Chasing Cars

June 6, 2006

4:08 (Radio Version)

Chasing Cars is a song by British alternative rock band Snow Patrol. He appeared on 1 May 2006 on the studio album Eyes Open at Universal Music and has been coupled on 6 June 2006 as a single.

Formation

Gary Lightbody wrote the song on the farm by producer Jacknife Lee. While touring in late 2005 the song was performed for the first time. Larger became famous for the song for the first time, as it was used for the third season finale of One Tree Hill. A few weeks later, the song was also used for the emotional finale of the second season of Grey's Anatomy and was known by an even larger audience.

Musical Style

In the song, the protagonist describes his love for a woman. The term " chasing cars " comes, according to Lightbody from his father, who said to love his son:

" You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and you just would not know what to do with it if you did. "

" You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and even if you did not know what you could do with it. "

Musically, the piece can be more in the gentle alternative rock or in the pop-rock lane. Beside the voice is heard in the verses just a plucked electric guitar. During the choruses also increase a bass and drums. Overall, only three chords are used throughout the play.

Charts and Awards

Chasing Cars is the hitherto most successful single release for the band. In Austria, the single went to # 2 on the charts, it was also the first chart placement Snow Patrol in Austria. In Belgium, New Zealand and the song number three in Switzerland reached number four of the singles charts. Fifth place in the U.S., ranked sixth in the UK and Ireland, eight place in Germany and Norway in ninth place in the Top Ten of the country charts have been achieved in other countries. With Denmark ( 13th), the Netherlands ( # 24 ), Sweden ( number 40 ) and France ( 57th ), the single could place in other countries. In Switzerland and in the UK, Chasing Cars held with 105 and 108 weeks, respectively for more than 100 weeks on the singles chart.

In Australia and New Zealand the single was each awarded a platinum record in Germany there was this Gold Award.

Reviews

Laut.de rated the song rather negative. Critic Benjamin says Fuchs for the single that Snow Patrol follow the trend of many British bands and would compulsively ballads on the album. The atmosphere of the song, he nevertheless positive.

From About.com Chasing Cars is, however, called a catchy song that shine above all by the song Light Bodies. Critic Bill Lamb saw no points at which the piece really should have been improved and called the song "one of the most beautiful love songs of the year".

Even Tom Woods of musicomh.com rated the song positive. He describes it as, although relatively simple, and not as a milestone in the history of music, the message and the song made ​​it, however, an almost brilliant song.

Video

To Chasing Cars are two different music videos.

In the first version, which was released by Universal Music, one sees singer Gary Lightbody on earth outdoors lying. While at the beginning of the video seems even the sun, while pulling up the second chorus on clouds and it starts to rain heavily. Only towards the end of the video, when the rain has stopped again, Lightbody is on and the camera zooms it out further and further.

The second version, produced by the subsidiary Vertigo Records, very similar to the first video, but the locations are different. A scene is the living room of an apartment, on the ground Lightbody is first presented. However, the majority of the video playing in the streets of a big city, through which he first walks alone. Later, he puts on one of these roads. The same applies to the station a subway. More scenes in which he lays down on the floor are a subway station, a subway, a mountain over a city and the abandoned bed of a hotel room.

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