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BEST SONGS OF 2015 BY COLDPLAYING 10) Rae Morris - This Time 9) Muse - The Handler 8) Young Galaxy - Ready To Shine 7) Florence + The Machine - Queen Of Peace 6) Flint Eastwood - Find What You're Lookin For 5) Pure Bathing Culture - Pray For Rain 4) Editors - Ocean Of Night 3) Years & Years - Worship 2) Foals - Mountain At My Gates 1) Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places

20) Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind 19) Guy Garvey - Courting The Squall 18) Destroyer - Poison Season 17) Rhodes - Wishes 16) Family Of The Year - Family Of The Year 15) Majical Cloudz - Are You Alone? 14) Keep Shelly In Athens - Now I'm Ready 13) Muse - Drones 12) Florence & The Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 11) Tame Impala - Currents 10) Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness 9) El Vy - Return To The Moon 8) Editors - In Dream 7) Years & Years - Communion 6) Foals - What Went Down 5) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell 4) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 3) Blur - The Magic Whip 2) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday 1) Jamie xx - In Colour

BEST ALBUMS OF 2015 BY COLDPLAYING 25) Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit 24) Half Moon Run - Sun Leads Me On 23) Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters 22) Mogwli's - Kids In Love 21) Neck Deep - Life's Not Out to Get You

Street Spirit (Fade Out) vs Give Up The Ghost

OK, so the first phase has ended. Give me a few hours and I'll post the results. :)

Nice Dream vs Bodysnatchers

Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby

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My absolute favourite live performance is X&Y live @ Austin City Limits 2006. Other honourable mentions are: Square One @ Toronto 2006 Everything's Not Lost @ Glastonbury 2011 (pre-MX era) Talk @ EMA 2005 ... and for Newplayers: Warning Sign @ Torino (Italy) 2012 Strawberry Swing @ 2012 Paralympics Games Closing Ceremony in London

Rainy Day, Postcards From Far Away, Prospekt's March, Glass Of Water.... ...oh that time when they were inspired and original

Paradise

This thread and the ones about new music in WoM are the main reasons why I'm here. This is absolutely the best thread of 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzr5RwohquY Mobile Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzr5RwohquY

If you want Coldplay to sound like Radiohead, listen to Radiohead... :p I only want them to sound original and less generic than this

For everybody who cited Coldplay, they're not elegible because AHFOD has been released after 1st of December. So you can modify your chart

It remains only a week to send your chart... hurry up people ;)

They always had this sense of savetheworldepicness, but they don't save the world, they're just great musicians. As men they're very active for good causes, but it doesn't have to be related to their music. They didn't lose their attitude of being great people, they lost their quality in music composition technically speaking. We are not discussing them for the great guys they are (apart from the friendship between Chris and Jay-Z that started the ruining process), but the music they produce, and round here it's fair to say that there's no comparison in terms of quality between the post-Viva period and the previous one.

I can't choose between an inspired rock record and an inspired pop record. Since they're both musically and artistically worth I will never say that the rock one is superior because it's rock, it may be that the pop one is better, it depends on how much the record have a good impact on my taste and my soul. The fact is that Coldplay can even make a deep house album if it's inspired and inspiring, but with MX and AHFOD they didn't achieve to do it (GS only partially imo). That's why they lost their perfectionism: if you listen to one of their first 4 albums and EPs and bsides or unreleased songs you can feel that sense of "completeness", that music-driven sense of emotional impact that have always been their distinctive mark. Now they almost completely lost that, and you can feel it by the messy production and the fillers and the halfway abandoned development of their latest outputs. For example, I pick one of the most hated newplay songs around here: Paradise. When I listen to the first part of the song (until the para-para-paradise comes) I'm quite glad to hear it, then it feels like they didn't know how to build a great bridge and ending to the song and they start repeating the same thing over and over again for 2 minutes, with a silly filler choir and a slightly monochrome guitar riff that fails to sustain the general sound. If that sing was composed in 2009 they would have worked at least other 2 months on it to make it "perfect", instead Chris tried only to emulate Lady Gaga because his daughter loved Poker Face at the time. C'mon guys....

You can give all the reasons because you think Ahfod is a good record, still remains the lack of inspiration in lyrics (they are really terrible), in the progression/flow, in originality (it's mainstream), in production (a shame), in versatily during the development of the songs (repeated riffs, songs with filler choirs to make then last longer, etc)

When will we exactly know it?

It's almost 3-4 years that a lot of people rediscovered first-90s shoegaze/dreampop influences in rock and post-rock music, it is a great revival and source of inspiration and development imho. The only flaw is that they're not enough catchy for mainstream purposes.

Am I the only one who likes the original version (Tears For Fears) the most?

In 2004-2006 there were acts like Kings Of Convenience, Keane, Phoenix, The Killers, Gorillaz, Editors, Bloc Party in top 40 charts. To be fair, bad music never failed to be successful, but not in the way of today. And if I have to choose between Natalie Imbruglia, Gwen Stefani, Kylie Minogue of 2005 and Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, Arianna Grande of today I'll always prefer the first group

The first 10 good rock albums of this year: Pinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters Mac DeMarco - Another One Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday Pomegranates - Healing Power Foals - What Went Down The Maccabees - Marks To Prove It Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. Wolf Alice - My Love Is Cool Archive - Restriction No Joy - More Faithful Rock is not dead, we can say that the world of pop usic is growing faster, especially on the indie/alternative scene. Mainstream pop is going downhill: 10 years ago pop music was waaaay more meaningful amd musically richer than today's. CP always took a look to mainstream and another to rock music. Now that their rock vein has gone they can only ruin their music formula by emulating this s* of mainstream electrodancepop of today, with embarassing lyrics and bad production