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Hey Coldplayers! ( Apparently that's the official fanbase nickname for Coldplay...) Today I'm going to be going over Coldplay's second full length album: A Rush of Blood to the Head. And get excited, because for a lot of people, this is the last good thing Coldplay put out. These all come from this  article, which by itself is really a perfect encapsulation of the phenomenon of Coldplay Hate. That someone had to write a whole article to justify their enjoyment of a musical artist, and not even for anything controversial that the artist did, but simply because it was so socially unacceptable to like them. So gear up because after this it's only downhill from here haha. In all seriousness though, I think this phenomenon says more about a certain time and place than it does about Coldplay themselves. While I don't have much personal familiarity with British culture, I would say that maybe British people tend to prefer a bit of cynicism and edginess to their humor, cul...

Well  I got six new songs for you guys today. On August 5, 2002, around eight months after releasing their last song, Coldplay returned with a bang, releasing hit single In My Place, along with the B-sides One I Love, and I Bloom Blaum (what?). As an aside, I realize now that B-side is the term for all those extra songs that are released along with the main singles, like how in my last post I talked about how the singles Trouble and Don't Panic had other songs accompanying their releases. B-side (as opposed to A-side), was the term that referred to the back side of the cassette or record (vinyl), while the A-side contained the headline song or songs, the B-side usually contained songs not necessarily intended to " receive attention ". The existence of B-side songs was thus a product of convenience: There's extra space on the physical medium used to record songs so something might as well be put there. In another previous post I talked a bit about my feeling that band...