Does Anybody Else Really Like Counting Crows?

iamica
iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
edited October 2007 in Other Music
Lately I've been listening to some of my old CDs, and This Desert Life by Counting Crows is something I've found myself listening to again and again. I can't get enough of it. I think they're wonderful.
Do you like Counting Crows, and if so, what's your favorite album by them?
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    August & Everything After is one of my favorite records of all time, and Recovering the Satellites is equally brilliant. They lost me after that, but I do like some of the songs from This Desert Life.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

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  • lastexit
    lastexit 10923 Posts: 259
    She does --->http://limos.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/ga/ul/9121017253/inlineimg/Y/fugly.jpg
  • chris01
    chris01 Posts: 559
    Same as direwolf. August and Everything After is an awesome album, although i cant listen to Mr Jones anymore due to people playing it all the fucking time when i was in school and equally at open mic nights.

    The unplugged show was awesome too..... i might need to dig out my old cd's now. :D
  • somebodyelsessky2020
    somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,178
    yep august and everything after, all they're stuff is pretty good.
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    direwolf74 wrote:
    August & Everything After is one of my favorite records of all time, and Recovering the Satellites is equally brilliant. They lost me after that, but I do like some of the songs from This Desert Life.


    same here. I saw them on the Recovering the satellites tour back in 97 with the Wallflowers opening. I thought they were pretty good. The whole tour was a rehearsal for their storytellers or some concert on MTV that fall ...can't remember? I listened to "hard candy" and it just seems like that went stale after that one. I've heard their live shows are like this too recently.
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  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    august will always be an all-time fav & seeing them live has to be experienced, def one of my fav bands.

    august, satellites, desert are all fantastic. across a wire is a brilliant double live album, especially the acoustic side. hard candy has some indespensible ccrows songs, unfortunately it also has that god-awful cover of a certain song that we should never speak of :o

    really looking forward to saturday nights, sunday mornings out november 6 :D
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    i hate them with a passion.
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  • pearl jam = awesome
    pearl jam = awesome Posts: 96
    i have been listening to all my counting crows abulms recently. i would have to say my favourite would be hard candy.
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I like them. we saw them with john mayer, I guess it was 2-3 yrs ago.
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  • wickedmonkeyz
    wickedmonkeyz Posts: 489
    itsevobaby wrote:

    really looking forward to saturday nights, sunday mornings out november 6 :D


    same here, loved cowboys when they played buffalo this summer...but sadly, it looks like they're pushing back the release date for the new record until after the new year, check out adam's post on their website
    looking for 2 to Columbia...

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  • mensane
    mensane Posts: 912
    love love love counting crows.

    this desert life and recovering the satellites are my favorites.
  • dontloseyourheat
    dontloseyourheat Posts: 483
    wickedmonkeyz wrote:
    same here, loved cowboys when they played buffalo this summer...but sadly, it looks like they're pushing back the release date for the new record until after the new year, check out adam's post on their website


    FUCK...that pisses me off. I have been looking forward to this cd for months. O well, a few more months can't hurt.

    I don't think their shows are stale at all. In fact they are one of my favorite live bands. They consistently change the setlists and find ways to add new dimensions to songs. They switch up the tempo, play acoustic sets, and are constantly adding different tags to songs. I love Adam's stupid ramblings in the middle of sets too :)
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,134
    small doses they are ok
  • pearljam_addiction
    pearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    I love the Counting Crows, them live, another story
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  • itsevobaby
    itsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    wickedmonkeyz wrote:
    same here, loved cowboys when they played buffalo this summer...but sadly, it looks like they're pushing back the release date for the new record until after the new year, check out adam's post on their website
    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh crap.
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  • Magstar
    Magstar Posts: 117
    Well, for my first post on the Pearl Jam forums... I really like Counting Crows.
    Especially "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love".
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Yep, I love Counting Crows - every album of theirs is excellent. I don't have a favourite. When the hell will they make a new one? It's about time.
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    Get_Right wrote:
    small doses they are ok

    ditto
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    August and Everything After is my fav. But I confess I didn't get any of the others. I did get pissed off with their cover of Big Yellow Taxi big time!
    It was so bland and generic and twee. Not nearly as good as the original AND it seemed to get saturation airplay which really drove me nuts!
    NOPE!!!

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  • Rapunzel64
    Rapunzel64 Posts: 129
    I love listening to their cd's, but they are hard to listen to live. It was really neat, though, that Adam was walking around and hanging out with the crowd before the show.

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