August and Everything After
August and Everything After | ||||
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Counting Crows studio album | ||||
Publication |
1993 |
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Label (s) | Geffen Records | |||
Format (s) |
CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
51 min 42 s |
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occupation |
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Studio (s) |
los Angeles |
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August and Everything After is the first studio album by the American band Counting Crows . It was released in the United States on September 14, 1993.
background
The Counting Crows had been around for around two years when August and Everything After was recorded. After the recording of a demo tape, there were several offers from record companies and on the condition that the album could be recorded in a rented house without time pressure, the Counting Crows went under contract with Geffen Records . The album's booklet says: Recorded in the living room of our big house on a hill in Los Angeles. ( Taken in the living room of our large house on a hill in Los Angeles. )
Album Art
In front of warm, autumnal yellow / red tones, the cover shows the handwritten text for a song called August and Everything After , which, however, did not make it onto the album. The name of the band and the album can be seen handwritten in the foreground.
Success and Singles
Four songs were released as singles from the album: The very first single Mr. Jones reached number 2 in the Billboard Top 40 mainstream charts and is still the Counting Crows' best-known song to this day. Other singles were Rain King , Round Here and A Murder of One .
The album itself peaked at # 4 on the Billboard 200 and had seven-fold platinum status by 1996. In Great Britain it reached number 16 (and gold status), in Germany number 56 and in Austria number 24 in the charts.
The album was also well received by the critics. The Rolling Stone called August and Everything After "one of the best rock albums of 1993" and singer Adam Duritz the "lyrical revelation of the year". The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards .
content
The album was released in 1993 with 11 tracks. In 2007 a deluxe edition was released with six additional titles and a second CD with live recordings.
- Round Here (5:32)
- Omaha (3:40)
- Mr. Jones (4:33)
- Perfect Blue Buildings (5:01)
- Anna Begins (4:32)
- Time And Time Again (5:13)
- Rain King (4:16)
- Sullivan Street (4:29)
- Ghost Train (4:01)
- Raining In Baltimore (4:41)
- A Murder Of One (5:44)
Additional titles of the Deluxe Edition:
- Shallow Days (4:50)
- Mean Jumper Blues (4:24)
- Love and Addiction (Demo) (4:21)
- Omaha (Demo) (3:18)
- Shallow Days (Demo) (4:41)
- This Land Is Your Land (Demo) (3:44)
Live tracks of the Deluxe Edition (recorded in Paris at the Elysée Montmartre on December 9, 1994 on the last concert of the tour for the album):
- Anna Begins (5:21)
- Omaha (3:43)
- Jumping Jesus (3:01)
- Margery Dreams of Horses (4:13)
- Perfect Blue Buildings (5:18)
- Round Here (11:45 am)
- Rain King (4:49)
- Time and Time Again (6:16)
- Ghost Train (5:38)
- Children in Bloom (5:27)
- A Murder of One (14:42)
- Sullivan Street (5:10)
- The Ghost in You (3:36)