I hate snow patrol. I mean seriously hate them. I despise everything about the whining little fucking c*nts. Now as they reach success in America means that I will have to deal with them for at least another 5 years. Thank you Grey’s Anatomy and America’s inability to not bother looking for music but just taking songs cues from their television shows. (O.C. gets a pass because for a while they took up all my favourite Brit Artists including Tom Vek. Plus they had T.I on the show before he got huugge. All I’m waiting for is the introduction of 3 6 Mafia into Sandy’s firm and I will be appeased.) Well I do admit I have two snow patrol songs on my itunes, this is part of my list of songs that I have in case women come over and might like that nonsense. Anyway is it any coincidence that the band made two albums with the same drivel that made Keane huge and maintained Coldplay’s success. Now the difference between Coldplay and Keane and the crap snow patrol is simple. Coldplay have moved onto a huge stadium band and there songs still ring true even if 75,000 other people sing it with you. Keane although annoying have an amazing songwriter and there songs a least show some sort of variety which is weird since they only have a keyboard. Apparently they have drums but I never really hear them. Snow patrol just release the same fucking nonsense that middle aged men buy to try and seem hip and cool. They are from Ireland they explain to whatever sad conquest they managed to score from Monday night ten dollar beer night. Susie from marketing huh? Never heard of them? Of course you have because you have the fucking grey’s anatomy soundtrack and you cry whenever you hear that song because some doctor died during a montage scene. He of course just thinks you are experiencing a mind bending orgasm. Another successful tip from maxim. Now to be honest it seems as if I am just taking shots at the people who listen to the band but to be honest I’m angry at the lack of adventure people have when it comes to music. There are about four hundred and fifty bands in the states that produce the same sort of music as them but people don’t bother trying to find it. For all the advances made in the distribution of music (itunes, internet and mpfreeeblogs to say the least.). The lack of independent music shops has meant that people are not learning about music in ways that they should. Speakeasies wouldn’t be worthwhile. Although following a band form its infancy is a lot easier due to website and myspace it also means that people are more protective of their bands. Fan sites and music sites comments are full of what hip hop fans call stans. Named after the Eminem song, and British Christmas number one, one for those fact fans out there, it describes a fan that will defend his or her band till they lose any semblance of normality. Kings of Leon for me. Internet armies for fans of such bands as My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy often show how the youth can feel as if they created the music itself. The internet has allowed many to sample a vast spectrum of music and shop around more than if they spent hours in an HMV. Instead people would rather listen to snow patrol. By the way they didn’t become big until their fourth album. Coincidence?