August & Everything After Accessories
 Recovering The Satellites
This Desert Life
Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Hard Candy
Films About Ghosts (The Best Of Counting Crows)
Across A Wire - Live From New York
Bringing Down The Horse
Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Accelerate (Bonus Tracks)
Crash
August & Everything After Reviews
It's funny to me how fans latch onto a particular band or artist and no matter what they come out with, it's "awesome". To me, this album is just average. It's sound is predictable, the songwriting is nothing special. I love you all, and I have used your recommendations many times. Go ahead and send the hate mail, I can handle it. This will remain in my collection, and maybe after time, it will grow on me, but not now. And every track pretty much sounds the same. But I picked up the album because it was recommended by Amazon customers.
Each and every song is a mix up bland ripped off guitars and melodies of the worst music every, without any sappy, drippy, birthday cake fake melodies, replacing it with none of that. I can't even describe what it sounds like, the only thing I can describe it as dull boring guitars and a vocalist that sounds like Rob Thomas (which is a VERY bad thing). Don't come near this sissy music. 1.5/10 Seriously, I think Brittany Spears is more catchy than this, and it's all delivered in a mindless pop format with a singer more boring than Coldplay. Resist the college radio junk in college and please, don't even buy this junk. College radio is just a subset of mindless radio junk, less mainstream but still mindless radio junk, just not spread into the airways.
If this is the kind _____ that I have to deal with when I get into college a couple of years, then you might as well tell all future frat ___________ in advance to murder my soul. This won't soothe you, it will just make you lightheaded from boredom. I even think that they take all of the groove, the instrumentation, and the voice out of Dave Matthews Band and blend it with the equally terrible Matchbox 20 and put it into a blender. This is draining to the ninth degree. Your listening will be all the better for it. So what is it in one sentence: uber-bland muzak with disposable, boring "pop" tendencies. Good lord, this is TERRIBLE.
This CD is a very good Counting Crows CD. There is not a song on it that I do not enjoy listening to. I am not a major fan of the counting crows but I do like some of their music.and would recomment this CD.
This is my favorite of their albums, although you cannot go wrong with any of them. Beautiful CD. Great place to start for anyone looking to get into Counting Crows.
There have been flashes of it but they've not been able to put a full album of it together since like they did here. Everyone has heard "Mr. At the time I couldn't get into "Raining in Baltimore" but over the years I've gained a new appreciation for that song as well. Jones" and that was the big hit on here along with "Round Here" but these are far from the only great songs on here.
Possibly my favorite Crows song of all time. They sounded like a new band with an old soul. In my opinion it was the last truly great year for rock and this CD is one of the reasons why.
They truly caught lighning in a bottle with "August." Alot of people dis the Counting Crows now but back in '94 this type of music was fresh and unique. "Perfect Blue Buildings" is fantastic.
Unfortunately the Crows have never reached this level of greatness since. 1994 was a great year for rock. They were grouped with the alternative bands that were becoming the mainstream at the time but they had this timeless, classic air about them.
"Anna Begins", "Ghost Train", "Rain King" all great. Adam Duritz was singing about dark stuff but rather than screaming angrily about it, he put it to some of the most beautiful tunes out there.
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