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A Rush of Blood to the Head (Music)

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A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second album by English Alternative Rock band Coldplay, released in 2002.Unique traits of the album in comparison to the band's debut album Parachutes include lyrics centered on the theme of urgency and a more diverse sound, encompassing atmospheric, arena-ready rock as well as ballads and acoustic songs utilizing the guitar and piano.This direction was the end product of a difficult recording process, since the band looked to eschew the simplistic sound of Parachutes and create a record that sounded far more complex. Songs that sounded as though that they could have appeared on the band's previous record were scrapped from the outset, while others underwent heavy modification. Achieving harmony between the diverse tracks, A Rush of Blood to the Head drew from Johnny Cash and other Folk Rock musicians to inspire the more melodic sections of the album, especially the title track and “The Scientistâ€�. The dense, production-heavy sound captured in tracks such as “Politikâ€� and “God Put a Smile Upon Your Faceâ€� paid homage to everyone from Pink Floyd and U2 to Muse.The album catapulted the band to worldwide recognition thanks to its hit singles “In My Place,â€� “Clocks,â€� and “The Scientistâ€�note "God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" was also released as a single almost a year after the album, to less success. It won three Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Album for the record proper, Record of the Year for “Clocks," and Best Rock Performance for “In My Place." Amid the album's universal critical acclaim, its songs gained particularly significant popularity among a public reeling from the 9/11 attacks and The War on Terror.
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There's No Place Like Home: Referred at the end of "Clocks", with the refrain "Home, home, where I wanted to go".
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Tick Tock Tune: "Clocks" stylistically borrows from a classical guitar piece, "Clockworks", written by Alex De Grassi. The syncopation on the latter inspired the fast-paced riffs on the Coldplay song, associating the sound with the ticking of a clock.
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: The lyrics are mainly centered on a theme of urgency, despite the often calm string sections or pianos used throughout the album. While the theme isn't as explicit as Mylo Xyloto or Ghost Stories, there is a certain consistency among the emotion beneath the tracks. This is thanks to the fact that post-9/11, Coldplay's lyrics generated more appeal thanks to the public's desire for more calming, inspiring music. The songs often play on this, bringing forth a quiet, melodious façade while the lyrics often remain pleading or sorrowful.
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William Telling: Referenced in "Clocks".
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Rock Me, Amadeus!: The piano and string sections featured in most of the songs were largely inspired by classical music. It just falls short of Sampling since the songs sound distinct enough to be original.
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The Pollyanna
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The Pollyanna: Chris Martin often comes off as such since the songs are frequently optimistic despite being dark in theme. One example is “In My Place�, which is about being lost but continuing to wait for comfort:
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Gambler's Fallacy: "The Scientist" references how the relationship keeps repeating itself, with the boy and girl convinced that they are bound to land "heads" at some point: in other words, that their relationship is eventually bound to be successful. Unfortunately, no matter how many times they repeat it, the relationship keeps failing.
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Love Will Lead You Back
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Love Will Lead You Back: Mentioned in "Warning Sign", with its outro: "So I crawl back into your open arms".
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Through the Eyes of Madness
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Through the Eyes of Madness: “Amsterdam�, which is about a suicidal guy. “Daylight� is so hazy that the narrator could be mistaken for an insane patient seeing for the first time.
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Non-Appearing Title: "The Scientist" and "Amsterdam".
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Location Song
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Location Song: "Amsterdam" was written in the titular city, even though the song has nothing to do with the city.
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Grey-and-Gray Morality
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Grey-and-Gray Morality: "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face":
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Epic Rocking: The title track, "Amsterdam", "Warning Sign", "Daylight", "Clocks", and "The Scientist" too. Most of these involve repetitive riffs as well.
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Lonely at the Top
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Lonely at the Top: The businessman in the music video for "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" spends so much of his life patronizing others and worrying too much about his material possessions. He does this until he becomes an Un-person at the end, much like the homeless man he regarded with disgust in the beginning. He disappears without being missed by anyone.
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"I Want" Song
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"I Want" Song: "Politik" sounds a lot like this. It can be viewed as a subversion, since it advocates unselfishness:
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Stepford Smiler
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Stepford Smiler: "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face" plays with this idea, saying that a relationship doesn't work if either party believes that they have to be happy to continue it.
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Measuring the Marigolds
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Measuring the Marigolds: "The Scientist" seems to invoke this idea, since the lyrics are about love is unable to be quantified.
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Back to Front
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Back to Front: The video for “The Scientist,� which starts when Chris Martin is lying on the ground, before slowly reversing the series of events to show how he got there: a horrific car crash in which his girlfriend died and he escaped with minor injuries. Martin spent a month learning to lip-sync the lyrics backwards.
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A Light in the Distance
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A Light in the Distance: Mentioned in "Daylight":
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Silly Love Songs: “Green Eyes,â€� about Chris Martin's then-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Famed music critic Robert Christgau, in his one-star review of the album,note Christgau's ratings system is a bit unconventional; he gives alphabetical grades to albums he writes full reviews for (generally just a single paragraph), and stars are given to "honorable mention" albums he generally only gives a single line of comments about—indeed, the following quote was ALL that Christgau said about A Rush of Blood to the Head; a one-star honorable mention isn't a bad album per se. actually said "let Green Eyes dump him for real and we'll see how long he hums in the void." (Paltrow and Martin got married the following year, and divorced in 2015.)
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Heavy Meta
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Heavy Meta: In typical Coldplay fashion, "In My Place" asks the listener to sing a song while Chris Martin himself sings the lyrics:
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Break-Up Song: “Warning Sign�, which could also overlap with a Grief Song:
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Realpolitik
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Realpolitik: “Politik,� right down to the song's title. The song is actually about how people pick and choose relationships based on how advantageous they are at any given point in time.
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I Will Wait for You
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I Will Wait for You: "In My Place" is about waiting in one place, waiting for the lover to come back.
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Music Is Politics
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Music Is Politics: Chris Martin dedicated "Clocks" to then-U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, who ended up losing the run to George W. Bush.
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One-Word Title: "Amsterdam", "Daylight", "Politik", "Clocks".
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Limited Lyrics Song
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Limited Lyrics Song: "A Whisper" repeats the title and a two-verse chorus for much of the song.
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Album Title Drop: The Title Track, fittingly, contains several instances of the line "Blame it [all] upon a rush of blood to the head."
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Lyrical Dissonance: “Amsterdam� is about suicide, despite its soft piano section and uplifting outro:
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Broken Record
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Broken Record: At the ending of "Daylight" the phrase "slowly breaking through the daylight" is repeated 22 times.
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Design Student's Orgasm
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Design Student's Orgasm: The minimalist album cover was done by a Norwegian photographer named Sølve Sundsbø, who used a three-dimensional scanning machine to photograph a model. Due to the machine's limited range, and after Sundsbø completed some artistic enhancements, the photo captures most of the left side of the body with the head partially cut off. (the singles did the same technique with the four bandmembers)
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War Is Hell
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War Is Hell: "Politik" implies this heavily, especially in the context of the end of the Cold War and the beginning of The War on Terror, though it doesn't come out and say "war" at any given point.
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Love Makes You Evil
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Love Makes You Evil: “A Rush of Blood to the Head� is about impulsively committing vile acts in a desperate attempt to return to love.
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Textless Album Cover: Some pressings do include the title and the artist toward the side of the cover, but most simply include the weird figure.
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