I do not understand hurts like heaven will be in the album or not?

[coldplay♪♫♪]

I do not understand hurts like heaven will be in the album or not?

I I did not find on the cover any male to funzzy man or the words from the song hurts like heaven. He may not be in the album? Is among my favorite songs.

[macky]

It's a MAYBE.
The other ones are definite YES. The shock is that we all thought that HLH will be MX opener and it's a great song.
I personally think it will end up on the album. The tracklist is very likely to be announced soon or on Sept 12 at the latest.

[amir.mohit]

deciding to omit HLH is definitely the wrong choice,,,

[prjio307]

I would be pretty much completely heartbroken if we don't get a studio version of Hurts Like Heaven at some point. I always assumed it was a shoe-in but now I'm not so sure. :(

[Juanma]

it Will

[prjio307]

I certainly hope so. The band has been opening every show with it, I mean heck, they opened Glastonbury with it. That's gotta say something about it's album-worthiness.

[mrman78]

I know, I was so shocked when I read the Billboard article and it said HLH might not be on the album!! I can understand MTM not being on there, but HLH is just great. I really hope they include it or at least make it a b-side so we have a studio version.

[juanif94]

It HAS to be in it!

[Skin&Bones]

If it's not I'll flip.

[Kacey]

They have the running man/fuzzy man tshirt on their website with the description:
"...Running Man printed on the front and lists the dates from the current summer tour on the back."

http://coldplay.fanfire.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Store.woa/wa/product?sourceCode=COLWEBUKWGBP&sku=COL52531

That better not mean that this guy's just a summer thing. I was thinking that if they put this on their site, surely they will perform the song during the real tour and that for sure this song was on the album.

[Reilly]

I just saw another poster being outraged that this may not be appearing on the album, all of you, do yourselves a favour, listen to this song objectively, pretend its another band if you like, and realise it's a really bland song. It's not awful or anything, because if it was awful it would at least be something, it is in fact nothing.

[FJK_12]

^ you are so wrong...

[rafaelchampion]

Hem Hem:

"Though the band have not yet revealed a track listing, the album will definitely including the hit "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" and the second single "Paradise," and is very likely to include the songs "Us Against the World," "Charlie Brown," "Hurts Like Heaven" and "Major Minus," all of which have been performed regularly at recent Coldplay gigs."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/coldplay-announce-new-album-mylo-xyloto-20110812


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M6A9hceR0xI/TkUOzighVLI/AAAAAAAAAxA/iLzXgXvR7ek/hlh.jpg

CHRIS' Words:
"Well, that's a good baptism of fire. So there's a couple of songs which I know are pretty good, because I know that when we're playing it I don't feel stupid."
Couple Of Songs = "Hurts Like Heaven & Charlie Brown"

Hurts Like Heaven = On Mylo Xyloto

The End

[Reilly]

I am right and my opinion is fact officially.

[VivaGroaning]

Hem Hem:

"Though the band have not yet revealed a track listing, the album will definitely including the hit "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" and the second single "Paradise," and is very likely to include the songs "Us Against the World," "Charlie Brown," "Hurts Like Heaven" and "Major Minus," all of which have been performed regularly at recent Coldplay gigs."
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/coldplay-announce-new-album-mylo-xyloto-20110812


https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-M6A9hceR0xI/TkUOzighVLI/AAAAAAAAAxA/iLzXgXvR7ek/hlh.jpg

CHRIS' Words:
"Well, that's a good baptism of fire. So there's a couple of songs which I know are pretty good, because I know that when we're playing it I don't feel stupid."
Couple Of Songs = "Hurts Like Heaven & Charlie Brown"

Hurts Like Heaven = On Mylo Xyloto

The End

STOP IT.

Billboard article said: "But another uptempo track, "Hurts Like Heaven," and particularly the "Major Tom"-meets-Sinatra exercise of "Moving to Mars" could potentially (tragically?) end up on the scrap heap."

[rafaelchampion]

Well, if you WANT HLH off of the album, that's already another story.:P

[foxeh]

Im sure it will be on the Album.
In a German site Chris said something like that: "Johnny playes only 2 Cords in "Hurts like Heaven" the new song of the Album"

[Cahliveira]

Well I think HLH have the chance to be out of the album =/ sadly.
It's one of my favorite of the new songs...

[Prospector]

I think it will make the album and i guess it's place has been decided a while ago, it's an important part of the album's promotion, as the first thing we saw from this era was the fuzzy man and traditionally the concert's oppening is the same song that opens the album. If they take it off I'll be very surprised.

[Sleep]

They put too much work into it for it to not be on the album. They have all those backing tracks with those cool noises and the backing vocal tracks with effects on them. Also it's fucking good. It's my favorite song from the MX era. THEY MUST DO IT.

Aren't the lyrics of HLH painted on the instruments?

[Reilly]

They put too much work into it for it to not be on the album.

Good songs come naturally, if they put a lot of work into it that would indicate they have an average song that they are trying to make album-worthy, you can't force creativity.

I still don't get why people need this to be on the album.

[Skin&Bones]

Good songs come naturally, if they put a lot of work into it that would indicate they have an average song that they are trying to make album-worthy, you can't force creativity.

I still don't get why people need this to be on the album.

Well, great songs come naturally but you still have to work on them...

Here's what I think about Hurts Like Heaven and WHY it should be on the album:

Jonny owns this song, hands down. The song is so simplistic (it's basically only two chords), but Coldplay still finds ways of making it completely epic. After MX (which doesn't do much for me personally), Chris's curtain of lyrical content falls down over the music with a rainstorm of rebellious graffiti references that keep the beat of the song just as well as Jonny's hammering muffled-powerchords. The drum beat keeps a simple New Wave beat and the Bass adds the necessary texture to the soundscape (like most songs). Suddenly, the first verses end and the two line chorus comes in, "Yeah you, use your heart as a weapon, and it hurts like heaven," and BAM! The song is immersed in a 16 measure guitar solo that -to contrast with the title- sounds ohhh so good like heaven!! Jonny owns those last eight measures with a glittering descending almost-arpeggio that makes me want to scream out in happiness! The song then continues its fast paced ways until it stops for the first main verse, "Yes I feel a little bit nervous, yes I feel nervous and I cannot relax" as the synthesizers glitter just like Jonny's guitar until it explodes into the 'concrete canvas' and 'spray can soul' verse. The song continues through more of Coldplay's awesome 'Whoas!!' in a second main verse, and then repeats the chorus a couple times before it ends in a shower of glimmering synths and guitars that slowly quiet down. This is by far the happiest Coldplay song ever released.

[Chloe_Martin]

Was it dumb that when I first heard the new songs that I didn't think they would
be on the actual album they would just be chosen to be on each of the singles...

[Cleggy]

It MX really is a concept album then Hurts Like Heaven wouldn't be the perfect opening track at all. There's very little plot in the song and its lyrics seem a little bit 'forced' to me as if they're trying to make it fit on the album by mentioning graffiti etc.

It doesn't really introduce the story/plot and to be honest I think musically it wouldn't fit anywhere else on the album. If it wasn't the first track it would hit you as a really random fast song in the middle of the album. Sort of like Month of May on The Suburbs by Arcade Fire. To me that was one the weakest points of the album.

I love the song, but maybe it doesn't fit in with the plot of the album as much as we thought.

[rafaelchampion]

Spike could put an end on this mystery to us. He has access to the songs length. If he confirms us that Mylo Xyloto track is 0:42 length, then Hurts Like Heaven is in, because there is no MX without Hurts Like Heaven. If he says Mylo Xyloto is not 0:42 lenght, then Mylo Xyloto is not MX. So we can be afraid. SPIKE PLEASE help us!

[TheSkittz]

Good songs come naturally, if they put a lot of work into it that would indicate they have an average song that they are trying to make album-worthy, you can't force creativity.

I still don't get why people need this to be on the album.

It doesnt need to be on the album
I think people just want to make sure that a studio version comes out in some form..

personally, I do not want it on the album because it is a good stadium song and catchy, but as far as the album goes it doesnt fit. If you want to craft a smooth album, i dont think HLH will be on there.

Im hoping it is a B-Side to Paradise.

[Skin&Bones]

How does it not fit?? First of all Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland said that all of the songs on the album were 'schizophrenic' and that they all were different. Hurts Like Heaven has PERFECT lyrics that fit the album very well. It's also one of their stronger songs!

[TheSkittz]

How does it not fit?? First of all Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland said that all of the songs on the album were 'schizophrenic' and that they all were different. Hurts Like Heaven has PERFECT lyrics that fit the album very well. It's also one of their stronger songs!


If major minus is a definite, then Hurts like Heaven shouldnt.

If you want a smooth album, like they seem to want. (IE Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, an album that flows smoothly) then you cant have the dark/haunting Major Minus, and then the popish Hurts like Heaven. Its like why Glass of Water wasnt on Viva.
How can you sing about "Got one eye on the road and one on you" and "Dont believe a word" with a rattling guitar

and then have a popish "Fire from my belly and the beat from my heart" and "You used your heart as a weapon, and it hurts like heaven".
If they want to create a smooth album, then they will not include HLH if Major Minus is on there. It has nothing to do with Schizophrenia, you just have to transition your songs smoothly, and have songs that actually transition.

I love glass of water, and I think HLH is this albums glass of water. It wont make the cut, but we will get a studio version somtimes.

Just remember, just because a song is catchy and good, doesnt mean it belongs or fits the theme of the album.

[TheSkittz]

Well, great songs come naturally but you still have to work on them...

Here's what I think about Hurts Like Heaven and WHY it should be on the album:

Jonny owns this song, hands down. The song is so simplistic (it's basically only two chords), but Coldplay still finds ways of making it completely epic. After MX (which doesn't do much for me personally), Chris's curtain of lyrical content falls down over the music with a rainstorm of rebellious graffiti references that keep the beat of the song just as well as Jonny's hammering muffled-powerchords. The drum beat keeps a simple New Wave beat and the Bass adds the necessary texture to the soundscape (like most songs). Suddenly, the first verses end and the two line chorus comes in, "Yeah you, use your heart as a weapon, and it hurts like heaven," and BAM! The song is immersed in a 16 measure guitar solo that -to contrast with the title- sounds ohhh so good like heaven!! Jonny owns those last eight measures with a glittering descending almost-arpeggio that makes me want to scream out in happiness! The song then continues its fast paced ways until it stops for the first main verse, "Yes I feel a little bit nervous, yes I feel nervous and I cannot relax" as the synthesizers glitter just like Jonny's guitar until it explodes into the 'concrete canvas' and 'spray can soul' verse. The song continues through more of Coldplay's awesome 'Whoas!!' in a second main verse, and then repeats the chorus a couple times before it ends in a shower of glimmering synths and guitars that slowly quiet down. This is by far the happiest Coldplay song ever released.

I dunno if you will get this reference,
but reading that made me think of the movie Ratatouille when Remmy is talking about how the colors and metal images of the food mixes..lol

[Skin&Bones]

Hurts Like Heaven:
'I struggle with the feeling that my life isn't mine'
'See the arrow that they shot, trying to tear us apart'
'Don't let them take control
No, we won't let them take control'
'They're coming 'round to get us
They're coming 'round when they don't know the facts'

Chris Martin: "'A story... loosely a kind of romance in an oppressive environment,' Martin explains, adding that (as of now) the 'love story' will have a happy ending-depending on sequencing.'"
If Hurts Like Heaven doesn't fit the album, I don't see how Major Minus could either.

Major Minus:
You got one eye watching you
And one eye what to do

And... that sums up the song.


There's a better chance of Hurts Like Heaven being involved than one might think. If it's not, then I fully accept eating my own words, but Hurts Like Heaven is thematically more apt than you say it is.

[Skin&Bones]

And no =( I didn't get the reference. sorry!!

[TheSkittz]

Chris Martin: "'A story... loosely a kind of romance in an oppressive environment,' Martin explains, adding that (as of now) the 'love story' will have a happy ending-depending on sequencing.'"
If Hurts Like Heaven doesn't fit the album, I don't see how Major Minus could either.


I would completely agree with you if....
'"Major Minus," on the other hand, seems solid as an integral part of the album's concept. "I don't think we'll leave that one off, because it's supposed to be a sort of villainous, dark piece," Martin says. "The baddie. The Bond villain, an Orwellian thing. It came from reading 'The Road' from Cormac McCarthy."'

If Major Minus is a definate, I feel HLH will be cut.

[Skin&Bones]

Well, it's all speculation at this point :\

I think we've both proved our point pretty adequately.

[TheSkittz]

Agreed. It could be either way

as long as the song gets some form of release, I will be happy,

[Skin&Bones]

Same here!

[SprayCanSoul]

I dunno how you could leave Hurts Like Heaven off Mylo Xyloto if Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall or Major Minus are included!!
Hurts Like Heaven is my favorite track from the NewEra, It better be included!!

[thefox]

i just want the studio version and to see it live when they come around. i'm personally annoyed at the fact that etiaw is on the album, apparently.

[Skin&Bones]

I don't know about you but...

Hurts Like Heaven > ETIAW :D

[admnistramation]

I do not understand hurts like heaven CLEARLY will be on the album!!!

No seriously, I don't understand why this is even questionable. Of course it will be.

[TheSkittz]

I do not understand hurts like heaven CLEARLY will be on the album!!!

No seriously, I don't understand why this is even questionable. Of course it will be.

I would say it is questionable because Johnny said it was questionable.

[Skin&Bones]

Yeah, it's questionable... but I think the glass is half full :D

[The Duke]

The sun rising tomorrow is questionable if you really think about it. I'll be shocked if HLH is not on the album.

[Cleggy]

Spike could put an end on this mystery to us. He has access to the songs length. If he confirms us that Mylo Xyloto track is 0:42 length, then Hurts Like Heaven is in, because there is no MX without Hurts Like Heaven. If he says Mylo Xyloto is not 0:42 lenght, then Mylo Xyloto is not MX. So we can be afraid. SPIKE PLEASE help us!

That wouldn't prove anything at all. Just because it's on the database it's doesn't mean it's on the album. There's songs on that database from years ago that have never been released. And just because the album is called Mylo Xyloto it doesn't mean there has to be a song on the album called Mylo Xyloto. There isn't a song called 'OK Computer', that's just the album name.

Also, who says there is no MX without Hurts Like Heaven? They could easily replace Hurts Like Heaven with another song to go after MX.

[rafaelchampion]

That wouldn't prove anything at all. Just because it's on the database it's doesn't mean it's on the album. There's songs on that database from years ago that have never been released. And just because the album is called Mylo Xyloto it doesn't mean there has to be a song on the album called Mylo Xyloto. There isn't a song called 'OK Computer', that's just the album name.

Also, who says there is no MX without Hurts Like Heaven? They could easily replace Hurts Like Heaven with another song to go after MX.

1-Every database song has an ID number. Higher numbers = newer songs.
2-Every Coldplay album has a song or a couple that name the album.
3-OK Computer is not a Coldplay album.
4-When I say 'there's no MX without Hurts Like Heaven' my opinion is implicit on the phrase. So, I say. It doesn't mean it's right, nor wrong at all.

[RC34127]

Take it someone has already speculated that "Hurts Like Heaven" is actually called "Mylo Xyloto", hence many of the television performances labelling it as MX or MX / Hurts Like Heaven?

Clearly the band wanted to keep Mylo Xyloto under wraps until the embargo was lifted at the weekend, so needed to abbreviate it / call it something else?

[howyousawtheworld]

If this song was never to be released then it would be the mother of all tragedies for the band and fans of the band.

What would you say for yourself Coldplay? Oh and could Reilly stop coming on here and spouting out the same shite every time? Do yourself a favour and grow some balls in the real life rather than trying to act the tough man on an internet forum to compensate for the fact your probably a complete nobody in the real world.

[admnistramation]

Look at how much effort they've poured into the song, I mean it's on the album cover for god's sake. Johnny says lots of things, don't give up on HLH now!

[Skin&Bones]

Oracle Question:
I know you can't talk about it, but this concerns Hurts Like Heaven. With the album being announced and the billboard story, there's a massive thing going around that HLH won't make it to the album. Why?! It seems to be THE song for the album, and ties in with everything that has been promoted so far (running man, graffiti, opening song to the concerts!, etc). It's my (and a lot of others) favorite song so far, and I guess that all I want is for Coldplay to know what a great song they have here, and that it deserves to be on Mylo Xyloto. I know you know nothing of final track listing, and you can't say anything to us; but is there the chance that you can let the boys know that this song deserves everything it can get for the album? Thanks from a lot of fans.

Ocracle Replies:
I have to say I think it's great that you - and others - are worried that it won't be on the album because you've heard it and love it but trust me, whether it does or doesn't won't matter when the album comes out.
You're right I can't say but I will tell you a story. Just before X&Y was finished I heard that Talk was going to be left off. I felt I had to step in so texted Chris. The next thing I knew, it was being mixed and included on the album.
Hand on heart I don't know the tracklisting right now but if I did and Hurts Like Heaven wasn't on, I wouldn't text about it. I absolutely LOVE the song but I have faith that this is the album the band wanted to make and want to release so that's good enough for me.


That gives me hope it'll be on the album.

[TheSkittz]

Oracle Question:
I know you can't talk about it, but this concerns Hurts Like Heaven. With the album being announced and the billboard story, there's a massive thing going around that HLH won't make it to the album. Why?! It seems to be THE song for the album, and ties in with everything that has been promoted so far (running man, graffiti, opening song to the concerts!, etc). It's my (and a lot of others) favorite song so far, and I guess that all I want is for Coldplay to know what a great song they have here, and that it deserves to be on Mylo Xyloto. I know you know nothing of final track listing, and you can't say anything to us; but is there the chance that you can let the boys know that this song deserves everything it can get for the album? Thanks from a lot of fans.

Ocracle Replies:
I have to say I think it's great that you - and others - are worried that it won't be on the album because you've heard it and love it but trust me, whether it does or doesn't won't matter when the album comes out.
You're right I can't say but I will tell you a story. Just before X&Y was finished I heard that Talk was going to be left off. I felt I had to step in so texted Chris. The next thing I knew, it was being mixed and included on the album.
Hand on heart I don't know the tracklisting right now but if I did and Hurts Like Heaven wasn't on, I wouldn't text about it. I absolutely LOVE the song but I have faith that this is the album the band wanted to make and want to release so that's good enough for me.


That gives me hope it'll be on the album.

I rest easier now.....

[matthewthecoolguy]

HOLY SH!@!!!!

I asked that question! I had no freaking clue that it would be answered!!!!
I didn't even realize that it had been answered until i saw it on here (when i was seeing if there was any new news on HLH), my heart nearly stopped.

I can't say how amazing it is that i was acknowledged by them.
They do care :D !!!

[Skin&Bones]

^That is so super exciting and awesome!!! You're so lucky!!!

[matthewthecoolguy]

Yeah. Only problem is that he sounds like he really doesn't know anything about the track listing, and that he won't give the band insight. Like i hoped he would. lol.

[Alien Radio]

Hurts Like Heaven is too awesome to not be released. :)

[Cahliveira]

One friend of mine texted me this morning "Have you seen Oracle today?" then I went there and read Matthew's question, I'm so glad that you did that question and that Oracle answered it! *-*

[matthewthecoolguy]

Im glad that at least someone in the Coldplay camp acknowledges the fact that we love hurts like heaven. I would love to think that that little bit will get back to chris and them, and that they will do something about it. I feel special knowing that I brought it up and they saw it.

[Cahliveira]

Im glad that at least someone in the Coldplay camp acknowledges the fact that we love hurts like heaven. I would love to think that that little bit will get back to chris and them, and that they will do something about it. I feel special knowing that I brought it up and they saw it.

Yeah! I hope that that question make them note that we love Hurts Like Heaven!

[kuti3xoxo]

Hurts Like Heaven is too awesome to not be released. :)

I agree. It's my favorite song right now, I would be so sad if it didn't make it. I personally don't see them playing it as they have been for it NOT to make the album..

[Blue Glisten]

I hope it will be in the album
Hurts Like Heeven is , in my opinion THE BEST new song of Coldplay. If it is on it, I'll get this album :heart: If it will not... I'll don't get :confused:

[drawingyourattention]

i'd find it strange as well if it would not make it to the album. I really do not understand why you would compare lyrics... I love viva because of the diversity in music and subject. I mean if you listen to 42 with 2 times the word 'death' in the first two lines and then there's the strawberry swing :) much more sweet and humble.

[the_escapist]

I really think it will make it to the album.

[aschall]

we all need to forget the billboard article. can you ever trust journalists?
HLH will make the album. If it doesn't, the album should have 10 or so songs
that are better.

[Cahliveira]

we all need to forget the billboard article. can you ever trust journalists?
HLH will make the album. If it doesn't, the album should have 10 or so songs
that are better.


I hope so!

[Juanma]

it has to be

fits awesomely after MX

[Stv]

I have one idea of possible explanation for interviews saying it to be likely single and then others saying to maybe scrap it from MX:

I think they will ,as they said , not release it on MX, tease us of an EP this year, and they could probably release it near February - March 2012. HLH would not be on the album, as Billboard magazine said, but it would be on the EP, and be a single, as Q magazine said (It could be released in similar ways to Life In Technicolor ii). There would be an MX single on April and The HLH single could be released in June, and it would end up being the anthem to open the Olympic Games on London 2012. That's my theory. :D Enjoy or hate...

[5abre]

Spike could put an end on this mystery to us. He has access to the songs length. If he confirms us that Mylo Xyloto track is 0:42 length, then Hurts Like Heaven is in, because there is no MX without Hurts Like Heaven. If he says Mylo Xyloto is not 0:42 lenght, then Mylo Xyloto is not MX. So we can be afraid. SPIKE PLEASE help us!

A little bit off topic perhaps, but does anyone else realise that

1) MX is the opener to HLH
2) HLH Has very similar chords to '42' from the VLV Era, in fact, it's possible to fit

You thought you might be a ghost
You thought you might be a ghost
You didn't get to Heaven but you made it close
You thought you might be a ghost
You thought you might be a ghost
You didn't get to Heaven but you ohhh-ohhh

into the entirety of Jonny-boy's solo, and it goes incredibly well (the 'ohhh-ohhh' of 42 fits perfectly with the 'whoa, whoaa' of HLH)

3) MX might be 42 seconds long O:

[Stv]

A little bit off topic perhaps, but does anyone else realise that

1) MX is the opener to HLH
2) HLH Has very similar chords to '42' from the VLV Era, in fact, it's possible to fit

You thought you might be a ghost
You thought you might be a ghost
You didn't get to Heaven but you made it close
You thought you might be a ghost
You thought you might be a ghost
You didn't get to Heaven but you ohhh-ohhh

into the entirety of Jonny-boy's solo, and it goes incredibly well (the 'ohhh-ohhh' of 42 fits perfectly with the 'whoa, whoaa' of HLH)

3) MX might be 42 seconds long O:

IMO:

There will not be any track called 'MX' on Mylo Xyloto, when you buy it.

MX will be kinda hidden/incorporated as an intro to Hurts Like Heaven, it will not be a separate track.

Mylo Xyloto is a song registered as 3:30 minutes song (obviously not the same played before HLH).

And yes, that solo fits into 42.