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of the Day - 03/04/09

Favorite Counting Crows album:  

23 members have voted

  1. 1. Favorite Counting Crows album:

    • August & Everything After
      5
    • Recovering The Satellites
      2
    • The Desert Life
      1
    • Hard Candy
      0
    • Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
      0
    • I don't like the Counting Crows
      8
    • Never heard their music
      7


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I like the Counting Crows, but the only album I have is "This Desert Life" (it's 'this' not 'the'. Imo, there isn't a bad song on it, and there's a great song on it with a few lines about a local hangout up here called Pappy & Harriet's (Pioneertown Palace).

"When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor

and orders another

Well, I wonder what he did that for

That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before

So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door

We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars

We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great Pioneertown bars

We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars

You can see a million miles tonight

But you can't get very far

Oh, you can see a million miles tonight

But you can't get very far"

It pretty much sums up this desert life in about 5 lines

Not why I bought the album, but it was a cool surprise the first time I heard those lyrics.

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^ Ref, I would love to see them play again because the one time that I have, Adam D. was so plastered, he was literally almost falling off the stage and I was bummed because I was interested to see how they were live.

I do like them, but don't have any of their albums. I've worked with Matt Malley a little bit over the last couple of years and he is just the sweetest guy.

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^ I saw them a few years ago at the Greek in LA when they opened for The Who. They were fantastic!

I did like them before that show.

Sorry that Adam D. was so messed up. I got one of those once with Diamond Dave when I went to see Van Halen in the early 80s. Only concert I ever walked out on. He was so coked up, it wasn't even funny.

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