Snow Patrol-Greatest Hits-CD-FLAC-2013-BOCKSCAR

   Artist  : Snow Patrol
   Album   : Greatest Hits
   Bitrate : 938 kbps
+-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+
   Source     : CD (LP)
   Label      : Island Records
   Year       : 2013
   Genre      : Rock
   Rip date   : 2013-05-29
   Store date : 2013-05-28
   Encoder    : FLAC 1.2.1
+--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+
  1.  The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?)                4:11
  2.  Chasing Cars                                                   4:25
  3.  Run                                                            5:57
  4.  Set The Fire To The Third Bar                                  3:22
  5.  Called Out In The Dark                                         4:02
  6.  Chocolate                                                      3:00
  7.  Just Say Yes                                                   4:41
  8.  Open Your Eyes                                                 5:40
  9.  Shut Your Mouth                                                3:16
  10. Crack The Shutters                                             3:20
  11. You Could Be Happy                                             3:03
  12. Spitting games                                                 3:47
  13. Take Back The City                                             4:40
  14. Make This Go On Forever                                        5:50
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                                                                     59:14
+-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+
  As a wag once wrote, nothing screams contractual obligation quite like a
  greatest hits album. But even using the custom-made, extra-low bar with which
  we tend to judge a record company's morals, Snow Patrol's Greatest Hits is a
  baseless and cold-hearted product that deserves to be sent straight to the
  bottom of the bargain bin. To put things into context: back in late 2009 Snow
  Patrol released Up To Now, the first compilation album of their fifteen-year
  music career. While it wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, at
  least it couldnt be faulted for a lack of effort  a total of 20 songs were
  culled from all five of the band's studio albums along with several B-sides,
  rarities, and three entirely new recordings ("Just Say Yes", "Give Me
  Strength", and "Dark Roman Wine"). In other words, Up To Now sought to give
  the band and their fans the respect that they deserved, and in that regard
  managed to perform admirably.
  But the contrasting, lackadaisical manner in which Greatest Hits is presented
  to us simply beggars belief: fourteen songs are contained herein - all of
  which can already be found on Snow Patrol's three most recent studio releases
  (I cannot stress this enough). Worse, only the last of the trio - 2012's
  Fallen Empires - separates Greatest Hits from Up To Now, and since it is
  solely represented by "Called Out in the Dark", Snow Patrol's worst artistic
  decision this side of "Grazed Knees", its contribution is instantly
  invalidated. More to the point though: there is no new material to be found;
  no re-recordings, no live cuts, no B-sides. The closest thing we get to any
  sort of rarity is another soft copy of "Just Say Yes" - but who needs that
  cheesefest of a song anyway? Don't even get me started on how weird it is to
  see "What If This Storm Ends?" excised from the rest of its comrades on "The
  Lightning Strike" - it's as if the netminder for the Detroit Red Wings turned
  out to play one day wearing a frilly tutu.
  So while that number up there is not reflective of the quality of the songs
  contained herein - anything with "Run", "Chasing Cars", or "Make This Go on
  Forever" on it deserves way better - it should still be taken as a commentary
  on the grab-bag nature of Greatest Hits' production. Sure, its track-listing
  is undeniably populist, and the album may yet serve as a crash-course
  introduction to the British alt-rock band, but its still hard to make any
  sort of sensible argument for it - especially given the existence of Up To
  Now. Besides, no band wants that kind of introduction anyway. Instead, it is
  much easier to view this record as what it is: a piss-stain on Snow Patrols
  discography and a great, big middle finger to the band's legions of fans.
  Polydor clearly hasn't tried - and neither should you.

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