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Editorial Review:
This is the follow up 2002's 'Hard Candy' from erudite Californian rockers, Counting Crows. 'Saturday Nights And SundayMornings' reunites the band with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters) for the 'Saturday Nights' half of the album, which features their trademark rock sound; while the acoustic-led, country tinged 'Sunday Mornings' section features production from Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Josh Ritter). Singles include 'You Can't Count On Me', a track lifted from the latter half.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
outstanding but give it time to mellow in your mind as a CC fan, big time, I was more than glad to get hold of this. First listen said, this stuff is strange, there is a discordant note running through it, deliberate discord, which is -not quite offputting but uncomfortable in a way. Then the second and third listens and you realise it is what Adam Duritz was aiming at, the album is not intended to sit easy in the mind, hence the discordant piano here and there and the strange repeated lyrics. Overall I found it a good mix, a good balance, I found the same... more info
Not hard candy... more like hard listening I was really hoping for some good Crows music but was greatly disappointed by this album. This album sounds like it was created in about a weekend....which is really annoying...as I really don't take to paying for listening to a mediocre jam session. There is no depth, passion, or solid musical creativity in any of the songs. If you are a Crows fan... you can safely skip this album. It was literally hard to listen to all the songs, I kid you not...you will be looking for the 'stop' button. Painful. Stick... more info
Let's hope Monday they get back to real work. As the main songwriter for Counting Crows Adam Duritz has to take the brunt of the negatives being levelled at this album. Not only do the lyrics here sound like his live ad-lib meanderings al la "my favourite Orang-utan..." and the typical nicking of themes from other crows tracks. The tunes and melodies are practically none existent here. The lyrics often drop in to cringe inducing flotsam. As for the band, this album is musically stunted and not worthy of the crows. In fact it sounds like a crows... more info
It's really not good enough I have tried to like it, listened to it again and again but I'm sorry, it's just OK. Adam's voice sounds soulless like he is strolling through the songs and not feeling them and in the end the division of rock and country as oppose to a normal track listing just makes it boring. They're my favourite band in the world but seem to be running out of ideas. My wife is a massive fan and she fell asleep half way through!
