Counting Crows

itsevobaby

soulsinging wrote:

i liked that album as well. i kinda fell out with them recently becos i saw them live 2 summer ago and they were AWFUL. one of the worst live performances i'd ever seen. it was sad. esp becos i saw them about 4-5 years before that and they were fantastic. but i guess they sucked that whole tour from what i hear.

the one & only time i've seen them was on their hard candy tour, must've been 02/03? it was one of the last shows on the tour & we'd heard that adam's throat was nearly gone so we weren't expecting much but they blew us away....and adam was at the top of his lungs all night, not holding anything back. one of the best shows i've been to

itsevobaby

bm12music wrote:

I used to think that they were a good solid band, but then saw them live and was blown away and have since hunted down everything that they have released. Anyone heard the Shim Sham Shows - some great fun covers on those.
Awesome that they actually released the song August & Everything After as a b-side as few years back - love it

were you at the auckland show few years ago at the civic? that was just magic

bm12music

itsevobaby wrote:

were you at the auckland show few years ago at the civic? that was just magic

It sure was, that show turned me into a real big fan - gotta love the Civic too, what a great venue to watch a gig.

I had tickets to Massive Attack who we're supposed to play the same night across the road at the St James and I couldn't decide which show to go to - luckily Massive Attack cancelled and the decision was made for me!

drivingrl

New album?! About damn time! This better be in the league of "This Desert Life" as long as they've taken.

itsevobaby

bm12music wrote:

It sure was, that show turned me into a real big fan - gotta love the Civic too, what a great venue to watch a gig.

I had tickets to Massive Attack who we're supposed to play the same night across the road at the St James and I couldn't decide which show to go to - luckily Massive Attack cancelled and the decision was made for me!

the civic was part of what made it so special, that venue is awesome! especially when you look up to that ceiling

itsevobaby

drivingrl wrote:

New album?! About damn time! This better be in the league of "This Desert Life" as long as they've taken.

apparently it's not like a normal counting crows album....split into two parts, 'saturday nights' is the more rocky up-beat songs & 'sunday morning' is the mellower side, supposedly a bit country/folky. really looking forward to this

harmless_little_f***

itsevobaby wrote:

yeah you're right harmless...good time, american girls, MIAMI!!, richard manuel, up all night, holiday in spain, they're all grade 'A' c.crows

Wow, amazing. I've actually lost my album, I need to buy it again. Don't suppose you know where I could download it free do you?

gabers

Counting Crows are one of the great bands to come out of the 90's (that are still active). I've seen them live twice and was disappointed both times, which is surprising, because they seem like they'd be a great live band. The band changes up the way they sing many of their songs and I don't care for it. At least when I saw them perform they did.

harmless_little_f***

gabers wrote:

Counting Crows are one of the great bands to come out of the 90's (that are still active). I've seen them live twice and was disappointed both times, which is surprising, because they seem like they'd be a great live band. The band changes up the way they sing many of their songs and I don't care for it. At least when I saw them perform they did.

Yep; they always do that. I've seen 'em twice and they did both times. I like it - nothing's the same twice - but it's not everyone's cup of tea.

prodacake

All the crows albums have been brillant in my eyes anyway, gotta say this desert life is my favourite, seen them live 4 times and they were amazing each time roll on the new album. Cowboys just sounds great

soulsinging

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

Yep; they always do that. I've seen 'em twice and they did both times. I like it - nothing's the same twice - but it's not everyone's cup of tea.

i would like it if they knew how to jam. but the last time i saw them it seemed like their idea of "changing it up" was simply to have a breakdown where all the music stops and adam repeats one lyric about 50 times with different inflections before kicking back into the song. they only played about 10 songs the show i saw, with each one being abouy 6-7 minutes. normally im ok with that, cos i like it when bands stretch out and jam. but not when 3 of those extra minutes was simply self indulgent and uncreative warbling from the singer. look to gord downie to see vocal improv or pearl jam to see how to really stretch a song out.

harmless_little_f***

soulsinging wrote:

i would like it if they knew how to jam. but the last time i saw them it seemed like their idea of "changing it up" was simply to have a breakdown where all the music stops and adam repeats one lyric about 50 times with different inflections before kicking back into the song. they only played about 10 songs the show i saw, with each one being abouy 6-7 minutes. normally im ok with that, cos i like it when bands stretch out and jam. but not when 3 of those extra minutes was simply self indulgent and uncreative warbling from the singer. look to gord downie to see vocal improv or pearl jam to see how to really stretch a song out.

All fair points Nod nod

soulsinging

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

All fair points Nod nod

like i said though, i heard from pretty much everyone that saw them that the band was very off that tour. when is aw them several years prior, they were excellent.

harmless_little_f***

This song Cowboys has really struck a chord and is pretty important to me right now.

'This is a list of what I could've been, but I'm not.'

'This is a list of all the things that I should've seen but I'm not seeing.'

drivingrl

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

And yet I think Hard Candy was a great album as well. I can't honestly see why people don't think that every CC album is excellent.

Hard Candy was a good album, but it's really hard to follow something like This Desert Life.

drivingrl

soulsinging wrote:

i liked that album as well. i kinda fell out with them recently becos i saw them live 2 summer ago and they were AWFUL.

They're touring baseball parks and state fairs now. That's band suicide. Artists like Boyz II Men and Billy Ray Cyrus tour state fairs.

cc10106

Thanks for the link. Overall the song's pretty good, picks up momentum really well in some parts, then is sorta trainwrecked by Adam's self-indulgent lyrics (at times). Nice to hear some dirty guitar action ala the days of RTS. Melody is key with this group for me, so I hope all the time spent making the album yields some catchiness and memorable hooks.

Don't worry, they're not going anywhere. They toured parks and fairgrounds because they wanted to, not because they HAD to... You know, keeping in touch with the whole 'Americana' idea. From what I've heard, it was the best tour to see them on in quite some time (in the US anyway). Can't wait for them to get back to playing/selling out theaters.

uglybabo

The other new song, 'Come Around' would do better on the radio than 'Cowboys.'

I think it would make a better first single.

eddievedder1977

When does the new album come out? At one point I saw Nov 6th but that obviously didn't happen.

As far as their albums.....I like each for a different reason. All of them have really great songs, good songs, and at least 1 shit song that I just can't fucking stand! But I let them slide on the really lame songs, cause when they are on, they are really fucking on

drivingrl

eddievedder1977 wrote:

When does the new album come out? At one point I saw Nov 6th but that obviously didn't happen.

January, yay!