August And Everything After Music Cd

Counting Crows - August And Everything After

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August and Everything After      Artist : Counting Crows      List Price : $32.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1996-03-12      Studio : Mobile Fidelity      Label : Mobile Fidelity      Avg. Customer Rating : (284 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for August And Everything After      What's all the fuss about?      Rating:      It's funny to me how fans latch onto a particular band or artist and no matter what they come out with, it's "awesome". To me, this album is just average. It's sound is predictable, the songwriting is nothing special. And every track pretty much sounds the same. Go ahead and send the hate mail, I can handle it. But I picked up the album because it was recommended by Amazon customers. I love you all, and I have used your recommendations many times. This will remain in my collection, and maybe after time, it will grow on me, but not now.     Customer Reviews for August And Everything After Cd      Uggghhhhhhhhhh.......      Rating:      If this is the kind _____ that I have to deal with when I get into college a couple of years, then you might as well tell all future frat ___________ in advance to murder my soul. Good lord, this is TERRIBLE. I can't even describe what it sounds like, the only thing I can describe it as dull boring guitars and a vocalist that sounds like Rob Thomas (which is a VERY bad thing). This is draining to the ninth degree. I even think that they take all of the groove, the instrumentation, and the voice out of Dave Matthews Band and blend it with the equally terrible Matchbox 20 and put it into a blender. Each and every song is a mix up bland ripped off guitars and melodies of the worst music every, without any sappy, drippy, birthday cake fake melodies, replacing it with none of that. Seriously, I think Brittany Spears is more catchy than this, and it's all delivered in a mindless pop format with a singer more boring than Coldplay. So what is it in one sentence: uber-bland muzak with disposable, boring "pop" tendencies. This won't soothe you, it will just make you lightheaded from boredom. Don't come near this sissy music. Resist the college radio junk in college and please, don't even buy this junk. Your listening will be all the better for it. College radio is just a subset of mindless radio junk, less mainstream but still mindless radio junk, just not spread into the airways. 1.5/10 Editorial Reviews for August And Everything After Audio Cd      Amazon.com      It's amazing the difference a year makes. Upon its release, August and Everything After sounded remarkably fresh, a welcome change from the crunch and screech of grunge. Blending the vocal athleticism of Van Morrison with the moody rock of The Band, the Counting Crows turned on a whole legion of fans turned off by modern rock. But what sounded fresh soon became stale as dozens of bands flocked to the radio with euthanized versions of the Counting Crows' sound. But you shouldn't hold that against the Crow boys. August and Everything After is a fantastic rock album. Though "Mr. Jones" was the moneymaker, the disc features such standout cuts as the dark lilt of "Anna Begins," the morose "Rain King," and the outstanding U2-meets-Grant Lee Buffalo anthem "Murder of One." Maybe time, and another listen, will heal the damage wrought. --Tod Nelson