Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
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Free Music Notes for Recovering the Satellites
Free Music Review: We only stay in orbit, for a moment in time
Hit: 5 Stars
When you think of bands like Beatles, Floyd, U2 and Radiohead would counting crows be up there or above them in your mind? It seems strange to me too, but unlike the other counting crows albums this album sits on my shelf with the greats. Counting Crows I must admit are a great band but nothing else they have written is in the same league as this album.I listened to it many times before i could stand to listen the whole way through. I found it irritating, uninteresting, not quite right. Now it seems like the sound of perfection. It is dynamically different like radiohead and floyd, and has the melodies and catchiness of the beatles. Its a classic, and probably my favourite album. What more can i say, somewhere in the middle of album writing the heavens must have opened to Adam Duritz and he recieved music from the gods. And though the music of gods seems hard to understand, and though it seems foreign at first, it is godly and thats what counts.
Free Music Review: Truly Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
I know I wont be saying much that hasn't been said before, but this is an excellent album. I got this CD after hearing August and Everything After, which I really liked, and I like this one even better. All the tracks are great. But one which I think alot of reviewers here have been missing is I'm Not Sleeping. This song literally stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. It is unbelieveably powerful and moving. Get this CD for that song alone.Free Music Review: Certainly their best effort
Hit: 5 Stars
More fully arranged and orchestrated than "August," and less pop-oriented than their later efforts, "Recovering" is a dark, introspective album that only improves with repeated listenings. I find it better than "August" because their musicianship seems to have improved in the intervening months between those albums, and there's simply a lot more going on in these songs than the stripped down near-perfection of "August."Free Music Review: Give it a couple listens
Hit: 5 Stars
When I read reviews of this album I'm often dumbfounded by the lack of insight. Its not a pop album, though Counting Crows have often been mis-tabbed as a radio weighted, pop-indulging band. They're a song writing, and just as importantly, album-making band. This is one of the most complete albums I have ever heard. It doesn't flow seemlessly from song to song(a la "The Wall, Pink Floyd"), but it flows naturally, features some great instrumentation, and incorporates a beautiful emotional ebb and flow of a great story telling band. The orchestration of instruments form a perfect compliment to Adam Duritz' voice. The orchestration and deversity of music alone are a noteworthy achievement, yet the song writing is outstanding. The band spent months and months cramped up in a large rented house to fine tune each song on the album. Let me tell you, it shows. Too many fans and music critics were looking for the radio songs that won Counting Crows acclaim on their first album. This album does not feature any songs that lend themselves well to radio play. However, each song is worth a thousand listen's, and are part of one of the better albums ever constructed. If you can diversify your taste to allow for Adam Duritz's whiney, and sometimes abrasive voice, you will be thoroughly intoxicated by the music featured on "Recovering the Satellites". Its truely one of the more unique and well-rounded albums in rock history. I believe too few have given it the chance it deserves. If you give it that chance I think you'd agree this album deserves to be compared with the great one's.
Free Music Review: Another Exceptional Counting Crows Album
Hit: 5 Stars
As usual, the Counting Crows have produced another outstanding CD. An once again, its songs are in a different style than their previous albums. Counting Crows illustrate their ability to compose many styles on music by releasing this album, which has more of a rock feel to it than their previous releases, which had more of a folksy sound with some pop and rock fused with it. As is customary with all Counting Crows CDs, almost every song is above-par, making use of every track on the CD. "Recovering the Satellites" is an exceptional power ballad, "Long December" has a nice feel to it with great lyrics, and "Have You Seen Me Lately" is more upbeat than most songs by the Crows, but it debatably the best songs on the album, if not one of the best Counting Crows songs to date. There is no doubt many of these songs will be included in their Greatest Hits, which is to me released within a week. Though this is not the best CD by Couting Crows, (That honor would have to be awarded to "Hard Candy"), it is certainly a good puchase for anyone who enjoys listening to Counting Crows, and at the low price it is offered by Amazon, it is good value.