What's your Coldplay Top 15?

Evaluating a song is difficult. The great song must not be a passing fad. It must stand the test of time and continue to endure. That is how favorites are made and good songs distinguished from average songs, great songs from good songs. Therefore, much goes into play when considering my top 15 Coldplay tunes. Lyrics, melody, harmony, sound are objective. The individual life setting and experience are subjective. They all converge and form some kind of basis for comparison. Enough said, here's my list:

1) Don't Panic*
2) See You Soon
3) We Never Change
4) The Scientist
5) Careful Where You Stand**
6) Trouble***
7) In My Place
8) Brothers and Sisters****
9) Shiver
10) Clocks
11) Square One
12) Warning Sign
13) Yellow
14) Fix You
15) A Rush Of Blood To The Head

** Some songs never get old; they get better with age. Those are the songs you can listen to three times straight and you still want more! "Don't Panic" is that song for me. The only knock is the length but it is long enough to lure you in and make you want more of it.

**Honestly, this song is the bait. It got my attention the way Yellow failed to do.

***If "Careful Where You Stand" is the bait, then undoubtably, "Trouble" is the hook. It's that simple. Hearing Trouble for the first time at Pacsun really lured me in. I couldn't shake the tune out of my head for months.

****Quality of song makes a difference. I had previously owned a copy of the live version. I liked it but I wouldn't have ranked it this high. However, this past weekend I was introduced to a cleaner, purer version of the song and it blew me away. The added quality transformed this song from good to very good.