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I'd say either Radiohead or The Fray.

I was watching that video Coldplaying posted on Twitter of a performance on Viva la Vida, so good I forgot it wasn't on a thread here in the forums at Coldplaying. Bit disappointing how the video just cuts off at 1:00. I was ready to get into it then I snapped back to reality. :( Still neat tho. Would appreciate if someone posted this! :D

Drake

Tortilla chips

Selena Gomez

Love it.

Sad Song - We The Kings What makes you smile?

I'm not actually listening to it right now, but I have it stuck in my head: Katy Perry's "Unconditionally". I miss 2011/12 pop like this. The emotions felt so real, genuine... now it's all a bunch of plastic crap. Perhaps why I like Mylo so much is that it fits within that category of music, just with a rockier feel. The best of both worlds! :D It's because I was working on an extended version of it most likely recently though :P

^ Me

How To Save A Life - The Fray 8.5/10 The Fray are criminally underrated in my opinion, and this is the best example of that. People usually think of songs like "Love Don't Die" when criticizing The Fray, but that's now. They're not as good now (although their new single "Singing Low" is nice). This is what they once were. This album is a masterpiece and it's my 3rd favorite album of all time, only behind A Rush Of Blood To The Head and Mylo Xyloto. Most of the songs on here are so strong and powerful emotionally. How To Save A Life, perhaps one of their more well known songs, Fall Away, Heaven Forbid, Look After You, Hundred, Vienna, Dead Wrong, Little House, Trust Me, and Unsaid, an additional track available on later releases of the album, all pack a 5 star emotional punch (well, not really Dead Wrong, I'd call that a "strong 4" but that's still really good.) Even some of the other songs are good. The only one I don't care for too much is All At Once, which is nice enough but kind of plods along and is one of those songs that you kind of like than next thing you know you've played 3 more songs since then. Over My Head is nice, but is kind of the same way. She Is, same way except even stronger. Some of the lower level songs are kind of the same way but very minor. All in all, an absolutely spectacular album and if there's any album that should make people stop saying "they're generic" or "they're boring" or "they use clean tones" or any of that crap, it should be this one, beacuse the song here are not generic, not boring, and dont use clean tones. The major concern here is the flow of the album. This isn't the only time The Fray screwed up the tracklisting either: Scars & Stories is highly guilty of this. Just like this album, except the majority of songs are Over My Head-type, which are nice enough but once again seem to plod along. I've even redone the flow of this album so that whenever I'm listening to it I don't wonder why the title track is sandwiched between two songs that seem to have no relation to it whatsoever. Original Tracklisting: 1. She Is 2. Over My Head (Cable Car) 3. How To Save A Life 4. All At Once 5. Fall Away 6. Heaven Forbid 7. Look After You 8. Hundred 9. Vienna 10. Dead Wrong 11. Little House 12. Trust Me 13. Unsaid My Tracklisting: 1. She Is 2. Over My Head (Cable Car) 3. All At Once - Replaces How To Save A Life. HTSAL should not be this early in the track listing by any means. It has been put further back in the album where it ultimately belongs. This fixes the flow a lot. 4. Look After You - It's a little too early for Fall Away and Heaven Forbid however. This song is a lead up to the more heartfelt songs in the album, and after the relative busyness of the tracks preceding it, is a "break". Inspired off of Coldplay's tracklist style where the 4th song is usually more of a ballad type slower song providing a break in between the busier songs on the album. 5. Dead Wrong - This song is a little too upbeat to be placed where it ultimately is in the original tracklisting. This leads directly into the more melancholic and slower side of things with this album. 6. Heaven Forbid - I feel this song should be switched around with Fall Away. It's less emotionally "tense" then Fall Away, meaning that Fall Away is more of a song that's meant to precede a really devastating moment in the tracklist, while this can be used as a lead up to something like Fall Away. 7. Fall Away - The emotionally tense part of the album, leading into the devastation that is... 8. How To Save A Life - This is where the song should have been placed. Right after a tense moment such as Fall Away. Not sandwiched in between 2 songs that have nothing to do with it. 9. Hundred - Same order, just one spot up in the absence of "Dead Wrong". * 10. Vienna - * 11. Little House 12. Trust Me 13. Unsaid If I was allowed to use another song from any other album as well in the tracklist, it would be "Ungodly Hour" from the same artist's self titled album that followed the release of this one. I would put it in between "Vienna" and "Little House", it would just make sense. I'd also do a reprise sort of thing for "Look After You" and put that in between Little House and Trust Me, to lessen the sharp effect you get from the harshness of the end of that song into the calmness and melancholy of Trust Me. One day I will remake this album... and do this :D So yeah, that's my opinion on this amazing debut by The Fray. By far the best debut of any artist I've heard yet!

LiT ii is rare anywhere. :D

woah, now that's rare.

Lol that's okay :D I thought the same way with the teaser, I thought everyone did. Then it just didn't take off as much as I'd had hoped for. That's the thing, I really love Mylo Xyloto because the songs just truly blow up to extensive proportions, while the ones on AHFOD seem... surpressed. I don't know what it is. Feels watered down. Mylo had more of a rock feel to it, and better production than AHFOD. Army Of One especially makes me mad, make the song blow up, don't bury those organs under everything else, it makes it sound really weak compared to what it should be!! People are drawing connections with it and Paradise, and really they are similar sort of kind of, but the difference is Paradise doesn't freaking hold back on everything, everything in that song is just so perfect, it's a perfect example of a pop rock song, I love it!! I still really do like the song though. But like.. seriously? I swear I'm hearing auto-tune in there. I'm not talking about the vocal chops, near the end of the song where he says "army of one" the "one" sounds super autotune, well not super autotune, it's not too too noticable but it just sounds too clean and perfect to be organic... and I mean there's different styles of autotune, they try to hide it there, while for example in something like "I Gotta Feeling" you actually hear the pitch shifting and all that which actually makes sense in an electronically driven song such as that one. While for more organic songs like this, you should be able to actually sing the notes and not have pitch manipulation software do it for you because you're too lazy. I'm not completely against autotune, just when it's solely used because a singer can't freaking sing the notes right. Back in the day you had to be good to actually sing... now here we are with Jacob Sartorius using more autotune then GLaDOS in the Portal games. :laugh3: I personally like HFTW even though I can admit it was probably somewhat made from a desire to earn big money seeing with all the R&B elements and Beyonce and all that stuff. I'm not too big of a fan of Goldrush (though I still do enjoy and appreciate it, don't worry :D) but I would love to see Coldplay doing some more of that in the future. Heck, you never know, Stargate may have denied really good songs like that, and used XMTS instead. :laugh3: (I don't think that song should have gone completely unreleased though. More B-side material, which leads into my next point...) B-Sides! I am so mad! Why are there no B-sides! Viva had tons of them, tons of unreleased songs and even a full EP more of songs, and at that a long EP! And then you got the demos and the other B-sides and this and that and wow! I can say the Viva era was outstanding for the amount of songs there were... you had 2 more album's worth in that era! Things were really good in that era, they thought of different styles of songs and this and that... now we have an album that personally I like but isn't too too unique.. I mean it is unique of course, but it sounds much more like a pop album more artists could do than Viva. Ever since Mylo there has been a lack of B sides compared to past eras. That's one thing I don't particularly like about the MX era, there are tons of song names we know but half of them we don't even know what they sound like! And with GS there's less songs we know about that era then we've heard from the Viva era! I wish one day they'd just release every single song they've conceived.... that would be nice for near the end of their career now wouldn't it, a special gift for us Coldplay fans! One more comment, I remember reading somewhere that Chris would give his left ball to right anything as good as OK Computer. I can tell ya one thing for sure: you aren't going to do it by collabing with big name pop artists and making an album full of Stargate's glossy production and whoohoo's everywhere. Look, there is a time and place for that stuff but do like only a few albums maybe. Hopefully they'll be shifting gears moving forward and LP8 will be that one thing we've all looked forward to for a while now... :D

I'm doing this again! I have many more songs then the last time I did this, so less Coldplay will probably be on my list! Sample 1: 1. Low - Coldplay 2. A Whisper (Interlude) - LRLArchi 3. Trip - Hedley 4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor Rich Man Poor Man Beggar Man Thief - Radiohead 5. Amsterdam (Extended Version) - LRLArchi 6. Color Outside The Lines - Hedley 7. It's Been Awhile - Staind 8. Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo 9. Breathing Underwater - Metric 10. Mothers Of The Disappeared - U2 Sample 2: 1. First Steps - Coldplay 2. Hello - Adele 3. Up&Up (Live) - Coldplay 4. The Highest Journey - M83 5. Videotape - Radiohead 6. Amazing Day (Coldplay cover) - The Racer (anyone remember this one? The really sad cover?) 7. Gravity - Coldplay 8. Wedding Bells (Acoustic Version) - Coldplay 9. Moving To Mars - Coldplay 10. Elegiac - Jon Hopkins Sample 3: 1. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon 2. Lost Map/The Hawk - Jon Hopkins 3. Loose Ends - DIIV 4. Speed Of Sound (Remastered) - Dexynboy 5. Wonderwall - Oasis 6. Mothers of The Disappeared - U2 7. Hundred - The Fray 8. Blank Space - Taylor Swift 9. True Love Waits - Radiohead (Not the live version nor the AMSP version, it was a cover that is similar to the live version with added instruments. Sounds like something from OK Computer. Hopefully some of you know what I mean.) 10. Sparks - Coldplay Sample 4: 1. A Message - Coldplay 2. Parade Rain - Hedley 3. Color Outside The Lines - Hedley 4. Private Universe - Jon Hopkins 5. River of Deceit - Mad Season 6. You and Whose Army? - Radiohead 7. What About Now - Westlife 8. Pyramid Song - Radiohead 9. The Goldrush - Coldplay 10. Daydreaming - Radiohead Sample 5: 1. Lady Picture Show - Stone Temple Pilots 2. A Sky Full Of Stars (Avicii Edit) - Avicii 3. Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie 4. When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars 5. Big Me - Foo Fighters 6. Mirrors - Justin Timberlake 7. Remedy - Adele 8. Wonderwall - Oasis 9. Swallowed in the Sea - Coldplay 10. Take Your Time (Single Listening Edit) - DIIV Sample 6: 1. The Wider Sun - Jon Hopkins 2. What Goes Around Coms Around - Justin Timberlake 3. Beautiful Day - U2 4. Wedding Bells (Apple 1st September Event) - Coldplay 5. Goodbye - Hedley 6. Try - P!nk 7. Burn The Witch - Radiohead 8. Monsters Full Soundtrack - Jon Hopkins 9. Thinking About You - Radiohead 10. Mylo Xyloto/Hurts Like Heaven - Coldplay Sample 7: 1. Stars - Hum 2. St. Stephen - Coldplay 3. Death Will Never Conquer - Coldplay 4. The Wind - The Fray 5. Somewhere Out There (Temporary First Extended Edit) - Our Lady Peace (I was extending this song, but I couldn't find a good instrumental so I just left it there. This was like 6 months ago and remains unfinished to this day. :D) 6. Incomplete - Backstreet Boys 7. Monsters Full Soundtrack - Jon Hopkins 8. Bloom - Radiohead 9. A Message - Coldplay 10. Spies - Coldplay Sample 8: 1. The Goldrush (Diamond Empire Cover) - Diamond Empire 2. Amazing Day (Coldplay cover) - The Racer 3. Planet Telex - Radiohead 4. Nutshell - Alice In Chains 5. What About Now - Westlife 6. Lost In Thought - Jon Hopkins 7. Bent - Matchbox 20 8. Form by Fireflight - Jon Hopkins 9. All For Love - Seaside 10. Fix You (Ultra Extended Version) - Coldplay Sample 9: 1. Famous Old Painters - Coldplay 2. Bloodless Revolution - Coldplay 3. Everglow - Coldplay 4. Take Care (ft. Rihanna) (Extended Version) - Drake 5. Never Say Never - The Fray 6. Million Years Ago - Adele 7. Bullet The Blue Sky - U2 8. Sweater Song (Epic Edit) - Hedley 9. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead 10. Coma - Seaside Sample 10: 1. Wedding Bells (Apple Keynote) - Coldplay 2. A Moment Like This - Kelly Clarkson 3. Love Yourself - Justin Bieber 4. Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve 5. Thinking About You - Radiohead 6. We Disappear - Jon Hopkins 7. Fix You - Coldplay 8. Beautiful - Hedley 9. (****) -DIIV (This isn't the actual name of the track. The word used wouldn't be appropriate to post here!) 10. Brick - Ben Folds Five Sample 11: 1. Healthy Moon - DIIV 2. My Same - Adele 3. Water - Jon Hopkins 4. Young And Stupid - Hedley 5. How's It Gonna Be - Third Eye Blind 6. I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas 7. Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace 8. Optimistic - Radiohead 9. It Ends Tonight - The All-American Rejects 10. Your Love Means Everything - Coldplay & Faultline Sample 12: 1. Keep Holding On - Avril Lavigne 2. Wonderwall - Oasis 3. Bent - Matchbox 20 4. O (Remix by Janduny) - Coldplay Plus 5. Out Of Mind - DIIV 6. 42 - Coldplay 7. Spiderwebs (Demo) - Coldplay 8. Rolling In The Deep - Adele 9. Give It Away - The Fray 10. Spies - Coldplay Sample 13: 1. Rainy Day - Coldplay 2. Absolute (Acoustic) - The Fray 3. Pyramid Song - Radiohead 4. For The Nights I Can't Remember - Hedley 5. The Bends - Radiohead 6. Don't Panic (Blue Room Version) - Coldplay 7. Incarnate Devil (Single Listening Edit) - DIIV 8. Set Fire To The Rain - Adele 9. Ink - Coldplay 10. Daydreaming - Radiohead Sample 14: 1. Second Sense - Jon Hopkins 2. Song Of The Sea 3. (Druun Pt. II) - DIIV 4. When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars 5. Turn Down For What - DJ Snake Feat. Lil Jon 6. Nude - Radiohead 7. Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve 8. Prologue - Jon Hopkins 9. Optimistic (Fade Out Edit) - Radiohead 10. White Shadows - Coldplay Sample 15: 1. Miracles - Coldplay 2. Sweet Marianne - Coldplay 3. River Lea - Adele 4. Nutshell - Alice In Chains 5. Up&Up - Coldplay 6. Colour Eye - Jon Hopkins 7. St. Stephen - Coldplay 8. Sail To The Moon - Radiohead 9. Yr Not Far - DIIV 10. Goodbye - Hedley I got really good at typing :D Already over? What a bummer... Oh well, gonna have to do even more next time! Idk why, I love this! :)

Interesting watch.

Let's revive this. Coldplay - Ink 1 Radiohead - No Surprises 17 Travis - Sing 10 U2 - Zooropa 13 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 11 Metallica - One 11 The Beatles - Yellow Submarine 10 Muse - Reapers 10 Jon Hopkins - Halycon 11 Battles - Ice Cream 10 Jamie xx - Loud Places 11 Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait 0 The xx - VCR 10 The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 10 Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger 14 Blur - Parklife 11

Yep :) If it weren't for the Internet I probably wouldn't love Coldplay as much. I listened to my first song of theirs way back in 2008/09 on some random video otherwise completely unrelated. Then again I did hear quite a few of their singles on the radio and considered them to be really good. I think the songs I knew before checking their music out were Viva la Vida, A Sky Full Of Stars, Speed of Sound, and Clocks. I heard Paradise and Princess Of China before but never really knew they were by Coldplay, I didn't even know the song titles. If it weren't for the Internet there'd be many artists I love know that I would have no idea about. So we can appreciate both sides of the spectrum here :D

Revive this thread!

Nope Jacob sartorius.

Ellie Goulding

Thank you. :)

^heyyyyyyyy! The Fray! Mothers Of The Disappeared - U2

I wasn't even born lol

That's a nice one.

Very, very difficult... all very good songs. I'm going to say Starlight for now though.