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[Chez Wombat]

Thank you to all who voted in the last round!

Eliminated:



28. Atlas (12/32 votes, 18.75%)

By a hefty margin, Atlas is the next elimination. A non-album single recorded for the soundtrack to Hunger Games: Catching Fire in Autumn 2013. It was the first song ever written specifically for a film by Coldplay and it charted in sixteen countries and won a Hollywood Film Award. It was at the time their first new release in almost two years and reached #12 here though I recall it's descent being swift as it usually is for movie tracks. I was underwhelmed by it at the time and I still am now, it's just really dull, never builds to anything and stays in monotone throughout which doesn't help, but it's OK as it did its job of reminding us they're still alive before Ghost Stories a few months later, we need never speak of this again x



27. Life in Technicolor II (9/32 votes, 14/06%)

Joining that is their first pre-2010 song to depart and it's certainly one that's easy to forget coming after the monster hit Viva la Vida from the album of (almost) the same name, and only scraping the UK top 30. A vocal version of Life in Technicolor that was originally an instrumental. The instrumental is great on its own and while this version retains the interesting instrumentation with the use of santoor and tabla resembling Strangelove by Depeche Mode, it's a fairly pointless remake overall and pales next to other glorious cuts off that album like Lovers in Japan (just planning to keep mentioning that in every round, don't mind me).


27. Life in Technicolor II (9/32, 14.06%)
28. Atlas (12/32, 18.75%)
29. Something Just Like This (w/ The Chainsmokers) (9/29, 14.06%)
30. Miracles (Someone Special) (w/ Big Sean) (11/29, 17.19%)


This round will be another double elimination so please continue to vote for your TWO least favourite songs, you have until Friday afternoon or so.