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So now Everyday Life has been out in the world for nearly a month, I think it's time to make your ultimate album ranking. Most of the time we rank the albums from best to worst or in different tiers but without really giving scores. I challenge you to rank the album, based on the average score of of all the songs. Not counting single releases, b-sides or EP's or songs/interludes shorter than 1 minute. I'll start (you can copy-paste this and give individual scores): Results Average scores and album ranking: 1. Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends 8.67 2. Everyday Life 8.11 3. A Rush Of Blood To The Head 8.06 4. X&Y 7.76 5. Mylo Xyloto 7.59 6. Parachutes 7.4 7. Ghost Stories 7.34 8. A Head Full Of Dreams 6.95 All-time top scored album songs (9 or higher a.k.a dream setlist): 1. Trouble In Town (10) 2. Death And All His Friends (9.8) 3. Charlie Brown (9.8) 4. Violet Hill (9.5) 5. Talk (9.5) 6. Lovers In Japan (9.5) 7. A Rush Of Blood To The Head (9.5) 8 Swallowed In The Sea (9.5) 9. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (9.4) 10. MX/Hurts Like Heaven (9.4) 11. Birds (9.2) 12. Strawberry Swing (9.2) 13. Arabesque (9.2) 14. Amsterdam (9.2) 15. 42 (9) 16. Magic (9) 17. Everyday Life (9) 18. Spies (9) Parachutes Don't Panic (8.5) Shiver (8) Spies (9) Sparks (7) Yellow (8.2) Trouble (8.5) Parachutes (6) High Speed (6.5) We never Change (6.2) Everything's not Lost (7) Life is For Living (6.5) Total score: 81.4/11 = 7.4 A Rush Of Blood To The Head Politik (8.5) In My Place (8) God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (9.4) The Scientist (8.4) Clocks (8.2) Daylight (6.5) Green Eyes (7.5) Warning Sign (7.5) A Whisper (6) A Rush Of Blood To The Head (9.5) Amsterdam (9.2) Total score: 88.7/11= 8.06 X&Y Square One (8.5) What If (8.2) White Shadows (7.5) Fix You (8) Talk (9.5) X&Y (6) Speed Of Sound (8.5) A Message (7.2) Low (6.5) The Hardest Part (8.5) Swallowed In The Sea (9.5) Twisted Logic (6) Til Kingdom Come (7) Total score: 100.9/13= 7.76 Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends Life In Technicolor (8) Cemeteries of London (8.3) 42 (9) Lost! (7.5) Lovers In Japan (9.5) Yes (7.5) Viva La Vida (8.4) Violet Hill (9.5) Strawberry Swing (9.2) Death And All His Friends (9.8) Total score: 86.7/10 = 8.67 Mylo Xyloto MX/Hurts Like Heaven (9.4) Paradise (8) Charlie Brown (9.8) Us Against The World (7) M.M.I.X/ Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (7.5) Major Minus (7.5) U.F.O (7) Princess of China (7) Up in Flames (5.8) AHT/ Don't Let It Break Your Heart (7.5) Up With The Birds (7) Total score: 83.5/11 = 7.59 Ghost Stories Always In My Head (6.8) Magic (9) Ink (7.5) True Love (6.5) Midnight (8) Another's Arms (6.8) Oceans (5) A Sky Full Of Stars (8) O (Fly On) (8.5) Total score: 66.1/9 = 7.34 A Head Full Of Dreams A Head Full Of Dreams (8) Birds (9.2) Hymn For The Weekend (7) Everglow (7.8) Adventure of A Lifetime (7.5) Fun (7) Kaleidoscope (5) Army Of One (6.8) X-Marks the spot (2) Amazing Day (7.4) Up & Up (8.8) Total score: 76.5/11 = 6.95 Everyday Life Sunrise (8) Church (8.5) Trouble In Town (10) BrokEn (7.2) Daddy (8) WOTW/POTP (7) Arabesque (9.2) When I Need A Friend (4) Guns (8) Orphans (8) Èkó (8.5) Cry Cry Cry (8.5) Old Friends (8.8) Bani Adam (8.5) Champion Of The World (8.6) Everyday Life (9) Total score: 129.8/16 = 8.11

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bnfy According to this, starting at 07:00 PM (GMT) Including a ''special cover''

Nope

So wait, I also got the code using the VPN. But do you guys think we'll be allowed entrance if we have tickets but we're not UK citizens? Will they even check it?

So it appears they will play at Maida Vale at the 27th of November. Link Thoughts about setlists?

So, the Maida Vale thing seems to be happening at the 27th of November LINK

I always felt that this song is a " Up With The Birds pt. 2"

You do realize that the guitar riff from Talk was not written by Jonny either right? :innocent:

Wild thought: what if the acoustic guitar parts are mostly Jonny's doing (wishful thinking)? That would explain why we ''hear'' him so little on the electric guitar.

I really hope this will be a full Chris and Jonny acoustic duet. And Jonny rocking the hell out of the last part :heart_eyes:

12 :joy::joy:that doesn't do Birds and Up&Up justice

1. VLVODAAHF 2. AROBTTH 3. MX 4. EL 5. X&Y 6. Parachutes 7. AHFOD 8. GS I feel like EL would be higher in the ranking if it had more fully formed songs instead of the snippets and choir/gospel parts. I'm just not a big fan of that but I love that they're really doing what they like. And that the album is so diverse in terms of styles, it really is an album to listen from beginning to end.

I don't really get why Champion of the World is so hyped. I mean I like the song a lot, but for me it doesn't really stand out. It's a very good Coldplay song that captures their whole sound. But Trouble in Town on the other hand is on a whole different level. I thought Arabesque was extremely good, but TiT is more than I could ever imagine a Coldplay song to be. So good. Maybe even their best song ever. I just can't express it. Lost for words. Thank you Coldplay.

Yes! Now I know what the piano reminds me of!

So for now my short review and ranking: 1. Trouble in Town - holy shit this is so good. The ambient dark vibe, with the heavy bass and the outburst with drums is soooo good. Maybe their best song ever IMO 2. Church - I get, the Race vibes. It's very ambient as well. Nice guitar by Jonny and the woman's voice at the end is magical. 3. Champion of the World Coldplay in it's essence. It encapsulates it all. Great song. Needs another listen. 4. Daddy So beautiful. X&Y and Gravity vibes. So emotional and heartfelt lyrics. I like the way Chris sings it. Could use some more Jonny though. 5. Guns Very honest, raw and unfiltered. Love it. Hope CM+J play this together and make it even more rock. This is it for now. The rest will follow after more listens. Overall: love it. It is definitely NOT pop, but I don't know what it is! It feels like this album is really everything Coldplay is and stands for. This is their sound and they have finally found it. It is the best of both worlds (old and new) and I'm loving it. I only hope we will hear more Jonny during the live performances, he's not very present in most of these songs. And the GRAMMY goes to ☀️

Man this leek is amazing. Didn't expect it at all. So refreshing!

I just don't get it why they would make such an unfair poll. They have such a clever marketing team and now they're trying to compete a mega rare song from their first album with 4 of the biggest songs of their career. Surely they know "the masses" will vote for one of those and gives Sparks no chance of success. For me, it seems that it's just "symbolic" to give the old fans the idea they still care about the older music and act like they truly give it an equal chance. And we all know it won't happen this way :(

My ranking at this moment would be: 1. VLVODAAHF 2. AROBTTH 3. MX 4. EL 5. X&Y 6. GS 7. PARACHUTES 8. AHFOD 1 or 2 more "Arabesques" and I think the album will climb to a shared 2nd favorite. To really compete with VLVODAAHF it needs some very big bangers.

Don't know if anyone noticed, but I think this is the first song in a long long time that doesn't have a signature Chris "woo-woo" "aah-aah" "ooh-ooh". And I'm not complaining

Spot on.

Everyday Life is so beautiful. I feel this is the kind of song we wanted Everglow to be. It's even better live and it reminds me a bit of Elbow. This is truly the Coldplay I want to hear! Thanks boys for another beautiful gem.

Ok. I definitely hope that Jonny will shine live throughout the song and I'm very curious about the bits he will play. BUT.... can we just take a moment to appreciate the AMAZING bass lines that Guy plays here. I didn't think he would go this funky ever!

I agree but, we all are forgetting the dating gem called A L I E N S (even though this is also a leftover from Viva)

Oh boy!

This is so exciting! Sharing it with all the fans all over the world