History Music / Coldplay

Between TheNewTens and now, the band has experimented further by diving into the genres of anthemic electronica (''Music/MyloXyloto''), lush ambient/dream pop (''[[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum Ghost Stories]]''), upbeat pop rock (''Music/AHeadFullOfDreams''), art pop (''Music/EverydayLife''), and space pop rock (''Music/MusicOfTheSpheres'').

Between TheNewTens and now, the band has experimented further by diving into the genres of anthemic electronica (''Music/MyloXyloto''), lush ambient/dream pop (''Music/GhostStories''), upbeat pop rock (''Music/AHeadFullOfDreams''), art pop (''Music/EverydayLife''), and space pop rock (''Music/MusicOfTheSpheres'').

Their fourth album, 2008's ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'', [[NewSoundAlbum changed this]]. [[RecordProducer Produced]] by Music/BrianEno, it rewrote the band's fundamentals, introducing experimentation of both the instrumental variety (ex: OminousPipeOrgan, honky-tonk piano, elaborate string sections) and the arrangement variety (ex: weirder [[UncommonTime time signatures]], unusual song structures). Despite some [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan pushback]], it was the highest-selling album of the year worldwide.

Between TheNewTens and now, the band has experimented further by diving into the genres of anthemic electronica (''Mylo Xyloto''), lush ambient/dream pop (''Ghost Stories''), upbeat pop rock (''A Head Full of Dreams''), art pop (''Everyday Life''), and space pop rock (''Music of the Spheres'').

* 2000 - [[index]]''Music/{{Parachutes}}''

* 2005 - ''Music/XAndY''[[/index]]

* 2008 - [[index]]''Music/VivaLaVidaOrDeathAndAllHisFriends''

* 2011 - ''Music/MyloXyloto''[[/index]]

* 2014 - [[index]]''[[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum Ghost Stories]]''

* 2015 - ''Music/AHeadFullOfDreams''[[/index]]

* 2019 - [[index]]''Music/EverydayLife''

* 2021 - ''Music/MusicOfTheSpheres''[[/index]]

* 2000 - ''Music/{{Parachutes}}''

* 2005 - ''Music/XAndY''

* 2008 - ''Music/VivaLaVidaOrDeathAndAllHisFriends''

* 2011 - ''Music/MyloXyloto''

* 2014 - ''[[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum Ghost Stories]]''

* 2015 - ''Music/AHeadFullOfDreams''

* 2019 - ''Music/EverydayLife''

* 2021 - ''Music/MusicOfTheSpheres''

* 2021 - ''Music of the Spheres''

* 2019 - ''Everyday Life''

* [[index]]2000 - ''Music/{{Parachutes}}''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2002 - ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2005 - ''Music/XAndY''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2008 - ''Music/VivaLaVidaOrDeathAndAllHisFriends''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2011 - ''Music/MyloXyloto''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2014 - ''[[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum Ghost Stories]]''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2015 - ''Music/AHeadFullOfDreams''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2019 - ''Everyday Life''[[/index]]

* [[index]]2021 - ''Music of the Spheres''[[/index]]

[[index]]* 2000 - ''Music/{{Parachutes}}''

* 2002 - ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead''

* 2005 - ''Music/XAndY''[[/index]]

[[index]]* 2008 - ''Music/VivaLaVidaOrDeathAndAllHisFriends''

* 2011 - ''Music/MyloXyloto''[[/index]]

[[index]]* 2014 - ''[[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum Ghost Stories]]''

* 2015 - ''Music/AHeadFullOfDreams''[[/index]]

* 2019 - ''Everyday Life''

* 2021 - ''Music of the Spheres''

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* 2000 - ''Music/{{Parachutes}}''

* 2005 - ''Music/XAndY''
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* 2008 - ''Music/VivaLaVidaOrDeathAndAllHisFriends''

* 2011 - ''Music/MyloXyloto''
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* 2014 - ''[[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum Ghost Stories]]''

* 2015 - ''Music/AHeadFullOfDreams''
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* 2015 - ''A Head Full of Dreams''

* 2014 - ''Ghost Stories''

* 2011 - ''Mylo Xyloto''

* 2008 - ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends''

* 2005 - ''X&Y''

* Other singles: [[https://youtu.be/HyLO-NtFM_Y&feature=related "Brothers & Sisters"]], [[https://youtu.be/CDPjuzzAlB4 "Lhuna"]][[note]]with Music/KylieMinogue[[/note]], [[https://youtu.be/fXSovfzyx28 "Life in Technicolor ii"]] (taken from ''Prospekt's March'' - an EP with alternate versions and outtakes out of the ''Viva la Vida'' sessions), [[https://youtu.be/z1rYmzQ8C9Q "Christmas Lights"]], [[https://youtu.be/Lh3TokLzzmw "Atlas"]] (from the soundtrack of ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire The Hunger Games: Catching Fire]]''), [[https://youtu.be/FYogZ1KER_k "Miracles"]] (from the soundtrack of ''Film/{{Unbroken}}'')

*** The entirety of the album. "Life in Technicolor" fades into the [[RecurringRiff same ambient sample]] that "Death and All His Friends" and the hidden track "The Escapist" fades out on.

*** The whole album is book-ended by the hidden track "O", which has the same angelic choir as the opening track "Always in My Head".
*** The song "Another's Arms", from the above album, begins and ends with the same lines.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: Chris's wailing in the live b-side "Pour Me". It's brief, but incredibly disconcerting.

** Their early [=EPs=] a bit more so to ''Parachutes'', with Chris's vocals being more timid and their sound being more straight-forward indie rock in comparison due to their less polished production and containing more atmospheric feelings, having notable influences of PsychedelicRock and DreamPop in them. A good point of comparison is the "Don't Panic" versions recorded for ''Parachutes'' and ''The Blue Room'' [=EP=].
* EatenAlive: In the music video for "Talk", the band members suffer this fate at the hands of a giant toy robot at the end. Though to be fair, one of the band members stole a knob from the robot.

** "Yes" (the first part) can easily be interpreted as a song about sexual frustration, with lyrics like "We were dying of frustration, singing lord lead me not into temptation, but it's not easy when she turns you on".
** The track "Another's Arms" off of ''Ghost Stories'' has some pretty sexual lyrics as well.
** "Lhuna", their collaboration with Kylie Minogue, is so sexual that Chris ended up deeming it too adult to put on an album.

* KnightInSourArmor: "Don't Panic" seems to be sung from the perspective of one; the narrator spends the song lamenting about the Earth being destroyed by either an apocalypse or the human race's own negligence, notes in the chorus that "we live in a beautiful world" (perhaps sarcastically), but ends the song with something of a change of heart, stating that everyone has a loved one they can hold onto.

-->''You didn't get to heaven, but you made it close!''

** And of course, the song [[BeingEvilSucks "Viva la]] [[ICouldaBeenAContender Vida"]]. The lyrics are ''not'' as happy as the melody suggests.
** "Don't Panic". A gentle, lovely melody about the fact that people are slowly killing the world. The music video makes it a little more obvious.
** "Orphans", a peppy, hoot-along anthem about...the Syrian Civil War?

** ''Music of the Spheres'' harkens back mostly to the arena pop rock from ''Mylo Xyloto'' and ''A Head Full of Dreams'', while incorporating space influences to it. Although it does deviate from it a few times, with the acapella [[https://youtu.be/sKrsE2lBhu4 "Human Heart"]], the bluesy indie rock [[https://youtu.be/Q4nFTEsez5c "People of the Pride"]] and the ten minute ProgressiveRock closer [[https://youtu.be/kWUV5-frRU4 "Coloratura"]].

* TheOner: The music video to "Christmas Lights" is all shot in a long take.
* OutOfGenreExperience: "Chinese Sleep Chant" is straight up shoegazing, complete with breathy vocals.

** "Don't Panic" was originally on one of the band's first [=EPs=], ''The Blue Room'', before achieving success as a single from ''Parachutes''. The EP mix has a considerably spacious and ethereal dream pop-like sound, additionally featuring a different, quieter vocal recording of Martin.

** "If you never try, then you'll never know" appears twice on the same album, ''X&Y'', in both "Speed of Sound" and "Fix You".

** Similarly, a sample of Hopkins' "Amphora" was used prominently in "Midnight".

** Chris Martin's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOtmimxSVw guest role]] in an episode of ''{{Series/Extras}}'' Chris Martin appears to film a charity appeal video together with Andy, but the only thing he's interested in is promoting the 'Coldplay Greatest Hits Album'.

After forming in 1996 at university and issuing several low-key releases during the back-end of the decade, they hit the big time in 2000 with the [[BreakthroughHit breakthrough success]] of their single "Yellow", which would later be included on their debut album, ''Music/{{Parachutes}}''. The rest of their oeuvre leading up to the mid-2000s -- ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead'' and ''X&Y'' -- continued the success, but also gave the band a reputation for [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks their songs sounding too similar]] (the singles "Speed of Sound" and "Clocks" being frequently singled out for comparison).

Their fourth album, 2008's ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'', [[NewSoundAlbum changed this]]. [[RecordProducer Produced]] by Music/BrianEno, it rewrote the band's fundamentals, introducing experimentation of both the instrumental variety (ex: OminousPipeOrgan, honky-tonk piano, elaborate string sections) and the arrangement variety (ex: weirder [[UncommonTime time signatures]], unusual song structures). Despite some [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fan pushback]], it was the highest-selling album of the year.

** "All I know / Is I love you so" is the intro for "Biutyful" from ''Music of the Spheres''. The line was also use in the chorus in "Ink" from ''Ghost Stories'', where it was followed with "...so much that it hurts".

The band has also released three {{Live Album}}s -- ''Live 2003'' (from Sydney), ''[=LeftRightLeftRightLeft=]'' (2009), which is [[http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=395 available for free from their website]], and ''Live 2012'', which is also a DVD.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Applies to the song "Lost!". All of its remixed versions are differentiated by the exclamation mark at the end being replaced with a different symbol: a question mark[[note]]A piano version[[/note]], an at sign (@)[[note]]A live performance[[/note]], and a plus[[note]][[AWildRapperAppears Contains a verse from]] Music/JayZ[[/note]]).

* BadassBaritone: Chris puts this to good use in "Yes".

** ''Rush'' and ''X&Y'' elevated the Britpop- and indie-influenced stylings of ''Parachutes'' into a bigger, arena-friendly sound.

* DreamTeam:
** Them and Music/{{Rihanna}} on "Princess of China".
** Them and Music/{{Beyonce}} on "Hymn for the Weekend".

* As a tribute to MCA, they performed Music/TheBeastieBoys' "Fight For Your Right" not as the typical firery teenage rebellion song, but a more introspective look into the mind of the frustrated teenage singer via different instumentation and slower tempo, about the clear feeling of powerlessneess he has dealing with his parents and school in his attempts to have something for himself.

* LongRunnerLineUp: Twenty-five years and counting.

After forming in 1996 at university and issuing several low-key releases during the back-end of the [[TheNineties '90s]], they hit the big time in 2000 with the [[BreakthroughHit breakthrough success]] of their single "Yellow", which would later be included on their debut album, ''Music/{{Parachutes}}''. The rest of their oeuvre leading up to the mid-2000s -- ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead'' and ''X&Y'' -- continued the success, but also gave the band a reputation for [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks their songs sounding too similar]] (the singles "Speed of Sound" and "Clocks" being frequently singled out for comparison).

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