Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
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Artist: Counting CrowsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: Geffen
Soundtracks:
- 1942
- Hanging Tree
- Los Angeles
- Sundays
- Insignificant
- Cowboys
- Washington Square
- On Almost Any Sunday Morning
- When I Dream Of Michelangelo
- Anyone But You
- You Can't Count On Me
- Le Ballet D'or
- On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago
- Come Around
Free Music Notes for Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Free Music Review: Actually, I think this is their best yet
Hit: 4 Stars
Considering that I reviewed this band on a whim in the first place, I wasn't exactly enthused when I heard about this album. I mean, come on, it's been six years since their last studio album, which wasn't great in the first place. And what have they released in those six years? "Accidentally in Love", which makes me want to kick the radio in whenever I hear it. I could care less about those stupid "Come on, come on"'s - I'll take "Mr. Jones" instead, thanks! So this one was a damn big surprise to me. In fact, unless these guys knock me out in ten years with their sixth album, I'm gonna go as far as saying this is the group's best. Basically, the "Saturday Nights" part of this album is dedicated to blistering rock that's about 1.02x10^28 better than anything from Recovering the Satellites, with lyrics that criticize the most extreme of indulgences in the sex, drugs, and rock `n' roll scene, and the "Sunday Mornings" half is devoted to quiet country-folk ballads that wallow in regret. Out of the rockers (and everything else on the record), my favorite is "1492", the best song they've done in quite a while, if not ever - it's like "Rain King", but even better, because it lacks the wimpy falsetto "yeaaaah!" at the end that ruined an otherwise stunning song. But there's no way that's all: you also have the lyrically striking "Hanging Tree"; funny satire "Los Angeles"; "Insignificant", with a cool guitar solo; the folky, delicate ballad "Sundays"; and the almost Springsteen-esque "Cowboys". Then we get to "Sunday Mornings", which is where the group's folk influence becomes explicit - the main hook on "Washington Square" is played on mandolin, and it's got a Dylanesque harmonica, as does "On Almost Any Sunday Morning"; "When I Dream of Michelangelo" has a delicate piano part that might have came off August and Everything After; and the piano ballad "On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago" has an intense vocal. And there's an anomaly on each side: the lead-off single "You Can't Count on Me", found on the "Sunday Mornings" side has a heavy electric guitar riff to contrast its folksy verses; and "Sundays" is an acoustic ballad on the "Saturday Nights" side, while the closing "Come Around" mixes both extremes. Bits of this slog by without much hint of melody ("Anyone But You" and its really annoying synthesizer; "Le Ballet d'Or"). Still, the odds were definitely against these guys here (I expected this to suck), and I'm pleased to report that this is the best they've ever put out. Not to mention the parts about it being a big hit and getting good reviews. Oh, and if you weren't a big fan of Duritz's voice from the '90s, he's eased up on the falsetto significantly.
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With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, eight Top 5 singles, and three records that have broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, COUNTING CROWS are set to release their long awaited new album SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNINGS. The record is the Crows' first studio album in almost 5 years, since the release of Hard Candy in 2002.Counting Crows Photos
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