"Someone stole my shoes... but there's a couple of bananas and a bottle of booze... oh..."

Adam Duritz and the boys are one of my favorite bands. Swoop in here to show your love to the Counting Crows.

My faves include "Holiday in Spain" (referenced above), "Insignificant," "Goodnight L.A.,"Long December" and countless others.





Yeah, I know his dreads are fake, merely extensions. but, I'll forgive him that, with all the real gut-wrenching emotion he puts into his lyrics and singing.

Even though I feel like they've fallen off as of late, I still love their first 3 albums. In fact, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" is one of my favorite songs of all time.

Axchi696 said:

Yeah, an ex introduced me to that gem... Awesome song on an awesome album.

Mrs. Potters's Lullaby is one of my favorites . Although I feel somehow inclined to admit that my on-off dislexia got the best of me and I swore I saw a thread title that said "Counting Cows appreciation..."

August And Everything After is a masterpiece. Everything on that album is great, from start to finish.

For a while there in the late 90s/early 00s, they had a lot of soundalike uptempo songs that kinda got lost. I think they have gotten back to their trademark sound now, which is good.

Thank you for starting this thread. Counting Crows is my favorite band, and I agree that August and Everything After is a masterpiece.

I recently blogged about them . . .

http://wherepianosroam.go...orning-46/

That album got me through a very tough year in my life.

"Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white . . ." --must be one of the best opening lines for an album ever.

Ottensen said:

That ain't dyslexia. That's a RIF problem...




(please, don't hit me again, Ottensen)

gordonroque said:

Thanks for that, man. Awesome blog.

And, I'm gonna post the clip, too.

and, while I'm posting in series, let me just say that lyrics to songs such as "Round Here" have taken on totally different casts since I learned about Duritz's mental illness.

He sings about it in so many songs. and, knowing that makes me wonder if things he describes are literal, metaphorical or descriptions of his hallucinations.

God bless him.

Feel like playing "A Murder of One"... I think Duritz is an incredibly underrated lyricist. He's written so many of my favorite lines in songs ever...

And I completely agree about August and Everything After being a masterpiece. But I think Recovering the Satellites and This Desert Life are almost as good...

<--- keeps forgetting to get Satellites and August...



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