Mr. Hg has recently completed a detailed and fascinating account of his favourite music in 2006 concluding with the top album being Snow Patrol’s, Eyes Open. I concur that it was very good indeed, but I’d have picked The Killer’s, Sam’s Town as my top choice.
I don’t have the ears and words to describe what I hear properly and sometimes I don’t listen to music in enough detail. Case in point :-
How many dinner parties have been conducted in complete obliviousness to the dread and horror floating sweetly out of the loudspeakers in the background?
Chasing Cars is the big single, but it remains beautiful, however many times I’ve heard it. It’s utterly solipsistic (”We’ll do it all, everything, on our own; we don’t need anything or anyone”), with its call to “lie with me and just forget the world”. I think this song is both about the first flush of love (”All that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes, they’re all I can see”) and about its durability (”Just know that these things will never change for us at all”).
I’ve just stuck the album on iTunes to have a proper listen (as you could see from last.fm)
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