July 29, 20215 yr Openers: Politik Mylo Xyloto/Hurts Like Heaven Square One A Head Full of Dreams Don't Panic Life in Technicolor Sunrise Music of the Spheres/Higher Power Always in My Head Closers: Death and All His Friends/The Escapist Coloratura Amsterdam Everyday Life Everything's Not Lost/Life is for Living Up&Up O/Fly On Up With the Birds Til Kingdom Come Through making this I've just realized how good their album openers/closers are, especially their closers. Up With the Birds is second last but is still such a good song, as are O and Til Kingdom Come.
July 29, 20215 yr Openers: Square One Politik Sunrise Don't Panic Life In Technicolor (Ii would probably be no 1 though) Mylo/Hurts Like Heaven Always In My Head Music Of The Spheres/Higher Power A Head Full Of Dreams Closers: Coloratura Death And All His Friends Up With The Birds O/Fly On Amsterdam Everything's Not Lost Up & Up Everyday Life Twisted Logic Right now, might change my mind tomorrow. Edited July 29, 20215 yr by Famous_Old_Painter
July 29, 20215 yr Openers: Square One Politik Life In Technicolor Don't Panic Always In My Head Sunrise Mylo/Hurts Like Heaven Music Of The Spheres/Higher Power A Head Full Of Dreams Closers: Amsterdam Everything's Not Lost Coloratura Death And All His Friends O/Fly On Up & Up Everyday Life Up With The Birds Til Kingdom Come I love all the closers' songs, but I think that ones work better than others as a final song.
July 29, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, _josemarcelo said: Til Kingdom Come I love all the closers' songs, but I think that ones work better than others as a final song. Agree! I don't think TKC functions well as an album closer and Twisted Logic is a much better closing song.
July 30, 20215 yr Openers Politik MX/Hurts Like Heaven Don't Panic Always in my head Sunrise A Head full of Dreams Square One Life in Technicolor Higher Power Closers Amsterdam Coloratura Death and all his friends Fly On / O Everything's not lost Everyday Life Up with the birds Til Kingdom Come Up and Up Edited July 30, 20215 yr by Eskapist
July 30, 20215 yr 24 minutes ago, gustavothehuman said: So much Higher Power slander ? I like it but it's certainly not their best
July 30, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, harrisonrules said: I like it but it's certainly not their best agreed, but it's far from being their worst
July 30, 20215 yr 10 minutes ago, gustavothehuman said: agreed, but it's far from being their worst I love the vibrant upbeat style of it
July 30, 20215 yr It's difficult to compare openers and closers separately. They all work in the album context really well. From openers Politik and Square One are the best songs for me. But considering how openers work in stadium concert setlist, I think it's a tie between AHFOD and MX/Hurts Like Heaven - both are really effective and work well with visuals. Politik is the opener with the most depth and quality, but it doesn't let the band to connect to crowd that easily. AHFOD does a great job with involving the audience already on 2nd or 3rd minute of the concert + this legendary jump by Chris! It seems like almost everything about it was designed to be a perfect concert opener. I think MOTS/Higher Power could be a very effective concert opener as well, but probably not the best imo. For sure the most danceable and energetic, feels like it's taking something from HLH and AHFOD both, but we'll see how it really works in context of the whole MOTS concert. About closers, again they all are good for their respective albums and most of the closers are amongst the best Coldplay songs for me. Talking about using album closers as concert closers, I think in a way Coloratura is the concert closer they have been moving towards all these years. It's symphonic, anthemic, cinematic, emotional and unifying the crowd at the same time, while the whole band shines playing it. In someway it combines all of the previous closers together and it gives the most ethereal feel. This is the song I want to experience live, but I guess, thinking about the next Coldplay stadium show in the current pandemic situation is pretty much still a dream in A Head Full of Dreams and Coloratura is a place we dream about. ?
July 30, 20215 yr It's a space year or what ? Vangelis will release Juno to Jupiter on Sept 24. Check the cover.
July 30, 20215 yr Hi! I saw you have been rating openers and closers from the albums. What about the artworks? They're all very beautiful (I love the fact that Coldplay pay so much attention to the design of their albums to make them a complete work of art), but I'll try to rank them, according to my personal tastes: 1) Ghost Stories 2) Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends 3) A Rush of Blood to the Head / Parachutes (I can't decide they seem to complement each other so well) 4) Mylo Xyloto / Everyday Life (I love the photo, It really seems to come from a century ago!) 5) Music of the Spheres (it may grow on me with time...) 6) X&Y 7) A Head Full of Dreams
July 30, 20215 yr I see that J has been rehearsing the Us Against The World riff. I wonder if it's just for fun or inclusion in future setlists. Have they been reworking it perhaps? Edited July 30, 20215 yr by Famous_Old_Painter
July 30, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, harrisonrules said: Interesting, because if it's a hidden track as some are speculating, none of the remaining tracks have the length needed for a hidden track, and the one that does we've already heard. But I do think it might be a hidden track, so how could they pull that off? If they manage to hide it completely from the tracklist and only include it when you play the album in full on release day, I'll be very impressed. Also, please let it be THE RACE!
July 30, 20215 yr there is indeed one small planet on the album cover that does not correspond to any track... the small one just below Supersolis, maybe a 13th hidden track ? I wonder if vol.2 will have new planets or if it will be a new round in the same system
July 30, 20215 yr 23 minutes ago, johnnymax8652 said: there is indeed one small planet on the album cover that does not correspond to any track... the small one just below Supersolis, maybe a 13th hidden track ? I wonder if vol.2 will have new planets or if it will be a new round in the same system Like "Til Kingdom Come"...
July 30, 20215 yr By the way, an unknown planet/moon seems to appear also here and it looks like the little blue dot in the artwork...
July 30, 20215 yr 1 hour ago, TheBigBadBono said: Interesting, because if it's a hidden track as some are speculating, none of the remaining tracks have the length needed for a hidden track, and the one that does we've already heard. But I do think it might be a hidden track, so how could they pull that off? If they manage to hide it completely from the tracklist and only include it when you play the album in full on release day, I'll be very impressed. Also, please let it be THE RACE! It could be on physical releases only.
July 30, 20215 yr Just rewatched the Overtura trailer and something just doesn't add up with the planets and the music. Right after Humankind it's out of sync until People of the Pride. The Qubik planet seems to be in the wrong position as well. My guess is that the hidden track is in Humankind or a transition to Alien Choir. Btw you can listen to the snippet of Alien Choir now on alienradio without all the distortions. Just heard it for the first time.
July 30, 20215 yr 7 hours ago, TheLostColdplayer said: Hi! I saw you have been rating openers and closers from the albums. What about the artworks? They're all very beautiful (I love the fact that Coldplay pay so much attention to the design of their albums to make them a complete work of art), but I'll try to rank them, according to my personal tastes: 1) Ghost Stories 2) Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends 3) A Rush of Blood to the Head / Parachutes (I can't decide they seem to complement each other so well) 4) Mylo Xyloto / Everyday Life (I love the photo, It really seems to come from a century ago!) 5) Music of the Spheres (it may grow on me with time...) 6) X&Y 7) A Head Full of Dreams 1) Ghost Stories 2) Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends 3) A Rush of Blood to the Head 4) Parachutes 5) Everyday Life 6) Mylo Xyloto 7) A Head Full of Dreams 8 ) X&Y 9) Music of the Spheres Edited July 30, 20215 yr by LisaFeehily
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