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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
Also released on September 14, 1993: Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back to Hell, Morphine's Cure for Pain, and the Judgment Night soundtrack.
I'd much rather read a zillion word Grantland think piece on that last one.
― Marlo Poco (Phil D.), Friday, 20 September 2013 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
man, spottie, you weren't kidding
i was sitting here thinking abt this album after noticing that 'mr jones' was right in the middle of that 20-years-back billboard top 20 from another thread. like, what happened to this band in my life? i remember still listening to their second album (first year in college), and probably even the live album that followed (but i don't remember what i thought of that at all). and from then on, probably under the influence of various new tastes and coolness and wanting to leave my teenaged self behind, somehow i just stopped listening to counting crows -completely-.
like, i remember having a radio show in college and am SURE i would never have played counting crows on it. yet i remember growing cool toward pearl jam, don't think i would have played them either, but even when 'yield' (was it?) came out and my girlfriend was quite into it, i was willing to stick with them and give the new one a chance, still listened to 'vitalogy', etc.
this is hard for me to understand because at the age when i was listening to 'august & everything after' i LOVED that record. not loved, just—it wasn't a matter of enjoying it or appreciating it for musical reasons, it was like an annex of my emotional life set up outside of me and capable of being repeated arbitrarily and endlessly.
to the point where i can't even recall ever having come to any -musical- judgment about this band (like i did about plenty of others that i liked to listen to when i was ~13, 14, 15, 16). no opportunity to compare their roots moves to the people i didn't realize at the time they were aping. no opportunity to listen to the 'too much' singing and lyrics and everything with some more mature perspective (or, like, to ask, what must those songs have been about, sounded like, felt like, if they felt like they were about / for me at 14 when they were being sung by a grown person with actual experience in life?). just—no more. i left it behind. and have not ever wanted to go back.
and it's weird to me that 'all apologies' and 'mr jones' were actually in the charts at the same time, because i associate the former with, like, maturity and mourning and grown-up respectable feelings (even though i also remember hearing it as the customary closer at the ~~alt rock laser light show~~ me and my girlfriend would go see like all the time—they played 'cannonball' too!!), but associate the latter with the endless wistful hours i spent wishing i could do something about my feelings for the girls i liked, before i ever had the courage to talk to any of them, ask any of them out. i realize that i've done a little reorganizing in my emotional memories—shoved some stuff back further into the junior-high past and pulled some other stuff along with me further into the future. when it was all in more or less the same place.
so this is super otm:
I don’t know if I ever said those exact words to a woman, but I’ve said something like those words. And hearing Duritz sing them never fails to make me cringe a bit. Not because it makes me think about Duritz and the circumstances of his life, but because it makes me think about my life, and not a particularly good part of my life. This is Duritz’s unique talent as a songwriter: He vividly re-creates the feeling of your lowest of personal lows — the “it’s 4:30 a.m. on a Tuesday and it doesn’t get much worse than this” moments that many of us would just as soon forget.Listening to In Utero makes those moments seem noble; it connects you with a rock legend and elevates your feelings to similarly larger-than-life status. Listening to August and Everything After makes loneliness seem like what it really is: a small and pitiful feeling drenched in a disgusting cocktail of tears and snot that causes outsiders to recoil. If talking about culture is really a vehicle for people to talk about themselves, then it’s not surprising that remembering the former is more tantalizing than remembering the latter. In Utero represents who we’d like to be; August and Everything After is who we want to hide. It’s not musical history we’re revising. It’s our own.
Listening to In Utero makes those moments seem noble; it connects you with a rock legend and elevates your feelings to similarly larger-than-life status. Listening to August and Everything After makes loneliness seem like what it really is: a small and pitiful feeling drenched in a disgusting cocktail of tears and snot that causes outsiders to recoil. If talking about culture is really a vehicle for people to talk about themselves, then it’s not surprising that remembering the former is more tantalizing than remembering the latter. In Utero represents who we’d like to be; August and Everything After is who we want to hide. It’s not musical history we’re revising. It’s our own.
but i'm still not going to listen to the record.
― j., Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:38 (ten years ago) link
I always felt it was weird that there was a Mobile Fidelity GoldDisc of this album--not now, but back like in '96. How anal would you have to be to buy a audiophile copy of a basically still new release? I can hear some Matthew Perry on Friends-esque douche testifying over a Zima, "I mean, honestly, you have not truly heard August and Everything After until you hear it on GoldDisc!"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:59 (ten years ago) link
great post j. love this
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Sunday, 13 April 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Excellent posts
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
A Murder of One has been stuck in my head for three days. At first I was okay with that, but now it's time for us to part ways.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 29 May 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
attn spottie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQpRNR90qME
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 28 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
oh man!
― marcos smart (Spottie), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
straight into my veins
― marcos smart (Spottie), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
I think there's an excellent r&b cover of "Anna Begins" just waiting to be made.
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Add a vote for "A Murder of One" to put it over the top. Done.
― j.o.h.n. (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
30 years old today
― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Thursday, 14 September 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
The correct answer is "Omaha."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 16 September 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link