Spitting Games

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"Spitting Games"
"Spitting Games" cover
Single by Snow Patrol
from the album Final Straw
Released 2003 (UK)
Format E-CD; 7"
Recorded February, 2003 at Britannia Row/The Diving Bell
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 3:48
Label Black Lion/Polydor UK
Producer(s) Jacknife Lee/Snow Patrol
Chart positions
  • #54 (UK) (September 2003 original issue)
Snow Patrol singles chronology
- "Spitting Games"
(2003)
"Run"
(2003)

"Spitting Games" is the lead single from Snow Patrol's third album, Final Straw.

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.

[edit] Track listings

  • CD
  1. "Spitting Games"
  2. "Steal"
  3. "Brave"
  4. "Spitting Games" (Video)
  • 7"
  1. "Spitting Games"
  2. "Steal"

[edit] Re-Release

"Spitting Games"
"Spitting Games" cover
Single by Snow Patrol
from the album Final Straw
Released July 12, 2004 (UK)
Format E-CD; 7"
Recorded February, 2003 at Britannia Row
Genre Indie Rock
Length 3:46
Label Fiction/Polydor
Producer(s) Jacknife Lee
Chart positions
  • #23 (UK)
Snow Patrol singles chronology
"Chocolate"
(2004)
"Spitting Games (re-release)"
(2004)
"How to Be Dead"
(2004)

"Spitting Games" was re-released on July 12, 2004 on both E-CD and 7" formats. This is when the song reached the top 40, as the group had become better known by then, its highest position being #23.

[edit] Track listings

  • CD
  1. "Spitting Games" (video)
  2. "Crazy In Love" (Beyoncé cover)
  3. "New Partner" (Will Oldham cover)
  • 7"
  1. "Spitting Games"
  2. "Wow (Acoustic)"
Snow Patrol
Gary Lightbody | Paul Wilson | Jonny Quinn | Nathan Connolly | Tom Simpson
Mark McClelland
Discography
Studio albums: Songs for Polarbears | When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up | Final Straw | Eyes Open
Extended plays: | Starfighter Pilot | Live and Acoustic at Park Ave.
Singles: "Little Hide" | "One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed" | "Velocity Girl/Absolute Gravity" | "Starfighter Pilot/Remixes" | "Ask Me How I Am" | "One Night Is Not Enough" | "Spitting Games" | "Run" | "Chocolate" | "How to Be Dead" | "You're All I Have" | "Hands Open" | "Chasing Cars" | "Set the Fire to the Third Bar" | "Open Your Eyes"


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