Counting Crows: Even worse than Dave Matthews Band?

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Dave Matthews Band is a whole lot better, (you knew you were going to see this, didn't you Dan?) Anyway, from what I've heard from them, they are more of a song based band than jam-based, so DMB gets my vote.

― naga_pampa (naga_pampa), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I still think the MST episode where Mike had to turn into the most disgusting thing in the universe -- aka the Counting Crows' lead singer -- to drive away a horrible alien says it all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm telling you i think i prefer Creed to them both, but thats kinda like preferring being lethally injected to being gassed

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey, Ned which episode was that? I don't think I've seen that one. I know I read about it though...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

My sense of humor is often juvenile, but:
"Mr. Jones" as veiled reference to the lead singer's penis = CLASSIC!

[Mr. Jones] and me tell each other fairy tales
Stare at the beautiful women
“She’s looking at you. Ah, no, no, she’s looking at me.”

Pass me that bottle [Mr. Jones]

[Mr. Jones] and me wanna be big big stars

etc...

I'll still take either band over Hootie.

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey, Ned which episode was that?

I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Counting Crows, hands down. There are more people in C.C. than in T.D.M.B., no? One cannot deny the superior songcraft, the superior songcraft. Also, in great tradition of bands with bird-related names: Crow, the Black Crowes, Byrds, Eagles, Doves, Orioles, the Blackbyrds. And: very '90s, that gerund thing that so many movies seem to have utilized..."Feeling Minnesota," "Leaving Las Vegas." So, somehow reassuring and even in tune with era?

Anthony Miccio--NE Colorado, like Greeley? Sterling? In Denver, whole neighborhoods are taken over by crows, no other birds, maybe the occasional magpie.

Was there not an early Neil Young band called the Magpies? Or was it the Mynah Birds?

So, my vote goes to Counting Cs.

― chicxulub (chicxulub), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

The laws of nature do not permit any band worse than the Dave Matthews Band to exist in this universe.

― chubby, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyone know where the best P2P is to actually download some Dave matthews Band or even bootlegs as supposedly they're much better live?

― Paul Rees, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

The laws of nature do not permit any band worse than the Dave Matthews Band to exist in this universe.

someone's never heard of Creed, Limp Bizkit, or Sigur Ros, apparently.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Totally shit live, but I really and truly enjoy this band. I loved "Mr. Jones," "Angels of the Silences," "Anna Begins," "American Girls," many many others. Yet my hatred of Dave Matthews knows no bounds. I baffle myself.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 13 February 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

"How about their cover of 'Six Different Ways'?"

I shudder to contemplate how gawdawful that must be. For this crime alone, they should be violently slain in a ritualistic bloodbath to rival the goriest passage of Terry Gilliam's vangloriously bloody "Jabberwocky."

The answer to the thread? YES! Counting Crows are a bajillion times worse than the DMB. DMB -- as we have somewhat laboriously pointed out -- at least have some chops to their music. Counting Crows have absolutely *DICK* to their credit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 February 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

"How about their cover of 'Six Different Ways'?"

I shudder to contemplate how gawdawful that must be. For this crime alone, they should be violently slain in a ritualistic bloodbath to rival the goriest passage of T. Gilliam's vangloriously bloody "Jabberwocky."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 February 2003 00:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Counting Crows suck boobs.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 13 February 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

They wish!

― original bgm, Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

they suck Winona boob

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 February 2003 01:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Greeley, chicxulub. spent most of my elementary school years there.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 13 February 2003 02:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

they have impeccable fashion sense with those frilly jackets and tucking your pants into desert boots.

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 13 February 2003 04:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've never minded the Counting Crows and on occasion I'll take to a song of theirs (I'm definitely with Yancey on "Long December"). DMB can be more annoying at times, but I don't mind them too much either.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 13 February 2003 05:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

The use of "Mr. Jones" as his penis could be a veiled refernce to John Berryman, who was always talking to "Mr. Bones."

http://plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=1067

Don't ask me who "Henry" is.

And as for why they're such a frustrating band, I think it's this: they made one very good album, one half good album, and then a whole lot of crap ones. It all started when they fired the short guy... he play maracas or something, I don't remember. But every album after they got rid of him was utter crap. Who knew the short guy was the key to everything good about the band?

― Kenan Hebert, Thursday, 13 February 2003 06:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

You cannot compare Counting Crows and their horrid sub-grungisms to dave matthews band.

― Ruth Gillespie (Ruth), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

I know - Crows are leagues better!

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

Personally, I think the Counting Crows have only improved, what with Mr. Dreadlocks phasing out the worst bits of singing, and very little in the way of terrible singles like "Round Here," which a lot of the first album sounded like.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:48 (twenty years ago) link

Gotta agree with the DMB googlers. I hate the Counting Crows (they get a "the" whether they want it or not, calling your band something like "Counting Crows" is an aggressive and unwelcome act of high-school art classism) more than pretty much any band ever.

Lite 104.1 vs. some guy who thinks he can improve on Van Morrison's schtick = gimme dat Quiet Storm, thanks

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

Counting Crows have one very good song called "Perfect Blue Buildings". Don't really care for much else.

Dave Matthews sounds like Kermit the Frog.

― earlnash, Friday, 11 July 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link

blaspheming Kermit offends me alot more than blaspheming Van Morrison

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link

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