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Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites Audio CD

A fair review of the Counting Crows "Recovering the Satellites" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Counting Crows reviews here, or go back to the Counting Crows tabs.

Counting Crows Band: Counting Crows
Title: Recovering the Satellites
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Release Date: 1996-10-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Catapult 2: Angels of the Silences 3: Daylight Fading 4: I'm Not Sleeping 5: Goodnight Elisabeth 6: Children in Bloom 7: Have You Seen Me Lately? 8: Miller's Angels 9: Another Horsedreamer's Blues 10: Recovering the Satellites 11: Monkey 12: Mercury 13: Long December 14: Walkaways

Before slaving for singles
Besides for a few less-than-inspiring numbers, the move pays off just as well, with these crows counting great rock song after great rock song. RTS was a nice follow up to their critical and popular smash debut, effectively contrasted by more rural and rowdier work than a highly-polished, middleground-minded, and wonderful nonetheless AAEA. Sadly, material after this album sounded too weak for me to even check out. . . and it is a disaster to see what kind of music this influence has spawned. .


Good sophmore effort
If you aren't particularly too thrilled with it at first, just keep listening. The Counting Crows second album takes some getting used to if you've started with their excellent 1993 debut. Keep it spinning in your car, or wherever, as it should most likely grow on you as it did with me. I have to admit it's a decent balance of hit and miss; it starts out solid, falters a bit in the middle, then returns for the better.

My favorite tracks are "Daylight Fading", "Goodnight Elizabeth", "Miller's Angels", "Monkey", and "A Long December" (my favorite)

All in all, a generally louder and more intense sophmore record from the Crows that should grow on you if you are initially disappointed. I recommend it.


It's Not AUGUST, But It Is Good
Moodier and darker than AUGUST without the endearing lyrics and "story" feel. Not the masterpiece that the Crows presented with AUGUST, but SATELLITES is a quality album from a band that is still going strong. Still a high recommendation for this effort.


Brilliant
" Here, the band shows a totally different sound than their previous effort and what turns out is nothing short of brilliant.
Counting Crows second effort is just as brilliant as their debut, "August and Eveyrthing After. .


Undervalued masterpiece
There's something about the lines, "You're everybody's satellite/I wish that you were mine" and the brief pause between them that you can actually FEEL the resigned shrug of longing and hopelessness. In hindsight, the title track of this album might be my favorite Crows song altogether.
And, yeah, so, there's a (gasp) 4-letter word in the song. . . it makes the song hit home that much harder and I've never felt has had anything to do with trying to 'harden' the group's image.
This album has a few dry spots. "Monkey" and "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" stand as really the lone losers to me on here. Other than that it's one great song after another. The reason this one wasn't as heralded as "August and Everything After" is because it didn't fit the mold that the record-review and media industry had shoved the Crows into immediately after the debut gained some success.
Remember, they were critcal darlings until about 10 seconds after Mr. Jones became a hit, then everyone thought it was cool to hack on them and they have ever since.
"Goodnight Elisabeth", "Have You Seen Me Lately?", "Mercury", "Catapult", "Miller's Angels" . . . they're all masterpiece songs.
Let alone that I didn't mention any of the album's three hits, "A Long December", "Angels of the Silences" (better in its acoustic form on the live double album Across A Wire) and "Daylight Fading".
This album doesn't have the romantic aura about it that "August" still carries, but it surely isn't less of a record because of that fact.


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