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Break of Dawn (which appears to be Vampire Symphony) - this song is ON REPEAT. It's such a catchy indie pop song I'm totally digging it! The guitars and synths are perfect. The lyrics overall sound great (still trying to figure out what Chris sings though). No way they will never release this song; it would work perfectly in smaller but also bigger arenas! The tempo, the catchy-ness, the overall vibe. Damn once again they kept one of their bests off an album.... Forget the Race, release Break Of Dawn!

Head full of Dreams - I'm really into the the lyrics and the intro which repeats througout the song. Took a moment to get adjusted to the latin percussion. However the song itself is great. I really hope we will find a new version to be released anywhere in the future soon. It really has the potential to become a stadium song as well as a fan favourite! It gives me the euphorics of AHFOD combined with the lovestruck Human Heart.

Drunk and High - not better than the final HFTW but... what a shame they cut out the strings and guitar (especially in the outro)

Legends - AoAL is definitely better, however this feels like a completely different song if you were to cut out the guitar. It has a very chill vibe (reminds me of Kygo).

Forever Whatever - could've easily fit on MOTS. Not so sure about this, feels a bit unfinished indeed. Has the potential to become a Fix You v2. though.

 

Here is some of my views on the songs!
 

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by 42JTR

Although hearing leaks is always interesting, for me judging leaked demos feels a bit weird. It's commenting on something that wasn't ready to be heard by wider audience or not belonging in the group of songs that were supposed to be released at certain time. It almost makes me a bit cringe thinking what Chris as a perfectionist might feel, when he gets to know that thousands of people listened to some mumbled unfinished early idea haha.?

All I can say after hearing these leaked demos is that this gives us the proof again that they are very prolific songwriters and might have tons of great songs and ideas which they haven't got right yet or which haven't found a place in any of the albums yet. Seems like this is what the album called Coldplay will become: a collection of the great Coldplay songs, which just didn't and will not fit that well into any of albums' concepts thematically or ended up sounding too different or just didn't fit into album tracklist.

What songs leaked?

Break Of Dawn is fantastic!

What are the leaks and where can I listen to them? ?

They have been swiftly removed and the account that published them has been closed.

Did anyone among you save the material? I still have to listen to them... 

No links here please! Also, this is the MOTS thread, consider creating a new thread in the AHFOD section considering these are from that era ?

By the way, in case you don't know yet, that EP is fake, both its title and cover art. The tracks are real, though Break of Dawn is actually called Vampire Symphony. That version was also manipulated/edited by the leaker, they created the EP, mashed up together two different takes of Vampire Symphony and renamed it as Break of Dawn. The song is mostly accurate to its original version, though, but still not the original due to the mixing and the leak having those hideous filtered vocals. Thought you should know so we can avoid any eventual misinformation regarding the fake EP.

Edited December 15, 20214 yr by dxm3557

On 11/22/2021 at 8:14 PM, CP-EST said:

Although studio version is ok and Coldplay performing it alone has been pretty fine actually, is this the most embarrassing performance ever for Coldplay? I mean all the instrumentation is barely audible and then there is just 7 guys jumping and saying something randomly into microphone like monkeys. Please, Chris you are 44 already, one of the best frontman in the world, what are you doing in the middle of these unprofessional performers?

 

Is this a shreds video?

On 11/24/2021 at 10:30 AM, gustavothehuman said:

Given the reception, maybe Vol.1 is the first and last.

If I were in Coldplay's position, I'd make Vol. 2 an EP like Kaleidoscope and Vol. 3 a live album. Because making two more full length albums like MOTS at this point would be suicide.  

11 hours ago, Famous Old Painter said:

If I were in Coldplay's position, I'd make Vol. 2 an EP like Kaleidoscope and Vol. 3 a live album. Because making two more full length albums like MOTS at this point would be suicide.  

Good idea, it has potential.

For me I'd like Vol. 2 to be full ablum and maybe Vol.3 can be a EP with a few live songs thrown in.

My biggest gripe with Vol. 1 (which I also have with Everyday Life to be honest) was all the short interlude musical pieces. If they cut them and instead replaced them with a 3 or 5 minute full length song that's ambient in nature... that direction would've worked better for me.

16 hours ago, Famous Old Painter said:

If I were in Coldplay's position, I'd make Vol. 2 an EP like Kaleidoscope and Vol. 3 a live album. Because making two more full length albums like MOTS at this point would be suicide.  

they will probably release something when the tour will have already started, so it could be an option. I've never thought about this before.

But I personally have a doubt about this theory: Chris said the band will work on 3 more studio albums. If we assume that we will have MOTS vol2, MOTS vol3 and the famous last self-titled album, either vol 3 will be a studio album (so, not a live one) or there is a studio album missing?

I hope you can get the point, it's more complex to explain than to understand 

Anyway, as far as we know, any theory could be possible at the moment?

16 minutes ago, only.your.imagination said:

they will probably release something when the tour will have already started, so it could be an option. I've never thought about this before.

But I personally have a doubt about this theory: Chris said the band will work on 3 more studio albums. If we assume that we will have MOTS vol2, MOTS vol3 and the famous last self-titled album, either vol 3 will be a studio album (so, not a live one) or there is a studio album missing?

I hope you can get the point, it's more complex to explain than to understand 

Anyway, as far as we know, any theory could be possible at the moment?

Remember that Coldplay consider LeftRightLeftRightLeft an actual album, and I believe they see Sao Paolo in that way as well.

9 hours ago, Doomotron said:

Remember that Coldplay consider LeftRightLeftRightLeft an actual album, and I believe they see Sao Paolo in that way as well.

This comment made me think to another theory ahahah

Imagine if they decided to perform the new songs which are supposed to be in vol 3 during the tour and to record them only as live versions (like what they did with Moses for example).  The outcome would be an entire live album with new songs... I mean, I perfectly know this would be crazy and there are less than zero chances for this to happen, but reading the previous comments this idea popped into my mind and I couldn't help but sharing this thought ahah

Edited December 16, 20214 yr by only.your.imagination

If I may add, I have tons of theories. Maybe we've already had MOTS vol 2 and vol 3. They just released them backwards.

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On 12/15/2021 at 12:00 AM, Famous Old Painter said:

If I were in Coldplay's position, I'd make Vol. 2 an EP like Kaleidoscope and Vol. 3 a live album. Because making two more full length albums like MOTS at this point would be suicide.  

People love saying this. 

 

The fact that they released Magic as a single and not only was there no backlash but it charted at #14 on the Hot 100 tells me nothing they could do would be suicide. They put out just about the most soulless song I've ever heard and made $$$.

Maybe it wouldn't be suicide, but they'd probably kill off a good chunk of their fan base if they continued with more of MOTS1.

2 hours ago, LisaFeehily said:

Maybe it wouldn't be suicide, but they'd probably kill off a good chunk of their fan base if they continued with more of MOTS1.

If MOTS1 killed part of their fanbase, I guess they must have killed even more with Mylo Xyloto, Ghost Stories, A Head Full Of Dreams and Kaleidoscope...

I'll be disappointed if one of the MOTS volumes is a live album and right now I don't think one will be. Vol. 1 is definitely my least favorite Coldplay album and kind of pushed me away from listening to Coldplay over the past few months,  but I'm hopeful they can do better.

A lot of artists right now have been putting out albums back-to-back far more quickly than the traditional 3-4 year album cycle. We know Chris is a song-writing machine and recent AHFOD demo leaks reveal there's great songs that could still be revisited by the band. I think it's totally possible that Vol. 2 is a very alternative record (think more songs like Coloratura) and that Vol. 3 in a couple years could return to pop and collabs. This would please critics and fans and appeal to everyone over a 2-3 year period. If MOTS era is just Vol. 1, an EP and some live stuff, I'm really not gonna like it.

 

 

On 12/14/2021 at 7:10 PM, dxm3557 said:

By the way, in case you don't know yet, that EP is fake, both its title and cover art. The tracks are real, though Break of Dawn is actually called Vampire Symphony. That version was also manipulated/edited by the leaker, they created the EP, mashed up together two different takes of Vampire Symphony and renamed it as Break of Dawn. The song is mostly accurate to its original version, though, but still not the original due to the mixing and the leak having those hideous filtered vocals. Thought you should know so we can avoid any eventual misinformation regarding the fake EP.

Eh, how do you know this? ?

2 hours ago, MosesTheMarshmallow said:

Eh, how do you know this? ?

Well, I think it's crystal clear how...

Edited December 18, 20214 yr by dxm3557

On 12/17/2021 at 7:15 AM, lennyrott1 said:

I'll be disappointed if one of the MOTS volumes is a live album and right now I don't think one will be. Vol. 1 is definitely my least favorite Coldplay album and kind of pushed me away from listening to Coldplay over the past few months,  but I'm hopeful they can do better.

A lot of artists right now have been putting out albums back-to-back far more quickly than the traditional 3-4 year album cycle. We know Chris is a song-writing machine and recent AHFOD demo leaks reveal there's great songs that could still be revisited by the band. I think it's totally possible that Vol. 2 is a very alternative record (think more songs like Coloratura) and that Vol. 3 in a couple years could return to pop and collabs. This would please critics and fans and appeal to everyone over a 2-3 year period. If MOTS era is just Vol. 1, an EP and some live stuff, I'm really not gonna like it.

If they were going to do that alternative record, wouldn't it make more sense to release it with a different name and visual theme? 

Edited December 19, 20214 yr by Famous Old Painter

On 12/17/2021 at 1:09 AM, HowCouldIForget said:

People love saying this. 

 

The fact that they released Magic as a single and not only was there no backlash but it charted at #14 on the Hot 100 tells me nothing they could do would be suicide. They put out just about the most soulless song I've ever heard and made $$$.

Magic is great stfu

I feel this topic is getting heated.

I'll try and lighten the mood.

Just saw on Coldplay's reddit section someone posted an old clip of Chris Martin making out with Spiderman. It was from an Saturday Night Live skit, made me blush. Lol

On 12/18/2021 at 10:44 PM, Famous Old Painter said:

Magic is great stfu

Magic is Chris saying "How can I do a rendition of R Kelly but as a British guy and in the worst possible way." You're not an R&B singer, my guy.