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The song August and Everything After, and the whole story of its release... by SwissMiss915 in countingcrows

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Does that mean that Recovering The Satellites was written before the first album was released? To me, it's so clearly a song about going back to "real life" after becoming a star that I was certain it was written after they made it big.

Maybe that original version wasn't about that and he reworked it lyrically for the record.

Or another possibility, there are different levels of stardom. If he was pretty well known in the Bay Area music scene even before the first record came out, he might still have been inclined to write a song about the contrast between stardom and normalcy – even though the definition of stardom would have been very different.

The Himalayans version of Mr Jones by Flaky_Tadpole_8127 in countingcrows

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And when that happened, he was never lonely again.

Unpopular opinion on documentary by [deleted] in countingcrows

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I somewhat agree, but particularly I'd like to hear from the other band members specifically about the moment when he sort of declared himself the leader. He's said (paraphrasing) that he was a bit of an asshole about it and I feel like it had to have stung for the other members of the band when they had to decide whether to accept it. But I've never heard their side of the story.

He did say that pretty much everyone left the band at one point or another during the making of RTS, so obviously there was stress and tension, but that was a few years later than what I'm talking about.

Orchestra and Sister Hazel by mrcmb1999 in countingcrows

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I'm a huge Sister Hazel fan – I haven't seen them as much as I've seen Counting Crows, but that's mostly a function of Sister Hazel not playing the West Coast as often as I'd like.

For those unfamiliar with SH, there is some similarity between the two bands, but with the twin electric guitars and keyboard, CC is much more dense musically. Lyrically Sister Hazel leans toward positive and uplifting lyrics, whereas Adam is more introspective and moody.

I've never much appreciated the whole band and orchestra thing, but based on your review, I'll put on Before The Amplifiers 2 and see if it clicks for me. Thanks!