Spitting Games

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title: "Spitting Games" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2003-singles", "2004-singles", "snow-patrol-songs", "song-recordings-produced-by-jacknife-lee", "songs-written-by-gary-lightbody", "2003-songs", "songs-written-by-nathan-connolly", "songs-written-by-jonny-quinn", "songs-written-by-mark-mcclelland"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Games" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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nameSpitting Games
coverSpitting games cd.jpg
borderyes
typesingle
artistSnow Patrol
albumFinal Straw
released15 September 2003
recordedFebruary 2003
studioBritannia Row/The Diving Bell
genre
length3:48
label
writer
producerJacknife Lee
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next_year2003
misc{{Extra album cover
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typesingle
coverSpitting Games re-release.jpg
captionRe-release cover
artistSnow Patrol
typesingle
prev_titleChocolate
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title"Spitting Games" (re-release)
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next_titleHow to Be Dead
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| name = Spitting Games | cover = Spitting games cd.jpg | alt = | border = yes | type = single | artist = Snow Patrol | album = Final Straw | released = 15 September 2003 | recorded = February 2003 | studio = Britannia Row/The Diving Bell | genre = | length = 3:48 | label = | writer = | producer = Jacknife Lee | prev_title = One Night Is Not Enough | prev_year = 2001 | next_title = Run | next_year = 2003 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative covers | type = single | cover = Spitting Games re-release.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = Re-release cover | artist = Snow Patrol | type = single | prev_title = Chocolate | prev_year = 2004 | title = "Spitting Games" (re-release) | year = 2004 | next_title = How to Be Dead | next_year = 2004 "Spitting Games" is a song by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released on 15 September 2003 as the lead single of their third album, Final Straw (2003).

Original release

Snow Patrol released the song during their first UK Tour during the Final Straw Tour. To mark the release, the band made a previously unheard song for a free download on their official site, titled "Half the Fun of It".

Snow Patrol were one of the acts chosen in AOL Music's "Breakers" in December 2003, a program to promote bands for months leading up to the release of their respective albums in the United States. During the time of the band's promotion, lead UK single "Spitting Games" was downloaded a million times, and was released as a stand-alone single in March 2004 in the week of the band's appearance at South by Southwest Festival.

Track listings

CD

  1. "Spitting Games" – 3:48
  2. "Steal" – 2:44
  3. "Brave" – 4:12
  4. "Spitting Games" (Video)

7" vinyl

  1. "Spitting Games" – 3:48
  2. "Steal" – 2:44

Reception

Music Week reviewed the single positively, calling it a classic indie song. It praised the "British chugging guitar" and "bittersweet melodies". IrishCentral called the song an alternative rock "masterpiece" and said it had made the band "cool".{{cite web |url = http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/col/farragher/Fall-in-love-with-Snow-Patrol-all-over-again-with-greatest-hits-album-70390012.html?page=1 |title = Fall in love with Snow Patrol all over again with greatest hits album |last = Farragher |first = Michael |date = 18 November 2009 |publisher = IrishCentral |access-date = 2016-03-23 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220612041835/http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/col/farragher/Fall-in-love-with-Snow-Patrol-all-over-again-with-greatest-hits-album-70390012.html?page=1 |archive-date = June 12, 2022

Yahoo! Music's Simon Ward reviewed the single positively, awarding it 7 stars out of 10, though he criticized the song for being "an indie anthem of the kind Ash used to make ten years ago." He praised the song's "nagging 'do-doo harmonies and driving guitars" though said that it wasn't "going to rewrite rock history." He still felt "it's competent indie-pop that will doubtless signal skies full of water and bouncing moshpits at the rest of the summer's festivals. Which is, frankly, all that's asked of it."

Re-release

"Spitting Games" was re-released on 12 July 2004, on both E-CD and 7" formats. The enhanced CD featured a cover of Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love", which was first performed on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show and another cover of Will Oldham's "New Partner", again from a Radio 1 Session for Steve Lamacq in 2002. The song made the A lists of BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 and 95.8 Capital FM radio station of London. Due to heavy airplay by the radio stations, the single peaked at number six on the UK Airplay Chart. It helped the album Final Straws sales, which reached number five, its highest chart placing after 23 weeks. The re-release of "Spitting Games" was the band's first charting single in the United States, and peaked at number 39 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart on June 5, 2004.

Track listings

CD

  1. "Spitting Games" – 3:48
  2. "Crazy in Love" (BBC live version) – 4:25
  3. "New Partner" (BBC live version) – 4:05
  4. "Spitting Games" (video version 2)

7" vinyl

  1. "Spitting Games" – 3:48
  2. "Wow" (acoustic) – 3:09

Promo CD

  1. "Spitting Games" (AAA Mix) – 3:28

Charts

::data[format=table] | Chart (2003) | Peak position | |---|---| ::

::data[format=table] | Chart (2004) | Peak position | UK Airplay (Official Charts Company) | US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard) | |---|---|---|---| | 6 | | | | | 39 | | | | ::

In popular culture

It was featured on the video game MVP Baseball 2004 and numerous Club Football 2005 titles. The track was also featured in "Everything Changes", the first episode of the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, and later in the episode "Greeks Bearing Gifts", in 2006. It was featured on an episode of the second season of the teen drama One Tree Hill and in the movie Boy Eats Girl.

References

References

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  2. (26 August 2003). "Snow Patrol 'splitting news'!".
  3. (8 December 2003). "America Online Introduces Music's Next Big Stars with This Season's Breaker Artists on AOL Music". [[AOL]].
  4. Cohen, Jonathan. (1 May 2004). "Snow Patrol storms U.S. shores". Nielsen Business Media, Inc..
  5. (6 September 2003). "Snow Patrol Spitting Games (Black Lion/Polydor 9809350)". [[Music Week]].
  6. "Snow Patrol - 'Spitting Games'". Yahoo! Music.
  7. link. (2011-06-06)
  8. (3 July 2004). "Snow Patrol: Spitting Games". Music Week.
  9. (24 July 2004). "Radio playlists (Upfront)". Music Week.
  10. (31 July 2004). "The UK radio airplay chart: Shapeshifters' Lola's Theme proves strong enough to hold off the threat from Jamelia for another week while Scissor Sisters, Usher and Snow Patrol gain in the Top 10 (Radio)". Music Week.
  11. "Snow Patrol - Chart history {{!}} Billboard".

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