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ALIENS is pretty solid too. 3/3 as far as I'm concerned.

Also unpopular opinion but I think A sky full of stars is an underated track on an underated album.

 

Ghost Stories is a totally underrated album. Definitely my 3rd favorite Coldplay record, behind Parachutes and Rush of Blood.

But I still think ASFOS is my least favorite song on it ha.

 

Don't agree about SFOS, but do about Ghost Stories. I enjoy that album quite a bit.

 

I would kill to hear a more straightforward mix of ASFOS where the band actually plays on it. The way the song is now on the record it really just feels like a remix of a song we never got to hear.

 

I love it. It's in my top three but I'd include Mylo Xyloto (instead of Parachutes) as well as Rush of Blood.

I don't mind A Sky Full of Stars either. Not my favourite on the record but not bad at all.

 

Ghost Stories is great. ASFOS is a fine pop song in my opinion. It's not something I go back to often, but I have a feeling it will be a good singalong live song. I'll find out in a few weeks.

 

Ghost Stories is my favourite Coldplay album and A Sky Full of Stars is my favourite song on there, I love it so much.

 

Nice dude! Great minds think alike

 

New EP's out there

 

Ghost Stories is fantastic; "A Sky Full of Stars" is a great single and even better on the album; Mylo is criminally underrated. A Head Full of Dreams is pretty bad, though.

 

i know some people gave "a sky full of stars" crap compared to what the rest of the album was like, but i really enjoyed the song in context of the entire album. super catchy too.

 

I always saw it sort of as the rise from the ashes after all those sad songs. And then the closer was sort of the acceptance/moving on song. That album in general just has a great arc.

 

I'll ride with Ghost Stories being underrated, with Midnight maybe being a top 5 song of theirs.

Kaleidoscope EP exceeded my expectations for the most part. Minus SJLT (of course) and the meager Big Sean verse on Miracles, everything about it is different degrees of good. Gotta say, I was pretty worried when the wikipedia page for it called it a companion piece to AHFOD

 

AHFOD has a few good songs, but the sequencing is all wrong, and their obsession with interludes is starting to get old.

 

I'd say I love about half of AHFOD?

 

I think that's fair. Everglow, Adventure of a Lifetime, Fun, and Up & Up are the only stuff I even consider returning to though

 

The bad songs are also so bad that they really hurt it.

 

The only songs from AHFOD that I don't skip when they come on are Birds and Everglow.

 

Ghost Stories is far and away my favorite album of theirs and whenever people say they went full blown pop after Viva La Vida I'm convinced they didn't even listen to this album

 

Really enjoy the EP! Such a solid band

 

This is so true.

But it was worth it for the title track + Up & Up.

 

I've been avoiding AHFOD because i'm afraid i will hate it. Still haven't heard it but i'll listen to it eventually

 

Even Mylo is not a "mainstream radio pop" album, or whatever. It's just a slightly poppier Viva.

 

Please can you elaborate? If an album achieves mainstream success how is it not mainstream radio pop? I've never really understood distinguishing between the two. I agree it's a poppier version of Viva, but where I get lost is when people claim it's not "mainstream radio pop".

What else was number one that year? Lady Gaga (Born This Way), Adele (21), Rihanna (Loud)... Mylo Xyloto might not be an identical "mainstream radio pop" sound (indeed, all three of those number one albums have different elements), but it still fits into that category in my perspective due to 1. mainstream success, 2. radio success, 3. popular music elements underpinning the first two points.

I might be missing something because I live in the UK and the singles from that album were on mainstream radio highly frequently (I still hear them occasionally!) and the album achieved number one here. It did in the US I think as well - but maybe there was less airplay? I have no idea. Apologies if I'm missing the point!

 

I basically just mean it's more of an arena rock album with pop crossover appeal. It's not as overtly poppy as AHFOD, where they actively went for a pop sound by working with big pop producers. And it's a rock opera/concept album instead of being a collection of singles.

I also don't think it did as well radio wise as Viva. It was their first album that didn't really have a ubiquitous single. But I was referring more to the sound and structure of the record than to chart performance.