Top 5 best cds on earth, that's all there is to it. I've owned it since 94, and still listen to it everyday, yes, everyday, while in the shower. It has never left the cd player, unless it was time for a new cd player and I had to take it out to put it in the new one.

It's funny to me how fans latch onto a particular band or artist and no matter what they come out with, it's "awesome". To me, this album is just average. It's sound is predictable, the songwriting is nothing special. And every track pretty much sounds the same.

Go ahead and send the hate mail, I can handle it. But I picked up the album because it was recommended by Amazon customers. I love you all, and I have used your recommendations many times. This will remain in my collection, and maybe after time, it will grow on me, but not now.

If this is the kind _____ that I have to deal with when I get into college a couple of years, then you might as well tell all future frat ___________ in advance to murder my soul.

Good lord, this is TERRIBLE. I can't even describe what it sounds like, the only thing I can describe it as dull boring guitars and a vocalist that sounds like Rob Thomas (which is a VERY bad thing). This is draining to the ninth degree. I even think that they take all of the groove, the instrumentation, and the voice out of Dave Matthews Band and blend it with the equally terrible Matchbox 20 and put it into a blender.

Each and every song is a mix up bland ripped off guitars and melodies of the worst music every, without any sappy, drippy, birthday cake fake melodies, replacing it with none of that. Seriously, I think Brittany Spears is more catchy than this, and it's all delivered in a mindless pop format with a singer more boring than Coldplay. So what is it in one sentence: uber-bland muzak with disposable, boring "pop" tendencies. This won't soothe you, it will just make you lightheaded from boredom.

Don't come near this sissy music. Resist the college radio junk in college and please, don't even buy this junk. Your listening will be all the better for it. College radio is just a subset of mindless radio junk, less mainstream but still mindless radio junk, just not spread into the airways.

1.5/10

This CD is a very good Counting Crows CD. I am not a major fan of the counting crows but I do like some of their music...and would recomment this CD. There is not a song on it that I do not enjoy listening to.

Beautiful CD! Great place to start for anyone looking to get into Counting Crows. This is my favorite of their albums, although you cannot go wrong with any of them.