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Featuring a fusion of several alternative stylistic touchstones, Snow Patrol's compositions combine songwriting aptitude with pop/rock's sharpest strains. Although originally from Northern Ireland, vocalist/guitarist Gary ... Featuring a fusion of several alternative stylistic touchstones, Snow Patrol's compositions combine songwriting aptitude with pop/rock's sharpest strains. Although originally from Northern Ireland, vocalist/guitarist Gary Lightbody and bassist/keyboardist Mark McClelland first teamed up in 1994 at the University of Dundee, having relocated to Scotland for college. The duo began composing music under several different band names, including Shrug and Polar Bear, before adopting the Snow Patrol moniker and enlisting Jonny Quinn to play drums in 1997. They signed with the U.K.'s Jeepster label in 1998 and released their debut album, Songs for Polar Bears, in August of that same year. The record was a large success across the U.K., where the bandmates also gained a large fan base for their live show.

The British trio graduated from school and decided to relocate from Dundee to Glasgow in late 2000. Their second full-length, When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up, was released in April 2001. Quickly thereafter, guitarist Nathan Connolly was added to the group, and Snow Patrol found themselves a deal with Polydor. Producer Chris Lord-Alge signed on for the release of Final Straw, which appeared stateside in April 2004. With the success of singles such as "Chocolate," "Run," and "Spitting Games," Final Straw sold two million copies in the band's native U.K. and became the 26th most popular British album of that year. Despite the band's growing success, founding member Mark McClelland left in March 2005, effectively downgrading Snow Patrol to a trio comprised of Lightbody, Quinn, and Connolly. Shortly thereafter, former Terra Diablo bass player Paul Wilson and touring keyboardist Tom Simpson were permanently added to the band.

An opening slot on the European leg of U2's Vertigo Tour followed in summer 2005, and Snow Patrol's fourth album, the slickly commercial Eyes Open, arrived in May 2006. One year later, with a successful run through North America under their belt and the mainstream appeal of "Chasing Cars" maintaining the band's presence on American radio, Eyes Open was certified gold in the United States. It later rose to platinum status. Snow Patrol also became the first U.K. rock act in 13 years to break into the Top Five of the Billboard singles charts, a feat they sought to revisit with the release of 2008's A Hundred Million Suns. Led by the single "Take Back the City," the album featured an emphasis on positive, romantic lyrics, something that Gary Lightbody had pointedly shunned in the past.

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Song Name		Comments
Absolute Gravity		9
An Olive Grove Facing the Sea		49
An Olive Grove Facing the Sea (Live at Somerset House DVD version)		1
An Olive Grove Facing the Sea [2009 Version]		0
An Olive Grove Facing the Sea [2009 Version] [Version]		0
An Olive Grove Facing the Sea [DVD]		0
Ask Me How I Am		9
Ask Me How I Am [*][Multimedia Track]		0
Ask Me How I Am [Alternate Take]		0
Batten Down The Hatch		5
Beginning To Get To Me		7
Berlin		0
Berlin		0
Berlin [Instrumental]		0
Big Broken		2
Black And Blue		11
Black and Blue [DVD]		0
Brave		3
Broken Bottles Form a Star (Prelude) [Instrumental]		0
Called Out In the Dark		14
Cartwheels		5
Chased By...I Don't Know What		15
Chasing Cars		318
Chasing Cars [Acoustic Version][Live][#]		0
Chasing Cars [Album Version]		0
Chasing Cars [Album Version]		0
Chasing Cars [Alternate Take]		0
Chasing Cars [DVD][Live][*]		0
Chasing Cars [Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK, June 2007] [DVD]		0
Chasing Cars [Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK, June 2007] [Live]		0
Chasing Cars [Live At the Union Chapel] [Live]		0
Chasing Cars [Live in Toronto]		0
Chasing Cars [Live in Toronto]		0
Chasing Cars [Live]		0
Chasing Cars [Mencap Little Noise Sessions, Live at the Union Chapel]		0
Chocolate		114
Chocolate [Alternate Take]		0
Chocolate [CD-ROM Track]		0
Chocolate [DVD]		0
Chocolate [Grand National Remix]		0
Chocolate [Live and Acoustic at Park Ave.]		0
Chocolate [Live at Eden Project, UK, August 2006] [DVD]		0
Chocolate [Live at Eden Project, UK, August 2006] [Live]		0
Chocolate [Live in Berlin]		0
Chocolate [Live]		0
Crack The Shutters		35
Crack the Shutters [Album Version] [Version]		0
Crack the Shutters [Alternate Take]		0
Crack the Shutters [DVD][*]		0
Crack the Shutters [Haunts Remix]		0
Crack the Shutters [Kid Gloves Remix]		0
Crack the Shutters [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, August 2009] [D		0
Crack the Shutters [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, August 2009] [L		0
Crazy In Love		30
Cubicles		3
Dark Roman Wine		6
Daybreak		2
Days Without Paracetamol		4
Disaster Button		16
Downhill From Here		3
Engines		14
Fallen Empires		4
Favourite Friend		10
Fifteen Minutes Old		15
Firelight		9
Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool		0
Get Balsamic Vinegar...Quick You Fool		19
Give Me Strength		4
Gleaming Auction		14
Gleaming Auction [DVD]		0
Golden Floor		0
Grazed Knees		36
Grazed Knees [DVD]		0
Half the Fun		17
Hands Open		67
Hands Open [Album Version]		0
Hands Open [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, August 2009] [DVD]		0
Hands Open [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, August 2009] [Live]		0
Headlights On Dark Roads		30
Headlights on Dark Roads [Live]		0
Holy Cow		1
Holy Cow [*]		0
How to Be Dead		102
How to Be Dead [Album Version]		0
How to Be Dead [Alternate Take]		0
How to Be Dead [DVD]		0
I Am an Astronaut		5
I Could Stay Away Forever		6
I Could Stay Away Forever [*]		0
I'll Never Let Go		1
I'll Never Let You Go		0
I'll Never Let You Go		0
I'm Ready		1
If I'd Found The Right Words To Say		13
If There's a Rocket Tie Me To It		17
If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It [Alternate Take]		0
If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It [DVD][*]		0
If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, A		0
In A Dream I Saw Satellites		2
In Command of Cars		2
In Command of Cars [*]		0
In My Arms		9
In the End		1
Isolation		2
It Doesn't Matter Where, Just Drive.		5
It's Beginning To Get To Me		26
JJ		4
JJ [*]		0
Just Like Christmas		1
Just Say Yes		7
Just Say Yes [Alternate Take]		0
Last Ever Lone Gunman		5
Life-ning		2
Lifeboats		7
Lifening		0
Lightning Strike [Live]		0
Limited Edition		6
Limited Edition [*]		0
Little Hide		9
Mahogany		9
Make Love To Me Forever		19
Make This Go On Forever		65
Make Up		3
Making Enemies		12
Market Place [*]		0
Marketplace		1
Mishka		1
Monkey Mobe		0
My Brothers		0
My Last Girlfriend		6
My Last Girlfriend [*]		0
Mysterious Ways		0
Never Gonna Fall In Love Again		7
New Partner		2
New Sensation		1
New Sensation [Exclusive Cover Version]		0
New York		6
NYC		15
On/Off		12
One Hundred Things You Should Have Done In Bed		7
One Night Is Not Enough		16
One Night Is Not Enough [DVD]		0
Open Your Eyes		98
Open Your Eyes [Alternate Take]		0
Open Your Eyes [Live at Pinkpop, Netherlands, July 2009] [DVD]		0
Open Your Eyes [Live]		0
Perfect Little Secret		7
Play Me Like Your Own Hand		0
Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands		10
Post Punk Progression		6
Post Punk Progression [DVD]		0
PPP		0
Raze The City		3
Raze the City [*]		0
Reading Heaney to Me		5
Riot, Please		0
Riot, Please [*]		0
Run		403
Run (Jacknife Lee Remix)		0
Run [Album Version]		0
Run [Alternate Take]		0
Run [DVD]		0
Run [DVD][Live]		0
Run [DVD][Live][*]		0
Run [Jacknife Lee Remix]		0
Run [Live at Eden Project, UK, August 2006] [DVD]		0
Run [Live at Eden Project, UK, August 2006] [Live]		0
Run [Live At the Union Chapel] [Live]		0
Run [Live in Berlin]		0
Run [Live]		0
Run [Mencap Little Noise Sessions, Live at The		0
Run [Multimedia Track]		0
Safety		2
Same		25
Same [DVD]		0
Set Down Your Glass		13
Set the Fire to the Third Bar		191
Set the Fire to the Third Bar [DVD][Live]		0
Set the Fire to the Third Bar [Live from Abbey Road] [Live]		0
Set the Fire to the Third Bar [Live]		0
Shut Your Eyes		24
Shut Your Eyes [Album Version]		0
Shut Your Eyes [Album Version]		0
Shut Your Eyes [Alternate Take]		1
Shut Your Eyes [DVD]		0
Shut Your Eyes [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, August 2009] [DVD]		0
Shut Your Eyes [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, August 2009] [Live]		0
Shut Your Eyes [Live in Toronto]		0
Shut Your Eyes [Live in Toronto]		0
Shut Your Eyes [Live]		0
Signal Fire		64
Signal Fire [Alternate Take]		0
Some Suprise (with Lisa Hannigan)		3
Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking		55
Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking [DVD]		0
Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, Augus		0
Spitting Games		67
Spitting Games [2001 Country Version]		0
Spitting Games [Alternate Take]		0
Spitting Games [CD-ROM Track]		0
Spitting Games [DVD]		0
Spitting Games [Live in Berlin]		0
Spitting Games [Live]		0
Starfighter Pilot		9
Starfighter Pilot [Alternate Take]		0
Starfighter Pilot [Bad Belle Mix]		0
Starfighter Pilot [Lost in Hyperspace Mix]		0
Starfighter Pilot [M.I. Mix]		0
Starfighter Pilot [Radio Mix]		0
Steal		2
Sticky Teenage Twin		3
Sticky Teenage Twin [*]		0
T.M.T		0
T.M.T.		3
T.M.T. [*]		0
Take Back the Cities Documentary [Live]		0
Take Back the City		18
Take Back the City [Alternate Take]		0
Take Back the City [DVD][*]		0
Take Back the City [Live at V Festival, Chelmsford, UK, August 2009] [D		0
Talk to the Trees		1
Talk to the Trees [*]		0
Teenage Kicks		8
The Afterlife		2
The Blower's Daughter (Damien Rice cover)		2
The Finish Line		21
The Garden Rules		2
The Golden Floor		11
The Last Shot Ringing In My Ears		6
The Lightning Strike		26
The Lightning Strike [Live at Pinkpop, Netherlands, July 2009] [DVD]		0
The Lightning Strike [Live]		0
The Lightning Strike: What If This Storm Ends?/The Sunlight Through the Fla		1
The Only Noise		7
The Planets Bend Between Us		15
The Planets Bend Between Us [2009 Version]		0
The Planets Bend Between Us [2009 Version] [Version]		0
The Planets Bend Between Us [Alternate Take]		0
The President		6
The Sunlight Through the Flags		0
The Symphony		3
The Weight of Love		3
This Isn't Everything You Are		11
Those Distant Bells		2
Tiny Little Fractures		12
Tiny Little Fractures [DVD]		0
Tired		2
Up to Now Documentary [Live]		0
Velocity Girl		7
Warmer Climate		16
Ways & Means		0
Ways and Means		31
We Can Run Away Now, They're All Dead And Gone		8
What Can I Do?		1
What If The Storm Ends?		6
Whatever's Left		9
Whatever's Left [DVD]		0
When I Get Home For Christmas		4
When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up		0
When Its All Over We Still Have To Clear Up		7
When You're Right, You're Right		0
When You're Right, You're Right (Darth Vader Bringing in His Wash mix)		3
When You're Right, You're Right [Darth Vader Bringing in His Washing Mi		0
Workwear Shop		2
Workwear Shop [*]		0
Wow		26
Wow [DVD]		0
You Are My Joy		3
You Could Be Happy		140
You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. (Bright Eyes cover)		12
You're All I Have		38
You're All I Have [Alternate Take]		0
You're All I Have [DVD]		0
You're All I Have [DVD][Live][*]		0
You're All I Have [Live at Pinkpop, Netherlands, July 2009] [DVD]		0
You're All I Have [Live in Toronto]		0
You're All I Have [Live in Toronto]		0
You're All I Have [Live]		0
You're All I Have [Radio Edit]		0

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