Countin Crows New album, your thoughts please.
Posted by blake on 31 March 2008 - 12:40pm.
Before i go and download it has anyone heard Saturday night , Sunday morning, and if so what are you're thoughts.
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haven't heard it, but
two stars...
Surely
It should be two and a half?
2 and a half
about sums it up really
It's ok if you are a fan [he says damning it with very faint praise] though there's nothing on there to set your world on fire, very much a continuation from Hard Candy.
If you are not a fan then this is not the album to start with.
If it's a continuation of 'Hard Candy'
then I for one am intrigued.
Mr Harrison
you are a very naughty man.
thoughts
I've listened to it a few times, and it will need a few more to settle in. Let's face it, you have to be tuned into the whole Duritz thing; his re-use of themes continues here, and he is still using his favourite subject matter (himself). But that's his thing, he does it well, and has charisma. Also intelligence, a rare commodity in music. When I Dream of Michaelangelo seems to be about how you can't have faith when you have intelligence and insight. I like that.
I was a little dissapointed to see two outtakes from This Desert Life on the new album, sounding as lacklustre as that record does to my ears (though it has some good tracks).
I've often wondered what happened to Dave Bryson. He's still in the band, but has never contributed to the songwriting, despite having had a hand in the key songs on the debut album, still their best known stuff. He was edged out by the recruitment of Dan Vickrey, main co-writer on the second LP. Then David Immergluck came back (left during the making of the first LP), and is now the main foil for Duritz (an excellent musician and left-field artist so that's ok). But where's Bryson? Seems to have been stuck on the bench forever.
Regardless, I am enjoying it overall.
I think...
This Desert Life is a great album, I've listened to it a lot. It's certainly their finest after August and Everything After. The second one is okay and Hard Candy is innoffensive. I haven't heard the new one yet though.
niks, are you mad, with th
niks, are you mad, with th exception fo 3 tracks, this desert life is my least favorite so far. I love Hard candy, as its a distillation of what made the first two albums great. I Downloadsed the recent live album, but have not been greatly impresed, which is a shame, as the times i've seen them, i thought that they really where excellent live, producing, what seemed like 'one off' interpriation of song that i love, but improving on their inate drama, rather than being over self indulgant, or having to play spot the tune [a al Dylan]