Snow Patrol - Up to Now
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Artist: Snow PatrolEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-11-10
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Chocolate
- Chasing Cars
- Crack the Shutters
- Set the Fire to the Third Bar
- Crazy in Love
- Just Say Yes
- Batten Down the Hatch
- You're All I Have
- Hands Open
- Cartwheels
- The Planets Bend Between Us
- Ask Me How I Am
- On/Off
- Making Enemies
- Run [Live]
- Take Back the City
- Shut Your Eyes
- An Olive Grove Facing the Sea [2009 Version] [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
- Chasing Cars [Live]
Music reviews of Up to Now
Music Review: Snow Job
Rating: 4 Stars
Seeing how Philadelphia received a record amount of snow this winter, it seems fitting that reviewing this 30 song compilation by Ireland's Snow Patrol should be posted. Not just for the historical amount of white stuff dumped on my neighborhood, but for the cool music this double disc set contains. There's some deep talent to be found here. And I, for one, did not realize that Snow Patrol was almost a 15 year old group.
Those in the USA who came to Snow Patrol via their worldwide breakthrough "Chasing Cars" will be surprised by the artier songs that date prior to 2000. The band very quickly evolved into a slick alternative outfit and by 2003, the UK hits started coming off of Final Straw. The first song on "Up To Now" is the melancholy "Chocolate," which found lead Patrolman Gary Lightbody going for the lush world of "Coldplay." He also started writing stronger ballads, as "Run" will attest.
After that, Lightbody started swinging for the bleachers. The sound got noticeably bigger on Eyes Open, with both "Shut Your Eyes" and "Chasing Cars" making Snow Patrol now sounding more like band than the sum of their influences. There's also much more atmosphere than before, allowing the epic guitars to chime. When 2008's A Hundred Million Suns appeared, the band began hitting the kind of heights U2 often does, like "Take Back This City," Snow Patrol's hardest rocking single to date. However, frontman doesn't have the mammoth ego of Bono, nor Chris Martin's sometimes exasperating over-eagerness.
That's even more obvious on one of "Up To Now's" new tracks; a cover of Beyonce's "Crazy In Love." Keyboardist Tom Simpson is apparently a pretty cool DJ (who knew?). The other is a brilliantly produced "Give Me Strength," which plays right into the band's considerable...err...strengths. It's a slow building anthem that rises to a chorus of rejuvenation. Snow Patrol is a band that wants the stardom, but isn't afraid of getting heroes like Martha Wainwright to sing on "Set The Fire to The Third Bar" or name dropping Sufjan Stevens in "Hands Open." "Up To Now" is the portrait of a modest band that is now making terrific music.
Description of Up to Now
2009 two CD collection from the Scottish/Irish Pop rockers. Snow Patrol are one of the biggest and boldest bands of the past decade. Over 15 years and five studio albums, the part Irish, part Scottish five piece have sketched heart-bruised ballads and arm-around-your-best-mate festival anthems, radio hits and moments of painful introspection. All of these have been gathered together for Up To Now, a 30 track, double album of singles, cover versions, rarities, album tracks and a handful of new songs. From their formation in Scotland in 1994, the band's hard-earned rise has seen them become one of the world's biggest bands, culminating in them selling over 10 million copies of their last three albums!Alternative Rock CDs
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