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Hard Candy | 
 enlarge | Artist: Counting Crows
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music
List Price: $45.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 368017
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 606949336622
EAN: 0606949336622
ASIN: B000068GST
Release Date: July 30, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Hard Candy | | • | American Girls | | • | Good Time | | • | If I Could Give All My Love -or- Richard Manuel Is Dead | | • | Goodnight L.A. | | • | Butterfly in Reverse | | • | Miami | | • | New Frontier | | • | Carriage | | • | Black and Blue | | • | Why Should You Come When I Call? | | • | Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood) | | • | Holiday in Spain | | • | 4 White Stallions [*] | | • | You Ain't Going Nowhere [*] |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Details
2002 Return to Form with Musical Thrills and Evocative Lyrics. Guest Appearances Spice Things Up from Sheryl Crow, Ryan Adams and Matthew Sweet. This Special Edition Includes Two Bonus Tracks ('4 White Stallions' and 'you Ain't Going Nowhere') Not Found on the USA Version.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Soft Candy July 5, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Now, to start off, I did like this album. But after reading a few reviews that this is their best work yet, I feel a little opposition is neccessary.
I fell in love with this band after listening to "Recovering the Satallites", and I feel that is Counting Crows' most honest album. I've always seen this band as a search for meaning, and "Hard Candy" seems more like a pit stop.
"American Girls", "Good Time" and "Up All Night" Aree excellent tracks that are good examples of Counting Crows. But a lot of songs seemed a little too sugar coated for my taste ("New Frontier" is the best example of this)
The Bonus track of "Big Yellow Taxi" is a good track in my eyes, only because the music seemed radically changed, and without the annoying back-up 'Shoo-bops'.
Yes, this album was nice, but I still feel that the band is a little far from the mark, and could use a bit of the hard edge they had in "Satallites"
 Their Best Since the Beginning September 6, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is their best work since August and Everything After. I can't imagine a anyone listening to this album and not loving it. Whether you are a long time fan or just starting out, you can't go wrong Hard Candy.
I listen to this album everyday, my favorite tracks are Black & Blue, Up All Night, and Holiday in Spain.
Just like the cover says, this album has 13 new flavors of candy for you. Some are sweet, some are sour, and some are tingling taste of both.
I once said if I could buy one album for everyone in the world it would be August and Everything After. You know what? I just might give them this one instead. Yes. It is that good.
While I don't want to seem ungrateful to Adam and the boys, their music just seems to get better with every studio release, so, lets have another!
I look forward to seeing them on tour and can't wait for them to come to the Seattle area.
Return to Greatness !! September 5, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Adam and the boys return with true audio "candy" this time. You can hear the magic again in the music. You can hear reflections of the melodic hooks that made the Crows great (something that was sorely missing on the last album)....its the old sound Crows fans love....just updated to help it grow and reach new levels of appeal. Credit Steve Lillywhite (of DMB fame) for finding the soul of the band again!! Even the lyrics reflect a growth and departure from pure melancholy. The songs take the listener around the world from LA to Spain to Miami to the French Quarter. This cd has some tunes that immediately grab you.....American Girls, Hard Candy, Miami, Goodnight LA, Holiday in Spain....and others that grow on you with each time you play it !! Definitely a classic but it may take some listeners a couple spins to digest it !! A five star return....but I would avoid the import and buy the domestic version....the extra tracks aren't worth the extra cash !!!
 Can Counting Crows Regain Their Lost Prestige? August 27, 2002
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ahh, so at last Counting Crows have come of age. It's been a long time since a starry-eyed young man named Adam Duritz first gave us his take on life; touching, emotional and unique, with the sublime August and Everything After. Although musically nothing spectacular (it aping of The Band, The Eagles and others was evident), it remains the band's greatest release because of those amazing lyrics and seamless fusion of roots music, poetry and the idealistic temperament. Three years later, Recovering the Satellites made up for the first album's lack of musical individuality with its range of genres, encompassing rock, folk, blues, and classical music, but couldn't quite match the startling beauty of the simplistic lyrics and music of the first album. Three years on again, and This Dessert Life, an album off the top of the band's collective heads, shocked all with its terrible mediocrity. And so it comes to this. The band has grown from is original five to seven members, they have sharpened up their stage presence, and Duritz has matured. Can Hard Candy make up for This Dessert Life and still be a good album in its own right? The answer is an emphatic yes. Although there is the occasional nod toward commercialisation which Counting Crows faithful will dislike (the guest appearances of Sheryl Crow and Ryan Adams for example), the album on the whole restores the fan's faith in the band. The title track, Hard Candy, sees Duritz drop his profound ramblings for cheesy rhymes (night with sight, for example), and feature a `special' guest, so is universally detested by all, but there is also a large amount of good stuff, here, some of it vintage Counting Crows , to rank alongside Round Here, Mr. Jones, Rain King, Angels of the Silences and Miller's Angels in the Counting Crows Hall of Fame; the band show themselves to be musically versatile, with the hook laden, dance inducing (seriously) American Girls, the touching downbeat piano piece Black and Blue and the brilliant, feel-good, seven member, multi-layered centrepiece and tribute to The Band, If I Could Give All My Love To You Or Richard Manuel is Dead all standing out, whilst New Frontier (which sounds like Shiny Happy People era REM) and Miami (a string laden, but somewhat angry and pleading tour de force for Duritz's rich voice) are also noteworthy. Counting Crows have finally found their own sound (rather than aping Californian rock greats or trying their hand at everything), and although those who delighted in the early lyrical waxing will be disappointed, this album is something new, different, and highly enjoyable. The K addition also features a great cover of Bob Dylan's You Ain't Going Nowhere and the little heard 4 White Stallions, which takes a leaf out of the roots music encyclopaedia and delivers the goods. This album is something special, because it undoes all the harm done by This Dessert Life; the passion for music the band have shines through, and each is at their best here; Duritz's voice goes through its full range, and even the obligatory Adam on The Piano piece is acceptable (Raining in Baltimore remains the king of these though); guitarists Dan Vickry and Dave Byson now make a good tandem, Vickry's solos now meshing nicely rather than jarring with the band's sound; multi-instrumentalists Charles Gillingham and David Immergluck are also on form, ready to add anything needed in the pursuit of a musically deep, lyrically well done, album.
Big yellow taxi not You ain't going nowhere August 6, 2002
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Big mistake Amazon".com"! The hidden bonus track is not "You ain't going nowhere", but "Big yellow taxi" by Joni Mitchell! (Unless the european release differs from the US-one, which I'm unaware of).Anyway, it's one hell of a great album again, if you dug their earlier albums, why, then you probably already bought this one as well, what am I telling you for?! For the non-familiar: don't expect any highly innovative stuff from these guys, just incredibly tasteful and enchanting music, great lyrics, and the beautiful, fragile voice of Adam. The kind that makes you want to sob along or jump around (although Adam usually doesn't get all that feisty :-).
What a band!
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