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crows are singing... but this time its prety good huh! ! !

crows are singing... but this time its prety good huh! ! !

pannaramma wrote:

My thoughts exactly. Just can't like them.

stabby wrote:

I have a completely irrational reason for not liking them - the guitarist's attire and floppy hippy hair and their well meaning but whiney songs. I don't hate them I just don't light up when they are played. Maybe it's because I'm from Santa Cruz, where every hippy lived in Canoga Park before attending university here and now they're all up in arms about causes that they just heard about yesterday. And Counting Crows reminds me of that. Like I said, totally irrational but I went to school with them kind and can't.. let.. it.. go....
I do like other melancholic bands, like Soundgarden and Simon and Garfunkle (sp?).

counting the minutes until this is OVER

What a joke. Especially after PJ.

what a great band!!!,, what ever happened to these guys,, havent heard anything from them in years

I love this band...but I'm a depressing b******. lol.

I don't care! I love this song!!! So there!

Don't go back to Rockville, and waste another year.

QUICK, somebody call whine-one-one and get Adam Duritz a wahmbulance!

mrs_amjohnson wrote:

You made my day :)

I love the Counting Crows. Hard for me to understand all the negative comments. This is a band, I think, for people prone to melancholy and introspection. Even their upbeat tunes have that dark flavour.

Do any CC haters out there like other bands that are similarly melancholic?

The harmonies of Counting Crows always strike a sentimental chord in my heart--that was one of the main "sounds" of the mid-90s--a very, very wonderful time for me in many ways. But especially socially. I miss my social circle from those days.

what a waste of a cool guitar sound...

These guys thankfully didn't last long, they had a few things to say and then moved on.

Thankfully.

What a rot-assed band.

Not the best Counting Crows song, but still one I like. I just like their stuff in general. This is the kind of thing I come to Radio Paradise to hear.

Kerly wrote:

ME TOO!

This is an amazing song, my favorite by CC. Needless to say that I got the chills
When I will get to see them live

ChardRemains wrote:
Exactly!! hahahhahah

buzzKILL!

if i was raving to someone about RadioParadise, as i often do, and they fired it up and the first thing they heard was counting crows, i would be MORTIFIED and wouldn't blame them for never trusting my judgment on anything ever again

how did they ever make it here? mystifying, truly

Hootie and the Blow Crows...

CC is one of my favorite bands and this song in particular I love. Adam Durtiz's lyrics about running from place to place, to or away from women and experiences, have always stuck a chord with me. His plaintive vocal melodies are often moving, though I do agree that sometimes, particularly on August and Everything After, he does "whine" a bit much by drawing out the ends of songs with his expressive" vocal blatherings. Too much sometimes, even for me.

Funny enough, most CC fans consider their first album their favorite, since it's probably the first one they were exposed to, but I didn't get into them until This Desert Life and I like their first album the least. Having said that, part of the appeal of CC is that each album is dependably good and spaced far enough apart where you don't get sick of hearing the similarities from album to album so soon.

ChardRemains wrote:

Close. It reeks of those kids you describe who then don knitted caps and forgo showers to gain some kind of pseudo-street cred.

Shesdifferent wrote:

It just reeks of suburban McMansion developments where the garage takes up the whole front of the house, ChemLawn does everyone's yard, and none of the kids have ever earned a buck.

not very male bands get the "pathos" thing right. Counting Crows comes pretty close.

I've heard this song way too many times already, but it's still a great tune. 8

OK song as far as Counting Crows goes. I think just about any song from "August and Everything After" beats this by a yard, an other top ten "desert island" album pick, solid from start to finish.