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
third album is a bit spotty but has great moments but i think hard candy is equal to the first two records
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
I just dont feel the need to listen, you know?
Mrs Potters Lullaby was nice enough.
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
but now I am! damn you
Sounds good, def skipping american girls though
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
Good Time guitar tones are pretty rad
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 05:32 (eleven years ago) link
this album is cool but the thread revival actually made me put on Recovering The Satellites instead because i am a little obsessed with that record
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
I've got A Murder of One on repeat again, which is what made me start the poll in the first place. Such a great choon.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
1. unlike everyone else my age, i didn't listen to this record at all when it was out, and thus feel no nostalgia for it.
2. i do, however, think both "a long december" and that einstein on the beach song are pretty great.
3. saw these dudes live last summer and they were hella boring.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
RTS is a great record too yeah. Needs its own poll.
― queef ka queef (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's got hella pink floyd vibes
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
this is so great:http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9680725/nirvana-utero-counting-crows-august-everything-20-years-later
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 20 September 2013 06:55 (ten years ago) link
I bought this on CD from a Sam the Record Man a couple weeks after it had been first released. Some friend of mine had read a review and recommended it to me. It was a Sam's "buy it, try it" promotion and I brought it back a few hours later. The clerk seemed surprised and told me no one had actually brought it back before. At least this thread answers some questions I've had.
― chromecassettes, Friday, 20 September 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link