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| Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings | 
 enlarge | Artist: Counting Crows
Label: Geffen
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (117 reviews)
Sales Rank: 244
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.1
MPN: 001021202
UPC: 602517499850
EAN: 0602517499850
ASIN: B000WMGDD4
Release Date: March 25, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Disappointing boring album May 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love the Counting Crows but just could not get into this album no matter how many times I tried. Overall just a boring album to me, all the songs are either very slow (1/2 of the album) or sound the same. I do like "Los Angeles and Hanging Tree" which I think are the two best songs on the album but this album has already been filed away in my collection.
Not the best Counting Crows album... May 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...but not the worst Counting Crows album either. I don't know. A lot of the songs sound the same as older CC's songs. And "Los Angeles," co-written with Ryan Adams, sounds a lot like Adams's "Rescue Blues," especially in the beginning. I agree with some of the other reviewers who say that this album is better than "Hard Candy." But after the long period of time between albums, I was hoping for something better. The album has grown on me over repeated listens, but it's still lacking. I would've given it 3.5 stars if I could've. But instead I rounded up to 4.
Better Than "Hard Candy" May 27, 2008
Wow! The Counting Crows have taken a beating from alot of the reviewers on this CD. I can't agree with the 5 star reviews but I certainly can't agree with the 1 and 2 star reviews either. No doubt the "Saturday Nights" portion is the best. Some of the best songs they have done in years (1492, Hanging Tree, Cowboys)are on this part of the CD. Lots of loud grunged-out guitars. When the Crows want to they rock with the best of them. Not often that a band that is more known for there great slower more introspective songs can rock without sounding cheesy.
Which brings us to the reason I can't give this 4.5 or 5 stars. Alot of the "Sunday Morning" songs, as a previous reviewer put it, are "sloppy". "Le Ballet d'or" seems to lose track of where it's going. "Tuesday Morning..." suffers from this same problem. "Anyone But You" goes know where. On the other hand, "Washington Square" and "On Any Sunday Morning" are both great.
So "Saturday Nights" is great and gets 5 stars but "Sunday Mornings" is a mixed bag and comes up with 3 stars. Before listening to this CD I would have thought "Sunday Mornings" would have been the stronger part of the CD being that the Counting Crows have put out some of the best songs in this type of genre for a long time.
Now as far as everyone going off about how it's not "August and Everything After" and going crazy because it's not, just relax. The fact is the Crows set the bar really, really high with that album. I came to terms after "Hard Candy" that will probably never reach that level of greatness again. And to be honest with you, I don't think I want them to top "August". That was a once in a career, decade, era, whatever album. I have so many fond memories attached to those songs from listening to them through the spring, summer and fall of '94 that I kinda want that level of greatness left alone...Kind of like not wanting some monumental record that your favorite football/baseball player from your childhood set not ever being broken again.
Anyway this is a solid release from the Counting Crows. Not their best but still very good.
A Bloddy Mess May 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love the CC so it pains my heart to write this . . . . this is the worst album i have heard in awhile. It's like they didn't even try. There are 3 average songs (L.A,Sundays, Hanging Tree) and the rest is horrible. In the past, the CC performed the best slow songs, but I was so disappointed in Adam on this album. The slow songs are sloppy. The melodies and notes are all over the place. Honestly, it sounds like something a high school kid would write for their a school project. Adam, please stay in the studio longer next time. If not, call it quits for those of us who want you to go out on top.
Weak on concept, but who cares -- the songs are strong May 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
So the concept supposedly was the raucous behavior of the Saturday night (the night before) and then the melancholy Sunday morning after. It has a bit of a feel to that, but it turned out to not just be half up-tempo songs and half down-tempo. Instead, the Crows keep things moving along on this album. Even though I've read a good number of mediocre reviews, I decided to give this one a chance. I thought this might be the first Crows album I didn't buy.
After giving it a chance, I really came to appreciate what it was about. There is actually a small amount of filler on here and while there's no true "classic" song on here that jumps out, there's a nice consistency across all the songs that makes the album worthwhile. The first two songs are the most driving in terms of tempo. Both have a fervor that reminds me of some of the more passionate stuff from Recovering the Satellites, especially Angels of the Silences off of that album.
Hanging Tree is the second song on this album and possibly the best up-tempo song. It's one of the better Crows songs ever and the lyrics are really good. Insignificant is a really get-up-and-go song, although I must say that they copped a bit from Have You Seen Me Lately, also off of Recovering the Satellites. Cowboys was the only dud from the first half of the album, perhaps just a little too long for my taste.
The ballads such as Washington Square and On Almost Any Sunday Morning are top-notch, with the latter the best song on the album. It's actually a bit of a rare structure for a band like Counting Crows as is doesn't really have an identifiable chorus. Later on, Le Ballet D'Or was one I had seen singled out as a low point on the album yet I found it kind of catchy and not deserving of the poor reviews I have read of it. On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago is just dreary, however, and is the low point of the "Sunday" songs but redemption is around the corner with the final song, Come Around, an upbeat way to end the album.
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