Artist: Counting Crows
Album: Recovering the Satellites
Release Date: October 14, 1996
So I’m pretty sure that the rules I set up back in January would say that I’ve now broken the nearly nine-month streak of Album A Day posts and that the project is more or less done now since I theoretically missed two consectuive days.
But fuck them.
I wrote those rules, and thus can choose to waive them when I choose to deem fit. I’ve had fun doing this so far, and I fail to see why a silly little hiccup like this week should have to force that to end. So if it’s all the same to you all, I’m going to keep on trucking through this little game. I’ll give you the mythical catch-up album later today (this is going to count as Saturday’s album). As for Recovering the Satellites, Matt once said this was the back end of the best debut one-two set of albums. I’m not entirely convinced he’s right, since this album lacks the immediacy and pop that August and Everything After had, but it’s good all the same.
That’s all I got. It’s early Sunday morning and I’m sleep deprived, dammit! Cut me a break…
kidding, kidding. I love you all and I’ll be back later today. And at some point I’ll do a quickie post of all the things that happened in the music world since I went off the grid (including Noel Gallagher’s departure from Oasis, DJ AM’s death, and other goings-on).
Counting Crows – Angels of the Silences [iTunes] (YSI)
==TJ==
Filed under: Album A Day | Tagged: 1990s, Album A Day, Counting Crows
This album certainly isn’t as immediate as August was, but it gets the hooks into you, and the more you listen to this one, the more you’ll grow to appreciate it. Love the title track, “Monkey,” and a special mention goes out to “A Long December” which got played a bazillion times on the radio, and still, I loved it.
I remember thinking that Angels of the Silences was a weak first single though.