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Yeah feels like a mix between Hurts like Heaven and Birds

The video is so cool ! The song ... I don't know yet. I was waiting for an explosion and ... no. But let's see after few listens.

Results Average scores and album ranking: 1. A Rush Of Blood To The Head 8.14 2. Viva la Vida 7.92 3. Mylo Xyloto 7.90 4. Everyday Life 7.85 5. Parachutes 7.72 6. Ghost Stories 7.36 7. X & Y 6.96 8. A Head Full Of Dreams 5.72 All-time top scored album songs (9 or higher a.k.a dream setlist): 1. Politik (10) 2. MX/Hurts like Heaven (10) 3. Warning Sign (9.5) 4. Yellow (9.5) 5. Fix you (9.5) 6. The Scientist (9.5) 7. A Rush Of Blood To The Head (9.5) 8 Every Teardrop is a Waterfall (9.5) 9. Spies (9.5) 10. Strawberry Swing (9.25) 11. Arabesque (9.25) 12. Violet Hill (9) 13. Parachutes (9) 14. Us against the world (9) 15. Midnight (9) 16. Death and all his friends (9) 17. Everyday Life (9) 18. U.F.O (9) 19. When I need a friend (9) 20. Oceans (8.5) Parachutes Don't Panic (8) Shiver (7.5) Spies (9.5) Sparks (7) Yellow (9.5) Trouble (7.5) Parachutes (9) High Speed (6) We never Change (7.5) Everything's not Lost (7) Life is For Living (6.5) Total score: 85/11 = 7.72 A Rush Of Blood To The Head Politik (10) In My Place (8) God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (7.5) The Scientist (9.5) Clocks (8.5) Daylight (6.5) Green Eyes (7.5) Warning Sign (9.5) A Whisper (4.5) A Rush Of Blood To The Head (9.5) Amsterdam (8.5) Total score: 89.5/11= 8.14 X&Y Square One (7) What If (7.5) White Shadows (5.5) Fix You (9.5) Talk (7) X&Y (7.5) Speed Of Sound (7) A Message (7) Low (5) The Hardest Part (6.5) Swallowed In The Sea (8) Twisted Logic (6) Til Kingdom Come (7) Total score: 90.5/13= 6.96 Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends Life In Technicolor (7) Cemeteries of London (7.5) 42 (8) Lost! (7) Lovers In Japan (8) Yes (6) Viva La Vida (8.5) Violet Hill (9) Strawberry Swing (9.25) Death And All His Friends (9) Total score: 79.25/10 = 7.92 Mylo Xyloto MX/Hurts Like Heaven (10) Paradise (8) Charlie Brown (8.5) Us Against The World (9) M.M.I.X/ Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (9.5) Major Minus (6) U.F.O (9) Princess of China (5) Up in Flames (6) AHT/ Don't Let It Break Your Heart (8) Up With The Birds (8) Total score: 87/11 = 7.90 Ghost Stories Always In My Head (8) Magic (7.25) Ink (6) True Love (6.5) Midnight (9) Another's Arms (5.5) Oceans (8.5) A Sky Full Of Stars (7.5) O (Fly On) (8) Total score: 66.25/9 = 7.36 A Head Full Of Dreams A Head Full Of Dreams (8) Birds (7) Hymn For The Weekend (5) Everglow (6.5) Adventure of A Lifetime (6) Fun (5) Kaleidoscope (5) Army Of One (4.5) X-Marks the spot (2) Amazing Day (7.5) Up & Up (6.5) Total score: 63/11 = 5.72 Everyday Life Sunrise (8.5) Church (8.5) Trouble In Town (? BrokEn (7) Daddy (7.5) WOTW/POTP (7) Arabesque (9.25) When I Need A Friend (9) Guns (7) Orphans (6.5) Èkó (8.5) Cry Cry Cry (8) Old Friends (6) Bani Adam (8) Champion Of The World (8) Everyday Life (9) Total score: 125.75/16 = 7.85

I think we all have to consider the fact that Coldplay has changed since 2010. Those stadium-pop songs are now part of their identity because it was a choice they made a decade ago, or even with Viva la Vida. Imo, i like the fact that they made Everyday Life before because it reminds us that they still have this melancolic-soft rock vibe in their roots. They just chose to explore new horizons and I can't blame them for that. My two favorites albums are AROBTTH and Mylo Xyloto, I'm lucky to love both sides of their music ... But please if you're unhappy, remain respectful with their choice ?

Blinding Lights is not Bohemian Rhapsody but it's still a great song, better than a lot of hits we're hearing. And the production seems a lot better than Stargate with AHFOD.

That's Blinding Lights all over again i love this !!

This is quite exciting ! I really hope it will sound more like MX than AHFOD. MX is probably my favourite era, I think it succeeded where AHFOD failed in terms of atmosphere and sound. I'm counting on you guys ?

Twisted Logic vs Lost

Sparks vs Oceans

Eko vs U.F.O

Parachutes: Yellow / Parachutes AROBTTH: Politik X&Y: Fix You VLVODAAHF: Strawberry Swing MX: MX/Hurts Like Heaven Ghost Stories: Midnight AHFOD: A Head Full of Dreams Everyday Life: Arabesque / When i need a friend

Life In Technicolor vs. Sunrise Cemeteries Of London vs. Church Lost! vs. BrokEn 42 vs. Trouble In Town Lovers In Japan vs. Daddy Reign Of Love vs. WOTW/POTP Yes vs. Arabesque Chinesse Sleep Chant vs. When I Need A Friend Viva La Vida vs. Orphans Violet Hill vs. Guns Strawberry Swing vs. Èkó/Cry Cry Cry/Old Friends Death And All His Friends vs. Champion Of The World The Escapist vs. Everyday Life ( both ) VLV : 7 EL : 7 lol Let's say it that way : 1. Sunrise 2. VLV 3. Sunset

So ... what can i say about this album that hasn't been already said ? I don't want to think about ranking it or comparing it with other records because the identity of Everyday Life tells you not to do it. Watching Sunrise this morning, alone in my student bedroom, reminded me why i love this band. This band came to me 8 years ago with the joy of Mylo Xyloto which helped me and still help me to keep smiling in the darkest moments. The same year, i bought a keyboard to play their songs and from that moment, i began to compose my own songs. Everyday Life reminded me WHY i should thank them : they demystified an art which seemed to complex and inaccessible to me. They allowed me to think that one day, i could compose to. That everybody can. Not because their music is easy ... but because it is beautifully simple. Everything is in chords progression, everything is in how you want to express something and how sincere you are with your art. Coldplay made me understand that and even if their music can be complex too ( Arabesque, Trouble in Town ), it is just an evolution of a simple and pure form of art, the one from The Blue Room EP and from Parachutes. Man, they're so great ...

Thank you ! :D

Would have loved a little tour with like 15-20 dates in little arenas ...

Hey guys Sometimes i try to play and sing a little bit Heres a cover of parachutes..

WOTW/POTP takes another dimension live. Sounds like Bob Marley on a Caribbean beach. Stunning.

This is more than music ... Coldplay is more than music. What an unbelievable performance. The sun is rising at home and i've never felt so alive for a long time. Best band of this fucking century.

It's really cool but Trouble in Town comes just after so i skip it quite often haha

My personal EL record with my favorites in bold. My top 3 would be Arabesque / Eko / Everyday Life ... today. May change tomorrow haha : 1. Sunrise 2. Trouble in Town 3. Broken 4. Daddy 5. Arabesque 6. When i need a friend 7. Orphans 8. Eko 9. Bani Adam 10. Champion of the world 11. Everyday Life

That was not easy to watch ... Beautiful, really beautiful.

I just want to sleep for the next 48 hours and wake up just for the show

Look at him and his beautiful fake hair

I'm trying 1. AROBTTH 2. MX 3. Parachutes 4. VLV - Everyday Life 5. X&Y 6. GS 7. AHFOD