| Eyes Open | 
 enlarge | Artist: Snow Patrol
Label: A&M
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 1024
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000667502
UPC: 602498531785
EAN: 0602498531785
ASIN: B000F3UADO
Release Date: May 9, 2006
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Good album May 26, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is very good. Not every song here is a winner, but I still like it. Very mellow album. Coldplayish, but not as good. Sorry folks, but thats the truth.
 Snow Patrol Gets Cold Shoulder May 22, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you're like me, then you have an ecclectic taste in music and you read reviews wondering whether an album is worth spending your hard earned cash on.
The short and long of it is this: This album is not one to spend your money on.
There are some nice songs, "Hand's Open" is good; "Chasing Cars", you'll find to be remniscent of late 90's Dishwala ("Counting Blue Cars"). There also seems to be a flare of the Eels on this album. However, the album lacks depth. It leaves a certain alienation with the listener, and after hearing the album a few times it's 'playability' wanes. I find no (pardon the pun) warmth in the music. Perhaps this is what they were going for? But I don't find it to be aesthetic. Its common chords with straight-forward rhythms and some nice touches (the music box in "You Could Be Happy" is cool!)produced into the master. There is no rhythmic experimentation, no riotous guitar solos, no interesting key work, nothing to enhance a sound that went out of style in the year 2000.
All-in-all, this album seems common and second hand in the post-90's scene. Snow Patrol, with this particular album, offers nothing new to the listener. So save your money. Might I suggest Keane's "Under the Iron Sea", or even "Transatlanticism" by Death Cab for Cutie.
3-1/2 stars -- 50/25 vision May 18, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Snow Patrol is another one of those bands that a lot of people will call "new" while core fans will remember them from years back. Such was the case with their breakthrough third album Final Straw, where although they hadn't scored any hits at that point, they still garnered some mainstream appeal. Now the quintet comes back at us with Eyes Open.
The album kicks off with the best track, "You're All I Have". From there you'll find other highlights like "You Could Be Happy", "It's Beginning to Get to Me" and the hit single "Chasing Cars". Another quality song is "Set the Fire to the Third Bar", which features co-lead vocals by Rufus Wainwright's sister Martha (sorry I had to say it like that, but she's only released one full-length album so far, and I don't think anyone bought it).
The reason I can't give this album a higher rating is because of something that reviewer Jacob Cowell hinted at; that is, on the second half of the album, it appears that frontman Gary Lightbody is having trouble keeping HIS eyes open because his singing isn't as strong as earlier on the album (nor is the songwriting), thus making a few of the songs drag (especially the aptly titled "Make This Go On Forever"). I also think "Hands Open" is overrated (well, the chorus, anyway). But Eyes Open still has the band carrying their signature sound, so if you bought their other albums and like them, you shouldn't mind getting your hands on THIS one.
Anthony Rupert
 Excelente Album May 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Eyes Open es, sin duda alguna, uno de los mejores albumes que han salido del Reino Unido. Las melodias y las letras (compuestas por Gary Lightbody), son muestra del talento de este grupo Irlandes.
Snow Patrol Rules May 12, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What can I say its bigger, louder, more emotional. I will be listening to them till im 80! With my tats and nose rings. :O)
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