― 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
"cover up the sun" really sweetly harnesses the vibes of folksy grateful dead
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
it's possible this is the least insufferable crows record bc almost none of the lyrics are about how duritz is an abandoned dreadlocked baby no one likes
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
justifying my continued affection for this band to someone the other day i said "it's a dude who desperately wants to be van morrison fronting a band who desperately wants to be the band and i think these are noble pursuits. it's just unfortunate that frontdude wants to invest the pursuit with his broetry"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
and i say that still loving a lot of his lyrics. anyway this is my fifth post in a row in the counting crows c/d thread
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
I secretly like this band way more than I should
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
oh good, someone else
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
my favorite counting crows record is still hard candy which imo is at least 70 percent an album about insomnia and relentlessly traveling the country within the shifting center of that insomnia, 20 percent an album about memory, 5 percent an album about richard manuel dying, 5 percent an abominable big yellow taxi cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjZE-_8BsM
if you don't come through, i wouldn't wait for youi understand that everyone goes disappearinginto the greater gray that covers over everydayand hovers in the distance
is a pretty good lyric imo
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
i liked that Potter's Lullaby one
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
I like most of the first album and a few things on the second.
― akm, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
duritz was a total dick to me right when the first album came out and I ran into him on the street and congratulated him on it. he looked at me like I was an alien. granted I was probably high.
― akm, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 03:40 (nine years ago) link
I revived the other thread last year POLL: Counting Crows - August & Everything Afteralso worth reading that Grantland piece I linked in there.
I have much love for this band. They are the band my big sis and I bonded over in the 90s and still text each other about every other month or so (she lives on the other side of the US). We've both been to CC gigs within the last year by ourselves and live texted each other throughout.
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
Brad and Spottie talking such a strong game that it makes me almost wanna do one of my periodic "check out music you used to really hate and see if you like it now" things
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
give it a shot!
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
I still love the first two records, the second one especially. I heard a song from the new one and it was pretty good! Will have to give the whole thing a listen.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
I used to like them and have fondness for a few songs but aero your long post on another thread about your utter contempt for this band is some beautiful hating and I would be sad to see you renege on it.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link
ha those posts are great it's true! I will never feel the need to defend this band, tbf. Just one of those bands I like that I expect everyone else hates and I'm comfortable with that. Would be interested in hearing aero's thoughts on a re-listen tho, see if the hatred is too deep to approach this from a different angle.
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Basically Spottie feels about Counting Crows the way I feel about Styx.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
I will never feel the need to defend this band
yep
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 18:57 (nine 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, 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