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	Snow Patrol Up to Now [2CD+DVD] [Digipack] [Polydor UK 2009] 2CD+DVD / Digipack / Limited Deluxe Edition / Disc.1: [CD] 15 Tracks / Disc.2: [CD] 15 Tracks / Disc.3: [DVD] 16 Tracks / (P)&(C) 2009 Polydor Ltd. UK, a Universal Music Company / Made in EU / — Track Lists: — * Disc. 1 ... more » « less
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All Artists: Snow Patrol
Title: Up to Now [2CD+DVD] [Digipack] [Polydor UK 2009]
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Polydor
Album Type: Import, Limited Edition, Deluxe Edition, CD
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
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Product Description

2CD+DVD / Digipack / Limited Deluxe Edition / Disc.1: [CD] 15 Tracks / Disc.2: [CD] 15 Tracks / Disc.3: [DVD] 16 Tracks / (P)&(C) 2009 Polydor Ltd. UK, a Universal Music Company / Made in EU /

Track Lists:

* Disc. 1 *

01. Chocolate
02. Chasing Cars
03. Crack That Shutters
04. Set The Fire To The Third Bar (Featuring Martha Wainwright)
05. Crazy In Love
06. Just Say Yes
07. Better Down The Hatch
08. You're All I Have
09. Hands Open
10. Cartwheel
11. The Planets Bend Between Us
12. Ask Me How I Am
13. On/Off
14. Making Enemies
15. Run (Mencap Little Noise Sessions, Live At The Union Chapel)

* Disc. 2 *

01. Take Back The City
02. Shut Your Eyes
03. An Olive Grove Facing The Sea (2009 Version)
04. Run
05. Give Me Strength
06. Signal Fire
07. Spitting Games
08. Open Your Eyes
09. Dark Roman Wine
10. Fifteen Minutes Old
11. You Are My Joy
12. The Golden Floor
13. Starfighter Pilot
14. PPP
15. Chasing Cars (Mencap Little Noise Sessions, Live At The Union Chapel)

* Disc. 3 (DVD) *

01. Up To Now Documentary
02. Take Back The Cities Documentary
03. The Lightning Strike
04. Set The Fire TO The Third Bar Feat. Martha Wainwright
05. If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It
06. Chocolate
07. Hands Open
08. Run
09. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking
10. Shut Your Eyes
11. Chasing Cars
12. Crack The Shutters
13. Take Back The City
14. Open Your Eyes
15. The Lightning Strkie
16. You're All I Have

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CD Reviews

Snow Job

Tim Brough | Springfield, PA United States | 02/24/2010

(4 out of 5 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."