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Coldplay – Everglow
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The most personal and emotionally-charged song on Coldplay’s enigmatic A Head Full of Dreams, “Everglow” expresses memory and loss as an ever-lasting “glow.”
Most likely inspired
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Coldplay – Spies
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The third track of Parachutes. The song was inspired by the band’s love of the James Bond films and longtime composer John Barry – The World is Not Enough was also in production at
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Coldplay – People of the Pride
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[Intro] / People on the left / People on the right / You got a lion inside / People are the pride / Let's go / [Verse 1] / There's a man who swears he's God / Unbelievers will be
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Coldplay – A Sky Full of Stars
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One of Coldplay’s most hyped tracks ever, described by attendees of Coldplay’s secret Ghost Stories shows as “wonderfully produced” and “upbeat, happy, makes you want to stand up
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Coldplay – Humankind
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“Humankind” is the third track on Coldplay’s 9th studio album Music of the Spheres.
The song is from the perspective of an alien citizen on one of the planets in The Sphere, which
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Coldplay – Yellow
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“Yellow” is the fifth track and second single from Coldplay’s 2000 debut album Parachutes. It is one of their oldest and most enduring hits, continuing to be a celebrated staple of
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Coldplay – Coloratura
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“Coloratura” is the twelfth and final track from Coldplay’s ninth studio album, Music of the Spheres. The 10-minute space epic takes the listener into a panoramic, multi-suite
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Coldplay & Selena Gomez – Let Somebody Go
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“Let Somebody Go” serves as the fifth album track on Coldplay’s ninth studio album, Music of the Spheres, featuring Selena Gomez. The song sees Chris Martin and Selena sing about
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Coldplay – Viva La Vida
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Revered as an essential rock song of the 2000s, “Viva La Vida” tells the story of a monarch who’s lost his kingdom. In another aspect, the song is also seen as a narrative on the
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Lizzo – Coldplay
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As one of the most personal and vulnerable tracks she has done, “Coldplay” serves as the closing track to Lizzo’s Special. It contains a portion of “Yellow” by Coldplay, hence the
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Coldplay – Orphans
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The co-lead single from Everyday Life and lead single from ‘Sunset’, the second part of the double album, “Orphans”, tackles the Syrian Civil War. It showcases the story of a girl
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Coldplay (Ft. Beyoncé) – Hymn For The Weekend
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Coldplay’s Queen B duet is an ode to enjoying a significant other you love and cherish. In an interview, Martin described the origins of the collaboration and its sound:
I thought
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Coldplay (Ft. Muhammad Ali) – Everglow (Single Version)
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The stripped-down version of “Everglow” was released on 11 November 2016 as the fifth single overall from the group’s seventh studio album. This newly-recorded remix is an acoustic
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Coldplay – Church
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The chord progression for “Church"— F#m – A – Em – Bm—bookends the album. It is recalled for the closing track, Everyday Life.
The song draw a thin parallelism between the beauty
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Coldplay – Higher Power
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“Higher Power” is a song that arrived on a little keyboard and a bathroom sink at the start of 2020 and was mentioned briefly during the TogetherAtHome livestreamed concerts
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Coldplay (Ft. Jacob Collier & Jason Max Ferdinand) – The Astronaut
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[Verse 1] / You and me / We’ll go down in history / The greatest story ever / One for the centuries / I saw you I was broken open tore right into two / I never saw anything as
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Coldplay – Clocks
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Continuing the existential themes of A Rush of Blood to the Head, “Clocks” opens with a haunting piano melody into Chris Martin’s falsetto vocals.
The song concerns the paradox
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Coldplay – Strawberry Swing
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“Strawberry Swing” is the penultimate track on Viva La Vida. It was almost left off the album, but Chris Martin was adamant that the track should be included.
The track plays with
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Coldplay – Charlie Brown
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With it’s coming-of-age background and lively beat, “Charlie Brown”, the fourth track and third single off Mylo Xyloto, takes its inspiration from the famous star of Charles M
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Coldplay – Arabesque
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The co-lead single “Arabesque” (which is the lead single for the Sunrise part of the album) is Coldplay’s way of trying to sew peace in the wake of the western fear of Islam with
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Coldplay – Champion of the World
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“Champion of the World” was released as a tribute to Scott Hutchison, the lead singer of Frightened Rabbit who took his life in May 2018 after struggling with depression. The song
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Coldplay – Daddy
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“Daddy” is a slow, piano-driven track about a neglectful relationship between a son and his father. It shows how the father moved away from his son (interpreted by Chris Martin
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Coldplay – Speed of Sound
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The song was inspired by Martin’s daughter, Apple, and English alternative rock singer Kate Bush.
That’s a song where we were listening to a lot of Kate Bush last summer, and we
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Coldplay, We Are King & Jacob Collier – ♡ (Human Heart)
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“♡,” or alternatively titled, “Human Heart,” marks the first collaboration between duo We Are KING, and marks the return of Jacob Collier, who has previously collaborated and
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Coldplay – Guns
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The opener for the second part of the album, Sunset (غروب), starts with “Guns”, a track that criticizes American’s love for guns and how people have been led to believe that gun
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Coldplay – O
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“O,” the titular song on the ninth and final track on Coldplay’s sixth studio album Ghost Stories, brings the journey to a close with a soulful ambient piece with a voice saying, “
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Coldplay – Amsterdam
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The final track of A Rush of Blood to the Head showcases the redemptive power of love. It was written while the band were in Amsterdam, hence the title.
It is NOT, as many have
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Coldplay – Violet Hill
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“Violet Hill” is off of Coldplay’s album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. It was their first attempt at a protest/political song.
The first line “It was a long and dark
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Coldplay – In My Place
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The second track and first single of A Rush of Blood to the Head, “In My Place” won the award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 45th Annual Grammy
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Coldplay – Up&Up
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In the dramatic and uplifting grand finale of Coldplay’s enigmatic A Head Full of Dreams, the band presents us with a power ballad that encourages belief and optimism in both life
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Coldplay – Don't Panic
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The rather simplistic (but beautiful) opening track of Parachutes. An earlier version of the song is also the second track on The Blue Room EP, released in October 1999. The title
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Coldplay – Shiver
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The lead single off Parachutes, “Shiver” (alongside fan favorite “Yellow”) helped establish Coldplay in the new millennium alt-rock scene. The song was recorded in one take.
Chris
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Coldplay – Midnight
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“Midnight” was teased by Coldplay before it’s release.
It was their first (with the exception of “Atlas” for the Hunger Games soundtrack) release of new material since Mylo
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Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
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The title track of “A Rush of Blood to the Head” deals with revenge and loss of emotional control we experience within it.
Furthermore, the British band tackle once again
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Coldplay – Ink
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The emotionally scarring, yet suprisingly catchy third track off Coldplay’s sixth studio album, Ghost Stories, truly gives us an insight into the narrator’s obsession with the love
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Coldplay – Talk
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“Talk” is the third single from Coldplay’s third album, X&Y. It features lyrics about feeling insecure and how conversation could fix it, and a recurring melodic hook directly
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Coldplay – Yes
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[Verse 1] / When it started, we had high hopes / Now my back's on the line, my back's on the ropes / When it started, we were alright / But night makes a fool of us in the daylight
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Coldplay – Trouble
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“Trouble” (originally titled “Spiderwebs”) is the sixth track and third single of Parachutes. This song actually has two music videos: the first video was done in the UK, but
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Coldplay – A Message
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“A Message” is a love song and the eighth track of Coldplay’s X&Y. The lyrics and melody were inspired by John Ireland’s 1664 hymn “My Song Is Love Unknown,” which is also Chris
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Coldplay – Politik
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The opening track of A Rush of Blood to the Head, “Politik” was written shortly after the 9/11 attacks and was meant to be reflective of the state of the world.
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Coldplay – Everyday Life
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The closing track off Everyday Life showcases a slow piano ballad that describes and summarizes the band’s general album message: love, equality, pain, struggles, legacy, humanity
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Coldplay – True Love
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Cited as lead singer Chris Martin’s favourite track on the album, the fourth track on Ghost Stories introduces the album’s concept of uncomfortable music, after “Ink”’s
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