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Counting Crows
Across A Wire - Live In New York City
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Released: 1998
Label: Geffen
Selection #: 225111
Acoustic & electric tracks! Includes Round Here, Mr. Jones, Rain King, A Long December, Anna Begins, Angels Of The Silences, much more!
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1 Round Here
2 Have You Seen Me Lately?
3 Angels of the Sliences
4 Catapult
5 Mr. Jones
6 Rain King
7 Mercury
8 Ghost Train
9 Anna Begins
10 Chelsea
11 Recovering the Satellites
12 Angels of the Silences
13 Rain King
14 Sullivan Street
15 Children in Bloom
16 Have You Seen Me Lately?
17 Raining in Baltimore
18 Round Here
19 I'm Not Sleeping
20 A Murder of One
21 A Long December
22 Walkaways
  
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It certainly says something about the state of the music industry in the '90s when it has become a common occurrence for bands to release live albums after only two albums of original material. On one hand, it's indicative of how the labels have to fight the proliferation of high-quality live CD bootlegs. On the other, it illustrates that the labels have a difficult time receiving new product from their major bands. And that makes Counting Crows' double-disc set "Across a Wire -- Live in New York" both welcome and odd. Certainly, all of the group's hardcore fans will delight in having two complete live shows on one specially priced double-disc set, but skeptics can't help but wonder if a double-live set is necessary. Actually, "Across a Wire" may be necessary if you are a dedicated fan, simply because it showcases the group's versatility in a way that neither of their albums have. Although those two records were eclectic, accomplished recordings, these live shows find Counting Crows rearranging familiar tunes and performing cohesive conceptual concerts. The first disc consists of their performance for "VH-1's Storytellers", the second of "MTV Live from the 10 Spot". They share some songs, such as "Angels Of The Silences" and "Rain King," yet the versions themselves are different, fitting neatly into the concerts themselves. The end result is two fascinating, entertaining concerts on one package -- a small blessing for the committed, even if it won't be of much interest to the unconverted. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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