SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNINGS
| Counting Crows
SATURDAY NIGHTS & SUNDAY MORNINGS
Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is the 5th studio album by Counting Crows, released in the United States on march 24, 2008. - WIKIPEDIA
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CoS
In the end, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings leaves you longing for the weekend to end and the Crows to return to the studio for a better effort.
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popMATTERS
Somewhere in the middle of all that are the pieces of another great Counting Crows record. Maybe we'll get it next time around.
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SLANT
Listening to the Crows’ latest feels like being stuck in the past.
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BBC
In the end it's a concept that has obviously fired the band's creative spark again. We may not all relate to the self-destructive urge that pushes Duritz's muse to the edge, but as a straight-ahead rock album it's still got a lot to offer.
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sputnik music
A whirlwind of emotion and haunting lyrics make the Crows' first studio album since 2002 a staple piece of their discography. Perhaps even outdoing the ever-so popular "August and Everything After".
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ALL MUSIC
Duritz is unhinged and exposed, soaring above a band that underlines every vomited bleak poetic utterance.
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musicOMH
Considered as a whole, or even as two self-serving parts, Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings is so generic and unenlightening that you will probably not remember hearing it within an hour or so.
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INDEPENDENT
The first half isn't too bad, But it's the second half that really sinks one's spirits.
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The Guardian
The California country-rockers do it by eking 15 songs out of 10 songs' worth of ideas, and dividing them into "Saturday night" (raucous) and "Sunday morning" (achingly regretful) sections. Listened to - as the band recommend - in one sitting, it is trudging and effortful. Duritz is a wordy lyricist who, ironically, doesn't have much to say.
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NO DEPRESSION
one could also argue that the band’s five studio albums are all pretty good, including the new Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, a concept album (how old-fashioned!) about hedonistic indulgence and the reflections that come on the morning after.
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RTE
The Crows' approach to 'Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings' was to make a record where one half would see the band "rock out" and the other would capture them in a mellower come-down mood. The sin and the shame, as Duritz put it. The reality however isn't a record operating on twin speeds simply because the Counting Crows have never managed to operate on any speed other than neutral.
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30 days Out
Duritz says the band named the album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings because Saturday is when you sin and Sunday is when you regret. Counting Crows only sinned a couple of times on this disc, so I don’t think you’ll have any regrets if you decide to go out and buy it.
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The Inept Owl
But really, “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings” works as a title. The beginning of the album would be appropriate for any weekend night at the bar, doing shots of Jagermeister and shouting lame pickup lines into some girl’s ear. But the later, longer portion of the album is much more morning-after, hung-over, where-are-my-pants-and-who-is-that-person-on-my-bed sort of music.
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Creative Loafing
Amidst the indie-rock craze, the wise '90s rockers stick to what works.
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Bullz-eye
Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings has better songs overall than 2002’s Hard Candy, but this band has lost a lot of the cool factor that appealed to the college crowd 15 years ago.
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