Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (Eco)
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Free Music Review: Very very good!
Hit: 5 Stars
Let me start off by saying I am not a BIG Counting Crows fan. Don't get me wrong, I loved their debut album "August & Everything After", (a masterpiece) but everything since than has been a drop in notch. And without great songs and music, lead singer Adam Duritz's voice just gets boring album after album. But finally, with "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings", the band has hit a more unique hard rockin and bluesy style and better yet, the songs are VERY good. Not just lyrics which have always been profound and dark, but the music and the instrumentation is fantastic! Every song is catchy! Adam's voice is being put to VERY good use here, this is material aorthy of the artist and the band. The experimentation done on this album was a big winner! I know some people liked the album "Recovering the Satellites", which certaintly had some good songs, but for me the album was uneven. So I'll go out on a limb and say the new CD is the best releases since "August And Everything After". That's because every song is good, it's good all the way through. The style is catchy, after several listens, I still like the sound of it! I see it started off number three on the billboard charts, I hope that a lot of people will appreciate Counting Crows return to form. This album should be a comeback for the band!Free Music Review: Not August, but surely everything after
Hit: 5 Stars
August and everything After is the disc that sold Counting Crows to us. It is the album that made us believers. Adam and the guys spent their whole lives up to that point, making that album. Their other albums have been made in far less time. The ideas are not lifelong. So give them a break on that. If you want another AAEA buy AAEA or wait another thirty years. Rememeber, these guys are artists it doesn't come that easily.
All that aside, Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings is a great album. If it was a debut, it would be a brilliant debut. However it is from a band that we have already declared as brilliant. SNASM is as good if not a better record than AAEA. Forget the nostalgia and just listen to the subject matter, lyrics, clarity of expression and eloquence of delivery of "Anyone but you","When I dream of Michaelangelo" and "On Almost Any Sunday Morning". "You can't count on me" is classic post-self-denial material(maybe Rolling Stones influence?). "Come around" speaks of a band conscious of its own mortality and immortality. Take a good listen. This one is a keeper.
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Free Music Review: Counting Crows back and better than ever!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Counting Crows are by far my favorite band from the past 15 years or so. They have that old school sound to them that most bands don't possess today. After a 6 year layoff from new material, Counting Crows are back with "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings," a classic effort that echoes their classic albums "Recovering the Satellites" and the extremely underrated masterpiece "This Desert Life." Their previous album "Hard Candy" was good, but wasn't great as a whole. It was a bit to poppy for me and that's what Counting Crows are not about. Their music speaks from the heart, and it's their originality that makes them great. Counting Crows have turned back to the form that has made them great. Here, front man Adam Duritz wows us again with his brilliant lyrics that we all can relate to in some way or another. As any Counting Crows album, I urge you to listen to it over and over again. The tunes get better and better. There's already a handful of instant classic tracks on this album. This is easily one of the best albums to come along in years. It's a destined classic. Adam Duritz and company are back, better than ever!
Free Music Review: SOmething for Everyone
Hit: 5 Stars
I have been a huge CC fan for years, and can not count the number of times I have played August and Everything After. Although not quite as consistant as the first and best album, Satuday Nights is still strong, heartfelt, and well-constructed. It has been on constant repeat for me and I have enjoyed hearing Adam again. I am in love with "Hanging Tree" and "Sundays" and have discovered new nuances in the songs every time I listen. I really like the two-sided approach they took to the construction of the new album (songs of destruction and partying vs. songs of rebuilding and finally a little hope). "When I Dream of Michaelangelo" sounds like it could have come right off of Recovering the Satelites (which is not a bad thing, that was a great album and I loved the lyrical shout-out). I agree with other posters about the repetitive "On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago" and the rather nonsensical "1492," but those are my only critical marks on an album that gets even better everytime I hear it. I seldomly buy full albums anymore, but this is one you can make an exception for. Great stuff!Free Music Review: Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings is just what I needed
Hit: 5 Stars
My wife and I are really big Counting Crows fans. We met thru actually tape trading of CC live recordings back in 1997. Our first thoughts and we both looked at each other after a few tracks into SNSM was, "Recovering the Satellites". Gil Norton was back and he sounded even better. Little hints of "Angels of the Silences" and "Have you Seen Me Lately?" are all over this album. If you can't tell yet, "Recovering the Satellites" is my favorite album and this is right up there with it.
I get the chills everytime I hear this album now. I'm on my third go of this album and the runs that Adam does sometimes is unique and just spine chilling. I've heard like half of this album, but now that I have finally heard the finish product...I am impressed. Very impressed with Counting Crows. They created an album for our day, but with a little soul of funk, folk and fun.
I am so excited to see CC is back. This will be in my collection forever.