everglow

9) What If

10) Life is For Living

11) Strawberry Swing

12) Everything's Not Lost[/iCODE]

 

I think this album would tell the story of losing hopes (though you see/feel it coming-on) but then finding them again, even if it's upon different course/bearing.

Politik

Parachutes/Shiver

Strawberry Swing

Low

Viva la Vida

Yes

Daylight

The Scientist

White Shadows

Up With the Birds