#a rush of blood to the head

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

One Tree Hill Meme {182/187} Season 9 Episode 8: A Rush Of Blood To The Head Top 2 Favorite Characters Per Episode (As voted by fans on TVTime.com)

Haley James Scott (48%)

Chase Adams (33%)

(Percentages as of Jan 2025)

[notmadebyhumanhands]

After a rush of blood to the head, I finally got tired of writing prose about you.

So I made this piece instead, and if nothing else, you were at least my muse.

'Angel in the Marble' suits you as you are so, so beautiful as a work of art, and equally as untouchable.

— for Nicolas R.

[majortom84]

Gracias por existir... ✨🩵

[wayfaringellie]

Stood on the edge Tied to a noose And you came along And you cut me loose

[theantitheticallogician]

a rush of blood to the head by coldplay is probably their best song of all time and yet it's so underrated

also so heathcliff coded

[jukeboxofjellycat]

[jerekclark]

Redneck & City Boy #2

2024

[delicateheartache]

coldplay - warning sign (2002)

[clangandclatter]

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head [US Release] (August 27, 2002)

[sranye]

Stuck on the end of this ball and chain And I'm on my way back down again Stood on a bridge, tied to the noose Sick to the stomach You can say what you mean But it won't change a thing I'm sick of the secrets Stood on the edge, tied to the noose

[dragonsanddrama]

✨COLDPLAY ✨

[mitjalovse]

Some records tend to transcend their periods by the power of change. You have to check Coldplay's Rush Of Blood To The Head to hear what I mean. They did capture the zeitgeist despite them not changing their style that much from their debut. They were still U2 who listened to a lot of Britpop, particularly the late phase of the latter, though the context of the times – notice how many retro groups succeeded then – sent them into the stratosphere. Moreover, they continued to hone their template later on, which is the reason I'm unsurprised they stayed as an ongoing concern. I'll repeat what I said before – they remain a more intriguing collective than many assume. Still, they lack the cool factor, yet they already felt like that during their era.

[lysjb03]

Tell me you love me,

Come back and haunt me,

Oh, and I rush to the start

[sparklestripper]

Recently discovered not only that I am far enough along in my mental health journey that I can enjoy songs that I used to listen to during mental breakdowns as a teenager, but also that those songs still fkn slap just as hard as I thought they did back then. The world is good.

[girlreviews]

Review #324: A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay

I grew up in England from the age of three to the age of twenty five, when I returned to the US. I am a very weird American citizen who feels American but that has British culture pulsing through my veins. There’s probably nowhere this shows up more than in my music taste. Perhaps my sense of humor or deep cynicism but that’s softened up a good bit over the years since I spent time around more neighborly Americans and got some desperately needed vitamin D.

The point being, there are some rules, and one of those rules is and has always been: Coldplay are not cool. They never were. They never will be. There’s no corner of “decent” music taste where it’s acceptable to say that they’re good or that you like them. But here’s the thing. They’re good, and I like them. Or at least, they were good, and I did like them. I don’t care if they’re “wimpy”, or if Chris Martin sounds like he ALWAYS has a stuffy nose, or if his lyrics border on pretentious (they do), or if they’re just sort of annoying. Here’s my real confession: I was a true, diehard superfan as a teen. More on that later.

Their first two albums were very, very good. Excellent. Beautiful. Not perfect. But for a bunch of wet blankets that really had nothing marketable to offer other than the actual songs themselves: they were good songs. And I’ll even go on the record saying the next two were pretty damn good as well. Things started going a bit off the rails at album number five and I dare say Coldplay fell prey to being lazy and high on their own supply after that. They’ve been cranking out pure nonsense ever since. I tuned out.

But that doesn’t negate the first four, and especially two, and especially second. A Rush of Blood to the Head was really, really, good. Sure, it unleashed the radio nightmare upon us all that was Clocks, and I still can’t listen to it. But that’s totally forgivable if you ask me because we got some other real stunners out of it. Some that when I listen to, which is pretty infrequent these days, I’m like, well shit yeah, this is a pretty quiet little fucking masterpiece isn’t it? You bunch of whiny nerds annoyed everyone so much because nobody wanted to give you the satisfaction. How painfully British.

Some songs that stand out. God Put A Smile On Your Face, it’s maybe about as cool as Coldplay gets really. I don’t really know or care how to elaborate on that other than citing the chorus:

“When you work it out

I’m worse than you

When you work it out

I wanted to

When you work out

Where to draw the line

Your guess is as good as mine”

It’s a love song. You’re perfect, I suck, you’ll figure that out eventually but hopefully you like me anyway, who the fuck knows. I get that.

The Scientist. Still a gorgeous song. It hurts my feelings. My grandpa was hospitalized for a time while I was visiting the US one Summer and I had it on repeat and sat at his bedside making some really pretty artwork of the lyrics, as I often did, because I was a little loser. I remember which lyrics and they’re still the ones that really speak to me:

“I was just guessing

Numbers and figures

Pulling the puzzle apart

Questions of science

Science and progress

Do not speak as loud as my heart”

A special mention to Green Eyes and Warning Sign. I have green eyes, and I always loved his caterwauling when he draws out “and anybody, who tries to deny you, must be outta their MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND”. Warning Sign has a truly somber string arrangement in it that always really conveyed the emotion of the song. He’s gotta tell you “in his loudest tones” I fucked up, please take me back.

The standout is the title track. A Rush of Blood to the Head is genuinely an outstanding piece of music. Every time I listen to it I’m like yeah okay, this is why this record is in the top 500. No question. It’s so damn good. This was the thing man, Chris Martin really had some things to say for awhile, and he had a real talent with words. That’s not to say that everything he had to say was worth hearing, or that all of his words were poetry, but he did have a way with them. He knew it too, and therein lies the problem. Anyway, it’s a long song, but my oh my is it really something. There’s a main character who obviously has a lot of feelings and is telling us all of the things he’s going to do, for, it seems like justice or vengeance:

“Because I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn

And do back the things it did to you in return"

There’s various iterations of this: he’s going to buy a gun to start a war, he’s going to put this place six feet underground. It’s sort of some dystopian love song? There’s someone at his side that he seems to be doing this for, although it’s unclear that they want that at all. It’s really bleak. It has this signature Coldplay sound of just droning on musically, heavy drums and just repetitive small guitar notes, but, that changes as it goes on and in comes some really melodic and beautiful guitar that accompanies some lyrics that depart the theme:

“So, meet me by the bridge,

Oh meet me by the lane

When am I gonna see that pretty face again?

Oh, meet me on the road,

Meet me where I said

Blame it all upon a rush of blood to the head”.

It’s just really good. It feels like it came out 20 years too early to be honest. Much more appropriate for these times than 2002, a simpler time that we would all happily return to if we could. That’s a good segue into my teenage Coldplay fandom. Here’s a list of the things I did out of love and dedication to their music:

- I saw them live no less than five times

- One of those times I skipped school to do so

- At that concert, which was for the X&Y album and was at Crystal Palace, Chris Martin threw disposable cameras into the crowd that he had taken pictures on backstage, and ya girl caught it, I am certain those pics are long gone but it was pretty cool at the time

- I had all of their albums on day of release, and their live DVD (this cracks me up, the idea of owning a DVD like that of a live performance)

- I went to HMV and requested that I be the recipient of the release display artwork when they were done with it and they kindly obliged (this is some real dedication my friends)

- I genuinely attended the G8 protests in Edinburgh (cited in review #500) at Coldplay’s encouragement, due to this album, as this was what Chris Martin had feelings about at the time. Climate change, and Bush and Blair being war criminals. I had feelings about that too and I gave my parents the finger and went all out. Honestly I’m not ashamed of this, it’s something I remain proud of doing. As for Chris Martin, I suspect he wouldn’t be so quick to be so political and outspoken these days, and that’s a shame. I thought you were cool even when nobody thought you were cool, Chris. And now nobody thinks you’re cool and I kind of agree.

- I had a tank top that was spray painted with “Make Trade Fair”, because that’s what he had spray painted on his piano. This is so funny to me.

That’s a real list of my sins right there but I’m not sorry. I’ve never stopped loving those first two records and I never will. It’s been over twenty years — so I’m pretty sure my mind is made up. One thing I have definitely learned is that once you get into your thirties, what feels cool to you is not giving a single shit about being cool. But Clocks fucking sucks.