Coldplay: Tracklist Revealed + Obscure Songs
We know everyone can’t help but read every piece of recycled news about Coldplay, but we guarantee we have something you haven’t heard yet… unless you somehow know as much as we do.
But first, take a quick gander at the songs below. If you’ve been following all of the song selection hoopla since November/December, its a relief that Coldplay finally selected their tracklist for Viva La Vida. A few songs that I’ve seen brought up time and time again from the band’s long-running blog are “Cemetaries of London”, “Lost” and “42″ and “Violet Hill”. You can expect these to be the strong tracks on VLV.
There’s no way of telling how many songs Coldplay did actually scratch from this list, but the band wanted to keep it to-the-point. Here are a few quotes from Coldplay’s official site from the course of the last 6-8 months I found would shed some more light as to what we can expect:
The plan has always been to make a short record. No more than 42 minutes, 9 songs (give or take).
To use a tired analogy, it’s like picking a football team. It’s not simply about individual talent, but overall cohesion and combined effectiveness. The bigger picture. An album that you can listen to from start to finish. The danger of this is that great songs may get left off the album because they don’t “fit”.
One minute we’re all buzzing about the mix of Prospekt’s March; the next we’re crippled by doubt over the drum track for Lost!
It feels like a very dense record. There are so many melodies and colours packed into a relatively short space (42 mins). As you’d expect with Brian Eno, there’s experimentation, and exploration. But the music still has integrity. It’s real and honest. There’s no posturing or bombast.
From their latest message posted on April 10th, we can expect to hear one or two of their new tracks soon:
The powers-that-be tell me it’ll be available for general consumption on June 16/17, depending on where you live. We’ll try to release a track or two before then…
That’s it, here’s their tracklist:
1. Life in Technicolor
2. Cemeteries of London
3. Lost!
4. 42
5. Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love
6. Yes
7. Viva la Vida
8. Violet Hill
9. Strawberry Swing
10. Death and All His Friends
And finally… for those who didn’t think we could introduce something new to you, here are two VERY good tracks you probably never knew about (unless you’re crafty like us). The first is a song by Faultline featuring Chris Martin from their 2002 Your Love Means Everything album (also features a song with The Flaming Lips) and the second is from the God Put A Smile On Your Face EP (2003).
MP3: Coldplay – Your Love Means Everything, Part 2 (Faultline, feat. Chris Martin) (buy)
MP3: Coldplay – Animals (buy)
If you want to go back in time and see all of Coldplay insights on their new album, visit Wiki Coldplay. Or if you want to own everything Coldplay has to offer on iTunes go here.
And lastly, here’s a video showing the lighter side of Chris Martin from 2006:
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