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― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Monday, 8 November 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 12 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
When I was fifteen my friend once made me listen to Perfect Blue Buildings on repeat for two hours after he had been dumped, so definitely not that. Don't really have anything more to say about this album.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 12 November 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Don Dixon!!!
― Morley Timmons, Friday, 12 November 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
But Duritz's affectations are the affectations of a guy trying to sing beneath his capabilities, and it's grotesque & insulting & revolting
u r essentially a failure as a human being & i hope u get swallowed up by a bog
bros voice on this record is insane srsly hes doing some brutalist neo-primitive thing w/it. like on 'raining in baltimore' which is just like a piano & some 90s studio retardedness (like a dulcimer idk) hes p much wielding his voice its so laden w/emotion & 'meaning'. most of the lyrics on the songs are terrible & so i can get not really singing w/ a lot of nuance or craft or w/e & just like hammering home on this shit. its incredible fuiud
the songwriting is p not great in places but theres a line in 'anna begins' thats like 'every word is nonsense but i understand' & thats kinda how i feel abt this record. its this monolith of sweeping emotions its not meant to be examined really closely or considered in detail its dimensions are meant to awe...
ne way i have a playlist w/ this and the spinanes 'arches & aisles' and mag fields 'holiday' & its a p fukken badass playlist so w/e
― a dad on all ships, son (Lamp), Friday, 12 November 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"I need a friend...I need a phone caaaalll."
― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 November 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe if you listen...reeeaaall haaard.
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 November 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
booming post from lamp
― deej otm? (some dude), Friday, 12 November 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to a bunch of counting crows on youtube cause I couldn't remember what most of these songs sound like. duritz has written some good songs (and decent lyrics, even) I think, but this album doesn't contain many of them. I think that late-period pop-rock/shrek soundtrack counting crows is better than the 1st album. voted 'round here'
― iatee, Friday, 12 November 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lainie8410 months ago 63 I don't know one person who DOESN'T like the Counting Crows!!!!
― iatee, Friday, 12 November 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It felt like that in the 90s to be fair. I've seen them live twice.
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 November 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen adam duritz on the street a bunch of times, he is an absolutely grotesque person up close
― iatee, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
wasn't he nailing 2/3 of the Friends chicks in the 90s?
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
im saying, this is a guy who has dreadlock extensions, and yet he was banging courteney cox and jennifer aniston back when that meant something, thats gotta count for a lot
― max, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
every time I saw him that's exactly what I was thinking
― iatee, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if he still has a checklist he looks at every day, trying to figure out how he can cross off Kudrow's name
― deej otm? (some dude), Friday, 12 November 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they had sex with the dreadlock extensions instead...?
― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 November 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't imagine it'd be that hard now, what the hell has she done lately?
― iatee, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
one step away from Monica/Rachel tentacle porn. thanks, internet. xpost
― Gukbe, Friday, 12 November 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
dude shoulda just gone after matt perry during his pill addiction days and called it a push on the hat trick
― a dad on all ships, son (Lamp), Friday, 12 November 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i think there's some other thread where he is referred to as Fatty Dread, I approved.
I was into the next couple albums for a while back in the day, and I still like of the songs (This Desert Life had nice production too, and some nifty McKean artwork in the liner notes). This one kinda blows though, there's just so much dull, morose shit on it. Time and Time Again? Ugh. Anna Begins is probably the most interesting thing on here but I don't think I've heard any of these in years.
― clotpoll, Friday, 12 November 2010 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
btw the title track to this is dope. i was a member of the counting crows message board when i was like 12 or 13 and i remember the day it was first played live, good memories <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOd0Bzjqho
― Taylor McSwift (Tape Store), Friday, 12 November 2010 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
voting anna begins, def.
― Taylor McSwift (Tape Store), Friday, 12 November 2010 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
a friend of mine is in a "weird" band with one of those guys. yes, "weird". they all have fake names. you'd never believe that he wrote all those corny ass songs.
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 November 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the biggest Counting Crows fans went on to become even bigger Dave Matthews fans
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 12 November 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
abbott: that Sandman panel is a take on a legit nursery rhyme!I just remembered that I gave this album quite a few chances because one of the Camper Van Beethoven guys is on it.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 November 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I somehow avoided hearing more than one or two CC songs during the 90s, and when someone played me an entire album of theirs - possibly this one, not too sure - sometime circa 2004 I thought it was some earnestly dull alt-country record which might have been (then-)recently extravagantly praised every month in the pages of Uncut magazine
so I was slightly surprised when I found out who it was and connected it to their 21st century reputation, but hey, plus ça change I guess
― moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 12 November 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
upon further review due to this thread there are imo nice guitar tones and phrases all over this record.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 12 November 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 13 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh well time for a run-off to decide this matter once and for all
― Gukbe, Saturday, 13 November 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
3 of the top 4 are my favorites, so it's cool.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 13 November 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Emmy Rossum has revealed to USA Today that she and Adam Duritz broke up quietly two months ago.
"We're still very close friends," she told the paper.
Emmy started dating the Counting Crows frontman last fall, just as her ex-husband, music executive Justin Siegel, filed for divorce after a year and a half of marriage.
Earlier this year, Emmy explained Adam's appeal to People.
"I get why chicks dig him," she said. "He's extremely kind, incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, creative and respectful."
Adam has dated a slew of beautiful actresses, including Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.
― buzza, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, Counting Crows really were into alliteration, eh?
― jeevves, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
amazingly i heard "mr jones" for the first time in my friend's car the other week and was like "who is this??" - i had only ever thought of counting crows as some incredibly uncool 90s band but this song is amazing, feels like it fits pretty nicely into the sort of rock i like from the last 15 years or so, falls somewhere on the third eye blind----gaslight anthem spectrum
― originoo gun kl0pper (k3vin k.), Thursday, 3 February 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
sort of can't believe ship hates that song
I could imagine thinking about that song differently had I only heard it 1 time instead of 10000000000000 times
― iatee, Thursday, 3 February 2011 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
the lyrics are mawkish & inept but 'time and time again' has some really pretty guitar work & great chorus imo
also i like to think its taken from a really amazing alice munro short story
― tim hecker? i hardly know 'er! (Lamp), Thursday, 3 February 2011 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
lol get real you losers this band blows
― goole, Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"all your life is such a shame, shame, shame"
still rep hard 4 this record dont give a fukk
― Lamp, Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
That's the bit of the song that made me start the poll in the first place.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 3 February 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
That bit right there is definitely, definitely the best thing they did.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 3 February 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah thats a great part, the machine gun snares on the last hook get me every time. Love how the album ends after that climax.
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Also:
I wanna get me a little... oblivion... babyI try to keep myself.. AWAAAAAYEEEEYAAAAYEEEEEYAAAAAAA FROM ME
The funk guitar tones on Round Here, and also the drums when the song rebuilds. Fukkit, the whole 2nd half fuuid.
the Anna Begins intro and all the key changes
HER KINDNESS BANGS A GONG... ITS MOVIN ME ALLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
The organ on Ghost Train.
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
I decided I liked mrs jones the last time I heard it so I guess a 10000000000001st listen was what it took
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
err mr.
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 04:44 (eleven years ago) link
I think I like it now too? hard to say, I loved it as a kid so much. Just listened to this after about 10 years away from it. Sounds great still.
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
the whole album, that is.
apparently he did a covers album last year, I am listening to it on spotify it's pretty good
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
Kinda lost interest after the 2nd album, haven't listened to anything since.
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
listen to 'mrs potters lullaby'
― iatee, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 05:06 (eleven years ago) link