This album by the Counting Crows has been playing in my music system for a week now. I have owned this album for almost 12 years now. Actually in between for about a year it was out of my possession but I managed to get it back after a bit of hounding! ;-)
August & Everything After, remains one of my top 10 albums of all time. Great lyrics, music and stories throughout the album.
The album starts with 3 amazing songs "Right Here", "Omaha" and "Mr. Jones". On these 3 songs along with almost every other song on this album you will find that while you are listening they have this ability to bring along amazing imagery. After the first 3 songs just when things seem to settling in there is the haunting "Anna Begins". Oh but you just wait for "Raining in Baltimore". This song is "simple" with Adam Duritz the vocalist on the Piano.Most of the songs are about everyday things and everyday people but the lyrics really take a hold of you. Just play the album and see if you can stop yourself from drifting off to a few years back thinking about some incident or person in your life.
Overall the album is fairly dark and gloomy in nature but the music is such a beautiful compliment that it ends up making the album very pleasing in nature. The album is very much like the month of August itself, at least here in India. It is the rainy season with dark clouds hovering about and it gets quite gloomy but there is still a beauty and freshness around that makes the environment feel blissful and there is still that harmony all around, especially when the sun breaks through the clouds...
