Is Snow Patrol important?

let's not forget that many long-forgotten britpop also-rans had quite high-charting releases. i expect SP to suffer the same fate. there's no shame in that.

re the coldplay comparison, you know when bands draw from an indie guitar music wellspring and fashion music which "crosses" over to a wider audience, often with pretty slick production values and heart-string tugging moments aplenty. That's the comparison i get w/ coldplay, and to some extent Death Cab, rightly or wrongly.

i'm sure you say that to all the boys.

They're nice guys, and I was very surprised to hear they changed their sound so much. I kinda know them too well to ever consider them "important".

Artist: Snow Patrol Title: When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up
Label: Jeepster Stars: 1/2
(http://home.iprimus.com.au/laurapalmer/cdreviews2.htm#snow)

I should have known by the title that I was in for a shocker. If you can give me one thing worse than pretentious indie shite that takes itself way too seriously, I will in turn give you this CD. On the same label as Belle and Sebastian and Ian McCullough, “When It's All Over “ marks the Glaswegian trio's second long player and has seen them hailed as inheritors to the throne of Ash and Coldplay. Fuck it - these guys couldn't inherit my outback throne.
What in particular is wrong with this “gentler, intelligent, profound heartbreak pop”?, I hear you ask. Firstly, it ain’t profound, unless you worship at the undergrad alter of lyrics like "Something told me we'd be happy forever/I don't see how this could change any of that.” Secondly, there is nothing intelligent about a band whose musical tones, drowning in over-synthed attempts at harmony, stagger through the gutter of soulless, bland Brit-crock, like Noel Gallagher with a joint and a pint of melancholy gin. I've given this shiester 3 full listens, and that's two and three-quarter more than it deserved. Steer clear unless you need a new coffee-cup coaster.

They are if you've been trapped under a canopy of frehsly avalanched snow or fractured your tibia on a treacherous mogul. Otherwise, no.

"...stagger through the gutter of soulless, bland Brit-crock, like Noel Gallagher with a joint and a pint of melancholy gin."

- This is gold.

the mainstream music industry is totally fucked up, gnarls b crazzzzzzzzzzzzzzy also back in the chartz, as are NME generic guitar band Automatic. [according to radio 5 live]

The Singles chart is going the way of American model, they will become the airplay charts, even more controlled by radio 1, radio 2, gormless trad guitar niche stations such as virgin and xfm, and a multitude of blando mainstream local chart radio stations e.g Capital in London.