Rating every song off of Coldplay's albums on a scale from 1 to 10: A Head Full of Dreams

Now we move on to what I consider to be Coldplay's last good album as of 2024: A Head Full of Dreams. It's a solid album, and like X&Y, it's got song that I'm a fan of, and songs that I'm not a fan of. Like Mylo Xyloto, it's another pop album (even non-listeners might guess that because of the colors on the album.) Anyways, here's my rating on a scale from 1 to 10. Bold means it's my favorite. Italics means it's my least favorite. And we're gonna see how many people get pissed off from this list.

1. A Head Full of Dreams (8/10): It's taken some time for it to grow on me. I really enjoy the second half, where it sounds like a crowd is singing "ohhh-woah-ohh-ohhh". Other than that, the first half is kinda whatever.

2. Birds (8/10): Another one that took sometime for it to grow on me (mainly because I didn't like the beat). It's bouncy, upbeat, and is overall a good song.

3. Hymn for the Weekend (8.5/10): A catchy song that also features Beyonce on it. I really like this song, despite the lyrics of being drunk as well as being high as a kite. I think it's a great collaboration, and might be their best collab in my opinion (even though Beyonce isn't credited as a feature artist. Maybe in order to do a collab, Coldplay shouldn't credit the featured artist.)

4. Everglow (9.5/10): Phenomenal song. Beautiful song. And also kind of a sad song as well. One of the more emotional tracks on the album, this song is kind of a thank you to a special person who came and went. Also, someone else is featured on backing vocals (they're not credited). You may or may not have heard of them. The name's Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris' ex-wife. Overall, a really beautiful song about being greateful for someone in your life.

5. Adventure of a Lifetime (9.2/10): A funky adventure of a lifetime with a catchy ass riff from Jonny. That was the first Jonny Buckland riff I ever learned on guitar back in November 2023 (I started in August 2023.) Just overall, feel-good, chill vibes.

6. Fun (7.6/10): It's alright. It's not my favorite, but it's cool. Also, there's another feature on the album, and this time it's credited to Tove Lo, who blew up a year prior in 2014 with Habits (Stay High). It's not something I'd listen to casually, but it's fun (sorry for the shite joke.)

7. Kaleidoscope (4.3/10): Filler. It's just filler. I have no idea what this is supposed to be. I heard it contains a random poem, and Obama singing Amazing Grace? Yeah I have no idea what this is. This would be my least favorite off the album if I wasn't counting hidden tracks as one song.

8. Army of One (7.6/10): Once again, the same thing for Fun. It's alright, but I don't normally listen to this on its own. That doesn't mean it's bad, but it's OK.

9. X Marks the Spot (2.8/10): Might be their worst hidden track by far. It feels souless, and just sounds boring. Even Chris sounds bored singing this. As if the song wasn't dull enough, the lyrics are also just plain and dull. I know some of Coldplay's lyrics aren't the greatest, but this is just bad. If I were to not count hidden tracks as a seperate track, then Army of One would've just gotten a plain 7.

10. Amazing Day (9.3/10): More like an amazing track! The piano and the guitar is beautiful. And the part where Chris goes "ohh-ohh-ohhh-ohhh" is amazing. I really love this track. Just when this album kinda started to lose me a little, it brought me back with this track.

11. Colour Spectrum (6.5/10): It's colorful, but not as colorful as most of the tracks on Mylo Xyloto. It also borrows the woo-hoo's from Adventure of a Lifetime, only being slowed and reverbed. The whole track meanwhile is just the intro to A Head Full of Dreams being played over and over again. Just a bunch of colorful filler.

12. Up&Up (8.2/10): It's catchy, and a solid album closer. It's cheesy, but to me, it has the right amount of cheese. Also, Beyonce, Brian Eno, the kids of the band members, pretty much everyone participated on the chorus of this song. While Jonny did the first guitar solo, the second solo was done by Oasis guitarist and singer Noel Gallagher. I didn't know that until just now.

Overall rating of A Head Full of Dreams - (8.4/10): Overall a solid album. It has its ups and downs. Also I know I'm going to get a lot of flack for the overall rating of the album, since I'm giving this album an 8.4/10, and I gave X&Y a plain 8/10. I just prefer this album a little over X&Y (I don't hate it.) For me, this is their last good album as of this year. I think all of their first seven albums (Parachutes, AROBTTH, X&Y, VLVODAAHF, MX, GS, AHFOD,) are good and great records. It has its ups and downs, but it's great. Here's how I'd summarize this album: it's like MX, but slightly shitter (once again, not saying it's bad.)