second album When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up in 2001, and 2006, when the album was re-released. Lightbody's re-recording, the "2009 Version", was released on Snow Patrol's first compilation Up to Now. It was later released as the second single from the compilation on 4 December 2009. A digital only single, it was released on the UK iTunes Store. It was also given away as a freebie for a day on the 1st day (26 December 2009) of iTunes' 12 Days of Christmas. "An Olive Grove Facing the Sea" has been mostly praised by critics. It has been called "pretty" and "affecting" and been praised for employing an orchestra. It has also been called an example of the "lo-fi rustic beauty" of the band's early records. In a negative review, RTÉ said that the downbeat nature of the song was eerie. It was criticized (along with the whole album) for being "ill-timed" and having "misspent emotions". In later years, it has been called a "stone cold classic" and "a bona fide tear jerker". UK magazine Drowned in Sound in 2009 named it the song to be played to anyone who didn't have enough respect for Snow Patrol as a band. Scott Juba, writing for website The Trades, praised it as "the real highlight of the two LPs" (Songs for Polarbears and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up). He went on to describe it as "one of the best songs" he'd ever heard, and that it "paints a beautiful picture of love's yearnings and contains enough quiet drama and soothing emotion to completely engross the listener in every word of the eloquently penned lyrics". Track listingUK iTunes:' "An Olive Grove Facing the Sea" (2009 Version) – 4:59 Personnel Snow Patrol Gary Lightbody – guitar, vocals Mark McClelland – bass Jonny Quinn – drums Other personnel Fly by Heart – choir Rob Dillam – acoustic guitar John Todd – trumpet References External links 2000s ballads 2001 songs 2009 singles Snow Patrol songs Song recordings produced by Jacknife Lee Interscope Records singles Songs written by Gary Lightbody 2000 songs Songs written by Jonny Quinn Songs written by Mark McClelland Jeepster Records singles