Coldplay - Moon Music (October 4, 2024) Album • Page 8

I’ve been obsessed with Aeterna lately, jumping into my fav songs from 2024.

 

yeah, if I had to pick the tracks that I think are slightly less awesome after just relistening for the first time in forever, I think I'm going with "Low" & "Twisted Logic" also. love the title track though.

 

i quite like low but the title track is pretty formless to me

besides that and twisted logic the other songs id lose are what if and a message. rest i can generally get behind

 

You were the target they were aiming at, but sadly, they did not get that message home.

 

Wild at the distaste for Twisted Logic in here. That chorus slaps.

 

Man, “A Message” is top 3 on that album for me. Gorgeous song.

 

Ditto. A Message is one of my favorites from that album.

I’d happily cut What If and title track though

 

fwiw it's the best if those 4 and i'd probably like it more if it didn't beat the whole "my song is" thing in the ground but i'm rarely a fan of that lyrical trope in general

 

The one I used to dislike was "The Hardest Part," but that one grew on me a lot over the years. Total Reveal-era R.E.M. worship.

 

x&y is perfect

 

Next to Johnny Rzeznik from the Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Martin is probably responsible for me breaking more guitar strings than any one else is a popular rock band. Almost every song from the first three albums that he plays on is in some slightly altered tuning.

 

buy a capo

 

Maybe once a year I tell myself to jam out to “Name” and always pop that G string.
I never learned any Coldplay songs aside from Yellow, didn’t realize they did alt tunings. But explains why it always looks like Chris only uses two fingers whenever I see him with an acoustic guitar

 

Always wanted to play God Put a Smile Upon Your Face, which is in some kind of open C# tuning

 

probably my favourite Coldplay song, absolute tune

 

Yeah isn’t yellow in standard tuning but you tweak the b string to C sharp or something? It’s been a long time since I’ve done it lol

 

The thing no one talks enough about with “A Sky Full of Stars” is how sad it is. All of these Ghost Stories play with hope and misery in a balance that I think only Chris Martin can pull off.

Wrote about Ghost Stories ten years ago (!) on my currently defunct blog.
First Impressions: Coldplay – Ghost Stories

 

the way other people talk about "A Sky Full of Stars" really makes me wish I didn't viscerally feel like that song is nails on a chalkboard

 

agreed lol

 

Yeah I feel sorry for anyone missing out on the magic of that song.

 

Moon Music reminds me a lot of A Head Full of Dreams in that I think, a few years down the road when all of the b-sides / full tracks / companion EP is released, there will be a whole album of songs here that I love

 

The Hardest Part, Swallowed In the Sea, both great great songs

 

How is The Astronaut not on here? They played it on SNL last time they were on - their version of it was so good. I know they lent it to the other artist but feels like an obvious thematic fit just based on title alone.

 

Remind me what the companion tracks were for A Head Full of Dreams?