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Coldplay: Day 16

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Alright I'm zooming ahead at light speed. In May 2008, Coldplay began releasing music for their fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All his Friends. Coldplay on tour Before this though they did release a bunch of songs to finish up the X&Y album cycle.  Fix You was released as a single in September 2005, followed by Talk in December, and The Hardest Part in April 2006.  In my unimportant opinion, those were good single choices. The Hardest Part is the only "new" song on X&Y that I highlighted as one I would return to and the other two are two of the highlights on the album. They also released a fair bit of extra songs with the B-sides as well as other assorted music. Three interesting songs they released were a set of remixes of the song Talk. These remixes weren't done in a typical style where they take the regular structure and add different beats or change the genre, instead they are these long (9+ minute) instrumental breakdowns where the main m...