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Counting Crows — Omaha
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Euskadita
(MX)
Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 17:45
 
 Nuance wrote:

You mean it was all crap?
 
I don't find this song crap, only a typical "average" song of what there was in the 90's

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Dec 08, 2012 - 15:59
 
 Stave wrote:
Driving back to California from visiting my family a few years ago, my wife said of Omaha that it was the only nice place she'd seen in Nebraska. The look on her face when I told her that we were still in Council Bluffs, IA and hadn't actually crossed into Nebraska yet was priceless.
 
{#Lol} This anecdote is also priceless.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Dec 08, 2012 - 15:57
 
 chinnymcchipstah wrote:
I've tried, I really have but I HATE THIS BAND!!!! 
 
I've tried, I really have, but I have yet to understand how anyone can actually hate music of any kind. I can understand simply not caring for it—changing the dial so to speak, but hating? Music, my friend, is a miracle, and those who make it are artists of the highest order. I happen to like Counting Crows, and I happen to love this album, but even if I didn't, I'd be hard pressed to muster the emotional energy to actually hate them. Life's too short. Give a little.

Proclivities
(Paris of the Piedmont)
Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 07:17
 
 Euskadita wrote:
This song may be a synonym for American alternative rock of the 90's 
 
I guess it depends who you ask.  There were a lot of American alternative rock bands in the '90s - some better, some worse.

Shmelo
Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 07:13
 
I've been watching too much election coverage, I misread the name of the song completely.   Counting Crows - Obama  {#Shifty}

lily34
(GTFO)
Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 07:12
 
this was always one of my favorite songs by them. it's nice to hear it again.

Nuance
(Winnipeg)
Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 07:11
 
 Euskadita wrote:
This song may be a synonym for American alternative rock of the 90's 
 
You mean it was all crap?

chinnymcchipstah
(Foraging4Sanity)
Posted: Sep 05, 2012 - 08:53
 
I've tried, I really have but I HATE THIS BAND!!!! 

Euskadita
(MX)
Posted: Jul 04, 2012 - 10:53
 
This song may be a synonym for American alternative rock of the 90's 

jonahboo
(in a corner)
Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 11:16
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
Yea I know his voice can be annoying, but this is still a pretty good album.
 





sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Nov 25, 2011 - 07:05
 
Yea I know his voice can be annoying, but this is still a pretty good album.

Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window)
Posted: Oct 24, 2011 - 16:31
 
 MiracleDrug wrote:
this dude has a REALLY annoying voice...{#Frustrated}
 



And a penchant for bagging the hotties! Can I get a what? What?

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 15:26
 
 wibadger wrote:
Is it possible that Bill tracks what songs are playing when the count of streams drops precipitously? {#Wink} I've only found two things that chase me to Pandora temporarily: that horrible car crash song and Counting Crows. Ugh.

 
Yep, ran for the safety of Grooveshark immediately.  Works every time.


martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Jul 22, 2011 - 06:45
 
I am a fan. Like the songs, the band plays a wide range of instruments and give each other space to play. Like the double live MTV sessions. The band is really strong and switch between instruments from song to song.

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Jul 22, 2011 - 06:45
 
this dude has a REALLY annoying voice...{#Frustrated}

wibadger
(The Good Land)
Posted: Jun 20, 2011 - 14:55
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Um, which horrible car crash song would that be?  (Guessing it's that lame Pearl-Jam cover, but if there's another one, I'm pretty sure I don't want to hear it.) 
 
Vienna Teng - Passage.

Came to view the comments as I was looking through a gallery of pictures of the Missouri River flooding around Omaha when this song came on.

(Link broken - pic deleted)

The "walk on water" lyrics were...ironic. The song is still terrible. ;-)


Synth80s
(*Beautiful* Southern California (cough, choke, honk))
Posted: May 19, 2011 - 23:22
 
I'm very open minded when it comes to music and I can find something to like about almost every band or song, but Counting Crows does nothing for me.  It's not overtly painful for me to listen to like, say, Natalie Merchant, but I would generally prefer silence over Counting Crows.

On_The_Beach
(Vancouver BC, Bud)
Posted: Feb 14, 2011 - 13:55
 
Wow, it appears that lotsa people hate these guys.
I really liked this album, although their subsequent output was pretty average. 

realsleep
Posted: Feb 14, 2011 - 13:52
 
I have always loved this album.  It is thematically consistent, at times sublime, and holds up even after all the bad stuff they made afterwards. 

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Sep 09, 2010 - 15:10
 
 wibadger wrote:
Is it possible that Bill tracks what songs are playing when the count of streams drops precipitously? {#Wink} I've only found two things that chase me to Pandora temporarily: that horrible car crash song and Counting Crows. Ugh.

 
Um, which horrible car crash song would that be?  (Guessing it's that lame Pearl-Jam cover, but if there's another one, I'm pretty sure I don't want to hear it.)  At least no one's tried to upload (or, thankfully, if they did, it was rejected) "D.O.A." by Bloodrock. THAT piece of morbid shock-rock used to give me nightmares. I listened to it once for the first time, and ever after that, when I heard the first four bars of it, I'd vault to the radio, risking life and limb, to turn it off. Got a broken toe one time (my ONLY broken bone - I tripped over the vacuum cleaner cord and landed terribly wrong, but still managed to hit the "off" button before those cute little white sparkles of pain shifted my focus to the damage to my foot.)

Guess I should give a shout-out to Bloodrock for breaking my "bones-perfectly-intact" record, literally. F*ckers.  {#Lol}

And this has absolutely nothing to do with Counting Crows, except that I never risk life and limb to turn off a Counting Crows song. Gee - maybe I've mellowed with age. {#Sunny}

Jonathan_pa
(Somewhere in the vastness of space)
Posted: Sep 09, 2010 - 14:58
 
Very pleasant song from the Rain King.

Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Aug 08, 2010 - 14:29
 
 socalhol wrote:

me neither — he's such a whiner.....!

 

Excuse me...?

This song and the whole album is GREAT MUSIC!
Not that I would repeat that for anything they came up with later!

To say this is not a gorgeous song (overplayed or not)
is, again, BULL!

socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jul 07, 2010 - 17:32
 
 fluffybum wrote:
can't stand 'em.
 
me neither — he's such a whiner.....!


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 05, 2010 - 21:23
 
I know what's-his-name can't sing. I don't care. I sorta love the lyrics, and the music, and oh, hell - I don't isolate one factor of a song - I just take the whole thing and what it does to me. I guess I'm not so insular. If the music makes me dance, I dance. If the lyrics make me laugh, I laugh. If I don't understand them, I dance anyway. And if the lyrics are so banal ("moon," "June," "tune,"...) that the cynic in me has to rise up and be snarky, so be it.

Counting Crows doesn't elicit the snarky dragon in me. They inspire me (in spite of the negativity other people experience when listening to them.)  And I love this song.

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Apr 03, 2010 - 11:52
 
 Quixmundi wrote:
Plastic angst - totally predictable from this group.
 
Well said.

Nuance
(Winnipeg)
Posted: Jan 30, 2010 - 09:33
 
Why ruin a good set with bird poop?

Paul_in_Australia
(Melbourne)
Posted: Nov 28, 2009 - 13:53
 
 BettyB wrote:
I really can't stand the vocals. Ick.
 
And people say Bob Dylan can't sing?

wibadger
(The Good Land)
Posted: Apr 21, 2009 - 08:35
 
Is it possible that Bill tracks what songs are playing when the count of streams drops precipitously? {#Wink} I've only found two things that chase me to Pandora temporarily: that horrible car crash song and Counting Crows. Ugh.


crazy
(yew nork, upstate)
Posted: Mar 20, 2009 - 20:07
 
 speakerman wrote:

You may be similarly surprised that a very large number of us can't stand Dave Matthews Band either.
 
can't stand DMB, bob seeger or the "boss" or U2, neil young, tom petty, do like cownting crows and david gray and old cold play, go figure

speakerman
(everywhere, yet nowhere)
Posted: Feb 17, 2009 - 07:14
 
 jonrox wrote:
I completely agree - I was amazed that so many people apparently can't stand them!
 
You may be similarly surprised that a very large number of us can't stand Dave Matthews Band either.



Stave
(San Francisco)
Posted: Jan 16, 2009 - 14:13
 
OldFrenchie wrote:
I drove through Omaha last year. It looks like it really sucks


Driving back to California from visiting my family a few years ago, my wife said of Omaha that it was the only nice place she'd seen in Nebraska. The look on her face when I told her that we were still in Council Bluffs, IA and hadn't actually crossed into Nebraska yet was priceless.

dkeifer
Posted: Jan 16, 2009 - 14:02
 
just a beautiful song...

a_genuine_find
(Nieuw Amsterdam)
Posted: Jan 16, 2009 - 14:02
 


fluffybum
Posted: Jan 16, 2009 - 14:02
 
make it stop!

fluffybum
Posted: Jan 16, 2009 - 13:59
 
can't stand 'em.

jonrox
(Calgary)
Posted: Nov 29, 2008 - 23:18
 
 plaid wrote:
Counting Crows selections sure seem to be quite polarizing here in the comments and forums.
 

I completely agree - I was amazed that so many people apparently can't stand them!

jonrox
(Calgary)
Posted: Nov 29, 2008 - 23:14
 
I think that this is the best album ever made, in terms of every song is great, way they are put together, originality, it had everything. Great live too.

Danimal174
(Upstate South Carolina)
Posted: Nov 14, 2008 - 10:11
 
One of the best CDs of the 90's, in my opinion. Also, one heck of a great debut album.

I know that some aren't fans of Adam's voice, but, then again, no one is universally liked. I personally think he's a great singer & lyricist, but, that's just my opinion.



jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Nov 14, 2008 - 10:07
 
marcel
(some 10.000 km east of paradise)
Posted: May 24, 2008 - 12:44 < Reply >
jjbix wrote: one of the best crow songs . . .
From their best album...

Good! Now I know I never need to invesitgate their music any further.

mongoose01ca
(Terminal City, BC)
Posted: Nov 14, 2008 - 10:06
 
 hippiechick wrote:
I still pull this album out for a listen once in awhile. One of my faves. I love Adam's whiny lyrics.
 
Which proves how different everyone's tastes are.  I can't stand Adam's whiny lyrics.  I've often thought that if this band were fronted by, say, Patti Griffin, then they'd be among my top faves.  But sadly, I'm left with the Whine King...

hippiechick
(Weekendland)
Posted: Oct 29, 2008 - 09:59
 
I still pull this album out for a listen once in awhile. One of my faves. I love Adam's whiny lyrics.

treepop
Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 12:35
 
I like the melody{#Dancingbanana}

BettyB
(Charlotte, NC)
Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 12:34
 
I really can't stand the vocals. Ick.

Quixmundi
(on the banks of Eagle Creek, Indiana)
Posted: Jul 10, 2008 - 21:31
 
Plastic angst - totally predictable from this group.
mfassett
(Redwood City, CA)
Posted: Jun 24, 2008 - 23:28
 
A good song is a good song. It doesn't matter if it's overplayed... it's an overplayed good song. It can lose the impact when you've heard it too much though.

Anyway, this song is a great song, one that I'm not burned out on probably because I don't listen to the radio very much.

I know there are people who just don't like these guys... I can actually understand it, because I can't find my way to like any Pearl Jam/Vedder songs. Something about the guy's voice... which is probably how many here feel about Duritz. Oh well. We all have our thing.
marcel
(some 10.000 km east of paradise)
Posted: May 24, 2008 - 12:44
 
jjbix wrote:
one of the best crow songs . . .

From their best album...
jjbix
(san diego)
Posted: May 08, 2008 - 23:09
 
one of the best crow songs . . .
OldFrenchie
(Frozen wastes of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)
Posted: Apr 07, 2008 - 10:59
 
amcallis wrote:

It's got a nice zoo, and crime is low. Affordable place to live, all in all. Some great independent music coming out of Omaha in the last 3 years or so, also (saddle creek records). It's not a *boom* you're having a wonderful time type of city. It's a place to live that's a little more laid back than that.


high510 wrote:

I worked in Omaha for a year. A remarkably interesting town that has a wonderfully egalatarian streak (you should see Warren Buffet's house. Just a slightly bigger than normal house on the corner of a street near down town). Typical of a hard working Mid-West/Plains city. Easy place to work.


Odyzzeuz wrote:

Look kids! This is a good example of striking below the belt!


xkolibuul wrote:
Yep, and I could make a snide comment here about Winnipeg too, but...I shall refrain.


You guys should petition Bill to hold a new contest: "A Change of Heart - Sponsor RP most Northernly Troll's visit to America's bread basket"

Budget breakdown:
Greyhound return ticket from Winnipeg to Omaha - 97 bucks
2 night stay at the Super 8 Motel - 120 bucks
Six pack of Bud - 7 bucks
Bus tickets to Warren Buffet's house - 2 bucks
Daily per diem (2x30) - 60 bucks (a troll has gotta eat you know)

I could post my experiences on the forums with photos for all to see. Whad-da ya say?

vit
Posted: Apr 07, 2008 - 10:49
 
tompoll wrote:
Counting Crows = automatic mute. I just don't think the guy can sing on key.


yeah and tries to look and act like a cocker spaniel.
tompoll
(Seattle WA USA)
Posted: Feb 04, 2008 - 12:20
 
a_genuine_find wrote:


..???..
Good point! Bob doesn't even TRY to sing on-key. I have a hard time listening to him too, though as a songwriter he's one of the very best. Counting Crows as songwriters--not so much.