History AwesomeMusic / Coldplay

* "Princess of China". That song is EPIC, once you get past the pop (over)production and {{Music/Rihanna}}, it's frickin' awesome. [[https://youtu.be/9Hfy_uxvxZc The acoustic version]] that appears on the ''Princess of China'' EP is SUBLIME.

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* July 2016: Creator/MichaelJFox shows up to play [[Film/BackToTheFuture "Earth Angel" and "Johnny B. Goode"]] with the band.

* [[https://youtu.be/YykjpeuMNEk "Hymn for the Weekend"]], featuring Music/Beyonce is quite the majestic song.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiiOpHEAda4 "Easy to Please"]], from their second ever public release (an EP by the name ''Brothers & Sisters'') may well be the most beautiful song they've ever done.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A17ZR280KbM "Shiver"]] comes a close second to "Everything's Not Lost," with an outstanding guitar part and a beautiful melody.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsY "Yellow"]], as it (deservedly) is the song that first brought the band to world recognition. The crunching guitar riff also fits in the song well.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdBym7kv2IM "The Scientist"]], a melancholy, introspective piano ballad. It's wonderful right from the beginning, but it only gets better as it gradually introduces some lovely strings, uplifting guitar, and finally, bright distorted guitar. The end result is just ''beautiful.''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-KlVd_-Wfo "God Put a Smile on Your Face"]]. Guaranteed to get your head nodding, or your toes tapping, or ''something''.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdWkp4K4WKc The live remix]] mashes it up with "Talk", adds some dance elements, and pretty much pushes the whole thing up to eleven. There's also the ''other'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAdbn2e_QQ live remix]] they played for the Unstaged concert, and at some others, which adds a slow, beautiful intro, speeds up the tempo and dials up the song's general intensity, and most awesomely of all, adds an ''insane,'' off-the-wall guitar solo at the end.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oTT9r9978 "Warning Sign"]] is awesome and the final lines just stay in your head.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnIZ7RMuLpU "In My Place"]]. Especially the intro. It even gets away with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zTuVhNs5c ripping off]] Music/{{Ride}}, because that beat is so fat.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErgZCnedP9o "Politik"]], likely the fastest, hardest track Coldplay's ever done. It's bursting with energy from the start, which is contrasted well with still, quiet verses. Then, in the last verse, the chords change and [[TearJerker take a touching turn]], Chris sings a beautiful melody, and it [[GrandFinale erupts one last time]] into an epic, emotional finale. It might be even better [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVgk-0dvvCo live]], when Chris joins in with the second half of the outro, adding a beautiful falsetto line in.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waKvorfmuB8 "Green Eyes"]]. Sometimes, Coldplay doesn't need unusual instruments or fancy time signatures to be awesome. Sometimes, it just needs gentle acoustic guitar, Chris's crooning voice, and sweet lyrics expressing Chris's love for Creator/GwynethPaltrow.

* "Fix You" will make [[TearJerker anyone]] want to cry. And if it by some miracle doesn't, listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnQFYyZd8c this incredible rendition by an old man]]. A ''dying'' old man. You'll never hear this song again without tearing up.
* The frequently ignored [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7kOlRvUPA "Twisted Logic"]] has one of their most [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin absurd]] and yet most brilliant lyrics, backed up by instrumentals that will make you shiver inside.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhC_c7p50so "White Shadows"]] is an unusually bombastic song with a great guitar part and a strong message about the shallowness of commercial culture.
* The B-side to "Speed of Sound", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2o5W--LhhA "Things I Don't Understand".]]
* "Talk". A space-rock tune with a riff borrowed from one of Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s best tunes?[[note]]"Computer Love" from ''Music/ComputerWorld''[[/note]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3oL0AOO_J0 Totally awesome.]] Its B-side, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7zMajvWcpo "Sleeping Sun"]], is worth a mention too.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-GPdkkNik "What If"]] has a great melody that starts with sad piano and Chris's impressive falsetto before getting more intense in the chorus.
* Another hidden closer track, the sweetly melancholic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UN-pVTLf4 "Til Kingdom Come"]] starts with just Chris and an acoustic guitar, but the when piano and organ hit in the chorus, it's surprisingly soaring for such a stripped down song.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44xirQ55IgA "Viva La Vida"]] is a great standout, with an insanely catchy chorus, a gorgeous string arrangement that varies from tense and hushed to huge-sounding and dramatic, and one of Chris Martin's most beautiful vocal performances.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTlDMRwUfJ0 It's even better live]], especially with the guaranteed SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome of [[AudienceParticipationSong the crowd joining in during the last chorus]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KtlVuYSEiA "Yes"]], a dark, dissonant and almost Middle Eastern-sounding number with lots of strange time-signature changes (in likely tribute to the band of the same name).
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zkMwEDLBks "Cemeteries of London"]], the album's first vocal track, is an unorthodox but enchanting mix of rock, electronic production (courtesy of Music/BrianEno) and medieval-sounding melodies. Also, like a surprising number of the album's tracks, it has a great guitar solo.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakDItZ7f7Q "Violet Hill"]] is a stomping, roaring anti-war anthem and one of Coldplay's heaviest tracks. It's got a really hard-hitting groove, lots of layers of fuzzed-out guitars, and the eerie final chorus lends the whole song a tragic edge.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_exesnCA5Y "Lovers in Japan"]] does not get nearly enough love for what an upbeat, catchy pop song it is. Probably doesn't help that is was [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowed by "Viva la Vida"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4S1X93wgZU "Reign of Love"]], the "part 2" of "Lovers in Japan", is also beautiful to the point where you start wondering why it doesn't get its own track on the album.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDOWGlPDTU "Lost!"]] has earth-shaking African-style drums, an epic church organ riff, a powerful guitar solo, and very passionate singing.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvoM6TK8O6w "Death and All His Friends"]], the ''other'' title track. It's far less famous and much quieter than "Viva la Vida", but the melody in the first part is dreamy and beautiful, and the ending is dramatic, inspiring and a truly satisfying way to end the album.

* "Life in Technicolor II" and its hilarious video. The mix everyone really wants: "The Escapist" dissolving right into Life I/II. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJczfJYRppE "This is how it should be."]] And should it ever.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-92XB8EU3E "Glass of Water"]] is possibly the most complex song Coldplay has ever made, with a 7/4 time signature in the chorus. It also has great singing from Chris and a strong message about focusing on the positive things in life.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFOw1ukQF0 "Rainy Day"]] has a fantastic violin part.
* Take the already awesome song "Lost!", and imagine Music/JayZ rapping over it. Sounds unlikely, right? Check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkCDRm_YRFg "Lost+"]].

* You may not recognize "Spanish Rain", which is okay, because it wasn't on the final release of the album. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3K4TrKus60 This needs to change.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViO3qGpB8hM "Charlie Brown"]]. Quite possibly the most EpicRiff in a discography ''full'' of them. It was already [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2l1Azm2FYA being used]] in British advertising before the album ''was even released.''
* "Paradise", to the point that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhmR-Nt2VA it's became an]] AudienceParticipationSong before the release. It also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoA-1gFmOIM goes really well]] with ''Film/LifeOfPi'' to the point that one commentator called the trailer [[http://blogs.movietimetv.ca/new-life-of-pi-trailer-could-just-as-easily-be-a-coldplay-music-video/ "the best music video that Coldplay has ever done"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vsxec2ssZM "Don't Let It Break Your Heart"]] is one of the most whimsical beautiful songs ever.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlqmn2HSTk "Us Against the World"]]. Just. All the feelings.
* "Princess of China". That song is EPIC, once you get past the pop (over)production and {{Music/Rihanna}}, it's frickin' awesome. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hfy_uxvxZc The acoustic version]] that appears on the ''Princess of China'' EP is SUBLIME.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMhvkC3A84 "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"]]. The sheer joyous and incredibly happy mood of the song alone cements this as an amazing song from Coldplay. It's impossible to not at least tap your foot to. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-KsutWy3UU "Moving to Mars"]], its B-side, is also a thing of beauty.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp7NtW_hKJI "A Sky Full of Stars"]] is an awesome EDM-inspired climax to an album that's otherwise very low-key and calm.

* "Everglow" is a slow, emotional, and utterly beautiful ballad about losing someone you love, striking just the right balance between heartbreaking and heartwarming. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn_1hFdE-5g single version]] dials up the beauty a notch by removing the percussion and synths, lending the song a bit of simplicity.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YykjpeuMNEk "Hymn for the Weekend"]], featuring Music/Beyonce is quite the majestic song.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNG3WmsOs4 Arabesque]]" is a heartwarming call for unity between the West and the Islamic world enhanced by Arab-style percussion, saxophones, and unusually angry signing by Chris.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUV5-frRU4 "Coloratura"]] is a whopping ''10 minutes long'' and is the longest song in Coldplay's discography to date. It's an immersive piano-led prog-rock anthem and it ''will'' take you on a journey. And don't forget the epic guitar solo in the middle.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4nFTEsez5c "People of the Pride"]] is one of Coldplay's hardest songs, with an infectious beat and an epic guitar lick in the chorus.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrsE2lBhu4 "Human Heart"]], a collaboration with Jacob Collier, is a beautiful, largely acapella ballad with excellent harmonies and a great use of reverb effects.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rYmzQ8C9Q "Christmas Lights,"]] the band's 2010 Christmas single, is utterly beautiful, and the music video features, among other things, [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] impersonators playing violins, a self-playing piano, fireworks, and fish puppets. Hell, this song is the musical equivalent of AnAssKickingChristmas. Bravo, Coldplay.
* May 4, 2012: The band pays tribute to Music/BeastieBoys member Adam "MCA" Yauch by performing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVr4UP9ntLs "Fight for Your Right"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6Hl_3xDsg "Ladder to the Sun",]] an unreleased track that was performed live throughout the "Rush of Blood to the Head" Tour. Damn shame too, it's such a beautiful song, hitting all the feelings of love, loss and longing.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh3TokLzzmw Atlas]]", written for ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire''. A long, tantalizing build-up that climaxes midway through into an epic orchestral theme.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YykjpeuMNEk "Hymn for the Weekend"]], featuring Music/Beyonce is quite the majestic song to listen to.

* "Don't Let It Break Your Heart" is one of the most whimsical beautiful songs ever.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vsxec2ssZM "Don't Let It Break Your Heart"]], while it does not even have a music video to go with it, it is certainly a beautiful song to listen to.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-KlVd_-Wfo "God Put a Smile on Your Face"]]. Guaranteed to get your head nodding, or your toes tapping, or ''something''.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdWkp4K4WKc The live remix]] mashes it up with "Talk", adds some dance elements, and pretty much pushes the whole thing UpToEleven. There's also the ''other'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAdbn2e_QQ live remix]] they played for the Unstaged concert, and at some others, which adds a slow, beautiful intro, speeds up the tempo and dials up the song's general intensity, and most awesomely of all, adds an ''insane,'' off-the-wall guitar solo at the end.

* Another hidden closer track, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UN-pVTLf4 "Til Kingdom Come"]] is a sweetly melancholic track that starts with just Chris an acoustic guitar, but the when piano and organ hit in the chorus, it's surprisingly soaring for such a stripped down song.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUV5-frRU4&ab_channel=Coldplay "Coloratura"]] is a whopping ''10 minutes long'' and is the longest song in Coldplay's discography to date. It's an immersive piano-led prog-rock anthem and it ''will'' take you on a journey. And don't forget the epic guitar solo in the middle.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4nFTEsez5c&ab_channel=Coldplay "People of the Pride"]] is one of Coldplay's hardest songs, with an infectious beat and an epic guitar lick in the chorus.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrsE2lBhu4&ab_channel=Coldplay "Human Heart"]], a collaboration with Jacob Collier, is a beautiful, largely acapella ballad with excellent harmonies and a great use of reverb effects.

* "Coloratura" is a whopping ''10 minutes long'' and is the longest song in Coldplay's discography to date. It's an immersive piano-led prog-rock anthem and it ''will'' take you on a journey. And don't forget the epic guitar solo in the middle.

* "Guns" is short and sweet at a little under 2 minutes. A guitar-led track with powerful vocals by Chris once more. Being a political song, you can ''feel'' the fiery passion coming from Chris.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFOw1ukQF0 "Rainy Day"]] is an EarWorm with a fantastic violin part.

* Some hold that there is no better Coldplay track than "Everything's Not Lost", though [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A17ZR280KbM "Shiver"]] comes a close second.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFOw1ukQF0 "Rainy Day"]].

* "Clocks" has a [[EpicRiff catchy, dreamy piano riff]], a bouncing beat to go along with it, and a strange mix of electrifying energy and entrancing peacefulness that just makes it amazing to listen to.

* The opening TitleTrack is an overwhelmingly epic dance anthem, and the way Chris shouts "[[AlbumTitleDrop A HEAD FULL! A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS!]]" at the end of the chorus is quite relieving to listen to.