| Counting Crows – Come Around Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As a Counting Crows fan since 1995 (and having seen them 7 times thus far in concert) I'm hoping to give my 2 cents for what it's worth: I can't agree with "home for a hero". IMO Recovering The Satelites was CC's 'noisiest' album to date and easily my least favourite (and forgettable album). "A Long December" IMO is their best song off the album and "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" easiest their 'Champagne Supernova' (for those that ever liked OASIS) song off of the album. In concert, 'noisy' songs like "Have You Seen Me Lately" and "Angels of the Silences" have been converted into slower acoustic versions which IMO are far more pleasing to the ear. It's well known that CC's are a band essentially about melody (and of course phenomenal lyrics). The first half of 'Saturday Nights and...' doesn't make me wanna get up and go and see Dan Vickrey churn out raw, energetic C-Major 7 guitar riffs. Rather, it's a combination of songs like "Los Angeles", "Cowboys", "Washington Square", "On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago" and the fantastic "Come Around" which COMBINE to make it a pretty good album. I agree with "GOODERTHANAMUG" that this is a band in the twilight of their career (though Duritz's overall message remains the same after all these years) and as such I think we ought to go a bit easy on them (that's hard for me as a former die hard Crows fan). It's probably quite a clever ploy in keeping "Come Around" as the last song on the album. Just as you're in your comfort zone listening to "On a Tuesday in Amsterdam...", "Come Around" sneaks up on you and reminds you of what the Crows do best: A song with a great melody; great lyrics and a great way to end off the album. Ok, folks, tear my views apart and "suck my blood" as Duritz sings in "Angels of the Silences"... Peace! |
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