Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
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Free Music Review: Crows outdid themselves
Hit: 5 Stars
This album was so good that i actually felt the need to click on the "review this album" link.
Adam Duritz' lyrics are as moving, beautiful and passionate as ever. Every instrument, or sound for that matter, is right on point w/ the feeling of every song. There are some really amazing musicians in this band.
"Los Angeles is just a great, fun, rock 'n' roll song, w/ an awesome "bluesy" guitar. "Cowboys" is lyrical genius. "Washington Sq" & "Anyone But You" are a couple of my fav.'s off the Sunday side of the album.
The album progresses as sort of a story from "1492" to "Come Around".
Just listen to it for yourself. You won't be dissapointed w/ this album.
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: The good news: this is not a pop record
Hit: 4 Stars
A review for fans and former fans.
In my later years of high school and early years of college there were two albums that I played album non-stop, both by Counting Crows: August & Everything After and Recovering the Satellites. The first of these was produced by folk-bluegrass legend T-Bone Burnnet the other by Pixies producer Gil Norton. From the beginning they knew how to shape their sound and how to bring the right people into the studio with them to capture their vision.
Counting Crows last album: Hard Candy was inspired by popular music that has influenced the band from the past. It's was a departure in that following the pop song format, most songs were short in length and followed the traditional forms. It was a very successful album for the band and spawned a few radio hits (American Girls, Hard Candy) with it's catchy hooks and (mostly) obvious meanings in the lyric. While Hard Candy may have served to further validate Adam as a great songwriter it left many fans wondering if this new direction would stick or if the band would return to form. Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings answers that question. The band has not only returned to form, they've created a balanced fusion of all the places they have been musically and explore some new territory as well. At times the album dissolves into instrumental chaos, at times it's in your face offensive. It whines, pleads, it screams. It's as dreamy as it is jagged. Ultimately it is brilliant and has exceeded my expectations.
I could go on about the two halves concept, I could mention that the lead in track 1492 is actually a left over from the Hard Candy sessions that the band rerecorded with Gil Norton at the helm. I could complement both producers, there's really a lot a fan could say here but it's stuff that's already been said.
If this is the bands last album (as has been hinted at) it would make a beautiful and fitting ending to a truly great American rock band.
My only compliant here is that some great tracks got left for b-sides and deluxe edition exclusives and a few sleeper tracks (Anyone But You, Le Ballet D' Or) made their way on the album. As a band they are free to create their masterpiece as they see fit, but it seems I'm not the only fan that isn't really understanding (or enjoying) these two all that much.
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!