Final Straw (20th Anniversary 2CD Reissue)

Snow Patrol release the 20th Anniversary Edition of their classic record Final Straw.

Final Straw was Snow Patrol’s third album and their major label debut. Written and recorded during a make-or-break period for the quartet, it set them on the path to becoming one of the biggest British guitar groups of the 21st century.

Includes 12 additional tracks of never before heard demos, b-sides, and the previously unreleased track Tired. Included too are extensive new liner notes from Gary Lightbody alongside writings on Final Straw from Jo Whiley and Fiction Records MD Jim Chancellor.

Tracklist

[CD1] 01. How To Be Dead / 02. Wow / 03. Gleaming Auction / 04. Whatever’s Left / 05. Spitting Games / 06. Chocolate / 07. Run / 08. Grazed Knees / 09. Ways & Means / 10. Tiny Little Fractures / 11. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking / 12. Same / 13. Steal (Spitting Games B-Side) / 14. Stronger Than Before (Demo) / 15. By Heart (Demo) / 16. We Can Run Away Now They’re All Dead And Gone / 17. Tired *Previously commercially unreleased / 18. Post Punk Progression (Run B-Side)

[CD2] 01. Chocolate (Demo) *Previously unreleased / 02. Run (Demo) *Previously unreleased / 03. Gleaming Auction (Demo) *Previously unreleased / 04. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking (Demo) *Previously unreleased / 05. Grazed Knees (Demo) *Previously unreleased / 06. Spitting Games (Demo) *Previously unreleased / 07. Wow (Live at Somerset House) / 08. Gleaming Auction (Live at Somerset House) / 09. Spitting Games (Live at Somerset House) / 10. How To Be Dead (Live at Somerset House) / 11. Chocolate (Live at Somerset House) / 12. Same (Live at Somerset House) / 13. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking (Live at Somerset House) / 14. Ways & Means (Live at Somerset House) / 15. Run (Live at Somerset House) / 16. Post Punk Progression (Live at Somerset House) / 17. Tiny Little Fractures (Live at Somerset House)