"A Rush of Blood to the Head A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second studio album by British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 26 August 2002 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom, and a day later by Capitol Records in the United States. The album was produced by the band and producer Ken Nelson. Recording started after the band became popular worldwide with the release of their debut album ""Parachutes"" (2000), and one of its singles in particular, ""Yellow"". The album makes greater use of the electric guitar and piano than its predecessor. The album"
"album was certified eight times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and has sold over 8.5 million copies worldwide. ""Parachutes"" spawned four singles; ""Yellow"" and ""Trouble"" became top ten hits in the UK, while ""Shiver"" and ""Don't Panic"" were moderately successful. The band's second studio album, ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"", was released on 26 August 2002. The album experienced exceptionally strong sales in comparison to its predecessor, topping the charts in the UK and in many other countries, including Australia and Canada. The band spent 18 months promoting and touring behind the album. Its lead single,"
"from both the domestic and international music press. In 2002 it was awarded Best Album at the ""Q"" Awards. In the same year, the band won two Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song ""In My Place"". In 2003 ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" won Best British Album at the BRIT Awards, and the following year the band earned their first Grammy Award for Record of the Year for the song ""Clocks"" for a total of three Grammys for the album. The band also won"
"100 albums of the 2000s. In 2007 The National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released a list of what they term ""The Definitive 200 Albums of All Time""; ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" ranks at number 65 on the list. The album was nominated for the BRITs Album of 30 Years at the 2010 BRIT Awards. In a BBC Radio poll in 2013, the album topped the list ahead of ""Hopes and Fears"" by Keane, ""Rio"" by Duran Duran and ""The Dark Side of the Moon"" by Pink Floyd. The album"
"the world by the time of their second album ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" (2002). Bands like Coldplay, Starsailor and Elbow, with introspective lyrics and even tempos, began to be criticised at the beginning of the new millennium as bland and sterile and the wave of garage rock or post-punk revival bands, like the Hives, the Vines, the Libertines, the Strokes, the Black Keys and the White Stripes, that sprang up in that period were welcomed by the musical press as ""the saviours of rock and roll"". However, a number of the bands of this era, particularly Travis,"
"was also included in the book ""1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"". ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" debuted at number-one on the UK Albums Chart selling 273,924 copies. The British Phonographic Industry has since certified the album 9x Platinum for its accumulated sales of over 2.8 million copies. With the subsequent release of ""Clocks"" and ""The Scientist"", the album spent over one year on the chart. ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" has been placed at number seven on the list of United Kingdom's 20 biggest-selling albums of the 21st century, published by the British"
"was significantly less successful. ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" has been critically acclaimed, and the band received three Grammy Awards for the album; The 2003 Grammy for Best Alternative Album, which was the second year in a row, the 2003 Grammy for Best Rock Performance with the song “In My Place”, and the 2004 Grammy for Record of the Year with the song ""Clocks"". In 2012, it was ranked number 466 on ""Rolling Stone Magazine""'s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was also voted the best album of all time by the listeners of BBC Radio 2"
"new rave. Post-Britpop bands such as The Verve, Radiohead, Catatonia and Travis were followed in the 2000s by acts including Snow Patrol, from Northern Ireland and Elbow, Embrace, Starsailor, Doves and Keane from England, with music that was often more melodic and introspective. The most commercially successful band in the milieu were Coldplay, whose début album ""Parachutes"" (2000) went multi-platinum and helped make them one of the most popular acts in the world by the time of their second album ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" (2002). Like many American alternative rock bands, during the late 1990s and early"
"on the band's official website. The album was released in August 2002 and spawned several popular singles, including ""In My Place"", ""Clocks"", and the ballad ""The Scientist"". The latter was inspired by George Harrison's ""All Things Must Pass"", which was released in 1970. Coldplay toured from June 2002 to September 2003 for the ""A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour"". They visited five continents, including co-headlining festival dates at Glastonbury Festival, V2003 and Rock Werchter. Many concerts showcased elaborate lighting and individualised screens reminiscent of U2's ""Elevation Tour"" and Nine Inch Nails' ""Fragility Tour"". During the extended tour, Coldplay"
"first time Martin played it to them. Reasoning that it was too late to include the song on the album, they recorded a demo version and included it on a CD marked ""Songs for #3"", featuring unfinished tracks they intended to work on for their third studio album. By June 2002, the band had completed ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"", but thought their output sounded ""rubbish"" and reached an agreement with the label to postpone the release of the album until they were completely satisfied. Subsequently, many songs were discarded because they sounded like they could have been"
"on their official website). ""2000 Miles"" was the top selling UK download that year, with proceeds from the sales donated to Future Forests and Stop Handgun Violence campaigns. ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards. At the 2004 Grammy Awards, Coldplay earned Record of the Year for ""Clocks"". Coldplay spent most of 2004 out of the spotlight, taking a break from touring and releasing a satire music video of a song from a fictional band titled The Nappies while recording their third album. ""X&Y"" was released"
"Ireland, and Elbow, Embrace, Starsailor, Doves and Keane from England. The most commercially successful band in the milieu were Coldplay, whose first two albums ""Parachutes"" (2000) and ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" (2002) going multi-platinum, establishing them as one of the most popular acts in the world by the time of their third album ""X&Y"" (2005). Bands like Coldplay, Starsailor and Elbow, with introspective lyrics and even tempos, began to be criticised at the beginning of the new millennium as bland and sterile, and the wave of garage rock or post punk revival bands, like The Hives, The"
"in January 2010. Upon release, ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" received acclaim from contemporary critics. Review aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalised score of 80 based on 25 reviews. Many felt that it built upon their previous album, ""Parachutes"". Alexis Petridis of the newspaper ""The Guardian"" wrote that the band's ""new assurance is everywhere ... the timidity of ""Parachutes"" is nowhere to be found"". He concludes, ""It sounds like an album ready to take on the world, and win."" Kelefa Sanneh of ""The New York Times"" praised the album, commenting that it is ""one of the year's best"
"albums"" and describing it as ""sparser, stranger and even catchier than its predecessor"". ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's Rob Sheffield, said that """"A Rush of Blood to the Head"" is a nervier, edgier, thoroughly surprising album"", adding, ""where ""Parachutes"" was the clumsy diary of a high-strung kid, ""A Rush of Blood"" sounds more like a band with the confidence to test its own limits."" Ted Kessler of ""NME"" lauded the album, calling it ""an album of outstanding natural beauty, an organic, wholesome work."" MacKenzie Wilson of AllMusic echoed the above comments, saying that it is a ""strong album"". Wilson, who compliments Martin"
"It's this kind of wounded romanticism that made 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' such a wonderful album, and it's good to see it back here."" Josh Terry of ""Consequence of Sound"" also noted that the lyrics are ""one of his most gutting lines ever"", noting that ""they're devastating words."" Stephen Thomas Erlewine of ""Allmusic"" claimed that the addition of Timbaland ""giv[es] 'Ghost Stories' a fleet electronic facility that undercuts Coldplay's reputation as a dogmatic rock band without ever suggesting the group is adventurous."" Jamieson Cox of ""Time"" praised ""the skittering percussion that drives the weepy [track],"" while Larry"
"starting with Bloodstock Open Air 2016, and a Full UK tour. A new album, ""Renaissance in Extremis"", was released on 25 August 2017, Which was their first full-length album in a decade since 2007's 'Antichrist'. Akercocke Akercocke are an English extreme metal band from London, formed in 1997 by Jason Mendonca and David Gray. The band also features Paul Scanlan and Nathanael Underwood. Akercocke's first album, ""Rape of the Bastard Nazarene"", was self-released by the band in 1999. Akercocke later signed to Peaceville Records, releasing ""The Goat of Mendes"" in 2001, which reached number 4 in Terrorizer's album of the"
"date. Kelefa Sanneh of ""Rolling Stone"" magazine was less contented with ""X&Y"", writing it ""is something less exciting"" compared to ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"" that ""was a nervy bid for bigness"". Sanneh notes that the album is ""the sound of a blown-up band trying not to deflate"" and ""a surprising number of songs here just never take flight"". Despite such, he compliments the album for featuring ""lovely ballads that sound, well, Coldplay-ish"". The album earned the band several awards. In 2006, it won the Best British Album accolade at the BRIT Awards, and International Album of the"
"The Roots, Fatboy Slim, Happy Mondays, Garbage, Marilyn Manson, Blur, Massive Attack, The Cardigans, Skunk Anansie 2000: Sonic Youth, Oasis, Leftfield, Moby, Death in Vegas, Morten Abel, Madrugada, Nine Inch Nails, Counting Crows, Macy Gray 2001: Manic Street Preachers, Deftones, Beck, Alanis Morissette, PJ Harvey, The Dandy Warhols, Motörhead, Coldplay, Wyclef Jean, Mayhem 2002: David Bowie, Travis, Rammstein, No Doubt, Morten Abel, Belle and Sebastian, Turbonegro, Kent, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Kaizers Orchestra, Muse, White Stripes 2003: Massive Attack, Nas, Coldplay, The Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Röyksopp,"
"second studio album, A Rush of Blood to the Head. All songs written and composed by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin. Remixes (Coldplay EP) Remixes EP is the sixth EP and the first remix album by Coldplay, released in July 21, 2003 through Parlophone. It includes three tracks under the label Parlophone. Side A plays at 45 RPM and side B at 33 ⅓ RPM. The album was limited to 1000 copies. The album was released on 12"" vinyl format. The album contained two remixes of ""Clocks"" made by the Norwegian music duo, Röyksopp and a"
"Awards for ""Last Resort"". In late 2000, they toured the United Kingdom, highlighting how quickly their popularity had spread worldwide. In 2001, the band toured Ozzfest, where they performed on the prestigious main stage, on both the United States and United Kingdom tours. The song ""Blood Brothers"" was also featured on the popular video game ""Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2"". After touring worldwide, the band returned to the studio to record their second album which was to be titled ""Born to Rock"", but was later renamed to ""Lovehatetragedy"". The album was released in the United States on June 18, 2002,"
"in 2000, then ""All Killer No Filler"" in 2001. The band achieved mainstream success with their first single from the album, ""Fat Lip"", which reached number-one on the ""Billboard Modern Rock Tracks"" chart and remains the band's most successful single to date. ""All Killer No Filler"" was certified platinum in the United States, Canada and in the UK. The band has since released five more studio albums: ""Does This Look Infected?"" (2002), ""Chuck"" (2004) ""Underclass Hero"" (2007), Screaming Bloody Murder (2011) and 13 Voices (2016) The three albums before Screaming Bloody Murder have been certified platinum in Canada. The band"
"referred as the official fifth member by the band, while Dave Holmes took over as the band's manager. After the success of ""Parachutes"", Coldplay returned to the studio in September 2001 to begin work on their second album, ""A Rush of Blood to the Head"", once again with Ken Nelson producing. Since the band had never stayed in London before, they had trouble focusing. They decided to relocate in Liverpool, where they recorded some of the songs on ""Parachutes"". Once there, vocalist Chris Martin said that they became obsessed with recording. ""In My Place"" was the first song recorded for"
"Hit to Death in the Future Head Hit to Death in the Future Head is The Flaming Lips' fifth album and their debut album on Warner Bros. Records. It was released on August 5, 1992. ""Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)"" was released as the lead track on the EP ""Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin Pigs Is Still Radical"" to promote the album. The title provided the inspiration for the name of the British band The Futureheads. Recorded in 1991 by the same lineup that had been featured on ""In a"
"The Blood The Blood are a London-based punk rock band, formed in 1982. Led by Cardinal Jesus Hate and JJ Bedsore (AKA Colin Smith and Jamie Cantwell), the band formed in the early 1980s under the name ""Coming Blood"". Their music is a blend of hardcore punk, Oi!, heavy metal, football chants and shock rock. Many of their songs criticize religion or discuss political or philosophical topics. Their first single, ""Megalomania"", ridiculed the Pope. Doctor Wild Thing played drums on 'Megalomania'. Their second single release ""Stark Raving Normal"" (a double A side with Mesrine) criticized one-dimensional patriotism, apathy and mediocrity."
"Tyrants Blood Tyrants Blood are a thrash/death metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Tyrants Blood was created in 2005 by former members of black metal band Blasphemy, along with members of cult thrash bands Witches Hammer, Infernäl Mäjesty, Omega Crom, and grind act Abuse. In 2006 the band's self-titled first album was released. In 2009, with new lead vocalist Brian Langley, who had recently left Blasphemy, they released ""Crushing Onward into Oblivion"". and in 2013 ""Into the Kingdom of Graves"". The fast pace of their later albums gained them a reputation as a ""speed metal"" band. Tom Lewko-guitar 2006-2010"
"Tower of Spite Tower of Spite is the second album by Cerebral Fix – a thrash metal band from Birmingham, England. It was released in 1990 on Roadrunner Records and follows the independent label release of ""Life Sucks... And Then You Die!"" in 1988. A third album, again on Roadrunner Records appeared a year later, succinctly titled ""Bastards"". A ""Tower of Spite demo"" was given to Roadrunner Records before the band recorded the final release and when the label agreed to sign them, they did a two-night supporting stint of Sepultura at The Marquee in London. Following the album's release,"
"than previous releases, helping to narrow the gap between thrash metal and its predecessor hardcore punk, and is played at an average of 220 beats per minute. Although the album received no radio airplay, it was the band's first release to enter the ""Billboard"" 200, where it debuted at #127, and attained its peak position of 94 in its sixth week. The album also reached #47 on the UK Album Chart, and on November 20, 1992, it was certified gold in the US. ""Reign in Blood"" was critically acclaimed by the underground and mainstream music press. Reviewing for AllMusic, which"
"the band briefly signed with Sub Pop records in 1992 and released their debut CD Blood Music, named after a science fiction novel of the same title by author Greg Bear. The album was critically acclaimed, and the bleak, dystopian nature of both the lyrics and music were compared by UK music journalists to such groups as Killing Joke, Live Skull, Gang of Four, and early Sonic Youth. After playing and touring extensively with both Boston-based and national acts such as The Lemonheads, Come, Galaxie 500, Dinosaur Jr., The Afghan Whigs, The Flaming Lips and The Jesus Lizard, as well"
"their 1st Bloodstock performance which set the band on course to perform on bigger stages. Shortly afterwards, their first video from the album, title track ""World Detonation"" was released. The second video ""Born to Die"" was released on Halloween 2012. The band had a number of tour dates in 2013, both in the UK and Europe. They rounded the year off with a national headlining tour in support of Teenage Cancer Trust called ""Headbangers' Balls"". The line-up for each night was different with Reign of Fury the only constant band on the bill. One date clash in Newcastle with Hatebreed"
"historic evidence that Sex Pistol, Johnny Rotten gave to the BBC in 1978. The Blood The Blood are a London-based punk rock band, formed in 1982. Led by Cardinal Jesus Hate and JJ Bedsore (AKA Colin Smith and Jamie Cantwell), the band formed in the early 1980s under the name ""Coming Blood"". Their music is a blend of hardcore punk, Oi!, heavy metal, football chants and shock rock. Many of their songs criticize religion or discuss political or philosophical topics. Their first single, ""Megalomania"", ridiculed the Pope. Doctor Wild Thing played drums on 'Megalomania'. Their second single release ""Stark Raving"
"the band for musical differences. By 2002, Machine Head had sold over 1.3 million albums worldwide, and overall ""Supercharger"" (mixed by Colin Richardson) would go on to sell 250,000 copies worldwide, which was their lowest selling album to date. Once the tour for the album had been completed, Machine Head and Roadrunner Records mutually decided to sever ties with regards to distribution in North America and around the world, however to fill the ties, the band released ""Hellalive"" (also mixed by Colin Richardson) which was a recording of a Brixton Academy, London set. In 2002 Ahrue Luster left the band"
"Astrology of a Sunday)"". AllMusic's Jason Ankeny noted that even though the album's ""not as conceptually tight as in a Priest Driven Ambulance"", it's ""no less cohesive or imaginative"", and ultimately concluded that the album ""serves as the bridge between the band's noisier, more hallucinatory indie work and the acid-bubblegum aesthetic perfected on their later Warner Bros. albums"". Hit to Death in the Future Head Hit to Death in the Future Head is The Flaming Lips' fifth album and their debut album on Warner Bros. Records. It was released on August 5, 1992. ""Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues"
"band. The band later signed to TVT Records and the album was remixed at Avatar Studios by Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, Rush), who also produced two additional tracks, ""Too Much Is Never Enough"" and ""We Like To Drink And We Like To Play Rock And Roll"". The band began touring in North America and Europe with bands including Motörhead, Nashville Pussy, The Headstones, The Black Halos, Chevelle, and California stoner rock band Fu Manchu, as well as with the heavy metal bands Dokken, Great White, Sebastian Bach, Dio, Anthrax, and Def Leppard. ""Retarder"" was released on TVT in 2000. The"