A Rush Of Blood To The Head

mid

35. boringgggg

Album 12 Top 3 "favorites" off the album: A Rush of Blood to the Head, Green Eyes, The Scientist I get The Scientist stuck in my head sometimes, not even the lyrics, just the melody. That said, I cannot believe you are making me listen to Coldplay. In fact, I was so disinclined to do so that I put it off a whole two days. Maybe I'm just one of those attention span-lacking numbskulls, doomed to spend the remaining 50-55-ish years of my life scrolling endlessly through Instagram reels that will all be AI slop that's become so short we can gain nothing from them but 0.2 seconds of relief from the man-made horrors well within our comprehension. All I'm saying is 54 minutes of Coldplay in 2026 feels like so much more Coldplay than I ever signed up for. Really, this is going to be an unfair review. 8 a.m. is not the time to listen to this album. I'm not going to go back and do it again, though, and if I don't get past this one, I'll hit a total stop. I should just call it mid and move on, but I won't. Guitar beating eighths in 4/4 time. Drums 1, & of 2, and 4. Some piano noodling. Some Chris Martin going into falsetto. The occasional cymbal... tap. Not crash. Never too much. Lyrics that exist. A slow build to a mezzo-anything, a stripping back of instrumentation, then the sudden re-entrance of everything all at once. Repetition of one or two lines for the last 45 seconds of the song. Formulaic. To say something requiring more brain power, the album has a dark quality to me. Dark and cool. It should be a relief to listen to. Instead, the rush of blood to my head inspires a headache behind my eyes and a despair unlike anything I've felt during this project thus far. Long may I remain as unbothered as I was before. I want to feel something about this. It's my general shoulder shrug of neutrality that really gets me. I almost don't have the energy to hate it, which makes me hate it. Nonsense, yeah. But true. I just keep rolling my eyes. I guess I'm just too old to be listening to this flavor of love song now. I try to put myself in my angsty teenage shoes, or even my younger young adult ones, and I just can't really romanticize lines like "And honey, you should know/That I could never go on without you" anymore. Now, don't misunderstand: I can absolutely get behind the sentiment when it's said in a way that's more flowery. I can be as sappy as the next person. I swear. This album feels more like being beaten over the head with a hammer. Why didn't we put A Rush of Blood to the Head at the end?? I really think it was a better choice for a final tune. I was glad to hear it, but then there was one more song, and it was slow and quiet, followed by a sudden 50 SECOND INCREASE IN VOLUME straight back down into the same quiet. It belonged earlier in the album. Imagine Dragons did Amsterdam better, I fear. Crazy thing to say? Maybe. But as an avid former Dragons listener, I'm pretty qualified to judge. Sigh.

EVERY song VERY skippable. save your ears and don't waste your time if u do please commit a Van Gogh but instead of one ear could u do both. Not interesting, Not catchy, Not anything on this earth could make me re-listen to this album. Case closed.

Hater Coldplay

I’d kill myself in front of the members of coldplay just to change the trajectory of their lives

cant stand this garbage

#208/1001. When you make music for everyone you are making music for no-one. So polished, so compromised, so already heard. This was my first Coldplay album, and I got nothing out of it.

‘People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can’t trust people.’ It’s incredible how ubiquitous this album is. I’ve never listened to it before and I knew most of the songs, which is incredible when they are as bland and insipid as this.

Coldplay!!!! Again!!! Würgggggg boring

Nah.

I know it's cool to knock Coldplay, but I am absolutely not cool, and knock them simply because I think they're awful. Parachutes admittedly had a sprinkling of good tunes on it but everything thereafter is the epitome of dreary, pedestrian, guitar pop. They seem to be decent enough people though, and they appear to use their bafflingly elevated position to be a force for good, but I don’t understand why people love their music so much. This is a very dull and lifeless record.

A rush of mediocre music to the ears

Schifo

I fucking hate Coldplay.

Perfection

Ever wonder what would happen if someone combined the blandest rock of 2000s U2 with the blandest pop of early Radiohead and had an utter no talent both write and sing lyrics over it? Have I got an album for you! Of course these idiots play stadiums. People have shit taste

Well, all in all, I didn't like it. Very pop sound and too much boring.

More Coldplay? Always such a disappointment.

I hate to admit, that they are actually not as bad as musicians as I thought. It's just they music is so bland and joyless. The fact that this album has a pretty high score here is a testament to the fact that even people who want to explore more different kind of music and believe that they need to know all the important music from the last century will rather fall for well produced cheap pop rock with fabricated emotions and consumerism, rather than making their way to appreciate Captain Beefheart.

Bland pop

Beyond a couple of songs on the first album this is one band that can be left well alone. Bad vocals and lyrics and dreary production. The guitarists were always the most interesting thing about the band now they seem to have been silenced. Alongside Ed sheeran we have exported blandness and mediocrity to the world.

Big yikes

I know it's a stereotype for snooty little shits like me who think they have impeccable musical taste to hate on this band/album but, honestly, if I could punch any album in its face this would be the one. Formerly unavaoidable utter crap.

Coldplay puzzles me. They seem like nice chaps. Chris Martin is talented. But who is this music for? It’s inoffensive, but I have no motivation to listen to it. Clearly a lot of people do, but to me it’s like watching the home and garden channel at the dentist office because it’s on. Coldplay music is just on somewhere. Nothing I want to pay specific attention to.

Did not enjoy it.

This may be biased but I fucking hate Coldplay

It was like wstching paint dry

This makes my blood boil

É uma banda que não curto o som, principalmente o estilo vocal. Reconheço que esse álbum tem qualidades e faixas que são marcantes na carreira da banda. TRN Medusa.

Dreadful.

Warning sign stood out. Not a big fan of this album.

Holy crap I never knew how little I liked Coldplay

Music for people who think JoJo Siwa is too edgy and mayonnaise is too spicy

Couldnt finish

This transported me back to the early 2000’s, a magical time where I had to listen to this shite everywhere I went- the background music at stores, my friend’s cars… Coldplay is what made me stop listening to the radio. There was literally no escape, no reprieve. More like no-ldplay, moldplay, or coldstop.

I’ve always been a pretty big Coldplay hater. This confirmed it. Putting them on my do not play list at my wedding. I feel like Chris Martin wants to be Ben Gibbard and make meaningful sad music but he lacks the lyricism. The songs are boring and the rhymes feel juvenile. I really dislike Coldplay.

Nah

I thought I hated Coldplay, but when I listened to Parachutes properly, I had to admit it was alright, not good by any means, but not terrible either. So I wasn't too bothered about listening to this album. A Rush of Blood to the Head however, is exactly what I hate about Coldplay. It feels so cynical with its stadium rock key changes designed to elicit emotion substituting for any genuine feeling. It might as well be Westlife getting up off their stools. I didn't think I was going to give this a one. Technically, there's not a lot wrong with the music. I can cope with a song or two, but a whole album of this manipulative shite really rapidly starts to grate.

Can't stand Coldplay and Chris Martin grips my shit. Would give 0 stars if that was possible.

In extremely small doses, this is....ok? As a whole, it's long, it's boring, it's same shit, different song. It's overly earnest. There's not a shred of humor or lightheartedness here. The first song was fine. The Scientist is dreadful--maybe if they picked up the pace, it would be better. Chris Martin's droning on and on is too much. Clocks is overplayed. I feel like Coldplay is U2 at their worst. I'm sure there is more Coldplay in my future 1001 albums journey, and I am not looking forward to that.

The only people I've ever known to genuinely enjoy Coldplay have been really angry people. They're still angry.

Instant 1 star

Yeh sorry

This is coward music. Chris Martin croons like a man who’s never been punched and it shows. Coldplay make music for people who think pacing around a clean apartment counts as suffering. It’s the musical equivalent of beige—polished, lifeless, bland. Music for people hearing music for the first time, and sadly, they get this

Very boring to listen to. Not a fan. Highlights: A Whisper Will not return.

- Not excited to see this pop up, as I really don't like Coldplay. This is the first (and likely only) time I've listened to a Coldplay album from front to back. I don't like his voice, it grates on my nerves. Why exactly? I'm not sure, but it does. - I think there is one song from Coldplay that I don't hate...but it's not on this album and I don't remember what it's called. - The song Clocks is/was SO overplayed that I wanted to punch my computer when it came on, but realized that my computer didn't do anything to deserve that, so I just fast forwarded the song. -

First listen

Not for me. Bought when I was a young teenager but really hate now. Whining drawl, eugh!

I got generated back-to-back Coldplay albums and this one was somehow blander than the first.

Je ne can’t do this album I feel like I should be in H & M or The Gap folding clothes and answering inane questions from morons listening to this. Or sitting in a pretentious cafe drinking some shitty exclusive tea blend that tastes like muddy cat urine that nobody will admit is awful. All places I don’t want to visit, ditto for this album.

Could not force myself to listen to the entire album after hearing the piano tinkle for 17 seconds on the first track.

Nie dałem rady odsłuchać całości

I mean.. its an easy listen. Brings me back to the early 2000s but its not my cup of tea. Pretty boring but good background music. I honestly did try to give Coldplay and this album another chance but nope. Not for me, sorry.

It was boring. Chris Martin’s voice is way too airy.

Every song the same energy and its just feels like the same song eleven times. Very low energy, nothing feel memorable and feels very phoned in. Were people that sad and melodramatic in 2002? Best Song: N/A Worst Song: N/A

clocks

He's talented but I don't see myself listening to them ever

Hate Coldplay. The very antithesis of everything that's righteous about rock and roll.

Melhor que Parachutes mas ainda é Coldplay

Feels like imagine dragons doing a thom yorke impression. Was genuinely grimacing as i listened. First half felt like one long boring song but picks up in the middle, I liked daylight most appreciate the distorted vibe. didn’t hate the second half, might be slightly sedated but i can see why this makes white women ascend. Dunno if this constitutes international fame but I guess clocks was the only song that needed to be on here. Fuck Coldplay all my homies hate Coldplay.

This album is important the same way America dropping a bomb on Hiroshima is important. This album is so nothing that i forgot the previous verse of songs as they were playing. At least with bad albums they're so offensive they stick in your head but this one much like a cloud of carbon monoxide, is completely undetectable but nevertheless slowly kills you. Also, that topology is downright offensive. Someone needs to teach Chris Martin retopology. And how to sing.

I've tried to like Coldplay , I've tried so hard but oh god they are so so boring

Yer da

Gummon mate, we've already had the good one.

It is 2002. You are at the outdoor pool attached to the fancy gym your parents have a membership at. 'Believe' by Cher plays over a tinny PA system. In a few weeks you will be moving away from everything you have known since achieving sentience to start the first grade in a new city. The sun glaring off the cement is blindingly bright, ahead of you a set of diving boards stand tall as towers. You climb the ladder to the high dive, you swear it must be Olympic-regulation height. Many times times you've climbed up to this board, a line of eager children behind you, and many times you've made the shameful journey back down the ladder, too paralyzed by fear to make that high, high dive. The song on the radio changes to 'Clocks' by Coldplay. You somehow disconnect your rational mind from your body and walk forward, off the plank. You hit the water with a smack, and the entire front of your body stings like hell. You did it, though.

Bad. Can’t believe there exist people listen to this crap and thought “this is my fav aww”

Musical equivalent of beige - utter toss

nowadays it's maybe a little cliche to hate coldplay but fortunately my hate will long outlast that trend

I don't even have to listen to the album, I know it's crap. Yes, I know that one song and I didn't like it, I'll never like it and if that song is the highlight of the album, well, thanks. For me, Coldplay is one of the most overhyped bands of the last few years. I don't think I want to say anything more about it, a waste of time.

Ako još jednom budem morala slušati jebeni Coldplay, odustat ću od ovog projekta. Ne mogu to prenemaganje i dosadu. 1/5,1/10

Shit

Why do people persist in trying to force this damn dog-ass music on me? Everywhere I go it seems that Coldplay revisionism is in full swing. "Oh, they're not bad", "they had some bangere", "mate mate mate, Parachutes has some TUNES on it mate." Stop trying to trick me. I've been alive for the entirey of Coldplay's benighted career. There is nothing - nothing - in their catalogue to stir the soul, nourish one's spirit or get a foot tapping. Absolutely fuck this aural pabulum in general, and 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' in particular.

Prefer a gun to the head

Meh...

this is what happens when you tell men repeatedly that they’re interesting. incredibly uninspired, no song had any business being 5+ minutes

Well, that was horrible…

- ... was planning on writing a thing laying out why coldplay is completely competent but bad band and this is certainly an album that no one needs to hear before they die ... but it's way more effort than they deserve. Let's just leave it at completely uninspired and uninspiring; the definition of generic. -

Sorry, Coldplay is a non-play for me.

Shit pop

I've never listened to this entire album before, though I've heard a couple songs from it, but I have also rarely listened to Coldplay on purpose, so here we go. On the plus side, it's clear this band can can construct a song, can layer parts, and sustain a build. On the down side this album feels like it's trying to say a lot and emote a lot, but it ultimately feels hollow, repetitive, and cheesey to me. I get the impression they were going for some kind of Radiohead vibe with the emotional manipulation knob pinned at 11, but they push the feels too far and rarely let up, so they are unable to have much emotional range within most songs, leaving them feeling obnoxious yet flat. "The Scientist" and "Clocks" are particularly egregious examples. "Green Eyes" feels like a bit of a respite from the overwrought, overproduced feel of the rest of the album, but it just feels bland and generic. "Daylight" was interesting for a second, until I noticed they were just ripping off "Tomorrow Never Knows" by the Beatles. Maybe I'll listen to that as a palate cleanser. This was the first album I got to review on this site. Ouch.

Fuck off, Coldplay.

Gave up after 2 songs, couldn't bring myslef to listen to it all

Can't stand Coldplay.

uninteresting , inoffensive . 1

Honestly, better than I was expecting, but still not my thing. Some these song's do not need to be 5 minutes. Faves: Clocks, Politik

Oh WOW! This album is incredible. I've heard comedians make jokes about Coldplay being boring and depressing, but they really don't do this justice. I believe I may be about to coin a new musical term, mulit-tonal monotony. How the hell these people made money, let alone a career out of this beggars belief. It's a 1 purely because I can't give lower.

Corpo So forgettable Way too long

Boring

Polite, professional rock band not without their merits, but much too medium for my tastes. They have a knack for writing good melodies over anthemic chord progressions that are almost always ruined by superficially romantic & vague lyrics that sound intellectual when sung in a proper British accent.

One for the easy listening crowd. I’m not that person. It all had the same pace and was boring.

Know how I know this author is full of shit? He’s put Coldplay albums on more than once.

Dreary tosh

boring boring boring boring boring boring boring boring boring boring

Nope don’t listen to Coldplay. 0/10

Good god I hate Coldplay. this album did nothing to improve my views

Mediocrity can be so soothing.

Hahaha when I got Parachutes on Monday I half thought, I bet I get the other one in the same week. I only gone and have. Bit like what happened with Aguilera. She surprised me with the second effort being actually good. So go on then, first ever listen to this. What's it like. First track: mostly boring. Second track: oh right, this one. Over-familiar and mostly boring. EXTREMELY reminiscent of Travis. Like 'they should pay them royalties'-level reminiscent. Probably why I was never interested in Coldplay that much. Had already liked Travis for a bit and then got immensely bored of them. No need to do it again. Third track. Radiohead-lite crossed with I Am the Resurrection. Fourth track. Well ok, this one is alright. Cheap trick leaning on those minor chords, Martin. Same trick as Fix You, their other good song. Still, not a patch on Isn't it a Pity. Fifth track. Clocks. It's a Beautiful Day! Don't let it get away! Remember when this was the theme for The Premiership, on ITV? Probably the song I think of most of I think of Coldplay, besides Fix You. Clearly, the U2 comparisons do not end there. Jeez, they aren't shy this lot are they when it comes to recycling other people's ideas. And to think all the shit Elastica took just a few years earlier. Sixth track. Uncharted territory now, don't think I'll have heard any of the next 6 tracks before. Back to Radiohead-lite for this one. Seventh track. I have nothing to say. Eighth track. Goes without saying I have been bored throughout, and have been keeping myself entertained by playing spot the blatant rip. Now it's got so generic and uninspiring I can't even be arsed doing that. Ninth to eleventh track. More sub-U2 guff. Particularly Whisper. These are B-sides. Why not just end the album? As a whole, a resounding meh. Self-evidently worse than the meh Parachutes and 15 minutes longer, so must rate accordingly. To channel Immortan Joe once again... MEDIOCRE!!

Did not like this album hard to get through

This album is a glass of skim milk. A plate with 2 pieces of plain toast with the crusts cut off. A white woman complaining at a restaurant because the pepper is too spicy. Shit is boring as hell is what I'm saying.

I have never really listened to Coldplay, aprt from the insesant radio play that they recieved when they first broke onto the charts. After listening to only 5 songs on this album, I stand by that decision.

Уже лучше дебютника, но все равно такая же унылая хуета

Can’t stand this anymore

nope

Not my thing and all.

No

I think a Rush of Blood to the Head kills you, right? Well, I'd be okay with that right now. This album commits every cardinal sin I have for music - it's overlong, it's absurdly simplistic, the lyrics are non-sensical, and it's so repetitive. All of that together is just awful. I didn't know you could drag so many one syllable words across so many bars of music. This music provides nothing and goes nowhere. I cannot understand how this artist is #10 in the world on Spotify. I could barely finish this one. Fav tracks: N/A

Coldplay is the fucking worst. It’s like a band made up of the worst instincts of all the huge pop bands rolled up into one giant kaiju of shit.

...that moment when your Mom declared she likes "Alternative".

Yuck

Didn't like it then and certainly do not like it now. Pretentious pile of crap.

Is there anything worse than soulless garbage like this in music?

I don't know much about music theory but... it sounds like there's just not a lot going on here? Not in a stripped-back minimalist way, in a "this is constructed on a sparse and shallow foundation" way. Lyrically (which I'm more comfortable judging) every line I heard was a cliché. This is deeply boring music.

I have made a "conscious uncoupling" from ever listening to this band again.

U2 clone

terrible

Not the worst really successful artist in the world, because that honour belongs to Madonna, but they are up there. I actually understand why people like Madge but I cannot comprehend people's love for this porridge. I'm just imagining a double act of meh, that would actually (horrifyingly) get a good crowd: Coldplay and Ed Sheeran.

I've never liked Coldplay, and this album isn't my cup of tea either. I've given the album a chance more than once over the course of time and tried to listen to it all the way through, but I was always so bored halfway through that I didn't make it to the end.

I saw Coldplay on New Years Eve once. It was clear they didn't want to be there and, truthfully, nor did I. Not much has changed.

Like a furry jobbie circling the bowl

Coldplay is very likely my least favorite band ever. I've never sat through the entirety of this album before today and can honestly say without a doubt, that I do not care for them at all. The Scientist is a decent song when performed by others but hearing Christ Martin makes me want to vomit.

Not my usual cup of tea. Some huge songs that were absolutely massive at the time and helped take the band to the level they’re at now. Hasn’t aged terribly well for me and not an album I’d choose to listen to again.

Cannot connect with Coldplay at all

This is just a terrible album.

So boring 1/10 i didnt even finish it

I don't hate Coldplay, but I don't really like them either. Fine musicianship all around here, but I feel like I would rather listen to Radiohead.

Not my style, Coldplay is Coldplay is Coldplay. You hear one song you've heard it all.

Einfach nur blank kann. Nichts damit anfangen

Somehow I got both Coldplay albums on this list within 4 days of each other, a very funny prank from the universe. I will say that this one was a little bit better; the songs actually sound different from each other, a slightly more engaging listen. Chris' voice is still really annoying but at least it doesn't always feel like the main focus here, that's an improvement. No idea why these songs are so long though. 8 of 11 tracks are over 5 minutes and they REALLY don't earn it. Probably a 1.5 if I could do half stars but alas.

Awful

I had a bit of trepidation when realising that I’d have to listen to this album again for the first time in nearly two decades. I had some ideas that it was just going to sound like bland tosh and feel like a waste of the small time I have on this planet. But I also worried that I’d come to realise I’d been overly harsh in how I remembered it. In all honesty, it was even worse than I remembered. It’s so achingly without anything that sounds remotely like art that if I heard it for the first time today I would suspect it was an AI rendering of emotional music. I expected that maybe The Scientist was going to be at least gently enjoyable, but that seemed to be the most devoid of anything I could enjoy. The guitar guy definitely has some talent for writing hooks. But the tracks mainly sounds like nursery rhymes or generic for-TV series dross. They obviously appeal to some, and I miss the appeal. But this is not an album that should be anywhere near this kind of list.

I had heard Clocks before, and thought it was okay. Every other song on the album was either too long, too slow, or both.

Repetido hasta la pija. Soft porn rock nada Nuevo Para la época

I really tried to go into this open minded, but this album is nothing but mid. People have all sorts of reasons for not liking Coldplay but for me they're just boring, there music fails to stir even the smallest bit of emotion in me.

Very tame and boring.

Simple. Simple. Simple. In a good way. What do you expect for Coldplay?

I don't like coldplay

Fuck off Coldplay

Just… no (Although I did buy it … and I quite like Yellow … shhh)

Tired, overplayed and no longer fit for the modern age.

Boring, samey, and forgettable (thank goodness).

Coldplay are shit. Full stop.

Really Robert? Coldplay? Really? This is the equivalent of when Apple automatically included that U2 album with every copy of itunes. Like, thanks for the generic recommendation of this shitty band that already gets a disproportionate amount of airplay.

Fuck off coldplay

bruh the way i didn’t even finish the first song 💀💀same old white people shit 💔

08/23/2022 Okay, so I started playing this after I rated the previous album that I was given and holy fuck. I hope I can get another album assigned after this so I don’t have to wait a whole day for it to clear. Being real, I couldn’t even get through three songs on this album. It was straight up unbearable for me, like holy fuck it sucks so bad. The songs all drag and are two minutes longer than any of them need to be. Music is garbage and unfulfilling, lyrics are so basic. How are they the 12th most streamed band in the world??!! — Today was my second day of classes. It was definitely more chill than yesterday, and I finished my two models early so I got to go home at around 3ish. There was a really confusing mix up with UPS that had me panicking for about damn near two hours. The laptop that I had ordered arrived broken, so I ordered a new one, but the new laptop hasn’t come in, and I mistook a slip that UPS gave me for my old laptop that needs to be picked up as a message that they were going to return my laptop back to the distributor. ANYWAY, let’s all collectively pray that I get my laptop tomorrow and that the separate return goes smoothly

coldpay is a band without a soul. fake music, a lot of theatrics, boring to hell.

I'm not prepared for this.

Ugh, fuck this band. How lucky that I get Sting and Chris Martin back to back? Hooray. I probably only have the patience for one listen of what I assume is a concept album about Martin’s first boner. Okay enough(?) griping, time to press play… Okay. I’ll never understand the popularity of this band nor the respect many of my peers have for this group; this half-cooked pretentiousness catered to the Today Show demographic is fucking nauseating to me. AROBTH is a mishmash of snoozy ballads and poppy post-rock, a mostly boring tapestry on which Martin incessantly wails as he’s presumably contractually obligated to vice grip his berries for a falsetto hit in each track. It’s inescapable and every bit as obnoxious as the strained introspection and try-hard tenderness that pervade this (what I can only assume is a) Starbucks-planted album. I’ll admit, there were some moments that didn’t make me want to disembowel myself. I liked the drums and the mix is pretty darn good (as it should be with all that $bux help 😉). 0.5

Nope

A bože te sačuvaj.

Oh god please no. I lasted one and a bit songs. What is this???? Penance??

First album was fine. This one made me start to dislike them. Every album since has increased that dislike to hatred.

Ik heb het geprobeerd

It's great snoozic (if that's not a word, then it should be). I did enjoy one of their songs once (the one about Roman Calvary singing) but that's not on here sadly.

Well now I've listened to a Coldplay album. It was as I expected from what people have said. It's nice enough. I see why people like it. There's just nothing to grab on though, so I'll leave that behind...

F**king sucks...

I tried, I really did. I tried to overcome my preconceptions, I tried to listen to it all the way through, I tried to ignore my loathing for this lame and loathsome nonsense. I was right all along. Hated it.

Just not a Coldplay fan

Boring a.f.

Ville verden vært et bedre sted uten Coldplay..? Det er retorisk spørsmål, men jeg tror svaret vi er på jakt etter er "ja".

Boring

I gave them a charity 2 stars last time, but 2 coldplay albums in quick succession is leaving me less charitable with this one

Ick.

garbage

Great album really the beginning of there sound before going completely pop rock.