I´ve been looking for old articles about that period, because I´m very interested in all the struggles and troubles they went through the recording of this album. So if have any texts or opinions to share, that will be great.

Also... are there any demos or rejected songs from this period? I mean, they changed producers, declined some of the songs... 

this might sound dumb but you can try this:

https://timeline.coldplay.com/era/x-y?order=recent&filtertype=featured&pg=3

I think most of the struggles they went through were quite natural part of becoming a big successful band, how to balance recording albums and touring, stay healthy/rested and manage pressure of label etc. So, my personal opinion is that this narrative about mainly emphasizing struggles and troubles of X&Y era is getting kind of old. It's now fair to say they went through it relatively successfully and it only made them stronger, and a few amazing songs came out of that era. We all have more difficult periods in life, doesn't mean, we can't move on and accept going through difficulties at some point.

Although it's not my favourite as an album, the overall sound of X&Y is amazing. I think there was tons of songs declined from those sessions and some songs were reworked and restructured multiple times, example of that is alternate version of Talk. Maybe someone can bring out more.

45 minutes ago, PhilHarveysLeftLeg said:

this might sound dumb but you can try this:

https://timeline.coldplay.com/era/x-y?order=recent&filtertype=featured&pg=3

I don´t want to say it sounds dumb, but I don´t find it useful at all... 

Anyway, I found this article, which is interesting;

https://ew.com/article/2005/05/23/how-coldplay-survived-making-xy/

46 minutes ago, CP-EST said:

I think most of the struggles they went through were quite natural part of becoming a big successful band, how to balance recording albums and touring, stay healthy/rested and manage pressure of label etc. So, my personal opinion is that this narrative about mainly emphasizing struggles and troubles of X&Y era is getting kind of old. It's now fair to say they went through it relatively successfully and it only made them stronger, and a few amazing songs came out of that era. We all have more difficult periods in life, doesn't mean, we can't move on and accept going through difficulties at some point.

Although it's not my favourite as an album, the overall sound of X&Y is amazing. I think there was tons of songs declined from those sessions and some songs were reworked and restructured multiple times, example of that is alternate version of Talk. Maybe someone can bring out more.

Maybe you´re right, but there are some things that could add up to the situation. I don´t know if Guy´s drinking problems happened there or later in the tour, but it´s clear that Chris´life had changed in so many ways, and it was not easy to take.

There were heaps of b-sides.

Some unused songs:

• Something Ain't Right
• Fury
• Blasphemy
• Echo My Name (I Can't Believe Your Gone)
• Deja Vu

13 hours ago, driftaguy said:

There were heaps of b-sides.

Some unused songs:

• Something Ain't Right
• Fury
• Blasphemy
• Echo My Name (I Can't Believe Your Gone)
• Deja Vu

From what I know the songs are out there but worth LOTS of money each. 

15 hours ago, driftaguy said:

There were heaps of b-sides.

Some unused songs:

• Something Ain't Right
• Fury
• Blasphemy
• Echo My Name (I Can't Believe Your Gone)
• Deja Vu

Yeah, those songs appear in one of the articles I found, I think. But I don´t understand how we got eleven versions of Aeterna, and non of those songs... I remember those days buying the single for Speed of Sound, which included Things I don´t understand and Proof.

There is another unreleased song called Bones from 2004

18 hours ago, driftaguy said:

There were heaps of b-sides.

Some unused songs:

• Something Ain't Right
• Fury
• Blasphemy
• Echo My Name (I Can't Believe Your Gone)
• Deja Vu

There's also:

Fix You (Lights Will Guide You Home)

Gravity 2003

Ladder to the Sun

Poor Me

Proof 2003

Square/1

Talk 2 & 3

The World Turns Upside Down 2003 & 2004

Turn Your World Around

Zurich (Low demo)

2 minutes ago, m4racide said:

There's also:

Fix You (Lights Will Guide You Home)

Gravity 2003

Ladder to the Sun

Poor Me

Proof 2003

Square/1

Talk 2 & 3

The World Turns Upside Down 2003 & 2004

Turn Your World Around

Zurich (Low demo)

I´m talking about reachable songs...

On 5/8/2024 at 3:02 PM, edupoint said:

I´m talking about reachable songs...

Um basically none lol. Each song might be worth 1k or more dollars if I am not mistaken.