Day 2 - Your favourite single
Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II
From the ‘Prospekt’s March’ EP, following the ‘Viva La Vida’ LP. The biggest disappointment (and excitement) on the album version was that it was just a tiny, perfect instrumental. But it didn’t feel quite enough. Then they had a full version too suddenly, opening this selection of other tracks that didn’t make the final album. I was captivated. A lot of it is fairly, well, standard Coldplay, but as a fan that of course doesn’t bother me. Something about this track lifted it above their normal single material, which is either over the top power pop/rock or over the top pop/rock ballad. Here I think they’ve succeeded because the vibrancy and excited dynamic of the arrangement manages to justify the over the top execution of their work from X&Y onwards.
It’s the second most played track in my iTunes.
