Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)
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| “Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)” | |||||
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| Single by Counting Crows from the album DGC Rarities Volume 1 |
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| Format | CD single | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||
| Writer(s) | Adam Duritz David Bryson |
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| Producer | T-Bone Burnett | ||||
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"Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" is a song recorded by Counting Crows. It was included on the band's best-of compilation, "Films About Ghosts". The title of the song was inspired by the Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach.
[edit] Release
Despite never being a studio album track, the song made the track-listing of DGC Rarities Volume 1 and achieved mass cult airplay upon its leaking to radio, becoming the band's sole #1 hit on the Modern Rock chart to date.
The same version of the song from DGC Rarities Volume 1 was later found on a European pressed bootleg CD called 'Flying Demos'. The recording was part of the original Counting Crows demo that led to their signing with Geffen records. Copies of the Flying Demos CD are readily available from Counting Crows bootleg collectors.
Frontman Adam Duritz has explained the track was a demo from the first week the band was together, which he had not considered for the debut record, and has characterized as "a song that was to me more clever than meaningful."
[edit] Live performances
There is only one known live performance of the song from 1992, however, the song was most likely a setlist staple for the band in their early days. The band has not played the song in concert since the release of their debut album August and Everything After.
| Preceded by "Come Out and Play" by The Offspring |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single August 13, 1994 |
Succeeded by "Basket Case" by Green Day |
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