Snow Patrol always brings back memories of travelling in 2002 in Europe. I think someone I knew had the CD and somehow I ended up with it on my mp3 player. It wasn't really my thing but I was swept up by it. But it was this one that really grabbed me.
Cool memories, and music was so different back then, in so far as you bought an album and on plays 1,2 and 3 you thought it was pretty good, and by plays 12,13 and 14 you loved it. These days everything is more instant gratification, so I do try my best to listen to albums at least twice if I am unsure on first listen, afterall it is only the very best albums that you love from first play. Great shout on The Reindeer Section, nice shout that, lovely song.