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Counting Crows - 2003 - Films About Ghosts (The Best of...) [EAC FLAC]
Artist: Counting Crows
Title: Films About Ghosts (The Best of...)
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Producer: David Bryson, T Bone Burnett, Dennis Herring, Steve Lillywhite, David Lowery, Gil Norton, Brendan O'Brien
Release Date: November 25, 2003
Recorded: 1993–2003
Label: Geffen Records
Catalog: 9861580
Barcode: 6 0249861580 5
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock
Duration: 67:14
Counting Crows:
Wikipedia:
Counting Crows is an American rock band from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991. The band consists of Adam Duritz (lead vocals, piano), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (keyboards, accordion), Dan Vickrey (lead guitar), David Immerglück (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Jim Bogios (drums, percussion) and Millard Powers (bass guitar).
Counting Crows gained popularity following the release of its debut album, August and Everything After (1993), which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones." They have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide and received a 2004 Academy Award nomination for their song "Accidentally in Love," which was included in the film Shrek 2.
The band's influences include Van Morrison, R.E.M., Bob Dylan, and The Band.
Films About Ghosts (The Best of...):
Wikipedia:
Films About Ghosts (The Best of...) is a greatest hits album by the popular alternative rock band Counting Crows. It was released by Geffen Records on November 25, 2003. The album contains songs from all of their studio albums. The album takes its name from a line in "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby": "If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Counting Crows always seemed a little older than their years, so it somehow seemed appropriate when they arrived at certain milestones a little earlier than their peers. They released their first live album, an exhaustive double-disc set, just two albums into their career, then, two albums later, they issued Films About Ghosts: The Best of..., their first compilation. Part of the reason they're issuing a compilation after just four studio albums may be that they've arrived at the end of the recording contract with Geffen and this ties up loose ends, but it's also been ten years since the band broke through with their debut August and Everything After and their first hit, "Mr. Jones," so it's a good time to take stock and recap their first decade. Films About Ghosts does offer an accurate summary of those ten years, even if it's not a complete one. While this generous 16-track compilation includes all of the major hits -- "Round Here," "A Long December," "Hanginaround," "Mr. Jones," and even the non-LP modern rock chart-topper "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" -- it does overlook three charting singles from their first two albums("A Murder of One," "Daylight Fading," "Have You Seen Me Lately"), substituting album tracks, and two new recordings produced by Brendan O'Brien (the good new single "She Don't Want Nobody Near," an enjoyable but superfluous cover of the Grateful Dead's "Friend of the Devil") instead. Add to this a deliberately non-chronological sequencing that prevents the album from giving proper momentum, and Films About Ghosts isn't as ideal a compilation as it could have been, but these are rather minor issues, since it does contain the great majority of the Counting Crows' hits and concert staples and, in doing so, it provides a listen that's as enjoyable, frustrating, and rewarding as the band's proper albums. And that means it's a fine summary of the group's stint at Geffen, an era that might have resulted in just four albums in ten years, but did provide a bunch of good music, much of which can be heard here.
Tracklist:
01. Angels Of The Silences - 3:40
02. Round Here - 5:31
03. Rain King - 4:16
04. A Long December - 4:58
05. Hanginaround - 4:16
06. Mrs. Potter's Lullaby - 7:46
07. Mr. Jones - 4:33
08. Recovering The Satellites - 5:25
09. American Girls - 4:35
10. Big Yellow Taxi - 3:46
11. Omaha - 3:41
12. Friend Of The Devil - 4:37
13. Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman) - 3:53
14. Anna Begins - 4:32
15. Holiday In Spain - 3:50
16. She Don't Want Nobody Near - 3:09
Personnel:
Jim Bogios - Drums, Group Member, Loops, Vocals
Steve Bowman - Drums, Group Member, Vocals
David Bryson - Composer, Dobro, Engineer, Guitar (12 String Electric), Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Mixing, Producer, Slide Guitar, Vocals
Vanessa Carlton - Vocals (Background)
Sheryl Crow - Guest Artist, Vocals (Background)
Adam Duritz - Bells, Composer, Group Member, Harmonica, Piano, String Samples, Tambourine, Vocals, Wurlitzer
Charlie Gillingham - Accordion, Chamberlin, Composer, Fender Rhodes, Guitar (Acoustic), Harmonica, Mellotron, Omnichord, Organ (Hammond), Piano, Synthesizer, Tack Piano, Vocals, Wurlitzer
David Immerglück - Bass, Group Member, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Mandolin, Sitar (Electric), Slide Guitar, Vocals
Gary Louris - Vocals (Background)
Matt Malley - Double Bass, Group Member, Guitar, Guitar (Bass), Vocals
Maria McKee - Vocals (Background)
Ben Mize - Composer, Drums, Group Member, Loops, Percussion, Tambourine, Vocals
Brendan O'Brien - Bass, Composer, Harp, Mixing, Percussion, Producer
Dan Vickrey - Banjo, Composer, Group Member, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Sitar, Vocals
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