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August and Everything After and A Long December

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited October 2008 in Other Music
two of the greatest non grunge albums released in the 90s.

Been listening to them for the last few days. I feel like Round Here is a pretty powerful song. Perfect Blue Buildings is beautiful and disturbing.

A Long December is a great song.

Seems like they get alot of flack, but these records are pretty much essential in my view
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  • yellowbirdyellowbird Posts: 184
    i love counting crows
    have you heard their newest record, Saturday nights and Sunday mornings?
    some really nice tracks on there
  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    August and Everything After was pretty much my introduction to music, back in 1994 when I was 13...one of the best albums EVER.
    This Desert Life ranks up there too.
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  • tomtintomtin Posts: 48
    I love counting crows and August is an amazing album.

    A long december isn't an album but it is an amazing song.

    I guess you mean Recovering the Satellites?
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  • Meine liebeMeine liebe Posts: 203
    All I ever had by them was This Desert Life and I still love it. I look at it a perfect rock record, not mind blowing like OK Computer or No Code or anything, but just rock solid. There are no bad songs on it.

    Once I started dating my current wife I got into AAEA and RTS more, as she was a big fan of them. The Joni Mitchell cover and the Coke commercial turned me off from them for a little while but I forgive em ;)
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    I love the first two records, but absolutely HATE A Long December - in my opinion that song doesn't fit well on the album at all.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I put 'August and Everything After' on the Perfect Albums thread the other day, along with some others. After doing it I realised that I probably think that August is the only perfect album I've ever heard.. there's not one track on there which isn't excellent. I also love Recovering the Satellites but for some reason, to me, their heavier/rockier songs don't zing like their more acoustic/folk inspired stuff. Other bands do the heavy stuff better, like PJ for example.

    I love every Counting Crows album and am in the minority as I loved Hard Candy as well, which is CC's 'Riot Act'.. you either love it or hate it.
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  • PJSerfPJSerf Posts: 637
    AAEA is also a great song... I think if they had put that song on the album, it would have made it even better....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOd0Bzjqho
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  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    PJSerf wrote:
    AAEA is also a great song... I think if they had put that song on the album, it would have made it even better....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOd0Bzjqho
    First off, August is one of my favorite albums of all time. Second, This Desert Life was never a big hit with me I think mostly because I tried to compare it to August.
    AAEA is a good song, which I had never heard before a couple of weeks ago, but anyone wishing to hear it can find it at fuelfriends.blogspot.com
    ...if the link still works
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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    amazing albums & i'm not afraid to admit i'm a huge crows fan as well
    saw them in concert this summer and they were great!
    i gotta say the highlight of the show an incredible 11 minute 'Round Here', sung with really intense feeling- adam really gave it all he got
    what a great band!
  • hodgehodge Posts: 519
    round here is one of my fav songs ever

    AAEA is an amazing album. now i have to pop it in
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  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    PJSerf wrote:
    AAEA is also a great song... I think if they had put that song on the album, it would have made it even better....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOd0Bzjqho

    An mp3 of the song, live, here:

    http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2008/09/august-and-everything-after.html

    Notice the blog's name. Puts up lots of good stuff.

    August is one of my top 10 all-time favorites. I remember buying it and AIC's Dirt for $25 at this defunct record store in Bensalem, PA in December of '93. I can even tell you the road we were driving on when "Perfect Blue Buildings" came on. I've liked all the Crows' albums, but that first one was pure brilliance.
  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    the rest of their catalogue is pretty damn good as well, but these first two albums are perfection, everything in its right place. closing satellites with walkaways fits like luna on siamese dream or release on ten, couldn't be any better.
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  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    I seem to have heard Mr.Jones every time I've been into an O'Neils pub, and that album is one of the strongest debuts, but....the singer has an annoying caterwaul, fake dreds and the anti-psychotic meds have made him look in need of more serious help. And they murdering Big Yellow Taxi big style.
  • walkunafraidwalkunafraid Posts: 2,613
    AAEA is pure brilliance. Of course Round Here and Mr. Jones are classics, but some of the best songs on that record are the lesser known ones -- Omaha, Raining in Baltimore, A Murder of One, etc. Adam Duritz is the king when it comes to yearning, emotional vocals.

    Recovering the Satellites is more of an acquired taste, but is equally brilliant, I think. It's more angry and angsty overall, but Adam does that well, too. Goodnight Elisabeth, I'm Not Sleeping, A Long December, and Angels of the Silences are amazing tracks.

    Nice thread!
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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    elmer wrote:
    ...And they murdering Big Yellow Taxi big style.
    we don't talk about that
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  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    itsevobaby wrote:
    we don't talk about that

    at least they left vanessa carlson off the album version. we can be thankful for something.
  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    lralle wrote:
    at least they left vanessa carlson off the album version. we can be thankful for something.
    yeah, i was quite happy when it was a hidden track, but getting vanessa carlton & plastering it all over the radio!? :eek: maybe if it was a decent version! which it wasn't :(
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