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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1305 on: December 04, 2011, 12:10:52 am »
adam duritz has a great voice, the problem with the band is the mediocre sound and writing. haters gonna hate
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1306 on: December 04, 2011, 03:05:48 am »
I liked the earlier Counting Crows stuff.  I always had the thought, really, on a street cred type level, if I wanted to dedicate myself to such a sort of sound, that the more hip thing to do would be to get into Van Morrison.  The thing is, I don't really like Van Morrison on enough of a level to put any energy into it.  "Long December" came out when I was in a dark depression after breaking up with my first love, and I had that song on repeat at the time.  Their first two albums were good comfort for depression actually.  After those two, I lost track of them, and then there was that awful song from the Shrek soundtrack that got some airplay and another song I can't recall that also got lots of attention.  I just remember thinking the lead singer must have gotten a scrip for some good antidepressants because the songs were peppy and shitty in equal parts, and that killed it for me.

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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1307 on: December 04, 2011, 06:49:47 am »
hm.

I trace my love for lo-fi shitty recordings to a "hidden" track on one of their albums. I heard the tossed off lo-fi semi-live version and then the real recorded version and decided that one was good and one was bad and that was IT as far as my taste in rock music goes.

I do not see the connection to Van Morrison. Could you expand on that?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1308 on: December 04, 2011, 08:36:25 am »
They had a song called Round Here that I liked a whole lot.  Otherwise I kinda found them mopey and depressing.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1309 on: December 04, 2011, 08:48:38 am »
round here was probably their mopiest and depressingest song
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1310 on: December 04, 2011, 10:05:37 am »
Quote from: Choop on December 04, 2011, 08:48:38 am
round here was probably their mopiest and depressingest song

For sure.  But that one worked.

Quote from: theinevitable on December 04, 2011, 06:49:47 am
I do not see the connection to Van Morrison. Could you expand on that?

Possibly because Morrison and Duritz have somewhat similar sounding voices and also Duritz sings sha la la la la on Mr Jones just like Morrison does on Brown Eyed girl. 
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1311 on: December 04, 2011, 02:31:57 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on December 03, 2011, 04:14:28 pm
j'know what? I know this makes me lose all cred I have ever had, but I don't understand why I am supposed to hate Counting Crows so much.

But isn't the great thing about that article that any one of us could replace all the band names in its with other band names to make it make sense? The sentiments are so universal. In fact, if we did it, no doubt someone else would respond "I don't understand why I am supposed to hate X so much."
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1312 on: December 04, 2011, 03:38:49 pm »
Bruce Springsteen?

I know I'm supposed to hate Van Morrison because he's an insufferable dick, but I still really like him.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1313 on: December 04, 2011, 05:51:10 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on December 04, 2011, 03:38:49 pm
Bruce Springsteen?

I know I'm supposed to hate Van Morrison because he's an insufferable dick, but I still really like him.

Van Morrison is really one of the best examples out there of the man and the music being completely mismatched temperamentally.

And to tie it all together, if you Google "Van Morrison insufferable dick" the top hit is something called "Counting Crows: Musical Poetry or Insufferable Garbage?"
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1314 on: December 04, 2011, 07:31:04 pm »
More troubling to me, I'm supposed to hate Elvis Costello because he's a racist.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1315 on: December 04, 2011, 08:42:50 pm »
Are we really still supposed to be hating him for a drunken bar brawl in 1979?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1316 on: December 04, 2011, 10:56:56 pm »
My dad doesn't like Neil Young as much ever since he yelled at my dad/the rest of the audience to stop rhythmically clapping during a song.

Does it make me a jerk that I can't imagine any Neil Young song sounding good with rhythmic clapping? I might be on Neil's side on this one.

"when I wrote this song, nobody was clapping."
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1317 on: December 04, 2011, 11:54:36 pm »
Neil Young is definitely one of those rock and roll types who, while I love his music, I am pretty sure he would be an asshole to know in person.

Which is fine with me, actually. I buy his CDs not time with him drinkin' a beer, you know?

And he's honest about it, too, he's not trying to pretend he's a really nice guy because he believes that'll sell more product.
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1318 on: December 05, 2011, 12:53:56 am »
Quote from: wombat on December 04, 2011, 02:31:57 pm
"I don't understand why I am supposed to hate X so much."

What do you have against John Doe?
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Re: What are you listening to?
« Reply #1319 on: December 05, 2011, 01:05:03 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on December 04, 2011, 11:54:36 pm
Neil Young is definitely one of those rock and roll types who, while I love his music, I am pretty sure he would be an asshole to know in person.


I'm the exact opposite. I'm pretty sure Stephen Stills is a jackass, though.
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