Counting Crows Band • Page 15

I’ve always considered “Walkaways” a kind of coda like “52nd Street” or “Her Majesty”. It’s so clearly a song fragment where “December” is a big dramatic closing ballad, that just always seemed the intention to me.

 

I do think of it as a post-script of sorts, but I do think it is a complete thought of a song. It says everything it needs to in a minute 15.

 

1. August & Everything After
2. Recovering the Satellites
3. Somewhere Under Wonderland
T4. Hard Candy
T4. This Desert Life
5. Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings

 

It's a bummer that they only have 6 albums in 30 years for us to discuss.
1) Satellites
2) August
3) Hard Candy
4) This Desert Life
5) Somewhere Under Wonderland (which is awesome, and underrated)
6) Saturday Nights

 

The Junior Varsity uploaded their crows cover to their YouTube channel

 

2/2. Love this one a lot.

 

This is as good as their peak output. Very impressed.

 

Love this band. Wish they had put out more than 18 new original songs in the last 17 years

 

I definitely agree. This is a top tier CC track.

 

Whole thing is out today. The new songs are really good! A big step up from the first Butter Miracle imo, even though I still like those songs. Kind of makes for a SN/SM listening scenario where I reach for one side over the other, but whatever. Also, it’s funny that they just completely dropped the idea of the songs seamlessly flowing from one to the next.

 

Noticed this too. I like the initial batch of songs a ton so it'll take me a bit to get used to the album as a whole. Seems like there's a lot of story to get into on these too.

 

Really feels like they should have just let the Butter Miracle EP be its own thing and written/recorded more songs in the vein of the first half. Side 2 is just a completely different speed, and that's even leaving aside the fact that we've had those songs for four years.