Speed Of Sound (track)
by Coldplay
Speed Of Sound appears on the following album(s) by Coldplay:
- X&Y (track #7) (this album) (2005)
- The Singles 1999-2006 (track #24) (compilation) (2007)
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| ! | 11/26/2025 02:57 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,621 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 15:09 |  Kalos | 10,423 | 75/100 |
| ! | 10/29/2025 22:35 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,102 | 100/100 |
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| ! | 08/16/2025 02:51 |  ExTeaSea | 12,448 | 85/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.4/100, a mean average of 82.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.0.
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Squonk007 02/12/2024 14:52 | #301946
A full sound, good song.
Yeah, this is very similar to Clocks. Fortunately, Clocks is an amazing song, so it would stand to reason that Speed of Sound is also pretty good.
They radio stations played the fck outta this back in the day. I wish I could go back.
Never understood the reference to Clocks, they are completely different other than being played by the same band.
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