HARD CANDY
| Counting Crows
HARD CANDY
Hard Candy is the 4th sutdio album for the Counting Crows, released in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2002 and the following day in the United States. - WIKIPEDIA
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popMATTERS
Counting Crows have unveiled what turns out to be their best, most mature, and most vital effort to date.
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DROWNED IN SOUND
Hard Candy' is focussed experimentation, full of catchy hooks and a complete right angle to their previous Americana-tinged efforts, despite taking in all sorts of influences.
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sputnik music
this is definetley not the album to get if you want to hear what AAEA, RTS, and TDL are gonna sound like. Because this song has more pop influence than any of those others. If you like pop music you may not like this album, if you dont like pop music you may like it. The way it blends, bluesy music, soulful singing with pop and rock influences is different than anything the crows have done on their previous efforts.
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ALTERNATIVE ADDICTION
Sorry guys, but this piece of candy is very hard to swallow.
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ALL MUSIC
this record, with its many seeming aberrations, will no doubt attract new fans without alienating the old.
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HOT PRESS
Passion is, for the most part, conspicuous only by its absence on Hard Candy. These thirteen tracks fairly glow with MOR wholesomeness, and are enlivened only occasionally by some good old-fashioned musical kick.
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OPUS
The masterful kings of the full flavour traditional American sound are back with a host of sparkling new songs, which, although they are not necessarily their best, will still inspire you to hire a Cadillac and take to the nearest interstate freeway, or the M62, whichever is closest.
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RTE
The letdown is that most of the songs just aren't interesting enough: brilliant musicianship granted, but the arrangements don't hook you or distinguish them from other 'older rock' American outfits.
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billboard
On "Hard Candy," Duritz has penned songs of insomnia, drugs, debauchery, and the difficulties of life, love, and relationships.
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