Days 38-40 - Counting Crows and The Cranberries

I didn't post for the first time this weekend, sorry to my loyal readers (I feel important when I say that).

I continue to make progress on the C's but have slowed down significantly. I blame it on other distractions such as work, weekend to do's (man I'm old), parenthood, inauguration planning, sleep, etc.

I realized I have a ton of Counting Crows. I was thinking I would be making some serious cuts since I had a few of the new CDs. First and foremost, the lead singer, Adam Duritz needs a new hair cut. I didn't know it was possible to keep the same cut or lack there of for 15+ years. It makes me wonder how many times he's washed those dreads in that time period. Also I'm not sure I'm supposed to talk about this, but is the lead singer black or white?

So in summary, Counting Crows are great and definitely some perfect easy listening while doing some work. My two favorite albums are easily This Desert Life and August and Everything After. The other albums are ok but far behind these two.
Top Songs:

1. Sullivan Street
   
2. Mr. Jones
3. High Life
   
4. Mrs. Potter's Lullabye
5. Rain King
6. Anna Begins
7. Omaha

It's tough to rank the above songs because there are so many great songs on August and Everything After. I would highly recommend you dust of these albums and give them a listen as they are great. They also reminded me that in early high school I was supposed to go see Counting Crows play with Craker in VA Beach. The Crows pulled out a few weeks before and my friend Justin and I were pissed and constantly joked about it for the next 5-7 years.

I'm now listening to a ridiculous amount of Cranberries. Monica is a big fan and therefore we have three of their albums. One thing I noticed when listening to "Walking Back" from the album Everyboyd Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? Each line of the song ends with the lead singer repeating the word in her trademark way. For example she sings "...taking you away from my life, my li-ife, my li-fe". Anyway later in the song she ends a line with "attitude" and tries to sing that in the same style. Well its too many syllables and its obvious that she just sort of softly mumbles it and thinks we won't notice. Well I did and I thought it was pretty funny. I guess I'm listening to way too much music when I notice this stuff.

Thanks for reading. More to come tomorrow.