COUNTING CROWS Recovering the Satellites Mint original unplayed
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COUNTING CROWS      Recovering the Satellites     ORIGINAL RELEASE      MINT    UNPLAYED 



Recovering the Satellites is the second studio album by Counting Crows, released on October 15, 1996, in the United States. Released three years (and two years of worldwide touring) after their debut album, it reached #1 in the United States and was a top seller in Australia, Canada, and the UK as well. For years, Adam Duritz felt this was his favorite album by the band.[1] Recovering the Satellites Studio album by Counting Crows Released October 15, 1996 Recorded January–March 1996, Hollywood, San Francisco and The Sound Factory, Hollywood Genre Alternative rock Length 59:22 Language English Label Geffen Producer Gil Norton, Marvin Etzioni Counting Crows chronology August and Everything After
(1993) Recovering the Satellites
(1996) Across a Wire: Live in New York City
(1998) Singles from Recovering the Satellites
  1. "Angels of the Silences"
    Released: September 23, 1996
  2. "A Long December"
    Released: December 1996
  3. "Daylight Fading"
    Released: May 20, 1997


For this album, the quintet became a sextet, with fellow San Franciscan Dan Vickrey added, contributing a second guitar as well as sharing in songwriting credits on four of the fourteen tracks. Steve Bowman was replaced as drummer by Ben Mize. Counting Crows brought in producer Gil Norton for Recovering the Satellites. (The track "Miller's Angels" was produced by Marvin Etzioni.)

Contents

  • 1Reception
  • 2Track listing
  • 3Personnel
  • 4Charts
  • 5Certifications
  • 6References
  • 7External links

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [2] Entertainment Weekly C[3] The Independent (unfavorable)[4] Q [5] Rolling Stone [6] Spin (6/10)[5]

Writing for Rolling Stone, Anthony DeCurtis gave the album a star rating of four out of five stars. He said that the band's second album develops the sounds of August and Everything After and that they "largely achieve their serious ambitions". He praised Adam Duritz's lyrics and called the album "deeply satisfying".[6]

In a review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album a rating of four stars out of five. He called it a "self-consciously challenging response" to their successful debut album. He described the songs as "slightly more somber" than those on the first album but "more affecting". He noted an occasional "pretentiousness" on the album but praised "A Long December" as particularly articulate.[2]

Andy Gill from The Independent gave the album a more negative review. He criticized Duritz's song-writing as "self-pity[ing]" and called him a "classic solipsistic soul-barer, he just won't shut up about himself". He called the album "bland" with "obvious" influences (including R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen and Lynyrd Skynyrd). Gill had some praise for producer Gil Norton's work on the album.[4]

In a review for Entertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker also had negative feelings about the album, and gave it a "C" grade. He criticized Duritz's "yowling" and "moans" and called Counting Crows a "pastiche of its influences".[3]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated

  1. "Catapult" (Duritz, David Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Matt Malley, Dan Vickrey, Ben Mize) – 3:34
  2. "Angels of the Silences" (Duritz, Gillingham) – 3:39
  3. "Daylight Fading" (Duritz, Vickrey, Gillingham) – 3:50
  4. "I'm Not Sleeping" – 4:57
  5. "Goodnight Elisabeth" – 5:20
  6. "Children in Bloom" – 5:23
  7. "Have You Seen Me Lately?" – 4:11
  8. "Miller's Angels" (Duritz, Vickrey) – 6:33
  9. "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" – 4:32
  10. "Recovering the Satellites" – 5:24
  11. "Monkey" – 3:02
  12. "Mercury" – 2:48
  13. "A Long December" – 4:57
  14. "Walkaways" (Duritz, Vickrey) – 1:12

Personnel[edit]

Counting Crows
  • David Bryson – guitars, Dobro, tambourine, vocals
  • Adam Duritz – piano, tambourine, Wurlitzer, lead vocals
  • Charlie Gillingham – Hammond B-3, piano, Mellotron, Wurlitzer, accordion, harmonica, vocals
  • Matt Malley – electric bass guitar, double bass, vocals
  • Ben Mize – drums, tambourine, percussion, light bulbs, Zippo lighter, vocals
  • Dan Vickrey – guitars, vocals


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