Song · Snow Patrol
“Shut Your Eyes” by Snow Patrol
From the album Eyes Open (2006)
“Shut Your Eyes” by Snow Patrol appears on 5 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2007 and 2009. It was first released in 2006 on the album Eyes Open. Its best result is #28 on the KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #138 alternative song of 2007.
"Shut Your Eyes" sits on Eyes Open, the fourth album from Northern Ireland's Snow Patrol, which arrived in 2006, and it went out as a single in a handful of countries the following year. Gary Lightbody wrote the words, and the music is shared five ways between Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Jonny Quinn, Tom Simpson and Paul Wilson. Jacknife Lee produced and mixed it and added keyboards, and Tom McFall engineered, including the eight-voice choir, Iain Archer and Eugene Kelly among them, that joins the band.
It's a song made for the room, and Quinn has said as much: the drummer calls it his favourite to play live, because of the back-and-forth it sparks with the audience. The single's B-sides made the same case, with live takes of "Spitting Games", "Run" and "Chocolate" captured at Columbiahalle in Berlin in February 2007.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 28 | KWOD Sacramento, CA | KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2007 | 106 |
| 2007 | 34 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2007 | 88 |
| 2008 | 52 | KWOD Sacramento, CA | KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2008 | 106 |
| 2008 | 32 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2008 | 51 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 788 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
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