Coldplay - Death Will Never Conquer (2014)

I was very much a fan of Coldplay in their early days, and was straight down the record shop whenever they released an album, but around 2009 I felt that they were getting just a bit too commercial for me, and so my attentions shifted to other, edgier new bands, and I didn't really pay much attention to them anymore. The last album of theirs that I bought was 'Viva La Vida', and I didn't get any of their singles from that period onwards either, which means that I missed out on a number of surprisingly good songs tucked away on b-sides. This collection rectifies that by gathering together all those rare tracks from 2003 to 2014, and it serves as a companion-piece to their earlier post 'If You Never Try, Then You'll Never Know'. I think the songs on 'If You Never Try....' just have edge over the ones on here, but there is still some good stuff on this set, so I'm sure that fans of the band will find something to enjoy.   

Track listing

01 Murder (b-side of 'God Put A Smile Upon Your Face' 2003)
02 The World Turned Upside Down (b-side of 'Fix You' 2005)
03 Sleeping Sun (b-side of 'Talk' 2005)
04 Gravity (Coldplay version of the song written for Embrace 2005)
05 Things I Don't Understand (b-side of 'Speed Of Sound' 2005)
06 Proof (b-side of 'Speed Of Sound' 2005)
07 Death Will Never Conquer (b-side of 'Viva La Vida' 2008)
08 A Spell A Rebel Yell (b-side of NME freebie single of 'Violet Hill' 2008)
09 Lost (b-side of 'Violet Hill' 2008)
10 The Goldrush (b-side of 'Life In Technicolor II' 2009)
11 Moving To Mars (b-side to 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' EP 2011)
12 All Your Friends (from 'A Sky Full Of Stars' EP 2014)
13 Ghost Story (from 'A Sky Full Of Stars' EP 2014)
14 O (Reprise) (from 'A Sky Full Of Stars' EP 2014)