Famous Old Painter

The Karate Kid is the b-side of the All My Love 7", so mayyyybe AML is still technically the final Coldplay single? No it's not Chris is a liar

Viva la Vida Ghost Stories Moon Music AROBTTH Everyday Life Parachutes X&Y Mylo Xyloto A Head Full of Dreams MOTS MM still has that new album smell so maybe it’ll leave the top 3 in a few months. But it has been the soundtrack to the biggest moment of my life so perhaps it’ll stay.

Chris has talked about it multiple times over the past four years. Question is what will come first, the musical or self titled. I know the self titled was planned to be their last but Chris said recently it may get bumped up if the musical production takes too long.

Jokes aside I'm keeping my hopes up for the musical The Moon Music title track has fairly narrative based lyrics, so I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of the music was along the lines of that. Earthling also has narrative based lyrics and is quite similar in that regard. Both songs + Weirdo are excellent, so if that's the direction they're going in it could be really good. If the Alien themed songs are more Angelsong and less Biytyful then all the better. Add on top of that the musical will (allegedly) have no singles, so there's less incentive to make a big obnoxious My Universe style song. Musical soundtracks are traditionally quite orchestral as well, so there's a good chance of having a ton of John Metcalfe and Davide Rossi on there. idk. With Moon Music I got the vibe the band were slowly wrapping up the "pop" phase of their career and are moving into more low-key introspective stuff to finish up on. MM feels like the transitional album between the two. I could be very wrong of course.

It's just a joke about the current pattern of every second album being well received MX/AHFOD/MOTS - controversial/divisive albums Viva/GS/EL/MM - mainly loved by the fanbase

Until... mayybeeeeeee tomorrow

MOTS the Musical is set to be the worst album of all time at this rate But Self Titled could be the best so stay excited

Forever Held! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=708gIm6BP20

It think the Full Moon edition shoots that theory down, which is a shame as it would've made a really interesting EP.

Did Shine On legit leak or is it another troll?

Using the Neon Forest synths at the start of FLIFIL was such a red herring, why did they do that

Nobody is calling him dumb except for you

I promise you Chris deals with worse on a daily basis. You don't spend 20 years as one of the most famous men in the world without knowing how to deal with random people saying weird stuff about you. People have been using the Benjamin Button line on him for at least a decade. There's no way he's not aware of it. So yeah I would call him that to his face, and if he's anything like the Chris I love he'd have a hilarious reply ready to go. I'd probably use it as an excuse to go on about my newborn anyway, hopefully he'd find him cute.

A lot of people have called Chris Martin the Benjamin Button of lyrics. I don't know about that, but I do know this. My son has been alive for three days and he only knows one word. La.

@A Famous Old Painter get in here

I wanna do a proper version that takes more than 5 minutes to throw together. Can't promise it will be soon but when I get around to it I'll upload as high quality as I can.

Pitchfork have had this really weird system over the past decade where the collective staff will vote on a score, then get an individual writer to do the review. So often the reviews and scores don't match up at all. Case in point with Moon Music.

The Pitchfork review was really good actually. I was quite surprised how generous they were, given Pitchfork aren't exactly known for being super kind. 6/10 might not seem like a great score but if you consider how they rated the other Coldplay albums, it's above average.

I suspect I'll forever have a bias with Moon Music. My heavily pregnant wife and I went to the cinema for the listening event, knowing it would be our final date together alone as a couple before we brought a kid into the world. Listening to the songs made her quite emotional, Jupiter and All My Love especially. So no matter what anyone says I'll always have that memory. In contrast, the first time we listened to MOTS together she burst out laughing at My Universe and said "this shit sounds like Nikki Webster!"

I added up the average track ratings I gave on RYM and it resulted in 4.5/5 which is way higher than I was expecting. In context I gave MOTS a 3 (which was quite generous tbh but I'm fully Coldplaypilled at this point)

Speaking of duplicate song titles, it could be Luna (and not Lhuna). The moon shines with the light of the sun, the bridge is Shine On, it's a reach but it makes as much sense as anything else.

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.

Don’t worry. One day in the very distant future, someone will trick Admirice into sharing it.

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?

For those wondering about missing songs, I'm working on a Pop Spheres mix too. But I'm gonna hold off on posting it until we have Shine On (and hopefully 2 Aliens in good quality, if they ever release that, plus any other potential songs we might not know about yet)