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"Chasing Cars" is a song by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released as the second single of their fourth album, Eyes Open (2006). It was released on 6 June 2006 in the US and 24 July 2006 in the UK. [ 2 ]
Snow Patrol spoke of making a tour documentary in the future, along the lines of U2's Rattle and Hum. [64] In December 2009, the PPL announced that "Chasing Cars" was the most-played song of the decade in the UK. [65] In a UK poll conducted by Channel 4, it was voted the nation's favourite "song of the noughties". [66]
"Run" is a Britpop power ballad [2] composed using common time in the key of C major, with a tempo of 72 beats per minute. [7] It is written in the common verse–chorus form, and its chord progression goes Am–Fmaj7/A–G sus4, it repeats once, and later it changes to Am–F6/C–Gsus4, which also repeats one time, and then the sequence restarts. [7]
Eyes Open is the fourth studio album by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. Produced by Jacknife Lee , it was released in the UK on 1 May 2006, and 9 May 2006 in the US. It is their first album without bassist Mark McClelland and their first to feature bassist Paul Wilson and keyboardist Tom Simpson .
He called the song "a return to the formula of "Run", "Chasing Cars" and so on and so forth." He criticized the song further by saying that it sounded like "five young men caught in the headlights as Gary Lightbody sings about aching bones and cold skin over a clipped guitar riff, before everything explodes in an orgy of significance and strait ...
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Performs with Ed Sheeran at the iTunes Festival singing a duet of "Chasing Cars". 2013. Along with Johnny McDaid, performs at the Derry City of Culture Sons and Daughters concert, plays a three-song acoustic set singing "Run", "Just Say Yes" (the festival's anthem) and "Chasing Cars".
CityLife's Stephen Gilliver felt the song was the standout in a "disappointing" album, and called it "glorious". He said that Martha Wainwright's contribution to the song made it "a trademark brooding Snow Patrol epic of Run or Chasing Cars". He liked the contrast between Wainwright's expressive singing and Lightbody's dry delivery. [16]