Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
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Free Music Review: I can't believe...
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't believe how many mediocre reviews there are for this album. Is it as good as some of their other efforts? No, but did you really expect it to be? This is the problem I have, is that everyone thinks of the Counting Crows, thinks of their big break-out albums, and automatically writes off anything new as "not as good". It's not as good, but if any other band released this album I'm sure it would have far fewer mediocre reviews. Stop living in the past and judge this album on its own merits and less on what the Crows have done in the past, and I think you'll find this album is very enjoyable.
I have. I love this album; it combines my favorite aspects of the crows: the anger exhibited on Recovering the Satellites with the melancholiness of This Desert Life.
5/5 for sure.
Free Music Review: very fine record...
Hit: 5 Stars
Counting Crows return with a vengence with this latest release, "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings." A nice bridge between newer fans from the Hard Candy/Accidentally in Love era, and long time fans of the band. If you like Counting Crows, you will love this album. If you wrote the Crows off after RTS, it's worth a shot. And new fans should enjoy this as well. This is my second favorite CC album, nipping at the heels of August and Everything After. Enjoy the record!Free Music Review: should have been a double album
Hit: 3 Stars
I'll just breeze over the first part, YES I'm a huge fan, been one since August first came out. And yes I do understand that this is a "concept album" and rocking side (Saturday nights) and a mellow side (Sunday Mornings). Here's my problem.
Taken as a whole, the two sides are such polar opposites of each other that the end result for me is such a disjointed album.
The Saturday night side is definitely the stronger of the two, and is the
easier one to get into...but before you know it, it OVER. Too short in my opinion. Sunday mornings takes a little more getting used too but again, just as you're getting into it, it's done as well.
Since track arrangements follow the album "concept", for me the end result comes out like 2 unfinished records. They had 6 years...surely they could have churned out a couple more songs per side just to give each concept more "meat". What happened to "Suffocate", a fantastic song left over from Recovering that was supposed to be on "Saturday nights" (according to wikipedia)? They've got a lot more "old" songs they could have added if they didn't feel like writing more....."Here comes that feeling Again", "Hazy", "Good Luck"...hell, "August & Everything After"! these songs need to be released someday. Instead we get a song like "On Almost Any Sunday Morning" which to me comes off uninspired, lazy and most importantly unfinished.
Anyway, that's my only problem. What we have with "Saturday NIghts & Sunday Mornings" are fantastic songs. There is just too little of both sides. Should've been a double album, or they could have released them separately like what Juliana Hatfield did a few years back with her albums "Beautiful Creature" & "Total System Failure". That would've given them 2 sets of 5 stars from me.
but when all is said and done, I still LOVE the CROWS! Go get this album and all their others! Support GREAT music :)
Free Music Review: Much Better Than I Expected - 5 Stars!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Crows are going through a lot of changes. Some of their original members have been replaced, but Adam, Dan, David, and Charlie are still around and each one of them sounds really good with the blend of the new members. Another couple of things that concerned me is that there is no true hit single on this album. Which was shown when they played "You can't count on me" on Letterman when many were expecting "1492". Adam has also finally changed his philosophy with old material on new albums. Usually old material gets scratched but 1492, When I Dream Of Michelangelo, and On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago made the cut even though they were written many years ago.
Yes this album is obviously not August & Everything After, but everyone knew that even before listening to the first track. BTW any future albums will not be as good as August either.
Tracks that really shine:
1492
Hanging Tree
Insignificant
Cowboys
Washington Square
When I Dream Of Michelangelo
Le Ballet d'Or - (This is a true hidden gem!)
Come Around
I seriously love Hanging Tree, Insignificant and Le Ballet d'Or the most. The only track that I keep skipping over is Los Angeles, maybe it will grow on me later.
Finally for those that say the Crows keep getting worse, I disagree. This album IMO is much better than "This Desert Life". Counting Crows CDs don't grab you right away (at least post August) they need to grow on you. If you are on the fence, give this album a few more listenings (It hasn't even been out for a week yet) and I'm sure this will grow on you as well. :)
Free Music Review: It's either the end or a new beginning
Hit: 4 Stars
After The Replacements disbanded in 1991, frontman and over-glorified songwriter Paul Westerberg said in an interview that he knew the band was nearing its final days for the previous four years. About that time, he said (1987) the band had begun to rehash old themes and was basically running out of new ground to cover.
That said, Crows fans (myself included) might want to take every opportunity to enjoy this one. It certainly gives us reason to as far as its quality, but also because it, too revisits PLENTY of earlier material by the band.
The first customer review on this page points out very accurately that the sound of this record kind of melds those of the band's first two records, "August and Everything After" and "Recovering The Satellites". Looking back at those with the whole 'concept' spin of the new release, "August" was the Sundays record and "Recovering" largely the Saturdays.
Of course I'm talking in generalities there. "Satellites" had a good bit of both elements to it, but this record is definitely the band's best since that album's release in 1996.
After a few repeated listens that quickly sunk in ... this is potentially a monumental record, though I don't expect it to give them the success they enjoyed from 1994-1997. "Cowboys" is a classic Crows song, as are "Washington Square", "On Almost Any Sunday Morning" and "When I Dream of Michelangelo".
There are a few missteps. "1492" hasn't registered with me yet and I don't know that it will. It's just too disjointed and noisy and maybe that's the point. Therefore I naturally think it's a bad way to start off the record, but as I recall I didn't originally like "Catapult" either off "Recovering the Satellites".
After six years without releasing an album's worth of new material this could very well be the Crows last grope. The repetitive themes, some of which are wrapped up from older songs and some are just revisited, tend to give this album a "This is the answer to the riddle" feel.
On the other hand, taken for what it is, maybe this is what they've been trying to 'say' for 10 years and haven't had the ability. It's got the potential to usher in a new phase in the band's career that hopefully will produce more of their great music on a more regular basis.