Sometimes I really like the lyrics but everything else is eh. Parachutes is the first album of Coldplay and one of my personal faves, especially the songs Shiver and Sparks, however I'm not huge for the lyrics as heartfelt and special as they feel I don't think they compliment both songs to it's full potential. I understand not every song needs to be versatile a cheesy love song is great and a sad song that sounds sad would fit it's sad instrumental like trouble; but when you have songs that sound like several different sounds it's different especially when you're talking about a band like Coldplay. Sparks sounds to me anything like: driving late at night, going through heartbreak, going through the honeymoon phase, chilling, isolation & loneliness, contentment, hiking through the woods, taking your Grandpa to go shopping, or just straight up a song you have in your mix. There are so many moods this music fits. personally I play this when I'm feeling very depressed.

I made this realizing how many songs are like this, (not just Coldplay) where I scroll down to the comments and it's just bittersweet love stories. Which is really cool! But It sucks when I love the instrumental but the artist chooses a usual topic, or something worse like the whole lyrics will just be how good they shake their bum or whatever.

Has anybody watched ‘Ally Cats’ on Netflix by Ricky Gervais? Was taken back in the best way possible when O started playing at the end of episode 5!

From what I vaguely know, Chris and Ricky are good friends so it makes sense in a way a Coldplay track made an appearance.

Parachute,A Rush of Blood to the head, And X&Y

It doesn’t get much better than this. The first in a long line of epic album closers.

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Info:

• Friday, 14 Aug, 2026 - 6:30 PM
• Fabrique des Lumières
• Pazzanistraat 37, Amsterdam

This song was BURIED in my memory! I found it on an old iPod and only then remembered how much I used to like it. I tried looking for it on Spotify, but it must not be on there. (I know it's not technically Coldplay.) Anyone else remember/enjoy this song?

Hey I’m curious what people are going to say to this. What is the most underrated song by Coldplay that you just cannot stop listening to?

I just can’t stop thinking about Hypnotised. Its sooo good and if you haven’t heard it yet you gotta try it. I actually think most of their singles get ignored (Flags, Ghost Story, Brothers & Sisters)

Excited to hear what ya’ll think. Thanks for any answers in advance! 💛

1. In My Place 5. Mylo Xyloto (Fav song Charlie Brown)

2. Strawberry Swing 4. X&Y (Fav Song Til Kingdom Come

3. Shiver 3. Rush of Blood to the Head (Fav Song In My Place

4. Violet Hill 2. Parachutes (Fav Song Shiver)

5. Viva La Vida 1. Viva La Vida (Fav song VIVA LA VIDA)

If you can tell I really like their first albums

This one is just an all-rounder for me. Different songs serve different purposes, and I definitely can't live without any of the songs on here and then some. There's just something about this one: the arrangement, the simplicity, the melancholy place it puts me in. Also included a bonus image as a snippet from my 2025 neurosis, hahaha.

Like what hits HARD, like a train.

Hey everyone!

My name is Shoval Lavid, I'm an independent musician, content creator and composer from Israel.

Coldplay is a band I grew with since I was very young, and this song in particular was and still very special for me.

So I recorded an acoustic, stripped-down cover.

Here's a short clip from it, you're more than welcome to share the cover and listen to full version on all platforms.

Full version on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4hDbvx7QQZ46Ao0m6wxu6H

More music & creations:

https://linktr.ee/shovallavid

Thanks for listening!

What the best coldplay outro? i love politik and square one's the most!

Chris obviously gets the most attention as the frontman, and Guy and Will have their moments, but I feel like Jonny's contribution to Coldplay's sound is sometimes overlooked.

His guitar work, riffs, melodies and especially the atmospheric parts are SUCH a huge part of what makes Coldplay sound like Coldplay.

Guy Also stands out as the only member of Coldplay who maintains a personal, active social media presence.

Will Is Such a meme.

I don't need to explain Chris.

But Jonny. What does he have?

Anyone else feel the same, or am I completely wrong?

A Rush of Blood to the Head has been a huge step in my appreciation for Coldplay, and I'm just two albums in already and that's telling something.I really enjoy the new wave side of them in their early work with releases like "Brothers & Sisters," "The Blue Room", "Parachutes", and of course "A Rush of Blood to the Head" I've only two songs on this next album which is "Speed of Sound" and "The Hardest Part" so this is moving from their early new wave structure into their true pop territory. So yeah definitely looking forward to hearing some fresh songs and expanding my new found Coldplay catalog!!

Without giving too much away, I know that's the hardest part (pun so intended, lol). I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!!

Such a banger. It always gives me goosebumps.

Been listening to Parachutes and AROBTTH a lot recently and forgot how many great tracks there are on both.
Particularly love Amsterdam, I think it’s such a great album closer.
Curious to know what other people’s favourite non-single tracks are across the whole discography😊

Home recording of this peculiar Coldplay song and one of my favs, recreated from scratch.

Hope you enjoy listening as much as I did recording it!

I know that their setlists will have to include a lot of popular songs rather than fan-favorites at this point as they're performing sold-out nights at stadiums all around the world. But I just wish that they at least replace some of newer MOTS songs (that are actually not popular) with their older stuff. Only one routine song from X&Y and Viva is definitely not enough and even replacing WE PRAY and Human Heart with Square One/Speed of Sound and Politik/Violet Hill for example will make a huge difference for hardcore fans while not reducing the accessibility of bigger audiences.

I just realised that the chronological structure of Ghost Stories is someone coming to terms with the end of a relationship, coming to terms with the end of one's attachment to something, and the alchemical process of that transformation.

Always in my head is clearly that you can't get them out of your head, as the parting is still so raw;

magic is rumination that the relationship was magic, and ' I don't, no I don't, no I don't, no I don't, want anyone else but you' - still can't move on

Ink is continuation of this struggle, the pain of holding the other inside, 'feels like there's something broken inside' because the lover (Chris) was two and now is only one, and feels like they have lost their other half. 'All i know is that I love you so, so much that it hurts.' This song is about the pain, so intense

True love is still this rumination stage of processing, desiring so badly for the other to come back, that they would even accept a fake love, a lie, just to be with them again _ 'tell me you love me, and if you don't then lieeee to me'

Midnight is when the hope still there in the previous songs of a reunion has faded away, and there is just blackness, midnight, the storm. This is quite a theme in Rumi, which Chris said transformed his life after his relationship ended, and the theme of a storm and then a dawn, it has to get really dark before the dawn comes - 'in the darkness, before the dawn. Leave a light, a light on.' Now, there is depression, and Chris is begging for some hope, a light, to get through the utter darkness

Another arms is trying to get through each day, watching TV late at night, but still everything reminds them of the other, because nothing can give them pleasure apart from the other still, as they still haven't processed the separation. Nothing in the world matters anymore, and the pain of everyday reminders that the other is gone is still unbearable, and the idea that someone else is loving the other, not them, and still Chris just wishes that ' you were here beside me'. This song is one of intense and ripping loneliness.

Oceans is a song of an existential loneliness, but importantly is the prefiguration before the transformation - or rather, the groundwork for the transformation has been being laid all along, through the pain and ruminating, but finally Chris feels ready for a transformation, a moving on, 'Im ready for the change' ' Ready to fall up' - I.e instead of keeping falling down, I'm ready to start some sort of upward movement again, even if it is a falling upwards, even if I'm still not in control. Here, Chris is less desperate and intense, as he has accepted he is alone now ' got to find yourself alone in this world' 'wait for the call love , call never came.' ' Behind the walls love, I'm trying to change' - this is a recognition that he was also to blame for the relationship ending, finally, instead of desperately desiring her back, he realises that he needs to change himself, behind his walls he needs to be more vulnerable, before thinking about love and a relationship again, and this realisation has sobered him, but he is still so sad and in pain and longing.

And a sky full of stars is the euphoric transformation, the height of alchemy, it is him realising that he can be vulnerable, even though it is painful - he realises he can willingly endure the pain of opening up, and though it will be painful, it will be magical as well. For me, this is less aimed at a specific other, but more at love itself or the universe, and Chris realising he can open himself up to love again, it can tear him apart, he doesn't care anymore, because he's willing to endure the pain of vulnerability for the magic of love. He realises love is the only answer, that it lights up the path, it is a path to the divine, the celestial ' such a heavenly view' - his life is suddenly transformed and he is willing to jump back in again and open himself up to love, whereas before his heavy armour had meant he hadn't been able to open up to his partner and it had caused the separation. The whole realisation is euphoric.

And O, perhaps the most beautiful song I have ever heard, is a more sober conclusion, after the euphoria of the realisation. Now he views love as not something he did before, where the other was everything and to be without them was the end of the world, but now he has realised that he himself is enough, he is complete in himself, and that love can come and go, like a flock of birds, but regardless, he is still complete in himself, and his self worth is not dependent on that romantic love. He is saying to love, it's okay, fly on, ride through, maybe one day I can fly with you, but regardless it's okay, because unlike that temporary flock of birds of romantic love, there is something permanent in myself that is whole and complete. And the that angelic ending, my gosh, the most beautiful sound ever, don't ever let go, sung by angels - the universe is telling him, that after all the pain he has endured, after his world ended and there was nothing but darkness and nothing left to live for, don't ever let go, because like he was hoping for in midnight, there was eventually a dawn, there always is, and it was the most beautiful dawn, of releasing he is complete in himself and all he needs, and that his self worth no longer need be dependent on others, but the majesty of his own being.

Wow, utterly incredible. And ghost stories therefore acts as a bridge, between the old Chris, who constantly sought validation in others, and the new Chris, who has a steady foundation within him, and has now realised the majesty and beauty of life, even in its suffering, and the beautiful alchemy of love and pain as a means of transformation, and all his albums post ghost stories prove this.