Before, they staked their success on a tender, acoustic-driven sound with twinkling but spare electric guitar, all heavily indebted to ‘90s Britpop. This is the song that pushed Coldplay into new territory, artistically and commercially. Anyone that tries to deny this song is, in Martin’s own words, out of their minds. This acoustic ditty from their second album, 2002’s A Rush of Blood to the Head, is the epitome of Coldplay’s early days with its acoustic beginning and full-band crescendos. “Honey, you are a rock, on which I stand / I come here to talk, I hope you understand.” Oh, Chris, you’re so direct and unapologetically sappy - and we love you for it. No matter the color of your sweetheart’s eyes, put this tune on for a makeout session that’ll turn your hearts to fondue.
1 in 36 countries, became the year’s best-selling LP, and won the Best Rock Album Grammy. It worked: The Brian Eno-produced album debuted at No. Viva also started the band’s ventures into album as art project - the artwork, music and the onstage presentation (the band wore retro military outfits with colored arm bands) presented a cohesive work with themes of liberation, love, war and freedom, and “Viva La Vida” is its centerpiece. 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.
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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.
It opens with a Martin solo at the piano, pleading about the complications of love: “Come up to meet you / Tell you I’m sorry / You don’t know how lovely you are.” Love, he suggests, will always be unexplainable by reason and logic: “Science and progress,” he sings, “do not speak as loud as my heart.” The band enters to build the song higher and higher, as Martin’s falsetto croons to the heavens.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. “Nobody said it was easy / No one ever said it would be so hard.” On the second single from A Rush of Blood to the Head, Martin touches us all on what is perhaps Coldplay’s most touching ballad. 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. 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.
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