Snow Patrol тобының "Жұдырық соққысы" туралы

2013 song performed by Snow Patrol

"The Lightning Strike" is a song from alternative rock band Snow Patrol's fifth album A Hundred Million Suns, and appears as the last track on the album. The lyrics to the song were written by lead singer Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Snow Patrol. The song is composed of three smaller songs and, at sixteen minutes and eighteen seconds, is the longest the band has released yet. The song has an elaborate live performance where a specially made animation is played simultaneously as the band performs the song. Most of the video features origami, which is the main artwork for the album and its singles. The song received a mixed reaction when the album was released, and though the band were praised for playing it live, the general feeling was that it wasn't a right choice, with one critic calling it "self indulgent" but forgivable. In August 2008, Lightbody joked about the song in a press release on the band's website, which revealed the track listing for the then unreleased album: "The last song is sixteen minutes long and by far the longest we've ever done. Don't be frightened though, it's great. Although, for now, you'll have to take my word for that and I'm pretty biased I have to say". At the time of the release of the album, SP. com posted a section featuring Gary Lightbody discussing the new songs, which was initially a Lightbody interview to RTÉ. In an interview to Glide Magazine, Nathan Connolly spoke of the band's desire to not sound like their earlier work, but still maintain their "melody and honesty". The song grew out of the band trying to progress musically. Connolly also felt that the song requires repeated listening to grow on a person, like acquired taste.

The song initially appeared on the album versions of A Hundred Million Suns. On various online music stores including the iTunes Store, the song is labeled "album only", making it inaccessible for individual purchase. A live MP3, recorded during the UK & Ireland Arena Tour of February–March 2009 was gifted to fans as a free download on every ticket purchase for the Reworked Tour of November–December 2009. Each ticket came with a special code that enabled the download. In light of its usage in the Epic trailer, on 25 February 2013, "The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?)" was released as a stand alone single. Furthermore, on 9 March 2013, the band announced on social media websites such as Facebook that they had released the accompanying channel. The stand alone "What If This Storm Ends" was released on the 2013 Snow Patrol compilation, Greatest Hits.

"The Lightning Strike" has an elaborate live performance, with the band playing the song in the backdrop of a projection screen, on which a specially made video is played simultaneously; , at the Pinkpop Festival at Megaland, Landgraaf, the Netherlands, is available via the band's VEVO YouTube channel. The idea for the video was conceived by Gary Lightbody. Snow Patrol's tour video director Blue Leach collaborated with production company Atticus Finch to create the video, which represents Lightbody's idea to represent the world as origami. and took about three months to make. It consists of 24,000 frames of animation and is played of a 60×40 ft. projection screen in live performances

The full sixteen minute animated video for "The Lightning Strike", which was previously unavailable saw its official release as a part of Up to Now, the band's third compilation album. The video can be found on the bonus DVDs of the Digipak and box set releases of the album.

A for the "What If This Storm Ends?" was uploaded by the band onto YouTube. Like videos for live performances, the video features an elaborate animation involving origami.