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artist:counting crows
album:across a wire:live in NYC (disk 1)
one of the things that i love most, and forgive me if I've mentioned this already, is the counting crows' ability to play one of their songs so differently in a live setting, but yet still keep it recognizable. sometimes "jammy" bands get on stage and you have no idea what the heck is even going on, or what song they are supposedly playing (DMB is definitely guilty of this, at least from the one instance I've seen them live...) but in my opinion, the crows' remain true to their songs. i know that there are a lot out there that disagree with me on this one, however i believe it to be true, and for the purposes of this blog, my opinion is the only one that matters.
i love the across the wire disks. i definitely prefer the VH1 disk to the MTV, but i think that's because the version of Anna begins on the VH1 disk is so hauntingly beautiful that nothing could top it. i mean, that song is beautiful to begin with, but the live version of it kicks so much ass it hurts three days later.
these are disks that make every road trip i take. these are disks that got me through years of college and life after college. they are my fall backs when I'm sad or scared or lonely or hurt...or happy, thankful, excited, or content. if i ever have kids, these will be the songs that my kids are raised on.
sophomore year of college out at Waynesburg, i had a class during the second semester that i had been warned about by everyone ahead of me in the department. "Krause is a hard professor and you really have to bust your ass to pass this class" was the general message. looking back, i think Krause paid the upperclassmen to say that, because, although i did bust my ass in that class, i got an A with really not too much extra effort. at any rate, i had received a card in the mail from my "granny" for my birthday and included in that card was a 20 dollar bill. i should have used that money for something practical, but i decided to reward myself, instead. the plan was that i could buy this new Counting Crows disk in the college bookstore that id been eyeing up if i got an A on Krause's midterm. the A was achieved and the CD was purchased, and obviously it meant a lot to me even then if i still remember the details of that particular purchase 12 years later.
I'm itching for the chance to see Counting Crows live again. hopefully that will happen soon.
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