Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Angels of the Silences
2. Round Here
3. Rain King
4. Long December, A
5. Hangin' Around
6. Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
7. Mr. Jones
8. Recovering the Satellites
9. American Girls
10. Big Yellow Taxi
11. Omaha
12. Friend of the Devil - (new recording)
13. Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)
14. Anna Begins
15. Holiday in Spain
16. She Don't Want Nobody Near - (new recording)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Sheryl Crow | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Counting Crows: David Immergluck (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, slide guitar, electric sitar); Dave Vickrey (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, sitar); Charles Gillingham (vocals, acoustic guitar, accordion, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Omnichord, Hammond B-3 organ, chamberlain, Mellotron, synthesizer); Matt Malley (vocals, guitar, electric bass, double bass); Adam Duritz (vocals, harmonica, piano, tambourine, loo bells, samples); Jim Bogios (vocals, drums, percussion, loops); Steve Bowman (vocals, drums).
Additional personnel: Sheryl Crow (background vocals).
Producers include: David Bryson, T-Bone Burnett, Gil Norton, David Lowry, Dennis Herring.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
When Counting Crows emerged in the early 1990s with a folk-rock sound that seemed to hearken back to Van Morrison and Bob Dylan, they represented for many a welcome alternative to the dour, sludgy grunge nation that ruled the rock roost. With Adam Duritz's poetic sad-sack lyrics, Charlie Gillingham's Garth Hudson-like keyboard work, and a bedrock of jangling guitars, the Crows turned out a passel of fine albums in their first decade, each of which is well represented on this collection.
The hits are obviously here; the self-referential breakout smash "Mr. Jones," the out-of-left-field soundtrack contribution "Big Yellow Taxi" (which found the band riding Joni's chestnut all the way to the singles charts), and the pulsating, Sheryl Crow-assisted "American Girls." With a band as substantive as this, however, it's the lesser-known album tracks that are the real meat in the meal, and there are plenty here, as well as a couple of previously unreleased tracks. The new songs, a live version of the Grateful Dead ballad "Friend of the Devil" and a typically catchy original composition "She Don't Want Nobody Near," suggest that the story of Counting Crows is far from over.
| | Editorial reviews | 4 stars out of 5 - [T]hey can reach peaks of sincere intensity.
Uncut (02/01/2004)
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