What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

COUNTING CROWS "underwater sunshine" cd,2012.

i actually bought this one a week or so prior to Music Head reviewing it as a new release back in April of this year, got mine on recommendation from Corey...
was a bit dissolusioned by the poor score MH gave it(1.6 from memory?)...
usually MH,Corey and myself are on a similar wavelength(well, within reason anyway)
a covers album by the Crows...thankfully they are all obscure covers, and the fact that i only knew "ooh la la" and "you aint goin' nowhere" previously(Faces and Dylan covers respectively), i have no problem with this album,
album starts off pretty uptempo and alt.rock style initially, then gradually slides into some psuedo-country sounds towards the second half until its comclusion at track fifteen...
i like this album,love the vocalists vocals,kept thinking of REM whilst listening,probably not accurate in places but it does have a bit of a Michael Stipe feel to some of it...
all up, not a bad album with three tracks i love, and only two i dislike, which aint too bad over fifteen tracks.
allmusic rate this one a converted 1.8, my score is slightly higher...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: untitled(love song)
best track: amie

tracks:

1. untitled(love song) *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_130NUSGNU audio
2. start again ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnzLKh3b258 audio
3. hospital **
4. mercy **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7U-05dyq-0 audio
5. meet on a ledge **
6. like teenage gravity *
7. amie ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CIQ4sxq758 audio
8. coming around **
9. ooh la la **
10.all my failures **
11.return of the grevious angel ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAHX_omE8t0 audio
12.four white stallions **
13.jumoing jesus *
14.you aint goin' nowhere **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxkySK8NL3k audio
15.the ballad of el-goodo **

3s=3
2s=10
1s=2

rating: 2.0