What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



California band that hit the big time rather sudden, with their debut album. That remains their finest effort for
me, but this third one has a couple of great tracks and only one clunker. Love Adam Duritz's Van Morrison vocals,
and a great performer, one of those I love to watch. Excellent lyrics which make Mrs. Potters Lullaby my favorite
on here, with the other love track being I Wish I Was A Girl. The lone dud track is one of those hidden ones coming
after a 3 minute gap (someone shoot whoever came up with this idea), something called Kid Things, which is
obviously not Adam singing. The only good thing about that is at the end where some dude keeps saying "thanks for
the weed man". Sounds like something straight off of a Dr. Hook album. You probably had to be there. The album made
#8 in the US and #19 in the UK with the single of Hanginaround at #22 here and my favorite failing to crack the
chart.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Kid Things

Best Track - Mrs. Potters Lullaby

Well I woke up in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts
You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast

Well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame
And though I'll never forget your face,
sometimes I can't remember my name

Hey Mrs. Potter don't cry
Hey Mrs. Potter I know why but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing
And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring
And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything

Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said
And the ghosts of the tilt-a-whirl will linger inside of your head
And the ferris wheel junkies will spin them forever instead
When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in bed

Hey Mrs. Potter don't go
Hey Mrs. Potter I don't know but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep

So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams
It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream
Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem
But I'd sure like to find out
So why don't you climb down off that movie screen

Hey Mrs. Potter don't turn
Hey Mrs. Potter I burn for you
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor
and orders another
Well, I wonder what he did that for
That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before
So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door

We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
We stand up at the Palace like it's the last of the great Pioneertown bars
We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars
You can see a million miles tonight
But you can't get very far

Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touch and
Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

1) Hanginaround **
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARiiO_41Id8&ob=av2e
2) Mrs. Potter's Lullaby ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdt58T366xw&ob=av2e
3) Amy Hit The Atmosphere **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feom_uT7tTk
4) Four Days **
audio - Counting Crows - Four Days - YouTube
5) All My Friends **
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9krEYQld-o
6) High Life **
audio - Counting Crows - High Life - YouTube
7) Colorblind **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0s7ycdUcHk
8) I Wish I Was A Girl ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWReoI0KlD0
9) Speedway **
audio - Counting Crows - Speedway - YouTube
10) St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream **
11) Kid Things *

3's - 2
2's - 8
1's - 1

Grade - 2.1

so many albums, so little time