Does Anybody Else Really Like Counting Crows?
iamica
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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?
Do you like Counting Crows, and if so, what's your favorite album by them?
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-Tom Waits
The unplugged show was awesome too..... i might need to dig out my old cd's now.
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me
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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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
really looking forward to saturday nights, sunday mornings out november 6
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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
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this desert life and recovering the satellites are my favorites.
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
" I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"
"Are We Getting SomeThing Out Of this All Encompassing Trip? Makes Much More Sense To Live In The Present Tense"
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Especially "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love".
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
ditto
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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!
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Hey Maggie!:D Welcome to the boards.:)
However, August was brilliant, This Desert Life was great, and their greatest hits cd Songs About Ghosts might possibly be my favorite greatest hits cd.
I thought they were horrible live last year, but thorougly enjoyed their show this year.
Their Live at Heinekin Hall Cd hasn't left my cd player in quite a while either.
I guess you can say that they may be a bit inconsistent live.
bringing this one back from the dead...wait until they do a proper headlining tour when the new album comes out, the last few tours have been coheadlining stints, and it seems adam has gotten back on his feet so to speak... so things are looking better for them...check out some of their older boots, try the mega run at the warfield in San Francisco from back what, 2003 was it? My first show was at a college auditorium (RPI) back in 2002, and that alone will make the difference...I'm hoping/expecting a theatre tour for saturday nights whenever they finally release it, can't wait..
not sure where to go for the boots anymore, but I can dig up an older show for anyone interested and post it
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i, also, saw them last year with the goo goo dolls and the goo goo dolls outperformed them, i thought. the crows seemed a bit....lackluster.
i saw them live in high school and it was incredible. it was this outdoor ampitheater at a zoo, the band was energetic and jammed, it was perfect.
saw them the summer before last and they were TERRIBLE. every song was 10 minutes long so adam could ramble nonsense or "improv" by saying the same lyrics 15 times instead of just once like on the album. it was a huge disappointment. it was the same tour the poster above me mentioned. i wish i'd paid more attention to the goo goo dolls set cos i felt ripped off.
the Goo Goo Dolls are surprisingly really good live. I've seen them twice. Once as an opening act for Bush (on their sixteen stone tour /No Doubt played too) and then I saw them headline on the Dizzy up the girl tour with Sugar Ray and Fastball opening. Really GOOD SHOW. They may have one of the dumbest band names ever (people still give me shit for liking them), but they can put on an excellent performance so that's what keeps me listening to them.
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i saw them on that bush/no doubt tour too! i liked that show better... they had a bit harder rock edge back then. it was my first concert ever, i was in 8th grade. it was a hell of a good start.
i had a moment of crisis during the goo's set at the counting crows set becos i realized that i'd seen them before at my first concert.... TEN years ago