How could Snow Patrol be one of the worst bands in the world they are brilliant
One man's brilliance is another man's crapulence.
I used to like Snow Patrol. I don't like Snow Patrol any more.
Their first album here in the US was
Final Straw. I liked it. "Spitting Games," which featured on the soundtrack for
MVP 2003, was
really catchy. The important song was supposed to be "Run," but the song I
really liked was "Chocolate."
I bought
Final Straw the same day I bought Elbow's
Cast of Thousands. Best Buy. Crossroads. Cary, North Carolina. My first album for both of these bands. Elbow and Snow Patrol.
To my everlasting regret, I listened to
Final Straw more the first year than I listened to
Cast of Thousands, even though it was obvious, from the start, that
Cast of Thousands was the more inventive album.
A few years later,
Eyes Open came out. And I liked it. I listened to it a lot, but it didn't really
stick with me. I liked "Chasing Cars," and I decided that was my special track. It summed out my feelings for a woman I'd fallen for.
And then "Chasing Cars" was featured on an episode of
Grey's Anatomy. And the song was fucking
everywhere. I couldn't escape the damn thing. I was
sick of it.
The final straw for me was "Signal Fire."
"Signal Fire" is inoffensive. And it sounds like
every other Snow Patrol song. It's like Gary Lightbody took all the things that worked on
Eyes Open, put them in a blender, and when he was done blending, he poured it out and got "Signal Fire." There is nothing memorable or edgy or interesting about that song at
all. It is a prototypical Snow Patrol Song. Gary Lightbody pastiched himself.
I've heard
A Hundred Million Suns, because several friends of mine have said that I would like it, that it's a better, more interesting album. But there's nothing about it that I can remember. There's nothing about it that leaves a mark. There's no depth. These songs don't connect with me.
Sorry, Snow Patrol. We don't have anything in common anymore. I don't think we'll work as friends. I'm sorry. I'd say it's not you, that it's me, but no, Snow Patrol, it really is you. And you absolutely got what you deserved when Leona Lewis covered "Run." Yes, it's a piece of godawful shite, which only proves what a bland song it was to start with.
