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Songs for Polar Bears
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Track Listing
- Downhill From Here
- Starfighter Pilot
- Last Shot Ringing In My Ears
- Absolute Gravity
- Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool
- Mahogany
- NYC
- Little Hide
- Make Up
- Velocity Girl
- Days Without Paracetamol
- Fifteen Minutes Old
- Favourite Friend
- One Hundred Things You Should Have Done In Bed
- Sticky Teenage Twin
- Limited Edition
- Jj
- My Last Girlfriend
- TMT
- I Could Stay Away Forever
- When You're Right You're Right
- Raze The City
- Riot Please
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8344 in Music
- Released on: 2006-04-24
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Extra tracks
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Editorial Reviews
CD Description
The late '90s found Scotland once again flying the indie-pop flag abandoned by the U.S. scene, and the one of the groups that followed in the footsteps of Belle & Sebastian, the Delgados, and Urusei Yatsura was a quartet of expat Irishmen called Snow Patrol. The group's debut full-length release, SONGS FOR POLARBEARS, is a fun collection of melodious three-chord indie-rock nuggets of noise, given context by Gary Lightbody's second-generation slack vocals and peppered with Tom Simpson's rhythm-inducing record-scratching. Tracks like the new wave-friendly "Starfighter Pilot," the loud and thorny breakup rant "Get Balsamic Vinegar...Quick You Fool," and the soft, lazily yearning "Velocity Girl" expertly take their cues and references from the Americans who had defined this sound in the preceding past decade (Pixies, Pavement, Sonic Youth). But Simpson's nimble DJ-ing skill--scratches that reinforce the music's forward motion, samples that reiteratesong points--clearly illustrate that Snow Patrol is going with the evolutionary flow rather than living in an indie nirvana circa 1994. SONGS FOR POLARBEARS boasts sonic joys aplenty.
Customer Reviews
Raw Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol, when they were raw.
Granted they hadn't been together too long before they released this, but damn it's good!
If you're looking for a more hard edge, less "neat", more raggedy Snow Patrol with a few less of those slow anthemic songs-than look no further.
Personal favourites include: Starfighter Pilot, and Raze the City.
Go for it, you won't regret it.
Jeepster cash in on their old band
Please, just don't buy this. It really is 'reissue repackage repackage' of the very worst kind. Snow Patrol have gone big and everyone loves them. Jeepster must be a tad peeved now that the Patrol have a different label, but why not make a bit of dosh by repackaging their first album with some duff filler and b-sides?
The additional tracks are frankly not worth having. THe album itself is no masterpiece, but if you don't have it pick it up for a few quid rather than buying this expensive absurdity. A disgrace with the sole intention of ripping off fans.
Snow Patrol before they were mainstream.
This has too be Snow Patrols best and first album,before they turned into a clone of Coldplay and David Gray.Songs For Polar Bears has a more American Indie Grunger sound,And takes it's infulences from Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine Screaming Trees and Soundgarden to Buffalo Tom.
