Who else is pissed that this didn't make it on the MX track listing?

[Violet]

I know I am. :nod:

[Blue Nails]

Not pissed, but I do want it as (at least) a b-side. It's so gorgeous, I'm not satisfied with a lame download.

[busybeeburns]

I'm not that bothered to be honest.

[The Doctor]

I AM
I LOOKED TO THAT TRACKLIST 136 TIMES NOW AND I STILL DIDN'T SEE IT AND THAT HURTS LIKE HEAVEN!! :bigcry: :angry:

[Megalomania]

Not too bothered. Although I would much rather they switch ETIAW with this.

[The Final Track]

I'm ok with it. Didn't reallt expect it to be on there, so not much of a let down.

[Drew42LP5]

My mother.

[Stv]

^:lol: I seriosuly don't care for MTM not on MX, I already downloaded it :rolleyes:

[Juanma]

Its not an album song.

Just my opinion

[Juanma]

Its not an album song.

Just my opinion

[JackZ]

Don't care. Wouldn't care if any of the songs we've already heard weren't on there, just means more new material. If we've heard it, we've heard it. Whether its on the album or just played live we've got it. And in a couple years when were talking about LP6, we're not going to care about the MX tracklist, just how many songs came out of the era.

Plus...Moving To Mars isn't anything special. It's good, but nothing more.

[golfing7861]

Too slow of a song to make it on an album that's about "love and ocd-stuff"

Glad with their decision on this!

[Niftium]

Not happy at all. Would have been more bearable if it had seen any kind of physical release at all, but to relegate this to some lousy iTunes mp3's is hugely undervaluing the tune.

[Niftium]

Ehh, double-post somehow. Feel free to clean this up.

[Strawberry Swinger]

I am. So fucking pissed. And will be if the album contains many tracks that are commercial BS like ETIAW. I don't care if it's subjective, MTM deserved to be on the album! Some bands would kill to have it!

[njcogswell24]

Not sad. It's a good song, but should probably be left as a B-Side. I was honestly disappointed to see Major Minus made it on the album.

[Violet]

^ That's pretty much my reasoning, too. Putting nonsense like ETIAW on it and leaving MTM off just doesn't make logical sense to me. MTM doesn't deserve to be a B-side. (Neither did a good chunk of other Coldplay B-sides, but that's another topic entirely.) MTM gave me hope that MX might be great, after all. Now, I'm just sitting here being anxious about it until it comes out/leaks. (Before you ask, no, I haven't listened to the live songs. I'm extremely picky with live music, and I don't want that to ruin my perception of them before the album comes out.)

[anniea89]

Not really. I can just tack it on the end of a Mylo Xyloto playlist. #kanyeshrug

Putting nonsense like ETIAW on it and leaving MTM off just doesn't make logical sense to me. MTM doesn't deserve to be a B-side.

ETIAW is the single. MTM is the b-side. ETIAW was always going to have a greater chance to be on the album. MTM is a b-side because they decided it didn't work on the album. It's now got the status of 'brilliant b-side'.

[Kiame]

Lol, don't care.

[rudy_o]

How does it make sense that ETIAW is an album song? :|

Off topic, but meh.

[DundahMifflin]

I knew it wouldn't be from the start, so I am not too surprised.

It's a fantastic song, though.

[trinest]

This and Major Minus I didn't particulary enjoy much anyway. But kind of disapointed that this wont be there in the end.

[Niftium]

Semi-O/T:

This is further proof that Coldplay is doing a reverse-Oasis.

Oasis --> Early b-sides = awesome, later b-sides = meh
Coldplay --> Early b-sides = meh, later b-sides = awesome.

[Niftium]

Gah, doubled up again. Board is laggin'! Sorry.

[Tonsu]

I'm gutted.

Not being on the album means I almost certainly won't ever see it live :(

Meanwhile the horribly-average Major Minus seems a shoe-in live, and ETiaW will end the gigs for the foreseeable future...oh well, at least I'll have an obvious opportunity to go the toilet and bar during the gig (Major Minus) and won't mind leaving early to beat the crowds (ETiaW).

[RazorEye]

Honestly, I don't give a :censored: that Moving To Mars is not on Mylo Xyloto. Never saw the song being on Mylo. It's definitely different from the others, like it has something special to it. That's why I prefer it not to be on Mylo.

[Twisted mind]

Lol, don't care.
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[Lukestar1991]

Still talking about MTM being on the new album??? You Americans are so slow. Seriously, 70 per cent of the people on this forum (who also happen to coincidentally be American) havent got a clue about where Coldplay are at at the moment. Ive been reading the pages of this forum for months on end and it just gets more hilarious every time. :P

It really does.

[Hartroc]

Still talking about MTM being on the new album??? You Americans are so slow. Seriously, 70 per cent of the people on this forum (who also happen to coincidentally be American) havent got a clue about where Coldplay are at at the moment. Ive been reading the pages of this forum for months on end and it just gets more hilarious every time. :P

It really does.

Who gives a :censored: where Coldplay are right at this moment?

I think we Americans have it right...discussing the music rather than drooling over and stalking the band members 24/7 (not that Americans DON'T do that. :rolleyes:)

And I'm glad Moving to Mars isn't on MX. It's a pretty good song, but from what we've heard so far, it doesn't really fit in with the story/concept of the album.

[Wickett]

MTM is a very good song. Superb in my opinion. However, we have already heard it, and it isn't quite the hit that MM and ETIAW are. It just isn't. MM is the OCD that Chris was talking about, of course it made the cut. ETIAW is their radio hit, of course it made the cut. What I'm most fed up with are people who still bash everything about that song. It's not typical Coldplay. It's much more generic than a lot of their other stuff, but it's there. Get over it.

MTM is available on iTunes whenever anybody wants it. Download it, listen to it, sing to it, whatever. I know I will, but don't complain that it isn't on there. Would you have rather them take off Princess of China or Charlie Brown? Yeah, I doubt many of you would go for that. All the way around, they're giving us 15 new songs this year. This isn't including any possible B-Sides, and the slight possibility of an EP.

[Batmotor]

yeah i'm pissed it has to replace ETIAW.

[Phoebeo]

I love MTM so much, but I actually don't mind that it's not on MX.

I'll get to hear a new song instead of MTM. :wacky:

[coldinmo]

I'm not upset about it. I don't judge what should or shouldn't be on the album until I actually hear the album. Even then, it's not my album--it's Coldplay's album.

At least it got a release and we have the song.

For those still complaining about ETIAW. You're in the minority. It's a huge radio hit. It's not as deep as some of Coldplay's stuff. So what? Once you get over that it's a lot of fun to listen to. Coldplay had fun recording the song and clearly have fun playing it live. That's good enough for me.:nod:

[Phoebeo]

I'm not upset about it. I don't judge what should or shouldn't be on the album until I actually hear the album. Even then, it's not my album--it's Coldplay's album.

At least it got a release and we have the song.

For those still complaining about ETIAW. You're in the minority. It's a huge radio hit. It's not as deep as some of Coldplay's stuff. So what? Once you get over that it's a lot of fun to listen to. Coldplay had fun recording the song and clearly have fun playing it live. That's good enough for me.:nod:

:thumbsup: :nod:

[Violet]

For those still complaining about ETIAW. You're in the minority. It's a huge radio hit. It's not as deep as some of Coldplay's stuff. So what? Once you get over that it's a lot of fun to listen to. Coldplay had fun recording the song and clearly have fun playing it live. That's good enough for me.:nod:

LOL.

[Cyan Kat]

Didn't like it that much to begin with, still would of preferred it to ETIAW though.

[VivaGroaning]

like everyone i love the whole piano opening of MTM, but the pink-floyd part with the full band is only ok. i'm not upset or anything that it didn't make it on MX, I'm not so passionate about this song.

[NumbersGirl]

Yeah I'm definitely not happy that it's not on there. And to those who say "I don't mind because that means I get to hear another new song", I don't agree with that logic. They could have put MTM instead of ETIAW. I honestly thought ETIAW was going to be a festival-season single, and that's it; I don't think it had to be on the album.

From the personal nit-picky perspective of why I'm annoyed, my car doesn't have an mp3 input so I have to listen to CDs. That means I'm always going to be skipping (at least) one song, ETIAW, and if I want to listen to MTM I'm going to have to rip (yet another) custom CD with various songs. It's the principle of it.

[cuba1989]

I'm totally okay with it :) sure, moving to mars is absolutely wonderful and it seems to be the only song which reminds of the old, classic coldplay. and if they wouldn't already have released half of the album, i would be thrilled to see it beeing on the tracklist. but at this point, I would rather have as much unknown songs as possible till the release date because it's the only thing that get's me excited when picking up my copy... and im still sure that these guys know how to put this whole thing properly together, even without mtm :P after all, the tracklist looks reeeally varied and substantial for a concept album, even with etiaw...

[Strawberry Swinger]

after hearing Para Para Paradise, I am ANGRY, not pissed that Moving to Mars won't be on the album.

[Osaka Sun]

I really didn't mind until I heard Paradise and the Rihanna news. :P

There goes another great B-side.

[[Coldplay]Andi]

It should replace Princess of China.

[Violet]

after hearing Para Para Paradise, I am ANGRY, not pissed that Moving to Mars won't be on the album.

Yeah, thanks, I was about to post this very thing.

Seriously. Coldplay. WTF ARE YOU DOING?

[Dicoldp]

Andi;4970878']It should replace Princess of China.

/\ This

[tgc12]

I love Moving to mars, but it's ok for me that it dindn't make the album :\.

Some other great songs didn't make the album too, there is no problem for me about it ;).

[Cleggy]

The fact is this is alot better than some of the other songs we've been hearing. But it was obvious it was only ever going to be a b-side so I'm not 'pissed'. I never expected it to be on the album.

[strikie]

this song keeps hope alive for me.

[Violet]

Pretty much, yeah. I'm trying my best to remain positive.

[macky]

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this song but Im not pissed because I ALREADY have it.
I would have been pissed if this was not released.
I'm still pissed that we didn't hear Famous Old Painters until this year.

[joecortazzo]

it's a nice song, but it was never destined to be on the album

[harrietjachec]

Too slow of a song to make it on an album that's about "love and ocd-stuff"

Glad with their decision on this!

I completely agree! I just expect too much from them I suppose - needs to be more upbeat to make it to the tracklisting really!

[Odvan]

I bet they know fans adore this song, perhaps they would continue MTM thematically in MX LP or LP6? Would be quite logical choice.

[Mark]

I don't understand the big thing about Moving To Mars. It's alright, but I'd rather listen to Charlie Brown or Us Against The World.

[Lynn42]

Not too disappointed, I mean the song is really cool, but I'm not really sure if it would've fit with the rest of the album.

[Blue Nails]

I heard MTM this morning, hadn't heard it for a while, and it's SO beautiful... :wacky:

[ColdplayingfromKansas]

I'm not too bothered by it. I group Coldplay songs by eras, not albums, so to me every song that we get from this era is on equal footing. As long as it gets a proper release (CD, mp3, what-have-you), it's good enough for me.

[ja5219]

Absolutely love this song, kinda sad, not really pissed, this didnt make it. It's such a shame.
Its a beautifully written song love the line
"We are meeting for the first time, we might never meet again"
At least we got the studio version of it to enjoy.

[ksg_tarheelfan]

I love this song...It kind of reminds me of something that would be on Parachutes.

[QuestionsOfScience]

I feel like I'm the only one who's not really that fussed about it. Didn't really do anything for me when I first heard it and I really don't think it would have worked on the traclkist.

[VivaWV]

Its a numbers game. Moving to Mars would probably have been inclused in MX had it fared better in views on YT. Paradise was uploaded on 9/10/2011 and 19 days later has over 6 million views to Moving to mars 2 million since its June upload.....Thats my take, market testing was used on the pre release uploads

[VivaWV]

The pre album release uploads for sale like Every Tear Drop Makes A Waterfall, Moving to Mars and now Paradise were part of a test market for the album. Since Paradise has had over 6 M views in three weeks, 3 times as many as Moving to Mars that was released in June Moving loses on the playlist selectio as a bankable album selling song .....

[VivaWV]

Everyone wants to make the album release an emotional carnival of sorts, when in reality, some of ths slickest marketing of all time is being run past people by You Tube, iTunes, and Amazon.com on behalf of Mylo Xyloto.....there are few surprises these days.

[VivaWV]

[QUOTE=VivaWV;4995876]Everyone wants to make the album release an emotional carnival of sorts, when in reality, some of ths slickest marketing of all time is being run past people by You Tube, iTunes, and Amazon.com on behalf of Mylo Xyloto.....there are few surprises these days. Coldplays management team and Parlophone manage strategy markting very well in album sales which demonstrate it works, Arcade Fire adopted similar pre-release modes prior to The Suburbs and one Grammy later there will be more to come: [QUOTE]

[erythrai]

quite a pity, MTM is for me one of the best after-Viva la vida songs.

[footyfan10]

I don't understand why anyone would be pissed this didn't make the album. I'm in love with song, probably more than any released. But its been released. Why would we want it in the album?

[greeneyes42]

Haha, I'd say I'm more intensely disappointed that it's not on there. It's by far my favourite song I've heard from their new material and it's even up there as one of my all-time favourites. I'm not sure why it's not on there...

[matan]

i am and that is realy sucks

[MosesTheMarshmallow]

I don't understand why anyone would be pissed this didn't make the album. I'm in love with song, probably more than any released. But its been released. Why would we want it in the album?

It's annoying to me because I always listen to MX as a whole...and now I haven't an excuse to listen to it. :( Yes, at this point it'd be silly to have the entire EP be on the LP, but it's still such an amazing song that's definitely better than some of the tracks that DID make the cut; namely, UFO, POC, UIF.... (this is of course my opinion).

[footyfan10]

With the album now fully dropped, I definitely can't understand having Moving to Mars on it. If there had been a single other song we had already heard on the album, I'd blow. I love the last half of the album because its all new.

I'm hopeful we get some more music and I almost wish Moving to Mars could have been saved for a five track EP or something. Not that there's any reason to believe that's up the pipeline, but I like songs grouped. And right now it has no grouping!

I would say that it still ranks as one of the best songs of this Era though. It's brilliant and I hope they play it live.

[Christa42]

here's a little blog from Luke of The kooks, love that band

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/luke-pritchard/kooks-new-song_b_1134004.html






I'm really not a fan of the new Coldplay stuff, but this is genius. One of his best songs ever, in my opinion. How could they leave this off the album?! It's like Louis Amstrong meets Pink Floyd! I met Chris Martin for the first time in Paris while we were doing Tarratata about two months ago and I mentioned this song. He looked genuinely disappointed that they'd left it off. Bound to be a bootleg classic though:
Moving To Mars -

[Violet]

^ I'm so glad the head of the Kooks agrees with me. It makes me feel validated.

[loveintechnicolor]

Interesting that Mr Pritchard confesses to not being a fan of the MX work as a whole but he really likes MTM. I agree with him on the second part - it reminded me a bit of Pink Floyd the first time I heard it and I haven't really listened to them properly :laugh3: I think it's definitely one of the best songs from the era that they've released - it still sounds like Coldplay and has little remnants of Parachutes and X&Y but at the same time it sounds different to anything they've done. Evolved somehow. Plus it's such an atmospheric track.

I do wonder what clinched their decision to not include it on the album. I guess like others have already said it's most likely because it didn't 'fit' on the album in terms of the track arrangement and the strict running time. To me it's just as good as Paradise if not better but I think maybe it didn't have as much commercial potential as a single. And it definitely is of better quality and worth than UIF and UFO (in my opinion) - which are both also quieter and more classical Coldplay acoustic tracks. I think it deserves to be on a proper EP rather than just a b-side - I just think it's a bit sad that the boys haven't showcased it within the album because it should have had a proper platform - it's too good not to and I guess Luke describing Chris looking disappointed shows he knows it.

[TecHniCoLoR_MX]

It's like a tradition for good CP songs to not make the cut. Not saying the album one's arent good.

[Violet]

^ But that's stupid. Why wouldn't you want the really good songs on your album? Seriously.

[ivet]

Personally, after hearing the album MtM is too grand to go on that album. I mean the album is great but it doesn't fit well and it's much better and much too good to go in to that .

[IsuruKusumal]

Y U NO GET IN THE ALBUM :veryangry2:

[Hurts Like Heaven]

I am upset, not pissed, because I like Moving to Mars, but since the other two songs on the ETIAW EP were on the album, it seemed it was destined to forever be a B-side.
I think Coldplay's mistake here was including all three on the EP, as all three are amazing songs, and should all be on the album. The ETIAW EP should have just been ETIAW and MtM, and then had a B-side, say, maybe Tomorrow. Then they should have released Major Minus as the second single instead of Paradise, which would be released with the album.

Bam!

Everybody's happy.