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Counting Crows - August and Everything After Audio CD

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Counting Crows Band: Counting Crows
Title: August and Everything After
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Release Date: 1993-09-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Round Here 2: Omaha 3: Mr. Jones 4: Perfect Blue Buildings 5: Anna Begins 6: Time and Time Again 7: Rain King 8: Sullivan Street 9: Ghost Train 10: Raining in Baltimore 11: Murder of One

One of the best albums I own!
It is very nostalgic for me and definitely brings my mind back. Alright so I can't articulate a perfectly spoken review like others but I just wanted to vote 5 stars for this album.


Among my favorite albums of all time
I can listen to it from start to finish in one go. Every song on this album is great. I particularly like "Anna Begins". If you like this album, you might also enjoy Matchbox 20 Yourself or Someone Like You. .


Sometimes entertaining early 90s pop, no more, no less
After a couple of years dominated by heavy electric guitars and aggressive singers, Counting Crows offered a certain gentleness and sensitivity. Counting Crows were just what the music scene needed when they released their debut album AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER in 1993. Their jangly pop slices with free-associative lyrics and muppety vocals by Adam Duritz brought refreshing memories of late 1960s innocence, especially Van Morrison, but they married this old-timey feel to a very contemporary exploration of the complexities of relationships and failed dreams.

A good three-quarters of the album is pretty enjoyable listening, with the rest being filler, which one can expect from a major label release of this type. Radio play at the time was especially heavy for "Round Here", "Omaha", "Mr. Jones" and "Rain King", and to anyone growing up in the early 1990s this album may have been especially poignant. Nonetheless, listening to it now, I can clearly see why each successive album by the band has been steadily less popular than the debut. The pop goodness one finds on AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER is fun, but it doesn't seem to offer any room for growth, and indeed the band couldn't even make up enough quality tracks for one album.


the one cd you should leave this earth with!!
I've owned it since 94, and still listen to it everyday, yes, everyday, while in the shower. Top 5 best cds on earth, that's all there is to it. It has never left the cd player, unless it was time for a new cd player and I had to take it out to put it in the new one.


What's all the fuss about?
To me, this album is just average. 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". It's sound is predictable, the songwriting is nothing special. And every track pretty much sounds the same.

Go ahead and send the hate mail, I can handle it. But I picked up the album because it was recommended by Amazon customers. I love you all, and I have used your recommendations many times. This will remain in my collection, and maybe after time, it will grow on me, but not now.


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