I have listened to “Shut Your Eyes” by Snow Patrol about four times today.  The thing is: that deep within the fiber of my being I understand that Snow Patrol suck and that the only reason they got famous was, well (and lets be frank), Grey’s Anatomy.

But I heard “Shut Your Eyes” on the radio and I loved it.  The spaced out layering of the instruments, the incessant “fuck you” to the Verse Chorus Verse song structure (you know you want it to get epic when the song gets to the handclaps and they’re singing “shut your eyes and sing to me.”  90’s radio trained you to be that way), the moodiness, it moved me.  It’s a really good, solid song.

Which makes Snow Patrol a bunch of dicks.

Why do bands do this?  Do they have an agenda?  Do they sit down and say:

“Hey guys, we know we suck.  We’re the scourge of the earth, but lets write one really, really good song that spreads like some sort of bubonic plague and then those poor hearted souls that really, really love the song will slog through the rest of our shit in the hopes of feeling their spirits soar that much again.”

“But we’ll just suck.”

What a bunch of dicks.  But alas, here I will listen to “Shut Your Eyes” for the fifth time today.