I wanted to create this topic as a way to hear your favorite 2nd tracks on a Coldplay album ranked! Here are mine to start (I'm not including Higher Power just because we don't know how it fits into the album yet)

 

1. In My Place

2. Magic

3. Church

3. Cemeteries of London 

4. Hurts Like Heaven 

5. Birds

6. What if 

7. Shiver

Edited August 7, 20214 yr by Magic123

1. In My Place

2. Church

3. Shiver

4. Birds

5. Cemeteries of London

6. Magic

7. Paradise

8. What If

TBD: Humankind

I usually don't count transition tracks as part, so MX/HLH and MOTS/HP are one track.

As usual is this ranking temporarily, but for now:

1. Cemeteries of London

2. What If

3. Birds

4. Magic

5. Shiver

6. In My Place

7. Church

8. Paradise

For me, at the moment:

1) Cemeteries of London

2) Magic (I was about to put this one first, but it's still very close to the top)

3) In My Place

4) What If

5) Birds / Hurts Like Heaven (Still close to the top, though!)

6) Shiver

I still have to buy Everyday Life and I have not heard the album yet, so I can't include Church.

1. Shiver
2. Birds
3. Church
4. In My Place
5. Hurts Like Heaven
6. Magic
7. What If
8. Cemeteries of London

If OP's rule applies, then Paradise would go to the bottom of my list without skipping a beat. The rest can stay the same.

Time to re-do this:

 

1. Church

2. In My Place

3. Humankind

4. Birds

5. Shiver

6. Paradise

7. Cemeteries of London

8. Magic

9. What If

 

CD ORDER, FOR BRAINSTORMING:

Spies | In My Place | What If | Cemeteries of London | Hurts Like Heaven | Magic | Birds | Church | Humankind

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The top-billing the 1 slot is my favorite, just to be clear

1. Birds

2. Church

3. Humankind

4. Cemeteries of London

5. In My Place

6. Hurts Like Heaven

7. Spies

8. What If

9. Magic

From favourite to least favourite:

In My Place

What If

Cemeteries of London

Shiver

Church

Paradise

Humankind

Birds

Magic