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Snow Patrol found a wide audience as a kind of Coldplay minus the world-conquering aspiration. The Irish lite rockers' glistening atmospherics and genteel grandiosity made sweeping melancholy feel fragile and private. This two-CD best-of draws mostly from the three albums they've made since 2004, when singer-guitarist Gary Lightbody jettisoned his low-fi Belle and Sebastian side on the austerely gushing Final Straw. Lightbody sums up his worldview on Snow Patrol's biggest hit, "Chasing Cars": "Would you lie with me and just forget the world?" But 30 songs of soft-focus gorgeousness can make his comfy hideaway a bit claustrophobic.
(Posted: Nov 10, 2009)
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- Chocolate
- Chasing Cars
- Crack The Shutters
- Set The Fire To The Third Bar featuring Martha Wainwright
- Crazy In Love
- Just Say Yes
- Batten Down The Hatch
- You're All I Have
- Hands Open
- Cartwheels
- The Planets Bend Between Us (2009 Version)
- Ask Me How I Am
- On/Off
- Making Enemies
- Run (MENCAP Little Noise Sessions, Live at The Union Chapel)
- Take Back The City
- Shut Your Eyes
- An Olive Grove Facing The Sea (2009 Version)
- Run
- Give Me Strength
- Signal Fire
- Spitting Games
- Open Your Eyes
- Dark Roman Wine
- Fifteen Minutes Old
- You Are My Joy
- The Golden Floor
- Starfighter Pilot
- PPP (Studio Version)
- Chasing Cars (MENCAP Little Noise Sessions, Live at The Union Chapel)
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