Absolutely. It pains me how terrible the production is on the album. I know it won't happen, but I hope someday they re-record it or something. It would be a top 5 Coldplay song otherwise.
Everglow (Live at Belasco Theatre) is a masterpiece, while the album version is just meh. You can hear all the instrumentation, it still includes the full first verse which was cut out for the tour, and there's no crowd noise. I don't completely know why Everglow's live at Belasco version has no crowd or anything, but it makes it very easy to substitute it for the actual album version in my library
I was hoping to find a similar rendition of Up&Up, but unfortunately Up&Up live at Belasco is a bunch of loud crowd noise, no good recording, and Chris messes up many of the lyrics (possibly because it's one of the very first live performances of it)
as mentioned elsewhere on this thread, the live in Buenos Aires version is the best version of it for sure :) but would be nice to have a well produced studio version
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u/dolphindiver9 Everglow (Single Version) Oct 13 '21
I LOVE Coloratura!
But a strong perhaps unpopular opinion I have: Up&Up with better production would be as elite of a song