Product Description

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.

Track Listing

1. 1492
2. Hanging Tree
3. Los Angeles
4. Sundays
5. Insignificant
6. Cowboys
7. Washington Square
8. On Almost Any Sunday Morning
9. When I Dream Of Michelangelo
10. Anyone But You
11. You Can't Count On Me
12. Le Ballet d'Or
13. On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago
14. Come Around
15. Baby, I'm A Big Star Now

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #517 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 66 minutes

Customer Reviews

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 with old Crows for the time being.

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 tribute band trying to write crows songs.Alternately, it sounds like two extended weed induced jams split in to songs with Adam thinking he can turn up, stand in front of a mic and waffle.

The only track which doesn't fit on this album is Baby, I'm a big star now. The reason...it was written and recorded before Hard Candy and was a "B" side of Hanging around the first time it was released (Not that dreadful rock mix!) This smacks of a band believing there own hype.

The Crows are still a great band if you listen to the music up to lunch time on Saturday. Saturday night and sunday morning stinks (Can you see what I did there?;-) ) Let's hope they take the rest of Sunday off and come back refresshed on Monday for some proper work.

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!