Films about Ghosts

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Films about Ghosts
Studio album by Counting Crows
Released	November 25, 2003
Recorded	1993 - 2003
Genre	Alternative Rock
Length	67:14
Label	Geffen
Producer(s)	?
Professional reviews
Counting Crows chronology
Hard Candy (2002)	Films about Ghosts (The Best Of...) (2003)	*New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003 (2006)

Films about Ghosts (the best of Counting Crows) is a greatest hits album by the popular alternative rock band Counting Crows. It was released on November 25, 2003 to modest commercial success, though many critics agree it was an accurate and consistent summation of their recording career. The album contains songs from all of their studio albums. The album takes its name from a line in "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby": "If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."

It was released on November 25, 2003 by Geffen Records.

[edit] Track listing

United States version

1. "Angels of the Silences" (Recovering the Satellites)
2. "Round Here" (August and Everything After)
3. "Rain King" (August and Everything After)
4. "A Long December" (Recovering the Satellites)
5. "Hanginaround" (This Desert Life)
6. "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" (This Desert Life)
7. "Mr. Jones" (August and Everything After)
8. "Recovering the Satellites" (Recovering the Satellites)
9. "American Girls" (Hard Candy)
10. "Big Yellow Taxi" (Hard Candy) (Joni Mitchell cover)
11. "Omaha" (August and Everything After)
12. "Friend of the Devil" (Grateful Dead cover)
13. "Einstein on the Beach" (previously only released on Various Artists compilation DGC Rarities Vol.1)
14. "Anna Begins" (August and Everything After)
15. "Holiday in Spain" (Hard Candy)
16. "She Don't Want Nobody Near" (previously unreleased)

Later versions of this disc include "Accidentally in Love", the Crows' hit single from the May 2004 hit movie Shrek 2. This single was nominated for an Oscar. The Dutch version of this album includes a new version of "Holiday in Spain", recorded as a duet with Dutch band Bløf. The single, in English and Dutch, went number number one in the Netherlands. (As did the album, after the success of the single.)

The original English version contained the song "Blues Run the Game", a cover of a Jackson C. Frank song.

This album was released twice in Australia with the second release also contained a DVD of the band's performances. A version containing the videos to "American Girls", "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby", "Angels of the Silences", "Round Here", "Daylight Fading" (Recovering the Satellites), "A Long December" and "Mr. Jones" was also released in the United Kingdom.