Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites
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Free Music Review: Best album?
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't know if I can choose between this one and This Desert Life. Both perfect albums! With October and Everything After not far behind. Just picked up Hard Candy so will have to listen to it for awhile before judging as it always takes CC songs a bit to grow on me before I see their true beauty.Free Music Review: I am throwing to the fire all my Radiohead and U2 cds
Hit: 5 Stars
Thats the best album of the decade and possibly of the last quarter of this century.I am throwing to the fire all my Radiohead and U2 cds. No point in keeping those after Recovering the Satelites.
I regained my hope to the healing power of music.
Thats all. Thank you.
Free Music Review: best album out of all 5
Hit: 5 Stars
counting crows is my favorite band. i started out with august and everything after, then i got this desert life, which was their recent album at the time, and then got the live cds which are awesome. i was always missing the second album, but i figured i covered most of those songs with the live cds, and i had also never heard anything truly positive about recovering the satellites. this past summer, a friend of mine had the cd, and i started listening to it. i could not stop. people couldn't understand why i didn't stop listening to this cd. in my opinion, it's incredible. august and everything after was a way for adam duritz to play around with his poetry, transforming it into music. this cd is counting crows really being a band, and an incredible band at that. they play around with the piano a lot more which is beautiful with duritz's voice. every song is good, i haven't found one that i don't like yet. contrary to popular belief, i think that this cd is by far their best. i recommend anyone to buy it and listen to it through. it's a true counting crows experience.Free Music Review: An unspeakably beautiful masterpiece...
Hit: 5 Stars
Recovering The Satellites is the best Counting Crows album. Sure, that opinion will be contested by the August and Everything After fans (and there are many), but Recovering the Satellites has so much more than the debut. CC is not my favorite band, that slot belongs to the almighty Pearl Jam, but the Crows' music touches me some ways that no other band can produce. The early music of Counting Crows particularly this release is distinctly WINTER sounding. Allow me to elaborate...This album is a JOURNEY. Not just a bunch of tracks thrown together, it is a JOURNEY. And as you're entranced by it, you can almost feel the cold air in the room, even in the middle of the summer...or at least you will yearn for it. For me winter is the best of the seasons for many reasons (that rhymed and I apologize) and this album brings me back to it, helps me look forward to it. Not to mention the songs are damn fantastic. There is a wall of sound on this album, unlike AAEA. Each time you listen to the record you'll discover something different. To highlight would be impossible, each track is as good as the last, but I will name a few of the tracks, the ones I come back to the most. Catapult is a folky rock track that contains amazing vocals by Adam, particularly "I wanna be the last thing you hear as you're falling asleeeep" at the end. Angels of the Silences is just a great hard rock song. Goodnight Elisabeth is a beautiful song with a sing along chorus and great lyrics. Millers Angels is one of the strongest points, a 7 minute long lilting piano ballad. Listen to the instrumentation during the chorus section, it is purely amazing. Recovering the Satellies might be my favorite song, it has unbeleivably awesome lyrics and melody and the outro is blisteringly climatic. A Long December is the other track that fights for the holy position of "Dan's favorite", due to it's great melody and extremely personal lyrics that I can relate to ("The smell of hospitals in winter and the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters but no pearls")...AMAZING. All of the other tracks are great as well. ALL OF THEM. Please I urge you, get this album. It will touch you no matter who you are.
"We only stay in orbit for a moment of the time...and then you're everybody's satellite...I wish that you were mine"-the title track.
Thank you for reading again.
Dan
Free Music Review: so brilliant it hurts
Hit: 5 Stars
I really can't believe the average customer rating of this masterpiece is a meager 4 stars (as of this writing). Perhaps some people simply cannot handle the overpowering emotion or the ambience of sadness. It is not music for all occasions, which might be what many of the simpletons out there demand. It is music to be appreciated alone... powerful, life-changing, rich, complex, textured, unique, and quite simply the best Counting Crows CD as well as one of the best CDs ever made. Thank you, Adam Duritz, for this unbelievable contribution to the enjoyment/appreciation of my life in this universe.