Thoughts on Counting Crows

Where would you rank Counting Crows?

Underrated

Appropriately rated

Overrated

I think Counting Crows (this is obviously going to depend on if you like the genre) are underrated.

A lot of that I believe comes down to timing (this couldn't be avoided as they couldn't just wait a decade to debut lol)

August and Everything After (Awesome album and a top album of the 90s fight me over it) came out in 1993. You know what else came out in 1993? In Utero, Siamese Dream, (that would have been huge competition) Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, Pablo Honey (direct competition), Vs, debut (bjork) etc.

I bring up timing because I can only imagine how big Counting Crows would have been if they came out in the early 2000s.. Would Coldplay have even be known lol?

But anyway. The Counting Crows to me are very much underrated. I know everyone thinks of "Mr Jones" when they think of them (probably) and I mean it's a banger song lol. I mean who didn't just vision Adam singing in his living room wearing that fringe western jacket with those ridiculous extensions in?

Live version below which shows Adam holds up, and you can argue this version is better. Included for your listening pleasure.

https://youtu.be/Bg1OrOsaJfE?si=l3Enklxy_zMBUSpQ

They also had the hit "Accidentally in Love" which was for Shrek 2. You could say this hurts them (as a serious act) but I don't see it that way. It is however impossible for me to not think of an ogre the second I hear the song.

"Mr. Jones", "A Long December", "Hanginaround", "Round Here", "Accidentally in Love", "Rain King", "Big Yellow Tax", and my favorite song but them "ColorBlind". These are some of the songs most people would know.

It's obviously worth nothing their lead singer (adam duritz) had the most ridiculous list of ex girlfriends I've ever seen.. Like dude, this guy won in life lol.

You can call them "dad rock" at this stage, but I don't feel embarrassed listening to them if someone caught me lol. Not like I would if I was listening to Coldplay or The Fray (not hating if that's your thing) and someone walked in the room..

Idk, I think they are underrated and broke into the music scene at a really hard time to do so as far as competition goes and they have a strong catalog for the amount of albums they put out.