Track for track - Counting Crows: Recovering the Satellites

[Antimatter]

Cowboys! Måske havde 2nd ret.

[Fisker Thomas]

"I wish you were inside of me"? Måske var de alligevel længere fremme i skoene end først antaget, rent kønspolitisk.

[haile lassie]

Uanset hvad Duritz havde gang i i de tekster, så virkede det. Det lykkedes ham at date BÅDE Jennifer Aniston og Courtney Cox (der forefindes ingen billeder af Adam og Courtney, men hun optræder i en video senere i T4T)

[foxtrot]

Så er vi nogenlunde tilbage på sporet. Ikke blandt de allerbedste på pladen, men stadig en dejlig lille ballade.

Har aldrig aktivt tænkt over det før, men for en ung mig, var der et eller andet ‘comforting’ over at høre Duritz beklage sig over kærlighedslivet på trods af, at han datede den ene Friends-stjerne efter den anden.

Og netop fordi der aldrig var noget element af trofæ-blær over hans tekster, kunne han (i min bog) slippe af sted med at synge om ting der, isoleret set, virker lidt skummelt. Altså vi snakker jo en mand, der skrev en sang om skuespillerinden Monica Potter, hvorefter han mødte hende for første gang og inviterede hende med hjem for at høre sangen. En gift Monica Potter vel og mærke. Men uden det virkede som et douche-move på nogen måde. Bare et “hey jeg er vildt fascineret af dig og har derfor skrevet en sang om dig, men altså, der er ikke noget i det, andet end kærligheden, livet, kvinder og dig er vildt dejlige og vildt smertefulde. Er guitarstykket lidt for langt?”

[haile lassie]

6. Children in Bloom. Duritz synger om at vokse op og famlende søge selvstændigheden.



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[Verse 1]
Children in bloom, cooking in the sun
Waiting for a room of our own
Leave my sister alone
She doesn't deserve this
She is a flower and I am a flower
And we are all alone

[Chorus]
I gotta get out on my own
I gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home
I gotta get out of this sunlight
It's melting my bones
I gotta get up from this slumber and just get myself home

[Verse 2]
All these wasted dreams
Just waiting for the sun to open
To open up my heart to anyone
Bring me some rain
Because I'm dying, I'm dying
And I can't get this damn thing closed again

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Where's the fun house this year?
The fairground's deserted and the skies don't seem as near
But Nicole's my oldest friend
But the altar is empty and she'll never be a little girl again

[Chorus]

[Outro]
I can't find my way home
I can't find my way home
I can't find, I can't find
I can't find, I can't find
I can't find, I can't find my way home
No no no

[foxtrot]

Fantastisk sang! Musikalsk er det en udbygget udgave af Catapult med langsomme, voldsomme vers, der glider over i melodisk rullende omkvæd.

Duritz er i topform og kommer med relativt få ord igennem hele følelsesregisteret, der hører til at gå fra barn til teenager.

[haile lassie]

7. Have You Seen Me Lately Om at miste sig selv i berømmelsens tåger.



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[Verse 1]
Get away from me, just get away from me
This isn't gonna be easy, but I don't need you
Believe me
Yeah, you got a piece of me
But it's just a little piece of me
And I don't need anyone
And these days, I feel like I'm fading away
Like sometimes when I hear myself on the radio

[Chorus]
Have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?
I was out on the radio, starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain
Could you tell me the things you remember about me?
And have you seen me lately?

[Verse 2]
I remember me and all the little things that make up a memory
Like she said she loved to watch me sleep
Like she said
"It's the breathing, it's the breathing in and out and in and..."

[Chorus]
Have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?
I was out on the radio, starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain
Could you tell me the things you remember about me?
And have you seen me lately?

[Verse 3]
You know, I thought that someone would notice
I thought somebody would say something if I was missing
Can't you see me?
Come on, color me in
Come on, color me in
Come on, color
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Give me your blue rain
Give me your black sky
Give me your green eyes
Come on, give me your white skin
Come on, give me your white skin
Come on, give me your white skin

[Chorus]
'Cause I was out on the radio, starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain
Could you tell me the things you remember about me?
And have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
Have you seen me lately?

It was just such a weird thing to go from being a pretty shy, private person, to being on the cover of magazine stands. I wasn't really prepared for that, especially because I was already kind of unbalanced, and that really set it off"

"'Have You Seen Me Lately,' is about that," he continued. "Dealing with the relationships with people in the wake of that, how I felt about knowing whether they were real or not real, and my perceptions of my social life having exploded out across the radio."

[foxtrot]

En af de midttempo-rockers som CC excellere i. Tekstmæssigt berører vi også et af Duritz yndlingsfelter, som han vender tilbage til i forskellige sange igen og igen: Hvordan hukommelsen virker og nogle gange ikke virker. At glemme sig selv, fordi man rent faktisk har svært ved konkret at huske, hvordan man var engang. Super sang!

[Antimatter]

Er der andre andre end Foxtrot der stadig deltager?

[Pete Rock]

Jeg deltager. Prøver at skrive en række svar imorgen. Fed sang.