Hard Candy

Counting Crows - Hard Candy

Hard Candy
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Artist: Counting Crows
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2002-07-09
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Hard Candy
  2. American Girls
  3. Good Time
  4. If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead)
  5. Goodnight L.A.
  6. Butterfly In Reverse
  7. Miami
  8. New Frontier
  9. Carriage
  10. Black And Blue
  11. Why Should You Come When I Call?
  12. Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes To Hollywood)
  13. Holiday In Spain
  14. Big Yellow Taxi

Music reviews of Hard Candy

Music Review: Extremely Average Counting Crows Release
Rating: 3 Stars

This CD is pretty difficult for me to review. I have a kinda love/hate relationship with this CD. At times it seems almost great to me and at other times below average. This is definitely one of those CDs where my mood and state of mind at the time of listening has everything to do with how I feel about it. Therefore I guess 3 stars is the fairest way for me to review it. I really like the first three tunes (yes even American Girls, which most on here don't like) and "Good Time would have sounded right at home on "August..."). I even like "Richard Manuel" except something about the arrangement during the chorus bothers me. "Why Should You Come..." suffers from an even worse arrangement along with being a very subpar song. This song really grates me. "Butterfly In Reverse" sounds too much like a showtune. This grates me as well. On the other hand, the first 3 tunes along with the excellent "Miami" and the superb "Holiday In Spain" which rank among some of the best songs in the Crows catalogs help to redeem the CD. Even though this is my least favorite Counting Crows CD it still has it's flashes of greatness.

Description of Hard Candy

Hard Candy is, most certainly, just another Counting Crows album. But it's difficult to imagine that there's ever going to be too many. For a band that formed during the grunge-dominated early 1990s, Counting Crows did something remarkably brave--though they helped themselves to the same legacy of 1970s and '80s FM radio rock as the Seattle groups, they chose not to subvert it with any punk influences. Counting Crows were determined to play Steve Miller and Tom Petty and Bruce Hornsby at their own game, and Hard Candy is the fourth astonishing album that has resulted. Counting Crows have now settled into a template with which they clearly feel comfortable--simple but elaborately orchestrated songs, buffed and polished to a high sheen, which serve as a glittering backdrop to Adam Duritz's lyrics. These, now as ever, are chiefly concerned with excitingly unattainable women and the roads he travels to get to or away from them. He tantalizes, as he often does, with specific names and places, but is never so solipsistic that the songs are robbed of a universal appeal. --Andrew Mueller

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