tyler.sonnenberg

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.

Sounds like Chris messing around on an Fmaj chord.

Thanks for sharing! Really shows that Oldplay is still in there when they get out of their own way. Beautiful version. Hopefully they release a version like that!

On Jimmy Fallen last night, Chris said that album #12 will be from their bedroom(s) so maybe Parachutes/AROBTTH? Would love for them to have been building up a catalog of true Oldplay songs to record and release like their first two albums for an official bookend to the Coldplay career. I understand only wanting to put out LOVE music with their global megaphone, but we've now got AHFOD, MotS, and MM which are all in your face LOVE. I think they've put enough love out there now that it'd be ok for them to go back to more REAL and RAW to close out the career.

One World feels like it would've been the bonus track tacked onto All My Love if this was early 2000s Coldplay. But 2020s Coldplay tacked on two bonus tracks to the bonus track lol.

I'm going to make my own playlist of Moon Music (the album) and cut Moon Music (the song) into 2 songs starting at 1:45. I love the intro but sometimes I'm going to want to just get to the piano part. Probably will do the same with One World at 5:06. Whatever nonsense comes after that part can be its own skippable track lol.

Seems like it's called Rainbow emoji on Spotify/Apple Music and ALiEN HiTS / ALiEN RADiO on youtubemusic.

Hey if you like them, do you boo. To me, they don't sound like instrumentals or multi-part songs that were initially written for that purpose. They sound like disconnected bits from songs they bailed on. The title "Rainbow" sort of suggests that, too, doesn't it? A rainbow encompasses all the colors; the song rainbow encompasses all the songs they didn't finish for the album lol.

It doesn't have to be 10 songs where someone sings verses and choruses. But it's clear CP is just tossing random snippets together for these instrumentals and calling it a day. Bon Iver is one of my favorite bands/musicians and a some of his recent stuff is well thought out instrumentals and multi-part songs. It seems obvious to me that these CP tracks are afterthoughts.

It's wild that Coldplay has gotten away with releasing their last two albums as LPs when in reality they are glorified EPs. We get, what, 6-7 true "songs" in the sense they have verses, choruses, lyrics, and 4 songs that are interesting combinations of instrumentals or song snippets that I can only guess CM or CP never could finish or turn into full songs. That all being said. Moon Music is better than Music for the Spheres. Jupiter and Iaam are some of their best since VLV (though why is Iaam so short? feels unfinished to me) which puts this album over MftS. Feelslikeimfallinginlove is nice. Sounds like something off either MX or a Sunny Stories version of Ghost Stories. We Pray sounds a song Chris wrote for Beyonce but she turned it down. It's fine as is but I hope we get an acoustic version because the last 20 seconds are the best when we hear the chords on piano with Chris singing. Gotta imagine that's how the song original manifested. Moon Music is cool. Feels long as a mostly instrumental opener. Would've preferred they separated the instrumental from the singing part as separate songs and made the singing part into a fuller song. All My Love is nice but nothing groundbreaking. Sounds more Toy Story than Oldplay to me. One World had potential but then turns into another half song half instrumental + throw in some other unfinished song at the end. I like the first bit - feels like Bon Iver. Wish they would've stayed with that theme and made a full song out of it. Aeterna is blah to me. Maybe a good song for them to sell to video games or dance mixes. Good Feelings is another one where it feels like Chris wrote it for another artist but then kept it for Coldplay. We have to get used to the fact that CP now writes a couple songs per album with the only intention of bringing the energy to a live show. This is that song on this album. Forgettable but I'm sure will be used live. Overall, the songs that feel finished are pretty great but it's another album where it seems like they've either gotten too lazy to finish writing songs, they have a writing block to finish songs, or they've decided cramming a bunch of unfinished song tidbits into one song feels artistic or something. As a songwriter myself, I know that the hardest thing is to "finish" a song but it's been 3 albums in a row now where they give us 7-8 finished songs and then like 15 additional song snippets crammed as filler compilations.There's a lot of like about the song snippets - I just wish they'd finish writing them instead of cramming them into odd compilation/instrumentals. It worked with VLV because they were more polished songs. I don't think it works as well here.

I like it! My only gripes: Weak bridge. Could be a guitar solo; could be a change in chord progression. They never return to "feels like i'm falling in love" after the "la la la" part. Could've been really powerful. I might make an edit of the track just to add that in. Sounds like a mix of Magic and Higher Power. Still wish they'd release stuff like In My Place, but new Coldplay is always fun.

I don't think he's put out any mediocre work (even his side projects). He just keeps pushing the boundaries of conventional songwriting.

Been a long time since I posted here (maybe Viva era!?) but had to come in here and talk about Everyday Life. First off, the album has some amazing songs and I love how "weird" the entire album is in terms of feel/songwriting - basically the opposite of AHFOD if you ask me. Trouble in Town makes me emotional like Yellow and In My Place do, but in an angry way, and I haven't felt that emotional rush from a Coldplay song since Swallowed in the Sea (maybe Violet Hill). The only issue I have with the album is that it seems like it was probably a whole bunch of b-sides that Chris wrote (and never really finished) and finally put together as one piece. Calling it "Everyday Life" gives them an explanation of why the album is so choppy. Tossing in random demos also adds to the choppiness and makes it "artistic". I think Orphans being the last song they wrote and recorded suggests that the bulk of these songs may have been hanging around for a while and they were waiting on Chris to write the big poppy album single before releasing the entire thing. A few songs are "missing" (my opinion) a full 2nd verse: Trouble in Town, Guns, Everyday Life. And some songs have a very strange format: Church (never returns to the chorus), Trouble in Town (could return to verse/chorus after interlude), Arabesque (same as TiT), Eko/Old Friends (short songs that don't necessarily follow standard song format). So I wonder if these were conscious decisions made by the band to keep the album under a certain album length (since they've been concerned about this after XY) or if Chris ran out of lyrics. Either way, the short 2nd verses and odd formats bum me out a bit as someone who loves all these songs mentioned and I wish they would have "finished" (my opinion again) these songs rather than included random music interludes and demo songs to keep the album around the same length. Even with that, though, this is my 4th favorite CP album behind AROBTTH, Viva, and Parachutes. I have taken the liberty to make my own playlist with the songs and I've removed the interludes and songs that ruin the flow for me: Church Trouble in Town Daddy Arabesque When I Need a Friend Guns Orphans Eko Cry, Cry, Cry Old Friend Champions of the World Everyday Life BrokEn (I like this one as more of a "secret" track at the end of the album) This has a much better flow and it's just more enjoyable for me. I'm so glad Coldplay is back and I really love the songwriting on this album (Coldplay meets Bon Iver). I hope they continue on this path for a while. I'm also super excited for the Jordan concert to learn how they arrange the songs to play live. I think the live version of some of these might be even better than the album versions!

7/10 for me. It sounds more like Athlete during their Tourist era. And I loved that era. I love songs that could easily get big but then don't. Coldplay usually goes big (Fix You, Amsterdam, Teardrop, Atlas), so it's cool to hear them choose a different route this time.

c'mon c'mon coldplayers... you're better than that. don't complain about other pop artists (gaga, rihanna) about being just pretty faces and then completely knock an actual artist (adele). i don't think any of the coldplay men would be making any jokes about adele's body.