Coldplay debut album8/13/2023 ![]() ![]() It has that larger-than-life feeling, bolstered by Martin’s lyrics of mercenaries fighting in foreign fields, Roman cavalry and ruling the world. As the title track and single from their fourth studio album, 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends - named after a Spanish phrase meaning “Live the life” and featuring an album cover of a painting of a battle from the French Revolution - the song sounds like Coldplay fronting the Paris orchestra circa 1789. Here, the band ditches the tools they used to build their musical empire - acoustic strumming, electric twinkles - for grand string orchestration, harpsichord and booming marshal drums. Co-written and co-produced with EDM superstar Avicii, “A Sky Full of Stars” is the band’s first straight-up EDM/dance song, and they absolutely nail it.Ĭoldplay just knows its way around a memorable, emotionally moving melody. On this track from their 2014 release, Ghost Stories, Coldplay are in full Ibiza mode - the trance-like EDM beats and dramatic drops are like a dance-floor dopamine shower. ![]() There’s the three-note atmospheric guitar riff, the arena-filling straight drum beat, and Martin’s introspective lyrics about your lot in life, expectations and realities aimed at everyone’s jugular: “In my place, in my place / Were lines that I couldn’t change / I was lost, I was lost / Crossed lines I shouldn’t have crossed.” Then, of course, comes the memorable chorus: “Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, how long must you wait for it?” The Rush of Blood to the Head single went on to win Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 45th Grammy Awards and become a fan favorite and live staple.Įvocative and universal sentiments of love and freedom pervade most of Coldplay’s music, but the band have experimented with the packaging on each and every album. ![]() It’s a hallmark Coldplay song that’s both grand and sweeping and deceptively simple and universally understood. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, notching the band’s first Top 10 hit in the U.S. It was the lead single from their third album, 2005’s X&Y, and was their most successful song to date, debuting at No. It’s built around another catchy, looping piano riff and its driving drums, waves of guitar and rising synths build to a peak that makes the listener feel like they’re floating at, well, the speed of sound. Like “Clocks” before it, this tune is prime mid-career Coldplay. Where Buckland usually provided textures and subtle layers, here, he’s a guitar god, riffing fluidly over Martin’s chanting and a propulsive beat. After the 43-second title track intro, with shimmering xylophone and bleeps and bloops, “Hurts Like Heaven” explodes like a Fourth of July night sky. But the highlight is this jittery track, which, says Martin, was written almost entirely by guitarist Jonny Buckland. Musically, it explores pop, R&B and electronica, and even features a guest appearance from Rihanna. The visual aspects, from the cover to the tour production, are inspired by graffiti, featuring eye-popping displays of neons. It’s an Orwellian drama about an authoritarian government out to destroy sound and color - and the love story of two dissenters out to change the world. ![]() For 2011’s Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay went in on the visual and storyline elements of the album. ![]()
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