August and Everything After
Counting Crows
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Round Here | Counting Crows | 5:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Omaha | Counting Crows | 3:39 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Mr. Jones | Counting Crows | 4:32 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Perfect Blue Buildings | Counting Crows | 5:00 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Anna Begins | Counting Crows | 4:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Time and Time Again | Counting Crows | 5:14 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rain King | Counting Crows | 4:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Sullivan Street | Counting Crows | 4:29 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Ghost Train | Counting Crows | 4:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Raining in Baltimore | Counting Crows | 4:41 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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A Murder of One | Counting Crows | 5:45 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
iTunes Review
San Francisco’s Counting Crows’ debut album was a classic rock radio programmer’s dream. Finally, here was a collection of hook-heavy tunes delivered by a singer who’d studied his Dylan-Van Morrison-Jagger phrasings and whose backing ensemble knew how to judiciously apply organ, piano, acoustic and electric guitar to a no-nonsense backing groove. The formula seems so simple and obvious, but then why are there so few albums as immediately impressive as 1993’s August and Everything After? The answer here is songwriting. The album contains an overabundance of magical ideas, from the opening, unwinding drama of “Round Here” that suggests Springsteen at his most lyrical and theatrical, through the Band-Van Morrison jaunt of “Omaha,” the rollicking yet yearning “Mr. Jones” and the moody life-or-death introspection of “Perfect Blue Buildings,” “Anna Begins” and “Sullivan Street.” Counting Crows were a group who looked to do it all. The confidence can be heard in the band’s loose swagger and its intricate weave of accordion textures that never tip the group too far into the Americana graveyard where many traditionalists accidentally tilt their fortunes.
Customer Reviews
Unbelievable...
You know that feeling you get when you break up with someone and you spend a week in a crazy, deep funk, wondering how you’ll ever fill that empty space in your soul? Not really sad or angry, just hollow and yearning. Somehow this album feels exactly like that (esp. Raining in Baltimore). Wonderfully sad, and lonely, yet somehow hopeful. Put on your Ipod and take a walk in the rain with these guys. You may not feel better, but at least you’ll know you’re not alone.
not just an album
Most of the time when someone is excited about a record, they tell you way too much and beg you to listen to it, and it never fulfills your expectations. You listen to it and look at your friend and say, "it's good," and that's it. This album has such depth and definition from everything else being produced at the time, that I have no place in being that friend that ruins the experience. It has such meaning and emotion in every sound and every word, that you MUST experience it in your own way. But I can say this: this is so much bigger than an album - it stands alone, in sound and meaning, and must be heard front to finish, from the perfect opening to the warmest closing. Something you will never forget.
The best album of the 90's
A lot of credit and praise gets thrown on Nirvana's "Nevermind," and it is certainly warranted, but this album, the debut of one of rock's great poets, is onthe whole a better album. The haunting lyrics and lilting melodies give way to lush texture and layered instrumentation. There is no doubt that every one of the members of this band is a gifted, insightful musician, but it really is Duritz that steals the show. His singing cannot be replicated and his writing, while it has been said with a certain amount of truth can be repetitive, is brillaint. It's so simple yet so complex, and listening to any song on this album you feel like you're sitting next to him and the bar at closing time and he's just the most poetic person you've ever met. The early 90's saw a lot of "revolutionary" bands, but none of them captured emotion or explored the depth of popular music like Counting Crows. I could (and have) said a lot more about this album. Sufficeth to say: if you don't own it, rectify your situation. You may not like it as much as I do, it may not redefine your life, but you will certainly appreciate every little piece of it.
Biography
Formed: August, 1991 in San Francisco, CA
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Counting Crows
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Mr. Jones | August and Everything After | 4:32 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Accidentally In Love | Accidentally In Love - Single | 3:08 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Big Yellow Taxi | Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows | 3:45 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Round Here | August and Everything After | 5:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Accidentally In Love | Shrek 2 (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) | 3:08 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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A Long December | Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows | 4:57 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rain King | August and Everything After | 4:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hanginaround | Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows | 4:14 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Colorblind | This Desert Life | 3:23 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Mr. Jones | Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows | 4:32 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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- $9.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Adult Alternative, American Trad Rock, Pop
- Released: Sep 14, 1993
- ℗ 1993 DGC Records
