re: Is "Midnight" by Coldplay the best song of 2014?

Every song on Mac Demarco's Salad Days is better than that.

There's also Streaker, Eruption, Lipstick Destroyer, and Father Sister Berzerker on Tobaxxo's Ultima II Massage.

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks' Little Fang.

Our Love or All I Ever Need by Caribou.

Parquet Courts's Instant Disassembly.

New Dorp, New York from SBTRKT.

Steve Gunn's Drifter, Atmosphere, Way Out Weather, and Tommy's Congo.

Left Hand Free by Alt-J.

Seasons (Waiting On You) by Future Islands.

The Knife's A Tooth for an Eye, Ready to Lose, and Full of Fire.

Murmurs, Cavity, and xtalk by Hundred Waters.

Klapp Klapp, Underbart, and Killing Me by Little Dragon.

Baths' Ocean Death.

Red Eyes or An Ocean in Between the Waves by The War on Drugs.

Inspector Norse or Delorean Dynamite by Todd Terje.

Awake - Tycho

Toumast Tincha by Tinariwen.

Mogwai's Remurdered.

and

Silver Timothy by Damien Jurado.

Are all better than the song in the OP.

ETA: That's actually not bad for a Coldplay song.