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Does Anybody Else Really Like Counting Crows?

iamicaiamica 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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  • direwolf74direwolf74 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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  • lastexitlastexit Posts: 257
    She does --->http://limos.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/ga/ul/9121017253/inlineimg/Y/fugly.jpg
  • chris01chris01 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
  • somebodyelsessky2020somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,173
    yep august and everything after, all they're stuff is pretty good.
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  • red mosred 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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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby 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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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    i hate them with a passion.
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  • pearl jam = awesomepearl 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.
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I like them. we saw them with john mayer, I guess it was 2-3 yrs ago.
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  • wickedmonkeyzwickedmonkeyz 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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  • mensanemensane Posts: 912
    love love love counting crows.

    this desert life and recovering the satellites are my favorites.
  • dontloseyourheatdontloseyourheat 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_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,158
    small doses they are ok
  • pearljam_addictionpearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    I love the Counting Crows, them live, another story
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  • itsevobabyitsevobaby 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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  • MagstarMagstar 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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  • glasshouseglasshouse Posts: 1,762
    Get_Right wrote:
    small doses they are ok

    ditto
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  • JeanieJeanie 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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  • Rapunzel64Rapunzel64 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.
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I really like them until I saw them live. I wasn't impressed with the show. It was just ok and I had heard so much about how great they were live. I listen every once in a while but not near as much as I used to. Color blind was probably the song that got me into them. That's a great song.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Magstar wrote:
    Well, for my first post on the Pearl Jam forums... I really like Counting Crows.
    Especially "Mr. Jones" and "Accidentally in Love".

    Hey Maggie!:D Welcome to the boards.:)
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  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    I agree with the comments that they blow live. Their live version of "Rain King", probably my favorite Crows song, was the most uninspired version of a song I have ever heard performed live. Ever.

    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.
  • PJSerfPJSerf Posts: 637
    I've seen the Crows twice live... once last year with the Goo Goo Dolls, and again about a month ago with Hootie.

    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.
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  • wickedmonkeyzwickedmonkeyz Posts: 489
    PJSerf wrote:
    I've seen the Crows twice live... once last year with the Goo Goo Dolls, and again about a month ago with Hootie.

    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
    looking for 2 to Columbia...

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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    pearljam_addiction wrote:
    I love the Counting Crows, them live, another story

    bingo.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • yellowbirdyellowbird Posts: 184
    i really enjoy their music and adam has a beautiful style of writing.

    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.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    red mos wrote:
    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.

    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.
  • red mosred mos Posts: 4,953
    soulsinging wrote:
    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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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    red mos wrote:
    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.

    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 ;)
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