― Sym (shmuel), Saturday, 8 May 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
But they are forever burned into my head for Big Yellow Taxi and that song/video sums up everything wrong with them. INCLUDING having Vanessa Carlton in the video and credited on the song when all she did was go "mmmm-bop-bop-bop."
Like Hanson didn't already cover the whole Mmmbop thing. What the hell more does she think needs to be added?
― Catty (Catty), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll refrain from any jokes about Fatty Dread Man and his Gut of Goo.
― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 9 May 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Greatest hits => Classic
― frankE (frankE), Sunday, 9 May 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― minolta (minolta), Sunday, 9 May 2004 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Not so much DUD as, say, STAB.
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Sunday, 9 May 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― uh (eetface), Sunday, 9 May 2004 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 9 May 2004 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― CRW (CRW), Sunday, 9 May 2004 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― lovebug starski, Sunday, 9 May 2004 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 9 May 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― John 2, Sunday, 9 May 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― John 2, Sunday, 9 May 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Sorry what??
I'd rather count sheep.
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
thank you.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38205000/jpg/_38205816_crows_pa_150.jpg http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p014/p01479o6a7f.jpg
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 10 May 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
CLASSSSSSSSIC. I really don't get the hate. I just went through their discography today thinking I'd end up hating my 12-year-old self, but after listening to a number of tracks, I think my CC love was justified. OK, so Hard Candy/August and Everything After are mostly filled with bad Train/Dave Matthews-esque tracks, almost all of their songs on Recovering the Satellites and This Desert Life are brilliant...especially "Chelsea," "High Life," and "I'm Not Sleeping."
So, what's the problem? I see people complaining because they're 'mopey,' but what makes them any more mopey than Joy Division? Do you not believe that Duritz is really that sad? Or is his sadness just not as real? Or have you just heard the singles?
(p.s. - sample lyric for your response: "Some people will cut you 'til you're bleeding/but not me, 'cause I just want to do it to myself")
― Tape Store, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(and yes, I realize that I probably just nixed the little credibility I had)
Counting Crows can suck the dick off George W.
― Bimble, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Considering as I love love love love "Hangin' Around," "Angels of the Silences," and "Long December" it's amazing I've never ever found myself compelled to investigate them beyond that. The dumpy dreads guy is a HUGE turnoff, you could put that guy in any band and I would be too embarassed for my indie cred to go near their records. Maybe when I'm 40 and lose my childish ways.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link
UGLY DORKS TRADING IN ROCK STAR STATUS FOR GRADE A TRIM Exhibit # 3,481,567 "Duritz has dated actresses Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, who appeared in the music video "Long December", Mary Louise Parker, Monica Potter (the Mrs Potter in "Mrs Potter's Lullaby" from This Desert Life) and Winona Ryder"
― gershy, Sunday, 20 May 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Not as good as the Cutting Crew.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The new one isn't half bad, if you're into the mopey, dreaded rock star thing. Certainly the best thing they've done since This Desert Life and almost makes me forgive that atrocious Shrek song and horrid Joni Mitchell cover.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I love "A Long December" so much. It's so sad and pretty. I remember once I was driving around on a gray, snowy day in Minneapolis and I was all bummed out and it came on the radio and it was perfect.
"A Long December" is all I know or need to know. I somehow missed it when it was new, then discovered it while shopping (!) a couple years back. I'm inside my brain looking at my feet in the soup aisle or whatever, and all of a sudden I realize how sad and beautiful the muzak raining down on me is this day, and it was "ALD."
I downloaded a few more tracks that were kind of dopey and sucky, so that was that, but man, I can still listen to "A Long December" five times in a row, no problem. It's one of my favorite songs ever, punches me in the gut and gives me the prettiest heartached every time, and I have no issue saying it either.
A separate discussion might be "was the sheer plaintive melancholic beauty of this song an accident?" and to that colloquy I would have nothing at all to contribute.
― SecondBassman, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Still think they're classic. Something really special about that middle period. Was watching CRUEL INTENTIONS a few weeks ago, and "Colorblind" really hit me. Also, this one:
― Trik Turner Fan Club President (Tape Store), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Counting Crows fans to thread plz
― Trik Turner Fan Club President (Tape Store), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to like them and I have a fondness for certain songs, but I find the ballads unbearable, sorry.
― clotpoll, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
ayo these dudes had some jams.
― dumb pseud (some dude), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The first record came out when I was at the absolute zenith of my early-teen indie snobbery and yet if I happen to hear a single from that album over the speakers at a bar I get a small whiff of that nostalgic feeling I thought I would be above. Perhaps that makes them slightly superior to their contemporaries, or perhaps it is just the alcohol. A non-mean-spirited dud.
― Shh! It's NOT Me!, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my bros is in a minimal-electronica band with the guitarist... sounds NOTHING like CCrows...
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
the acoustic half of across a wire is really really tight.
― rent, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1yts9uZ3m1qc3wjlo1_500.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
"Long December" playing in the hotel restaurant where I'm trying to eat breakfast. Truly, this is the worst music of all fucking time.
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 17 December 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
So this is a pretty glowing review. I've never been into this band, but that write up is very enticing.
Any thoughts?
― Austin, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
new record is pretty nice!, he announced to no one
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned) wrote this at 2012-12-17 17:13:11.000
I totally get how this is not breakfast music.
― how's life, Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
and the feeling that it's all a lot of egg whites with no yolks
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
spottie what do you think of the new one
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Bout to fire it up, will report back!
― FKATlovestoFU better (Spottie), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
think "earthquake driver" is his best lyric overall in a while (saturday nights & sunday mornings was oddly both restrained and unhinged lyrically, duritz endlessly musing on "everything" and "nothing" which was pretty boring). think "dislocation" is my favorite song. think this is way better than saturday nights in general and really enjoy the expansive qualities of "palisades park" and "johnny appleseed's lament"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Listened a couple times.
God of the Ocean Tides (aka Dust in the Wind?) is really nice, as well as Possiblity Days. I think they do ballads as good as anyone. Palisades Park and John Appleseed's Lament are def standouts. The hook on Dislocation kinda grates but the rest is good, might grow on me. Kinda love the final third of this lp straight up. Even into the ragtime stomper 'cover up the sun'.
― FKATlovestoFU better (Spottie), Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
been spending a lot of time with the most recent one and it's better than I even gave it credit for at the time (I am weirdly, unnecessarily bet-hedging in this thread idk why)
been preaching to the already-converted for a while that hard candy is their best record if you delete the big yellow taxi cover from every layer of existence
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
I've always had a soft spot for their tune "Perfect Blue Buildings" as when I was in school I remember being dirty and dead tired washing dishes about 3am in the back of a restaurant/bar alone hearing it on this sad radio that was zip tied up above the 3 sink.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
i associate those first albums really strongly with dirty teenage restaurant work, too. that stuff is probably too intertwined with certain memories for me to even really hear what it sounds like.
― dc, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
What I hate about them, much like Rob Thomas, is that Duritz's voice MAKES them MOR. He's like the anti-Fagen, whose voice IMO contrasts/complements nicely with all that Steely Dan sheen.
Duritz, instead, grounds everything in this horrible 'tastefulness' that is completely repellent IMO
― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link
I got basically no critical perspective, but whataya mean by tastefulness
― dc, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
I too am wondering
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 03:24 (seven years ago) link
holiday in spain song is hitting me todayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJatv7CUhys
its a real damn shame the album didnt end with this song
― big city slam (Spottie), Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
#1 hit in Holland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkErDMj1TW8
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
― big city slam (Spottie), Thursday, July 11, 2019 12:27 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
afaic big ol taxi is a bonus track from hell
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
At least the original bonus track didn't have Vanessa Carlton on it, which always seemed like an odd addition.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, July 11, 2019 12:52 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
fair. song really set them back and killed what little reputation they had at that point.
― big city slam (Spottie), Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, July 11, 2019 12:38 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
did not know!
― MarkoP, Thursday, July 11, 2019 1:07 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oooo bop bop bop
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 21:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eexQVcLZV3Q
attn spottie, new counting crows EP is really awesome imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 24 May 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link
yeah! listened to it on Friday. really love that first song. Need to spend more time w it.
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Monday, 24 May 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link