August and Everything After

August and Everything After
Studio album by Counting Crows
Released September 14, 1993 (1993-09-14)
Recorded 1993, Los Angeles
Genre Alternative rock
Length 51:42
Label Geffen
Producer T-Bone Burnett
Counting Crows chronology
August and Everything After
(1993)		 Recovering the Satellites
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (B-)[2]
Rolling Stone [3]

August and Everything After is the first commercially released album of the American rock band Counting Crows, released September 14, 1993.

The album cover depicts handwritten lyrics to a song called "August and Everything After", but the band decided against featuring the song on the album of the same name; it was not until over a decade later that it was played as part of one of their live concerts.

On September 18, 2007, a two-disc deluxe edition of the album was issued. The first disc contains the original album, remastered by Adam Ayan and Stephen Marcussen, with six songs (including three demos) added as bonus tracks. The second disc is taken from the band's penultimate performance during the August tour, recorded at the Elysée Montmartre in Paris, France on December 9, 1994.

The album August & Everything After – Live at Town Hall was released on August 29, 2011, featuring live recordings of the songs from this album.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Round Here" (Duritz, Dave Janusko, Dan Jewett, Chris Roldan, David Bryson) – 5:32
  2. "Omaha" – 3:40
  3. "Mr. Jones" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:33
  4. "Perfect Blue Buildings" – 5:01
  5. "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Marty Jones, Toby Hawkins, Lydia Holly) – 4:32
  6. "Time and Time Again" (Duritz, Bryson, Charlie Gillingham, Steve Bowman, Don Dixon) – 5:13
  7. "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:16
  8. "Sullivan Street" (Duritz, Bryson) – 4:29
  9. "Ghost Train" – 4:01
  10. "Raining in Baltimore" – 4:41
  11. "A Murder of One" (Duritz, Bryson, Matt Malley) – 5:44
2007 deluxe edition additional tracks
  1. "Shallow Days" – 4:50[4]
  2. "Mean Jumper Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) – 4:24
  3. "Love and Addiction" (Demo) – 4:21[4]
  4. "Omaha" (Demo) – 3:18
  5. "Shallow Days" (Demo) – 4:41[4]
  6. "This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie) (Demo) – 3:44
2007 deluxe edition bonus disc (Live at the Elysée Montmartre)
  1. "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Jones, Hawkins, Holly) – 5:21
  2. "Omaha" – 3:43
  3. "Jumping Jesus" – 3:01[5]
  4. "Margery Dreams of Horses" – 4:13[5]
  5. "Perfect Blue Buildings" – 5:18
  6. "Round Here" (Duritz, Janusko, Jewett, Roldan, Bryson) – 11:45
  7. "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson)– 4:49
  8. "Time and Time Again" (Duritz, Bryson, Gillingham, Bowman, Dixon) – 6:16
  9. "Ghost Train" – 5:38
  10. "Children in Bloom" – 5:27
  11. "A Murder of One" (Duritz, Bryson, Malley)– 14:42
  12. "Sullivan Street" (Duritz, Bryson) – 5:10
  13. "The Ghost in You" (Richard Butler, Tim Butler) – 3:36

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1993 Billboard Heatseekers 2
1994 The Billboard 200 4
UK Albums Chart 16
Australian Albums Chart 12
Single
Year Single Chart Position
1993 "Mr. Jones" Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 2
1994 UK Top 40 28
Billboard Adult Contemporary 25
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 2
"Rain King" Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 4
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 31
"Round Here" Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 11
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 7
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 10
"A Murder of One" Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 17

End of decade charts

Chart (1990-1999) Position
U.S. Billboard 200[6] 66

Certifications

Organization Level Date
RIAA – U.S. Gold January 28, 1994
Platinum March 1, 1994
Double Platinum May 13, 1994
Triple Platinum August 1, 1994
4X Platinum October 18, 1994
5X Platinum December 6, 1994
6X Platinum January 25, 1996
7X Platinum October 25, 1996
BPI – UK Gold November 1, 1994

Release history

After its initial United States release, August and Everything After was released in the United Kingdom on September 20, 1993. The anniversary edition went on sale in the United States on September 18, 2007 and the United Kingdom on January 28, 2008.

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Robert Christgau review
  3. ^ Rolling Stone review
  4. ^ a b c Songwriting credits unknown.
  5. ^ a b Songwriting credits unknown; previously played by Sordid Humor, a San Francisco band of which Duritz, Dan Vickrey, Toby Hawkins and David Immerglück were members.
  6. ^ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). "1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s". Billboard. http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&lr&rview=1&pg=RA1-PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved October 15, 2010. 
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