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A Hundred Million Suns | 
| Artist: Snow Patrol
Label: Polydor
Category: Music
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 58
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 602517852594
EAN: 0602517852594
ASIN: B001ETOV6U
Release Date: October 27, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | If There's a Rocket Tie Me To It | | • | Crack The Shutters | | • | Take Back The City | | • | Lifeboats | | • | The Golden Floor | | • | Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands | | • | Set Down Your Glass | | • | The Planets Bend Between Us | | • | Engines | | • | Disaster Button | | • | The Lightning Strike |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Snow Patrol we meet on A Hundred Million Suns is a band facing the same dilemma that Coldplay met on 2008's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends; having conquered the world with a rousing, melancholy brand of MOR indie, where now? On the surface, A Hundred Million Suns seems to suggest, nowhere especially new: producer Jacknife Lee, who first worked with the band on 2003's Final Straw and went on to work with the likes of U2 and REM returns to the fold; and an opening brace of songs suggest that a successful formula--chiming guitars, gentle builds, and Gary Lightbody's quavering, tremulous vocal--persists. Still, "Take Back The City", a windswept, electronic-tinged rocker, rather does for this band what "Dakota" did for Stereophonics, proving that a spot of sleek, synthetic motorik is not beyond their grasp, and there's a new, bright optimism to Lightbody's lyrics that sets the likes of "The Planets Bend Between Us" in light relief to some of Snow Patrol's earlier work. If you want experiment, though, you'll have to wait until the closing "The Lightning Strike", a 16-minute track in three parts that investigates Phillip Glass-style minimalism and electronic beats with some aptitude. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 1:55 November 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've always liked Snow Patrol but something has always held me back from loving them.
This is a good album - and there are some great moments if you dig deep. Engines 1:55 - sudden transformation into a beautiful melody. Does it for me driving to work in the morning.
'You know I love you like an ancient history brought to life' - nice line.
MD
Good Stuff! November 19, 2008
Despite the pettines from other reviewers who have given this a bad review simply for being Snow Patrol, I actually think it's a good album.
I think they have provided a strong assortment of songs that follows on from Eyes Open. I wouldn't say this was an outstanding album but it is worth a listen. It is an album which requires a few listens before judging it.
The tracks which stand out are "Take Back The City," "Disaster Button" and "The Lighting Strike."
 A hundred million open eyes November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
4.5 stars would be a more appropriate score for this album, but in good mathematical practice I have rounded up not down.
If you like Snow Patrol, this is a very good album. Any of the tracks could easily have come from their last album "Eyes Open", and the rockier ones could have been from "Final Straw". Does it have more of an accoustic or mellow balance than "Eyes Open"? A track by track by analysis may lead you to that conclusion, but I am not left with that impression having it on my ipod and in the car.
All of which is great, you know what you are getting. And if you played their last two albums to death because you loved them so much, you will be in heaven.
HOWEVER, the difference between a realy great band and a legendry one is their ability to evolve and draw their fans along with them into subtly different styles. If the Beatles has continued to knock out hits like Can't buy me Love and Help into the late 60s, they would not have reached iconic status. And Snow Patrol do know how to evovle (Don't waste your money on their first two album, no matter how cheap they are. Just download "Making Enemies" from iTunes and you'll have all you need from these albums)
So great, buy it, listen to it, love it. But come on guys, push the boat out a bit and take us somewhere we haven't been yet.
 Meh November 7, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Eyes Open blew me away and most tracks remain in my iPod's most played list. I want to like this, but it's all a bit 'meh' - not one track stands out, either from being bad or good. The phased piano on the last track shows a bit of a nod towards Philip Glass or Steve Reich, and then part III picks up the energy - the best part of the album for me - a long time to wait for something that makes me take notice and a right royal pain in the bum for being the last section in an 11 minute track.
I'm wondering where all the tunes have gone. I think there's a lot more to be had from Snow Patrol, but it's not in this album.
Disappointing, but then I'm waiting for The Killers next album, so I'm not exactly a hardcore fan.
A million better songs, than this November 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like real Stars that burn out, or implode. i was hoping that Snow Patrol would not be one of these. Apart from a few goods songs, i never quite see the point of Snow Patrol, giving rather plain songs. This album is no expection and is imensely plain. One of the greatest sadness, is that in bedsits around the world there are people writting better songs and lyrics than these, but of course, those people are totally annonomous, and may never to be found by record companies.
Track 1 & 2 are commercial and track two is good,as is track 5. But actucally, surprisingly, right at the end the three songs, merging into one track lasting over 14 minutes. For me these tracks appeare to be the real talent of Snow Patrol and offer a glimpse into where they should push themselves.These three songs are abstract, brilliant and haunting. They should devote their energy into these *new* sounds, which i find exciting pushing the listener to the edge of exploding dreams
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