Just now, GarbageOffice said:

I'm personally obsessed with Man In The Moon. It's extremly catchy, love the build up to the chorus, great to sing along, I actually like the lyrics and there mostly importantly there are no lalalas. I would replace it with Good Feelings in a heartbeat.

I would replace it with Aeterna, if feel Aeterna was better suited as B side as it was originally intended

2 hours ago, loganrussell said:

If there are more songs to be released for this album, they’re likely to be on this list. Can’t believe so many of these turned out to be real songs!

1 hour ago, Famous Old Painter said:

Only three are unreleased now. Aiko, Luna, and I guess MUSIC? (is that even a part of 🌈 anymore I can’t tell) 

One of em has to be the real title of Shine On, right? It’s possible Karate Kid was renamed as well (it’s the only released MM era song not up there)

edit - Karate Kid is on the black box alongside 2 Aliens. How on earth did you spot that? 

I assume that Luna is not Lhuna. Aiko's weird though, since Aiko was the fan name of Major Minus Reprise. It's odd to think that Coldplay went and used the name of a decade old song that didn't even have that name.

Only song I’d switch out for the main album is We Pray for Man in the Moon. Seeing multiple comments about disliking Good Feelings which hurts because that’s my absolute favorite off the album. It’s so good. It’s pop Coldplay done right imo.

54 minutes ago, Doomotron said:

I assume that Luna is not Lhuna. Aiko's weird though, since Aiko was the fan name of Major Minus Reprise. It's odd to think that Coldplay went and used the name of a decade old song that didn't even have that name.

Aiko was one of the names on Chris' piano during the MX era. It's also the name of a character in the MX universe: Mylo's father and a founder of the rebel group known as the Car Kids. So Aiko has probably been a separate song this whole time. I wonder why they'd revisit the MX lore for just one song, though...

The MX era was incomplete - there should have been a second album or an EP. When Chris said about releasing incomplete material, Aiko might be one of them. 

I feel the same for the VLV era as well - there should have been a second album.

Soo, MM leftovers that are still unreleased:
2 Aliens
Opus 5
Sunshine
M.U.S.I.C
Aiko
FRNDZ
Luna
FLIFIL (pt. 2)
Moon Musiic (Moon Music 2 )
Moon Musiiic (Moon Music 3)
Earthling (pt. 1)
All My Friends Are Aliens
Shine On/We Fly

2 hours ago, shred said:

The MX era was incomplete - there should have been a second album or an EP. When Chris said about releasing incomplete material, Aiko might be one of them. 

I feel the same for the VLV era as well - there should have been a second album.

There was Mylo Xylotwo planned but the divorce happened and messed everything up 

5 hours ago, Gob Bluth said:

Since I can't find a Man In the Moon sub thread, I guess this is the place to admire it. It's a throwback to Viva/PM, gated reverb drum, enough key changes to make Tony Banks jealous, and Chris is nailing the vocals. If there was concern about Coldplay running out of ideas as they near the end I think those concerns can be shelved.

I'd love a Man on the Moon era from Coldplay. Dreamy and bouncy. Sounds a lot like the 1975 to me. Probably my favorite song from MM/FM.

2 hours ago, Benjod25 said:

There was Mylo Xylotwo planned but the divorce happened and messed everything up 

There was also the animated musical film that was scrapped. It lived on as a comic strip, but as an animation fan I think it could've been really cool.

The storyline is fresh enough in the band's mind that the video for My Universe brings back the evil alien Silencers who ban all music. The title Alien Radio dates back to MX and it was reused. Aiko is still around.

5 hours ago, Kindnesss said:

Soo, MM leftovers that are still unreleased:
2 Aliens
Opus 5
Sunshine
M.U.S.I.C
Aiko
FRNDZ
Luna
FLIFIL (pt. 2)
Moon Musiic (Moon Music 2 )
Moon Musiiic (Moon Music 3)
Earthling (pt. 1)
All My Friends Are Aliens
Shine On/We Fly

FLIFIL pt. 2 is the hidden track after Aeterna. I might be wrong but I think the three Moon Musics are the one track separated, part 1 being Forever Held, part 2 being Elodie and part 3 being the bit with vocals. 

“The Karate Kid” may be one of the greatest melodies and performances by Chris ever. I really love it. And “Man in the Moon” is huge, so sticky and at the same time with a strength h as song that I really missed lately in the band. But I can see why they ´re not on Moon Music, as they don ´t really fit in the lyric and musical path. Even less than “We Pray” or “Good Feelings”. And they ´ve got no lalalas, so they couldn ´t be in the album.

They performed The Karate Kid and Coloratura last night at Williamsburg Music Hall

14 hours ago, HowCouldIForget said:

Love the new songs (and this will surprise no one) but I lament the fact that EL didn’t get this treatment.

Flags is brilliant but it would’ve been incredible to get a release of the unused tracks like Wedding Bells, Famous Old Painters etc on an EP or even an extended edition like this. I’m sure Coldplay knows those songs are too good to go unreleased…right?
 

Also not excited at the thought of Max producing those songs instead. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Wedding Bells and FoP have a massive chance of being on the final album 

I think the final album will be as Chris describes like back to basics acoustic alternative rock I have a feeling it'll be like Parachutes meets AROBTTH 

Anyone here has and can share a high quality recording of the SiriusXM concert last night in Williamsburg?

19 hours ago, vrnmdk said:

How do you know this?

They were just speculations, I was not confirming anything at all. Sorry if it was misunderstood. But I just said that based on the different moon phases and moons (blue moon and supermoon), and The Moon Music (Full Moon edition) features the original album + 10 BLUE MOONS, so maybe we get the eclipses and/or the supermoons.

7 hours ago, alexix7 said:

They performed The Karate Kid and Coloratura last night at Williamsburg Music Hall

https://youtu.be/AjMisH88jsQ

I forgot how good it is. 

17 hours ago, shred said:

The MX era was incomplete - there should have been a second album or an EP. When Chris said about releasing incomplete material, Aiko might be one of them. 

I feel the same for the VLV era as well - there should have been a second album.

Wedding Album 

14 hours ago, tyler.sonnenberg said:

I'd love a Man on the Moon era from Coldplay. Dreamy and bouncy. Sounds a lot like the 1975 to me. Probably my favorite song from MM/FM.

I was thinking the same thing. I get a bit of The City from it.

6 hours ago, Benjod25 said:

I think the final album will be as Chris describes like back to basics acoustic alternative rock I have a feeling it'll be like Parachutes meets AROBTTH 

It will be self-titled, so my guess is the songs might summarize all the different eras since 2000.

Edited October 8, 20241 yr by andrewsky

Just listened to "All My Friends Are Aliens", such a good song and it sounded a bit like "Don Quixote". How in the hell it didn't make neither the main album nor the full moon edition?

Edited October 8, 20241 yr by United

Having not received the WAV files from the Tour Edition download and with the Coldplay store's support not responding to my emails, I have decided to request a refund with PayPal. I would suggest anyone else disgruntled with the situation to do the same thing.

44 minutes ago, Doomotron said:

Having not received the WAV files from the Tour Edition download and with the Coldplay store's support not responding to my emails, I have decided to request a refund with PayPal. I would suggest anyone else disgruntled with the situation to do the same thing.

Hmm. Not feeling great about the Full Moon edition I bought at the Coldplay store then. 😬

11 hours ago, the_escapist said:

Anyone here has and can share a high quality recording of the SiriusXM concert last night in Williamsburg?

seconded! surely this must exist somewhere? its the only chance we will get to hear a live version of the karate kid, this is urgent!!

I've come to the realisation that the lalas only work on Jupiter, Good Feelings and All My Love. I think if the album had Karate Kid and MitM that's 3 songs with lalas and 8-9 without and to me that's a perfect balance