COUNTING CROWS
Hard Candy
Geffen/ Universal
· There’s nothing like taking a sip of Coca-Cola and listening to the Counting Crows. You can see them both in a TV commercial near you.
The only good about Hard Candy is that Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz finally realizes that grunge is dead (a movement he was never part of in the first place) and decides to stop wearing his cut-off jeans.
"American Girls" is the album’s ineffectual single, which borrows the foppish chagrin of their first unworthy hit, "Mr. Jones," while forgetting that someone already used the melody for "MMMBop." The rest of the album is a continuation of lukewarm sentiments that the Counting Crows have been whimpering for years.
In the U.K., they call it pub rock. In North America, it’s so unremarkable that you needn’t waste any time categorizing it.
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